It does. The other way seems to be local locations where you can pick stuff up easily. For example, since start of this year one delivery company that was always a problem delivers to a local small pharmacy. The only thing the pharmacy seems to need for this is a dedicated smartphone with some app and some storage space. Works well.
On the minus side, you have to subtract all the time you invested in getting that money. With the hours some Googlers work, that may come down to a massive net loss compared to other jobs.
For this installation, that will probably be nearly forever. Hence what is interesting is when units have to be replaced due to other reasons. Also note that it may not even be necessary to replace dead units as space does not seem to be an issue at the chosen location. It may be cheaper to just add a second installation next to it and let the first run until the other components reach end-of-life. For power-installations, that is usually 30-100 years, but the technology used here may have a different (lower) target lifespan.
I was merely pointing out that this is the wrong question to ask.
These are of the sub-species "lawyer" of the human race. This sub-species both thinks they define how the world works and has, at best, a tenuous connection to actual reality. Hence the described problems. (As always, with apologies to those few lawyers that doe not have these issues.)
There is also the possibility that the town is just 2600 numbers, but that this is the place to go to a pharmacy for significantly more people. The given numbers are dishonest.
And it _never_ happens that firmware for good, solid US brands is written in China either! Not possible, no.
On the plus side, for that software and hardware _not_ made in China, the Chinese will include all their domestic spying capabilities, so the US does not have to find out how to do that themselves.
Indeed. They do have one big advantage though, storage like this can be built fast and basically everywhere. That is the real advantage here. The power-storage angle is not revolutionary at all. As to cost-efficiency, we will need to see how reliability and long-term performance really turn out. The current hype leads me to believe that they may not be that much better than existing solutions. Still, even a gradual improvement in that area is welcome.
And all those spinning generators with a lot of power stored in inertia say seconds are plenty. You really do not know what you are talking about. How do you think the gird was kept stable before computers, or even before eletronics?
Yes, it is. The classical generators have a lot of short-time reserves just from spinning. Incidentally, you _can_ keep hydro spinning in idle with pretty low power drain to get just that fast response and you can have flywheels in addition that can be coupled in or out very fast to extend that "spin reserve" time. Whether you need that is another question. The only thing about batteries is that they are cheaper and can be placed basically anywhere, and that is really nice. But there is no "revolution" here at all, got cheaper and a lot faster to put in a place where needed. The implications from the story are just fanboi bullshit, the advantages are elsewhere.
You state the positive, you bring the proof. That is how science works, not the other way round. And there is exactly zero scientific proof your your hypothesis. Elimination does not cut it.
That is unclear. It may also be an emergent property of relativity. And since quantum physics and relativistic physics do _not_ agree and both are exceptionally well verified, there clearly is some rather severe bug in physics at this time. Not a problem to physicists or other actual scientists, but absolutely anathema to those seeking absolute truth.
Actually I do. But unfortunately some scientists in some fields do not seem to have gotten the message and made it into a serious term, hence the present confusion.
There are not. Anything in Physics as known today derives as sum of the behavior of the parts. There is zero wiggle-room. We may not yet have the exact mechanisms, but nowhere does "magic" figure in Physics.
It is unclear at this time whether consciousness is a physical phenomenon or not. Both sides, the demented quasi-religious "Physicalists" claiming with absolute certainty that it must be and the mysticists claiming with equally demented certainty that it cannot be, do not have a scientific leg to stand on. Sure, things seem to be going into the "mystic" direction at the moment as consciousness (and intelligence) just become more mysterious the closer a look we get, but that is just a trend, not a basis for a scientifically sound determination.
And yes, it is not only you. The next thing I think when reading "Integrated Information Theory" is "Quantum Mysticism" and then "Bullshit Bingo".
I have no problems with Philosophy. I have problems with far-out though-experiments being presented as hard science. The thing about Philosophy research is that they have almost no hard results. And any good philosopher will readily admit that.
And fail. "Emergent property" is a Science in-joke. It means "we have absolutely no clue what is going on and how that happens". Physics does not allow emergent properties.
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It does. The other way seems to be local locations where you can pick stuff up easily. For example, since start of this year one delivery company that was always a problem delivers to a local small pharmacy. The only thing the pharmacy seems to need for this is a dedicated smartphone with some app and some storage space. Works well.
Catapult, obviously. Why do you ask?
On the minus side, you have to subtract all the time you invested in getting that money. With the hours some Googlers work, that may come down to a massive net loss compared to other jobs.
For this installation, that will probably be nearly forever. Hence what is interesting is when units have to be replaced due to other reasons. Also note that it may not even be necessary to replace dead units as space does not seem to be an issue at the chosen location. It may be cheaper to just add a second installation next to it and let the first run until the other components reach end-of-life. For power-installations, that is usually 30-100 years, but the technology used here may have a different (lower) target lifespan.
I was merely pointing out that this is the wrong question to ask.
These are of the sub-species "lawyer" of the human race. This sub-species both thinks they define how the world works and has, at best, a tenuous connection to actual reality. Hence the described problems. (As always, with apologies to those few lawyers that doe not have these issues.)
I think the only source of US firmware is the NSA....
There is also the possibility that the town is just 2600 numbers, but that this is the place to go to a pharmacy for significantly more people. The given numbers are dishonest.
And it _never_ happens that firmware for good, solid US brands is written in China either! Not possible, no.
On the plus side, for that software and hardware _not_ made in China, the Chinese will include all their domestic spying capabilities, so the US does not have to find out how to do that themselves.
Indeed. They do have one big advantage though, storage like this can be built fast and basically everywhere. That is the real advantage here. The power-storage angle is not revolutionary at all. As to cost-efficiency, we will need to see how reliability and long-term performance really turn out. The current hype leads me to believe that they may not be that much better than existing solutions. Still, even a gradual improvement in that area is welcome.
And all those spinning generators with a lot of power stored in inertia say seconds are plenty. You really do not know what you are talking about. How do you think the gird was kept stable before computers, or even before eletronics?
Yes, it is. The classical generators have a lot of short-time reserves just from spinning. Incidentally, you _can_ keep hydro spinning in idle with pretty low power drain to get just that fast response and you can have flywheels in addition that can be coupled in or out very fast to extend that "spin reserve" time. Whether you need that is another question. The only thing about batteries is that they are cheaper and can be placed basically anywhere, and that is really nice. But there is no "revolution" here at all, got cheaper and a lot faster to put in a place where needed. The implications from the story are just fanboi bullshit, the advantages are elsewhere.
Funny how the blind keep insisting that all others are blind. Just the same as any religious (or otherwise) fundamentalists. Good luck with that.
You state the positive, you bring the proof. That is how science works, not the other way round. And there is exactly zero scientific proof your your hypothesis. Elimination does not cut it.
That is unclear. It may also be an emergent property of relativity. And since quantum physics and relativistic physics do _not_ agree and both are exceptionally well verified, there clearly is some rather severe bug in physics at this time. Not a problem to physicists or other actual scientists, but absolutely anathema to those seeking absolute truth.
Actually I do. But unfortunately some scientists in some fields do not seem to have gotten the message and made it into a serious term, hence the present confusion.
No, I just know how this term is used by actual scientists...
Don't continue to be infantile. Being controversial for the sake of sounding knowledgeable is a sign of lack of maturity.
No.
There are not. Anything in Physics as known today derives as sum of the behavior of the parts. There is zero wiggle-room. We may not yet have the exact mechanisms, but nowhere does "magic" figure in Physics.
It is unclear at this time whether consciousness is a physical phenomenon or not. Both sides, the demented quasi-religious "Physicalists" claiming with absolute certainty that it must be and the mysticists claiming with equally demented certainty that it cannot be, do not have a scientific leg to stand on. Sure, things seem to be going into the "mystic" direction at the moment as consciousness (and intelligence) just become more mysterious the closer a look we get, but that is just a trend, not a basis for a scientifically sound determination.
And yes, it is not only you. The next thing I think when reading "Integrated Information Theory" is "Quantum Mysticism" and then "Bullshit Bingo".
I have no problems with Philosophy. I have problems with far-out though-experiments being presented as hard science. The thing about Philosophy research is that they have almost no hard results. And any good philosopher will readily admit that.
It is not a car battery. It stays viable as long as it can hold a reasonable charge. Weight and space used do not matter.
Seriously, this is a complete non-story. For example, pumped-storage hydropower plants have been doing this for ages.
Human history would indicate that you are mistaken.
And fail. "Emergent property" is a Science in-joke. It means "we have absolutely no clue what is going on and how that happens". Physics does not allow emergent properties.