Man, this guy must be the very coolest kid in middle school.
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There is endless natural energy. Sunlight alone could power our entire civilization a thousand times over. So could wind, or geothermal, or ocean movement. It's about choosing what makes sense.
That, ah, is not how wind works. You don't just have one giant turbine somewhere, you have thousands of them connected to the grid at various points. On aggregate, wind speeds are actually fairly predictable.
Well sure, yeah. The largest carbon-neutral energy source we use is biomass, followed by hydroelectric, followed by nuclear, then wind, geothermal, solar, and so forth. So it's not like we don't have some options.
Maybe I'm confused, but it seems like the exact opposite? OTEC plants are continuous, and only make sense large scale. Solar produces the most power when it is most needed - in the middle of the day, and can easily scale from single calculator to huge plant. Wind is extremely steady when looked in aggregate - you…
Oh man, never thought I'd see the day that cassiebear got dressed down for slutshaming. That really made my morning.
Epic humblebrag.
That makes sense, as my families resident tech support, I can see how explaining 8 to new users over and over must get tiring. I think, in a way, MS tried to make things too simple—ie: you don't need a power icon, just press the physical button. Same thing with gestures; probably much easier to learn than the…
Am I really the only person in the world that rather likes 8? I've used every Windows since 3.1x, and in my opinion 8 is probably the fastest and most stable. The start screen is just a bigger, more customizable start menu—and let's face it, the start menu has been a broken and poorly hacked together paradigm for a…
I've visited the OTEC plant in Hawaii. Very cool idea, works in practice, basically gives you free energy after it's all running. That being said, I can't see it ever taking off as a tech. Even at 6% efficiency (a sentence I cannot believe I just wrote), there just isn't that much power in temperature differentials. I…
Wait, but how does this work? Are we assuming that every (or, any) person in the world will somehow know that your random logo t-shirt indicates availability? Does the back say "DATE ME I'M DESPERATE!"? Is it soaked with goat pheromones?
63 years? Most of the systems I design are for 7-10 year pay offs, although that is mainly in southern Utah, where labor is cheap and sun is plentiful. The most I'll ever do is a 20-year payoff, and that is for smaller systems, typically you see a pretty significant economy of scale. Perhaps you live in an area that…
Can I ask why? Not trying to be a dick, but the first thing I want to do when I start up my computer is launch a program, usually chrome or explorer or whatever. On Win7, I click the icon at the bottom of the screen, or on the start menu and start typing if it's something unusual; on Win8 I click the icon or just…
Shortly after the 2012 convention, I was awash in the rumor that Bill was all lovey-dovey for Obama because Obama promised Hillary his campaign machine for 2016. Mended fences all around.
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Huh? I've traveled a lot in China and in general the food is much fresher and higher quality than in the US. OMG, Szechuan street food. Also, didn't we just have a "feces in everyone's turkeyburger" scandal? That seems even grosser than the occasional rat-as-lamb, which, yeah, is saying something.
Tonight I made bruschetta with tomato and basil, penne arrabiata, and roasted portabellas. Everything (except the pasta) from scratch, because my folks are in town and i am pretending to be a high-functioning adult. You know what? I was goddamn proud of myself and instagrammed the shit out of that. So whatever…
What makes it especially ridiculous is that she was unarmed, the other person in the car is who shot the cop, according to the police themselves.
Yo fuck these people. Anyone who knows the history of the era knows that government agents and cops were guilty of a thousand times as many crimes as the panthers or BLA ever were.