Mother Theresa would no doubt have printed a medical tool for removing IUDs.

Which would have been totally useless since most of the countries and places she setup shop didn't have access to birth control to begin with.

India, with its huge population, had a large program making IUDs available at no cost to people in the poorer regions who wanted them.

Mother Theresa's work included providing medical treatment to the poor in many of these same regions. Her clinics were noted for removing the government-provided IUDs of women who were there for other procedures, without seeking permission or even informing the woman that it had been done.

Don't you just pull on the string?

Not if you don't want to kill or sterilize the woman.

"Or, even by cutting off welfare for people that ARE able bodied and can work. "

Ageed, When do we start cutting the pay to Congress?

Yet if 1/2 the money spent in the past 13 years killing brown people in the middle east was spent at NASA and NOAA, we would be living on mars.

Except that we have plenty of other birds giving us imagaes. just not high enough resolution to see if it's raining on the left side of a street.

Hell there are ancient WEFAX birds still up there that make a pass every 4 hours.

keep sending 0's to the end of time... HA! I have you now moose and squirrel!

Photons can send states, you can send binary ascii this way. therefore send classical information foreward, very easy to do and then use that classical information to send backwards through the limited communication medium. If I had a single wire to only send a 1 or 0 I could send you anything.

Granted you can only send a single bit right now before the entanglement evaporates, but at some point when they can send more than a single bit of information you will have the possibility.

The moment you create a time loop that timeline collapses. Everyone knows this.

Bonus points for creating entanglements across time lines and collapse TWO or more time lines.

Actually we know very VERY little about the Time dimension. Only recently did we prove frame dragging even existed. we still have not proved other distortions of time NOR if the rules of time change for quantium level.

I've never seen "licensed" grid tie systems that didn't do what you describe.

And you won't: They can't be "licenced" if they don't do this.

About the only way you can feed the grid legitimately without such a device is by pushing on an induction motor (as happens sometimes in normal applications, like with a mo-gen system for an electric elevator when the elevator is being slowed down.) Induction motors depend on the grid for excitation and won't self-generate unless you've got enough capacitors hung across them (and your load) to make the net power factor capacitive. (This is unlikely but can happen in islanding, so you generally aren't allowed to hang a prime mover, like a water wheel or windmill blade, on an induction motor, and hook it to the grid, without adding such controllers. Generation from induction motors in an outage should only last for a few seconds while they suck the inertia out of some spinning mass and run down.)

Last I looked it cost about $2,000 extra to have a grid tie inverter with sell-back (and high-current load direct-connect with inverter "helping"), compared to an equivalent inverter from the same manufacturer that only fed the load with inverter output but could charge the batteries / feed the inverter with rectified line power when the grid was up.

In this case the $2k-ish bought you an extra box containing:
  - a contactor (to jumper the line to the inverter output) and
  - a circuit board that controlled the contactor and acted as a peripheral to the brain of the inverter, providing it with phase measurements (to line-up the inverter phase with the line phase before closing the contactor) and a voltage and frequency measurements (to tell the brain when the grid was failing, so it could open the contactor and cut you loose).

Though this was an add-on box, other products with the function built in also brought a similar premium compared to non-sell equivalents from the same manufacturer.

Straight grid-tie devices feed the harvested power to the grid and depend on it for interconnect and timing reference. Yes they don't feed a dead grid - but that means they don't feed YOU when the grid is down, either.

I'm maybe three years out-of-date on this information so the market may have changed.

Except a BMW 7 series can do something the Tesla absolutely can not do. Drive from NYC to LA in 38 hours. OR even detroit to Orlando in 20 hours. Tesla is a short distance car, perfect for your daily short commute. If you own a tesla you have to own another car for any long trips.

What is not there yet is battery storage technology or small high current, high voltage power supplies. IT doesn't have to be battery any system to convert or store energy will do. But everything we have on this planet is so pitifully weak per pound that it's not useful yet.

Even a doubling of current storage tech would deliver huge gains. Problem is we cant even figure out how to keep our current low energy systems from bursting into flames yet.

Mother Theresa would no doubt have printed a medical tool for removing IUDs.

I hear it all over Michigan. GM should have died. They make crap cars and have done so for over a decade because of bad management. GM should have went out of business.

Solyndra failed because the managers were morons.

Trying to sell a PREMIUM PRICED solar array in this market? they were all complete morons from the Board down to the middle managers. You do not make old 1990's tech solar panels today and try to sell them at a premium price. They should have been making the high end solar shingles from flexible silicon and found a way to make them cheap enough that someone with a $100,000 home can afford them.

Instead they sold panels that were so expensive that they even lost out to other american manufacturers.