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by marze 15y ago
How stupid.
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by marze 15y ago
Not if it was such a large Ponzi scheme that it impacted the global economy.
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by marze 15y ago
In a Ponzi scheme, you give money to the Ponzi operator, the operator does "complicated" things with it, those who withdraw early do well but at some point there is no money. How is this different from the bailed-out banks, or an over lever
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by marze 15y ago
To summarize: don't forget people are lazy.
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by marze 15y ago
Apple doesn't pander. They don't try to sell product by giving large commissions to the sales people. If you walk into an AT&T store, the sales associates won't recommend an iPhone. Apple gets smart customers who understand the advanta
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by marze 15y ago
I've heard in the past one theory for IT departments favoring PCs (besides all of the pro-PC marketing aimed at them) might be that the Macs are very cheap to administer and thus don't require much IT support. I thought this was an interest
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by marze 15y ago
There is no requirement to use batteries to back up a grid connected solar house, any of the current generation options work fine. The question raised was could solar PV supply a majority of residential electric load if it was basically una
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by marze 15y ago
No, just avoided cost. Unless your utility drops the rates significantly, the savings are locked in. As far as moving goes, studies show that solar systems increase the value of a house by approximately the cost of the system. Of course,
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by marze 15y ago
So the question is, is it possible to imagine a system that uses a majority solar? And does it appear to have the potential to be economically competitive? First, however, residential usage does not peak after dark. Peaks occur on sunny h
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by marze 15y ago
Not hard to transmit solar electric fifty feet, from the rooftop to the iPad charger, pretty much a solved problem. The OP graph showed solar prices falling faster than linear on a log scale. Meanwhile, nuclear and coal plant constructio
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by marze 15y ago
Since solar is less than 1% of US electricity generation, it is unclear why you interpret this to be "a slavic devotion to a specific technology". Solar is the ultimate option of energy independence, since as the OP discusses, 30 lbs of san
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by marze 15y ago
Tracking is only helpful in sunny areas, certainly not in a cloudy place like Seattle. Given the rate solar PV panel prices are falling, however, PV in Seattle-type climates (and in Germany like the OP discusses) may be economic much sooner
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by marze 15y ago
$20000 isn't a good price. Check here to see more competitive pricing: http://www.sunelec.com/comparisons_of_grid_tie_systems_price... Optimal tilt just refers to the tilt the panels are installed at, no tracking.
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by marze 15y ago
The point is the homeowner saves money from day one, not even taking into account current rebates. The utility bill savings more then compensate for the extra $60 in the monthly loan payment. Most solar panels come with a 25 year warranty.
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by marze 15y ago
Sure, a reasonable location (not Seattle), you might expect 5 hours of "peak solar equivalent" sunshine per day on average. 5 hr * 4.5 kw * 30 days/month = 675 kwh/month
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by marze 15y ago
It is surprising how little attention has been created by this huge PV panel price decrease, from $4.00 a watt to $1.25 in three years. Solyndra is an early casualty, since their business model depended on PV panel prices to fall much more
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by marze 15y ago
Typing on tiny keyboards is so early 21st century.
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by marze 15y ago
200M iPod users are nothing to sneeze at: they represent an enormous pool of potential iPhone and iPad users, and Apple has been using the iPod Touch as a "gateway drug" for iOS for years now. The Retina display 16G iPod touch has to be the
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Apple and Dropbox Join Fight to Reform Electronic Privacy Law(eff.org)
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by marze 15y ago
All of the medical industry propaganda airing on network TV (House, Grey's Anatomy, etc.) is really selling the idea that drugs work. Shouldn't be surprising the placebo response is improving.
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by marze 15y ago
The primary design objective for this system, as well as the cancelled programs NASA wasted billions on over the last four years, is to: Spend the same money in all the congressional districts that the Shuttle program spent money in. $18B i
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by marze 15y ago
PV panel prices are dropping in price 30% per year at present; your link claims 30% for installed system costs in the decade ending in '08. 2008 is just before PV panel prices took their biggest plunge ever, from about $5 per watt to about
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by marze 15y ago
The only efficiency metric that matters is $ per generated watt. And that figure is dropping like a stone.
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by marze 15y ago
The news industry and the PR industry are about equal in size. Articles like this shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with that fact. Nuclear power is the future. Ideally, the reactor should be a long ways from any valuable real estate, li
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by marze 15y ago
I think wavephorm makes a valid point. The government has been giving huge sums to the banking industry to bail it out, a fact. And a tiny fraction of that to entrepreneurs, also a fact. If the US had more startup-friendly policies, you c
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by marze 15y ago
They entered that realm long ago.
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by marze 15y ago
Current studies show a positive correlation between IQ and looks. If that is true, and it wouldn't be unreasonable to think the same factors that result in good looks also result in a well developed brain, attempts to normalize pay regardl
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by marze 15y ago
As businesses get more adept at gaming the online review process, the rewards for a system capable of a high "honest review" fraction will increase.
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by marze 15y ago
"in our site, where anonymity is a requirement, also the positive reviews dominate by far, which is indicating that there's much more good than bad in the world" Or indicates a lot of fake reviews or something in between.
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by marze 15y ago
Isn't this discussion premised on a server configured to allow fast password guessing indefinitely? This is 2011, shouldn't every server be configured to allow a guess every two seconds for 20 guesses, then every 10 minutes, or something si

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