You should re-examine that. Solar costs are dropping VERY quickly. Sunelec.com has polycrystaline panels for 66 cents/watt right now. These should last for at least 25 years, barring softball sized hail, etc.
But if you are too far north, then it is probably not worth it. I would tend to argue that it is good to have a few around to power vital electronics. I have enough to power my well should the power go out for an extended period of time, and am now looking at going all solar due to the falling costs.
You do realize that the temperatures on the East Coast have been at or above 38C recently, right? Last time that happened in France, 3000 people died.
Or are you on one of your local death panels, and thus feel like you get to make a choice as to who lives and who dies, and dictate what is important to others?
Exactly. There is a large windmill down the street from my neighborhood powering a research station. There should be at least one in the field adjoining my neighborhood providing power for us. But nope, all coal, produced by one of two coal power plants outside of town. Well, I say that, but we might be getting some from wind now. But it is certainly still grid reliant.
Are you kidding me? Romney is the East Coast liberal who invented Obamacare. He only pretends to be kinda conservative so idiots will vote for him.
If there are outages, they will be caused by a combination of overregulation and regulatory capture, just like it is today (look at uptime in Texas vs the East or West coast).
We make twice as much as you because we apply the utility function to such things.
Is the extra 0.01% uptime over the lifetime of the grid worth paying twice as much? Clearly not. But some Eurocrat thought it was, and forced it on you, and as a result, you take less money home, and are poorer.
Only if regulation!=failure. The fact is that California is the most highly regulated jurisdiction in the US, if not the world, and any failures of commercial services are much more likely to be failures of regulation and/or regulatory capture than "greed" on the part of the power companies.
Compare with Texas, which is clearly less regulated. We never had any brownouts, despite record usage of electricity last year.
Most people incorporate positions on government into the religion centers of their brains. Will you be one of the few to rise above that primitive impulse and actually change your mind given new evidence and/or reasoning?
Not if they were properly installed. In addition to being quite heavy (being made out of sand and metal), most installations have panels bolted to metal brackets which are permanently fixed to the roof. The panels aren't going anywhere without the roof.
They can get smashed, but there are some types of panels that are resistant to such damage, and can even be repaired (a little solder to fix any broken connections and a new glass sheet over the top should be more than enough).
And individual merely needs to weigh the costs of having occasional/extraordinarily rare outages like this against the costs of the system.
The broken window fallacy is a fallacy. Such action would only be constructive if the amortized costs for the installation were less than the costs from incidents like this.
I don't think I have ever heard of something like this happening before, so it is unlikely to be something that happens often enough to warrant such expenditure. Jobs are a means to an end, not an end of themselves. If they were, then there would be two jobs, people digging ditches and people filling them in.
Seems to me that that is a function of the additives in the plastic. If you use all milk containers, the properties shouldn't change.
Also, I never heard of the properties of plastic changing just from melting and re-extruding them. Maybe it is just a scale issue, where small scale reprocessing creates an inferior filament.
I don't ever recall hearing about aquifers that have a higher salt content than the ocean. And even if there were, I don't think you understand just how big the ocean is, or the fact that such an aquifer would be a nonsensical choice for anyone close enough to the ocean to dump their concentrate there.
Eat the membrane. Pseudomonas is notorious for eating things that it shouldn't be able to eat. In my own lab, I have seen it eat 1/10th of the way through a contact lens in 24 hours. The holes are only visible by electron microscopy (they leave something like a honeycomb behind), but they are terrifyingly widespread across the entire surface.
You don't fix a fascist system by ignoring it, nor do you fix it with more fascism (which is exactly what the individual mandate is).
I never said do nothing, I say "don't do THIS."
Reduce medical licensing requirements to what they were thirty years ago, and prices will come down. Stop making health insurance tax privileged, and prices will come WAY down. These simple solutions strike at the core of the problem, rather than the symptoms.
My mother went to the ER and was found to have diverticulitis. The doctors did nothing but advise her on her diet for the next few weeks, and say that she should get more fiber. THey MIGHT have given her antibiotics, I don't remember offhand. Total cost? $12,000. If we could buy antibiotics without a prescription, we could have made that diagnosis ourselves, but it is ILLEGAL (as in put you in jail) to practice medicine without a license, and antibiotics are a controlled substance.
Use of burdensome regulation to prevent competition and thus drive up prices is a characteristic of a fascist system. You can't solve the problems of a fascist system with more fascism.
Yeah, I forgot that the US has been wracked by hundreds, if not thousands of pandemics over the last few decades, killing hundreds of trillions of people. Clearly, we must spend money we don't have, and force individuals to do the same so that we can survive all these plagues!
And here we have the result of government involvement in the economy--people made into mean creatures who hate anyone who wants to be free based on the premise that their taxes pay for the other person's freedoms. Prior to the rise of widespread health insurance, medical care was cheap. Doctors would visit patients in their homes, and hospitals were universally run by charitable organizations. No-one was left to die in their own filth, as alen now so viscously desires. They paid if they could, and the rich donated to pay for the care of the poor.
How far we have fallen. We are a heartbeat away from barbarism.
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You should re-examine that. Solar costs are dropping VERY quickly. Sunelec.com has polycrystaline panels for 66 cents/watt right now. These should last for at least 25 years, barring softball sized hail, etc.
But if you are too far north, then it is probably not worth it. I would tend to argue that it is good to have a few around to power vital electronics. I have enough to power my well should the power go out for an extended period of time, and am now looking at going all solar due to the falling costs.
I'm sure you mean "socialism", not "capitalism", as you are talking about government granted monopolies.
I love how socialists and communists blame all the failings of their crappy socialized institutions on capitalism.
You do realize that the temperatures on the East Coast have been at or above 38C recently, right? Last time that happened in France, 3000 people died.
Or are you on one of your local death panels, and thus feel like you get to make a choice as to who lives and who dies, and dictate what is important to others?
Exactly. There is a large windmill down the street from my neighborhood powering a research station. There should be at least one in the field adjoining my neighborhood providing power for us. But nope, all coal, produced by one of two coal power plants outside of town. Well, I say that, but we might be getting some from wind now. But it is certainly still grid reliant.
Are you kidding me? Romney is the East Coast liberal who invented Obamacare. He only pretends to be kinda conservative so idiots will vote for him.
If there are outages, they will be caused by a combination of overregulation and regulatory capture, just like it is today (look at uptime in Texas vs the East or West coast).
More like harvested to be use for the killing of brown people around the world.
We make twice as much as you because we apply the utility function to such things.
Is the extra 0.01% uptime over the lifetime of the grid worth paying twice as much? Clearly not. But some Eurocrat thought it was, and forced it on you, and as a result, you take less money home, and are poorer.
Did you happen to visit France during the heat wave that killed 3000 people?
Very "1st world". lol
Only if regulation!=failure. The fact is that California is the most highly regulated jurisdiction in the US, if not the world, and any failures of commercial services are much more likely to be failures of regulation and/or regulatory capture than "greed" on the part of the power companies.
Compare with Texas, which is clearly less regulated. We never had any brownouts, despite record usage of electricity last year.
Most people incorporate positions on government into the religion centers of their brains. Will you be one of the few to rise above that primitive impulse and actually change your mind given new evidence and/or reasoning?
Not if they were properly installed. In addition to being quite heavy (being made out of sand and metal), most installations have panels bolted to metal brackets which are permanently fixed to the roof. The panels aren't going anywhere without the roof.
They can get smashed, but there are some types of panels that are resistant to such damage, and can even be repaired (a little solder to fix any broken connections and a new glass sheet over the top should be more than enough).
And individual merely needs to weigh the costs of having occasional/extraordinarily rare outages like this against the costs of the system.
The broken window fallacy is a fallacy. Such action would only be constructive if the amortized costs for the installation were less than the costs from incidents like this.
I don't think I have ever heard of something like this happening before, so it is unlikely to be something that happens often enough to warrant such expenditure. Jobs are a means to an end, not an end of themselves. If they were, then there would be two jobs, people digging ditches and people filling them in.
Seems to me that that is a function of the additives in the plastic. If you use all milk containers, the properties shouldn't change.
Also, I never heard of the properties of plastic changing just from melting and re-extruding them. Maybe it is just a scale issue, where small scale reprocessing creates an inferior filament.
I don't ever recall hearing about aquifers that have a higher salt content than the ocean. And even if there were, I don't think you understand just how big the ocean is, or the fact that such an aquifer would be a nonsensical choice for anyone close enough to the ocean to dump their concentrate there.
Well, until a technology like this comes along and rips the face off of your investments like Hannibal Lecter on bath salts.
That is the nature of technological advance. It makes the impossible possible, and the difficult easy to effortless.
Eat the membrane. Pseudomonas is notorious for eating things that it shouldn't be able to eat. In my own lab, I have seen it eat 1/10th of the way through a contact lens in 24 hours. The holes are only visible by electron microscopy (they leave something like a honeycomb behind), but they are terrifyingly widespread across the entire surface.
You don't fix a fascist system by ignoring it, nor do you fix it with more fascism (which is exactly what the individual mandate is).
I never said do nothing, I say "don't do THIS."
Reduce medical licensing requirements to what they were thirty years ago, and prices will come down. Stop making health insurance tax privileged, and prices will come WAY down. These simple solutions strike at the core of the problem, rather than the symptoms.
My mother went to the ER and was found to have diverticulitis. The doctors did nothing but advise her on her diet for the next few weeks, and say that she should get more fiber. THey MIGHT have given her antibiotics, I don't remember offhand. Total cost? $12,000. If we could buy antibiotics without a prescription, we could have made that diagnosis ourselves, but it is ILLEGAL (as in put you in jail) to practice medicine without a license, and antibiotics are a controlled substance.
Use of burdensome regulation to prevent competition and thus drive up prices is a characteristic of a fascist system. You can't solve the problems of a fascist system with more fascism.
There was no government in the US prior to 1913, I suppose.
I publicly called for his execution for that, actually. War crimes and such. High crimes.
Yeah, I forgot that the US has been wracked by hundreds, if not thousands of pandemics over the last few decades, killing hundreds of trillions of people. Clearly, we must spend money we don't have, and force individuals to do the same so that we can survive all these plagues!
Ha! Haha! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! He thinks this will make premiums go DOWN! Priceless!
And here we have the result of government involvement in the economy--people made into mean creatures who hate anyone who wants to be free based on the premise that their taxes pay for the other person's freedoms. Prior to the rise of widespread health insurance, medical care was cheap. Doctors would visit patients in their homes, and hospitals were universally run by charitable organizations. No-one was left to die in their own filth, as alen now so viscously desires. They paid if they could, and the rich donated to pay for the care of the poor.
How far we have fallen. We are a heartbeat away from barbarism.
What happens when the opposition created the model for the system the current administration created?
Oh.....
Anyone can set a broken arm, but licensing requirements create artificial scarcity, driving up prices. This is a characteristic of a fascist system.
Yes, actually. The beneficiaries are those in the military-industrial complex, which would not exist without our outrageous war machine.