1. Most of the West (BC,WA,ID,OR,CA) has access to renewable power for electricity. This may not be true of the buggy whip states to our East, but we use green power here and have recharge stations along our major highways.
2. By next model year, electric vehicles will be cheaper than fossil fuel combustion vehicles.
3. It's fairly easy to limit sales of new vehicles and fleet purchases by business. They save money by going electric, so this not only reduces kid-killing exhaust but saves people money. You just remove the deductibility of non-green vehicles and all exemptions for fossil fuel vehicles. Easy.
Seriously, if we were to believe this futurist, then the future would be like Ecotopia, with the prosperous West living on wind and solar farms, 3D bioprinting new organs on organ cell lattices, growing their own compostable 3D printed furniture, creating more energy than they need while ridesharing and biking and using electric skateboards powered by those same green energy sources...
Oh. Wait.
We do live in that future.
I keep forgetting it's only the backwards parts that don't live as we do.
1. Default iOS 11 behavior is to turn ON your wi-fi and your bluetooth even if you think you turned them off using the pop up controller (which shows up when cell is "off" or "locked") 1 hr after. The only way to turn them off for more than an hour is to turn them off with the Settings app. This drains your battery fast, especially if driving.
2. Default iOS 11 behavior for podcasts was reset to check every HOUR instead of every six HOURS. So your podcasts will poll the Net, turning on wi-fi and bluetooth. If set to auto login for wi-fi, nearby devices will request copies of your podcasts and "show" your services.
3. Default iOS 11 behavior is to turn on the shared apple cache, which is then used via both bluetooth and insecure (if you set this to occur while roaming) wi-fi. this results in a lot of traffic and keeps both wi-fi and bluetooth constantly powered, even when you think they're off. You can disable this behavior in Settings app.
Note: you can always turn these services on if you have a reason to do so. And then disable them later. You can also turn off photo sharing. You can always reset individual podcasts to poll every six hours instead of every six hours. Yes, you have to do this for each podcast "Show".
Note: Airplane mode will disable all of these while it is on.
Lol, I bought my 5 SE that way. They have it in the shop, but they can't sell it at the provider, they ship it from Palo Alto.
USPS, FedEx, whichever method you want.
Same will happen here. They incorrectly think US customers don't want the high end guts in a small non-camera version without face detect. Lots of Asian students in the US buy them. So do I.
A lot of that is because most people think in binary, either/or, 100 percent use or 0 percent use. Reality is a spectrum, a Case statement, with gradients from 100 percent (destruction), to 80 percent (give neighbor a ride in car or truck), to 50 percent (recycle some stuff or go to yard sales, grow some stuff), to 20 percent (hippies), to 2 percent (how most of the world lives, where you get one light in a one room house).
You can save a lot of money moving from 80 to 50 percent, replacing old fridge or freezer with a modern one that uses much less energy and is quieter, replacing your Harvey-damaged car with a hybrid or electric car or truck. This massively reduces resources. Especially when done by Americans and Europeans, who use the most resources per person.
Corporations can do, and are doing, the same. Building new buildings to use renewable energy, at anywhere from 10 to 25 percent what it used to cost for fossil fuels, using electric trucks and train shipments, operating new factories in the dark where there are only robots. Decent, hardworking, taxpaying American robots, educated by American robot schools, working in the dark.
Again, you have to build and anchor the grids/arrays. If the walls go, you have non-hurricane construction, so it wouldn't support roof solar. If you built for 125 kph winds, having 215 kph winds means some roofs and walls will fail, and debris may impact the cells. The Tesla roof solar units are fairly durable, and if built to the proper standard, should be fine, but if a tree moving at speed hits it, will take damage.
People with small scale portable solar PV or portable wind turbines can dismount them and store them in secure rooms in the interior of the building. For a wind turbine, it's fairly quick; for a portable solar PV it's usually quick. Fixed roof solar is more a matter of how durable the roof support was, and whether the roof was impacted by heavy flying debris.
Branson's island was impacted, but his solar and wind was stored inside, so he was able to get it running quickly after the fact. But he built to hurricane standard for both roof and walls, and took precautions.
A resort may or may not have taken the same level of action, depending on staffing and training levels. A residence may have done so, but if vacant probably did not. You can board up the solar panels (surface application of covering boards, similar to windows) to reduce the chance of wind debris impacts, but if it's not secured to a secure wall, it can be ripped off the roof entirely.
You are comparing 1912-2017 apples to 2017-2018 oranges.
Nobody is taking away your existing vehicles.
Nobody is stopping you from paying more and more at the pump.
Nobody is forcing you to buy an electric or hybrid car or truck.
But. The electrics will be cheaper by the 3rd model year (just look at the internal forecasts) than the gasoline versions.
And in many countries you won't be able to expense fleet purchases of vehicles if they aren't green. Or pass emissions tests.
It depends on which country you do business in. If it's Norway, you're going to have to adapt fast. If it's the USA, you probably have a few years. If it's Canada or Mexico you will notice the shift this coming year. If it's China... well, let me just say it's going to be fun watching the effects.
Unlike you, I actually watch the TV show, and get the podcasts and get the Twitter tweets from them.
The largest manufacturers of electric cars are in China.
BMW, Audi, VW, Ford, Chevy, and all other US and UK and German or Italian manufacturers are producing electrics in the 2018 model year. They have no choice in the matter. Whether they will be available in the US outside of the 17 clean air compact states is a separate issue. It is expected you won't be informed it's a plug-in electric model in the US for marketing reasons. But it is. That's marketing, not production.
Try getting your news from non-US sources for once. There's an entire world out there, and it doesn't care about whether or not you export vehicles or not. It will provide supply.
Wrong. Price of renewables today is under 6 cents.
It's 2017 not 1967, sunshine. China manufactures entire solar farms that look like giant panda bears the size of Rhode Island. Nobody is waiting for you. Walmart literally built more solar PV in the US than was built before 2010. You can scream fake news until the cows come home, and then wonder why we are more competitive than you are. Because we build it in the West. We use it in the West. We have cheaper energy and we're eating your shorts. Capitalism 101.
in the text of many articles. latest BBC rediff from Nature Geoscience quotes it. latest CBC rediff on podcasts today and last night CBUT Vancouver shows it.
And resorts. Most resorts have both backup generators and solar/wind that can be taken offline and put back up.
So the 100 percent no power claim is, by definition, false. The grid failed. The grid is offline. There are buildings and residences and commercial properties with power.
Look, China, India, the UK, the EU, Canada, Japan, and the Northeastern and Western US are all AHEAD of where we needed to be on renewables to avoid this. We met and exceeded the 2025 renewables goals in 2016.
We just need to keep phasing out inefficient dirty kid-killing polluting fossil fuels.
It's not that hard.
Starting in 2018 more than 80 percent of all cars and trucks sold worldwide will be electric only or plug-in electric hybrids with a biodiesel option.
You just have to take the turbine blade off during the storm. It takes a few minutes, you put it inside a secure 2nd floor closet, and you put it back up once the storm has passed. I used to do that all the time. Are we seriously saying people are so stupid they don't take basic off-line power actions?
Anyone with a modern 2010 or later house built to hurricane standards and a Tesla solar roof and Tesla storage batteries, by definition, has full power.
I think you meant to say "grid electricity to Puerto Rico will be offline for 4-6 months".
Even people with wind power could have taken the wind turbine housing inside during the storm and put it back up after it passed. It's a fairly simple operation.
Same goes for generators - you take it inside a secure location built to hurricane standards until after it passes and then move it outside.
Does nobody on this site understand modern energy production?
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Sorry, the alpha testing is going on a bit long. Hope you don't mind, I'm going to move to beta soon, and all your in-game gold will disappear.
Going to be fun watching Bill Gates be a hardscrabble farmworker with two kids to support.
1. Most of the West (BC,WA,ID,OR,CA) has access to renewable power for electricity. This may not be true of the buggy whip states to our East, but we use green power here and have recharge stations along our major highways.
2. By next model year, electric vehicles will be cheaper than fossil fuel combustion vehicles.
3. It's fairly easy to limit sales of new vehicles and fleet purchases by business. They save money by going electric, so this not only reduces kid-killing exhaust but saves people money. You just remove the deductibility of non-green vehicles and all exemptions for fossil fuel vehicles. Easy.
Again, as I said, most people live in cities with good 1080p HDTV signals. You can buy a good quality set of antennae for around $50 from Amazon.
Which part of most people don't you get?
No. We just don't care. Use your power lines to get high speed internet and stream the channels if you live in a rural area.
They do this in Canada.
Unlike 1971, in 2017 most people actually live in cities and they get high quality 1080p HDTV over the air signals.
Inside of buildings.
It is specifically because people are waking up to this, and only need high speed Internet, that cable companies are losing customers fast.
If I could get a good CBC HDTV signal, I'd do the same.
No, seriously.
I suppose if you care about what kinds of food people order, it might be interesting, but that's most of it.
And they don't upload pics of stuff they make at home very often, unless it's for a fancy meal.
Seriously, if we were to believe this futurist, then the future would be like Ecotopia, with the prosperous West living on wind and solar farms, 3D bioprinting new organs on organ cell lattices, growing their own compostable 3D printed furniture, creating more energy than they need while ridesharing and biking and using electric skateboards powered by those same green energy sources ...
Oh. Wait.
We do live in that future.
I keep forgetting it's only the backwards parts that don't live as we do.
(mod parent insightful)
You are correct, see my later post, But it's not just wi-fi and bluetooth, it's also other changes.
1. Default iOS 11 behavior is to turn ON your wi-fi and your bluetooth even if you think you turned them off using the pop up controller (which shows up when cell is "off" or "locked") 1 hr after. The only way to turn them off for more than an hour is to turn them off with the Settings app. This drains your battery fast, especially if driving.
2. Default iOS 11 behavior for podcasts was reset to check every HOUR instead of every six HOURS. So your podcasts will poll the Net, turning on wi-fi and bluetooth. If set to auto login for wi-fi, nearby devices will request copies of your podcasts and "show" your services.
3. Default iOS 11 behavior is to turn on the shared apple cache, which is then used via both bluetooth and insecure (if you set this to occur while roaming) wi-fi. this results in a lot of traffic and keeps both wi-fi and bluetooth constantly powered, even when you think they're off. You can disable this behavior in Settings app.
Note: you can always turn these services on if you have a reason to do so. And then disable them later. You can also turn off photo sharing. You can always reset individual podcasts to poll every six hours instead of every six hours. Yes, you have to do this for each podcast "Show".
Note: Airplane mode will disable all of these while it is on.
Lol, I bought my 5 SE that way. They have it in the shop, but they can't sell it at the provider, they ship it from Palo Alto.
USPS, FedEx, whichever method you want.
Same will happen here. They incorrectly think US customers don't want the high end guts in a small non-camera version without face detect. Lots of Asian students in the US buy them. So do I.
Wake up, it's 2017 and the customer is Queen.
I'll wait until they release the iPhone 9 SE, the guts of the iPhone 8 S stuffed into the form of an iPhone 5
Won't be advertised in the US, but aimed at the Asian market, you have to get it by mail order.
A lot of that is because most people think in binary, either/or, 100 percent use or 0 percent use. Reality is a spectrum, a Case statement, with gradients from 100 percent (destruction), to 80 percent (give neighbor a ride in car or truck), to 50 percent (recycle some stuff or go to yard sales, grow some stuff), to 20 percent (hippies), to 2 percent (how most of the world lives, where you get one light in a one room house).
You can save a lot of money moving from 80 to 50 percent, replacing old fridge or freezer with a modern one that uses much less energy and is quieter, replacing your Harvey-damaged car with a hybrid or electric car or truck. This massively reduces resources. Especially when done by Americans and Europeans, who use the most resources per person.
Corporations can do, and are doing, the same. Building new buildings to use renewable energy, at anywhere from 10 to 25 percent what it used to cost for fossil fuels, using electric trucks and train shipments, operating new factories in the dark where there are only robots. Decent, hardworking, taxpaying American robots, educated by American robot schools, working in the dark.
Oh. wait.
Again, you have to build and anchor the grids/arrays. If the walls go, you have non-hurricane construction, so it wouldn't support roof solar. If you built for 125 kph winds, having 215 kph winds means some roofs and walls will fail, and debris may impact the cells. The Tesla roof solar units are fairly durable, and if built to the proper standard, should be fine, but if a tree moving at speed hits it, will take damage.
People with small scale portable solar PV or portable wind turbines can dismount them and store them in secure rooms in the interior of the building. For a wind turbine, it's fairly quick; for a portable solar PV it's usually quick. Fixed roof solar is more a matter of how durable the roof support was, and whether the roof was impacted by heavy flying debris.
Branson's island was impacted, but his solar and wind was stored inside, so he was able to get it running quickly after the fact. But he built to hurricane standard for both roof and walls, and took precautions.
A resort may or may not have taken the same level of action, depending on staffing and training levels. A residence may have done so, but if vacant probably did not. You can board up the solar panels (surface application of covering boards, similar to windows) to reduce the chance of wind debris impacts, but if it's not secured to a secure wall, it can be ripped off the roof entirely.
You are comparing 1912-2017 apples to 2017-2018 oranges.
Nobody is taking away your existing vehicles.
Nobody is stopping you from paying more and more at the pump.
Nobody is forcing you to buy an electric or hybrid car or truck.
But. The electrics will be cheaper by the 3rd model year (just look at the internal forecasts) than the gasoline versions.
And in many countries you won't be able to expense fleet purchases of vehicles if they aren't green. Or pass emissions tests.
It depends on which country you do business in. If it's Norway, you're going to have to adapt fast. If it's the USA, you probably have a few years. If it's Canada or Mexico you will notice the shift this coming year. If it's China ... well, let me just say it's going to be fun watching the effects.
Unlike you, I actually watch the TV show, and get the podcasts and get the Twitter tweets from them.
The largest manufacturers of electric cars are in China.
BMW, Audi, VW, Ford, Chevy, and all other US and UK and German or Italian manufacturers are producing electrics in the 2018 model year. They have no choice in the matter. Whether they will be available in the US outside of the 17 clean air compact states is a separate issue. It is expected you won't be informed it's a plug-in electric model in the US for marketing reasons. But it is. That's marketing, not production.
Try getting your news from non-US sources for once. There's an entire world out there, and it doesn't care about whether or not you export vehicles or not. It will provide supply.
I see you didn't go to any of the cars shows in China, the UK, or Germany.
Check Bloomberg search for 2018 electric cars - watch the video yourself. Go to the broadcasts on BBC CBC or even the live Chinese websites.
Your time is over. No I won't type your search for you.
No, you didn't. I found 20 links. I'm not running them for you. You need to learn how to use keywords. Or, if you're that lame, ask Siri.
Wrong. Price of renewables today is under 6 cents.
It's 2017 not 1967, sunshine. China manufactures entire solar farms that look like giant panda bears the size of Rhode Island. Nobody is waiting for you. Walmart literally built more solar PV in the US than was built before 2010. You can scream fake news until the cows come home, and then wonder why we are more competitive than you are. Because we build it in the West. We use it in the West. We have cheaper energy and we're eating your shorts. Capitalism 101.
in the text of many articles. latest BBC rediff from Nature Geoscience quotes it. latest CBC rediff on podcasts today and last night CBUT Vancouver shows it.
do your own work.
BBC CBC Google Yahoo Technet.
Unlike you I get my news from actual scientists.
Do your own searches, lame ones.
And resorts. Most resorts have both backup generators and solar/wind that can be taken offline and put back up.
So the 100 percent no power claim is, by definition, false. The grid failed. The grid is offline. There are buildings and residences and commercial properties with power.
Look, China, India, the UK, the EU, Canada, Japan, and the Northeastern and Western US are all AHEAD of where we needed to be on renewables to avoid this. We met and exceeded the 2025 renewables goals in 2016.
We just need to keep phasing out inefficient dirty kid-killing polluting fossil fuels.
It's not that hard.
Starting in 2018 more than 80 percent of all cars and trucks sold worldwide will be electric only or plug-in electric hybrids with a biodiesel option.
We can - and are - changing. Fast.
You just have to take the turbine blade off during the storm. It takes a few minutes, you put it inside a secure 2nd floor closet, and you put it back up once the storm has passed. I used to do that all the time. Are we seriously saying people are so stupid they don't take basic off-line power actions?
Anyone with a modern 2010 or later house built to hurricane standards and a Tesla solar roof and Tesla storage batteries, by definition, has full power.
I think you meant to say "grid electricity to Puerto Rico will be offline for 4-6 months".
Even people with wind power could have taken the wind turbine housing inside during the storm and put it back up after it passed. It's a fairly simple operation.
Same goes for generators - you take it inside a secure location built to hurricane standards until after it passes and then move it outside.
Does nobody on this site understand modern energy production?
We have always been at war with Narnia.