More than 90 percent of the power here is already hydroelectric. It's a cost measure, allowing for the building and operation of solar panels at our schools and community centers, and building more wind farms in Eastern Washington.
One of the reasons why the UW is 2nd for Most Green Campus in the USA.
Long string of calculations by Robert A showing how he derived that. There is a little boost engine which gives you enough power to get to a station, and he's never refilled the tank.
However, we could do a PE storage calculation. Like me, he buys a full green power mix from Seattle City Light, which costs about twice as much as standard city light power, but that pays for wind farms as well as the hydro dams city light owns, and I think includes some natural gas for shaping.
If you lived in an area like Wisconsin where your power comes from coal, then you're just substituting coal power for oil power, since electricity there is from coal, unlike here where almost all of it is from hydroelectric.
Well, I can post an whole article and summary on the decline of auto manufacturing leading by to the decline of Detroit. And I am pretty sure you're NOT going to be thinking Toyota. Just saying...
It doesn't take a moron to figure the point of a/. summary.
Actually, one of my cousins gets about 1000 mpg with his plug-in electric car, using cheap GHG-friendly hydroelectric power to charge it, at about 1/10th the price of gasoline here in Seattle.
We could always adapt. It's not that hard. He still drives to work. Just costs him less to do it.
Well, remember, Greenland was originally settled during a warming period that allowed Britain to grow wine, and the Viking inhabitants only died off when it reverted to colder temperatures.
I recommend getting there by steamship. Maybe aboard the Titanic II?
To all those who ignored the actual scientists who warned about global warming in favor of the very very few oil industry sponsored hacks, enjoy your global warming and oceanic acidification that is destroying shellfish and crops worldwide.
No, a Corporation, which is a legal fiction (this is the specific term used for a few hundred years), existed before the Constitution, yet was nowhere mentioned in it.
People have rights. Corporations are a legal fiction we use to present people with a method of limiting their liability and ascribing contracts between the individuals (people) and the corporation (group of people under a legal prescribed fiction to handle group rights of people).
Costs are just bookkeeping. Which also predates the Constitution, but you're confusing Contract Law with Rights. Rights only exist for People, and as granted by them.
The most difficult part of this is that many tech jobs are setup to NEED such access to the employee (ie: developer/support roles). Not sure if this is everyone's experience, but when I informed people I didn't want to get work email on my phone, I was greeted with both awkward looks and suspicion.
This is why you plan rollouts.
If they want you to work overtime, they should pay you double.
What disturbs me are the five official military spying agencies paid thru the black budget, and the sixth unofficial one you civilians don't know about.
As someone who was actually in University as a math major (which is what computer science was back then) in 1978, I disagree with the depiction of the Internet or ARPA*NET as it was called when we used it, being privately funded.
It was a government financed program, and we were thrilled when we got 300 baud modems, you revisionist scum!
I'm just wondering how "The Big Bang Theory" is going to respond to all of this when next season starts. Will Sheldon be devastated, will he defend String Theory against "this silly, inept Higgs experimental data," or will he somehow hop on the Higgs Bandwagon?
I think he will rail against it at first, but his gf will convince him to change. After a few mild electric shocks.
I for one welcome our Higgs Boson overlords and the subsequent replacement of String Theory with the more sound concept in Physics of Stringy Cheese Theory.
It also has a bonus effect. The lead foil in the shirt shields the UV rays, so you'll end up with a lighter skin area that has the words, and you can wear a mesh t-shirt on the return trip from Bali and the same message will be visible to all.
Seriously, though, it would be a good idea to walk thru one of the backscatter x-ray machines with lead foil that spelled out "Fvck The TSA!"... under your shirt.
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Watch out for those storks when you get turned into a frog.
Also, it's been fun playing both Pandarean Monk Female and Pandarean Hunter Male, and I like the new appearance mods.
Eh oh.
Sounds like we're in big trouble then.
On the other hand, my friends in Iceland will be happy.
Ha. I do better than that.
I eat oatmeal cooked in my microwave, using hydroelectric and wind power, so the net carbon output is even lower.
More than 90 percent of the power here is already hydroelectric. It's a cost measure, allowing for the building and operation of solar panels at our schools and community centers, and building more wind farms in Eastern Washington.
One of the reasons why the UW is 2nd for Most Green Campus in the USA.
Doesn't pump, uses gravity for the drop, they just screen the intake.
But the dynamo does use oil for lubrication, and the vehicles to build the dam and operate it are frequently oil/gasoline using.
Nah. I got a better idea.
How about we just laugh at the global warming deniers while they fry in the heat and storms as their homes are flooded?
Long string of calculations by Robert A showing how he derived that. There is a little boost engine which gives you enough power to get to a station, and he's never refilled the tank.
However, we could do a PE storage calculation. Like me, he buys a full green power mix from Seattle City Light, which costs about twice as much as standard city light power, but that pays for wind farms as well as the hydro dams city light owns, and I think includes some natural gas for shaping.
If you lived in an area like Wisconsin where your power comes from coal, then you're just substituting coal power for oil power, since electricity there is from coal, unlike here where almost all of it is from hydroelectric.
Well, I can post an whole article and summary on the decline of auto manufacturing leading by to the decline of Detroit. And I am pretty sure you're NOT going to be thinking Toyota. Just saying...
It doesn't take a moron to figure the point of a /. summary.
Actually, one of my cousins gets about 1000 mpg with his plug-in electric car, using cheap GHG-friendly hydroelectric power to charge it, at about 1/10th the price of gasoline here in Seattle.
We could always adapt. It's not that hard. He still drives to work. Just costs him less to do it.
It's "adapt OR die" not "adapt AND die".
Well, remember, Greenland was originally settled during a warming period that allowed Britain to grow wine, and the Viking inhabitants only died off when it reverted to colder temperatures.
I recommend getting there by steamship. Maybe aboard the Titanic II?
I'm sure it's safe.
To all those who ignored the actual scientists who warned about global warming in favor of the very very few oil industry sponsored hacks, enjoy your global warming and oceanic acidification that is destroying shellfish and crops worldwide.
It's called consequences.
Adapt or die.
you assume I actually trust the Supreme Court to follow the Constitution.
That would be a false and inaccurate statement, and contrary to the Will of the People, from whom all Rights derive.
No, a Corporation, which is a legal fiction (this is the specific term used for a few hundred years), existed before the Constitution, yet was nowhere mentioned in it.
People have rights. Corporations are a legal fiction we use to present people with a method of limiting their liability and ascribing contracts between the individuals (people) and the corporation (group of people under a legal prescribed fiction to handle group rights of people).
Costs are just bookkeeping. Which also predates the Constitution, but you're confusing Contract Law with Rights. Rights only exist for People, and as granted by them.
Nowadays we're all media.
We're all bloggers.
And we can upload pics and vids and stream them around the world.
How about we just remove the rights of Corporate Media from reporting, instead of Citizens?
Corporations aren't People.
I doubt I'll be on my deathbed, wishing I'd put in a few more hours tuning a database or attending a meeting.
Don't come for me yet, Lord, I just need to rebuild these indexes to match the fetch queue!
The most difficult part of this is that many tech jobs are setup to NEED such access to the employee (ie: developer/support roles). Not sure if this is everyone's experience, but when I informed people I didn't want to get work email on my phone, I was greeted with both awkward looks and suspicion.
This is why you plan rollouts.
If they want you to work overtime, they should pay you double.
I used to have a cell phone, when my son was in daycare and then K-8.
But since then I just don't do it.
I do have an iPad2, but it's wireless. So that people can't bug me, unless I want them to.
I will probably get the iPhone5, but probably won't answer any work calls or texts. And will turn it off when I'm doing something.
Just because they're out to get you, doesn't mean they're out to get you.
They have been doing this since the early 80s.
I don't see why this is news to you.
What disturbs me are the five official military spying agencies paid thru the black budget, and the sixth unofficial one you civilians don't know about.
They have more guns.
As someone who was actually in University as a math major (which is what computer science was back then) in 1978, I disagree with the depiction of the Internet or ARPA*NET as it was called when we used it, being privately funded.
It was a government financed program, and we were thrilled when we got 300 baud modems, you revisionist scum!
Did you miss the part about "looking ropey"? That's String Theory on Steroids.
or, as I said, Stringy Cheese Theory.
hold the anchovies.
I'm just wondering how "The Big Bang Theory" is going to respond to all of this when next season starts. Will Sheldon be devastated, will he defend String Theory against "this silly, inept Higgs experimental data," or will he somehow hop on the Higgs Bandwagon?
I think he will rail against it at first, but his gf will convince him to change. After a few mild electric shocks.
I for one welcome our Higgs Boson overlords and the subsequent replacement of String Theory with the more sound concept in Physics of Stringy Cheese Theory.
I'd like mine with mushrooms, thanks.
Live Free and Fly!
My (limited) experience with the TSA has me believing: Live Free or Fly!
That's what the Matrix wants you to believe.
It also has a bonus effect. The lead foil in the shirt shields the UV rays, so you'll end up with a lighter skin area that has the words, and you can wear a mesh t-shirt on the return trip from Bali and the same message will be visible to all.
Live Free and Fly!
Seriously, though, it would be a good idea to walk thru one of the backscatter x-ray machines with lead foil that spelled out "Fvck The TSA!" ... under your shirt.