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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 3/09/2013 06:57:00 PM
Saturday, March 09, 2013
[jules' pics] Neighbours
For 12 years I've admired this big old house from the back of the mountain tandem. But now James is doing his silly running, I have control of my brakes, so it is possible to stop and take photos!
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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 3/09/2013 06:57:00 PM
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What is a Stepford wife?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives
In Japan would be actual robots.
Well many "people" here seem to live in uncanny valley, it's hard to be sure either way... :-)
Now imagine all those roofs covered with solar panels.
As we were saying a couple of years ago :-)
Yes. I was particularly interested to see in that article that a bunch of stored hydro capacity is already in place.
Japan has been big in hydro for some time - it has a rather good combination of steep mountain valleys and plenty of rain (at least, it seems so from an inexpert point of view). I think I mentioned some time ago that the construction of the Kurobe Dam involved the death of 171 people, for a power output rather lower than Fukushima...
(I'm not sure if that system specifically allows for pumped storage or not - some of the dams we have seen just spill into rather shallow rivers, but even these are obviously useful for intermittency. Some are arranged as a sequence of consecutive lakes.)
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