There is a wind energy system that uses the wind energy to compress gasses in underground structures and then uses that gas to burn a natural gas system much more efficiently. I don't have all the specs, but they were building one in Iowa 10 years ago when I last checked.
Inefficiency for electricity is creating heat, so if you want a heater, you're just creating heat in a spot that you're not calling the heater.
I think the HDD draws a lot more than all the LEDs in my house.
It depends on what you run on it. LEDs wouldn't require that much of a load. This isn't a server farm with racks for 1 kW servers, it's a house.
AC isn't really any safer than DC. The one advantage is the brief drops to 0 V that can allow you to remove yourself from the wire--but at 60 Hz you have to be pretty quick to take advantage of that.
So, if 12 volt is so difficult to move, how does the dinkiest little wire get all that power to my hard drive that gets so hot I could heat my lunch on it?
Who can generate electricity at 100% efficiency? Electric is 100% efficient only if you ignore the inefficiency that comes before it enters your house.
Bah! Medicaid, not Medicare. Sorry
A lot of ACA spending would be on the medicare expansion, so doctors, hospitals, nurses, medicine,
Romneycare also had very low enrollment until just before the deadline. I don't think you can conclude that 44 people will sign up via the website before the end of the year.
Also, $300,000,000 is obviously an inflated number that probably includes all funds spent in the state on the ACA.
The market price of the stock affects the company's ability to raise money through additional issues. This affects their ability to take out loans/sell bonds.
In your response about Plain TeX you ignore that Word has these exact same problems. But it avoids some by not optimizing justification over multiple lines but taking a sub-optimal single-line solutions. You could implement your own non-Plain TeX that did just that, there is no reason you need to use Plain TeX. But you have to realized that WYSIWYG editors do a lot of greedy things to get the current page to display properly and working it out with other pages in the background.
You could also simply force a single page of infinite length for normal editing and then switch back to spec pages in a separate (slower) mode.
Long half-life products have too slow a decay rate to worry about
While I agree that France has done well to follow approximately this mix in their fuel cycle, it isn't a panacea. you always end up with a nasty mix of the long lived stuff at the end that is too hot to declare not a problem and not readily converted via the process you describe.
Cosmic rays are from the cosmos, not from this galaxy. There is no reason to believe they aren't pretty much constant.
If Windows was half as bad as some believe, the world would have come to a crashing halt by now.
By that logic, I could conclude that Win95 was really great software.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
