mschmit

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mschmit replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 2:11 AM

Re: tube fluorescents...

LEDs are still quite expensive, especially when buying bulbs/tubes that are plug and play. I haven't done it yet, but rather than replace my 6 fluorescent tubes with LED tubes it seems like a better plan to put in fixtures with LEDs in them since it [more]

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mschmit replied to the Climate Change board. 1:47 AM

Re: Any skeptics expect to be alive in 2053?

I'm not sure what, exactly he is preaching...except do as I say not as I do. I have a utility bill of less than $50 most months. Now with a plugin Prius, a gas/electric usage of about $10. I can afford much more.
Spouse's gas bill in her Prius is [more]

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mschmit replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 3:12 AM

Re: PD: Owner made fast-food restaurants succes

What is of import is getting rid of businesses that are unproductive.

OK. But who decides? The government? Solyndra probably had good wages. I'm all for living wages...but I'm also for low wage entry jobs for teenagers and college [more]

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mschmit replied to the Help With This Home Theater board. 8:52 PM

Re: Basic TV

So my question - anybody have a suggestion for a new panel with a good image, a normal push button remote and either no Smart TV features or a decent menu system that does not require one to deal with a couple dozen options merely to change inputs [more]

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mschmit replied to the Help with this STUPID computer! board. 8:39 PM

Re: The Best of All Worlds?

What I hope they do with Win9 is set things up so that you can run *either* the Win8 GUI or the conventional desktop on top of the underlying OS, and also can run either one as an application (even better, multiple instances concurrently as [more]

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mschmit replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 8:10 PM

Re: PD: Owner made fast-food restaurants succes

I said: It is amaing that there are so many so willing to rant against those that risk their capital and get rewards, but those who risk almost nothing (except their celebrity reputation) get a pass.

a) who said they get a pass? Does [more]

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mschmit replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 2:22 PM

Re: Ford: too complicated

I've never have had any problems with a hand crank window. Not so with power windows.

My (family's) first 4 cars had hand crank windows and the next 6 have had power windows. Never a problem with any of them. I find power windows very [more]

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mschmit replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 2:04 PM

Re: PD: Owner made fast-food restaurants succes

But the OP was about Dave Thomas, someone who had millions to start with. His "risk" is having to live like the top 10-20%, rather than the top 1%, and I find the expectations of reward-entitlements for taking that kind of [more]

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mschmit replied to the Climate Change board. 1:37 PM

Re: Any skeptics expect to be alive in 2053?

Funny, when you have no principles at all, no one complains if you get rich.

True. See: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hypocrisy

Mike

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mschmit replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 9:39 PM

Re: PD: Owner made fast-food restaurants succes

People deserve a liveable wage when they work

Why? (a serious question)

Even the next door kid who babysits or mows the lawn?
What about an internship?
Where do you draw the line?

Every single job that [more]

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mschmit replied to the Climate Change board. 9:29 PM

Re: Any skeptics expect to be alive in 2053?

I happen to believe Al Gore has been right for 40 years and doing his best to make people believe. He flies around the world trying to convince little nations and big nations that something has to be done. And people make fun of him using up all [more]

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mschmit replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 9:13 PM

Re: Wind “backup power” myth

Without getting into the weeds if the data, here is a simple fact. No technology is 100% reliable. None. Not one. Therefore every single one requires "backup."

Goofy, you are 100% correct.

However, whether the [more]

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mschmit replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 8:56 PM

Re: Wind “backup power” myth

NG plants are cheap to build.

True, but maybe you are missing the point. If (maybe a big "if") a given area is going to have 20 or even 30% of load handled by wind, then that means that the NG reserves that MUST be built is [more]

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mschmit replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 7:02 PM

Re: Is 4G already old hat?

This is a bit overstated.

A single layer Blu-ray disc holds 25 GB...or 200 Gbits. (technically much more than that when you included error detection and correction)

This 5G network is 1 gigabit per second. So it would take 200 [more]

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mschmit replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 1:25 PM

Re: Wind “backup power” myth

Yes the grid always needs excess capacity just in case a nuclear power plant trips - which is much worse than a wind farm slowly running out of wind.

Yes, a nuclear plant suddenly tripping is a much more severe event than a wind farm [more]

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mschmit replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 6:47 PM

Re: Wind “backup power” myth

A wind-farm boom has been brewing in the blustery Texas panhandle, where wind turbines now provide 9.2 percent of the state’s electricity.

And having a system wide 5-7% reserve is probably good enough for the 9.2% wind across the [more]

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mschmit replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 3:07 PM

Re: Ultracapacitors & wind power

Ultracapacitor provides versatile, green and maintenance-free energy that delivers power bursts safely and reliably for more than a million cycles and virtually eliminates site visits to change out batteries.

I would reword this, like [more]

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mschmit replied to the TEOTWAWKI board. 9:06 PM

Re: Cyber attacks

The same antenae can recieve either 'analog or digital' signals if they are transmitted on the same frequency range.

True, but not the whole story.


1. The ATSC (digital TV) standard began broadcasting in the late 1990s. [more]

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mschmit replied to the Climate Change board. 8:28 PM

Re: Sounds Like an April Fools Joke

I say that there is a 99% chance this bogus. The sun provides about 1 kw of radiation per sq meter, no matter what you use to collect it or convert it. Current PV cells are about 15% - 22% efficient in making this conversion. And about 50% or 60% is [more]

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mschmit replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 4:42 PM

Re: West, TX, Disaster Relief (OT)

"West, Texas fertilizer plant blows up due to Jimbo the janitor forgetting to shut a valve."

Maybe...but maybe not.

Bryce Reed was booked into the McLennan County jail at 5:10 a.m. Friday. He faces a federal [more]