1. what sort of maintenance are you expecting to do on an electric motor? there are hardly any moving parts, no oil filters, spark plugs etc.
2. yep
3. being old is no excuse
work out how much you spend on gas and oil and servicing, replacement of engine parts over 10 years then compare. plus i bet in 10 years time battery tech would have improved vast amounts by then
i agree, the more innovation the better. once all trucks, buses etc are electric, the air might smell better in the cities and we'd all spend less time picking the dirty particulates out of our noses
"There have been incidents where that interconnection itself has been a problem due to ripple effects of one power line failure" so its a single point of failure that takes out millions of homes in one go. Wouldn't it have been nice if 50% were power self-sufficient and then whole towns and cities wouldn't go dark.
""Off the grid" is a pipe dream for most people." yes, but the more that do it the better. no-one is going to say its going to happen over night.
Take a worst case scenario and you end up in a war, whats one of the first places that will be taken out? my guess would be power generation plants
1. tough luck for those still on the grid. the power companies will have to find cheaper methods to generate and distribute.
2. the distributed model i was talking about is each property having their own power generation, not in the way you understood it to mean. the grid is all the eggs in one basket.
3. the ones that want to. can be built in with all new builds.
4. it will be at some point.
5. the grid will be ticking over all the time, it already ramps up for spikes so its capable.
the running out of power that california experienced wouldn't have been such a problem if everyone had the capability to generate their own power. It would also force the power companies to lower their prices.
how well insulated is your house? we've just had double glazed windows installed and have already noticed just how much longer the apartment stays warm with less heating.
"The whole point of a central power system is optimization and they are doing the opposite."
A central power system is also a single point of failure, distributed power generation is the way forward once they've got power storage sorted and cheap. The grid can be used as a back up system
Instead of giving power companies subsidies, why not install solar on every home and business and then the grid becomes a fall back and not a single point of failure. Power generation should be distributed rather than concentrated.
i've not heard the "bollox" you are talking about. I've only heard him talk in terms of insisting on truth. Sometimes truth is sometimes painful and people mis-interpret as being aggressive, arrogant etc
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don't forget about the oil changes, servicing, worn clutches and other moving metal parts that need replacing etc in your cost evaluation
1. what sort of maintenance are you expecting to do on an electric motor? there are hardly any moving parts, no oil filters, spark plugs etc. 2. yep 3. being old is no excuse
work out how much you spend on gas and oil and servicing, replacement of engine parts over 10 years then compare. plus i bet in 10 years time battery tech would have improved vast amounts by then
"There are other pesky issues, like the cost of recharging."
you can get a full tank of electricity a lot lot cheaper than a full tank of gas
"that they have some security issues" ---aahh you are that canonical developer making the news this week with that ascertion....
"Canonical is already working on doing this for Qt." -are you sure about this? i thought they ditched anything to do with QT
not that i've heard
should that be "boom boom" instead of "bonus"?
shouldn't be a problem if most of your height is in the boot... :o)
i agree, the more innovation the better. once all trucks, buses etc are electric, the air might smell better in the cities and we'd all spend less time picking the dirty particulates out of our noses
some people are just trollish prats and some are failed comedians. there's no point responding to them
"There have been incidents where that interconnection itself has been a problem due to ripple effects of one power line failure"
so its a single point of failure that takes out millions of homes in one go. Wouldn't it have been nice if 50% were power self-sufficient and then whole towns and cities wouldn't go dark.
""Off the grid" is a pipe dream for most people."
yes, but the more that do it the better. no-one is going to say its going to happen over night.
Take a worst case scenario and you end up in a war, whats one of the first places that will be taken out? my guess would be power generation plants
1. tough luck for those still on the grid. the power companies will have to find cheaper methods to generate and distribute.
2. the distributed model i was talking about is each property having their own power generation, not in the way you understood it to mean. the grid is all the eggs in one basket.
3. the ones that want to. can be built in with all new builds.
4. it will be at some point.
5. the grid will be ticking over all the time, it already ramps up for spikes so its capable.
the running out of power that california experienced wouldn't have been such a problem if everyone had the capability to generate their own power. It would also force the power companies to lower their prices.
how well insulated is your house? we've just had double glazed windows installed and have already noticed just how much longer the apartment stays warm with less heating.
there's no way i'm putting a crab in my pants
"The whole point of a central power system is optimization and they are doing the opposite."
A central power system is also a single point of failure, distributed power generation is the way forward once they've got power storage sorted and cheap. The grid can be used as a back up system
Seems a strange article. Do /.ers know that a farm is?
yep, but have you seen the children still being born with deformities in these cities?
Sounds like you are the first candidate for the sewer sensor
"That has little to do with violating people's rights/privacy,"
how does a sensor in the sewer violate ?
i think its like everything else, they want to make one huge machine to power an area rather than loads of smaller ones
Instead of giving power companies subsidies, why not install solar on every home and business and then the grid becomes a fall back and not a single point of failure. Power generation should be distributed rather than concentrated.
ahaa.. so you are the greedy AC bastard who doesn;t care about anyone else but yourself then....
i've not heard the "bollox" you are talking about. I've only heard him talk in terms of insisting on truth. Sometimes truth is sometimes painful and people mis-interpret as being aggressive, arrogant etc
The ignorant who are willing to learn, once they have learnt science rules, will forgive him. i don't think you can accuse Dawkins of not advancing the understanding of science. that was his job for a while http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/previous-holders-simonyi-professorship/professor-richard-dawkins