* Posts by dcathjlmif

9 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Oct 2014

Oddly enough, when a Tesla accelerates at a barrier, someone dies: Autopilot report lands

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Yepp but the lane marking were worn and not replace, just as the whole of the clash protect system was missing (basic maintain of highway is simple too)

AWS is coming for UK infrastructure suppliers' lunch – report

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To Big to Fail ?

The worry I have with the clouds models is what happens when two or three big banks and a couple of government departments are with one company and the company hits trouble. If one of these banks is to big to fail and we have to bail it out. then we will have to bail out the cloud company right..

Look to me like you are putting your business in a position were another business has the ability to stop you trading.

Tesla to charge for road trip 'leccy, promises it will cost less than petrol

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Re: hint to Tesla owners

If you can afford a tesla you can do a lot better than lead acid batteries, I would suggest the Aquion batteries

Dolphin fans freak, blast browser's bumbling bundles of bloatware

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Re: Contrite?

To late, I am now test driving Puffin and Firefox both look good but likely to go with Firefox

Chinese space station 'out of control', will do best firework impression

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Re: Condolences to China Space Agency.

Or China could decouple its space program from its military like everyone else has done.

England just not windy enough for wind farms, admits renewables boss

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Re: Errata

If it really was cheaper than other generating methods then the money-grabbing electrickery companies would be beating the living hell out of each other to cover the countryside in THEIR turbines. The fact that they aren't would tend to suggest that the other methods are cheaper and therefore give a better return on their (woeful) investment...

The reason is the second part of my comment e.g. that generation timing is not controllable, combined with land purchase and site density per watt .

You also have to take into account sunk costs, not many power generation companies are starting from scratch Additional there are subsides for these existing sites tax breaks, cheap loans, etc. as large power station employ a lot of people on ok wages

Decommission is also a issue in these figures as it is not always done e.g. changing a coal plant to a gas plant is a lot cheaper than building a new plant and you don't have to clear up the pollution for the coal power station.

Elon Musk takes wraps off planet-saving Model 3 vapourmobile

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Re: Tesla a greencar, really ?

Nice to see that Diesel is refined with no energy cost, transported with no energy cost and then is used at its maximum theoretical efficiency in every engine.

The truth is cars are not good but EV will beat ICE in the longer term.

El Reg mulls entering Robot Wars arena

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Re: Depends on the rules...

I saw it very recently it was call BB8 now

Samsung launches 'perfect pair' of skinny mid-range phones

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Re: Meh

For me missing features are as follows in prioty order

FM radio

IR Camera

128 GB SD slot

LED protection device

multiple lens system for camera

solar panel built in behind screen

projected key board

enviromently sesnsors (smoke alarm, MOx , etc)