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Visualizing the Porter Ranch Gas Leak(uscleanenergyfund.com)
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by strommen 11y ago
Adding carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4) to the atmosphere are two completely different things. CO2 can be re-captured by plants and photosynthesized to separate carbon + oxygen. So as you pointed out, planting a tree and burning a tr
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by strommen 11y ago
It's not a NYT-quality chart, but I've created a visualization of the problem here: https://www.uscleanenergyfund.com/blog/visualizing-the-calif... Spoiler alert: this "catastrophe" is a minor blip
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by strommen 11y ago
To get technical on you, 95% of methane from cattle is from burps, not farts.
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Crowdfunded Solar and Wind – U.S. Clean Energy Fund(uscleanenergyfund.com)
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by strommen 11y ago
Based on your list of how you like to write English, I agree. But I think your list is way off-base when it comes to human languages. The beauty of human language is that it allows us to express our individuality as humans. There are an inf
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by strommen 11y ago
Seriously? They're using airlines as the example of too-profitable companies? The industry was in total shambles for nearly an entire decade after 9/11. It's no wonder that they're hesitant to lower their margins. I tr
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by strommen 11y ago
The vast majority of national and world news printed in newspapers is written by the Associated Press. There are licensing fees associated with AP, but it's not like the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald has a reporter on staff to get the lates
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by strommen 11y ago
It's unfortunate that non-profits (in the US) have to compete head-to-head on salary with regular corporations. They get no breaks on federal payroll tax, income tax, social security, etc. I suppose if non-profits did get tax breaks
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by strommen 11y ago
Silicon Valley's raison d'etre is to leverage computers to make our lives easier. It's a confluence of people who are good at software (and the business of software) - nothing more, nothing less. Apart from the means to th
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by strommen 11y ago
I guess I see this as a) not surprising, and b) not a problem. If you're using Backbone in 2016 (like I am), it probably means you want your "framework" to be simple, stable, and customizable. Given those priorities, using a
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by strommen 11y ago
Links that represent navigation within the web app should still have a `href` attribute - even if click events are being handled with AJAX and pushState. That way middle-click, etc. work as expected. Of course, some links don't actual
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by strommen 11y ago
Maybe the "gold rush" is over. But there's still a heck of a lot of gold to mine. We're not even close to the point where there is no more valuable software to be written (and sold).
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by strommen 11y ago
Good point, there's plenty of bad stuff about C. But optional braces are perhaps the most pointless anti-feature in C. The only benefit is a minor (and subjective) improvement in aesthetics.
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by strommen 11y ago
The article compares Canada mostly to Europe. It's also interesting to compare Canada to the U.S., which is "obviously" south of Canada on the map. - If you start in downtown Detroit and go south, you end up in Canada. - 13.
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by strommen 11y ago
Making braces optional in single-statement if/else/while/for clauses is one of the biggest anti-features in C. It's frustrating that it was ported forward to more modern languages like Java, JavaScript, C#, etc. I'
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by strommen 11y ago
A major trend in the past few years has been an increasing focus on conversion optimization. Companies no longer care quite so much about their website being beautiful; they care about whether it's helping their business. Indeed that&
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by strommen 11y ago
Isn't pretty much all advertising everywhere "without the end-user's explicit consent"? Websites, TV, radio, print media, billboards, sides of buses, posters in public bathrooms, Disney-branded kids' food at the gro
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by strommen 11y ago
In 2006 I worked briefly on an air-traffic control system (ERAM) that was eventually delivered 5 years late and $400M over budget. I was a small cog in a giant government-contract-software machine, but it was easy to see the project was go
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by strommen 11y ago
Same for me. It's a great way to stay up-to-date with a topic of interest... Anything relevant will spark conversation on Twitter.
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by strommen 11y ago
Solar power is a fully-developed technology. PV panels are a commodity that are manufactured mainly overseas. Most of the cost of a new solar plant is in the planning & labor. And it does indeed cost a lot of money to build a solar p
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by strommen 11y ago
The per-annum value is the total amount of energy generated over the course of the year. The Wannapum dam is rated at 1,400 MW; if it generated that 24x365, it would generate 12.3 million MWh. Since it actually generates 4 million MWH, it
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by strommen 11y ago
As always, Wikipedia is informative: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouarzazate_solar_power_stati... . The numbers there suggest a capacity factor of 26%...PV at that latitude might get about 2/3 of that. Also fro
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by strommen 11y ago
$9B for a 580MW plant is _expensive_. For reference, most photovoltaic plants cost less than $3/W. Of course, PV stops working as soon as the sun goes down. I'm curious how much additional capacity this thing gets by using solar h
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by strommen 11y ago
Maybe, but not until the distant future. We do not have the battery technology to make micro-grids feasible for the USA at large (much less the world). In fact, we don't even have enough known lead and/or lithium to build batteri
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by strommen 11y ago
These are _potential_ problems. They will become real problems when a significant amount of electricity is generated from rooftop solar. That isn't happening yet - according to the article, Nevada has already capped rooftop solar at
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by strommen 11y ago
Farms (and the supporting industries) make money. Less so today than they used to, but still enough to sustain small rural towns.
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by strommen 11y ago
The title could be changed to: "What happens to thousands of tiny towns when the big business that brought the town into existence stops making money". Old mining and factory towns are extremely sad. When the region stops generat
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by strommen 11y ago
The partisan politics on this issue are pretty interesting. The NC governor (who unsuccessfully vetoed this law) is a Republican. But Republicans in the state legislature voted[1] 67-3 to override the veto. Democrats voted 33-12 to uphol
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by strommen 11y ago
When you buy a Chevy Bolt, you may not realize that a) the government knows everywhere you drive, and b) law enforcement can remotely disable your car via OnStar.

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