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by barney54 11y ago
Here are the P-51s from the flyover today. https://www.flickr.com/photos/52736032@N00/17438682725/in/da...
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by barney54 12y ago
This headline is not accurate. Waste water disposal wells are not "driving" the hydraulic fracturing boom. Disposal of waste water comes at the end of the process--it does not drive the process. The boom in oil and natural gas pro
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45 years after Apollo 13: Ars looks at what went wrong and why(arstechnica.com)
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by barney54 12y ago
While nuclear is finite, we have enough for tens of thousands of years if we use breeder reactors: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glob... And it is also true that the extraction and refining is
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by barney54 12y ago
Entrepreneurs have realized this, but energy is far more difficult than people will admit. Even if this works and is cheap, the real issue is batteries. Batteries are expensive and their manufacture entails environmental costs. There is no
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by barney54 12y ago
Interesting article, but I wish it had been written by someone with a stronger background in baseball analytics. For example, it talks about including Gold Glove statistics. The problem is that there isn't neces a strong correlation be
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by barney54 12y ago
This story was only about security, others have been about the legal issues. On Hacker News the security angle is interesting, but the bigger picture is that only using her personal email for State Department business almost inevitably brok
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by barney54 12y ago
$20 billion is s drop in the bucket. The developed countries have pledged $100 billion by 2020 for climate mitigation. Why not spend it on this?
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by barney54 12y ago
I have a Nest thermostat and s Nest Protect. I'm s big fan of both. The Nest Protect has not been buggy for me. It has done the one thing I bought it for--not give us false alarms from the shower down the hall. Out previous smoke alar
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by barney54 12y ago
The problem is that Members of Congress don't write the stuff that goes out under their name--staffers do it. Just like President Obama doesn't write his own speeches.
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by barney54 12y ago
While it is true that solar during the day is a bit more valuable, what really matters is what it is displacing. Check out this document from the California grid operator on page 3. http://www.caiso.com/documents/flex
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by barney54 12y ago
Are you saying that Darren Wilson was racist? Where is your evidence for that?
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by barney54 12y ago
But electrics are much more expensive and are less flexible than gasoline powered cars. That's why sales of electrics have stalled at less than 4% of the market.
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by barney54 12y ago
I'm not sure what is so bad about coal. It powered the industrial revolution and more importantly today, it can keep servers running when wind and Oskar can't (unless you only want to serve pages when the wind blows and the sun sh
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by barney54 12y ago
Electric cars are 125 years old, so I'm not sure why that's new. Their sales have stalled at about 3.6% of the market. Solar panels piece does not matter much until batteries are much better, if you want power at night or when the
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by barney54 13y ago
Here'a a different view on Piketty's book: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-20/the-most-im... TLDR: The Most Important Book Ever Is All Wrong
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by barney54 13y ago
And if something only cause lung cancer is smokers, then it really sounds like they didn't control for smoking in the radon studies--which I believe is exactly what happened.
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by barney54 13y ago
Recently we visited some friends who have a 4 year old daughter. She was wearing a "pirate princess" dress. That could bring together the pirate and pink motif your daughter is secretly searching for.
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by barney54 13y ago
You are misrepresenting the R's position. It's not that government can do nothing right, it's that government does things less efficiently than private enterprise.
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by barney54 14y ago
I believe its $7500 from the federal government and various states like California also have a subsidy on top of that.
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by barney54 14y ago
Solar and wind do not necessary help cover peak loads--because they are not reliable. Instead, much of the peak load will be covered by peaking plants (which are generally natural gas). For example, here's the current load data for the Cali
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by barney54 14y ago
As well as storing the energy so have enough electricity when demand is high.
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by barney54 14y ago
This is some pretty deceptive marketing. Apple's data centers still run on coal in places like North Carolina because that's is what is producing the electricity on the grid. Their renewable projects produce a decent amount of electricity,
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by barney54 14y ago
The backpedalling needs to come from the federal government. After all, they have been promoting the idea of the food pyramid and "a calorie is a calorie" for decades. The food companies are definitely influenced by what the federal governm
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by barney54 14y ago
You can probably increase your fat consumption, eat less carb, and still lose weight. Shoot for less than 50 grams or carbs a day.
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by barney54 14y ago
The NY Times is standing behind the review. https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/301071288326307840 https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/301071386141667329 Let's see that car data Mr. Musk.
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by barney54 14y ago
No. MW-hours is the reasonable unit of power output. MW is a description of the capacity, but it says nothing of actual generation.
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by barney54 14y ago
Joules (or watts) is a measure of capacity. Electricity generating capacity, especially with intermittent sources like wind is almost meaningless. Who cares about capacity if the actual generation is zero. Watt-hours, Megawatt-hours, and t
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by barney54 14y ago
Another way to deal with it is to merely hold down Enter when you login. If you hold down Enter as you login, you bypass the Start Screen and it dumps you straight to the desktop.
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by barney54 15y ago
You are forgetting that tax dollars have to come from somewhere. the money has to be taken from one group of people or financed. Those activities are not costless. This is one of the reason why other studies find that reducing government s

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