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Ignored by whom? You?
In fact, embedded energy is a huge consideration in the evaluation of green technologies.
It's all about expectation management. Of course people today would be shocked by huge price rises, but eventually, as the "new normal" bedded in, no one would bat an eye.
Take light bulbs as an example. Here in the UK filament bulbs used to regularly burn out, and the replacements cost maybe £1 each. When filament bulbs were phased out, compact fluorescents (CF) were subsidised and cost... about £1 each. The entire light bulb "fleet" was changed over with very little fuss.
Now these new bulbs last for 20 years, so the number of replacements we need to buy is minimal. I can't buy CFs in shops these days, it's all LEDs, and they cost £6 each. But nobody cares, because lightbulbs are no longer an every day purchase.
In fact, I recently fitted new lights in a room, and a friend of mine was baffled by the LED bulbs. He'd never seen them, _because all of his own old CFs were still working._
Here in the UK, most earth connections are provided by the power company, but in rural areas you may be too far from the substation, so a ground rod is permitted - as long as it provides an earth loop impedance (Z) of less than 200 Ohm.
So if you want to provide your own earth, you have to keep driving ground rods deeper, or adding new ones until the "Zeds" are good enough.
It looks like the US regulations permit you to bang an "8 foot" rod into dry sand, and walk away as though that's job done??
"London green" we call it.
No. Google's better search results were the primary reason they beat Lycos et al.
(Something that the Google search people seem to have now forgotten :-/ )
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This is nonsensical scaremongering. The UK's refusal to join Schengen keeps out a handful of illegal migrants, most of whom would be caught and deported anyway. If the far greater number of French[1] and Eastern European migrants who live and work here courtesy of the EU's "free movement of labour" clauses haven't "overwhelmed" anybody,[2] then a few extra illegals are hardly going to tip the balance.
[1] - Oddly, nobody ever complains about the huge numbers of French migrants to the UK. It's almost as though there's an element of racial discrimination somewhere...
[2] - Boston, Lincs. is often cited as being overwhelmed by Eastern migrants. But even the BNP can only find an uptick in driving offences to complain about: http://www.bnp.org.uk/news/regional/stop-press-boston-crime-...
They should, though. And they will if the state decides to take the gloves off and use all of that illegitimate power against them.
In essence, GCHQ & NSA have constructed a giant totalitarian state, with almost unlimited power. The only reassurance that it's not to be used against us is "trust us". However much we might trust them for now, that's simply not a good enough guarantee. Like Checkov's gun, the very existence of this weapon means that it almost certainly will be fired, eventually.
The only way for us to ensure our safety is to make sure that the weapon is put beyond use, ASAP.
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graph_of_Soviet_National_I...
I'm an AdSense publisher, so occasionally I need to log in to see how much they've been screwing me. I just have an alternative browser for that.
I now leave a lot more space between me and the car in front, and I've trained myself to remember that traffic might stop dead at any time.