每日英語跟讀 Ep.K110: About technology - No roof to install solar panel ? Buy one at a park
Lithuania is pioneering a scheme to allow city-dwellers who do not own the roof over their apartment blocks to buy solar panels located in special rural parks for their cheaper energy needs.
立陶宛正開創一項作法,讓自家樓上無自有屋頂的城市居民,可以購買位於特定郊區公園的太陽能板,滿足其較廉價能源的需求。
"You invest upfront, but then for the next 20-25 years you save on electricity costs," said Vytautas Plunksnis, who bought a 1.5 kw panel located at one solar park.
「你預先投資,但是可為接下來20到25年省下電費」,買下設於一處太陽能公園一片1.5千瓦太陽能板的普朗克尼斯說。
The park is situated next to an old decommissioned gas power plant which was blanketed in snow this week.
這座公園坐落於一處已除役的舊燃氣發電廠旁,本週廠房覆滿了雪。
"It’s winter, there’s very little sun, so I cannot say that I have much savings, but I understand that most of my electricity will be generated in summertime," Plunksnis said. (Reuters)
普朗克尼斯說,「這是冬天,很少陽光,所以我沒辦法說我存下多少,但是我了解,我的電力大部分會在夏天時產生」。
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Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes 丟失密碼讓百萬富翁無法取得他的比特幣財富
Stefan Thomas, a programmer living in San Francisco, has two guesses left to figure out a password that is worth about $220 million.
居於舊金山的程式設計師斯特凡.湯瑪斯只剩下兩次猜測的機會,能找出價值約2.2億美元的密碼。
The password will let him unlock a small hard drive which contains the private keys to a digital wallet that holds 7,002 Bitcoin.
這組密碼能讓他解鎖1枚含有幾把數位錢包私密鑰匙的小硬碟,錢包內裝了7002枚比特幣。
The problem is that Mr. Thomas years ago lost the paper where he wrote down the password for his hard drive, which gives users 10 guesses before it seizes up and encrypts its contents forever. He has since tried eight of his most commonly used password formulations — to no avail.
問題是,湯瑪斯幾年前弄丟了1張他曾寫下硬碟密碼的紙,而硬碟在永久停用並加密內容之前,給使用者10次猜密碼的機會。他已經嘗試了8組他最常用的密碼組合,但都沒有成功。
Of the existing 18.5 million Bitcoin, around 20 percent appear to be in lost or otherwise stranded wallets, according to the cryptocurrency data firm Chainalysis.
加密貨幣數據公司Chainalysis指出,目前有1850萬枚比特幣,約佔20%,處於被遺失或打不開的狀態。
Source article: https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1438998 ; https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1428060
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