"Of course, photovoltaics are in the neighborhood of 7% - 17% right now"
This isn't the '80s anymore, and I have plenty of those era panels still pushing about 15-17% efficiency.
We're at 30% minimum, now. They're what power my solar-powered rapid crop production sheds. Lettuce in the winter time usually takes 90 days to produce any usable crop. Current solar tech means a lettuce crop in winter is harvestable and in 19 days (versus 17 from natural sunlight) we can have that lettuce crop ready to go with full elemental and nutritional content of soil/sun-grown produce.
Not even close, we've got 30% efficient solar cells using newer laser tech to etch more micro-channels into the silicon substrate. That alone generates a HUGE improvement in efficiency as surface area for photon capture is dramatically increased.
And that story was on slashdot a couple of days ago with DEMOS TO BOOT.
I'd ask the redundant DYRTFA? but this is/. after all so even the summary was likely never seen in the first place and was relegated to firehose history.
"Solar power still has a long way to go before it's viable, both as a power source and as an economical power source."
Forgive me for asking, but what cave have you been in? Producing 5-8x the crop with 1/10th the power the sun irradiates a square meter of earth, with 25% (and rapidly rising) efficiency (with LED tech RIGHT BEHIND it in generations improvements,) means that with current solar and LED tech I could produce possibly 15x what any natural-sun crop on the ground will EVER yield.
I already have several solar-powered sheds installed globally. They push a few million count per year of whichever vegetative crop you're after, lettuce, cilantro, parsley, spinach, in just under half an acre.
I think your 'Potential Solar Power Applications' list is too narrow-minded.
And it is also owned by at least three other global corporations I can find, none related to the computer software industry.
Which means Microsoft *MUST* distinguish it by labeling it MICROSOFT WINDOWS, lest they cause cross-market confusion and get sued for that.
Just finished settling this exact matter in court with my own business in the USA. Apparently ecogroLED looks like Eco-Grow LED despite being registered in another country.
Before you respond, perhaps you should consider the person you're trying to downplay has quite a bit of experience in this exact matter.
You have a LOT of homework to do on me before you get close to understanding me.
No, I have a full calisthenics set and water weights for rehabilitation. I'm better equipped than most gyms just because I'm part titanium.
Wrong person to play that meme on, sorry. Mr "Gym in 26 minutes" wouldn't last 3 seconds in any real fight with me. His head would get caved in with one blow from my plastic and titanium reinforced leg.
"Let's talk about how they work next, since that's an entirely different matter."
One you're apparently not aware of, since you're very obviously not a business owner that has had to enforce trademark and copyright in court, like myself.
"Causes for failures on the JA plants were many. Besides being under-designed for a 9 earthquake (7.? designed)"
AND IT HELD
"and a too low tsunami wall to hold up the one occurred,"
BUILT TO STANDARDS MADE BY PREVIOUS RECORD TSUNAMIS
"there were failures in maintenance/upkeep/supervision."
And *THIS* matters not when #2 was an unforeseen consequence, and is therefore moot.
"And yeah, let that pebble core get compromised and the graphite fuel balls in there start burning... PU-239 is not your friend."
You assume that's the only way to run a pebble-bed reactor. Whooo you're way off, and there are other materials that would pretty much make it nearly-bulletproof unless someone were to purposely start an out-of-control nuclear reaction inside the core.
"All forms of producing it have risks and benefits."
Power itself is a risk. You can kill yourself, others, or the entire planet with it.
Even simple solar panels on the desert ground will cause ecological damage.
Barring that caveat, I would be inclined to argue that solar power (the ultimate power source in the system) is the best and safest means of acquiring/generating/tweaking power to our needs. Right now, using 1/10th the power that the sun shines upon every square meter on a cloudless summer day at noon, I can produce 5-8x the amount of lettuce or spinach in the same space with LED. If we can even hit 50% PV efficiency, feeding the world for the next century - including any unexpected catastrophic population burst - is almost zero problem.
Though, I'd almost expect enforced population control to come into effect before that, or at least human expansion into space.
We got boxes of logic boards for the G3 iBooks with sand in them. About 40% of those boards were bad.
Open up most any 72-74 series iBook and look at the bottom right of the top of the logic board. Manufactured in Guadalajara, Mexico is stamped on pretty much every one I've ever replaced.
Oh, and let's not get into the issue of system images for each individual piece of hardware. If a set of 72-series iBooks came from one school, it had 10.2.7 on it. If the EXACT SAME MODEL of iBook came from another school system, it got 10.2.8.
Compatibility problems to ZERO END.
Won't ever touch an Apple product after that ever again, not unless Jobs himself personally pays for me to visit their manufacturing facilities and can assure me that I won't be getting a piece of garbage.
Even then, I'm only going to pay HALF of what they're asking, because I know it's not worth what they're charging in the first place.
Slashdot Mirror
http://tinypic.com/r/2r5gleg/7 - does that look like marijuana to you?
LED wins hands down. The tech has matured enough. Watt for watt LED destroys all HID.
"Of course, photovoltaics are in the neighborhood of 7% - 17% right now"
This isn't the '80s anymore, and I have plenty of those era panels still pushing about 15-17% efficiency.
We're at 30% minimum, now. They're what power my solar-powered rapid crop production sheds. Lettuce in the winter time usually takes 90 days to produce any usable crop. Current solar tech means a lettuce crop in winter is harvestable and in 19 days (versus 17 from natural sunlight) we can have that lettuce crop ready to go with full elemental and nutritional content of soil/sun-grown produce.
I think you're behind the times.
Not even close, we've got 30% efficient solar cells using newer laser tech to etch more micro-channels into the silicon substrate. That alone generates a HUGE improvement in efficiency as surface area for photon capture is dramatically increased.
And that story was on slashdot a couple of days ago with DEMOS TO BOOT.
I'd ask the redundant DYRTFA? but this is /. after all so even the summary was likely never seen in the first place and was relegated to firehose history.
"Solar power still has a long way to go before it's viable, both as a power source and as an economical power source."
Forgive me for asking, but what cave have you been in? Producing 5-8x the crop with 1/10th the power the sun irradiates a square meter of earth, with 25% (and rapidly rising) efficiency (with LED tech RIGHT BEHIND it in generations improvements,) means that with current solar and LED tech I could produce possibly 15x what any natural-sun crop on the ground will EVER yield.
I already have several solar-powered sheds installed globally. They push a few million count per year of whichever vegetative crop you're after, lettuce, cilantro, parsley, spinach, in just under half an acre.
I think your 'Potential Solar Power Applications' list is too narrow-minded.
You don't use lastpass?
laughinghackers.avi
And it is also owned by at least three other global corporations I can find, none related to the computer software industry.
Which means Microsoft *MUST* distinguish it by labeling it MICROSOFT WINDOWS, lest they cause cross-market confusion and get sued for that.
Just finished settling this exact matter in court with my own business in the USA. Apparently ecogroLED looks like Eco-Grow LED despite being registered in another country.
Before you respond, perhaps you should consider the person you're trying to downplay has quite a bit of experience in this exact matter.
You have a LOT of homework to do on me before you get close to understanding me.
Abandoned in one field typically means it can't be held as a trademark in that field by anybody else.
See 'i' anything, which cannot ever be legally enforced due to the sheer proliferation by force.
Good day.
No, I have a full calisthenics set and water weights for rehabilitation. I'm better equipped than most gyms just because I'm part titanium.
Wrong person to play that meme on, sorry. Mr "Gym in 26 minutes" wouldn't last 3 seconds in any real fight with me. His head would get caved in with one blow from my plastic and titanium reinforced leg.
I'd have given you more leeway had you added a bit more snark to it to give it away. ;)
Can't perform the few keystrokes it takes to log in versus the far more numerous keystrokes it took to type that statement?
Pretty damned sad.
"Windows is a generic term too"
MICROSOFT Windows is not. Can you spot the difference, like any other 5 year old?
'Trademark law states that any potential mark violations must be enforced."
Too bad Apple is SEVERAL years late to the game.
http://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/2006/12/061212-1.jsp
Trademark made INVALID as it has existed in that particular ecosystem well before Apple filed.
Hey, Jobs, tell your lawyers to back off before I fuck up yet a FOURTH lawsuit for you in my amicus.
"Let's talk about how they work next, since that's an entirely different matter."
One you're apparently not aware of, since you're very obviously not a business owner that has had to enforce trademark and copyright in court, like myself.
Cables tend to flex, so their chance of withstanding an earthquake even shifting them multiple feet should be rather large.
At least the radiation coming from the fly ash can be handled with thin layers of gold and lead sandwiching liquid mercury.
"Causes for failures on the JA plants were many.
Besides being under-designed for a 9 earthquake (7.? designed)"
AND IT HELD
"and a too low tsunami wall to hold up the one occurred,"
BUILT TO STANDARDS MADE BY PREVIOUS RECORD TSUNAMIS
"there were failures in maintenance/upkeep/supervision."
And *THIS* matters not when #2 was an unforeseen consequence, and is therefore moot.
"And yeah, let that pebble core get compromised and the graphite fuel balls in there start burning... PU-239 is not your friend."
You assume that's the only way to run a pebble-bed reactor. Whooo you're way off, and there are other materials that would pretty much make it nearly-bulletproof unless someone were to purposely start an out-of-control nuclear reaction inside the core.
Part of the 50's generation, are we?
"All forms of producing it have risks and benefits."
Power itself is a risk. You can kill yourself, others, or the entire planet with it.
Even simple solar panels on the desert ground will cause ecological damage.
Barring that caveat, I would be inclined to argue that solar power (the ultimate power source in the system) is the best and safest means of acquiring/generating/tweaking power to our needs. Right now, using 1/10th the power that the sun shines upon every square meter on a cloudless summer day at noon, I can produce 5-8x the amount of lettuce or spinach in the same space with LED. If we can even hit 50% PV efficiency, feeding the world for the next century - including any unexpected catastrophic population burst - is almost zero problem.
Though, I'd almost expect enforced population control to come into effect before that, or at least human expansion into space.
More bullshit from Microsoft.
I'm too busy kicking China's ass to do anything about Microsoft. Anyone else want to step up to the plate?
Psssht, that's Amateur-level.
He can rejoin the party when he's running three motherboards in a single case, overclocked and immersion-cooled with Novec-1230.
Thunderbolt's already outdated.
Let me know when they've got direct HTX like on my motherboard.
Oh, won't happen until they go AMD.
Enjoy being having (at least) 4x less bandwidth.
We got boxes of logic boards for the G3 iBooks with sand in them. About 40% of those boards were bad.
Open up most any 72-74 series iBook and look at the bottom right of the top of the logic board. Manufactured in Guadalajara, Mexico is stamped on pretty much every one I've ever replaced.
Oh, and let's not get into the issue of system images for each individual piece of hardware. If a set of 72-series iBooks came from one school, it had 10.2.7 on it. If the EXACT SAME MODEL of iBook came from another school system, it got 10.2.8.
Compatibility problems to ZERO END.
Won't ever touch an Apple product after that ever again, not unless Jobs himself personally pays for me to visit their manufacturing facilities and can assure me that I won't be getting a piece of garbage.
Even then, I'm only going to pay HALF of what they're asking, because I know it's not worth what they're charging in the first place.
"and I may end up using the ExpressCard slot to add an eSATA port in the future"
What? Your USB ports aren't dual-serving as eSATA? Oh you poor thing.
So much for Apple's innovation!
"Every manufacturer has issues with their machines, including Apple"
I used to work as an Apple repair tech, at Flextronics.
I don't know how it is now, but not even 6 years ago 2/3 of the machines off the line were failures and needed refurbishing.
Apple managed to keep it quiet with a ton of bullshit.
I'm not aware of ANY manufacturer besides Apple with that shitty of a manufacturing record.
But that's what happens when you had your stuff manufactured in Guadalajara, Mexico.
You don't understand the inherent weakness of the approach, which is why it was abandoned back in NT4 days (or was it NT5?)
I'd personally doubt the Microprose story entirely.