Yes, when you were praising the effects of mountaintop removal and praising the glory of it all, you were totally talking about some other mining concern in Coal Country. Gee, what else can you pretend to us about?
I was? Where? Oh ACs, making shit up so they can argue anyway...
I bring dozens of books on my flights, and hundreds of albums. Kindle software on my Note 5, combined with Tidal offline playing, and I'm totally set for my monthly trans-Pacific flights, and weekly excursions to San Francisco, Minneapolis, or Boston.
Texas has been offering FREE voter ID cards since 2013. You're flat out wrong here. I get the whole student ID thing, because it does not necessarily prove you are a resident of Texas; for example, my wife is a student of SNHU and she has a student ID card - but we live, full time, in California and have never been to New Hampshire.
Funny, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao is based in Hong Kong as is Binance and he's talking in this interview about post-Beijing ban of cryptocurrencies. Hong Kong is NOT China. Now, I know to most ignorant Westerners like you, China/Hong Kong/Taiwan/South Korea/Thailand is all "Asia" and all "China", but the reality is that Hong Kong is NOT China. Hong Kong has its own laws, legal system, passports, visas, currency, language (Cantonese - not officially supported in China), and they even drive on the wrong side of the road.
Likewise, Bitfinex is a brand of iFinex. And who is iFinex? Well, iFinexis a British Virgin Islands company and operates out of Hong Kong. And what did we just cover above? HONG KONG IS NOT CHINA. Different laws, different currencies, different passports (for example, no Visa needed for an HK citizen to come to the US; one required for a Chinese national, and a Chinese national needs a special visa to go to Hong Kong), etc. Neither Bitfinex nor Ninance are based in China. Period. Full Stop.
Who's talking out of their ass? I welcome your apology.
Ask the guy who tried to do VPNs in China just how well that worked out for him... Sure, you can get away with it for a little while, but when you're caught - well, 5 years in a Chinese prison is just about a death sentence.
You can trade BTC In China? That isn't what Beijing says... Unless, of course, you want to go spend some time in a small cell with that other fellow who ran a VPN service in China.
As long as we agree that we're letting 50% (or maybe more?) of our water rush out without any utilization for humans. But apparently you believe we're worth a little less than the delta smelt, or the way a wave breaks on a rock in a river...
Don't forget that Sweden is now telling women to stay in at night or walk in pairs or more due to a series of violent gang rapes of teenage girls over the last 3 weeks. Damn Vikings, eh?
The control system allows the plant to accept step load increases of 10 percent and ramp load increases of 5 percent per minute over the load range of 15 to 100 percent of full power subject to xenon limitations. Equal step and ramp load reductions are possible over the range of 100 to 15 percent of full power. Losses of reactor load up to 100 percent of rated power without reactor trip can be accommodated by steam dump to the condenser conjunct with the control system.
Hmmm, 5 percent per minute, from 15 to 100 percent? That would mean 17 minutes to ramp up or down between full-throttle and idle. Quite flexible, and quite quick! Most peaker plants take between 10 to 30 minutes to ramp up to rated output, so the nuclear plant - with power equal or greater than most natural gas peakers - responds as fast as the natural gas peakers. Imagine that!
Ahh, I see! So when we regulate and release water for delta smelt and to keep a river looking nice - it's not human use. When we regulate and release water for drinking or growing food - it's human use. Got it! Thanks AC for showing us the way to be TRUE hypocrites!
So - how about the environmental destruction of hundreds of acres of solar panels covering the Earth? Or thousands of wind turbines on the ridge of a mountain? Does that count as well? Or is it just the change from a valley to a lake which is bad?
Anyone who has been on a floating nuclear power plant - a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, for example - would love to disabuse you of the notion that nuclear power cannot ramp up and down quickly. Yes, it's only 550 MW output (officially; I suspect it's closer to somewhere around 700 MW), but that is 40% more than the Ivanpah solar thermal generator outside of Las Vegas...
Interesting data on existing nuclear, solar and wind. Existing nuclear is actually quite cheap. And one thing almost always overlooked for the wind/solar generation is the required gas/coal backup. The US is dark for a large portion of each rotation, which does not help solar. I guess you could do pumped storage - but we'd need to increase the number of flooded valleys in the US by a factor of 40. Right now, nuclear - when solar/wind are required to provide base-load capability - is quite price competitive.
How about the US Government which states that "California imports about a quarter of its electricity on average"? Do they count? Reading the article you linked, it is clear the LA Times "cherry picked" specific narrow dates to make their claim. On average, CA imports a full 25% of its power needs.
Seems you're a lot better off believing Forbes rather than the LA Times... At least when it comes to truthiness about power imports to California.
I call BS. Houston power starts at $0.087 per kWh. And power from PG&E for the Paso Robles area (central coast) start at $0.199 per kWh and go up. That's over twice as much. Using GasBuddy.com, gas in CA averages $3.07 per gallon, and in TX it is around $2.12 per gallon.
Property tax rates in CA are fairly low compared to TX, but the average home in Houston is around $220,000. In Paso Robles, houses are twice that price. Sure, property taxes are a bit lower in CA, but we also have a 13.3% income tax compared to 0% for TX. If you make just about anything more than $10,000 per year, your property tax "savings" in CA are swallowed up by State income tax.
Solar and wind plants do not last 100 years, and they also have a significant environmental impact on the land they use and, in the case of wind turbines, down-wind.
California, the second-largest U.S. hydroelectric producer, set goals for renewable energy sources in 2002 and 2011... But the state set a limit on the inclusion of hydropower. It allows utilities to count only the hydropower produced by smaller hydropower projects—those capable of producing 30 megawatts or less—toward the renewable mandate.
Yep, only tiny hydro installs (typically private, on private land - good luck getting a permit to make your own hydro plant and flood some land deemed valuable to someone) count. The big hydro we have installed in California - about 99% of all of it - is NOT renewable per the State. So yeah - no hydro for us!
LOL... Apple fans are so touchy! But hey, I understand - you never reached 10% market share in the desktop/server world, and even iOS is sliding down towards the single digit realm. Now with the iOSification of OSX, and the new Apple ad of What's a Computer? well - the writing is on the wall. It's tablets and phones for the future! Computers - Macs - are just going to fall by the wayside and exist just as support dongles for people to use to build apps for their dwindling market share in the mobile world...
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Yes, when you were praising the effects of mountaintop removal and praising the glory of it all, you were totally talking about some other mining concern in Coal Country. Gee, what else can you pretend to us about?
I was? Where? Oh ACs, making shit up so they can argue anyway...
I bring dozens of books on my flights, and hundreds of albums. Kindle software on my Note 5, combined with Tidal offline playing, and I'm totally set for my monthly trans-Pacific flights, and weekly excursions to San Francisco, Minneapolis, or Boston.
Texas has been offering FREE voter ID cards since 2013. You're flat out wrong here. I get the whole student ID thing, because it does not necessarily prove you are a resident of Texas; for example, my wife is a student of SNHU and she has a student ID card - but we live, full time, in California and have never been to New Hampshire.
Funny, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao is based in Hong Kong as is Binance and he's talking in this interview about post-Beijing ban of cryptocurrencies. Hong Kong is NOT China. Now, I know to most ignorant Westerners like you, China/Hong Kong/Taiwan/South Korea/Thailand is all "Asia" and all "China", but the reality is that Hong Kong is NOT China. Hong Kong has its own laws, legal system, passports, visas, currency, language (Cantonese - not officially supported in China), and they even drive on the wrong side of the road.
Likewise, Bitfinex is a brand of iFinex. And who is iFinex? Well, iFinexis a British Virgin Islands company and operates out of Hong Kong. And what did we just cover above? HONG KONG IS NOT CHINA. Different laws, different currencies, different passports (for example, no Visa needed for an HK citizen to come to the US; one required for a Chinese national, and a Chinese national needs a special visa to go to Hong Kong), etc. Neither Bitfinex nor Ninance are based in China. Period. Full Stop.
Who's talking out of their ass? I welcome your apology.
Who said anything about coal? Ahh ACs, non-sequiturs and straw men as far as the eye can see!
Ask the guy who tried to do VPNs in China just how well that worked out for him... Sure, you can get away with it for a little while, but when you're caught - well, 5 years in a Chinese prison is just about a death sentence.
You can trade BTC In China? That isn't what Beijing says... Unless, of course, you want to go spend some time in a small cell with that other fellow who ran a VPN service in China.
You sir, win the Internets for the day! BRAVO!
ACs - classy since 1997!
As long as we agree that we're letting 50% (or maybe more?) of our water rush out without any utilization for humans. But apparently you believe we're worth a little less than the delta smelt, or the way a wave breaks on a rock in a river...
Don't forget that Sweden is now telling women to stay in at night or walk in pairs or more due to a series of violent gang rapes of teenage girls over the last 3 weeks. Damn Vikings, eh?
The control system allows the plant to accept step load increases of 10 percent and ramp load increases of 5 percent per minute over the load range of 15 to 100 percent of full power subject to xenon limitations. Equal step and ramp load reductions are possible over the range of 100 to 15 percent of full power. Losses of reactor load up to 100 percent of rated power without reactor trip can be accommodated by steam dump to the condenser conjunct with the control system.
Hmmm, 5 percent per minute, from 15 to 100 percent? That would mean 17 minutes to ramp up or down between full-throttle and idle. Quite flexible, and quite quick! Most peaker plants take between 10 to 30 minutes to ramp up to rated output, so the nuclear plant - with power equal or greater than most natural gas peakers - responds as fast as the natural gas peakers. Imagine that!
Ahh, I see! So when we regulate and release water for delta smelt and to keep a river looking nice - it's not human use. When we regulate and release water for drinking or growing food - it's human use. Got it! Thanks AC for showing us the way to be TRUE hypocrites!
Which do you prefer to look at/use/enjoy: Lake Mead (hydro), or Ivanpah (solar)?
Lots of coal plants reached 60+ years old, will wind farms last that long?
So - how about the environmental destruction of hundreds of acres of solar panels covering the Earth? Or thousands of wind turbines on the ridge of a mountain? Does that count as well? Or is it just the change from a valley to a lake which is bad?
Anyone who has been on a floating nuclear power plant - a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, for example - would love to disabuse you of the notion that nuclear power cannot ramp up and down quickly. Yes, it's only 550 MW output (officially; I suspect it's closer to somewhere around 700 MW), but that is 40% more than the Ivanpah solar thermal generator outside of Las Vegas...
Interesting data on existing nuclear, solar and wind. Existing nuclear is actually quite cheap. And one thing almost always overlooked for the wind/solar generation is the required gas/coal backup. The US is dark for a large portion of each rotation, which does not help solar. I guess you could do pumped storage - but we'd need to increase the number of flooded valleys in the US by a factor of 40. Right now, nuclear - when solar/wind are required to provide base-load capability - is quite price competitive.
Actually, Statewide, average water use is roughly 50% environmental, 40% agricultural, and 10% urban. It's environmental concerns, like delta smelt and trying to maintain scenic rivers, that suck up half our State's fresh water supply.
How about the US Government which states that "California imports about a quarter of its electricity on average"? Do they count? Reading the article you linked, it is clear the LA Times "cherry picked" specific narrow dates to make their claim. On average, CA imports a full 25% of its power needs.
Seems you're a lot better off believing Forbes rather than the LA Times... At least when it comes to truthiness about power imports to California.
I call BS. Houston power starts at $0.087 per kWh. And power from PG&E for the Paso Robles area (central coast) start at $0.199 per kWh and go up. That's over twice as much. Using GasBuddy.com, gas in CA averages $3.07 per gallon, and in TX it is around $2.12 per gallon.
Paso Robles, CA is around 1.44 times the national average for cost of living, Houston is at 1.02 - just about average for the US.
Property tax rates in CA are fairly low compared to TX, but the average home in Houston is around $220,000. In Paso Robles, houses are twice that price. Sure, property taxes are a bit lower in CA, but we also have a 13.3% income tax compared to 0% for TX. If you make just about anything more than $10,000 per year, your property tax "savings" in CA are swallowed up by State income tax.
Solar and wind plants do not last 100 years, and they also have a significant environmental impact on the land they use and, in the case of wind turbines, down-wind.
California, the second-largest U.S. hydroelectric producer, set goals for renewable energy sources in 2002 and 2011... But the state set a limit on the inclusion of hydropower. It allows utilities to count only the hydropower produced by smaller hydropower projects—those capable of producing 30 megawatts or less—toward the renewable mandate.
Yep, only tiny hydro installs (typically private, on private land - good luck getting a permit to make your own hydro plant and flood some land deemed valuable to someone) count. The big hydro we have installed in California - about 99% of all of it - is NOT renewable per the State. So yeah - no hydro for us!
What parts, would that be? Especially since Steele himself wrote that it couldn't be verified. And it was his dossier! Wishing something is true doesn't make it so...
LOL... Apple fans are so touchy! But hey, I understand - you never reached 10% market share in the desktop/server world, and even iOS is sliding down towards the single digit realm. Now with the iOSification of OSX, and the new Apple ad of What's a Computer? well - the writing is on the wall. It's tablets and phones for the future! Computers - Macs - are just going to fall by the wayside and exist just as support dongles for people to use to build apps for their dwindling market share in the mobile world...