God tell folks you want to flood a valley, even a small one. Then run like crazy to avoid the invective hurled your way. Remember, many Governments (including California) consider hydro not renewable - not because of a lack of water, but because it "destroys ecosystems" when you flood them.
See the case. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that Google's use of photos uploaded by others to the public Internet is prohibited. It's PUBLICLY AVAILABLE data, put up by a 3rd, party, and used by Google. There is no privacy here, nor any expectation of privacy from people who put their pictures on the Internet.
I guess you didn't follow the 2nd link? It's about removal - not just disabling - Groove. And it's a process that applies to Cortana and pretty much everything else.
The problem is that grid stability is compromised by renewables. And the more you bring on-line, the more unstable it gets as you get more and more spikes and surges.
Molten salts have been done many, many times. Not too efficient, and dangerous. Doing small scale at lower temps helps - but also reduces the amount of energy that can be stored. Better to use large, slow-rotating, low-loss, low-cost flywheels. Much less dangerous, scalable, easy to use.
Here's the IL law. It applies to commercial use only, and Google's not doing that. There is no damages here because there is no expectation of privacy in a public place, and there is no commercial use of the images. This was a shakedown lawsuit.
So did the Chicago Tribune get permission from all the participants and attendees of the parade they taped? No? It's because the law is about the commercial use of the image. Using photos of an event and identifying people in the picture without selling the picture or service to identify inside of it wouldn't qualify as a commercial usage. No harm, no foul per the law. Maybe that's why it wasn't brought up in IL Court - it doesn't apply.
Precisely. Nameplate capacity is irrelevant; generation is everything. And with wind turbine lifespans at half of original claims, that means the installed base needs to be doubled beyond their original estimates. Battery storage won't get you there, pumped storage MAY do it (but that's a big no-no for most environmentalists as well)... Nuclear really is the only realistic solution for power generation outside of fossil fuels.
They were less than 10% in 2016, I don't think we've more than tripled our generation in California. And yes, I live in California. For the US, it's closer to 5%, not 18%.
We American scientists and engineers deal with both daily as well. If nothing else from the slower-thinking denizens of Slashdot complaining about English units...
Meredith stepped down as CEO, and they have pivoted to trying to license what they have learned so far... No longer looking to make product. I've been doubtful about them from the beginning, mainly because an incredibly efficient audio transducer is about 3% efficient - and you have that loss both ways. With huge arrays of transmitters and receivers, and heavy focusing, you maybe can bump that up to 10% each way - which means about 1% overall. 100W of acoustic power to get 1W of charging power.
Hmmm... 1TB of storage is expensive? Retail price for 2 x 512 GB microSD cards is around $300. I guess that's why there is a $750 up-charge for the memory - Apple has to pay 2X retail prices and pay for installation into microSD board mounted connectors!
All very interesting, but none of it addresses the point: we tax wealth, not income. And we already heavily tax the income of the top 1%. Even though they make 20% of the income, they pay 40% of income taxes. And no, their wealth is irrelevant to the discussion because we do not tax wealth. We tax the Waltons on their income, and chances are they pay a much higher rate than you do.
Bioaccumulation occurs when an organism absorbs a substance at a rate faster than that at which the substance is lost by catabolism and excretion.
See that part about excretion? That's what happens with water, unless you drink too much too fast, at a rate above your excretion rate, and it accumulates and kills you.
I wanted to break this out separately because I think it's something so many fail to realize: we tax income, NOT wealth. If we tax wealth, then are you ready to take everything you own, and hand over 10% every year? Not what you earn - what you have. Cars, property, clothes, computers - add up that value (wealth), and then pay a portion of that every year. We tax income - not wealth.
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God tell folks you want to flood a valley, even a small one. Then run like crazy to avoid the invective hurled your way. Remember, many Governments (including California) consider hydro not renewable - not because of a lack of water, but because it "destroys ecosystems" when you flood them.
Huh. So the industry magazine for the power industry is wrong. Because you think refrigerators are equivalent to 100+ MW generation sources. Got it.
How big do you need for over 1 TW of installed generation capacity?
See the case. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that Google's use of photos uploaded by others to the public Internet is prohibited. It's PUBLICLY AVAILABLE data, put up by a 3rd, party, and used by Google. There is no privacy here, nor any expectation of privacy from people who put their pictures on the Internet.
I guess you didn't follow the 2nd link? It's about removal - not just disabling - Groove. And it's a process that applies to Cortana and pretty much everything else.
The problem is that grid stability is compromised by renewables. And the more you bring on-line, the more unstable it gets as you get more and more spikes and surges.
Molten salts have been done many, many times. Not too efficient, and dangerous. Doing small scale at lower temps helps - but also reduces the amount of energy that can be stored. Better to use large, slow-rotating, low-loss, low-cost flywheels. Much less dangerous, scalable, easy to use.
It used to be 7% or more, but with a political push to reduce it's percentage - it's now down to 4%.
Here's the IL law. It applies to commercial use only, and Google's not doing that. There is no damages here because there is no expectation of privacy in a public place, and there is no commercial use of the images. This was a shakedown lawsuit.
So did the Chicago Tribune get permission from all the participants and attendees of the parade they taped? No? It's because the law is about the commercial use of the image. Using photos of an event and identifying people in the picture without selling the picture or service to identify inside of it wouldn't qualify as a commercial usage. No harm, no foul per the law. Maybe that's why it wasn't brought up in IL Court - it doesn't apply.
Precisely. Nameplate capacity is irrelevant; generation is everything. And with wind turbine lifespans at half of original claims, that means the installed base needs to be doubled beyond their original estimates. Battery storage won't get you there, pumped storage MAY do it (but that's a big no-no for most environmentalists as well)... Nuclear really is the only realistic solution for power generation outside of fossil fuels.
There is no expectation of privacy in public.
They were less than 10% in 2016, I don't think we've more than tripled our generation in California. And yes, I live in California. For the US, it's closer to 5%, not 18%.
Renewables are about 4% of world energy consumption. Don't know if the tech has evolved sufficiently yet to replace nuclear.
Turn off Cortana.
Remove Groove.
Ads? Is that Windows thing, or is that from your browser?
Serious professional software runs on Linux anyway. (E.g. 3D modeling software.)
Which software would that be? Everyone I know doing Creo, Solidworks, or NX is using Windows...
We American scientists and engineers deal with both daily as well. If nothing else from the slower-thinking denizens of Slashdot complaining about English units...
Meredith stepped down as CEO, and they have pivoted to trying to license what they have learned so far... No longer looking to make product. I've been doubtful about them from the beginning, mainly because an incredibly efficient audio transducer is about 3% efficient - and you have that loss both ways. With huge arrays of transmitters and receivers, and heavy focusing, you maybe can bump that up to 10% each way - which means about 1% overall. 100W of acoustic power to get 1W of charging power.
ASL?
Hmmm... 1TB of storage is expensive? Retail price for 2 x 512 GB microSD cards is around $300. I guess that's why there is a $750 up-charge for the memory - Apple has to pay 2X retail prices and pay for installation into microSD board mounted connectors!
I have no fear of either of those things... Cthulhu will save us from them!
All very interesting, but none of it addresses the point: we tax wealth, not income. And we already heavily tax the income of the top 1%. Even though they make 20% of the income, they pay 40% of income taxes. And no, their wealth is irrelevant to the discussion because we do not tax wealth. We tax the Waltons on their income, and chances are they pay a much higher rate than you do.
Bioaccumulation occurs when an organism absorbs a substance at a rate faster than that at which the substance is lost by catabolism and excretion.
See that part about excretion? That's what happens with water, unless you drink too much too fast, at a rate above your excretion rate, and it accumulates and kills you.
Water intoxication can kill you. Too much in your system, and you die.
I wanted to break this out separately because I think it's something so many fail to realize: we tax income, NOT wealth. If we tax wealth, then are you ready to take everything you own, and hand over 10% every year? Not what you earn - what you have. Cars, property, clothes, computers - add up that value (wealth), and then pay a portion of that every year. We tax income - not wealth.