A lot of groundwater in Michigan, but in that very place the groundwater meets surface, everywhere. It supplies vast areas of marshland and swamp and huge ecosystem that surrounds it. If you reduce the pressure by pumping aquifer and groundwater (a lot of sand there), will it divert the groundwater from replenishing the surface, that is the wetlands, the rivers, and the lakes that all this wildlife depends? Measurement is needed, and undergoing as I understand. BTW, Mich is so varied because of its unique geological history; across the state underneath it is like very different places 10s to 1000s of feet below, from sand to granite to salt domes, many different types of technical soils(?) IIRC. PS No, there may be, but if there were reliable studies it would not be so controversial.
I have. Lived exactly there as a kid. Swam, fished, drank it. Had a fort with running water from an artesian well. This water everyone thinks should just be pumped supports vast areas of flora and fauna and wetlands, feeds the great rivers that clean michigan. And removing a small amount can surely dry out vast areas of the thin surface layer of water of that marshy environment. Sure, some can be used, but it is not infinite.
In fact water may become scarce there, by relative vs absolute measures. The area depends on water to supply the massive natural streams and rivers and lakes and marshlands. These waters flow all the way to the Great Lakes and help keep those waterways and everything downstream refreshed. Water reduction could dry out huge swaths of wetlands ecosystem and affect water life. This is exactly why they are studying the river water levels to make sure it doesn't. That's like saying because you live near an ocean, there is plenty of water around. Not hardly.
So add another switch before this switch, inside the house maybe, so you can switch it on or off. I read (some) of the FPL rules about this and nowhere did it say you cannot do this, it simply says so that the electrical workers can shut it off to the grid from outside, if necessary.
Florida has/had historically issues with power, especially as populations rose; the utilities were only willing to build generators if they could be guaranteed recovery. All this wasn't just about homes, but the power needs of the entire commercial, public, and safety infrastructure too.
Prevention costs far less than remediation. But the future business opportunities; can no longer sell you big cars, big homes, large tracts of land, but we can sell you clean air, clean water, and keeping the water out of your domicile. Here's your air filtration/water desal/water pumping bill, so go to your job.
The government didn't prop up a corrupt company as inevitable, it held up a company because many working-class human lives were tragically intertwined with its veracity. And all that can be corrected, absolutely, for the future. I can only say that I lived through those periods of time, watched it unfold, and you are misconstruing the very nature of the occurrence(s) to fit your ideological worldview.
About 45 years ago from TC, before they redid the lakefront area (? wasn't there a concrete/gravel plant? or was that Charlevoix), I found so many I couldn't carry them home. Is it still that way? Also, back when Consumer's energy was trying to make nuclear your friend, the Big Rock nuclear plant used to have a a very cool visitor's center with dioramas of the core and a cool cartoon movie theater IIRC. I got the comic book!
That is probably true. I hired in for Christmas at RS while at junior college as sales person, around 1980. My experience was, at the time, 6800 machine programming and electronics but not C/S or operating systems. They gave us little to no training, I recall some sales self tutorials on the TRS-80 itself, but it was made clear to us we were there to sell things - and at Christmas it was chaos and (especially non-computer) items were flying off the shelves. I lived in a quite technical town and would get questions like "how many pages of memory" or "memory pages" does this have; when I could only refer to how many bytes, one customer stomped out in a huff. But ultimately difficult questions were to be referred to the regional specialist; knowledge was rare and it was not practical even in our town to have a computer scientist or programmer on staff; but people being people, they wanted answers now. Most were reasonable and those that knew enough about computers to ask the hard questions, say from their work, realized it likely took enthusiasts or specialists to answer - not salespeople. Apparently that changed after awhile, maybe when the Radio Shacks went to "Computer Centers" or some such thing.
My experience is: they use cheap, tiny bi-metals in several places in fridge, which fail in no time at all, instead of a real relay/timer. This is a cost reduction of maybe a few dollars - for them this means a lot of money because of quantity, but for me an inexcusable corner cut; the only conclusion is planned obsolescence, or at the least pay the repair tax. On my washer I have had to keep the lid open to prevent rust, and the lid switch I had to reinforce as in the article. Among others; I have personally kept all my appliances including furnaces running for many decades and all the failures have been because of this kind of nonsense.
Your characterizing of the net is disingenuous. The net never had the dollar or technical pressures it has today; television, streaming, large traffic, advertising dollars. Just because you don't see the regulatory problems doesn't mean they are not there; lawyers have been dealing with people and business for a very long time and you talk like they are a bunch of stupid noobs. Remember the Bell monopoly? They do as well as I, and you are wrong.
Im not sure of your context; but yes an electromagnet is a non-starter here from the get go; dealing with all the mass and power issues, bad spacey thermodynamics.
Research NMR magnets the size of several refrigerators already exceed 8-10T; they are superconducting and could after initial run up likely run for years with no power at all. They drift down over time but it likely not be a show stopper, and the cold of space would help them minimize cryogen maintenance times - it would be an activity on the way to or from the planet maybe? Edit: though the magnet itself wouldn't require continuous power, others added there would be pressure from the sun and say it could be counteracted by orbit geometry or active force being added.
Still have mine but dead, for now; infamous for ribbon keyboard decay, and the Ferranti chip may have died, also an infamous component. But both the earlier kit and the assembled computer made us start thinking about what to do, what can be done.
somewhat related, cant comment on cost yet, but house has code-std lighted stairwell switches; when used with fluor. bulb noticed in dark it flickered continuously. appears that neons in switch leak current through bulb all the time, but not enough to start up. a lot of power? yet to be determined, but neons are dead short and fluor. bulb startup is high current so probably high leakage all the time and odd waveform presented to meter.
So, I ask you kindly, where is the tradeoff? 7 hours/day? And what if most decided that that was the norm, and maybe and as competitive forces corrected your wage would rise to match current (or oppositely prices fall to meet less free income)?
I like Bill Nye, but I think he misses opportunities, learning moments for his opponents on the topics of climate/evolution/whatever, watching both the Ham debate and the recent visit to Noahs Ark-ville. For example, when Ham asked "do you think this girl is an animal" or something, IIRC Bill demurred and said something like Yes, she is a mammal or something - my opinion of course, but he could have driven a home run and demonstrated Yes, I do because look, she moves like one, has a mouth like one, has hair like one, and look she goes to the bathroom like one, has all the body parts of one - And if we go into the lab and compare the DNA, blood, urine, ad infinitum, we can show there is nary a difference there too, and therefore yes, it s/b clear to everyone standing here she is more closer to an animal compared to anything else you know or have seen in the known universe. It would likely still fail to convince most but not all. That said, I think he will do a good job keeping the interest of the viewer and can drive it home.
I worked for well over a decade in a US +100y.o. global research company, who famously kept everyone working during the depression. Famously, 8 hour work days with summer work hours reduced to roughly 7.x hours because the founder respected workers and family life. Half hour for lunch, variable depending on responsibilities, excellent on-site food, a barber shop, other amenities. Significant Christmas bonus, mostly shut down over holidays, pension later 401ks. I would arrive at home at 4pm after full day in the summer and a half hour commute - and still had until after 9:30pm to garden, home projects, before the sun set. Bottom line, things got done but Wall Street doesn't take kindly to that kind of giveaway nor freedom to employees and forced a buyout. Of course I understand noone cares what I think, but I had the greatest personal and professional recognized successes and triumphs in that very environment, freedom coupled with discipline, and I simply cannot understand people's point of view when they talk of longer hours.
No, I have been to many places in Europe and was amazed at the places they did go; schoolkids into the Alps for their skiing lessons, for example. I meant here in the US where bus service is mostly an urban experience, as well as underground/trains.
I can't add anything profound, but I will say that 40+ years ago I camped at Disney's Ft. Wilderness campground, with all my many brothers and sisters. The electric trams had a routine schedule that came around and stopped almost in front of your campsite, all of kids would simply jump on, go to anywhere in the park like the stores, the showers, the outdoor theater, and hop off again. It was incredibly liberating and fun, our parents didn't have to be involved, we could go where and when we wanted. It was fun. I know, childishly silly, right? Just a way of getting people around a big place? Also called a Bus? No, not really as buses don't go where all the people live. Transportation was a critical part of Disney's attempt at showing how his futuristic communities would work. Now whether those specific trams were directly part of that, I dunno. But it did make your community activities, events, places, much larger and much more accessible, efficiently, and no worries on parking, maintenance. I have never forgotten that feeling of ease and efficiency of movement and freedom, and I saw that promise echoed in the Waymo video.
I mentioned it below, but the Federal Government's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the CFPB, has been very helpful to me in the past with PayPal.
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/
Also, depending on the problem, a complaint to the Federal Government's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the CFPB, can be highly influential. I had an issue with PayPal and got a direct response from the CFO who cleared up the issue.
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/
Government is supposed to be for the people by the people, and protect our common shared interests, as you say, such as resources (public trust, inherited from very old common law). This is the very angle the kids are coming from; and I suggest they will win at some point, maybe not today but soon enough as they represent all people yet to come, and since they are alreay present would have "standing".
The Public Trust Doctrine describes the issue. But it must be recognized that the Government comprises and represents us, otherwise there may be a problem understanding their authority, to act in our name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_trust_doctrine
"Burroughs Machines: Implementation: A series of minicomputers"
This is misleading; these were often very well regarded military grade and size, 48/51 bit stack based machines, hundreds of disk spindles and massive I/O, up to 8 CPU symmetric multiprocessing (7 IIRC cause you needed an I/O cabinet). And a sophisticated OS called MCP. Virtual memory. In 1977, or 1969, or earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems
Datamation archives tell the story.
Haven't followed CPU arch in a very long time so my memory may fail, but the B7700 (1977) based on B5000 (1961) architecture demonstrated what you say on an industrial scale. The machine read in a long 48 bit string of opcodes, mapping them directly to hardware (adders, barrel shifters, inc/dec logic, branch prediction), maximizing throughput by anticipating needs for the next few clocks like setting up and (where possible) execute in different parts of the CPU. Since many operations were already present in pipeline and a cache miss or instruction branch could maybe predicted sooner you could see a long way into the future in some cases. This would leave the memory bus more free for data. And if I remember correctly, it would issue multiple (abstract?) cached stack operations to memory if possible, as the interface was quite sophisticated. And other CPUs could service the stack, SMP, if necessary. I had to troubleshoot these opcodes to the bit level back then, in 1981.
I, as well. I decided to go with the Fedora with Cinnamon on a 6-core AMD. I use my unix systems everyday, all day, going back to the Sun, SGIs, E&S, and even Amiga days. Everything from small development, to keeping recipes, video, audio, and electronics. Distaste for Gnome philosophy, this desktop system works for me in every way (except Netflix and Chromecast as I never installed Chrome). A few games on Steam I like (LFD2) run just fine (and every update run better).