Comment Re:A good deed will never go unpunished (Score 1) 102
My complaint is that no one seems to read anymore.
As I said over all I think this is a good idea.
You sir are seeking offense when none was intended or given.
My complaint is that no one seems to read anymore.
As I said over all I think this is a good idea.
You sir are seeking offense when none was intended or given.
Or in a sub in the UK or France maybe.
Who cares?
Funny but every source I have found shows it peaking in the afternoon and and evening. Do you have any source for you statment?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
So solar can replace 20%. That is fine but you still have the other 80%. The issue was never "we should not use any renewables" but that solar is really only good as a supplement and still must be backed with peaking plants and can not replace baseload.
Wind is better based on location and with backing peaking plants it can even be used for some of baseload.
"But if you insist on going there, allow me to remind you that my actions of not watching an ad are perfectly legal (and explicitly stated so in law),"
Irrelevant since we are not talking about what is legal.
" the same way as you using an ad network doesn't make you a script kiddie hacker trying to infect millions of peoples computers with malware viruses and keyloggers deserving of imprisonment."
An occasional ad has done that but it is like saying Ford is murder because some drove to someones home and shot them using a Ford car. The people that make those ads should be arrested and tried.
But you are still a freeloader because you take content that people work to create and give them nothing for their work.
It is not illegal to be a freeloader it just means that you take without giving back. I also block ads at times so on those site I am a freeloader at those times but I atleast give them a chance now and then to win me turning off adblocker by not using video or animated ads.
It is nice but doing it this way give the tax break to Apple and gives them free PR.
If they just cut the price by the amount and if people gave the money to the Charity of choice then the customer would get the tax break.
Over all it is a good thing because most of the people would probably just pocket the savings.
Fail.
Trying to prove a scientific point based on a bad action movie.
What the author was pointing out was that Watson was made by and programmed by people. It didn't care if it won or lost and it didn't understand the questions. It was in fact nothing but a giant filing cabinet with a good indexing system.
It is the difference between memorizing and understanding.
I never said I was not a freeloader on those sites. They are few and far between and I do at least give them a chance.
The Jeep CJ/Wrangler has amazing aftermarket support. You can build a CJ from aftermarket parts with no real problem. The old Cherokee is in the same level of support. The old First Gen 1960s Camaro and the Corvette line is the same way. You can build a 64-68 Stingray from parts you order online if you want to.
For a modern car Subarus, Jeeps, and so one are high on the list.
What kind of car do you want? A people mover, Jeep, or a sporty car? US or japanese? Are you in the States?
So how does this not make you a worthless freeloader?
You get content that costs someone resources to create and give them nothing not even the ad revenue.
I use adblock but I only use it on sites that have way too much advertising. The ads on most sites tend to be well targeted to me so I am fine with them.
If they play video or sound they get blocked but most ads I see.
Thanks that was more or less my goal.
I think we should also make the standard for CO2 be the amount of CO2 used by protestors traveling to a G10 conference.
I was born in Vero Beach Florida and have lived in Florida my entire life. What you do not understand is just because you have enough light to read does not mean you are getting anywhere close to peak output. Solar noon and 3 to four hours on each side of peak is when solar makes a good amount of power.
" Do they generate enough to satisfy year-round demand? Of course not. Neither do coal plants, and neither do nuclear plants, and neither do natural gas plants (by themselves)"
Yes they can. Together or in a mix. Natural gas plants can without any doubt since be used easily for both peaking loads and in base loads.
Location does have an impact but you can look at peak usage data.
For example in Florida peak usage in summer is from noon to 9PM so yes a good bit of the usage is at night.
In the winter it is 6am to 10am in the morning and 6pm to 10pm at night.
Most power is used in the evening and the morning because that is when people are doing things like cook, laundry and are frankly home.
Your argument about anecdotal evidence is correct but the real usage data does show that peak power usage is in the evenings and not during the day or overnight. BTW Florida is an example of a location where peak load is greatly influenced by ac bills in the summer.
"Guess when the maximum power drain from air conditioning will be? Exactly during mid day when the solar cells are at maximum efficiency. "
Actually no.
Peak temperatures are after solar noon and do not really cool off until well into the evening.
So in Florida in the summer the peak energy use is from 1 to 8 PM
Solar noon in the summer is at 11 am because of daylight savings time. So if peak production is 3 hours of solar noon in the summer in FL then your off peak production at 2pm so your production curve starts to drop only on hour into a 7 hour peak demand. If the afternoon peak demand is a standard curve which it probably pretty close to the truth then peak use should be around 4:30 which is around 5:30 none DST which is well past peak solar output.
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