no the contractor stopped showing up and it was not worth going to court over a few thousand dollars so I just fired him.

IR coating is the dominant contributor to low-e. the other is the argon fill gas, but that leaks out soon enough.

http://www.gocomics.com/calvin...

the purpose of the IR coating is twofold in the southwest. First, the object is not to keep heat in the house but to reflect the heat away. Most houses have a brow to keep direct light out. But it hits the ground and walls outside and then comes into the house as IR. So the Low E coating is actually intended to keep the IR out of the house. In the northern winters it's the opposite where you want to keep the heat in the house.

Second, the IR coating turn out to also be correlated with good UV prevention. Logically theres no need for those to be correlated. Practically they are. I can only speculate as to why: probably the processing to coat a window has enought set up cost that adding on a UV coating at the same time has low marginal cost.

So even in the southwest coated windows make sense

I mean they were without the IR coating I had paid for.

When my window replacement contractr cheated me by installing windows with IR coating I showed my kids how so visualize it from the reflection of a butane lighter flame. (the colors of the multiple reflections should red shift if it preferentially reflects red light).

I also showed them how the sun is about the size of a quarter and lands in arizona at night.

Dilbert explains:
http://dilbert.com/strip/2000-...

I have been wanting to see Apple or Microsoft or Netflix embrace torrent like local servers. But not for ads. For movies. Just push out all the movies to people's computers at night. Then let itunes or whoever form the torrent networks to deliver movies to paying customers. As long as I get a discount (since it's my bandwidth and electricity) why not? I'd like it as thumb in the nose of comcast and anyone else throttling the net.

I'm not talking about illegal file sharing, I'm talking about just having content served right within Comcasts own network so there's no peering issues.

Yes I appreciate how long comcast would let that go on. Just a fantasy.

The companies sell the power for a profit, but for some spooky reason the nuclear waste becomes the governments problem.

math.

For the first 500,000 years of human existence the population growth rate was so slow (1.00004 per year) that if you lived in a village of 100 people then after 25,000 years there would be on average 101 people in your village.

The doubling time of the earths population is now 61 years. Even if you think there will be enough food and water for 2x the current population, you might still agree that at 4x the current population there will be mass starvation looming. I for one think that with GMOs and proper water management we can double our food supply. The current GMOs are not adequate but Monsanto thinks it can double the current food supply in about 60 years if we let them try. So far we aren't but that will change I suspect.

It seems very unlikely we could possible reduce population growth enough in a couple generations to stop the inevitable wars for resources.

Now how large will these wars be. Let's suppose they were larger than any human can even imagine. Lets say they killed half of the earths population. That severe. Then how long would it be till the next war? well about 61 years if we have the same doubling time.

So we will have wars that are so large that most of the population will die. If we don't then we will keep having wars.

I note that climate change is also dependent on the population growth, which is exponential. So Al gore is right about that too, but it's death by Mathusian population crash that awaits your grandkids.

yes, and if you don't like the laws change them.

What are you comparing? pandora is $5 a month so your $45 for 18 month seems like a discount. And for that you don't get arbitrary music playlists, just more skips of some algorithmic genre ordering. There's no comparison to here and it's not much of a savings if you really care about what you are listening too. If not just tune in an internet radio station that plays what you like there's thousands of channels out there so you can find one you like.

who do you think will be paying for your Social security or the majority of the general tax revenues when you retire? People who raise kids create the future at great expense to themselves.

Which doubles as a juicer as well. Just push the carrots through the fan and a revitalizing and nutritious drink is server right on your desktop. Turn that minty green nerd complexion into a sexy carotine tan. This is why all the apple execs look so tan.