Small scale solar also doesn't make sense
But it only needs to make enough power to pay for itself, not to beat some hypothetical efficiency. I just need the panels on my roof to make enough electricity to pay for themselves over their lifetime. All the additional benefits (carbon emissions avoided, extra power beyond what pays for the panels, reduction in hot afternoon brownout risk) are just icing on the cake at that point.
If you haven't read it, Marshall Brain's Manna is essential reading. The prophetic aspects of his dystopian view seem truer every day.
Slashdotters with good memories may remember Marshall Brain as the entrepreneur behind the "How Stuff Works" web site, which he sold for a fortune during the dot-com boom.
Not once does this article discuss occupancy rate. If apartments are built, and the are rented by people who want to live there, then it's wrong to say that "almost no one can afford" (them).
If the apartments are filled, then developers are building to the demand, full stop.
Mohammad Mesmarian, 34, rammed his car through the gate of a solar power generation plant outside Las Vegas on Wednesday and set his car on fire, intending to damage a massive transformer, 8 News Now reported.
"Employees at the plant said they found a car smoldering in a generator pit," 8 News Now said, adding the Mega Solar Array facility provides power to 13 properties on the Las Vegas Strip, all belonging to MGM Resorts.
Investigators believe Mesmarian "siphoned gasoline from his car to put on wires at the transformer," 8 News Now said, citing documents from investigators.
"Mesmarian clarified he burned the Toyota Camry," police said. "Mesmarian said he burned the vehicle at a Tesla solar plant and did it 'for the future.'"
The article also wonders why companies like HPE don't just "dump some ISO files" onto an FTP server, along with patch depots and documentation. "This stuff has no commercial value, they're not losing any sales, and it will barely affect their bottom line.
Of course it costs them sales. If you keep old devices on life support, you're not buying new HP Z workstations or Elitebooks or whatever that run Windows or Linux.
The situation you describe is a failure to design a solution to the required problem domain, not a failure of OOP. If brake sensors have certification requirements that fuel sensors do not, then clearly those requirements need to be reflected in the design of the code and the way the basic "pressure sensor" object is extended to specific certification-required tasks.
If the problem is that nobody knew there was a requirement, then it doesn't really matter what programming paradigm you use, the risk is still present. The risk is that the requirement wasn't captured, and that will impact any code.
Citizens Against Government Waste outlines seven criteria by which spending can be classified as "pork":
Nothing he said makes sense in the context of physics. GPS satellites are 1-ton, 1000-watt devices (solar panels produce 1136 watts when first deployed) with a 500W transmitter, that are launched to an orbit of 11000 nautical miles. That's the high end of "Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)", so they can receive from a larger portion of the planet and spend more time outside the Earth's shadow.
If he thinks he can replace GPS with 12-kilogram satellites launched to LEO, he's on hepped up on spaceballs or something.
a Beverly Hills patron who wants to be a co-investor in the Minecraft servers
My immediate thought was: could it be Notch?
To write good code is a worthy challenge, and a source of civilized delight. -- stolen and paraphrased from William Safire
