Things that have interested me lately
Mar. 3rd, 2010 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- Acceptosaurus -- this, and the comments underneath, are very funny whether or not you're involved in submitting papers, evolutionary biology, etc.
- Lady GaGa is an Illuminati puppet -- does this surprise anyone at all? And the Bad Romance song and video are all about Baphomet, as they would be.
- George Monbiot slams the feed-in tariff -- my own feeling is that micro does have some place, eg. solar hot water. But he does a good job here of exposing the skewed financing behind the current plans. I'd be interested to hear your critiques, if you disagree.
- Flip Flop Fly -- an excellent collection of sport-related infographics. Mostly to do with baseball, but toward teh foot of the page there are a load to do with other sports. Not all of the data is especially interesting, but it's a great showcase of different diagramming / design techniques.
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Date: 2010-03-03 02:08 pm (UTC)I agree with you that solar hot water heating may just about break even (unlike the others which are useless loss-makers), but those aren't being subsidised as far as I'm aware.
And not doing insulation first is criminal.
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Date: 2010-03-05 08:01 am (UTC)Some kind of feed-in tariff system would be needed if smart grids were to take off, so perhaps this could be seen as kick-starting the grid idea now so that in 15 years when smart meters are being rolled out they seem like a natural progression.
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Date: 2010-03-03 06:19 pm (UTC)(I love the idea of cross-wiring your mains input to the supposed solar output and making 600% profit)
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Date: 2010-03-04 09:21 am (UTC)We had the boiler man around last week. He is trained in solar water heating installation but after a few minutes discussion he opined that it didn't really make sense. It's a high complexity system with a more than 10 year payback even if it never goes wrong.
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Date: 2010-03-04 08:38 am (UTC)Regarding the issue around the electricity being generated at the wrong time of day; there may actually be an answer to this. I believe the proposals are intimately linked to those around smart grids, which are meant to solve this sort of problem, and parallel problems around things like charging electric cars (which would cause a surge in demand at certain times of day). I don't know enough about them to be sure whether this would form a convincing rebuttal, but worth looking into.
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