A city is literally the worst place for wind. High property values, low tolerance for visual blight and noise, expensive work forces for maintenance, difficult to access.. you want wind in places like farms, where land and labor are cheap, access is easy, and nobody is going to complain about the noise.
I'm rural and locals hate them, wish they were installed in the places where the demand is being created by the density of population: cities. There is considerable ostracization of any farmer who opts in.
Low tolerance for visual blight? We agree. We consider them a blight also, particularly for people who choose natural sights over the blight of concrete structures. Noise? Same thing. We hate the noise of any traffic and yet that noise is Ok here? The complaints are significant can't Labor is not a good argument. It's expensive here also. Specialty techs are needed and the drive time charges alone are exhorbitant.
These could be placed instead on the top of city buildings. It's been done already. You wouldn't hear the noise over the traffic or neighbors that live inches from you. No birds would be injured or migratory paths interrupted. Wildlife oaths would not be displaced. The visual is not an issue. You already have visual blight in a city.
Also. They can create flickering sun which is unpleasant and unhealthy. During cold weather they can shed ice. And they might fall over or catch fire and hurt someone. A safety zone is an easy way to eliminate any danger to the public.
I think it would not be feasible to add these to most buildings. Wind power is very heavy and there are a lot of obvious wind forces acting on the structures. Buildings were not engineered to take those loads.
The same thing that's preventing us from growing all our vegetables at the point of consumption with urban farming: it's a waste of valuable space! Put the people in the cities and the windmills out to sea, where they belong.
The majority of site ads are affiliate ads. They are being blocked. The lower income folks have been hurt tremendously already. Analytics is suffering from blocks. Math runs business decisions re spending. No math equals bad decisions. Banner ads? Ineffective but why buy when good numbers are not available. The future online belongs to big tech and gorilla business as these good intentioned decisions kill the middle and lower class online. Me? Been running biz online for nearly 3 decades. The blood online is deep and getting bigger.
I run online biz and have since 1993. Today, I am watching the death of small biz online, the under-employed no longer able to increase income from online biz builds, the death of affiliate income, the spike of subscription paywalls, the growth of big tech as a result, the growth of sites as info brochures for retail brick mortar, decrease in content,all melded with large increases in labor costs, labor benefit bookkeeping and tax expenses,taxes due to nearly 2000 US jurisdictions. In time, you will have few sources for content online and it will be concentrated in gorillas, direct mail will and is increasing, retail will be big guys only, and the biggest losers will be the small guys. But blocks won't be needed then as big guys will deploy the Cobra phenomena as they can afford it. Loser: the average guy. Winner: the big guys. Ah well. More poor people. Ah well.
agree with you but we have so much education to do of normal, every day people. It's too techy for too many.. so they don't see what you and I are seeing.
I've been trading it since last suummer and doing just fine, thank you. But years and years and years of trading under my so-called belt. I'm not alone, though. There is a way to trade a bear market...safely... The folks that got hurt were holders and those who went nuts in Dec. and thought "green" meant "buy."
Exactly. And a drop in hash power and difficulty, which have a lag between one and the other, enables miners with more expensive operations to enter. Of course, they suffer when the reverse happens..but such is life.
It was interesting when Monero did their first hard fork for "ASIC resistance" reasons.
I happened to be paying attention that day, and there was a brief period where the network was small because everyone's miners couldn't participate until they were updated. My little single-GPU miner was suddenly rather effective because I had it back up immediately while the difficulty was very low. These days I don't bother turning it on, but when the scheduled forks occur there's probably still some opportunity for the little guys.
Just the normal agreed-upon fork every 6 months but this time things heated up with the hashing war, which featured antminer pulled all the miners in his pool from BTC into BCH, causing downward price pressure.
I feel similarly about both CW and RV. This hash war may have been a nice moment of drama diversion but from a professional point of view, it's an awful game to bring to the crypto world and for noobs who have just begun watching.
