Comment Re: The Good Ol' Days (Score 1) 284
When were you born?
When were you born?
They were a membership organization run by 3 universities.
Layoffs are the new trend for successful companies in Silicon Valley. I know your intuition thinks failure at the sight of layoffs, but in Silicon Valley, layoffs are being used to motivate workers and get rid of dead wood without discrimination lawsuits. Itâ(TM)s called capitalism.
Just go to BK and get an Impossible Whopper. Guess what? It tastes just like a normal Whopper. And the Impossible Nuggets at Trader Joes are actually better than whatever concoction McDonalds sells. So my honest review is that it tastes pretty good!
This is sadly terribly wrong. Go to Iowa where there is tons of land and they are still building new factory farms. Just because a lot of land exists does not mean cows roam freely. It driven by capitalism not common sense. They feed the cows the byproduct of turning corn into ethanol. Electric cars might change that though??
Slashdot was the first site to mention Bitcoin in my experience. FTX is a crypto currency company and therefore is definitely related to technology. Many of SBFs community and friends are in Silicon Valley. Itâ(TM)s relevant, interesting, and does belong on this site.
I thought the same about Solar City. When Tesla acquired it, Tesla stock would have to go up hundreds and hundreds of dollars to make the Solar City shareholders a profit. It seemed dumb to almost everyone. It seemed like an impossible gamble. Guess what? Tesla went up to $600 (before the split) and Solar City shareholders made profits if they held!!! If they held to today, they made really big profits!
Musk knows what he is doing. Let people bark and wine. Iâ(TM)ll sit back and watch the show.
Unions are a band-aid to capitalism. Capitalism has inherent flaws. It optimizes to pay labor less, do more with fewer workers, and consume environmental resources that cannot be replaced.
Unions are not going to fix these inherent problems. Unions do not do what they claim to be doing. But as long as these problems in capitalism exist, someone will be persuaded that unions are a good idea.
I don't know how to "fix" capitalism aside from ending humanity. But I'm open to ideas.
$1 billion dollars later... âoeStop burning fossil fuels. It turns out that cancer from air pollution is shortening lives.â.
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If water above 100C were of no use in power generation, we basically would only have solar, wind, and hydro dams powering everything. Almost all other power plants involve boiling water to turn a turbine.
If you read the article you will see that they are using pre-existing wells. They arenâ(TM)t drilling.
One way itâ(TM)s competitive with nuclear. It takes months to build one of these geothermal plants vs decades for nuclear plants. These geothermal plants could be within yards of homes unlike nuclear plants. But the comparison should end there. These small geothermal plants are not designed to compete against large power plants, they are going to provide base load power to supplement intermittent wind and solar. Sure, nuclear is great base load too, but I havenâ(TM)t heard about any nuclear power plants opening in the USA in the near future. Nuclear is not easy to site and build (obviously).
Simply put, there are many kinds of geothermal and you are comparing apples to oranges. Geothermal of this type is a good base load renewable energy source in an era when intermittent generation is a real problem. Also, magma is not a requirement for energy generation. Hot water does the trick. The nice thing about these types of geothermal projects is that they utilize abandoned oil wells and dont have the cost overhead of drilling wells.
There are too many false assumptions in your argument to address everything. But for starters, the water circulates between two well bores through porous shale. Itâ(TM)s not a cavern (as the other reply says). Think of it more like a sponge of sandstone. The quantities of residual oil are too minimal for the oil companies to care about these wells... thatâ(TM)s why they are abandoned, which is a legal status. Thatâ(TM)s why these sites will have geothermal equipment on them instead of oil tanks and pump jacks. The geothermal energy is not going away, but the oil and gas are... so there will be no incentive for the companies to run away just because they got this grant from the DoE. They would be running away from their energy source and source of revenue, a move which would make no sense after going to all of this effort to invent geothermal intellectual property.
You are being too kind to WinCE. It was the worst product Iâ(TM)ve ever seen of any OS, from any manufacturer, ever.
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