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oyb: no its just fine, your factory will run on two led lights and a phone charger

welcome to ekts phone call center

that will push nigeria into the future

Beaf: Why can't solar energy be used to purify water as a business?

The water you've purified will cost more money than the water someone else purifies using diesel.

Hence, your profit margins will be smaller. And in fact, given the huge disparity in cost between solar and diesel, your profits will be negative.

Not too many people enjoy making negative profit...

oyb: Definitely, I agree. If I wanted to go to into business in Nigeria, I would locate my business near a gas pipeline. E.g., the Ota industrial zone.

But my point is, solar is so expensive, it isn't even competitive with diesel gen. That is how terrible a proposal it is.

oyb: It simply isn't economical. Maybe some very, very remote area where even transporting fuel there is difficult.

But solar isn't even cost-effective here in the US. And we have massive subsidies. Yet Solyndra went bankrupt about a year ago.

How does anyone expect it to work in Nigeria?

It is tiresome talking to people who have no engineering, science, or evidently even economics background.

No wonder Nigeria is in the poor state it is...numerically illiterate folks like Beaf jumping and shouting for solar

It is probably cheaper to use a gasoline/diesel generator to generate electricity than to use solar.

At least in yankee, you get a subsidy for solar. In Nigeria, no such thing exists

I would rather build a factory in Nigeria and run it on diesel than run it on solar.

In both cases, I'll probably be losing money. But I lose less with diesel..

https://i50.tinypic.com/2zoewk2.png

Solar is a lot more expensive than the alternatives, is the point.

Long story short, it isn't cost-effective to generate electricity from solar, except for some very special cases.

So it is stvpid to be telling someone not to emigrate to the US and go harvest sun in the Sahara desert, or whatever it is that you are advocating.

That represents an unprofitable, money-losing, poverty-inducing business. Not one that is a good way for someone to make their living..

Beaf. That electricity is 3X or 4X the price of the alternatives when generated by solar in say the US should suggest that it isn't going to be economically feasible in Africa either.

It isn't as if we get 3X or 4X the sun in Africa as they do in the US. There aren't 60 or 70-something hours in an African day, lol

talina: Im smiling and Im off to bed! Nighty night everyone!

Have a good night! I should probably go to sleep too.

Interesting.

Actually, the rounding down seems to be unnecessary. C++ float divided by integer cast into integer seems to automatically truncate for you:

#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(){
float n = 99999; // Some 5 digit number
long woo = n/pow(10,4);
cout << "Result is " << woo << endl;
return 0;
}

Relax man. I'm joking as well. Though truly you are indeed killing vibe...

Talina, your words are much appreciated.

Mynd_44: Imma need you to step off, bro. You are killing the vibe here with your "android thing" talk

sighhhh

lol

somebody else explain to him, i don't have time to explain the basics to people who cannot read information and think through its implications.

Oyb, you are an engineer by training, please teach

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source


After reading that article and consulting the tables therein, nobody should ever suggest solar again as a viable fuel source...

[quote author=tpia@]^dont tempt seun or whoever does the front page. . . . . . .[/quote]

Nah, it is pretty trivial.


#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(){
long n = 99999; // Some 5 digit number
long woo = n/pow(10,4);
cout << "Result is " << floor(woo) << endl;
return 0;
}

Its all good. No pain that NL can inflict can ever compare to that of this girl's defriend...

you know the rest. . . . . .he/she took off my underwear and now am pregnant. . . . . . .how do i have this abortion, or the baby is now 12 years old and i learnt the father is nearby. . . . . .do i sleep with him again or what do i do

tpia, I swear you need a TV show or standup comedy thing somewhere. You crack me up for real

Char array? Eh.

Just divide by 10^4 and round down. A lot simpler.

Hah Seun better not frontpage this sh1t...

Its all good, this is amusement and recreation for me

I thought that we established already on previous threads that solar isn't competitive as a source of energy (aside from very niche cases)?

So why on earth do you keep bringing it up?

[quote author=Mynd_44]If you post things like this, then I can see why people want to defriend you[/quote]Haha

Fair enough...I left myself open with this thread and that post.

Why are the two best governors in Nigeria sef ACN governors

Eh. That isn't C++ syntax. nor does it quite seem correct to me.

Basically, if N is the 5-digit #.

Well here is an example of what'd you do in another language:

octave:1> N=54321
N =  54321
octave:2> N/10**4
ans =  5.4321
octave:3> floor(N/10**4)
ans =  5

You shouldn't have much difficulty translating the above into C++.

I thank God every day for my selfless parents who made a tough decision so that the lives of their children would be better.

In about a week's time I'll be going to my little sister's graduation. I won't mention the name of the ivy league university she will be attending for college on a significant scholarship. I am just very thankful to watch these thing happen to my family, and thankful to the USA for these opportunities.

Yeah...selling a story of your typical African immigrant having made a poor decision is about as credible as the OP's title.

And if you are someone like me who specifically even as a child was interested in something that is only available here...well, for such people, your story is simply comical.

Housing allowance is taxable income.

UYCO: This campaign of calumny against Uduaghan by DPP agent here will not stop him from doing the job that Deltans voted him to do.I have always asked critics to identify what Uduaghan is suppose to do in Delta State that he has not done. If you think you have better ideas on how to move the state forward, come up with your idea and stop this vituperation.Most people are blinded by hatred that even if Uduaghan pays their children's school fees and sponsor their marriages, they will not still see anything good in him. The only advise I have for those who don't like him is to wait for 2015 when they will have the opportunity to vote for who they want.No amount of vituperation can change the destiny of a man who has been anointed by God to lead the state.Read your bible very well,Uduaghan could not have become a governor if God has not ordained him to be the governor at this time.

Na wa o

Where you not one of those protesting against Uduaghan months ago

So now that he has "settled" you, you will sing his praises?

Btw, I finally just got a smart phone. An android. And I realize that I've been suffering myself unnecessarily with my previous whack phone