Born at the center of China's coal industry, the boy is mentally handicapped and is unable to speak. He is one of many such children in Shanxi province, where coal has brought riches to a few, jobs for many, and environmental pollution that experts say has led to a high number of babies born with birth defects.
Experts say coal mining and processing has given Shanxi a rate of birth defects six times higher than China's national average, which is already high by global standards.
That's totally the kind of proven and cost-effective power generation technology I want generating power.
Most panels carry 25-50 year warranties (at least). If the system lasts 50 years, and outputs zero power after those 50 years, it depreciates at the rate of $760 a year. And hopefully, the price of solar panels/film will decrease every year (NanoSolar hitting the $1/watt price point within the last 12 months doesn't hurt).
But by how much will it depreciate? According to it's decreased output overtime? What's the warranty on the system? Most new solar panel/film systems provide at least a 50 year warranty, so if his system cost him $38K and you expect zero output after 50 years, the system loses $760 of value each year. Still not a bad deal.
You're aware CFLs can be recycled at your local Home Depot (as well as a variety of other local establishments) at no cost to you, correct? You just have to google "cfl recycling". Le sigh.
You mean like the huge government subsidies coal gets, like not having to pay for the hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon released into the atmosphere annually, the tons of mercury and uranium released into the atmosphere annually, and the enormous healthcare costs coal miners have? Noooo, no coal subsidies here. Don't believe me? Google "Coal subsidies". Just the first page is more than enough reading material. Go shill your shitty fuel somewhere else.
Building a wind turbine is proven, and cost effective. "Clean coal" or as we call it in real life, bullshit, has yet to be proven as either successful or economically viable. The faster we drive a stake through coal's heart, the better.
Why don't you check DynDNS' premium offering. It's $100-300/month on the low end. Neustar? Several thousand dollars a month. You can't attribute one single value to a huge service offering like DNS. DNS hosted on one DNS server is not the same as DNS hosted on 8-12 servers all across the global using anycasting for redundancy and service checks for intelligent failover. That's like me saying "Your time is worth $10/hr, because you're a human." Of course, your per hour value is determined by your skillset, industry, and what that particular market will bear.
DSL/fiber = easy. Cable = hard (shared medium). A typical HFC (hybrid fiber coax) node in a neighborhood has 450 homes connecting over coax to the node, where it's multiplexed onto the provider's fiber ring/run.
I agree about the "free" part, but no so much the open source part. Opera has managed to be the most standards-compliant browser despite being proprietary. It's the intent and skill of the developers that matter, not how many there are.
Standards compliant and open source are two different things. Opera could make the best damn web browser for the mobile platform ever, but if a manufacturer who is making 1 million+ devices has to decide between Opera ($$$) or Webkit (free), which would they go with if both are standards complaint enough?
They subsidize it from the people who do pay for DNS services. People, servers, colo space, power, and network connectivity cost money. Just because it's the internet doesn't mean it's free.
Air travel was once only for the rich as well. The wealthy typically underwrite new/cutting edge services/technologies/etc, eventually bringing down their cost.
They're probably only storing the refined data in PostgreSQL, with the raw data being stored as flat files on disk and tape. This is how we do it with 300TB of disk and 17PB of tape.
I don't want my pictures, banking, email (thanks Gmail!), etc to rely on a P2P network of home computers. I want servers doing what they do best, serving data from a facility with backup power, redundant connectivity, and some sort of physical security. And I want my laptop/desktop doing what they do best, fetching info from the rest of the world.
You make propose an interesting theory, although I think our standard of living will be maintainable via increased efficiency. So much energy is wasted by us in inefficient processes (internal combustion engines), energy transmission (being fixed with HVDC transmission lines), etc. There's still a lot to squeeze out of the power we already have access to. And worse comes to worse, the Sun spits out enough sunlight in fifteen minutes for us to power the world for a year. We just have to make sure we can make solar power without fossil fuels.
Why do you exactly think you can't steer a car while wheels are locked?
Because if the wheels aren't turning, you're not going to go in that direction. You're going to slide in the direction you were already going with the momentum you already had. It's like piloting a brick. ABS increases your braking distance on surfaces such as gravel, but you have the ability to avoid the obstacle with it.
ABS is not meant to stop you faster. It's meant to slow you down while still allowing you to steer the vehicle, something you can't do when the brakes lock up.
Next time I run into the BOINC developers, I'll have to suggest using location data from users, so you can determine how clean your computing is by integrating power generation data based on location. Better to compute near hydro, nuclear, etc. then compute using coal.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE55M0XT20090623
Born at the center of China's coal industry, the boy is mentally handicapped and is unable to speak. He is one of many such children in Shanxi province, where coal has brought riches to a few, jobs for many, and environmental pollution that experts say has led to a high number of babies born with birth defects.
Experts say coal mining and processing has given Shanxi a rate of birth defects six times higher than China's national average, which is already high by global standards.
That's totally the kind of proven and cost-effective power generation technology I want generating power.
Most panels carry 25-50 year warranties (at least). If the system lasts 50 years, and outputs zero power after those 50 years, it depreciates at the rate of $760 a year. And hopefully, the price of solar panels/film will decrease every year (NanoSolar hitting the $1/watt price point within the last 12 months doesn't hurt).
But by how much will it depreciate? According to it's decreased output overtime? What's the warranty on the system? Most new solar panel/film systems provide at least a 50 year warranty, so if his system cost him $38K and you expect zero output after 50 years, the system loses $760 of value each year. Still not a bad deal.
You're aware CFLs can be recycled at your local Home Depot (as well as a variety of other local establishments) at no cost to you, correct? You just have to google "cfl recycling". Le sigh.
Of course penalizing industries is far less popular than subsidizing others, so it's not going to happen.
Don't be too sure about that.
http://www.nrdc.org/media/2008/080228.asp
32 Coal-Fired Power Plants in 13 States Now Up in the Air After Major Court Ruling on Mercury
You mean like the huge government subsidies coal gets, like not having to pay for the hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon released into the atmosphere annually, the tons of mercury and uranium released into the atmosphere annually, and the enormous healthcare costs coal miners have? Noooo, no coal subsidies here. Don't believe me? Google "Coal subsidies". Just the first page is more than enough reading material. Go shill your shitty fuel somewhere else.
Building a wind turbine is proven, and cost effective. "Clean coal" or as we call it in real life, bullshit, has yet to be proven as either successful or economically viable. The faster we drive a stake through coal's heart, the better.
Why don't you check DynDNS' premium offering. It's $100-300/month on the low end. Neustar? Several thousand dollars a month. You can't attribute one single value to a huge service offering like DNS. DNS hosted on one DNS server is not the same as DNS hosted on 8-12 servers all across the global using anycasting for redundancy and service checks for intelligent failover. That's like me saying "Your time is worth $10/hr, because you're a human." Of course, your per hour value is determined by your skillset, industry, and what that particular market will bear.
The solution is not metering. The solution is regulation of the last mile.
DSL/fiber = easy. Cable = hard (shared medium). A typical HFC (hybrid fiber coax) node in a neighborhood has 450 homes connecting over coax to the node, where it's multiplexed onto the provider's fiber ring/run.
http://www.google.com/search?q=comcast+ibone
I agree about the "free" part, but no so much the open source part. Opera has managed to be the most standards-compliant browser despite being proprietary. It's the intent and skill of the developers that matter, not how many there are.
Standards compliant and open source are two different things. Opera could make the best damn web browser for the mobile platform ever, but if a manufacturer who is making 1 million+ devices has to decide between Opera ($$$) or Webkit (free), which would they go with if both are standards complaint enough?
They subsidize it from the people who do pay for DNS services. People, servers, colo space, power, and network connectivity cost money. Just because it's the internet doesn't mean it's free.
http://www.google.com/search?q=iraq+war+friendly+fire
I have four brothers in the military (1 army, 1 marines, 1 navy, 1 army rangers). It happens more often then you'd think.
Jamming GPS for fun and profit only works until the JDAM comes looking for your signal.
Was the flash drive a USB key or an SSD? USB key != SSD
Air travel was once only for the rich as well. The wealthy typically underwrite new/cutting edge services/technologies/etc, eventually bringing down their cost.
They're probably only storing the refined data in PostgreSQL, with the raw data being stored as flat files on disk and tape. This is how we do it with 300TB of disk and 17PB of tape.
I don't want my pictures, banking, email (thanks Gmail!), etc to rely on a P2P network of home computers. I want servers doing what they do best, serving data from a facility with backup power, redundant connectivity, and some sort of physical security. And I want my laptop/desktop doing what they do best, fetching info from the rest of the world.
You make propose an interesting theory, although I think our standard of living will be maintainable via increased efficiency. So much energy is wasted by us in inefficient processes (internal combustion engines), energy transmission (being fixed with HVDC transmission lines), etc. There's still a lot to squeeze out of the power we already have access to. And worse comes to worse, the Sun spits out enough sunlight in fifteen minutes for us to power the world for a year. We just have to make sure we can make solar power without fossil fuels.
Why do you exactly think you can't steer a car while wheels are locked?
Because if the wheels aren't turning, you're not going to go in that direction. You're going to slide in the direction you were already going with the momentum you already had. It's like piloting a brick. ABS increases your braking distance on surfaces such as gravel, but you have the ability to avoid the obstacle with it.
ABS is not meant to stop you faster. It's meant to slow you down while still allowing you to steer the vehicle, something you can't do when the brakes lock up.
Next time I run into the BOINC developers, I'll have to suggest using location data from users, so you can determine how clean your computing is by integrating power generation data based on location. Better to compute near hydro, nuclear, etc. then compute using coal.
This. Or firewall them off at your network's edge.
Have you looked at pnfs for performance reasons? We use it with upwards of 300TB of spinning media and 17PB of tape, and it works like a champ.