The grocery store is private property. If you don't want anyone watching you as you wander about their private property, perhaps you shouldn't be there?
3. Robot programs which trade based on twitter and facebook and newsfeed key words
4. Derivatives - which is a fancy word for Legalized Gambling
While they can overlap, they are not the exact same groups. Most investors know that active management is more risky and tends to be less profitable to actual investors than index trading, precisely for that reason.
To do a proper full chain analysis you need to do cradle to grave for all inputs, actually. This means you have to source the mining/extracting of all the inputs, including turbines, mercury outsource from coal oil and even the infrastructure lights and vehicles used for maintenance, fab costs for the switching equipment and transformers, and so on down the line.
You can keep arguing over how many angels dance on the head of a pin.
1. Buy Green Up (which is about $12 a month) 2. Buy GreenPower (another program) 3. DIRECTLY BOUGHT 1 unit of the Seattle Aquarium solar cell array - cost me $150, reduces my bill by $46 a year on average, so that means (wait for it) 5. PROFIT!
Now realize that the BASELINE is 89.8 plus 4.4. I am ABOVE THE BASELINE.
For all we know the commenters could have been in the US, posting on the Estonian news site, and you can pry our Freedoms out of our cold dead nuclear-enabled superpower hands.
Seriously, the shift in cost structures for wind and solar have been happening for at least a decade.
A lot of it has to do with economies of scale, and methods like Compressed Air Energy Storage which have higher efficiencies than either gravitational water storage or battery technologies - both of which have also improved - and there is a lot of scientific research that is being put into practice in China, the USA, and the EU that drives it all.
If coal - for example - improved its efficiency, it might be different - but that's not happening.
Bold statements. Common sense indicates that if that were the case everybody would be installing solar panels and that's clearly not happening even here in the SW USA desert.
They are.
Now if we just removed the subsidies for coal, oil, and gas, the invisible hand of capitalism would make it happen even faster.
And end the cane sugar embargo and remove ethanol requirements.
(caveat - I have owned and do own shares in corporations in coal, oil, gas, and corn ethanol - including IPOs)
Wrong. The money from that literally is used to buy more solar cells for local schools and bus shelters - which provide automated reader boards - and more wind turbines.
I can't help it if you're stuck in the 18th Century.
When it is overcast in Seattle - as it is most of the year and is today - we get about 70-80 percent as much useable sunlight for solar cell arrays as we do on sunny days.
This concept that cloudy means no sun is mostly a myth.
Slashdot Mirror
All your Microsoft email and Yahoo email is scanned for keywords and the result sets are sent to Bing, identifying you.
Privacy - oh come on, you're Serfs, stop pretending you are Citizens.
The above AC is correct, HIPPA applies to all health care and it covers privacy.
Boilerplate legalese can't change that, no matter how many lawyers you throw at it.
The grocery store is private property. If you don't want anyone watching you as you wander about their private property, perhaps you shouldn't be there?
Your house is private property.
We track you there too.
Any questions, serf?
The NSA uses that data too.
The fact that you don't know that is what is disturbing.
When you start tracking me in a grocery store and displaying ads as I move around it ...
You've gone too far.
Capiche?
Remember, this will be used against you, and already has been.
So, buy a dazzle paint mask, wear a reversible hat you never wear, walk with a funny gait, and slouch.
And pay in traceable $100 bills. Oh, wait ... stick to $20.
I think you're confusing the following:
1. Investors - which is most of everything
2. Traders - people and their agents who trade
3. Robot programs which trade based on twitter and facebook and newsfeed key words
4. Derivatives - which is a fancy word for Legalized Gambling
While they can overlap, they are not the exact same groups. Most investors know that active management is more risky and tends to be less profitable to actual investors than index trading, precisely for that reason.
They don't realize when something is ridiculous
And that is why having a worldwide integrated financial system mostly cobbled together with automated scripts is not always such a great idea.
I'll tell your false "points" to all the businesses moving here.
Then we'll laugh at how naive you are.
To do a proper full chain analysis you need to do cradle to grave for all inputs, actually. This means you have to source the mining/extracting of all the inputs, including turbines, mercury outsource from coal oil and even the infrastructure lights and vehicles used for maintenance, fab costs for the switching equipment and transformers, and so on down the line.
You can keep arguing over how many angels dance on the head of a pin.
Won't do you any good.
Look, you're just in denial.
I've been investing in energy firms since 1976, mostly oil, coal, nuclear fission, and other ones.
You don't know how to read appendices.
My dad lives totally off-grid on solar, and you probably have all these wonderful objections, but even Red states like Idaho are using wind and hydro.
Adapt. Because the world isn't waiting for you to come up with objections about how it's flat.
It really doesn't matter what you subsidized folks in the rest of the country think.
The reason our economy is booming is cheap green energy.
Stick a fork in your denial.
Adapt or die.
If you want to donate money to do those things then go right ahead but touting it as buying green electricity is just a cover up.
Most of the Green up money goes to by Renewable Energy Credits to support existing producers.
You just hate modern energy sources. Stick a fork in you, you're last century's dead weight.
(stares at idiot)
I said that I:
1. Buy Green Up (which is about $12 a month)
2. Buy GreenPower (another program)
3. DIRECTLY BOUGHT 1 unit of the Seattle Aquarium solar cell array - cost me $150, reduces my bill by $46 a year on average, so that means (wait for it)
5. PROFIT!
Now realize that the BASELINE is 89.8 plus 4.4. I am ABOVE THE BASELINE.
For all we know the commenters could have been in the US, posting on the Estonian news site, and you can pry our Freedoms out of our cold dead nuclear-enabled superpower hands.
Buy a textbook from THIS century.
Seriously, the shift in cost structures for wind and solar have been happening for at least a decade.
A lot of it has to do with economies of scale, and methods like Compressed Air Energy Storage which have higher efficiencies than either gravitational water storage or battery technologies - both of which have also improved - and there is a lot of scientific research that is being put into practice in China, the USA, and the EU that drives it all.
If coal - for example - improved its efficiency, it might be different - but that's not happening.
A lot has changed since last century, grandpa
Actually, some contracts require you to have one.
That said, just buy a $49 modem and use it to be a "fax machine".
Bold statements. Common sense indicates that if that were the case everybody would be installing solar panels and that's clearly not happening even here in the SW USA desert.
They are.
Now if we just removed the subsidies for coal, oil, and gas, the invisible hand of capitalism would make it happen even faster.
And end the cane sugar embargo and remove ethanol requirements.
(caveat - I have owned and do own shares in corporations in coal, oil, gas, and corn ethanol - including IPOs)
Wrong. The money from that literally is used to buy more solar cells for local schools and bus shelters - which provide automated reader boards - and more wind turbines.
I can't help it if you're stuck in the 18th Century.
We don't use coal to make electricity.
I can't help it you're stuck in the 18th Century.
Oh, please, you're just jelling.
We rule.
You drool.
Adapt or die.
I'm not normally one of those people, but I think this needs a citation. And not a Cessna, or a Chevrolet.
It's all online - check out Puget Sound Energy and Seattle City Light - they have lots of technical data.
No, I'm not going to do your work for you.
When it is overcast in Seattle - as it is most of the year and is today - we get about 70-80 percent as much useable sunlight for solar cell arrays as we do on sunny days.
This concept that cloudy means no sun is mostly a myth.
We don't just use hydro - we use wind and solar and tidal and geothermal here.
Adapt or die.
Meanwhile industry gets cheap power and Seattle gets massive job growth.