Comment Re:Good luck with that! (Score 1) 361
Physicists say that we'll have fusion working in about twenty years.
It's actually getting farther away. Now it's 28 years.
Physicists say that we'll have fusion working in about twenty years.
It's actually getting farther away. Now it's 28 years.
Bitcoins. Wikileaks.
Pedro Pinto, you think he's fake?
Again, a few isolated mad man. But without rampant poverty their attempts to radicalize fall on deaf ears.
And what about the neo-cons, who are not particularly isolated and whose radicalized footsoldiers are not relatively poor? They are relatively well-off, have infiltrated all levels of the US government with "deep cover moles" and remain as psychotic and extremist as ever. How do you explain that?
Ever wonder why terrorists don't send deep cover moles over here? It's because give them a taste of good life and they stop being psychotic extremists.
This may be relevant to your preconceptions: The Power of Nightmares
1863: US Civil War
I find this 25 year cycle much more convincing, based on demographics alone.
1400 watts is not "low consumption." It's rather high, actually. I'll grant that there isn't much leeway for storage and nighttime usage and such. But for a realistic assessment of what solar power is probably capable of (ie. not heating your house on a dark winter night), it's definitely in the ballpark.
The freestyle leg of her medley beat the male gold medal winner's freestyle leg. That is basically impossible.
Because fuck you, that's why.
If you took the fish out of the aquarium, would it be able to swim through the air? How fast? Could it steer?
I think we all know the technology we need to answer these important questions. Let's get to work.
Yes, that's the answer. It's not shitty Slashdot editing. This power plant violates the laws of thermodynamics. Good call.
I just realized that ultimately any municipal services provider is fully funded by the taxpayer.
Oh my god. That means Walmart is also taxpayer funded since taxpayers buy all their products! We must put an end to this!
Which do you think is more likely, Texans are incompetent at energy production, or Slashdot is incompetent at editing?
The point of an economy is not to create "jobs". The point is to create stuff, like electricity.
Where the hell do you get off calling private investment "pork"? I get that you want to criticize Texas for lots of other things. That's fine. But you've somehow lost your mind if you think this is a valid economic critique. Texas doesn't exist in order to produce "jobs" for the rest of the country, and it seems to be doing a good job of producing employment for its residents and a few million Mexicans as well. Do you have any evidence to the contrary, or just irrelevant social commentary?
Just because one project doesn't bother to calculate the multiplicative effects of a $350 million dollar renewable energy investment in terms of "jobs" created, doesn't mean they aren't there.
Someone mod this up. You'd have to be retarded to use natural-gas-generated electricity to operate an electric compressed air storage plant. The submitter just made that up.
Texas has a relatively de-regulated electric grid with a lot of wind capacity. Prices fluctuate wildly. This facility will use renwable wind and solar energy to compress air at times when it is cheap. Then, at times when electricity is expensive, the air will be used to operate a natural gas turbine and generate electricity.
One small step for man, one giant stumble for mankind.
