I've met two people in different cities, both had systems to beat different sports, 1st guy made money off of horses and managed to fly under the radar, the other guy beat them on football (soccer), but he was a bit too good and got banned everywhere.
I managed to take the online casinos for a couple of hundred via their introductory offer... but my 'system' was weak, might just have been luck. And I discovered how addictive online gambling can be and stayed away ever since, I recognised some dangerous emotions.
If I gave you lots of facts and solid arguments I doubt you'd believe it anyway.
Have you seen the price of solar panels lately? Do you know what the ROI is for a panel bought today? What do you think is going to happen when all of the investments in to newer panel technology and new factories is paid off? will they A) close the factories or B) produce even cheaper panels?
If you followed wind technology closely you'd understand that there is massive investment going on improving wind turbines and their production efficiency and their installation in many ways. The price has got a long way to fall yet, even though wind can already compete with coal and gas. The latest off-shore contracts are starting to approach parity with fossil fuels, there are many innovations in the pipeline to bring the cost down further.
Solar and wind are technologies in their infancy and already they are threatening fossil fuels domination. As more panel and turbine factories pop up, as more efficiencies of scale kick in, the non-linear growth in renewables will continue. The writings on the wall, you're just refusing to see it.
", it's getting to the point that in some places they are already cheaper without subsidies than old energy with subsidies."
It won't be long before both wind and solar energy costs half of what fossil fuel energy costs. Is that so difficult to understand? I'm talking renewables without subsidies here.
Take another look, Scotland is approaching 100% electricity from renewables. You're deluding yourself if you don't think renewables will be delivering the lions share of energy in the world, wind and solar are becoming the cheapest forms of energy, it's getting to the point that in some places they are already cheaper without subsidies than old energy with subsidies.
Wind and solar are getting very competitive, you haven't been paying attention. And the costs are set to half again for wind and solar, you ain't seen nothing yet. and the exponential growth of renewables will continue until there's little else. Educate yourself, your ignorance and bias is showing.
" You realize there are no environmental regulations over there?" Of course that's not true, but the actual fact is that the regulations aren't good enough and they aren't enforced sometimes.
And why isn't this covered by trade treaties? The west could force China eta al to clean up their act very fast, but they don't. Instead trade treaties are being used to fuck us over - the workers, consumers, standards, public services and the environment. Trade treaties are the latest way for corporations to get what they want without pesky democracies and local laws getting in the way, the treaties literally over-rule local law and allow corporations to sue governments in kangaroo courts run by corporate lawyers if any government dares to try to protect anything.
PS and I've seen arguments that renewables can't supply much of our energy because of bad forecasts like these. We knew those arguments were wrong and now with renewables making up large percentages of energy usage in many countries we've been proven right. Both wind and solar can each provide as much energy as the world uses.
Making a mistake once is nothing. Making a mistake twice, wake up call. Making a mistake three times, hey idiot what are you doing? Making a mistake 4, 5, 6 etc times, we are now getting into very deliberate territory and this is confirmed by the fact that other organisations had projected the increases in renewables much more accurately by recognising that the growth in renewables was logarithmic and not linear.
So either the EIA are complete brain-dead morons who no-one should listen to or they are deliberately misleading people. Take your pick.
This is where it goes wrong, android updates should be automatic for all phones that have android unless it's a driver issue, which this isn't.
I don't depend on ASRock or Intel to update my OS, Why should I depend on Samsung? Windows updates itself fine, as does Linux. But not Android, and it's clearly a system that doesn't work and will leave literally 100s of millions of devices open to being trojaned.
Things won't change until Mega-Corp A sues Mega-corp B or Little-Corp C for allowing their devices to be used to attack their networks. And get awarded large damages. With situations like this one, they can't say they weren't warned.
My union got me a roughly 28% pay rise and I'm still very much paid in a performance related manner.
"I'd get paid less if I was held back by a union"
Except unions don't hold people back, do they, quite the opposite, they are likely to encourage employee training, employers are more likely to want to fire less skilled and hire more skilled.
Because companies outright hate whisteblowers and will try to make their life hell in every way possible, they can also afford better lawyers. Law is not easy.
Unlike you, the politicians recognise that we need to stop emitting extreme amounts of greenhouse gases. And all of the negatives are fixable or no change - gasoline is explosive, it wouldn't power cars otherwise. And China are becoming the new Japan, they are quite capable of producing quality goods if they want to.
I think the troll mod needs to be retired, it seems to get abused as much as it gets used correctly. If a post is troll, let it be flagged, if it's flagged and not troll then take away the flagger's ability to waste peoples time.
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That spread is exorbitant, I get charged 2% when I buy goods in euro or dollars, might be less on large ticket items.
That's dangerous is it!! Is your name Harvey Weinstein?
I've met two people in different cities, both had systems to beat different sports, 1st guy made money off of horses and managed to fly under the radar, the other guy beat them on football (soccer), but he was a bit too good and got banned everywhere.
I managed to take the online casinos for a couple of hundred via their introductory offer... but my 'system' was weak, might just have been luck. And I discovered how addictive online gambling can be and stayed away ever since, I recognised some dangerous emotions.
They could at least have the decency to ask people and offer incentives for beta-testing.
So, there just happened to be ten inflection point in a row.
Shut up.
"Or just perhaps in 2006 the rapidly decreasing cost of panels was not predictable?"
Funny because it was predicted. A lot. EIA got it wrong repeatedly, not everyone else.
It's not just ten years, they chose to ignore the previous couple of decades too.
And yes, getting a prediction wrong several times is what you could call a mistake, or just plain dumb. The EIA have an agenda, it's very obvious.
Other smaller organisations were perfectly capable of making far better predictions.
So, after this would you trust any predictions the EIA make regarding renewables???? Would you quote their predictions?
It depends what you call total cost, if external costs were included as they should be then fossil fuels are a multiple more expensive.
If I gave you lots of facts and solid arguments I doubt you'd believe it anyway.
Have you seen the price of solar panels lately? Do you know what the ROI is for a panel bought today? What do you think is going to happen when all of the investments in to newer panel technology and new factories is paid off? will they A) close the factories or B) produce even cheaper panels?
If you followed wind technology closely you'd understand that there is massive investment going on improving wind turbines and their production efficiency and their installation in many ways. The price has got a long way to fall yet, even though wind can already compete with coal and gas. The latest off-shore contracts are starting to approach parity with fossil fuels, there are many innovations in the pipeline to bring the cost down further.
Solar and wind are technologies in their infancy and already they are threatening fossil fuels domination. As more panel and turbine factories pop up, as more efficiencies of scale kick in, the non-linear growth in renewables will continue. The writings on the wall, you're just refusing to see it.
", it's getting to the point that in some places they are already cheaper without subsidies than old energy with subsidies."
It won't be long before both wind and solar energy costs half of what fossil fuel energy costs. Is that so difficult to understand? I'm talking renewables without subsidies here.
Take another look, Scotland is approaching 100% electricity from renewables. You're deluding yourself if you don't think renewables will be delivering the lions share of energy in the world, wind and solar are becoming the cheapest forms of energy, it's getting to the point that in some places they are already cheaper without subsidies than old energy with subsidies.
Wind and solar are getting very competitive, you haven't been paying attention. And the costs are set to half again for wind and solar, you ain't seen nothing yet. and the exponential growth of renewables will continue until there's little else. Educate yourself, your ignorance and bias is showing.
" You realize there are no environmental regulations over there?"
Of course that's not true, but the actual fact is that the regulations aren't good enough and they aren't enforced sometimes.
And why isn't this covered by trade treaties? The west could force China eta al to clean up their act very fast, but they don't. Instead trade treaties are being used to fuck us over - the workers, consumers, standards, public services and the environment. Trade treaties are the latest way for corporations to get what they want without pesky democracies and local laws getting in the way, the treaties literally over-rule local law and allow corporations to sue governments in kangaroo courts run by corporate lawyers if any government dares to try to protect anything.
PS and I've seen arguments that renewables can't supply much of our energy because of bad forecasts like these. We knew those arguments were wrong and now with renewables making up large percentages of energy usage in many countries we've been proven right. Both wind and solar can each provide as much energy as the world uses.
Making a mistake once is nothing.
Making a mistake twice, wake up call.
Making a mistake three times, hey idiot what are you doing?
Making a mistake 4, 5, 6 etc times, we are now getting into very deliberate territory and this is confirmed by the fact that other organisations had projected the increases in renewables much more accurately by recognising that the growth in renewables was logarithmic and not linear.
So either the EIA are complete brain-dead morons who no-one should listen to or they are deliberately misleading people. Take your pick.
Is that 15 degrees Delisle, Leiden or Rankine?
This is where it goes wrong, android updates should be automatic for all phones that have android unless it's a driver issue, which this isn't.
I don't depend on ASRock or Intel to update my OS, Why should I depend on Samsung? Windows updates itself fine, as does Linux. But not Android, and it's clearly a system that doesn't work and will leave literally 100s of millions of devices open to being trojaned.
Things won't change until Mega-Corp A sues Mega-corp B or Little-Corp C for allowing their devices to be used to attack their networks. And get awarded large damages. With situations like this one, they can't say they weren't warned.
My union got me a roughly 28% pay rise and I'm still very much paid in a performance related manner.
"I'd get paid less if I was held back by a union"
Except unions don't hold people back, do they, quite the opposite, they are likely to encourage employee training, employers are more likely to want to fire less skilled and hire more skilled.
Because companies outright hate whisteblowers and will try to make their life hell in every way possible, they can also afford better lawyers. Law is not easy.
Lithium is one of earths more abundant minerals, there is no running out.
Unlike you, the politicians recognise that we need to stop emitting extreme amounts of greenhouse gases. And all of the negatives are fixable or no change - gasoline is explosive, it wouldn't power cars otherwise. And China are becoming the new Japan, they are quite capable of producing quality goods if they want to.
Yeah, crap like OS updates.
What, you can't work that out?
Oops, you've annoyed the fuckwit apple fanboys, they seem to have a lot of mod points today.
Hey there fuckwits. How many mod points do you have now?
I'd love to hear the modders explanation of how your post is off-topic. this post is off-topic.And troll
Fuck stupid fanboys.
I think the troll mod needs to be retired, it seems to get abused as much as it gets used correctly. If a post is troll, let it be flagged, if it's flagged and not troll then take away the flagger's ability to waste peoples time.