I'm reasonably fit, but I'd never stood for the whole day, until two weeks ago. Then I started running the family business while the parents went away for vacation. I decided to stand / walk instead of grabbing a stool because I thought it would compensate for the lack of other exercise I'd be getting - business hours are fairly long, and I really don't feel like workout out after.
Take-aways so far:
- When standing, I automatically change it up - sometimes I stand up-right, sometimes I stand with my legs split a bit.
- After a couple of days of discomfort, I can basically stand all day, no issues.
- I come home, and sit. And if I'm watching TV, I pass out for a good 20 minutes. Automatic nap.
- I don't feel sleepy at work at all. Zero lethargy. I don't feel sleepy after lunch.
Some advice:
- Try to engage your core, your glutes, legs.. different muscles to keep you upright.
- Change things up. I try not to lurch. To lower myself, I split my legs a bit. Sometimes for fun (while reading email, random junk online..) I do a half-squat.
That's such as simplified analysis. Perhaps there's no shortage (unlikely given Texas' power needs), perhaps there's transportation bottlenecks creating local oversupply? That price has to lower to send the price signal that the arb is there and firms can make money building that transmission, at which point, just like the other energy products in West Texas (crude), the relative price will begin to rise again relative to the benchmark. (See: West Texas / Midland grades of crude being priced at steep discounts that are now shrinking due to increased pipeline capacity coming online.) It's not that Midland crudes were "oversupplied" it's that demand was being "artificially" lowered by transportation bottlenecks. (Economists / econometricians may argue definitions with me on that, but from the energy trader perspective, that's how I would approach it.)
Arsenic, cadmium, lead, polyvinyl fluoride, and probably more. There are indeed liquid based solar panels. The toxicity of solar panels both in their production and their usage has been reported on a great deal. Some companies are making changes to make them safer but I have no clue how far along those efforts are.
Solar farms are hurting the ecosystem when they break and leak out. Even if they aren't liquid based, solid state versions have thin films which contain some chemicals like cadmium and arsenic. Cadmium telluride has been introduced more recently has it is safer.
This comment is a weird mix of truth and untruth. Yes, there's a lot of toxic chemicals involved in solar panel production, as there is in IC production and a whole load of other production processes. http://www.solarindustrymag.com/issues/SI1309/FEAT_05_Hazard...
Liquid solar panels are simply not a production-ready technology. There are no commercial liquid solar cell farms. Installed solar panels are solid. They're not particularly prone to corrosion and 'leaking', and are >99% silicon with trace amounts of boron and phosphorous. CdTe is actually nastier.
Solar farms are hurting the ecosystem when they break and leak out
Glad to see that someone else responded, so I'm not alone here ... this is mostly nonsense. I have NEVER seen a report on toxicity of solar panels in use from "leakage", if there is such a thing, please post. Yes, solar panels contain elements like Cd and As, so do many of the electronics that you carry around in your pocket, and as long as they are bonded inside a semiconductor, they are basically inert slices of rock. However, most commercial solar panels today are silicon-based, with these other elements as dopants at a tiny percentage. A CdTe solar panel would be made of, well, Cadmium and Tellurium, both of which are pound-for-pound thousands of time more toxic to humans than silicon !!!! (though still basically inert slices of rock if they are in solid-state solar panels).
Admittedly, as with all e-waste, we need to look to what happens to solar panels when their life is up and they are landfilled or, hopefully, recycled. That said, over its 25+ year useful life, a solar panel will prevent tons of coal from being burned, which in and of itself would release a non-zero amount of cadmium and other heavy metals into the atmosphere.
Ehh, you don't need to put wind farms in the cities/suburbs where NIMBYs are located. There is Central CA with abundance of flat lands as well as mountains
You clearly don't have experience with California environmental politics. There's not a single spot of land (or water) in the state where SOMEONE won't complain about a wind farm installation.
Actually infrasound is pretty bad for you. At the right frequency around 18-19Hz you start seeing ghosts. Substantially lower can really do a number on you too.
Source only states effects on people working on the turbine, and, in general, people exposed to infrasound at volumes higher than those you get from having a wind turbine nearby. You practically have to be on the device.
I sometimes wonder how and if various groups of NIMBYs - i.e. anti-wind-farm, anti-nuclear, etc. overlap with each other. Sometimes I just wish I could point a finger and accuse someone of attempting to kill people and/or destroy civilization.
> Funny, that's what anti-wind/solar/nuclear people say!
Yes, I know :). That's (among others) a reason I don't go and point my finger too much :).
> I think it comes down to a lack of science education and a fear of the unknown.
I'd add a collapse of trust in authority as an underlying cause for this and movements like anti-vaccination. I talk to people holding such beliefs quite a bit, and I've noticed they're perfectly willing to (selectively) trust science; they can even have an above-average understanding of it. It's often that they don't trust the intentions of governments and corporations (the "Big Pharma", evil Monsanto, etc.). So I think painting them as anti-science idiots, as it is often done on-line, is counterproductive. Not just because it's always counterproductive to paint the other side as idiots, but also because it's missing the point.
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Take-aways so far:
- When standing, I automatically change it up - sometimes I stand up-right, sometimes I stand with my legs split a bit.
- After a couple of days of discomfort, I can basically stand all day, no issues.
- I come home, and sit. And if I'm watching TV, I pass out for a good 20 minutes. Automatic nap.
- I don't feel sleepy at work at all. Zero lethargy. I don't feel sleepy after lunch.
Some advice:
- Try to engage your core, your glutes, legs.. different muscles to keep you upright.
- Change things up. I try not to lurch. To lower myself, I split my legs a bit. Sometimes for fun (while reading email, random junk online..) I do a half-squat.