In actual practice, most of the US solar market that is not hooked up to the grid is not counted. Only industrial solar and commercial solar tends to be counted.
Try reading the historical records from Japan or China sometime. Or the stories collected from the native population of the Pacific Coastal regions.
It's not as scary as you think. It's just what happens.
Your problem is you don't have back entrances to the unpublished Chinese and Japanese documents that haven't been published in English. In medicine, for example, that's about 4/5th of all the research that has been done.
History didn't start in 1066. Or AD 0. It started many thousands of years ago, way before non-Asian cultures developed written languages.
It's like talking to a brick wall about how a factor 9 quake accompanied with a 500 foot tall tsunami is going to crush it and then sweep all the bricks onto the top of the hill it can see in the distance.
"oh no," says the wall, "I will never suffer that circumstance!"
And yet the world has seen many such brick walls rendered into smoking rubble and the bricks put on top of many distant hills.
Not that we have a subway, but I've noticed at certain bus rides the entire cell coverage on multiple channels drops entirely, when certain people get on the bus and comes back after they leave it.
We, as a society, have mental blinders to real and known risks.
We know that the entire Pacific region, aka "the Ring of Fire" is vulcanically and geologically active. And is subject to 500 foot tsunamis periodically within recent history, and quakes up to factor 9 or above.
Is it wise to have any nuclear fission reactors in this region?
one of my close friends has 500 apps on her iPhone.
I'm fairly certain you don't use all your apps if you have more than, say, 20. You might use them once a month. Maybe. But your "surfing waves calculator" or "ski report" probably isn't used year round.
Any app that posts alerts or responds quickly based on location services or provides motion telemetry is pretty much burning battery, however.
Want to save power drain? Only allow location services to apps that need it all the time, and don't allow apps to update tracking on their icons (e.g. mail, texts, etc) unless you really want it.
And set battery to power conservation.
Push all apps you don't actually need to the cloud (delete).
That said, Twitter has no setting to disable internal pics and vids for it's feed so it sucks power big time, especially if location services is turned on, or "see nearby tweets".
Mine went down. I own six solar panels and buy wind and hydro energy from Seattle City Light, which is 98 percent green.
Some of that could be because I cut operating costs by replacing my old fridge, washer, and dryer for more efficient EnergyStar high rated ones, and replaced all my lights with LEDs I bought on sale, of course.
Also doesn't include border control or Coast Guard. Those are different. Both can operate within 200 miles of the coast and navigable waterways of a certain size, and that includes inland. Think about how far that is.
Without massive government subsidies, exclusions, and tax exemptions for coal, it's way too expensive to use, even without counting the 259,000 kids killed by coal.
Time to adapt.
Note that some of the coal plant retirements are for older end of cycle power plants, but more recent power plants may be retrofitted for more efficient use as coal cogeneration power plants, where we trap the waste heat and use it for other purposes, at the same time as outfitting the stacks with pollution scrubbers. This does end up increasing total power generation by 20-80 percent above original specs, but you need a process that can use the waste heat appropriately.
So not all the "retired" coal plants are gone forever, as business analysts incorrectly surmised when China retrofitted their coal plants for pollution scrubbing cogeneration coal plants. They just go away for a while as their internal processes are optimized for the 20th century instead of the 18th century.
no, that leads to fraud. you need to understand how the system works, and what the incentives are.
there are entire ghost towns and ghost companies that look complete on the outside but are hollow shells. the metrics require they be built, but nobody makes sure they are actually being used for what they were built for.
so parking requirements (reserved spot) will just be "paper" parking spots, as fraud is cheaper than building one.
Over the long haul, as one of the first IPO investors in China back in the 90s, I've learned a few things.
One is that you need to verify and then not trust. Keep verifying.
I predict license plate fraud will be endemic in wealthy fuel stops and in remote regions.
Is this a good idea? Possibly, but it needs to be closely monitored, as up to 50 percent of the Chinese supply chain has fraudulent materials, and people will politely pretend to do something and then not do it.
A better method would be to disincentive parking and give prime spots for parking to hybrid and plug-in electric cars with cars towed and sold at auction for violations. And prime parking for bike users.
The sad thing is, it's only Americans who are serfs in America. Canadian and citizens of the EU have real privacy rights guaranteed by US/Canada and US/EU data treaties, which are binding.
They can even sue for their rights.
You can't.
Oh, wait, serfs had the right of appeal. You don't even have that.
Canadian Citizens have rights afforded by the Constitution which can not be signed away, no matter how deep you buried it, and privacy is one of those rights.
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98 percent of the total amount of subsidies are that going to fossil fuels.
First rule of accounting: pay attention to large amounts first.
I agree, it is long since time we ended all fossil fuel subsidies, tax exemptions, tax exclusions, and cheap rates for shipment and liability.
In actual practice, most of the US solar market that is not hooked up to the grid is not counted. Only industrial solar and commercial solar tends to be counted.
It's a lot bigger than that.
Try reading the historical records from Japan or China sometime. Or the stories collected from the native population of the Pacific Coastal regions.
It's not as scary as you think. It's just what happens.
Your problem is you don't have back entrances to the unpublished Chinese and Japanese documents that haven't been published in English. In medicine, for example, that's about 4/5th of all the research that has been done.
History didn't start in 1066. Or AD 0. It started many thousands of years ago, way before non-Asian cultures developed written languages.
fine, so you're like me, you don't use other apps. But my female and younger male friends with iPhones have a lot more apps than I do.
And they should let those apps live in the cloud if they haven't used them in 30 days.
Sigh.
It's like talking to a brick wall about how a factor 9 quake accompanied with a 500 foot tall tsunami is going to crush it and then sweep all the bricks onto the top of the hill it can see in the distance.
"oh no," says the wall, "I will never suffer that circumstance!"
And yet the world has seen many such brick walls rendered into smoking rubble and the bricks put on top of many distant hills.
Not that we have a subway, but I've noticed at certain bus rides the entire cell coverage on multiple channels drops entirely, when certain people get on the bus and comes back after they leave it.
Let's be honest here.
We, as a society, have mental blinders to real and known risks.
We know that the entire Pacific region, aka "the Ring of Fire" is vulcanically and geologically active. And is subject to 500 foot tsunamis periodically within recent history, and quakes up to factor 9 or above.
Is it wise to have any nuclear fission reactors in this region?
No.
Will we do anything about this.
Probably not.
one of my close friends has 500 apps on her iPhone.
I'm fairly certain you don't use all your apps if you have more than, say, 20. You might use them once a month. Maybe. But your "surfing waves calculator" or "ski report" probably isn't used year round.
Let it live in the cloud. Set it free.
Any app that posts alerts or responds quickly based on location services or provides motion telemetry is pretty much burning battery, however.
Want to save power drain? Only allow location services to apps that need it all the time, and don't allow apps to update tracking on their icons (e.g. mail, texts, etc) unless you really want it.
And set battery to power conservation.
Push all apps you don't actually need to the cloud (delete).
That said, Twitter has no setting to disable internal pics and vids for it's feed so it sucks power big time, especially if location services is turned on, or "see nearby tweets".
The new iPhone 5E is going to rock serious phonage. Small like the 5 but better than the 6.
All your future is belong to Apple fanboi
Mine went down. I own six solar panels and buy wind and hydro energy from Seattle City Light, which is 98 percent green.
Some of that could be because I cut operating costs by replacing my old fridge, washer, and dryer for more efficient EnergyStar high rated ones, and replaced all my lights with LEDs I bought on sale, of course.
Adapt.
The future is not fossil fuels.
Shh. Don't wake up the serfs.
Also doesn't include border control or Coast Guard. Those are different. Both can operate within 200 miles of the coast and navigable waterways of a certain size, and that includes inland. Think about how far that is.
USNavy and Marines, USArmy, USAF and the 9 military spy agencies of which you have heard of five.
Listen carefully to what they said. They're only talking about the first four.
The other nine don't exist. And monkeys fly out of my butt.
Without massive government subsidies, exclusions, and tax exemptions for coal, it's way too expensive to use, even without counting the 259,000 kids killed by coal.
Time to adapt.
Note that some of the coal plant retirements are for older end of cycle power plants, but more recent power plants may be retrofitted for more efficient use as coal cogeneration power plants, where we trap the waste heat and use it for other purposes, at the same time as outfitting the stacks with pollution scrubbers. This does end up increasing total power generation by 20-80 percent above original specs, but you need a process that can use the waste heat appropriately.
So not all the "retired" coal plants are gone forever, as business analysts incorrectly surmised when China retrofitted their coal plants for pollution scrubbing cogeneration coal plants. They just go away for a while as their internal processes are optimized for the 20th century instead of the 18th century.
no, that leads to fraud. you need to understand how the system works, and what the incentives are.
there are entire ghost towns and ghost companies that look complete on the outside but are hollow shells. the metrics require they be built, but nobody makes sure they are actually being used for what they were built for.
so parking requirements (reserved spot) will just be "paper" parking spots, as fraud is cheaper than building one.
Over the long haul, as one of the first IPO investors in China back in the 90s, I've learned a few things.
One is that you need to verify and then not trust. Keep verifying.
I predict license plate fraud will be endemic in wealthy fuel stops and in remote regions.
Is this a good idea? Possibly, but it needs to be closely monitored, as up to 50 percent of the Chinese supply chain has fraudulent materials, and people will politely pretend to do something and then not do it.
A better method would be to disincentive parking and give prime spots for parking to hybrid and plug-in electric cars with cars towed and sold at auction for violations. And prime parking for bike users.
If we can't start pointless wars with our aggressive neighbors, how can we save face?
The sad thing is, it's only Americans who are serfs in America. Canadian and citizens of the EU have real privacy rights guaranteed by US/Canada and US/EU data treaties, which are binding.
They can even sue for their rights.
You can't.
Oh, wait, serfs had the right of appeal. You don't even have that.
Oh, you mean a pocket watch. Those went out two centuries ago.
Keep up.
A more interesting aspect is we can now print electronic circuits with their own near field power into people's clothes.
Resistance is useless. Why are you testing rote facts instead of useful concepts?
At least at the college/university level.
What's a watch, grandpa?
Nobody uses those anymore.
I see you've never been to Canada.
People there have rights, unlike American serfs.
Canadian Citizens have rights afforded by the Constitution which can not be signed away, no matter how deep you buried it, and privacy is one of those rights.
Trust me on this.