...when wind varies you need to have other types of power (such as natural gas) ready to pick up the slack.
You're half correct. If you'll recall your demand curve from Econ 101, when demand exceeds supply, there are two ways to reach an equilibrium. Your suggestion, increase supply, is one of those ways. The other, of course, is to reduce demand, as eBay does to prevent too many people from winning the same auction.
Unfortunately, IEEE 754 doesn't provide a way to indicate the level of precision (number of significant figures) of the answer.
The problem [is] that the energy output is less than the energy inputs.
Are you saying that science has found a way around the second law of thermodynamics?
There is nothing so important that you cannot pull over and call/text. Nothing. Period.
That's illegal on freeways where pulling over is only allowed for emergencies.
Or use something like the Condorcet method to put all the games in order from most to least liked, and then assign each game a percentile ranking based on its position on the list.
I see, you're inflating the cost of a seat by including the infrastructure cost into the seat cost, but not doing the same for buses. Because every bus that's on the road prevents another vehicle from using the same space, there's always an opportunity cost of putting a bus on the road, even if the road is already "paid for".
the highways ALREADY EXIST, and the buses displace cars, so no additional capacity is needed.
So the cars will magically disappear and make room on the highways for buses? I think you made that up.
Even if you accept the lowest of the projected costs for California high speed rail project, the cost is over $500,000 PER SEAT. Show me a bus that costs that much.
First show us where it says the cost is $500,000 per seat, because I think you made that up.
My JR Tokaido Shinkansen ticket from Tokyo to Kyoto was $140. A Southwest flight from LAX to SFO is $73.
According to FareWatch from GoFox.com, the average airfare between LAX and SFO is $145.58.
The government subsidizes it.
According to your link, the Acela Express (the U.S.'s closest thing to a bullet train) makes a profit.
But in either case, a bus...is more flexible when commuting patterns change.
That's circular logic, because commuting patterns only change when something as flexible as a bus is in place. Putting in something as permanent as a rail line gives developers confidence to make investments along the line in a way that doesn't happen around bus stops. So commuting patterns changing is a non-issue with rail.
The SF-to LA run alone is projected to cost $300 Billion
No, it's projected to cost $53.4 billion in 2011 dollars. Meanwhile, it would cost $123 to 138 billion in 2011 dollars to move the same number of people by air and highways (4,295 to 4,652 new lane-miles of highway plus 115 new airport gates and 4 new runways). Also, like every HSR system in the world that has been open for at least a few years, California's won't require any operating subsidies, unlike airports and freeways. So high-speed rail is a really good deal.
A nearby city is $20 million short on its budget. I guess they don't have enough poor people.
They have too many people who are living beyond their means.
Your frontage proposal puts the ratio at the home owner paying 50x as much, when the real differential is MUCH MUCH less.
If a foot of street costs $10 per year to maintain, then how much does 500 feet of street cost per year to maintain? I'm saying it's $5,000, but you're saying it's less than that. Is this some kind of new math?
And remember, we're talking about making only "the assessment for street maintenance on the property taxes" proportional to street frontage, not the entire property tax bill.
Addtionally your link doesn't factor in the fact that the 'urban developments' were mixed use...its not really comparing apple to apples with respect to our debate.
Ok, then please locate a new, single-family residential mixed-use development so we can compare it with urban mixed-use.
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