@alcade in Denmark we pay practically nothing for our electricity, it's made over 85% by wind. The cost of the off shore wind parks have paid for themselves years ago. Maintenance is a bullcrap argument by conspiracy theorists who fail to notice the real conspiracy theory the one where companies like ExxonMobil want to keep dominating energy production centrally and forever.
@alcade modern wind mills are way more reliable than just a few years ago. One single wind mill can power upwards 50 thousand homes, even if a little maintenance can be required once every few years, how the heck does that change anything. Wind power is the cheapest type of energy. Over the 50+ year lifetime of one wind mill it is by far far the cheapest source of energy.
@kgibson we have airplanes that constantly fly at 600mph about 90% of the time for 2 or 3 decades in a row with very little maintenance and little airport downtime and you think we aren't able to build a windmill that can withstand less than 50mph average wind speeds for at least the same amount of time? Sure some wind installations need maintenance but that costs 1'000'000x less than pumping, transporting and burning oil constantly.
@chris just because Climate Science is harder to master and measure, is not a reason we humans should just give up thinking we have any responsibility when we burn up all this crap into the athmosphere. We've mastered engines, aeronautics, we invented the Internet, so much else. Why the heck does it all just stop at climate science? The fact is climate deniers benefit ExxonMobil and all those other Trillion dollar conglomerates who love controlling all the revenue from the oil pump.
@Johnny_of_the_swamp the US hasn't even used 1% of its wind power potential, same thing for solar. Imagine that's like if the US didn't exploit 99% of it's discovered and proven oil fields, the thinking that it'd cost more money to install the wind power installations that the value of the power they generate is just outrageously wrong. Wind and solar are more profitable than oil, they're just not profitable to any one central company. They're profitable for the Government ergo the tax payer.
@adam and they had better Leica cameras and better lenses in the 1969 moon landing than the kids have now in their stupid smartphones, yes Moore's law has improved the processors and storage, but optics and general rocket propulsion technology has not evolved since 1969. The US spent serious money on the Apollo programme, the Paypal guy Elon Musk alone can't yet just quite match that. But he says he will match and exceed the Saturn5 by 2021/2023 or so, he says, which would be totally amazing.
Why do they keep hating on climate change? Seems @adam has trashed climate change so much for so many years there's just no way he'd ever admit he was wrong this whole time. Renewables are cheaper, solar and wind installations can last 50+ years with no maintenance, it's 1'000'000x cleaner than burning up oil, coal, comon now. Europe nearly got completely radiated by the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster, Fukushima has badly radiated the whole pacific ocean, can even be detected in California wine.
@yukiame yes it's capitalism and etc but the CEO doesn't always have the best advice. Smarter ideas can easily make their product significantly better for the drivers, I don't know if giving shares to the 5 million drivers as @Johncdvorak suggests is possible, if you give them $1000 worth of shares each that's already 10% of the company.. better to improve the situation for the drivers just simply by monetizing their cars while the drivers are sleeping. Nobody profits from parking an Uber car.
@yukiame Uber could easily make drivers 10x happier and their jobs more sustainable, Uber should cover the commercial car insurance for every ride and Uber drivers should also be able to share their cars with other car-less drivers through the Uber driver app. That would easily boost Uber driver's profitability as this way they can fund their expensive Uber car leases and purchases, drivers lose out having had to buy these Priuses with no help from Uber. These ideas wouldn't cost Uber much.
The Google AI thing does let the illiterate lady learn to read as each word is highlighted while spoken, she can play it as slow as she wants, I don't think there is any better way to learn to read. @adam the problem I have with Google is that they don't do anywhere near enough and all the stuff they announce never gets released. Google announced awesome stuff at Google I/O 10 years ago that still hasn't reached the broad market. A few beta testers here and there is not broad availability.
Uber makes Billions of dollars in profits, they just hide their profits by investing to "win over" new markets, they profit on drivers in profitable regions to subsidize new drivers in new subsidized markets until that new market becomes profitable then they add new regions with the profits from there.
@yukiame@bob 8TB should not cost much more than $149 something like $199 why not. And it must include several USB3 host ports to connect and add as many more 8TB hard drives that I want.. I'd like the hard drives to mostly be powered off though and use the minimal amount of power, only turn on when user needs access to the data. So a smart power plug may also be included or sold separately at like $49 with a bunch of USB3 and smart plugs that smartly handle Smart USB Hub.
@yukiame@bobhttps://www.myamberlife.com/ I very much like the idea. But I think they're a bit too expensive, I'd like to buy a 8TB harddrive with a little Linux on ARM based little server, to then sync my data and etc to another station somewhere else remotely. And to be able to run every cloud server app that can easily be installed on a linux server. The PCB with a good ARM cpu etc should cost much more than the price of a regular 8TB hard drive at $149.
@yukiame yes although this burning was very traumatic for everybody who cares about the history of Europe, I am happy this crazy french guy posted this crazy video a few months ago https://youtu.be/W8A4lgtTC-g
@yukiame Notre Dame is a 853 year old building, it never burnt during all those years, it survived so many wars, kind of shitty that it had to partially burn now, perhaps some shitty thing caught fire with the heating system or something in the restauration equipment, like an exploded lithium ion battery or some shit like that. The church doesn't own it, it belongs to the people. Rich people's large donations to repair it are being tax deducted though.
@yukiame@bob@succfemboi yws day Corbyn stands for revoking art50 brexit, 2 days later he will be voted in PM and Brexit will be a forgotten thing. Easy. I guess he needs to time the announcement just right although I think he should have announced and become PM 2 years ago already.