I am not so sure that less competition will result in better drivers and better support in general. Especially, as MediaTek is known for its "quality" products and support in mobile devices.
The point is, they do not say anything about the "main unit" also called universe of people they selected the sample from. They not even define developer and engineer and programmer. What is the difference? It would be totally acceptable to say. Our sample is based on people visiting stack overflow. However, they most likely did not choose people at random and they did not say how many people rejected the selection. Furthermore, the "study" is missing the error value/sigma they have. The problem is that people who have no experience with studies and study design will accept the results as facts and make wrong decisions on what to learn and practise.
I habe looked through their graphs and my first question was how did they select who to ask? Then I found things that make no sense like where PHP and WordPress where counted as frontend technology like JavaScript. You cannot put them in the same category. WordPress is a platform , PHP is a language with a large set of library functions and there are different web frameworks for PHP. WordPress itself is written in PHP.
But what the final nail in the coffin of this study was the Star Trek vs. Star Wars where Star Wars wins? Really developers choose a fairytale over SF? These are not real developers. No sir.
They have a more or less working technology to bring astronauts in 6-7 month to Mars and not a budget to fund it, and now they propose using a technology which has not been implemented and used? Interesting, I thought the wanted to go 2030+ and have not enough funding. How is developing a new technology cheaper? Yes I saw there is an article on the principle here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and yes it is not the crazy nuke drive which would not work reliable. I know that. Still from a working propulsion technology to Mars is much easier than creating a new device and using that.
Please feel free to send this message (preferably in German) to the FINE German government which thinks that hotspot providers should be held liable. I guess, Germany is the only ba^H^H country on earth which has such a FINE law. However, for the present German government, the Internet is the "undiscovered country".
As you have an E at the end of have, leave, niece, and Greece, which you do not speak in English, you just might manage with Concorde.You should get used to such things. The English language inherited half of its vocabulary from the French with lots of Es.
The electricity prices on the electricity stock exchange (https://www.eex.com/de/) often went into the negative, as there is an excess of energy production in Germany. The problem is RWE, E.ON, Vattenfall, and EnBW, are not in favor of renewables for two reasons. They do not have many plants/generators in that market segment and they have many coal plants (especially the first three). The only thing they can do is let them run to collect money. Electricity prises are so low that they still that they made deficit in 2015. As explained certain regions and towns in Germany rely on the profit from RWE. Therefore, the central government in Berlin is not very eager to fix the issue. Actually, the present behavior of the German government sucks big time, as their doing creates higher electricity prices for private non commercial end users. This is cause by a law giving fixed minimum prices for renewables which can be higher than the lowest stock market price. This difference must be paid by private non commercial end users. Large consumers in industry do not have to pay this extra. Therefore, the private users have to pay more. This results in the strange situation that private households have to pay more when there is more electricity available and less when the production shrinks. in addition Poland is frustrated over the overproduction in Germany, as it ruins prices for their plants as well.
So I would like the French to tell Sigmar Gabriel (German minister for economics) to close these lignite coal plants in exchange for terminating Fessenheim.
One note on base load generation. You can use the minimum wind generation also as base load and you can extend with storage capacity (water and gas). Presently, not for all coal plant, but at least for three lignite coal plants which are the most dirty power plants. Yes, I know gas is also CO2, but it is much more efficient than lignite coal and they do not have to run every day. They are also better to control, while coal and nuclear plants cannot be regulated very quickly. There are presently, gas power plants offline in Germany because of the continuous overproduction.
An interesting interactive chart for electricity export/import and production can be found at https://www.energy-charts.de/e... It shows that France and Germany are mainly exporter of electricity.
I have seen values for Germany up to 13 t CO2 per capita. While this sucks big time, one third is produced by traffic, another third is from heating
So what? France doesn't have road traffic and heating?
Have I implied that? Nope.
However, Germany is significant colder than France which requires more heating. France is more centralized which may result in less daily traffic. Usually in France they do not drive not so obsessive big cars as some Germans do (especially in the South).
France has been generating 80-90% of it's electricity from low carbon sources since the 1990's and you expect kudos for thinking about maybe closing down some fucking lignite burning power plants at some undefined time between now and 2020.
I personally, would prefer to shut them down right now. They are only still a thing because the social democrats do not want to harm RWE which is a huge source of income in North Rhine-Westphalia. There is no disagreement on that topic. I do not like them. They suck. But nuclear is not the answer to the problem. It is just another problem.
Oh, fucking great, you're proud that they're going to close 13% of the lignite burning plants.
No I am not happy with that and you would have already noticed that when you would really try to understand anything I am saying, but you rather rattle about how mean I am because I do not support you nuclear is better idea.
Are we going to have more high particulate pollution days this summer when the wind happens to be blowing from Germany?
Anyway, in summer Germany most likely requires less power from coal plants as we additionally will have more energy from solar power. Energy consumption is higher in winter.
How many people are being killed every year by the air pollution from your biomass and coal plants? 10's of Chernobyl's a year? 100's? 1000's?
Do you have any reliable figures? And still, I do not want coal plants. Coal sucks. I also do not want to have to cleanup the aftermath of a nuclear plant blowing up and storing the waste for thousands of years.
First, you should look up Wikipedia on that plant. The cost increase is documented there. Second, you refer to CO2 emission of France and Germany which you also got from Wikipedia. Anyway, I have seen values for Germany up to 13 t CO2 per capita. While this sucks big time, one third is produced by traffic, another third is from heating and the rest from electricity. Furthermore, we have many lignite coal power plants which are actually obsolete and could be shutdown without any trouble. It would even improve grid stability, as we would have less excess capacity (http://www.dw.com/en/the-end-of-lignite-coal-for-power-in-germany/a-18806081).
Why should we do that? This would disconnect this part form the rest of Europe. We would not be able to store energy in Scandinavia. Maybe you should lookup the concept of a grid and why we do not want to isolate small areas. This is especially true for renewable energy which production varies over the year and day. Therefore, they building a gas engine powered plant in Kiel in combination with a electrode heating unit for the district heating. The latter is used when we have an electricity surplus which often happens in winter and provide additional electricity when there is not enough wind. Anyway, you most likely do not case about that, because you want nuclear plants. They are the only solution. Amen.
Yes indeed it is boron. And we are far better of when it is shutdown. BTW: Just because they use the euphemism incident does not mean it is harmless and not an accident at all. However, it sounds better. That is why it is used in such cases. It is similar to collateral damage instead of murder of innocents and destruction of non-military property.
Oh indeed they are building one. Initial cost estimates were 3.3 billion € and are now 8.5 billion €. Also it should have been completed in 2012, 2016 and no 2017. After several anomalies in the material and construction, they are at 10.5 billion € and assume finishing in 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
From a German point of view, the risk of this new plant a smaller than from Fessenheim, as Flamanville is located at the Channel. Anyway, it does not looks like they will really be able to finish it. And when they are able to do so, it will never produce cheap enough energy.
Sorry, associative error. I meant Boron, and to be more correct I refer to boronic acid. In German Boron is called Bor (and so it was substituted by Bohr). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Fessenheim is an old plant which had many accidents in recent years. For example they had to introduce large quantities of Bohr into the reactor cooling to inhibit chain reaction because they were unable to insert the regulator rods. Yes I know Bohr is also used during regular operation. However, in much lower quantities. They also neglected to report all details which would have been necessary for Germany to prepare in case of an accident. Fessenheim is directly at the border to Germany.
This is utter nonsense and the many regular visits from Germans and French in their respective partner towns and cities tell a different stories. True there is prejudice on both sides of the border. For example, that Germans can't cook (which is only true for North Germans;-)) and the French want to control every joint company and endeavour (which is so true, especially with Airbus Group where the CEO is Tom Enders, oh wait he is German, but then it must be true in all other cases). And yes, there is a feeling in Germany that the French want to dominate and there is a feeling in France that France cannot really compete. In the end this is rubbish. However, Hollande is not really a visionary President nor was it Sarkozi. And the same applies to Schröder and now Merkel. However, Merkel might have done a step in the right direction lately. Anyway, I am much more optimistic about the German-French relations.
It will be us in Schleswig-Holstein (North Germany), as we reached 100% renewable (for electricity) last year. And our friends in the north. Denmark are able to reach the same goal in a matter of years. By 2025 we will reach 300% of the electric energy production, which in fact would at least based on calculations cover all the primary energy used in Schleswig-Holstein.
Germany and France about many things. That is the normal thing you do with your neighbour. You talk to them about things. It is a much better solution than the one used in the last centuries where we waged war against each other. We argue about refugees, immigrants, nuclear plants, and support each other, e.g., in Africa and in Syria. Also the Greek bailout scheme from Merkel not only saved German banks, but also French banks. So we cooperate on those things. Beside that, there are many personal contacts and relationships between Germany and France. Therefore, it is very unlikely that history will repeat itself. Even the Nazis in both countries agree on working together.
They will not build a new one. First, Germany is super annoyed that they withheld information on an accident in the plant, as Germany would directly suffer from the consequences if the plant goes Fukushima. Second, EDF tries to build a new nuclear plant in the UK (Hinkley Point C). Their government is totally behind it. Unfortunately, the EDF finance director resigned as he sees the plant to be a economic disaster (the union also think it is stupid and will cost jobs) http://www.theguardian.com/env...
Therefore, it is not very plausible that they will build a new reactor anywhere.
If you violate laws you get into trouble with the authorities. International companies try to cheat nations and do not pay their taxes. Not in Europe and not in the US. However, we as the people of both regions/countries cannot accept that. There is no extra law for the rich. Therefore, the sates have to force the companies to follow the rules, and if FB is not able to do so they get punished.
First, if some guy working for FB in Brazil did something illegal, he gets arrested. If a company tries to force a government to hinder police and courts to do their work then this would no longer be a free and democratic country. Second, FB is investigated by the cartel authority over market power abuse. Many companies get investigated for many different things, like VW for rigging cars. Sometimes they get caught and have to pay for it. For example, IBM was forced let another company write the OS for their computer and they were no longer allowed to announce vaporware. All this was done in the US by similar regulators. And now FB is maybe abusing its market power. If so, they will be regulated and most likely have to pay a fine.
The cartel authority is independent of the government and Merkel. It is operation on its own. Every time someone is building a monopoly or even worse abusing their market power, they investigate them. As a result they can add extra regulations on your business.
We are not so good at World Wars and Empires. Therefore, we decided to have a smaller military and spend the money on social and ecological stuff. After all we have (or had) the image of being good engineers.
Electricity production was and is a highly subsidized area of the economy. They funded up nuclear and they will have to subsidize the storage of nuclear wast for centuries to come. They subsidize coal in Germany, which is totally counter productive if you want to phase the shit out. Anyway, to give solar and wind a chance they subsidize it. While the subsidize model for renewables is not perfect, it resulted in an improvement in efficiency in production and cost. Nowadays in production a MWh is cheaper coming from a on shore wind turbine than from a coal plant.
Apart from our government which is unable to have a plan, we will make this move to renewables in the decades to come. FYI: Denmark will reach this level in 2020 and the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein produced more energy from wind power than they consumed. And they assume that they will able to triple the output in 2025 selling the surplus to the other countries and states to the south.
The main issue at the moment in energy management and storage, but we will find a way to solve these issues.
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I am not so sure that less competition will result in better drivers and better support in general. Especially, as MediaTek is known for its "quality" products and support in mobile devices.
The point is, they do not say anything about the "main unit" also called universe of people they selected the sample from. They not even define developer and engineer and programmer. What is the difference? It would be totally acceptable to say. Our sample is based on people visiting stack overflow. However, they most likely did not choose people at random and they did not say how many people rejected the selection. Furthermore, the "study" is missing the error value/sigma they have. The problem is that people who have no experience with studies and study design will accept the results as facts and make wrong decisions on what to learn and practise.
I habe looked through their graphs and my first question was how did they select who to ask? Then I found things that make no sense like where PHP and WordPress where counted as frontend technology like JavaScript. You cannot put them in the same category. WordPress is a platform , PHP is a language with a large set of library functions and there are different web frameworks for PHP. WordPress itself is written in PHP.
But what the final nail in the coffin of this study was the Star Trek vs. Star Wars where Star Wars wins? Really developers choose a fairytale over SF? These are not real developers. No sir.
They have a more or less working technology to bring astronauts in 6-7 month to Mars and not a budget to fund it, and now they propose using a technology which has not been implemented and used? Interesting, I thought the wanted to go 2030+ and have not enough funding. How is developing a new technology cheaper? Yes I saw there is an article on the principle here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and yes it is not the crazy nuke drive which would not work reliable.
I know that. Still from a working propulsion technology to Mars is much easier than creating a new device and using that.
Please feel free to send this message (preferably in German) to the FINE German government which thinks that hotspot providers should be held liable. I guess, Germany is the only ba^H^H country on earth which has such a FINE law. However, for the present German government, the Internet is the "undiscovered country".
As you have an E at the end of have, leave, niece, and Greece, which you do not speak in English, you just might manage with Concorde.You should get used to such things. The English language inherited half of its vocabulary from the French with lots of Es.
Jerk mode cost extra. And when you want to drive that way you can do it yourself. As a BMW owner it should be natural to you to do so ;-)
The electricity prices on the electricity stock exchange (https://www.eex.com/de/) often went into the negative, as there is an excess of energy production in Germany. The problem is RWE, E.ON, Vattenfall, and EnBW, are not in favor of renewables for two reasons. They do not have many plants/generators in that market segment and they have many coal plants (especially the first three). The only thing they can do is let them run to collect money. Electricity prises are so low that they still that they made deficit in 2015. As explained certain regions and towns in Germany rely on the profit from RWE. Therefore, the central government in Berlin is not very eager to fix the issue. Actually, the present behavior of the German government sucks big time, as their doing creates higher electricity prices for private non commercial end users. This is cause by a law giving fixed minimum prices for renewables which can be higher than the lowest stock market price. This difference must be paid by private non commercial end users. Large consumers in industry do not have to pay this extra. Therefore, the private users have to pay more. This results in the strange situation that private households have to pay more when there is more electricity available and less when the production shrinks. in addition Poland is frustrated over the overproduction in Germany, as it ruins prices for their plants as well.
So I would like the French to tell Sigmar Gabriel (German minister for economics) to close these lignite coal plants in exchange for terminating Fessenheim.
One note on base load generation. You can use the minimum wind generation also as base load and you can extend with storage capacity (water and gas). Presently, not for all coal plant, but at least for three lignite coal plants which are the most dirty power plants. Yes, I know gas is also CO2, but it is much more efficient than lignite coal and they do not have to run every day. They are also better to control, while coal and nuclear plants cannot be regulated very quickly.
There are presently, gas power plants offline in Germany because of the continuous overproduction.
An interesting interactive chart for electricity export/import and production can be found at https://www.energy-charts.de/e...
It shows that France and Germany are mainly exporter of electricity.
I have seen values for Germany up to 13 t CO2 per capita. While this sucks big time, one third is produced by traffic, another third is from heating
So what? France doesn't have road traffic and heating?
Have I implied that? Nope.
However, Germany is significant colder than France which requires more heating. France is more centralized which may result in less daily traffic. Usually in France they do not drive not so obsessive big cars as some Germans do (especially in the South).
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk...
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk...
One key source are the lignite coal plants, which could be switched off today.
FYI https://www.cleanenergywire.or...
It would be nice to have a similar source for France. However, I could not find one.
France has been generating 80-90% of it's electricity from low carbon sources since the 1990's and you expect kudos for thinking about maybe closing down some fucking lignite burning power plants at some undefined time between now and 2020.
I personally, would prefer to shut them down right now. They are only still a thing because the social democrats do not want to harm RWE which is a huge source of income in North Rhine-Westphalia. There is no disagreement on that topic. I do not like them. They suck. But nuclear is not the answer to the problem. It is just another problem.
Oh, fucking great, you're proud that they're going to close 13% of the lignite burning plants.
No I am not happy with that and you would have already noticed that when you would really try to understand anything I am saying, but you rather rattle about how mean I am because I do not support you nuclear is better idea.
Are we going to have more high particulate pollution days this summer when the wind happens to be blowing from Germany?
If the coal plants are still on? Very unlikely as it would require wind blowing from the north east to the south west. But you might want to observe the values
http://aqicn.org/city/paris/
http://aqicn.org/city/berlin/
Anyway, in summer Germany most likely requires less power from coal plants as we additionally will have more energy from solar power. Energy consumption is higher in winter.
How many people are being killed every year by the air pollution from your biomass and coal plants? 10's of Chernobyl's a year? 100's? 1000's?
Do you have any reliable figures? And still, I do not want coal plants. Coal sucks. I also do not want to have to cleanup the aftermath of a nuclear plant blowing up and storing the waste for thousands of years.
First, you should look up Wikipedia on that plant. The cost increase is documented there. Second, you refer to CO2 emission of France and Germany which you also got from Wikipedia. Anyway, I have seen values for Germany up to 13 t CO2 per capita. While this sucks big time, one third is produced by traffic, another third is from heating and the rest from electricity. Furthermore, we have many lignite coal power plants which are actually obsolete and could be shutdown without any trouble. It would even improve grid stability, as we would have less excess capacity (http://www.dw.com/en/the-end-of-lignite-coal-for-power-in-germany/a-18806081).
Why should we do that? This would disconnect this part form the rest of Europe. We would not be able to store energy in Scandinavia. Maybe you should lookup the concept of a grid and why we do not want to isolate small areas. This is especially true for renewable energy which production varies over the year and day. Therefore, they building a gas engine powered plant in Kiel in combination with a electrode heating unit for the district heating. The latter is used when we have an electricity surplus which often happens in winter and provide additional electricity when there is not enough wind. Anyway, you most likely do not case about that, because you want nuclear plants. They are the only solution. Amen.
Yes indeed it is boron. And we are far better of when it is shutdown. BTW: Just because they use the euphemism incident does not mean it is harmless and not an accident at all. However, it sounds better. That is why it is used in such cases. It is similar to collateral damage instead of murder of innocents and destruction of non-military property.
Oh indeed they are building one. Initial cost estimates were 3.3 billion € and are now 8.5 billion €. Also it should have been completed in 2012, 2016 and no 2017. After several anomalies in the material and construction, they are at 10.5 billion € and assume finishing in 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
From a German point of view, the risk of this new plant a smaller than from Fessenheim, as Flamanville is located at the Channel. Anyway, it does not looks like they will really be able to finish it. And when they are able to do so, it will never produce cheap enough energy.
Sorry, associative error. I meant Boron, and to be more correct I refer to boronic acid. In German Boron is called Bor (and so it was substituted by Bohr).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Fessenheim is an old plant which had many accidents in recent years. For example they had to introduce large quantities of Bohr into the reactor cooling to inhibit chain reaction because they were unable to insert the regulator rods. Yes I know Bohr is also used during regular operation. However, in much lower quantities. They also neglected to report all details which would have been necessary for Germany to prepare in case of an accident. Fessenheim is directly at the border to Germany.
This is utter nonsense and the many regular visits from Germans and French in their respective partner towns and cities tell a different stories. True there is prejudice on both sides of the border. For example, that Germans can't cook (which is only true for North Germans ;-)) and the French want to control every joint company and endeavour (which is so true, especially with Airbus Group where the CEO is Tom Enders, oh wait he is German, but then it must be true in all other cases). And yes, there is a feeling in Germany that the French want to dominate and there is a feeling in France that France cannot really compete. In the end this is rubbish. However, Hollande is not really a visionary President nor was it Sarkozi. And the same applies to Schröder and now Merkel. However, Merkel might have done a step in the right direction lately. Anyway, I am much more optimistic about the German-French relations.
It will be us in Schleswig-Holstein (North Germany), as we reached 100% renewable (for electricity) last year. And our friends in the north. Denmark are able to reach the same goal in a matter of years. By 2025 we will reach 300% of the electric energy production, which in fact would at least based on calculations cover all the primary energy used in Schleswig-Holstein.
Germany and France about many things. That is the normal thing you do with your neighbour. You talk to them about things. It is a much better solution than the one used in the last centuries where we waged war against each other. We argue about refugees, immigrants, nuclear plants, and support each other, e.g., in Africa and in Syria. Also the Greek bailout scheme from Merkel not only saved German banks, but also French banks. So we cooperate on those things. Beside that, there are many personal contacts and relationships between Germany and France. Therefore, it is very unlikely that history will repeat itself. Even the Nazis in both countries agree on working together.
They will not build a new one. First, Germany is super annoyed that they withheld information on an accident in the plant, as Germany would directly suffer from the consequences if the plant goes Fukushima. Second, EDF tries to build a new nuclear plant in the UK (Hinkley Point C). Their government is totally behind it. Unfortunately, the EDF finance director resigned as he sees the plant to be a economic disaster (the union also think it is stupid and will cost jobs) http://www.theguardian.com/env...
Therefore, it is not very plausible that they will build a new reactor anywhere.
If you violate laws you get into trouble with the authorities. International companies try to cheat nations and do not pay their taxes. Not in Europe and not in the US. However, we as the people of both regions/countries cannot accept that. There is no extra law for the rich. Therefore, the sates have to force the companies to follow the rules, and if FB is not able to do so they get punished.
First, if some guy working for FB in Brazil did something illegal, he gets arrested. If a company tries to force a government to hinder police and courts to do their work then this would no longer be a free and democratic country. Second, FB is investigated by the cartel authority over market power abuse. Many companies get investigated for many different things, like VW for rigging cars. Sometimes they get caught and have to pay for it. For example, IBM was forced let another company write the OS for their computer and they were no longer allowed to announce vaporware. All this was done in the US by similar regulators. And now FB is maybe abusing its market power. If so, they will be regulated and most likely have to pay a fine.
You should stop using springer media and other similar outlets. I have barely seen any of this Sugar-Hill (German Zuckerberg) guy in the news.
The cartel authority is independent of the government and Merkel. It is operation on its own. Every time someone is building a monopoly or even worse abusing their market power, they investigate them. As a result they can add extra regulations on your business.
We are not so good at World Wars and Empires. Therefore, we decided to have a smaller military and spend the money on social and ecological stuff. After all we have (or had) the image of being good engineers.
Electricity production was and is a highly subsidized area of the economy. They funded up nuclear and they will have to subsidize the storage of nuclear wast for centuries to come. They subsidize coal in Germany, which is totally counter productive if you want to phase the shit out. Anyway, to give solar and wind a chance they subsidize it. While the subsidize model for renewables is not perfect, it resulted in an improvement in efficiency in production and cost. Nowadays in production a MWh is cheaper coming from a on shore wind turbine than from a coal plant.
Apart from our government which is unable to have a plan, we will make this move to renewables in the decades to come. FYI: Denmark will reach this level in 2020 and the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein produced more energy from wind power than they consumed. And they assume that they will able to triple the output in 2025 selling the surplus to the other countries and states to the south.
The main issue at the moment in energy management and storage, but we will find a way to solve these issues.