Comment Re:I actually have some sympathy for the utilities (Score 1) 374
I think you replied to the wrong person. That line was quoted from the post I replied to.
I think you replied to the wrong person. That line was quoted from the post I replied to.
I don't have a solar, but my electric bill is itemized and contains a transport cost item. It makes sense that in case of solar, you pay transport cost both ways.
Do the big generators supplying electricity to the utility pay transport costs? I don't think so. They just get paid wholesale price for the electricity they supply to the grid. At most someone with solar producing excess power should be charged for a two-way meter and the incoming electricity transport cost. They should be paid wholesale prices for the excess power they produce.
Within a decade or so the cost of in home batteries will likely come down enough that it will be practical to produce and store your own electricity and tell the utilities to get screwed, especially in the southern US.
No, it is. We set ourselves apart by trying to control everything, and having everything filtered, and processed. That increases allergies. Directly by people trying to set themselves apart from biology.
I wonder if one factor in increasing allergies is that in the past before modern medicine many people with a serious allergy would die young and their allergy would never have been identified as such.
I doubt there is much if any US Government money going in to building the Keystone XL pipeline. It's a private venture. Of course a lot of government money has been spent on analyzing it.
What if my lap is bigger than my desk?
Then you should have a show on TLC.
The cost of producing the tar sands oil is high enough ($75-$95/barrel) that at current prices (below $55/barrel) it's uneconomical to produce so it won't help reduce prices until the price goes back up over $95/barrel.
When they can fit a complete 4Ghz pc on the tip of my dick, then I'll be amazed.
With a built in camera. Think of the porn.
Yes, the Bolos are another apt comparison.
Fred Saberhagen's Berserkers come to mind.
Sorry, you got stoned and you missed it.
What makes you think my comment was a joke? It was a straight up expression of my opinion.
Chemical weapons are essentially pesticides for humans.
Well, there are winters in both the northern and southern hemispheres each year so maybe not. But maybe I should have said the northern hemisphere explicitly. I live on the US west coast and both winters have been warmer than normal. The point is that you can't take your experience in one small part of the globe or hemisphere and apply it to the whole.
Here's the story with a link to the abstract.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
