China also has over 4 times the population, which means each Chinese citizen is outputting half the CO2 as each American. You're suggesting that the people who are already doing twice as good as you do better while you do nothing. I'd also like to see a citation for China emitting twice as much as the US in 2018. I can't find one up to date. What I do find is that China is actually decreasing it's CO2 emissions (they're actually basically stable) unlike America which is once again increasing them. .
Wonder how pressurizing the tank would keep the gas from going stale? The real problem with modern gas is the alcohol. using that little gas I'd advise getting the better gas with no alcohol if its available where you are. Good point about sloshing the oil around periodically. A stopped engine is going to have at least one exhaust valve open, possibly letting in damp air and causing corrosion.
My truck only has 300,000 odd miles on it and even with regular oil changes (I believe the original owner did it every 3000 miles) it is going through a litre of oil every couple of months with no leaks. Oil may have gotten better though I'd assume it is the additives as much as anything, but it is still getting exposed to combustion byproducts, especially if you make a lot of short trips.
Yes, same as an a regular IC engine that is only ran for a dozen or so hours a year. Of course a lot of manufacturers like to pretend oil and such don't get acidic and eat away at the aluminum. If you follow that line of reasoning, you could never change the oil, likewise for the anti-freeze. Then there's all the other things in the parent posts list. Things like spark plugs that if you use the best (iridium?) can go a 100,000 miles easily.
How much maintenance is needed the way the parent poster is using his IC engine at 3 tanks of gas over 16 months? With good oil, best antifreeze, it should be an oil change a year, coolant flush every 7 years, air filter perhaps once a decade and most of those other things in your list, almost never. The ideal is your using electric for most of your driving.
I also can think of a couple of accidents where pilots saved the day. I guess the real question is number of lives saved by pilots saving the day vs number of lives saved by automation.
3. transparency at a level where an ordinary person can reasonably see how the security works
This is the part that'll never be implemented with electronic voting. Even the most perfect system will be basically a black box to the average person. I can watch the whole voting process here, including counting and anyone can understand how it works. I can't imagine how electronic voting can be understood by everyone no matter how good.
While you're correct that energy equals wealth, so does things like clean air, clean water and a stable environment. These have to be balanced and if the cheap power is subsidized by dirty air etc, the power isn't really cheap. I think the environmentalists are trying to balance these things in general. Of course capitalism leads to things like Exon funding Greenpeace to protect their business model. Can't have cheap nukes can we.
What is scary is that next time you guys could elect someone truly evil rather then a boob. Your Supreme Court is politicized and likely to go along with evil rather then the rule of law due "party first"
Think of the poor executives, not only is it getting harder to come up with the money to buy another yacht, but now it is getting expensive to bribe universities to accept their kids who will be the next generation of executives and your leaders.
I use LTE for home internet. It works fine usually though not sometimes in the evening. The big problem is the quota, which forces us to stream at lower bandwidth rates anyways.
And despite the general anti-U.S. sentiment among western countries, their interests align much more closely with the U.S.' interests than with China's.
Seems that the US is more aligned with China then its allies lately, not to mention alignment with other brutal dictators such as the Saudi's and you have a President who seems friendlier with the leader of N. Korea then leaders of its allies. Personally I'm sick of my country supporting a country that slaps tariffs on my country for national security reasons while buying product from China by giving them lots of exceptions to tariffs. Seems like you're doing economic war mostly against your allies and once Huawei donates/lends some money to your president, this is likely to go away.
Rail gun could probably be designed with a couple of degrees of aiming option by varying the magnetic field from side to side. Probably still need small thrusters on the payload. Seems a lot more doable in the short term.
Windows XP was hated when released with its Fischer Price interface and took a few service packs to be liked. Maybe in a decade or two we'll be wishing for a good Windows like 10.
America is a bigger threat to some of ours security. For example, America is known for putting people on no-fly lists and enforcing it on their allies, which can be a direct threat to my freedom. America would also rather put tariffs on my country with no exceptions then China, which gets lots of exceptions and shows America's true colours. Electing Trump shows that America could actually elect someone truly evil instead of like Trump, just more crooked then usual. A good chunk of the American voters seem to ignore that Trump ignores the emoluments clause of the American Constitution.
Why can't the individual States decide? Here, in Canada, it is a Provincial decision. Shit there's currently a private members bill in my Provinces legislature to create a new time zone splitting the Province, and it could pass and officially we'll follow the Western States decision to stay in sync according to the government. Probably have to give the feds notice though as they're in charge of stuff like ships and railroads.
There's other uses for 3He, neutron detectors, certain types of powerful magnets for example. 3He is also not that hard to make if needed, irradiate some water and wait.
Do you know how unconcentrated He3 is on the Moon. Better off scoop mining at Saturn or just making it here, if we ever get good enough at fusion to fuse He3.
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China also has over 4 times the population, which means each Chinese citizen is outputting half the CO2 as each American. You're suggesting that the people who are already doing twice as good as you do better while you do nothing.
I'd also like to see a citation for China emitting twice as much as the US in 2018. I can't find one up to date. What I do find is that China is actually decreasing it's CO2 emissions (they're actually basically stable) unlike America which is once again increasing them.
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Wonder how pressurizing the tank would keep the gas from going stale? The real problem with modern gas is the alcohol. using that little gas I'd advise getting the better gas with no alcohol if its available where you are.
Good point about sloshing the oil around periodically. A stopped engine is going to have at least one exhaust valve open, possibly letting in damp air and causing corrosion.
My truck only has 300,000 odd miles on it and even with regular oil changes (I believe the original owner did it every 3000 miles) it is going through a litre of oil every couple of months with no leaks.
Oil may have gotten better though I'd assume it is the additives as much as anything, but it is still getting exposed to combustion byproducts, especially if you make a lot of short trips.
Yes, same as an a regular IC engine that is only ran for a dozen or so hours a year. Of course a lot of manufacturers like to pretend oil and such don't get acidic and eat away at the aluminum. If you follow that line of reasoning, you could never change the oil, likewise for the anti-freeze.
Then there's all the other things in the parent posts list. Things like spark plugs that if you use the best (iridium?) can go a 100,000 miles easily.
How much maintenance is needed the way the parent poster is using his IC engine at 3 tanks of gas over 16 months?
With good oil, best antifreeze, it should be an oil change a year, coolant flush every 7 years, air filter perhaps once a decade and most of those other things in your list, almost never.
The ideal is your using electric for most of your driving.
I also can think of a couple of accidents where pilots saved the day. I guess the real question is number of lives saved by pilots saving the day vs number of lives saved by automation.
Relative velocity is the big one for probes. It's actually easier to fly by Pluto then Mercury.
3. transparency at a level where an ordinary person can reasonably see how the security works
This is the part that'll never be implemented with electronic voting. Even the most perfect system will be basically a black box to the average person.
I can watch the whole voting process here, including counting and anyone can understand how it works. I can't imagine how electronic voting can be understood by everyone no matter how good.
While you're correct that energy equals wealth, so does things like clean air, clean water and a stable environment.
These have to be balanced and if the cheap power is subsidized by dirty air etc, the power isn't really cheap.
I think the environmentalists are trying to balance these things in general. Of course capitalism leads to things like Exon funding Greenpeace to protect their business model. Can't have cheap nukes can we.
Strange definitions as here a Tory is opposite a Liberal.
What is scary is that next time you guys could elect someone truly evil rather then a boob. Your Supreme Court is politicized and likely to go along with evil rather then the rule of law due "party first"
Think of the poor executives, not only is it getting harder to come up with the money to buy another yacht, but now it is getting expensive to bribe universities to accept their kids who will be the next generation of executives and your leaders.
Had BluRay players for years while on dial up with no WiFi, never a problem.
I use LTE for home internet. It works fine usually though not sometimes in the evening. The big problem is the quota, which forces us to stream at lower bandwidth rates anyways.
And despite the general anti-U.S. sentiment among western countries, their interests align much more closely with the U.S.' interests than with China's.
Seems that the US is more aligned with China then its allies lately, not to mention alignment with other brutal dictators such as the Saudi's and you have a President who seems friendlier with the leader of N. Korea then leaders of its allies.
Personally I'm sick of my country supporting a country that slaps tariffs on my country for national security reasons while buying product from China by giving them lots of exceptions to tariffs.
Seems like you're doing economic war mostly against your allies and once Huawei donates/lends some money to your president, this is likely to go away.
Well, I'm sure Microsoft can deliver that.
Rail gun could probably be designed with a couple of degrees of aiming option by varying the magnetic field from side to side. Probably still need small thrusters on the payload. Seems a lot more doable in the short term.
Windows XP was hated when released with its Fischer Price interface and took a few service packs to be liked.
Maybe in a decade or two we'll be wishing for a good Windows like 10.
America is a bigger threat to some of ours security. For example, America is known for putting people on no-fly lists and enforcing it on their allies, which can be a direct threat to my freedom.
America would also rather put tariffs on my country with no exceptions then China, which gets lots of exceptions and shows America's true colours.
Electing Trump shows that America could actually elect someone truly evil instead of like Trump, just more crooked then usual. A good chunk of the American voters seem to ignore that Trump ignores the emoluments clause of the American Constitution.
Barbecue makers.
Numbers 2 and 3 really depend on where in your timezone you are. There's an hour or so difference between the east and west.
Why can't the individual States decide? Here, in Canada, it is a Provincial decision. Shit there's currently a private members bill in my Provinces legislature to create a new time zone splitting the Province, and it could pass and officially we'll follow the Western States decision to stay in sync according to the government.
Probably have to give the feds notice though as they're in charge of stuff like ships and railroads.
There's other uses for 3He, neutron detectors, certain types of powerful magnets for example. 3He is also not that hard to make if needed, irradiate some water and wait.
I wonder how the various nations on the Earth will feel about a mass driver on the Moon.
Do you know how unconcentrated He3 is on the Moon. Better off scoop mining at Saturn or just making it here, if we ever get good enough at fusion to fuse He3.