tumbleweed
Its renewable horses for courses. Over here in the UK our daft govt and its green cheer leaders have been pushing solar as if there is no tomorrow. I live in what is just about the sunniest part of the UK and we get a measly 1700 hours per year with light levels/sunshine falling off exponentially from October. Madness!
The Govt does now seem to be backtracking on renewables but still refuse to build any grown up power stations.
tonyb
The Govt does now seem to be backtracking on renewables but still refuse to build any grown up power stations.
Maybe they could build them in Spain. It’s not that far.
I think you mean bernie sanders is the socialist? Ben Carson is more of a religious right type person.
AK
Did you see my reply to you on a different thread a few days ago? It referenced what Europe is doing to build a power line to link together all the EU countries so renewables can be harnessed.
tonyb
My experience is that solar panels will never be anything more than supplements until costs go way down, ability to harvest sunlight gets way better, and the energy storage issue is solved. My husband is working with a consortium of interested scientists on making a live diatom solar panel. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/biofuel-diatoms/
At this point there is little to no real money being invested in the idea, I suspect mostly because our motivation is that we don’t care to be sending money to dictatorships, not because we are scared of the sky falling in due to global warming.
That’s right. Sanders-he’s the Colonels son isn’t he?
(just joking)
Same question but with the surname changed.
tonyb
Right, he is a self proclaimed Socialist. But I think he is more of a Democratic Socialist like you have in Europe.
Did you see my reply to you on a different thread a few days ago?
Yes I did TonyB. I had it in mind when I made my comment here.
Seems to me a “grown up” distribution would allow the “courses” to be linked together for use by all the “horses”. Not to mention how Spain, Greece, and maybe Italy could benefit from solar investments in their area by more industrialized European countries. They need money, they could charge rent.
And England, Germany, etc. could have more “renewable” power from areas better suited to it.
Vaughan Pratt, is this what you mean by your use of the expression ‘averaging temperature readings’?:
“The gridded data [CRUTEM4 dataset] are based on an archive of monthly mean temperatures provided by more than 5500 weather stations distributed around the world. Each station temperature is converted to an anomaly from the 1961-90 average temperature for that station, and each grid-box value is the mean of all the station anomalies within that grid box. As well as the mean anomaly, estimates are made of the uncertainties arising from thermometer accuracy, homogenisation, sampling grid boxes with a finite number of measurements available, large-scale biases such as urbanisation and estimation of regional averages with non-complete global measurement coverage.”
Are you using a regional idiom for the above expression? David may not be familiar with that idiom. Whereabouts are you from?
So yeah do a little search I found that he did call himself a “democratic socialist” but he has also referred to himself as a “socialist.”
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121680/bernie-sanders-democratic-socialist-not-just-socialist
Is he a real socialist like the throwback to the seventies just elected to lead our Labour party into oblivion-Jeremy Corbyn (brother of weather guru Piers Corbyn?
Corby in a dead ringer for a character ‘Wolfie’ in a very good tv comedy series shown here years ago . Here’s the theme song/opening credits.
. Just imagine Jeremy Corby looking thirty years older as ‘Wolfie’-the Marxist hero- but still with the same Students Union politics.
Of more interest is that the lead actor -Robert Lindsay-became very famous and in later years played Horatio Hornblower who was based on my towns most famous son Admiral Pellew
tonyb
AK
I am not against solar per se, just its inappropriate and very costly use in countries that don’t get much sun.
Also, the storage technology needs to be developed. All Europe are in fairly similar time zones so night time requirements are a problem
tonyb
Jim D:
“there is no excuse for poverty in wealthy countries”
Of course how you define poverty does make a difference.
When I saw it was by Dave Roberts I stopped reading.
Joseph,
Quite a bit of innovation.
Conservation measures – offering to replace appliances with more energy efficient models. My fridge was replaced for free.
Time of day usage rates – meant to encourage use during off peak hours. (Requires smart metering.)
Net metering – to encourage further penetration of solar
Multi-state energy markets to reduce cost to ratepayers.
Remote metering – reduces cost of service.
Smart metering – among other things, will improve a utility’s ability to restore service following storm outages. (Most people don’t realize the power company doesn’t know you are out of service unless you call in and tell them.)
And this is the recent stuff. Doesn’t even touch on Operations aspects. Utilities have always been looking at innovative ways to provide reliable, low cost service for generations.
willard (@nevaudit) | September 13, 2015 at 7:10 pm |
I withheld that it is absurd to claim that Karl Popper spent extremely much effort to develop, publish and argue for a method he sincerely meant did not exist.
Your quote is taken from the following section:
“So much about the non-existence of subjects in general. But Scientific Method holds a somewhat peculiar position in being even less existed than some other non-existen subjects.”
Karl Popper clarified exactly what he meant in the next sections. Sections which you, by unknown reasons, did not refer to, quote or draw any attention to:
What I mean is this ….
( See my reply at | September 13, 2015 at 5:26 pm | for the rest of this section)
“I assert that no scientific method exists in any of these three senses. to put it in a more direct way:
(1) There is no method of discovering a scientific theory.
(2) There is no method of ascertaining the truth of a scientific hypothesis, that is, no method of verification.
(3) There is no method of ascertaining wether a hypothesis is «probable», in the sense of the probability calculus.”
Karl Popper´s empirical method provides none of these 3 points.
Still it is a very valuable scientific method.
“withheld” should have been “still mean”.
Vuk
Do you remember Wolfie from citizen smith as per my link, it just reminds me of what a throwback corbyn is.
Jack straw eh? Another dinosaur! but he is almost a Tory compared to Corbyn. Wonder if its true that he wants to reopen the coal mines? If so, the only outlet are power stations so interesting to see how that develops.
Tonyb
Hope rud doesn’t see this, as doesn’t he live there?
Tonyb
willard (@nevaudit) | September 13, 2015 at 7:31 pm |
“I don’t see how the claim about (2) can be substantiated, since the words “true” and “truth” don’t even appear in that document.»
I agree with you. I hereby withdraw that claim.
