Comment Re:Good news, bad news (Score 1) 628
And where will the rich place their farms to get their food?
And where will the rich place their farms to get their food?
Funny I was thinking it was the coal companies who wanted to spend millions to build a grid to get power to the poor rather then a simple solar panel + battery setup
People who go solar are essentially the freeloaders in this system as they pay less of the overhead for the amount of transmission service they receive.
Is that the same as people who use less power paying less then those who use more?
Where are you getting 1c/kwh power from currently?
Besides, on average, solar power users produce power during the day, when demand is high and the cost of production is relatively high (because peaker plants are expensive). They consume power mostly at night, when demand is low and the cost of production is low. So no matter how long a cycle you average it over, the power plants are making a big profit from buying relatively cheap solar power instead of expensive natural gas peaker plant power (while selling that power at the same price). That more than pays for the negligible marginal grid maintenance costs arising out of providing power to one extra home.
Technically it is the grid not the powerplants that get the profit.
If I run the same amount of current in two directions down my wire what extra costs are their over the other guy who just runs it in one way?
(In other words the cost should be the max of either but not the combined max of both)
Deliberately moving to the moon to fix problems in their orbits but not planned from the start.
Apparently it ended up under the control of the DoD
And the more checks you put in the money you have to spend making the checks and less money on the people who need it.
I would argue flushable toilets in the city are a need. Unless you can think of a way to remove all the waste another way
And did the social engineers who created the current system pay the price for it's failures?
Or are taxpayers paying for the full time workers who can't get enough money to be above poverty?
Sorry the calculation should be
10,000 * 16 * 100 * 2 * 2 = 6.4 * 10^8
XKCD's shitty advice is protecting against brute force attacks by using length (even though in many cases the effective length is still limited to something stupid like 16 characters). By following XKCD's shitty advice, you open yourself up to statistical attacks - your search space is just a combination of a few words. People generally only use a few thousand words, and when you want them to be random about it they'll likely pick common ones, fairly short ones, mostly nouns, etc.
4 words from a list of 1000 words = 10^12 possible passwords
10,000 uncommon words, 4 symbol replacements on average , 2 digits of numbers , numbers at the start or end. capital/non capital at the start.
10,000 * 16 * 2 * 2 * 2 = 1.28 * 10^7.
A lot less passwords.
Any other ways you can think of to increase the passwords complexity?
Humans are terrible at being random. Any magician, con-artist, or statistician will tell you that. The most commonly-picked "random" cards are the ace of spades and the queen of hearts, for example. The 4 "random" words scenario will give you a search space many orders of magnitude smaller than a good, traditional password.
That is why you need a randomizer to pick the words rather then you picking them.
I'd say you live in a warm climate.. Cloudy days means more energy in colder climates. France uses at its peak about 100 GWatts of electricity. Say you'll need at least 10 hours of battery storage, then you are talking about 1 TWh of power storage for 100% replacement by PV.
So a peak that lasts 10 hours?
If fact the 40% peak PV is for a Sunny Sunday afternoon, so a lot further away from 80% than you think.
So storage is even further away from being needed?
It would probably use something like Steganography.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
