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Re:Turning a solar power system into its own backup
on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:02PM (#50311252)
How is this different from Ivanpah?
Re:Mom found guilty of abuse for letting 5-year-old walk outside alone...
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:24PM (#49615532)
Whatever happened to journalists getting both sides of the story?
Re:How renewables are saving Texans billions
on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @09:22PM (#44383386)
Did you thank China for doing the hard work of scaling?
Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s?...
on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @04:02PM (#43018317)
In America, all the gates (I have been to) subject you to constant noise pollution in the form of announcements over the public address system.
Re:Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid
on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @11:07PM (#41441504)
Capital cost of these plants is significant, which is why most of them run 24 hours per day. If you only run them 8 hours per day, you triple the capital cost.
Re:Billionaire Khosla Loses Bid to End California Beach Access Suit
on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @08:52PM (#40361864)
This is a nothing story. Court cases have many checkpoints along the way and this case has passed a very minor checkpoint that is almost always passed. The real meat is yet to come.
Re:In Defense of Electricity Markets
on Thursday October 12, 2023 @09:30PM (#37865442)
When sources were inherently dispatchable, like coal/oil/gas, reliability was free. Markets have not been updated to reflect the value of reliability. It may be just an oversight of slow moving regulators. Or it may be intentional to allow the growth of unreliable wind and solar without making them bear their own cost of unreliability.
Re:In Defense of Electricity Markets
on Thursday October 12, 2023 @09:25PM (#37865407)
It addresses reliability by shedding the customers who don't pay a premium for reliability first. Most of the time, that can solve the problem. It is, as you say, imperfect because it doesn't allow that premium to be used to fund investment in reliable generation.
Re:US electric vehicle transition would save over 100k lives and $1T i...
on Thursday October 12, 2023 @08:46PM (#37865094)
Public transit only makes sense in urban areas.
Urban areas tend to have high rates of crime.
This is one of the driving factors behind the popularity of personal transportation and suburban schools.
Re:Tech CEO found dead with signs of blunt force trauma
on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:11PM (#37682101)
How did he get into her home?
Re:OpenWRT 22.03.4
on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:29AM (#35636421)
I'm also an Omada fan. I just have two APs right now but I love controlling them from a single dashboard and look forward to adding their ER605 router so I can put my security cameras on a separate VLAN.
Re:PG&E CEO rakes in over 190 times the typical employee salary
on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:43AM (#34243111)
Employee compensation is an expense, not revenue or profit.
Re:Solar Panels Reduced My Electric Bill by $2,677 in 2022
on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:49PM (#34241783)
You may be able to afford a night time battery (several hours of power) but there's no way you can afford a winter battery (several months of power).
Re:Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?
on Saturday October 19, 2019 @02:37AM (#21297154)
In a previous article, he renamed the gas generator on the Merlin and F-1 rocket engines a "preburner" and now everyone is copying him.
Re:F-35's Towed Decoys
on Friday March 29, 2019 @01:12PM (#19523568)
You seem to have an unrealistic idea of how much a "drone" would cost. If you mean some lightweight slow Cessna 172 class vehicle, those are around $300K. But kind of useless in a conflict against the US.
A propeller driven MQ-9 Reaper cost over $16M in 2006.
If you mean an F-16 class vehicle capable of catching an F-35 (supersonic) and carrying half a dozen missiles, then you're in the F-16 cost range. Not having a pilot might only save a few hundred pounds.
But why use a drone to carry missiles. The US can launch missiles from Navy ships or B-52s under the control of the F-35 super AWACs.
As someone else said, the idea is not to defend against an attack by 20 drones, the idea is to blow up the drone base.
Re:F-35's Towed Decoys
on Friday March 29, 2019 @01:00PM (#19523435)
How would a P-51 ever catch up to an F-35, or even see it at night or in bad weather?
Know what's a good drone? A dozen Navy SM-6s launched from a destroyer, cued by a nearly invisible F-35.
Re:The SR-71 Spy Plane Was So Fast, It Outran Every Missile Fired at It
on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:19PM (#19513653)
You don't need high turn rates when you have Electro-Optical Distributed Aperture System (EODAS) like the F-35's cueing High-Off Bore-Sight (HOBS) short-range air-to-air missiles like the AIM-9X.
Re:What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle
on Friday January 04, 2019 @01:50PM (#18826572)
It's almost as though central planning of an economy is hard.
Re:White House Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
on Thursday December 13, 2018 @04:57PM (#18676515)
stick it to criminal "immigrants" because they are criminals and we don't want them. As they are the subject of a deportation order, it's a stretch to call them immigrants.
Re:White House Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
on Thursday December 13, 2018 @04:55PM (#18676500)
Do you really think the spirit of american law is that we have to keep unwanted criminal aliens?
Re:White House Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
on Thursday December 13, 2018 @04:54PM (#18676487)
If you take an unreasonable and extreme extrapolation of the DHS statement, you can claim the stated reasoning seems to allow that, but I wouldn't bet money on your being right.
There is no misunderstanding, there is deliberately made up untruths.
Re:California Moves to Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045
on Thursday August 30, 2018 @10:38PM (#17882481)
My Miele dishwasher works very well.
Re:China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium
on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @06:01PM (#17814223)
Given the vast quantities of existing depleted uranium and spent nuclear fuel I feel the molten chloride fast breeder reactor should come first.