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Arragonis -- You're back!
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I've been lurking but not posting until yesterday, I will probably do that again this week as it is a busy work week. Hope you (and
everyone else here) is well
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I can't quote and respond to all that. Instead of a yurt, I live in a 35' R-license park model aluminium trailer. It cost me US$900. I consume hydro-electric power that costs me 5¢/KWHr. I bicycle the 2 blocks to a discount 'little-lots' grocery store.
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In Scotland we have a load of Hydro but I have little idea how much of what comes out of my plugs is renewables or hydro vs anything else. Would love to know how you know yours is. If you can pin it down that seems good IMHO - then everyone can make a choice.
My "beef" with renewables is the amount of subsidy they need which is added to everyone's bills. I'm lucky enough (at the moment) to be able to afford it but a lot of folks are not - at the same time the main benefactors of it here are rich landowners. How is that fair ? (rhetorical)...
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I don't begrudge people their kids. Dogs (=~SUV environmental impact) and cats (~=compact car) frustrate me though. Especially cats; they leave muddy footprint trails up to the top of my car and back down, because in their tiny little brain they are asserting dominance over it. They think "people like it so I will go up and kiss is with my b*tthole". And don't get me started on taxoplasma gondii.
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Mrs A sits in the house like a coiled Ninja waiting for cats to trespass. They do not linger long...
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My frustration is that R.B.Fuller put the solutions to all our problems on the shelf, so we could take them down when we needed them; and we didn't. 
He was big on 'metaphysically engendered materials'. That not just plastics; see buckminsterfullerenes, quantum dots, quantum wells, invisibility cloaks, &etc. If you push you heating/cooling needs down to the molecular level of the surface of your window glazing, those nuclear reactors can enjoy a well-earned retirement, de-commissioning (where all the $Profit$ goes away) and *burial*. |
I have noted your mentioning of Mr Fuller before and I am aware of the ...fullerines as a structure used in loads of things, but as for the man and his other work I know very little. If you would like to post or PM me with a starter I would be interested to know more. As maybe others would to. Digging into science guys' other work often leads down other paths which are fascinating and sometimes disturbing.
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My 1984 Mac used 15 watts, less than a night-light. Google " Eben Moglen Freedom Box"; actually, I just did that for you. |
Eben Moglen is that really cool lawyer guy who told SCO (and others over time) to "go forth and multiply" when they claimed Linux was a rip off of some other stuff. I worked for a M$ gold partner at the time and some of the sales guys at the time pushed this idea of Linux being "questionable" - I followed the Groklaw blog and kind of felt the case had no merit.
As for your old Mac - You see whilst folks like zero growth I like development and tech which is kind of driven by growth. For example a typical netbook is probably 3-4K as fast as your 1984 Mac and uses about the same power. And now that the fad for them has died you can pick them up really cheap - go for the Asus 1000HE - 8 hours
I'm tapping this on a recycled Asus Netbook (1201 series) running Linux Mint - both came free
And using the same argument as above both ARE free
And I still program stuff using the Microsoft stack.
Good luck.
