Why? That just turns an otherwise though provoking poll into a [completely] meaningless one.
The largest underground network of pipes (2820 km) [2] and aqueducts in the world. It consists of more than 1,300 wells, most more than 500 m deep, and supplies 6,500,000 m3 of fresh water per day to the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirte and elsewhere.
Maybe instead of solving the crime, it simply stops more threats from being mailed out. Until a new anon-service is found. And in the meantime the person might mess up and reveal themselves.
Soon enough someone will catch on that they can really increase their law enforcement power/budget/detail/department, pass some laws, and maybe get rid of some civil rights because of this. If enough people get pissed off enough, they will happily trade some freedoms for making this all go away.
I'm surprised the TSA hasn't jumped in on this, setting up checkpoints and searching people anywhere they want on campus. Its the perfect situation to lend credibility to their viper program.
Seriously, if anything they should have been more cooperative and helpful. DARPA has all the cool toys. Not to mention they can help you do cool things you cant do otherwise. Rockets, lasers, etc.
And if it doesn't work out, hey, you're in. You now are in a position to affect change and make it run your way, or do max damage (if you so choose).
Everyone always assumes a homicidal kill-all-humans AI. Why doesn't anyone ever assume a friendly or benevolent AI will turn sentient first?
Then you get a fog to read your brain and "upload" you into its systems. Then you have a human-sentient-fog. Wouldn't you trade your physical body for a foglet one?
No, they took one thick donor wafer and cut it up. So under normal production, that one wafer would make one solar cell. Now that same wafer was cut into 14 wafers. Of those 14, 10 made it all the way to the final step. So they took 1 wafer and made it into 10.
This is an example of their efficiency. Not a statement of fact that they have only made 10 cells total.
If you check out the video on their site, they have a robotic system that automatically loads/unloads the cells through an airlock system.
The $/watt number refers to the cost of the PV chips. So it costs them $0.40 to create a chip that outputs 1 watt.
At $0.40/w you're paying $400 for a 1Kw panel. At that cost it will take 4000 Kwh @ $0.10/Kwh to pay for itself. That's about 2 years if it gets ~8hrs of sun a day. Everything produced after that 4000Kwh is "free", and since panels last for 10, 15, even 20+ years, that's a lot of "free" power. If grid electricity costs more than $0.10/Kwh, then payback is even faster. (I'm assuming perfect efficiencies to keep the math simple, but you get the point)
No. The $/watt number refers to the cost of the PV chips. So it costs them $0.40 to create a chip that outputs 1 watt.
At $0.40/w you're paying $400 for a 1Kw panel. At that cost it will take 4000 Kwh @ $0.10/Kwh to pay for itself. That's about 2 years if it gets ~8hrs of sun a day. Everything produced after that 4000Kwh is "free". If grid electricity costs more than $0.10/Kwh, then payback is even faster. (I'm assuming perfect efficiencies to keep the math simple, but you get the point)
Reminds me of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvE9lbr7ZAA
We will soon reach a point where not having such predictive capabilities will doom any launched vehicle to a debris collision. Its interesting to think that such a program provides so much space superiority over other nations.
Isn't any use of a PC also a use of computing time?
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