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This was a dramatic improvement for modem communications. It doubled the top speed of the V.32bis standard to 28.8Kbps.
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V.34 - Hmmm, and hmm again..."Roland M�sl" wrote in messagenews:406a5ee2$0$17566$91cee783@newsreader02.highway.telekom.at... Over the last three years my home has consumed about 161,000 kwhworth nearlyl $10,000 CDN - I'm heating a lot more than 100 square metres,of course. You do not life in something what can be called a "house" You life in an extrem primitive cave. No insulated walls.Incorrect. 50-100 mm of glass wool insulation in the walls, and morethan 300 mm of glass wool in the ceiling. The walls are very cold in winter, much colder than the inside air. Extrem uncomfortable, like in a cave.Hardly. Quite comfortable. Routinely walk around the house barefoot inwinter, cozy lights, usual consumer electronics. And unlike someone wholives on a solar photovoltaic system, I don't have to unplug the coffeemaker while I'm making toast. What do You do at a power outage?Hmm, well so far it hasn't been an issue. Manitoba Hydro's service goalis some absurdly small number of minutes of interruption per customerper year... I can't recall the last time the electricity was out formore than a few minutes and even my drafty cave won't seriously cool offin the time it takes Hydro to fix a power line. Manitoba Hydro takesits service obligations very, very, seriously. You will have it very cold in Your primitive cave. I would seriously object to paying three times as much. You are not a human, You are a primitive cave man living in a primitive cave.Tsk, tsk. I'm sorely tempted to make an ad-hominum attack of my own,but that would be unprofessional.Every wind or solar scheme I've heard of, seem to be economic only ifthe grid is unavailable or if heavily subsidized out of the publicpurse. Whereas I can show at least one jurisdiction where the electricutility produces large amounts of clean energy at low cost. ManitobaHydro's total capitalization is far *less* per customer than theequivalent in a kilowatt or two of solar cells per user would be.I skim through the publications on off-grid "alternative" energysources. I was deeply saddened one time to read of some one who'd had aserious family discussion on giving up the family fish, because the PVsystem they had installed was too feeble to cope with the extra powerdrain of an aquarium air pump.(And I bet you have *no* idea just how *cold* it does get aroundhere....not quite Alaska, but not exactly wine-growing country either!)Bill
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