Comment Re:Divest of Electrical Use Too? (Score 1) 208
Ok, ill bite;
Given that coal causes more harm to society than other forms of electricty generation (it causes more polution per kW), how is divesting coal investments hypecritical.
Ok, ill bite;
Given that coal causes more harm to society than other forms of electricty generation (it causes more polution per kW), how is divesting coal investments hypecritical.
Go for it. People and businesses will drop open source like a hot rock and that will be the end of OSS as a force in the software industry.
Your post highlights a fundamental difference between us, i think a software community is of primary importance, you are talking about a software industry. They are different things.
But yes i know if im the odd man out, and i cant be a community of one.
it should not be free to use for the purpose of ensalving us.
Duoh
The only way corporations are going to carry their fari share of the burden is if they are legally required to. The only way to do that is to make them pay with $, its all they understand.
Libre software is being used by corporations to build gold-plated cages for consumers. Its time to stop playiong their game.
Our glorious leaders are fundamentally wrong on the concept that software tshould be "free to use for any purpose", it should be free to use for the purpose of ensalving us.
His work in math is not directly related to philosphy. Nor do the two follow.
If i could express it as a formulae im should you would find it easier to understand, but maybe this link might help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Pythagoras had his own relgion and metaphyscial beliefs based around Mathematics, numerology, magic numbers etc...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
I didnt have any consious expectations that it would taste better so it cant be a placebo.
But of course that doesnt make my experience objective either, im not aware of any studies that concure (or disagree) with my experience.
I recently switch to buying RSPCA endorsed chicken fillets, and i have to say, they are much TASTIER.
It seems to me that if the animal is looked after better, its much taster to eat when you eat it. It creates a bit of a catch22 for animal welfare groups, the more succesful they are the less vegetarians there will be.
Mathmatics is the single most important field
Philosphopy is the the father of all knowledge.
Did you know Pythagoras was a philospher ?
I was respondign to this
there were 145 wind farm fatalities in the UK alone from 2009 - 2013 145 people died working on wind turbines
The report says
"Fatal accidents
Number of fatal accidents: 105
By year:
Year 70s 80s 90s 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13
No. 1 8 15 3 1 4 4 4 5 5 11 8 7 14 14 3
Please note:
There are more fatalities than accidents as some accidents have caused multiple fatalities.
Of the 146 fatalities:
- 89 were wind industry and direct support workers (divers, construction, maintenance, engineers, etc), or small turbine owner
- 57 were public fatalities, including workers not directly dependent on the wind industry (e.g.
transport workers). 17 bus passengers were killed in one single incident in Brazil in March 2012."
If you take 2008 figures, 11 Deaths and 1.798TkWh (PetaWh) that means it is almsot 20 deaths per PWh, nuclear is 90 according to that forbes article (not that it has any credibility)
So Wind is much safer than nuclear.
Duoh, my mistake, so 270 deaths per year should be expected based on 2008 wind power generation, and the anti-wind farm site documents 11 deaths in 2008.
there were 145 wind farm fatalities in the UK alone from 2009 - 2013 145 people died working on wind turbines
From your link, "17 bus passengers were killed in one single incident in Brazil in March 2012", is there a Brazil in the UK ?
Dont get sucked in by prooganda.
It would be easier to accept if the numbers where not coming from an anti-wind farm group, but to answer my own question, deaths can occure from wind power from
- Transport/Construction
- Structual failure (from storms)
- Ice throw (impact within 140m)
- Turbine failure (anti-wind farm group says turbines need to be 2km away to be safe)
It looks like a large chunk of the 146 deaths in the history of Wind Power are attributable to transport and consturction. Which i think should be attributable to general construction risk, unless there is specific evidence that wind tower transport and construction is inherently more dangerous that other things like tall buildings.
Forbes artical says 150 deaths deaths/trillionkWhr from wind power, but your link cant find 150 total deaths in the history of wind power.
Total energy consuption in 2008 was 143,851 TWh, and wind in 2010 was 2.5% of the total energy generation (and growing fast), perhaps its was 1.25% in 2008. So 143851*0.0125 =1798 TWh from wind.
Your link says 150 deaths per TWh, which equates to 270,000 people beign killed eveyr year from wind power. Do you believe that ?
You do society a great injustice by spreading mis-truths.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
actually it wasnt per year, its per trillion kWh, still my question is the same, how does wind energy kill people.
You say 90 people per year die from Wind energy, I call BS.
How does wind energy kill people ?
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