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Re:Solar Power: Lots of Jobs per KWH Is Bad, Not Good on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @07:24AM (#17867353)
Plus, how much does it cost in man-hours to clean up negative external effects of traditional power plants vs solar? Need to include that as well.
That's where I got it from. Was likewise intrigued by the frequency remark, interesting stuff.
Check out https://mixergy.co.uk which recently came out with a nice solution.
It might just be semantics but of course you can compare those numbers - just not in a very useful way. :-)
Re:No, of that I'm innocent on Thursday October 26, 2017 @03:27AM (#15557009)
And of course he has to plug his new business at the end.
Re:Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives on Friday October 06, 2017 @10:40AM (#15417112)
Curious where one would buy those, directly from the manufacturer?
Having a "dead weight" has it's advantages - passive, no bacteria, mold, flex, resistant to shock etc. Pretty sure billion dollar companies like Siemens have thought this through and came to the conclusion that concrete is best. The negative externality of a disappointed customer seems to be larger (medium term) than the damage being done by producing the concrete.
Re:Why Germans pay cash for almost everything on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @11:17AM (#14958685)
Absolutely, I too think it's a matter of supply. So often shops refuse to take cards to avoid the fees. I suspect a systematic or law issue making card transactions more expensive.
He couldn't even bother to remove the spell checker line?
Don't know, feels a bit like ransom when coming from Google, not the publisher.
Re:Controlled detonation for WWII bomb found in Munich on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @09:44AM (#4448469)
As I understood they tried to mitigate the explosion by putting sandbags and straw bales around the bomb. The burning straw is what I guess you see at the top of the explosion/fire. The straw also caused surrounding roofs to catch fire. Not sure why they didn't think of this and used fire proof stuff.