This comet orbits between 2.2 and 5.2 AU and it's last closest approach to the Sun was in May, 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17P/Holmes. An AU is the average distance between the Sun and the Earth.
Comet crusts, the dark stuff that is left over after the ice sublimates, are thought to conduct heat slowly. One theory on why we see outbursts as comets move away from the Sun, as this one is doing, is that the warming pulse from the closest approach takes time to sink down to a reservior of carbon monoxide gas which then sublimate internally and blows off fairly large chunks of the comet. Another theory is that the same thermal pulse reaches a reservior of amorphous water ice, which is more common in space than crystalline ice and thus might be present in comets since their formation. When amorphous ice is warmed, it will become crystalline and release energy because the ordered state of crystaline ice is a lower energy state. This can lead to a chain reaction of further crystallization and energy release that could lead to enough warming to cause sublimation in the interior and then do the same kind of thing as in the carbon monoxide scenario. -- Get your power from the Sun for what you already pay now: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users-selling-solar.html
"Every person has the right to be compensated in accordance with the law in the event he has been sentenced by a final judgment through a miscarriage of justice."
And thus might come under the jursidiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
The think about fuel for aviation is that you realy do need high energy density in both volume and mass. Hydrogen is a good fuel in terms of energy per unit mass, but it is difficult to get teh volume down. In current engine designs you want to watch the flash point as well as low temperature behavior. This is a big question alternative fuels. Developing alternatives is considered to be a military necessity owing to potential supply disruptions. This group is looking at synthetic fuel production form a mix of coal and biomass.
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I have to agree. I've tutored math quite a bit and what I find is that people have missed a step somewhere. Math just falls out of itself, but if you miss on step, then none of it makes any sense. Once you've found the bit you are missing, everything looks simple. But, how to find that bit? You could start over from the very beginning, but you'll save a lot of time if you can work with someone who can probe your knowledge and lead you directly to where
the missing concept is. You know that you understand math when it feels very natural, simple and true. That is what it is. But, if you were sick for a week during school, that can be the end for you. So, get a tutor, and then you'll know where to start. When you understand math, you won't remember it, you'll just feel it. If you happen to have a good memory, that can even get in your way because it can carry you for a while without understanding. Your better off if it is easier to derive a formula than to remember it. Oh, I forgot, I did tutor some premeds.... They do it all on memory. But, they are working in their own special equation.
The curious thing about the link I gave is that the amount of oil might be 400 billion barrels. There seem to be a lot of maybes in oil exploration. Quantifing those, which all seem to push up URRs, is something that I don't see happening all that much. In any case, production from the formation is growing rapidly and that, at least, ought to get notices. That is production of light sweet crude.
There is little electricity generated from oil and silicon processing mainly uses electricity so this is not a direct concern. Some at that site suggest that the impact of oil scarcity on society could be so large that industry will be disrupted. That would be an indirect effect. However, few there seem interested in potentially large oil fields like the Bakken Formation: http://www.undeerc.org/price/ so that there may be a bias in some of the analysis. -- Rent solar power for your home: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users-selling-solar.html
That was basically his point, that, and that when his patients were poor, he didn't charge them.
Presume I'll support a candidate who who has a plan for single payer. Doctors have many other opportunities for private charity. Hopefully we'll be out of Iraq before the election. --
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Ron Paul was interviewed on the News Hour tonight and made the same point there. He also said that passengers are indoctrinated in timidity, or something to that effect, so that they don't defend themselves. To me, in his demenor, he seemed uncomfortable about presenting his views. He critisized the democrats for wanting to stay in Iraq and proposed ending medicare and social security. Kind of gutsy, but perhaps out of his element. -- Getting free from fossil fuels: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users-selling-solar.html
I've nerver had 14 mods before and the message was a simple congratulations. I think the mod history does show there is much more work to be done. Thanks for your defense of my post and I'm sorry you got modded to troll:-(
It is important to hold murders accountable for their acts, but when working for peace, it is often more important to reduce the occation for conflict. Thus, truth an reconcilliation trumps punishment in South Africa. Similarly, reducing poverty reduces the sense of injustice that inspires those middle and upper class terrorists while controlling desertification keeps refugee situations from arising. Arming the refugees is the proximate cause of the genocide, but it is not the root cause of the conflict, climate change is.
You can choose not to acknowledge your responsibility in the genocide, but that does not mean that if you (and I) had not changed the climate there, genocide would be occurring anyway. What we cause, we can also mitigate. You are incorrect to say that warming cannot be stopped: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/08/undertaking.html
Hum, global warming provides a cause fo genocide. Gore points this out. Gore points out that we can do something to stop global warming.... When you change your lightbulbs you are saving yourself some money and also contributing to a solution to warming induced conflicts. You don't have to change your lightbulbs. You can waste your money, kill more miners and contribute to genocide, but Gore has persuaded others to do this and it is beginning to show. US carbon dioxide emissions decreased 1.3% from 2005 to 2006: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/flash/flash.html. There is more to do, as I said in my original post, but Gore is making a contribution.
You need to see Gore's film. The connection between conflict in Darfur and global warming is presented there. As this is a genocide, it comes pretty high up in the list (as you placed it).
To make things realy go, you need to make carbon penalties very large. New Jersey has decided to do away with its solar rebates and now plans to set penalties for utilities not having the required amount of solar power in their system at more than double the current $0.30 per kWh sold. People who buy solar power systems will be issued Solar Renewable Energy Certificates (SRECs) according to their generation which they may sell to New Jersey utlities at a market price (around $0.20/kwh presently http://markets.flettexchange.com/njsrec units are $/MWh). Utilities are planning on making loans to help people install solar power which would be repaid in these SRECs. Because the penalty is so high, and the opportunity for those with solar power capability to profit is so large, it seems likely that New Jersey's Renewable Energy Standards for solar will be met with ease.
Offsets can be traded voluntarily and such, but mandated fractions of renewable energy with effective enforcement penalties will be more sucessful I think. --
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In fact, democrats controlled the Senate at the time and that is what counts for treaties. But, the Senate indicated that it would not ratify before the negociations were complete so that another round should have taken place. The main issue was large and growing emitter who had no obligations. A treaty that had obligations, even just symbolic ones, probably could have been ratified, but the Clinton administration believed that it could use perssuation after ignoring the Senate to get ratification. They were mistaken in this. -- Rent solar power for your home: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users-selling-solar.html
Actually, it was a sincere expression of sentiment. All the recipients have been critisized by me in the past but I do admire their effort and the insight of the Committee that this is a pressing peace issue. It was not an attempt to have the first post since I clicked preview before submitting. I've had the first three posts on a story before because I was in a hurry to get to church and I had some information to share that did not fit well into the summary. Mods don't have a lot to choose from early on so it is best to discount mods of early posts. For that reason, I apreciate the mods who take the time to read through later and pick out nuggets in a larger field. -- Rent solar power equipment at a flat rate that'll save you money. Ask about Solar Assurance! http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users-selling-solar.html
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See... See.... 2 to 1.
Ominous times... Ominous times....
This portends the collapse of the National League. The curse of the Bambino is lifted in spades!
That should be "reservior of carbon monoxide ice"
This comet orbits between 2.2 and 5.2 AU and it's last closest approach to the Sun was in May, 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17P/Holmes. An AU is the average distance between the Sun and the Earth.
Comet crusts, the dark stuff that is left over after the ice sublimates, are thought to conduct heat slowly. One theory on why we see outbursts as comets move away from the Sun, as this one is doing, is that the warming pulse from the closest approach takes time to sink down to a reservior of carbon monoxide gas which then sublimate internally and blows off fairly large chunks of the comet. Another theory is that the same thermal pulse reaches a reservior of amorphous water ice, which is more common in space than crystalline ice and thus might be present in comets since their formation. When amorphous ice is warmed, it will become crystalline and release energy because the ordered state of crystaline ice is a lower energy state. This can lead to a chain reaction of further crystallization and energy release that could lead to enough warming to cause sublimation in the interior and then do the same kind of thing as in the carbon monoxide scenario.
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Just what I was thinking. Then, when they started using mercinaries they became less effective?
How dare you post this scientific gobledygook. This, Sir, is an Apple shill site!
Perhaps the issue is that what happened violates the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties Man: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/oasinstr/zoas2dec.htm
"Every person has the right to the protection of the law against abusive attacks upon his honor, his reputation, and his private and family life."
And the American Convention on Human Rights: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/oasinstr/zoas3con.htm
"Every person has the right to be compensated in accordance with the law in the event he has been sentenced by a final judgment through a miscarriage of justice."
And thus might come under the jursidiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
The think about fuel for aviation is that you realy do need high energy density in both volume and mass. Hydrogen is a good fuel in terms of energy per unit mass, but it is difficult to get teh volume down. In current engine designs you want to watch the flash point as well as low temperature behavior. This is a big question alternative fuels. Developing alternatives is considered to be a military necessity owing to potential supply disruptions. This group is looking at synthetic fuel production form a mix of coal and biomass.
--
Soar away from rising prices with solar: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users-selling-solar.html
I agree. Here is my post: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/10/splash-plot.html. Comments are welcome.
Thanks for the correction. The military should have the lower capability using ground based technology fairly soon: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070726210931.htm
I have to agree. I've tutored math quite a bit and what I find is that people have missed a step somewhere. Math just falls out of itself, but if you miss on step, then none of it makes any sense. Once you've found the bit you are missing, everything looks simple. But, how to find that bit? You could start over from the very beginning, but you'll save a lot of time if you can work with someone who can probe your knowledge and lead you directly to where the missing concept is. You know that you understand math when it feels very natural, simple and true. That is what it is. But, if you were sick for a week during school, that can be the end for you. So, get a tutor, and then you'll know where to start. When you understand math, you won't remember it, you'll just feel it. If you happen to have a good memory, that can even get in your way because it can carry you for a while without understanding. Your better off if it is easier to derive a formula than to remember it. Oh, I forgot, I did tutor some premeds.... They do it all on memory. But, they are working in their own special equation.
The curious thing about the link I gave is that the amount of oil might be 400 billion barrels. There seem to be a lot of maybes in oil exploration. Quantifing those, which all seem to push up URRs, is something that I don't see happening all that much. In any case, production from the formation is growing rapidly and that, at least, ought to get notices. That is production of light sweet crude.
There is little electricity generated from oil and silicon processing mainly uses electricity so this is not a direct concern. Some at that site suggest that the impact of oil scarcity on society could be so large that industry will be disrupted. That would be an indirect effect. However, few there seem interested in potentially large oil fields like the Bakken Formation: http://www.undeerc.org/price/ so that there may be a bias in some of the analysis.
--
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That was basically his point, that, and that when his patients were poor, he didn't charge them.
Presume I'll support a candidate who who has a plan for single payer. Doctors have many other opportunities for private charity. Hopefully we'll be out of Iraq before the election.
--
Rent solar power for your home: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users-selling-solar.html
Ron Paul was interviewed on the News Hour tonight and made the same point there. He also said that passengers are indoctrinated in timidity, or something to that effect, so that they don't defend themselves. To me, in his demenor, he seemed uncomfortable about presenting his views. He critisized the democrats for wanting to stay in Iraq and proposed ending medicare and social security. Kind of gutsy, but perhaps out of his element.
--
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Here is the mod history so far for my post:
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I've nerver had 14 mods before and the message was a simple congratulations. I think the mod history does show there is much more work to be done. Thanks for your defense of my post and I'm sorry you got modded to troll
Better watch it again then. You missed part of it.
It is important to hold murders accountable for their acts, but when working for peace, it is often more important to reduce the occation for conflict. Thus, truth an reconcilliation trumps punishment in South Africa. Similarly, reducing poverty reduces the sense of injustice that inspires those middle and upper class terrorists while controlling desertification keeps refugee situations from arising. Arming the refugees is the proximate cause of the genocide, but it is not the root cause of the conflict, climate change is.
You can choose not to acknowledge your responsibility in the genocide, but that does not mean that if you (and I) had not changed the climate there, genocide would be occurring anyway. What we cause, we can also mitigate. You are incorrect to say that warming cannot be stopped: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/08/undertaking.html
Hum, global warming provides a cause fo genocide. Gore points this out. Gore points out that we can do something to stop global warming.... When you change your lightbulbs you are saving yourself some money and also contributing to a solution to warming induced conflicts. You don't have to change your lightbulbs. You can waste your money, kill more miners and contribute to genocide, but Gore has persuaded others to do this and it is beginning to show. US carbon dioxide emissions decreased 1.3% from 2005 to 2006: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/flash/flash.html. There is more to do, as I said in my original post, but Gore is making a contribution.
You need to see Gore's film. The connection between conflict in Darfur and global warming is presented there. As this is a genocide, it comes pretty high up in the list (as you placed it).
To make things realy go, you need to make carbon penalties very large. New Jersey has decided to do away with its solar rebates and now plans to set penalties for utilities not having the required amount of solar power in their system at more than double the current $0.30 per kWh sold. People who buy solar power systems will be issued Solar Renewable Energy Certificates (SRECs) according to their generation which they may sell to New Jersey utlities at a market price (around $0.20/kwh presently http://markets.flettexchange.com/njsrec units are $/MWh). Utilities are planning on making loans to help people install solar power which would be repaid in these SRECs. Because the penalty is so high, and the opportunity for those with solar power capability to profit is so large, it seems likely that New Jersey's Renewable Energy Standards for solar will be met with ease. Offsets can be traded voluntarily and such, but mandated fractions of renewable energy with effective enforcement penalties will be more sucessful I think.
--
Rent solar power for you home and save (unless you want NJSRECs): http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users-selling-solar.html
In fact, democrats controlled the Senate at the time and that is what counts for treaties. But, the Senate indicated that it would not ratify before the negociations were complete so that another round should have taken place. The main issue was large and growing emitter who had no obligations. A treaty that had obligations, even just symbolic ones, probably could have been ratified, but the Clinton administration believed that it could use perssuation after ignoring the Senate to get ratification. They were mistaken in this.
--
Rent solar power for your home: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users-selling-solar.html
Actually, it was a sincere expression of sentiment. All the recipients have been critisized by me in the past but I do admire their effort and the insight of the Committee that this is a pressing peace issue. It was not an attempt to have the first post since I clicked preview before submitting. I've had the first three posts on a story before because I was in a hurry to get to church and I had some information to share that did not fit well into the summary. Mods don't have a lot to choose from early on so it is best to discount mods of early posts. For that reason, I apreciate the mods who take the time to read through later and pick out nuggets in a larger field.
--
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Congratulations to the recipients. They've earned it. As with all peace issues, there is much much more work to do.