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Comment Can someone explain? (Score 0) 445

Using a financial argument - and without arguing that somehow future solar panel production is linked to national security..........please explain how trying to directly compete with an established global solar panel producer - who already offer the highest quality panels at the cheapest price on the planet (bar the odd quality product) - is going to be a 'good business plan'?

Debt and credit do not equate to wealth, but I am not even certain the average joe believes that anymore either.

Comment Re:Not sure if this is good or not (Score 0) 445

On what grounds is 'local production' of a non-essential, non national security product required, when you can already aqcuire them at high quality at a cheap price? That is the very opposite of a good business plan. Direct competition is idiocy.

Innovation, parallel technologies and applications is where the money is at. Why let American ego ruin your economy?

Comment Ahh yes... (Score 1) 445

The illustrious forces of the free market at work. That age-old, right-wing, conservative, Republican mantra. Small government, 'hands-off' business.

I guess the rest of the world doesn't care. We still get the same high-quality 23% efficiency cells from China that we always got - for the same price.

It is amazing how many innovative commercial projects you can power with them.....we just ignore the 'Made in China' bit, because it does not affect our ego.

Comment LattePanda (Score 1) 134

Raspberry Pi and Arduino are great platforms for learning. But if you want a properly integrated professional system with limitless potential out of the box, LattePanda wins hands-down.

Although it is about 5x the price of a Raspberry Pi, it quite easily operates as a fully-functional Win10 installation with C#, Javascript, Ruby, Visual Studio, NodeJS, Java, Processing etc - powered by USB.

Specs:
Intel Cherry Trail Z8350 Quad Core Processor
Base Frequency: 1.44GHz (1.92GHz Burst Frequency)
Operating System: Windows 10 Home Edition (Unactivated)
RAM: 4GB DDR3L
Storage Capacity: 64GB
GPU: Intel HD Graphics, 12 EUs @200-500Mhz, single-channel memory
USB 3.0 x 1, USB 2.0 x 2
Wi-Fi 802.11n 2.4G
Bluetooth 4.0
Integrated Arduino Co-processor: ATmega32u4 (Arduino Leonardo)
Video output: HDMI and MIPI-DSI
Onboard touch panel overlay connector
Supports 100Mbps Ethernet
Intel Processor GPIO x 6
ATmega Processor GPIO x 20
Gravity Interface Connectors x 6
Voltage: 5V@2A

The real secret is in how the 2 chips operate - with the ability to turn either chip off or on (wake or sleep), from the other chip. The potential of this board is basically limitless.

Comment Re:Happens all the time. Just not in big cities. (Score 0) 173

Because it's almost unheard of in cities it's a great opportunity for global-warming alarmists to gin up another panic, now that they've got a case they can blame on melting ice. If they can get that meme going they can then yell about global warming at each good-weather outbreak - which means several times a year.

......melting ice? 'Each good weather outbreak?

For you I have one word:

PERMAfrost. Work it out yourself.

Comment Why has the US not learned? (Score 0) 296

Bombing people - to stop them hating you - doesn't work. It's true.

The Korean War didn't work, Vietnam didn't work, Afghanistan didn't work, Iraq didn't work, Syria is not working and the next war won't work either. It just makes more enemies.

In fact, the ones you miss when you bomb - the families, friends and neighbours - often decide to go on a life-long mission for revenge against the US.

Sometimes entire nations hole themselves up for decades, building nukes and waiting. Like North Korea.

What the fuck is wrong with you? If you bomb Nth Korea, they will release hell on the US. Why would you do that? What the fuck is wrong with you?

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