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EVGA Longoria posted:after expenses probably means "after we take our cut, get hosed" https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/internal-uber-driver-pay-numbers?utm_term=.otZX7X3ZX#.khwOJOkpO assumptions were $1.75/gal for gas and a 25mpg car $3000/yr in insurance/maintenance/random expenses $16000 car with a expected lifetime of 250,000 miles (lol)
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the talent deficit posted:there's probably a really good engineering answer to this, but couldn't we just bury flywheels all over the place? here, donate to this home flywheel energy storage kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1340066560/velkess-energy-storage they already did the "thanks for the money, suckers" move a year ago.
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rjmccall posted:marin is an endless sequence of small low-density developments on steep hillsides set way back from a road running along the bay. it's just not a good place for regularly scheduled last-mile public transit, and having an on-call shuttle / taxi service makes a lot of sense there are a lot better ways to do that. like we manage to get school buses routinely through some pretty sparse areas no problem, why not just the same thing? Xaris fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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the talent deficit posted:there's probably a really good engineering answer to this, but couldn't we just bury flywheels all over the place? Bhodi fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Jun 24, 2016 05:17
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Shaggar posted:I would think pumping water up into a reservoir would work better than a bunch of trains. you should know better by now the answer always involves trains
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Xaris posted:there are a lot better ways to do that. like we manage to get school buses routinely through some pretty sparse areas no problem, why not just the same thing? have you seen how suburbanites have pretty much abandoned school busses and there's now a line of SUVs every day to drop off and pick up the precious kids? it's not because they have before- or after-school activities that aren't in line with the bus schedule
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Xaris posted:sorry but i'd rather they don't spend tax dollars to pay Travis Kalanicks third mansion for exploiting poor i'm not saying use uber, i'm saying buses are a bad solution school buses run twice a day and in remote districts know exactly where to go and who they're picking up there
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Jun 24, 2016 05:23
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Jonny 290 posted:flywheels do have some potential ( we have flywheels as part of our DRUPS at the DC its pretty cool that you can pull more than a megawatt of power out of a 5 ton bit of concrete spinning in helium. there is another flywheel to start the generator with a giant clutch.
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) but the problem is that to store any appreciable energy they need to be spinning really fast and the materials dont hold together. this is why the F1 kers flywheels are carbon fiber and poo poo, the thing's on the verge of centrifugally transforming into a metallic mist when its fully spun up
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Shaggar posted:I would think pumping water up into a reservoir would work better than a bunch of trains. theres just not enough sites to make this feasible for storage at any reasonable capacity. like, not enough by a couple orders of magnitude. theres an interesting solution where you dig a big, deep hole, put a giant rock plug in it and pump water underneath and use the potential energy from that but i dont know how proven it is. i think someone did the math and weirdly enough giant loving lead acid batteries were still the #1 bet for massive load balancing batteries.
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this is cool + good
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Xaris posted:speaking of uber, Forum on NPR had a segment about traffic in Marin and SMART and such and one of the head directors was like "well we're exploring partnering with car sharing like lyft and uber to subsidize rides to terminals" ah, yes, the sonoma-to-sf line that ends a mile from the ferry terminal because the larkspur landing people didn't want a train going through
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SMES is still the best energy storage because it's basically a cryogenically-cooled electric bomb
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:the scale of energy waste on the grid due to day/night load cycles is absolutely absurd and if they were the sole provider for distributed energy storage they really would be that big but you have things like this: I had a similar idea involving catapults and very large dense rocks at one point. Shaggar posted:I would think pumping water up into a reservoir would work better than a bunch of trains. No poo poo. "Our weights are denser than water therefore better" completely ignores the fact that hydroelectric doesn't require a mechanic to monitor and maintain every hundred cubic feet of inert water individually. Also, I can't imagine that the numerous engines and electrified tracks required to match the energy potential of the "gigawatt dam" claimed in the video would cost less than the dam either initially or over time. edit - another thing: I thought local power storage and local power generation via battery packs and solar panels (or whatever) was considered beneficial, particularly to consumers who might like to have power during a rolling blackout. What's the rationale for shifting power storage to the side of a big mountain in Nevada? How does that alleviate grid overloads? Eugene V. Dubstep fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Jonny 290 posted:pretty sure my favorite energy storage right now is molten salt b/c a: MOLTEN SALT is metal as hell and b: it has several technical advantages over other methods energy storage is extremely my poo poo, but it's really hard to find any references that are not just news about energy storage companies that failed 5 years ago. one energy storage solution that my friend told me about, that kind of blew my mind, was that some cold storage facilities simply crank up the cold by a couple of degrees during the day when they have free solar energy and then let the facilities warm back up in the night before starting to use grid power
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:someone post a plausible chain of consequences leading from brexit to popping the tech bubble. i'm edging here stock market opens two hours from now down 3-5%, will stay low for a while. people who planned on cashing out to buy their $2 million San Francisco condo get nervous and the real estate market stalls. companies that are powered by stock based compensation (Uber, tesla, LinkedIn (lol @ Microsoft)) have a real problem when their stock stops growing. advertisers cut back on negative economic sentiment, causing Google and Facebook revenue growth to slow significantly, leading to their stock prices taking a big hit. dollar becoming even stronger, hurting Apple and Microsoft profits. all techs decline on sector pessimism. venture capital dries up, startups begin to fold. real estate is now declining in value, and some people holding mortgages on million dollar houses are losing their jobs and unable to find new ones, leading to short sales.
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speaking of which holy poo poo today is going to be a bad day due to British people being dumb. RIP my stock grants
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Jonny 290 posted:pretty sure my favorite energy storage right now is molten salt b/c a: MOLTEN SALT is metal as hell and b: it has several technical advantages over other methods still has engineering challenges. metal parts + hot salt sludge = corrosion hoo boy, and non metal parts have trouble with the heat Moist von Lipwig posted:theres an interesting solution where you dig a big, deep hole, put a giant rock plug in it and pump water underneath and use the potential energy from that but i dont know how proven it is. those trains are cool too
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:long term maintenance is an absolutely pain in the rear end with pump storage and you need good topology for it. once cracks start forming in it, every gallon you lose cuts in to your efficiency and its difficult to find and repair them while in operation. they have scuba teams doing constant inspections on facilities and is dangerous work, because you can just get sucked in and killed at a leak. placement is much easier if you just need a grade and likely won't see the same rate of diminishing efficiency through the lifecycle, not to mention servicing costs will likely be lower. probably worth some trade off in efficiency due to increased friction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEtbFm_CjE0
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The Management posted:stock market opens two hours from now down 3-5%
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cleaning out my junk mail today and I found this:quote:Hope I'm catching you at a good time. My name is Jon Boni and I am with Digital Fortress. I was hoping to briefly discuss with you a strategic partnership opportunity relative to the Cloud.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:cleaning out my junk mail today and I found this:
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:someone post a plausible chain of consequences leading from brexit to popping the tech bubble. i'm edging here well if the markets crash theres technically a potential that credit markets dry up again, and with it VC money as the former billionaires (now lowly millionaires) flee to cash which would mean that the crazy funding rounds are over which would potentially kill the companies that rely on VC money to continue operating, so all of them.
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:the scale of energy waste on the grid due to day/night load cycles is absolutely absurd and if they were the sole provider for distributed energy storage they really would be that big but you have things like this: a lot of people are thinking that what we'll really need to do is to start making a bunch of energy intensive factories that manufacture fuel from various things (eg you can make jet fuel from a bunch of water and carbon dioxide if you have a whole bunch of electricity and some catalysts). this will work to use up all the massive spikes in production we're likely to get during the days from mass solar installations, and can somewhat help with fueling things that batteries still don't really work for. eschaton posted:have you seen how suburbanites have pretty much abandoned school busses and there's now a line of SUVs every day to drop off and pick up the precious kids? this only happens in places where a lot of families can afford to be single income households, and even then its really not all that common. you're not leaving work at your barely above minimum wage job at 3 pm to come pick up little billy
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Bhodi posted:lmao not even close it opened down 3.5% so 
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The Management posted:it opened down 3.5% so 
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Jonny 290 posted:e: also trains don't freeze in the winter or evaporate on a hot day maybe in communist europe they don't
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my fxy is up more than my fxe is down so v ve: holy hell gold up 5% today, is it 2008 all over again?
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the pound and the euro are affected by this mess, so the non USD component of people's investments need to go somewhere, apparently thats gold or the JPY
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The Management posted:stock market opens two hours from now down 3-5%, will stay low for a while. people who planned on cashing out to buy their $2 million San Francisco condo get nervous and the real estate market stalls. companies that are powered by stock based compensation (Uber, tesla, LinkedIn (lol @ Microsoft)) have a real problem when their stock stops growing. advertisers cut back on negative economic sentiment, causing Google and Facebook revenue growth to slow significantly, leading to their stock prices taking a big hit. dollar becoming even stronger, hurting Apple and Microsoft profits. all techs decline on sector pessimism. venture capital dries up, startups begin to fold. real estate is now declining in value, and some people holding mortgages on million dollar houses are losing their jobs and unable to find new ones, leading to short sales. 
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lol @ the dream of low priced sf real estate. someone will always be able to pay more than you can
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... people are happy about global economic downturn?
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MeruFM posted:... people are happy about global economic downturn? gently caress yeah, eat the rich, who will be the ones to suffer from this and not the poor, how could they get poorer? and especially not me with my IT tech skills that are in super high demand today. Let me just use my equity to secure a loan for that $1.2 million dollar town house from 1965 on reclaimed land. Optimus_Rhyme fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Shaggar posted:lol @ the dream of low priced sf real estate. someone will always be able to pay more than you can swr
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a "real estate crash" would be a 10%-15% fall in prices. more than enough to wipe out petit bougie fucks who are leveraged to their eyeballs but the billionaire tax dodgers will mostly just shrug and you still wouldn't be able to afford poo poo all in nyc or the bay area economic growth funnels directly into the real estate market (try making a reliable living touching computers in any place that doesn't have sky high real estate prices rn) and it's mega hosed up
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real estate prices won't return to normal until interest rates do
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:real estate prices won't return to normal until interest rates do so never, great
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real estate will never decrease in price (unless you, like, dump nuclear waste on it) because they aren't making any more of it source: Luthor, L. "Superman" (Warner Brothers, 1978)
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gimmicky dating site offers people beta access if they buy a t-shirt http://us13.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7ee05f80b53638f6895e2e941&id=bba50cc788
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yeah, I don't really believe in a significant decline in real estate prices in the Bay Area. plus it's amazing how many people I talk to that are "waiting for the bubble to burst" to buy, not realizing they are all competing with each other to keep the price high and are still all behind cash-only Chinese investors in their purchasing power
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The Management posted:yeah, I don't really believe in a significant decline in real estate prices in the Bay Area. plus it's amazing how many people I talk to that are "waiting for the bubble to burst" to buy, not realizing they are all competing with each other to keep the price high and are still all behind cash-only Chinese investors in their purchasing power lol if you want to stay in the bay area long term
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