Absolutely true, it's only borderline cheap right now because we have invested trillions into the infrastructure to get at it - infrastructure which has gotten ever more complex to get at the harder to reach/extract stuff.
Some shale oil could cost more in energy to get out that it would provide, ironically we still do it because the energy we use to get it out is cheap and oil is relatively expensive.
" I don't think people realize that it would require 100% of an entire day's worth of clear-sky production of their $20,000 5 KW rooftop solar system to not-quite replace 1 single gallon of gasoline. "
If cars didn't weight 2-ton because people have a propensity to crash them, then your statement wouldn't need to be true. Perhaps autonomous cars will change that.
A pushbike weighs 10kg, an simple electric bike - about 20kg.
Everybody here is fixated on oil to the point of not discussing anything much else.
Windmills, watermills, these are what started the industrial revolution and would likely be useful a 2nd time round. Watermills and windmills are simple tech that can be built from wood and stone. I expect we'd go also back to using horses a lot if our current system collapsed. Modern electronic technology is not built to last, they wouldn't much left of it working after a couple of decades.
Too many people here seem to think mad max is a documentary.
Aliasing of fonts on a 1080p screen makes text look grey, 4k allows larger fonts to be used with a smaller proportion of the pixels being grey. The result is nicer blacker fonts and more intricate fonts can be used.
Many non-aliased fonts look dreadful - blocky and very badly proportioned, again they would look far better scaled on a higher resolution screen.
Simply shrinking the text with the screen is not the right thing to do.
1. Computing tech and sensors are cheap and getting cheaper, a self driving car could be just as cheap, especially given vastly smaller insurance cost which would be borne by the manufacturer. 2. You want to joy-ride then hit a racecourse. 3. People are dangerous, drunk, tired, eating, putting on makeup, playing with phone, distracted by kids, radio, phone etc. 4. No change.
Pumped hydro can be totally man made, dig a hole, connect a pipe, install some bi-directional turbines, damn off an area with little water flow and you have a giant battery that will last hundreds of years with little maintenance.
If I recall, as plutonium ages, helium builds up in the crystal lattice.
True, I don't think the yield is the concern, I think the worry is that the bomb will fail to detonate. Since the Chinese have nuclear power stations that shouldn't matter as they can replace the plutonium with new plutonium from time to time I would have thought.
I've been watching the mainstream papers, the tabloids barely cover the election, I've been surprised by the level of support for Miliband from papers that were Tory backers at the last election. It's honestly left me wondering if they no longer see the Tories as good for the economy (economists mostly say they are not good).
Tories are the millionaires party, if you're not rich then you'd have to be a bit thick to vote for them.
I certainly don't trust Rumsfeld, but why would he lie about a big mess that makes him looks bad. AFAIK a sizable chunk of the 2.3T was later found during auditing, but when you've miss-placed 2.3 million million dollars, you should be finding all of it, even if you have to hire several hundred accountants to do so.
Unsecured loads - there is no change, the person responsible is the person who secures the load prior to the vehicle setting off - same as before.
It doesn't matter if the truck is driven by a driver or a machine, an unsecured load is an unsecured load either way.
Lumber, you can't realistically just run off with somebodies trees, that is why they don't have a high level of security. How would you fence stolen trees? If you were mad enough to steal trees then the driver might not be able to stop you.
Drivers are not infallible, they go to the toilet, they sleep, they go to cafes to eat. Their loads could be stolen now, we have laws and security to prevent that. Why do they put locks on trucks now when those trucks have drivers? Can your front door lock be cut with bolt cutters?
Paint fading? Is a license plate allowed to fade - is that legal? Solution is not complicated, a database of license plates+telephone numbers could fit on a smartphone no problem.
Honestly, the questions you asked, they are easy to answer, you even answered some of the questions yourself when criticising me. You call my answers trite but they are no more trite than your questions.
1) Garage attendant / robot / automated. 2) People who design the locks, police, security etc. 3) The people loading the cargo 4) The people who loaded it / vehicle manufacturers if bad design. 5) The owner of the truck/haulage co, phone them(?). 6) Emergency services or breakdown service.
There are 2 parties, part A is dreadful so you vote for party B who are a little bit less dreadful. There is no point in voting for parties C, D, E or F because they can't unseat party A.
When polled in the UK on policies the Green party comes 1st but they are about 5th or 6th in polls.
People in the UK appear not to have a clue what the parties actual policies are, if they knew, they would vote differently.
Western countries have been busy writing treaties that prohibit import tariffs for goods that had environmentally damaging production/farming/fishing methods.
Don't like tuna fishing killing dolphins? tough, you can't import tax bad tuna.
The west deliberately allow China's poor pollution controls. Why?
Whilst I'm not excusing China's pathetic environmental record, aren't these same neodymium magnets also in the motors that create electricity for hydro, coal, gas and nuclear? If so then wind turbines would still be better.
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Absolutely true, it's only borderline cheap right now because we have invested trillions into the infrastructure to get at it - infrastructure which has gotten ever more complex to get at the harder to reach/extract stuff.
Some shale oil could cost more in energy to get out that it would provide, ironically we still do it because the energy we use to get it out is cheap and oil is relatively expensive.
F*** all of these a-holes, see if they fall for it twice, aim for a more important leader next time.
"We can't. Without that much free energy it's not possible to sustain our current technology level. Renewables just aren't enough and never will."
Total nonsense, the sun can power our civilisation just by covering a small chunk of the Sahara or roofs worldwide.
http://www.greenpeace.org/inte...
This much area needed for solar to power the world:
http://landartgenerator.org/bl...
" I don't think people realize that it would require 100% of an entire day's worth of clear-sky production of their $20,000 5 KW rooftop solar system to not-quite replace 1 single gallon of gasoline. "
If cars didn't weight 2-ton because people have a propensity to crash them, then your statement wouldn't need to be true. Perhaps autonomous cars will change that.
A pushbike weighs 10kg, an simple electric bike - about 20kg.
the-last-time-our-oceans-got-this-acidic-it-drove-earths-greatest-extinction
http://www.rollingstone.com/po...
Everybody here is fixated on oil to the point of not discussing anything much else.
Windmills, watermills, these are what started the industrial revolution and would likely be useful a 2nd time round. Watermills and windmills are simple tech that can be built from wood and stone. I expect we'd go also back to using horses a lot if our current system collapsed. Modern electronic technology is not built to last, they wouldn't much left of it working after a couple of decades.
Too many people here seem to think mad max is a documentary.
0.5% efficiency loss per year, that means they will still be outputting 50% after 100 years. Inverters don't last long though.
Aliasing of fonts on a 1080p screen makes text look grey, 4k allows larger fonts to be used with a smaller proportion of the pixels being grey. The result is nicer blacker fonts and more intricate fonts can be used.
Many non-aliased fonts look dreadful - blocky and very badly proportioned, again they would look far better scaled on a higher resolution screen.
Simply shrinking the text with the screen is not the right thing to do.
They might point out that 78 + 12 = 90 and ask what happened to the other 10%
So they are building insanely large data centers.... to collect metadata.
I swear that doesn't add up.
Parasitic subsidies. "farm-subsidies-blatant-transfer-of-cash-to-rich"
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
1. Computing tech and sensors are cheap and getting cheaper, a self driving car could be just as cheap, especially given vastly smaller insurance cost which would be borne by the manufacturer.
2. You want to joy-ride then hit a racecourse.
3. People are dangerous, drunk, tired, eating, putting on makeup, playing with phone, distracted by kids, radio, phone etc.
4. No change.
I can't speak for North America but Europe has massive pumped hydro potential that is untapped.
Assessment of the European potential for pumped hydropower
Pumped hydro can be totally man made, dig a hole, connect a pipe, install some bi-directional turbines, damn off an area with little water flow and you have a giant battery that will last hundreds of years with little maintenance.
True, I don't think the yield is the concern, I think the worry is that the bomb will fail to detonate. Since the Chinese have nuclear power stations that shouldn't matter as they can replace the plutonium with new plutonium from time to time I would have thought.
I've been watching the mainstream papers, the tabloids barely cover the election, I've been surprised by the level of support for Miliband from papers that were Tory backers at the last election. It's honestly left me wondering if they no longer see the Tories as good for the economy (economists mostly say they are not good).
Tories are the millionaires party, if you're not rich then you'd have to be a bit thick to vote for them.
Methinks google et al likely keep shtum when they have 'mishaps'.
I certainly don't trust Rumsfeld, but why would he lie about a big mess that makes him looks bad. AFAIK a sizable chunk of the 2.3T was later found during auditing, but when you've miss-placed 2.3 million million dollars, you should be finding all of it, even if you have to hire several hundred accountants to do so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
$2.3 trillion unaccounted for.
BS, copycat crimes are a proven thing, google it.
What YOU SAID is not logical at all. Deterrents rarely work, how's that 3 million people prison system thing going? Cost much?
To encourage more swatting simply:
1. Post videos of swatting online.
2. Post interviews of swatted people onlne.
Also works for mass-shootings.
Unsecured loads - there is no change, the person responsible is the person who secures the load prior to the vehicle setting off - same as before.
It doesn't matter if the truck is driven by a driver or a machine, an unsecured load is an unsecured load either way.
Lumber, you can't realistically just run off with somebodies trees, that is why they don't have a high level of security. How would you fence stolen trees? If you were mad enough to steal trees then the driver might not be able to stop you.
Drivers are not infallible, they go to the toilet, they sleep, they go to cafes to eat. Their loads could be stolen now, we have laws and security to prevent that. Why do they put locks on trucks now when those trucks have drivers? Can your front door lock be cut with bolt cutters?
Paint fading? Is a license plate allowed to fade - is that legal? Solution is not complicated, a database of license plates+telephone numbers could fit on a smartphone no problem.
Honestly, the questions you asked, they are easy to answer, you even answered some of the questions yourself when criticising me. You call my answers trite but they are no more trite than your questions.
1) Garage attendant / robot / automated.
2) People who design the locks, police, security etc.
3) The people loading the cargo
4) The people who loaded it / vehicle manufacturers if bad design.
5) The owner of the truck/haulage co, phone them(?).
6) Emergency services or breakdown service.
Seems like pretty easy questions.
1st past the post:
There are 2 parties, part A is dreadful so you vote for party B who are a little bit less dreadful. There is no point in voting for parties C, D, E or F because they can't unseat party A.
When polled in the UK on policies the Green party comes 1st but they are about 5th or 6th in polls.
People in the UK appear not to have a clue what the parties actual policies are, if they knew, they would vote differently.
Votematch (UK)
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/pa...
And
Vote for Policies: 2015 General Election
Western countries have been busy writing treaties that prohibit import tariffs for goods that had environmentally damaging production/farming/fishing methods.
Don't like tuna fishing killing dolphins? tough, you can't import tax bad tuna.
The west deliberately allow China's poor pollution controls. Why?
Do modern solar panels need environmentally destructive production techniques?
Perhaps not:
http://www.rsc.org/chemistrywo...
Whilst I'm not excusing China's pathetic environmental record, aren't these same neodymium magnets also in the motors that create electricity for hydro, coal, gas and nuclear? If so then wind turbines would still be better.