...i think the early stages will be fuzzy over the next four years but the `states will be fully engaged within six...
...f*cking cool cars; sad to see them go...
...i almost bought a used 9000 in '99; ended up buying a turbobeetle instead which was unfortunately a disposable piece of junk...
...well let me say here for whoever in the FBI / DOJ might be monitoring: the health insurance industry is a pox on american civilisation and stochastic remediation is the inevitable manifestation of celebrated principles of the declaration of independence...
...isn't that essentially critical role?..
...there's a comic i read somewhere illustrating how sombre, dramatic campaign settings ultimately devolve into slapstick hijinks and silly, slapstick campaign settings ultimately evolve into dramatic epics...
...that's okay; in star citizen the vapid simulator download service is called electronic access...
...yeah, my inner twelve-year-old would rock this house so hard: blockbuster party friday night, cartoons saturday morning, bike ride to the candy store then GI joes in the backyard saturday afternoon, SNICK followed by staying up way too late playing D+D saturday night, more D+D sunday morning, then jetski rides and a hot dog cookout before wrapping up the weekend with amazing stories, the young indiana jones chronicles, star trek, and finally falling asleep in my bunk bed...
...good call, that camry gets infinite FPS at infinite resolution and dynamic range; enjoy!..
...cave diving is the most ~~dangerous~~ deadly recreational sport of which i'm aware...
...i've only done urban installations, but recently i've been giving a lot of thought to the localised effect of high-albedo reflective roofs (and other materials) and transpirative tree canopies (and other vegetation) being replaced by low-albedo solar photovoltaic arrays: it measurably increases heat load on the local environment, reduces radiative cooling at night, and drives up overall cooling demand, which presents a deep rabbit-hole of cost-benefit analyses in the tradeoff between reduced grid use during the day versus increased grid use at night, the potential net reduction in carbon emissions therefrom, the added carbon emissions from manufacturing and maintaining solar photovoltaic infrastructure, and the loss of ecosystem carbon capture and biodiversity services from decreased solar exposure and increased heat island effect...
...it's a poorly-understood subject of ongoing academic study in both urban and natural environments, with the largest arrays i've read subjected to that sort of rigorous analysis measuring on the order of 1/300,000 the scale of this proposed project...still, apples-to-apples, that larger study was performed in desert scrubland and measured about 4°C increased local temperatures, which is significant but not a good proxy for the weather effects one would see generated by a 750 square-mile convection cell over truly barren desert...
...back to your original question, most solar photovoltaic panels loose somewhere on the order of ¼ to ½ percent efficiency per °C incease in panel temperature, but like most things in the real world it's actually much more complicated than a simple multiplier...the short version is that investors wouldn't be building desert arrays if they didn't present a short-term economic gain, and they certainly do provide plenty of power despite the increased heat, but the long-term environmental impact of radically altering surface albedo at such a large scale isn't well-understood relative to the implied let alone actual changes in carbon-intensive energy generation...
...i tried cooking fava beans with uigeadail once: it turned out f*cking disgusting...
...i need a really good bag for about eighty chessex-style dice: any better-suited options out there than the crown royal standard?..
...because western economies are built upon larger young generations paying smaller old generations for the privilege of participation; take away its buttressing and that "stable" economic pyramid becomes a rickety tower...
...you can prop up the generational productivity deficit with industrial automation to some extent, but only if the benefits of automation are democratised rather than hegemonised, otherwise a smaller-and-smaller oligarchy instead dominates an increasingly-marginalised peasantry until the whole thing comes crashing down...
...when life becomes cheap, it will be spent cheaply...