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There is a company making beautiful camping stoves with TECs and fans: www.bioliteenergy.com

[1] https://languagetool.org/ [2] https://languagetool.org/download/ngram-data/

Does somebody have numbers?

Since 1/10 Austria and Germany are not in the same energy zone anymore, the pricing zone was split up. This was done because too much renewable power feeding in at near zero cost in Germany was flooding the markets and pushing too much strain on the grid. Heavily needed power lines weren't built because people were protesting.

So the first week has passed were the zones are actually split up and we can see that energy prices are way higher in Austria than in Germany, see [1]. Sure, a more definite answer would need to look at a longer time span. The highest difference actually was on 3/10, where baseload in Germany was 18.29 €/MWh compared to 60.40€/MWh. And peakload on 3/10 was 17.13 €/MWh in Germany compared to 65.83 €/Mwh in Austria. Solar generation on 3/10 in Germany was 12.5 GW!

So far good for Germany, since they anyway subsidize solar and wind heavily and now have the low prices more or less for them self (not totally because cross border capacities, [4])

I haven't looked so far in the costs of the auxiliary energy, really curious how they develop. Germany has in total probably around 385 MW in battery storage already [3] and lots of battery storage projected for 2019.

[1] https://www.epexspot.com/en/market-data/dayaheadauction [2] https://www.eex-transparency.com/homepage/power/germany/prod... [3] https://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2018/03/battery... [4] https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/

In general I see two really hard challenges with smart contracts. Getting them bug free (i think formal verification which is worked on will help a lot) and getting the incentives right to punish dishonest behavior. (So far I haven't seen a lot work being done here, I also don't know how you could automise that, maybe some kind of simulation with AI based actors)

Reason for her/our sick leaves are not that we are sick, but kids < 4 years are just more often sick when going through all the various childhood diseases. Kindergarten will phone you and you have to pick up your sick kid within an hour. Then one of us has to stay at home and watch the sick kid until the doctor says it's ok to put them back in kindergarten.

Better thermal management - Thermald should become the default, but it needs many improvements.

Zombie processes in containers - When somebody causes a Zombie in a lxd container which happens from time to time you have to reboot the machine, this should not be necessary

Mounting remote filesystems in containers - Fuse is possible if you allow it, but mounting SMB, NFS require a kernel module and cannot be mounted in a lxd container, so make fuse-smb or fuse-nfs.

DNS in Openstack - DNS in openstack is currently really painful to setup correctly. Create a new default module which lets you configure a subdomain for the cluster, a subdomain which is the projectname and then after you start an instance you should be able to simply ssh [email protected]

I want distraction free reading which means no social recommendations, sharing and other stuff. Things I would really like is pdf support, x days of reading left, auto scrolling and detailed statistics about my reading. Also cool would be some garbage collection, e.g., news articles are useless to read in 2 weeks but a blog post may be still useful in a few years.

Another thing I might recommend is a third network (just a simple 1GB and a quality switch) for consensus. Re-replication can max the network out and further cause consensus fails, causes more re-replication winding down everything ... If that's not possible, add firewall rules to prioritize all consensus related ports high.

On the 15.1.2015 they also changed the policy from fixed EUR/CHF exchange rate to negative interest rates to reduce the influx of money. Currently the rate at which the SNB borrows to the banks is -0.81% [2]. A friend of mine pays a premium of 0.75% on the base rate for his loan on the house, so the currently borrows from the bank at -0.06%.

So what else could you do with your CHF? Buy Swiss Confederation bonds, the current yield is also negative, -0.28% [2]. Or buy EUR, more risky but more interest? Put under your pillow, too risky? Exchange to gold, pay for insurance or to keep it safe? Bonds of a country nearby? Only 0.46% for 10 years in Germany [3] and in EUR.

[1] http://www.snb.ch/en/iabout/stat/statpub/zidea/id/current_in... [2] http://www.snb.ch/en/iabout/stat/statpub/zidea/id/current_in... [3] http://www.deutsche-finanzagentur.de/de/factsheet/sheet-deta...

http://www.studyinaustria.at/study_in_austria/tuition_fees/

name reminds to much at the cruelty the stasi has done. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

Comparing salaries in europe is quite difficult, in Austria, for 45,000 €, your employer have to pay about 14,000 € taxes additionally which you don't see on your pay slip, so the employer is spending in your case about 60,000 €. And you have 25 holidays a year and lots of public holidays http://english.bmf.gv.at/Ministry/PublicHolidaysinAustria.ht... ;-)

but tata isn't the first one who believed that crap. hho-gas scam has a long history, try googling for hho-gas, rhodes gas, browns gas, free energy, overunity ...

every once and a while somebody with lots of money believe's that crap. (i got interested in this free energy/overunity crap after my father got scamed, i was blown away how many believe that)

this just can't work, see laws of thermodynamics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics#Laws_of_thermody... german speakers may be interested in that: http://www.esowatch.com/ge/index.php?title=HHO

http://clojure.blip.tv/

(powers firefox, songbird, miro, thunderbird, activestate commodo ....)