SolarLiner
It's necessary, TARS.
Shoot yourself into a suborbital path with a ship ...
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From where? For example, you can travel:
Atlantic Ocean, Channel, Rhine, Main-Danube Canal, Danube, Inn.
OK, the final meters could be a small boat and you could need to row yourself... but its possible. :lol:
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Well, next planned trip would be Florence. And that seems awfully complicated. You might be faster by bike...
And Munich is at the Isar but nice try Northerner.
The Isar is even less shipable than the Inn. :lol:
And why complicated. Via ship to Marseille, by TGV to Cologne, by ICE to Munich...
SolarLiner
It's necessary, TARS.
When we're gonna discover teleportation ...
Well, there are trains from Munich going to Bologna, Verona, Padova so I think every kind of ship or boat in there would take longer. And additionally there's a TGV already going Munich-Strasbourg-Paris.
And even if you take the route you describe: Florence is inland, too. So ship to Marseille would be second after...two days of hiking to Livorno? Building a raft for a part of the way down the Arno? Something like that.
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...Germany will never use it because it needs power and power is evil! Nuclear power is evil, coal is dirty, hydropower damages ecosystems, wind turbines just look ugly and sun power...it costs money!
MaverickSawyer
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Why the heck do you even try for solar power in Germany when you're cloudy so much of the time? :idk:
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And they even try at night...
In the meantime, my experiments geared towards power generation from the controlled fusion of ice cream are showing some promise.
SolarLiner
It's necessary, TARS.
$hit, german people musn't come here in France!
Solar power even works when the sky is overcast, just not as efficient.
And to many people I know who put some on their roof it's like an investment. We buy the stuff now, it produces electricity, we get money for it, in something like 15 years it paid for itself and then it produces money.
It's the house for the upper middle class who already own a house but can't bother with a second one...
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Yeah, the French keep repeating that. Guess what keeps happening...:lol:
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Well, I'm employed now, for the first time in my life...
A small question for all you sysadmins out there: why would sleep and hibernate be disabled on a work laptop given to an employee (i.e. my Dad)?
A small question for all you sysadmins out there: why would sleep and hibernate be disabled on a work laptop given to an employee (i.e. my Dad)?
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The engineering school here tried photovoltaic panels for heating. The final verdict on the return of investment was 125 years. :facepalm:
Now if it was rain-power........
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In Dwarvish terms it's good...
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Hydro-electric.
In the end, most rivers flow because it rains.
jedidia
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Photovoltaics for heating? I assume that's coupled with heat pumps?
Anyways, heating is just about the worst thing you can do with electricity, no matter where you take it from. Photovoltaics are rather expensive. They can pay for themselves when you get good rates from your local producers, but for heating... No, I don't think that's ever gona pay.
SolarLiner
It's necessary, TARS.
Since post-WW2 we've been R&D in the nuclear domain. So almost all the electricity power comes from these nuclear plants, which of course get the ecologists mad about that. Since then, no catastrophic accidents happened, small incidents occurred, but nothing to worry much about.
I think we have the greatest density of nuclear power plants in our territory, so if Germans don't like them ... :lol:
