I agree with you, direct corporation between the affected states is the better solution than to add more responsibility to the EU bureaucracy in its current state.
That's not the problem since the consumption is low then.
The problem will be in the winter months in the morning and the evening, when the sun isn't shining and electric heating is running in some places. Well, last winter showed that this mostly becomes a problem in France, since they get power from Germany at these times, and use a lot of electric heating because of the low state-controlled electricity prices.
While I am ok with the switch to solar power in principle, it just does not work that easily with this high percentage of solar power, as the article claims. It only works without lots of new storage capacities because of the electricity exchange between the European countries. But the same is true for the high percentage of French nuclear power. While they generally export a lot of cheap nuclear power, they don't have the capacities to meet their peak demand.
The power network of Europe only work as a whole, which is why the switch to green energies better would have been organized on the level of the EU.
The German pirate party is very fast on discussing these general topics though. I am sure they already have a position on Syria.
Everyone in the party can take part in these discussions. That is why it takes some time until they have a position. Also, you have to give them credit for their openness and honesty. A politician from another party probably would just lie.
Personally I don't like this desire to have an opinion on everything. If they take part in the government, they will have a coalition partner. Then they can only accomplish some of their goals anyway. They should stick to the important stuff from the beginning, the rest is just distraction.
We learned in school that the standard gravity is 9.83 m/s^2 at the poles and 9.78 m/s^2 at the equator. That was more than 15 years ago, so I would say it is a known fact and not a hypothesis?
They do it to conserve their own environment. They don't do it for the planet, they do it to have a place where they can live and that can feed them in the future. It is a logical consequence of long-term thinking.
The poisoning of the environment in illegal mining operations is really nothing to joke about.
In Germany there is no conviction without a blood test. Breath analyzers are seen as way too inaccurate to base a conviction on them alone. You will get very high values after using an alcohol-containing mouthspray, and remaining alcohol in the mouth from drinking shortly before also has a strong influence. But even without that the breath alcohol concentration can differ from the blood concentration.
Why are you so negative about reducing the cost of transfers to GEO?
The same Atlas V can transport about 5 times as much to LEO as it can transport to GEO. A space tug could transport a satellite from LEO to GEO. The cost for this is mostly in bringing the tugboat into space. Since the ion drive needs only small amounts of propellant the running cost is pretty low.
The tugboat reduces the cost of a transport to GEO to the cost for LEO (which is just 1/5th) plus the cost for the tug. This can save a lot of money, no matter what launch system is used.
I don't believe that the Iranians repainted the drone. There are scratches at the front of it that look as if it landed without gear. These scratches would have been overpainted.
To me it looks like the drone was sawed into 3 pieces and put together again with duct tape. They took it apart before presenting it, removing all the electronics and only showing the empty body.
If it was broken into 3 pieces (would it really break in such a straight way?), and then repainted, why wouldn't they assemble it properly before repainting it? I can't believe that this is the opinion of experts.
Try it. It just tastes much better.
That is mostly a result of not going for the cheapest supplier though. The organic farmers aren't convincing with the lowest prices, so they have to convince with quality. And they get paid enough that they can afford to do this.
Actually the resitance per weight is lower for aluminium than for copper. You could go for aluminium instead of copper and get less resitance by using thicker wires, and the wires would still be lighter.
I am also wondering why they publish all this.
Seems that they already got 3 US drones and 4 of Israel. I guess they thought this is enough, and chose to take the PR success and morale boost now.
I am sure there are reasons why this new publication was not completely dismissed. Maybe it is not that certain that the neutrinos detected 1987 were really from that supernova, or maybe neutrinos somehow have a higher speed in matter than in the vacuum?
Maybe their reputation would be better if their processors would cost the same.
Some people just think that something must be worse when it is cheaper.
Even some old CRTs had anti-reflection coatings. That quality of coating is offered for years for good optics. So what is new here, maybe a high quality coating for an affordable price?
Strange thing is that Nokia has a very long tradition in building smartphones. But they did not sell them in the US, I also don't know why.
And they never really started selling them. When the iPhone came out it was too late, since it was slightly better than what they had.
Maybe there were many chances for an universe to be. Either parallel universes in unknown dimensions, or just because time exists much longer than the known universe, or space is much larger. Most of them could have been empty, but there would be no one to ask that question.
On my systems only the virus scanner is causing this. With virus scanner it takes ages until the system is finished booting up, without it is done short after logging in.
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I agree with you, direct corporation between the affected states is the better solution than to add more responsibility to the EU bureaucracy in its current state.
That's not the problem since the consumption is low then.
The problem will be in the winter months in the morning and the evening, when the sun isn't shining and electric heating is running in some places. Well, last winter showed that this mostly becomes a problem in France, since they get power from Germany at these times, and use a lot of electric heating because of the low state-controlled electricity prices.
While I am ok with the switch to solar power in principle, it just does not work that easily with this high percentage of solar power, as the article claims. It only works without lots of new storage capacities because of the electricity exchange between the European countries. But the same is true for the high percentage of French nuclear power. While they generally export a lot of cheap nuclear power, they don't have the capacities to meet their peak demand.
The power network of Europe only work as a whole, which is why the switch to green energies better would have been organized on the level of the EU.
The German pirate party is very fast on discussing these general topics though. I am sure they already have a position on Syria.
Everyone in the party can take part in these discussions. That is why it takes some time until they have a position. Also, you have to give them credit for their openness and honesty. A politician from another party probably would just lie.
Personally I don't like this desire to have an opinion on everything. If they take part in the government, they will have a coalition partner. Then they can only accomplish some of their goals anyway. They should stick to the important stuff from the beginning, the rest is just distraction.
We learned in school that the standard gravity is 9.83 m/s^2 at the poles and 9.78 m/s^2 at the equator. That was more than 15 years ago, so I would say it is a known fact and not a hypothesis?
They do it to conserve their own environment. They don't do it for the planet, they do it to have a place where they can live and that can feed them in the future. It is a logical consequence of long-term thinking.
The poisoning of the environment in illegal mining operations is really nothing to joke about.
In Germany there is no conviction without a blood test. Breath analyzers are seen as way too inaccurate to base a conviction on them alone. You will get very high values after using an alcohol-containing mouthspray, and remaining alcohol in the mouth from drinking shortly before also has a strong influence. But even without that the breath alcohol concentration can differ from the blood concentration.
Very interesting. I am wondering now how Humans survive for more than 50 generations, since gametes are also fomred by cell division.
Why not plan for an array at one of the Lagrange points?
Just asking....
Actually exactly this is planned already.
Why are you so negative about reducing the cost of transfers to GEO?
The same Atlas V can transport about 5 times as much to LEO as it can transport to GEO. A space tug could transport a satellite from LEO to GEO. The cost for this is mostly in bringing the tugboat into space. Since the ion drive needs only small amounts of propellant the running cost is pretty low.
The tugboat reduces the cost of a transport to GEO to the cost for LEO (which is just 1/5th) plus the cost for the tug. This can save a lot of money, no matter what launch system is used.
I don't believe that the Iranians repainted the drone. There are scratches at the front of it that look as if it landed without gear. These scratches would have been overpainted.
To me it looks like the drone was sawed into 3 pieces and put together again with duct tape. They took it apart before presenting it, removing all the electronics and only showing the empty body.
If it was broken into 3 pieces (would it really break in such a straight way?), and then repainted, why wouldn't they assemble it properly before repainting it? I can't believe that this is the opinion of experts.
Try it. It just tastes much better.
That is mostly a result of not going for the cheapest supplier though. The organic farmers aren't convincing with the lowest prices, so they have to convince with quality. And they get paid enough that they can afford to do this.
Actually the resitance per weight is lower for aluminium than for copper. You could go for aluminium instead of copper and get less resitance by using thicker wires, and the wires would still be lighter.
I am also wondering why they publish all this.
Seems that they already got 3 US drones and 4 of Israel. I guess they thought this is enough, and chose to take the PR success and morale boost now.
It contains liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen. So no problem after replacing the atmosphere.
Are you worried about 3.8kg of Plutonium dilluted in the ocean?
I am sure there are reasons why this new publication was not completely dismissed. Maybe it is not that certain that the neutrinos detected 1987 were really from that supernova, or maybe neutrinos somehow have a higher speed in matter than in the vacuum?
Lol you shouldn't take these panik-spreading journalists so serious.
Maybe their reputation would be better if their processors would cost the same.
Some people just think that something must be worse when it is cheaper.
Even some old CRTs had anti-reflection coatings. That quality of coating is offered for years for good optics. So what is new here, maybe a high quality coating for an affordable price?
Strange thing is that Nokia has a very long tradition in building smartphones. But they did not sell them in the US, I also don't know why.
And they never really started selling them. When the iPhone came out it was too late, since it was slightly better than what they had.
Maybe there were many chances for an universe to be. Either parallel universes in unknown dimensions, or just because time exists much longer than the known universe, or space is much larger. Most of them could have been empty, but there would be no one to ask that question.
Very good post.
Not an expert on this, but couldn't the other hub just relay the encrypted signal, without dectrypting it? Then there is no security problem.
Maybe the Scharnhorst effect?
I don't know if it could be on the same order of magnitude though.
On my systems only the virus scanner is causing this. With virus scanner it takes ages until the system is finished booting up, without it is done short after logging in.