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Fresno-Yosemite International taps into solar power {Engadget}
Jul 22nd 2008 9:12PM You can think of the power grid as the canal system in Venice. Power generating devices fill power into the system like water. This is why we will never be able to rely on solar and wind enery alone, since those won't be able to keep the level of "power" in those canals at the same level.
So during times of no sunshine or low winds, the nuclear and coal power-plants kick in.
I don't really get the whole discussion here. Solar and wind energy is an add-on to the current system that is harnessing energy that is otherwise unused (namely heating the ground instead of being used to generate power).
And since we know that CO2 is a green-house gas, why is it so hard for even the nuclear supporters to accept this solution as an add-on? Why has it always ONE way? Is it so hard to accept other forms of generating energy?
It's the same thing with the Toyota Prius. That thing needs resources that are expensive, heavy and in the end it would be just as good if you buy a small car with a Diesel or Electric engine with some actual trunk space. But people gut so stuffed with the Prius' image that they can only accept hybrids as the ONE solution instead of maybe trying to think on a broader spectrum.
Always with the tunnel-vision.
Microsoft launching SideWinder X6 keyboard this fall? {Engadget}
Jul 22nd 2008 8:33PM The side-profile is of a Wireless Keyboard 7000.
I know because I picked mine up and looked at it from the side.
Euro 2008: Turkey's flags competing with Germany's in Berlin {Gadling}
Jun 27th 2008 4:13AM Es war zum Teil schwer, sich auf dem Heimweg an den enttäuschten Türken vorbeizumogeln, ohne zu grinsen.
Gestern hat mich ein Türke in der Eisdiele angesprochen - herzlichen Glückwunsch und so, aber es war ja alles so knapp.
Hätte der Schiedsrichter den Elfer gepfiffen wär da eine ziemliche Weile gar nix knapp gewesen.
Jetzt ist Ruhe im Karton und gut is :-)
