You're right for the avg home, but I was meaning only for high efficiency new construction, WAY more thermally efficient than any conventionally built home, and new ultra-high efficiency AC system (variable speed etc).
Exceptionally insulated, exceptionally efficient A/C, and use local geology heat sinking to pre-cool air. It works.
I thought Élan said that the pack was fully stand alone, having everything needed, which in my mind includes the inverter/converter. If not, he sure did misrepresent the system.
Solar panels don't come with the electronics. Separate purchase. He said that those electronics are built in to the battery. A solar electric powered home would already have the inverter, so the battery would plug right in without having to buy all those electronics. Pretty sure, anyway. I'll have to watch it again.
Has the dc-dc converter built in. This is for converting the low voltage from the solar cells into the higher battery voltage. Still have to have a DC to AC converter, which is basically a two big class D amplifiers fed by a 60 hz oscillator.
Both links from posting above. Thank you. Short form...... stick to science or do politics?
The article states that the 2010 decisions on global warming have been compromised and each subsequent UN report keeps fudging the facts.
The reason for this is stated by the heretic in Australia quite clearly. Green gesture politics has nothing to do with climate and everything to do with power to rule.
The paragraph I have quoted was truly representative of the intellectual quality and honesty of what followed. ‘Climate change,’ say the authors, ‘is the largest global health threat of the 21st century and, despite limited empirical evidence, it is expected directly and indirectly to harm communities’ psychosocial well-being.’ This is not so much science as it is religion, in which the god worshipped is the bringer-bout of future catastrophe, a kind of Kali, whose destructiveness must be appeased by word, puja and sacrifice."
I bet you when this is all over, ( assuming the Greenies don't get the One World Dictatorship they desire, 1984 on Steroids ) we are going to find that Oil is behind Climate Change.
Yep, I bet the UAE and Saudi Arabia is the real source of the money behind Global Warming.
Of course, I could be wrong... and they never can be...
I will reserve comment until I know more, but... I will say the FBI is great at what they know, and insane at what they don't.
If you have the capacity to do some techno evil, the FBI seems to assume you must be the guilty party, since THEY don't have that capacity, and apparently they watched Columbo in FBI school. ( a tv detective, the bad guy always wanted to help, to throw the detective off his trail, but always revealed himself by being the only person who could figure out the crime.... )
Why do I think this? Because the person who murdered some USPS personnel and a little old lady with anthrax has never been caught. A researcher at USAMRIID was hounded until he killed himself, because he was a tech geek with poor social skills who was an anthrax expert.... Feel free to disagree with this biased opinion.
Beats the heck out of me. Sounds like a train or construction equipment with the sound trapped in an inversion layer. Sound goes incredible distances bouncing between layers of different density air... ( also underwater, submarines use this effect to seek and hide from each other. )
I often tell riders of bikes that they must think of themselves as invisible. That a guy or gal in a car can look right at you, seem to make eye contact, and then turn right in front of you.
We now know, because of a follow up study to the 1970's Hurt Report, that told us the Number 1 car/bike crash was a car turning left in front of an oncoming bike, that every single person that does that says "I didn't see him." All of them. And we now know that every one of those people don't ride. Don't have a close relative that rides.
And will look right at you, at an image that formed on their retina, and send signals to their brains, but never registered YOU as an object in their Universe.
The Image didn't make any sense to them. They didn't process it into "oncoming motorcycle". So they just ignored it.
This is based on survival programming eons old. Believe in "Darwinian Evolution" or not, it is manifestly true that...
“Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”
Robert A. Heinlein
So, back when we were running around figuring out what was good to eat and avoiding being eaten, we developed pattern recognition. We can see the Leopard in the shadows, and avoid it, because we put together patterns in our brains, and make the hard to see, visible. We see a fruit, among all the other shapes in the forest, We see the predators, and the hazards, the vines and cracks in the ice.
But we don't see any of this stuff until we learn it's there.
People you see on the highway may never have learned motorcycles exist.... not really.
and never forget.... half the people are below average.
We now know, because of a follow up study to the 1970's Hurt Report, that told us the Number 1 car/bike crash was a car turning left in front of an oncoming bike, that every single person that does that says "I didn't see him." All of them. And we now know that every one of those people don't ride. Don't have a close relative that rides.
About three years ago I had a car going the opposite direction with it's left turn signal on. I could see where he was turning and recognized the danger zone. Next thing I see is him flashing his headlights. To this day, I have no clue what he was trying to communicate, but it sure seems like he was trying to communicate something to me, the only traffic that could see his headlights. Next thing I know the jackwagon turns right in front of me, and I'm riding with my back end in the air trying not to enter through his passenger door. My point here is that I know they say "I didn't see him". I'm just not convinced of it.
and never forget.... half the people are below average.
It's a long shot, but the driver flashing his headlights may have just discovered the "flash-to-pass" functionality on his car's light switch, or inadvertently activated it while manipulating the turn signal. Maybe he was driving under the influence (compromised vision) and was checking if his lights were actually on. Science is about questioning everything. Of course, he might have been a sick, homicidal bike-hater. Be glad you're here to tell the story.
Turn signal was on for at least a couple of seconds before the flashing of the headlights. That was the first thing to get my attention. I was also a series of flashes, not what you would get when flipping the turn signal switch and accidentally pulling it. It was also broad daylight. Nice sunny day, mid-afternoon. I am glad that he never had to explain how he never saw me though.
a ways from commercial vat grown meat, but someday soon.
If they succeed in cloning a Mammoth, this would let us all eat Mammoth burgers without having to wait for a herd big enough to exploit commercially.
Quality control will be an issue, but that's true with any agricultural product. I note in passing that organic salad is a prime cause of food poisoning in the U.S. Prewashed greens are dangerous, but pork loin is very safe. ( the reverse of biblical times, and a combination of technology and regulation )
This will raise social pressures, both from the radical watermelons and the vego-egoists, to substitute vat grown for "inhumane" food.
There will probably be a backlash pushing "natural" meat vs. "mad scientist" or "laboratory" ( say that lab-OR-a-Tory, with a fake balkan accent ) food.
And of course the argument that we shouldn't kill to stay alive, like every other life form on the planet that doesn't directly digest rock & sunlight ( or high energy compounds from volcanic vents )
We don't kill to stay alive. Someone else does it for us. Bit different. If we all had to kill our own food, I think society might look quite different than it does. We might have a whole lot more vegetarians...or a whole lot fewer folks running around waving peta signs...one of the two. Balk at the thought of killing an animal? At least vegetarians aren't food hypocrites...like I am.
Historically, extreme weather is a cooling thing. The greater the difference in air temperatures, the more violent the weather.
But actual measurement shows no significant cooling trend, just a tiny amount if any.
There is also a phenomena in science, and other fields, where you get more information and something rare seems to be more common.
If you are ancient enough to remember when there were 2 or 3 channels of television, News was a multiple times a day thing, and it was entertainment the rest of the time.
With only 2-3 hours of news time, broadcasters would select for local, regional and national stories and skip the rest.
If it bleeds it leads, so someone watching from another country would assume America is a blood soaked mess, and it is, but just in a few cities ( cities long under one Party rule, mostly )....
Now, there is multiple 24/7 news coverage, and so there is less selection. Lot's of time to fill, vs. limited time means you get more stories. Looks like more bad stuff happening. Untrue. same amount of bad stuff ( unless you are in the path of Jihad ) just more hours of woe on tv.
The fact that they have also cut costs by cutting way back on reporters and investigative journalism, means there is little tell the story as it is, and much more, cheaper, read the copy handed out by the local authorities/FBI/Corporate shill.