A huge amount of the losses are waste heat from generation, be it turbines or reciprocating engines. Perhaps this argues for more use of the waste-heat.

I would also think that in some industrial locations, local Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Co-Generation plants might be very useful to utilize the waste heat, though this can have it shortcomings and is not applicable everywhere. A common problem being having non-correlated need for heat versus electricity. I have personally seen a shared residential location with a natural-gas fired generator and several natural-gas fired boilers. It had been thought that the waste-heat from both the jacket-water and exhaust system could be reclaimed to reduce the use of the boilers.

However, the costs of locally generating the electricity with nat gas outweighed the electric costs from the local utility even when the heat was needed. The generator is now used for power outages and some summer peak-shaving. This was a single 1500kW generator, so very small-scale. This is not an easy solution.

The most interesting setup I've seen is a food production facility with a waste digester feeding a CoGen engine with a Natural-Gas and Digester-Gas blend up to 50%. Perhaps better urban/suburban planning could result in centralised Sewage Digester waste-gas Co-Gen plants?

Thank you for this, was very informative.

Look up industry 4.0 and the IIOT (industrial internet of things). This new tech is the wave of the future, and as a small-scale systems integrator myself, I worry. I can tell you that some of the people in charge of paying for these systems don't care that much about network security and accountability, because it's way way over their heads. For decades industrial control systems were equivalent to your toaster. You don't replace it until it stops making toast, let alone install updates or even perform backups of it. There are many systems running server 2003 or similar and running on the same network as the operators tablets and laptops, etc. Fortunately, most of these are very very small powerplants or other facilities.

From TFA:

I really hope the judges are learned in the technology. Using the ISP's DNS is obviously not a requirement, nor is using their caching. Using either of these technologies is not integral to the passing of bits from one IP to the other. What a shit argument. If anything, one could argue that the indirect use of the ISP's routing tables are some form of information service, but they aren't typically directly queried by your home/business broadband connection.

A part of my job involves installing remote telemetry units for solar fields to report power production. Just recently in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland area, the RTO is requiring Meterological Data from a local Weather Station Device in the field.(Irradiance and Back-Of-Panel Temps, but usually also include Wind Speed and direction and local temperature) They are primarily intending to use it for prediction of power output from the fields and identifying when they are underperforming, but I've often wondered if that aggregate data could be used to enhance weather predictions.

Basically, we do, we just aren't likely using them all...

If a wealthy person has a large amount of capital, they will apply that capital in ways to profit without having to put in their own active labor. This frees up time to either enjoy or be productive in other ways. It's generally not considered unethical to enjoy some leisure time while investments make passive income. If a person uses their knowledge to create productivity that requires less of their direct time to produce, perhaps it isn't so different. Perhaps the problem is seeing the employee as being owned by the employer, instead of someone who is investing his efforts into the company so as to profit along with the employer. Whether it's capital or knowledge, its investment has value and can produce value. Why is the person held to different standards based on what was contributed?

AT&T should pay you a commission!

You're incorrectly assuming that the electric car will need the same amount of energy to operate as a ICE car. Electric might have more (or less) efficient powertrain, aerodynamics, power steering, HVAC, brakes, etc.

Also, regenerative breaking might come into play. 30 MPG is an arbitrary assumption to compare the electric vehicle mileage per unit energy to.

The answer to that is simple. In ALL cases where the data is unavailable but should be, the claimant automatically wins as either negligence or tampering has occurred. Basically, perhaps the government/police/etc should be guilty until proven innocent, but only when it was required by law to have proper record of it's innocence and failed to produce it.

From the article:

It looks like Cannon is planning to release a fix to correct the color palette and get the game optimized! Even better they are going to add accounts to the game for scores and going to release this for all previous purchasers of the printer! Sweet!

:p

Imagine no more:
"Yes, but does it run linux?"
"I, for one, welcome our Linux Powered Drone Over(head)lords!"
"Linux powered drones pour Hot Grits on Natalie Portman from the Sky!"

This gets a bit more complicated. You need to also compare Gas vs Electric engine efficiency, Gas vs Electric Storage Efficiency, The effects of Regenerative Braking, on and on and on...

Gas engine has poor efficiency, but electric larger has transmission and storage losses, but gains regenerative braking. The picture is very complex. Maybe in the end its a wash?

Well then we just need for Police Police to Police Police.

Its not racism unless they are getting treated in a negative way. If the business is targeting those "it" perceive have the most need for it's goods or services, then it's just being smart. If it's denying people access to good and services because of arbitrary traits, then its bad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_(electricity)

"In electricity, a battery is a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy."

Sounds like connecting a bunch of cells they don't actually manufacture into a battery, and basically successfully dealing with the side effects, management, and other issues involved in stringing together a battery of cells. How are they not qualified to make batteries?