I am close to the ocean in a naturally ventilated house, and we have a Play1 mounted about 7' above the floor (higher than door header). It is about the worst possible location for a unit, but it just has a little rust after four or five years.
There are many, many layers in military contracts, each with healthy markups. Accountability has high costs.
Governments are generally limited in a few ways that private industry is not: rate of change, and silos of influence are the main ones I understand. Some times these things are benefits and some times they are not, but healthcare is generally more in the former group.
Hell, they will sell the lab diamonds at a loss in order to maintain profits in the real ones. Monopoly abuse to be sure, but that hasn't stopped them yet!
Guess I am paranoid... always two different banks. (If you use a credit union, two different credit unions might not offer incremental improvements, since many are serviced by the same network.)
When I lived on a tiny island without reliable communications, the owner of a shop I worked at always had two (or three) different merchant accounts and terminals to address the issue. Harder to do with modern POS systems though.
They can also add terms like “residential load profile” which means they only provision 10% of capacity. But, that is really peanuts— limiting a 10,000 square foot warehouse to 150kVA rather than the 3MVA they would like is much more effective.
I generally carry more, in both dollar terms and number of credit cards. However, this is of limited utility when a merchant’s payment processor goes down— you might be ok for now, but how long can you last? In an emergency, even a liberal amount of cash can go quickly. The systems today really aren’t sufficiently robust to handle the contingencies.
Oh, the retirement funds like CALPERS will get killed, and yes, some of the public company “long term investments” will be hit, and there will be a challenge in getting non-equity funding... but it isn’t the end of the world.
The PE ratios of many public companies are higher than their logical growth potential, but nothing like the big bust. Unless the VCsfigure our a way to quickly unload their unicorns in an IPO without too much grief from the SEC, they will be the ones taking the biggest hits.
But, just like last time when I think retirement is within reach, caution is prudent.
Hate feeding the troll, but the one point nobody else called you out on is nuclear. Centralization is precisely the reason why nuclear doesn’t work well today. If you could build modular 50-250MW reactors today, and Co-locate multiple units close to demand where needed (and the neighbors agree), and you potentially have a modern solution.
What distributed generation really does is help to remove transmission lines from being the main choke points in the system.
That only works if your sole concern is kW/kWh. When you add reliability and contingency planning into the mix, decentralization can provide huge value.
A big part of me is afraid this will simply game the market rather than add predictability to pricing, although that is arguably is inevitable. I would much prefer a rate sheet that is easier to understand the implications of use in order to better allow proactive demand-side management. Too many things are grossly inefficient with reactive load management.
But, I don’t know an easy solution to the current ramp-rate profile without batteries and punitive rate structures.
Specific to my understanding of Vermont, there area large number of towns that don’t have high speed (residential) internet. This basically creates an opportunity to stimulate these areas and bolster the local economies. Smart move in my book.
The big name co-working companies are a different animal. Their price structure (at least for private offices) is pretty hard for me to understand the value proposition unless your staffing levels have huge swings.
Hell, he is just maximizing subsidy value, get over it. He can't deliver car 200,000 until the beginning of Q3 2018, or a very large number of people would lose out on the tax credit. Tax credit is more valuable on the more expensive cars.
The Anti-Musk trolls / astroturfers are really getting old. Tesla might have issues, but they are very much out in the open. At least you get transparency...
A picture and minimal description is often insufficient to make a purchasing decision. I have returned a few items where I bought the wrong thing, or where it simply didn't fit. But, I generally keep the things that I knew going in were likely to be crap, but I needed a retail therapy fix or something.
"failing to meet needs" is a reasonable justification for returns. If you return 2x what you keep though, you might expect some repercussions.
It is much more difficult to regulate the conglomerate than the subsidiaries, if the time comes. You simply get to a point that they can say "this is the way it works," and there isn't really much you can do. The incentive to break them up is in keeping them from being too ingrained that you cannot kill them.
The situation we are in is because of natural network effects-- there are few "natural" vertical boundaries, and geography isn't one of them. Serving the local population is something they are already (theoretically) invested in, as they want to be able to advertise to them.
Facebook should have never been permitted to buy Instagram or Whatsapp (at a minimum). These are the natural vertical boundaries; people don't associate facebook and instagram as closely as they do their friends/family/kin in another country.
The wizards just create a stateful firewall. Good starting point, but very basic... again in the perspective of buyer beware. There are likely a few "standard" firewall rules that could be added to further limit exposure, but it gets complicated quickly.
(The community is very active though and helpful.)
Have several and do like them, but buyer beware that you actually need to configure it to be secure and it is just an iptables firewall. The Unifi Security Gateway is supposedly going to offer some intrusion protection services, but I am not aware of the details.
Yes, the FERC changes will eventually make a market for just batteries; my point you referenced was that the batteries as part of a system can help a slow (say steam) turbine deliver the required ramp rate (up and down) that would otherwise require a gas turbine or gas recips.
At the load, a battery can serve as an internal cost offset, or an external cost offset-- providing a backup power function may have a "value" comparable to the cost of the unit and capacity is not required for rate arbitrage. Or, the internal offset in rate arbitrage might be more compelling. Or... the power quality opportunities could dominate. External offsets are revenue opportunities, which may or may not be part of the math.
At the source, the only "internal" benefits would be in meeting whatever contracted requirements you have to the grid operator. Transmission would generally work the same way, although preventing an overload might also be an incentive.
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I am close to the ocean in a naturally ventilated house, and we have a Play1 mounted about 7' above the floor (higher than door header). It is about the worst possible location for a unit, but it just has a little rust after four or five years.
There are many, many layers in military contracts, each with healthy markups. Accountability has high costs.
Governments are generally limited in a few ways that private industry is not: rate of change, and silos of influence are the main ones I understand. Some times these things are benefits and some times they are not, but healthcare is generally more in the former group.
Hell, they will sell the lab diamonds at a loss in order to maintain profits in the real ones. Monopoly abuse to be sure, but that hasn't stopped them yet!
I love it. Makes it easier to block all the useless shit with noscript...
Guess I am paranoid... always two different banks. (If you use a credit union, two different credit unions might not offer incremental improvements, since many are serviced by the same network.)
When I lived on a tiny island without reliable communications, the owner of a shop I worked at always had two (or three) different merchant accounts and terminals to address the issue. Harder to do with modern POS systems though.
They can also add terms like “residential load profile” which means they only provision 10% of capacity. But, that is really peanuts— limiting a 10,000 square foot warehouse to 150kVA rather than the 3MVA they would like is much more effective.
You missed the part about “conservative politics.” But, those are the right solutions to the problem.
I generally carry more, in both dollar terms and number of credit cards. However, this is of limited utility when a merchant’s payment processor goes down— you might be ok for now, but how long can you last? In an emergency, even a liberal amount of cash can go quickly. The systems today really aren’t sufficiently robust to handle the contingencies.
Oh, the retirement funds like CALPERS will get killed, and yes, some of the public company “long term investments” will be hit, and there will be a challenge in getting non-equity funding... but it isn’t the end of the world.
The PE ratios of many public companies are higher than their logical growth potential, but nothing like the big bust. Unless the VCsfigure our a way to quickly unload their unicorns in an IPO without too much grief from the SEC, they will be the ones taking the biggest hits.
But, just like last time when I think retirement is within reach, caution is prudent.
Hate feeding the troll, but the one point nobody else called you out on is nuclear. Centralization is precisely the reason why nuclear doesn’t work well today. If you could build modular 50-250MW reactors today, and Co-locate multiple units close to demand where needed (and the neighbors agree), and you potentially have a modern solution.
What distributed generation really does is help to remove transmission lines from being the main choke points in the system.
That only works if your sole concern is kW/kWh. When you add reliability and contingency planning into the mix, decentralization can provide huge value.
A big part of me is afraid this will simply game the market rather than add predictability to pricing, although that is arguably is inevitable. I would much prefer a rate sheet that is easier to understand the implications of use in order to better allow proactive demand-side management. Too many things are grossly inefficient with reactive load management.
But, I don’t know an easy solution to the current ramp-rate profile without batteries and punitive rate structures.
Yeah, specific to Vermont it seems like a great plan to help rural communities without high speed residential internet.
Working remotely with crap internet is a painful experience.
Specific to my understanding of Vermont, there area large number of towns that don’t have high speed (residential) internet. This basically creates an opportunity to stimulate these areas and bolster the local economies. Smart move in my book.
The big name co-working companies are a different animal. Their price structure (at least for private offices) is pretty hard for me to understand the value proposition unless your staffing levels have huge swings.
Hell, he is just maximizing subsidy value, get over it. He can't deliver car 200,000 until the beginning of Q3 2018, or a very large number of people would lose out on the tax credit. Tax credit is more valuable on the more expensive cars.
The Anti-Musk trolls / astroturfers are really getting old. Tesla might have issues, but they are very much out in the open. At least you get transparency...
A picture and minimal description is often insufficient to make a purchasing decision. I have returned a few items where I bought the wrong thing, or where it simply didn't fit. But, I generally keep the things that I knew going in were likely to be crap, but I needed a retail therapy fix or something.
"failing to meet needs" is a reasonable justification for returns. If you return 2x what you keep though, you might expect some repercussions.
It is much more difficult to regulate the conglomerate than the subsidiaries, if the time comes. You simply get to a point that they can say "this is the way it works," and there isn't really much you can do. The incentive to break them up is in keeping them from being too ingrained that you cannot kill them.
The situation we are in is because of natural network effects-- there are few "natural" vertical boundaries, and geography isn't one of them. Serving the local population is something they are already (theoretically) invested in, as they want to be able to advertise to them.
Facebook should have never been permitted to buy Instagram or Whatsapp (at a minimum). These are the natural vertical boundaries; people don't associate facebook and instagram as closely as they do their friends/family/kin in another country.
There are a number of cross site scripting attacks that seem to be an issue (still), as well as default password problems.
The wizards just create a stateful firewall. Good starting point, but very basic... again in the perspective of buyer beware. There are likely a few "standard" firewall rules that could be added to further limit exposure, but it gets complicated quickly.
(The community is very active though and helpful.)
Have several and do like them, but buyer beware that you actually need to configure it to be secure and it is just an iptables firewall. The Unifi Security Gateway is supposedly going to offer some intrusion protection services, but I am not aware of the details.
Ok, maybe the freeways are 18mph here...
Yes, the FERC changes will eventually make a market for just batteries; my point you referenced was that the batteries as part of a system can help a slow (say steam) turbine deliver the required ramp rate (up and down) that would otherwise require a gas turbine or gas recips.
At the load, a battery can serve as an internal cost offset, or an external cost offset-- providing a backup power function may have a "value" comparable to the cost of the unit and capacity is not required for rate arbitrage. Or, the internal offset in rate arbitrage might be more compelling. Or... the power quality opportunities could dominate. External offsets are revenue opportunities, which may or may not be part of the math.
At the source, the only "internal" benefits would be in meeting whatever contracted requirements you have to the grid operator. Transmission would generally work the same way, although preventing an overload might also be an incentive.