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Comment Re:10Kw for MULTIPLE homes? (Score 1, Informative) 178

14kw is not often the same 14kwh the h stands for hour as in per hour. Tim S.

I don't know what kind of house they are powering, but without natural gas or propane for the water header and furnace, 10kw isn't going to cut it for one home much less multiple homes. I use a 14kw generator on my house. It's capable of running my well water pump, 2 ton A/C, and incidental loads. It cannot run the hot water heater, 4 ton A/C, Oven, dryer, etc.

Comment Re:competition (Score 1) 105

The number of competing companies in a market needed for free market prices likely depends on the barriers to enter said market. AMD and Intel CPU market is relatively free of entry barriers. Tim S.

3 party competition is enough for advances and price control. look at amd vs intel and how they keep each other growing and they are the only 2 major players.

Comment Re:$.50 for every man woman and child (Score 1) 70

You could paint it black to hide from amateur optical observers, but what kind of stealth could hide a large satellite in low orbit from other states with radar and infra-red observation? It'd have to either hide on the moon, or in place of a known existing satellite that it swallows, with stealth making it look smaller.

But the chances of a $3bil project staying that secret from other states? Zero.

You wouldn't want to paint it black, it'd absorb huge amounts of radiation when in sunlight that would result in heating that would be difficult to manage.

PS. Not a satellite nor even a rocket scientist, so the above is conjecture only.

Yeah, painting it black will not good from collecting heat point of view (It would collect a lot of heat). But, black would radiate the heat better than silver like most satellites. And, that combination should make it easy to find using heat/infra-red detectors in space or on the ground. Almost, have to have an shroud that flips between silver and black. Silver for the side towards the Sun and black towards the Earth. But, it would still likely be detectable by other satellites above it in orbit. Tim S.

Comment Re:Purchasing indulgences (Score 1) 95

I was thinking something even worse; that Google sells the power to third party that then claims they are using clean power. And, that company then sells to a forth party that can then claim they are using clean power. And it continues forever till the power line loses match the total of clean power. Tim S.

So they're spending money on "clean" power they don't actually use (and apparently nobody actually uses) to somehow atone for "dirty" power they actually do use (and apparently also pay for). Who says environmentalism isn't a religion?

Comment Re:Whoâ(TM)s to blame? (Score 1) 203

So, it is not clear if you support bringing back the Wooly Mammoth. The Wooly Mammoth is rumored to have been killed off by early humans in North America. Tim S.

If Man caused the extinction, then itâ(TM)s s moral duty to bring them back. If OTOH, they died from natural causes from nature, then probably not.

Comment Only idiots think they hacked the US elections! (Score 1) 36

The Russians are accused of hacking the DNC not the US elections! Only idiots think they hacked the US elections! Tim S.

Iran has never used nerve agent to assassinate someone and contaminate a British town.

They also haven't hacked our election systems, unlike Russia.

More importantly, they never bribed Moscow Donald to betray his own country.

Comment Re:The Moscovian Candidate (Score 1) 503

So, we need to investigate the main stream media; since there were people in it supporting Trump and/or Sanders. And, after the election they were stating things that align with the Russian goals of creating division in the USA. Tim S.

By February 2016, the suspects had decided whom they were supporting in the 2016 race. According to the indictment, Internet Research Agency specialists were instructed to “use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump — we support them).”

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