Paying off for who? According TFA, the Portuguese government sold off the rights to the electricitiy to private companies. The government is also paying a massive subsidy to the private companies for 15 years. So the people of Portugal get to pay higher (15%) electric costs while the companies get to export energy to other nations. I'm sure you're right that there is nothing to gripe about.
So the government seized the private wealth of individuals to create really expensive new energy which, according to TFA, increase Portueguese energy costs by 15% on top of the exorbitant (2x the US) rate they already paid. So the Portueguese got reamed twice - once to pay for it, and again to pay to maintain it.
Also, since money is a rough proxy for emissions, and the project costs so much, its reasonable to conclude that the "clean" energy is in fact more polluting than fossil fuels which are a fraction of the price. This is particularly applicable to Europe where, according TFA, the emissions trading system builds the costs of emissions into the fuel.
pretty much every hardware site out there is lame.
where to start...
* they use a pair of 15k rpm drives in the box. the box has one dinky fan. if this was your actual setup, you would be able to boil water in the box. not good for the drives.
* they say something like "thank god esata is so much faster than usb 2.0. look at our pretty statics showing transfer rate is the bottleneck." nonsense. If you are using a pair of raid 0 $400 drives, and you defrag your drives every couple minutes, then yes transfer rate might be a bottleneck. However if you are someone that lives on planet earth, usb 2.0 will be more than sufficient.
I am not saying anything about the enclosure itself. it looks kind of useful. but toms is pretty much always full of shit.
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Paying off for who? According TFA, the Portuguese government sold off the rights to the electricitiy to private companies. The government is also paying a massive subsidy to the private companies for 15 years. So the people of Portugal get to pay higher (15%) electric costs while the companies get to export energy to other nations. I'm sure you're right that there is nothing to gripe about.
So the government seized the private wealth of individuals to create really expensive new energy which, according to TFA, increase Portueguese energy costs by 15% on top of the exorbitant (2x the US) rate they already paid. So the Portueguese got reamed twice - once to pay for it, and again to pay to maintain it.
Also, since money is a rough proxy for emissions, and the project costs so much, its reasonable to conclude that the "clean" energy is in fact more polluting than fossil fuels which are a fraction of the price. This is particularly applicable to Europe where, according TFA, the emissions trading system builds the costs of emissions into the fuel.
The link in the main article is paraphrased from http://www.intel.com/technology/silicon/45nm_techn ology.htm
pretty much every hardware site out there is lame.
where to start...
* they use a pair of 15k rpm drives in the box. the box has one dinky fan. if this was your actual setup, you would be able to boil water in the box. not good for the drives.
* they say something like "thank god esata is so much faster than usb 2.0. look at our pretty statics showing transfer rate is the bottleneck." nonsense. If you are using a pair of raid 0 $400 drives, and you defrag your drives every couple minutes, then yes transfer rate might be a bottleneck. However if you are someone that lives on planet earth, usb 2.0 will be more than sufficient.
I am not saying anything about the enclosure itself. it looks kind of useful. but toms is pretty much always full of shit.