11 Mar
2010
11 Mar
'10
6:52 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Mar 11, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Brian Lanning wrote:
I saw the same thing in the Military. When I worked at a Mainframe site in
DC, our DBA was this elderly gentleman. Due to the Labor rules they had
been forced to retire him, and they then immediatly rehired him as a
contractor.
This is a huge source of the financial problems in california...
firefighters making $200k a year. I don't hate them though. They're making
the right amount. We should be getting what they are. And we would be if
wages had followed the declining dollar.
I'm sure that sort of thing is going on here in illinois.
There reason I'm asking about power consumption is related to the
hydroponics thing I asked about the other day. I've been shutting off
computers lately to save power. And I was thinking about ways to have a
computer control the hydroponics. Unfortunately, it looks like the lighting
will be really expensive. You need 30 to 50 watts of light per square foot
of plant crown. That makes it between 480 and 800 watts for a 4'x4' area.
I'm wondering if I could come up with an algorithm that controls plant
nutrients and lighting with a finer degree of control than just on at this
time and off at another. Maybe I could tune the system save money on the
lights and actually increase yield in the process, or adjust the distance
Chicago suburb. We have a nuke plant like 30
minutes away too. I'm not
surprised though. There's probably some stupid local tax on power so
someone can collect a pension while being hired back to do the same job
at
their old salary.
Ugh, unbelievable. :-(
from the lighting vs reduced light per unit area.. It
would be really cool
to run it on an apple 2e or c64. :-)
brian