Isn't it the dilettante who is too ignorant to see through the shill who ultimately poisons the discourse? The shills are usually hyper-polite. It is the hobbyists who start to amplify the shill's message and get hurt feelings when they are corrected that start with the swearing and personal attacks.
Not too sure. I think the CIA has the social engineering with UAV launched missile portfolio, but I don't know how all the less lethal efforts break down.
Not too sure about that. Manufacturing is getting more automated. Low energy costs such as in the Pacific Northwest, should start to be the deciding factor. Also, for now, it is not a huge expense so reparations tariffs may not shift trade around that much yet.
Not at all. Up to the threshold of dangerous climate change, there is no blame. But, now, China is pushing us past that threshold. It is countries with growing emissions that must be forced to pay reparations for climate change induced damage.
Mitigation is reducing the scale of the problem by cutting greenhouse gas emissions or painting roofs white. This is money for adaptation, a much more expensive approach to the problem. Since the US is already taking mitigation steps (new CAFE standards do the job of your proposed fuel tax) we need to look abroad for further mitigation. Growing Chinese greenhouse gas emissions, now the largest in the world, need to be our focus for more mitigation. An ounce of prevention (mitigation) is worth several tons of cure (adaptation) considering that adaptation eventually means evacuating large parts of Florida. Tariffs on the import of Chinese goods should pay for our climate change adaptation costs. It is they who are pushing us into dangerous climate change and reparations for the desiccating attacks on our native soil must be extracted from them.
With climate change we can adapt or mitigate. Mitigation is much cheaper but it also has to be paid for now rather than later. This proposal is to pay for some adaptation. We don't have much choice about that since we are already seeing dangerous climate change effects. But, it would be good to have this payed for in a way that helps with mitigation. China is the country that is pushing us into dangerous climate change with its growing emissions of greenhouse gases. Placing a tariff on imports of goods from China would help to move manufacturing to counties that are cutting emissions and thus reduce China's emissions. If we must spend on adaptation, getting the money should be helping with mitigation or we are being spendthrifts.
When you see those clean burning logos, that means no black plumes from diesel engines. That is good for people's health. It is not too surprising that there are no climate benefits. Part of the advantage for natural gas over coal is that combined cycle gas turbines are about 60% efficient while coal plants are 30 to 40% efficient. For the internal combustion engines in buses, the efficiency is about the same for both diesel and natural gas. And, diesel also has more hydrogen than coal in its makeup. But, producing a methane fuel cell is probably easier than producing a diesel fuel cell so natural gas buses have the potential to be more climate friendly than diesel buses sooner. Add that methane may be a useful hydrogen carrier for hydrogen fuel cells and the development of a methane infrastructure for trucks and buses is likely a smart move.
There is a transmission bottleneck North of NYC as well. There is lots of renewable energy available from Quebec Hydro but few ways to get it to the city. One plan that avoids overhead transmissions lines is to run transmission lines under the Hudson River. This has the potential to replace power from Indian Point. Indian Point has a particularly troubled safety record and, owing to high surrounding property values and the Price Anderson subsidy for nuclear accident liability, could cause the federal government to default on its obligations in the case of an accident. Shutting Indian Point down thus has a great attraction, and the transmission plan may help with that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Astrology used to keep astronomers fed. And, the observations that used to accompany astrology became the basis for astronomical advances. As a proto-science, astrology has appeared in Jungian archetypal motifs in psychology as well as sharing vocabulary with astronomy and planetary science. There are connections between astrology and these sciences just as there are between alchemy and both chemistry and nuclear physics or between herbalism and pharmacology.
A good place to start is "Reinventing Fire" http://www.rmi.org/reinventing... Looks like utility scale renewables are the lowest cost approach to eliminating carbon emissions. Opportunity cost is important because, when it is high, progress is slower owing to slower deployment of the less costly option.
Actually, no. It is renewables that have the capacity to sustain an even larger population while depletable don't. Wind along could provide several times current power consumption. http://news.stanford.edu/news/... Solar has much greater potential.
Nuclear does well in propulsion for the Navy and with areal drones, it may work out in the air as well. But it just is too expensive to be considered for a solution to our climate problems. It's opportunity cost is just too high. http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-C...
In HS swimming, Coaches can use smart phones to record split times and share them with other coaches, but swimmers can't have timers embedded in their goggles to help them check their pace during a race. Learning aids are OK be competition aids are not. Probably this new technology could be used in a like manner.
Fuel cells are quite a lot more efficient than ICEs where most of our ethanol ends up. Ken Caldeira seems to have forgotten that: http://thinkprogress.org/clima...
Plato pointed out that music and gymnastics are the foundation of education because they prepare the mind for grasping other subjects. One can see a place for digital composition in education, but using a traditional instrument in performance probably is more effective in what Plato meant to achieve.
First we mangle the Constitution with prohibition, grow an organized crime culture then repeal it. Now we lay down a mandate and then back peddle. It's like we are getting thrown across the shoulders of a gin-soaked barroom queen all the time.
In his new book "Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity" Lester Brown writes: "Between 2005 and 2011, the grain used to produce fuel for cars climbed from 41 million to 127 million tons—nearly a third of the U.S. grain harvest. (See Figure 4–1.) The United States is trying to replace oil fields with corn fields to meet part of its automotive fuel needs. The massive diversion of grain to fuel cars has helped drive up food prices, leaving low-income consumers everywhere to suffer some of the most severe food price inflation in history. As of mid-2012, world wheat, corn, and soybean prices were roughly double their historical levels."
He is pessimistic about cellulosic ethanol: "The unfortunate reality is that the road to this ambitious cellulosic biofuel goal is littered with bankrupt firms that tried and failed to develop a process that would produce an economically viable fuel. Despite having the advantage of not being directly part of the food supply, cellulosic ethanol has strong intrinsic characteristics that put it at a basic disadvantage compared with grain ethanol, so it may never become economically viable." http://www.earthpolicy.org/books/fpep/fpepch4
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Isn't it the dilettante who is too ignorant to see through the shill who ultimately poisons the discourse? The shills are usually hyper-polite. It is the hobbyists who start to amplify the shill's message and get hurt feelings when they are corrected that start with the swearing and personal attacks.
Not too sure. I think the CIA has the social engineering with UAV launched missile portfolio, but I don't know how all the less lethal efforts break down.
Agreed. It is to do whatever we want outside the US.
The NSA is in trouble for domestic spying. Are the targets here domestic? If not, then they are just doing their job.
Not too sure about that. Manufacturing is getting more automated. Low energy costs such as in the Pacific Northwest, should start to be the deciding factor. Also, for now, it is not a huge expense so reparations tariffs may not shift trade around that much yet.
Not at all. Up to the threshold of dangerous climate change, there is no blame. But, now, China is pushing us past that threshold. It is countries with growing emissions that must be forced to pay reparations for climate change induced damage.
Mitigation is reducing the scale of the problem by cutting greenhouse gas emissions or painting roofs white. This is money for adaptation, a much more expensive approach to the problem. Since the US is already taking mitigation steps (new CAFE standards do the job of your proposed fuel tax) we need to look abroad for further mitigation. Growing Chinese greenhouse gas emissions, now the largest in the world, need to be our focus for more mitigation. An ounce of prevention (mitigation) is worth several tons of cure (adaptation) considering that adaptation eventually means evacuating large parts of Florida. Tariffs on the import of Chinese goods should pay for our climate change adaptation costs. It is they who are pushing us into dangerous climate change and reparations for the desiccating attacks on our native soil must be extracted from them.
With climate change we can adapt or mitigate. Mitigation is much cheaper but it also has to be paid for now rather than later. This proposal is to pay for some adaptation. We don't have much choice about that since we are already seeing dangerous climate change effects. But, it would be good to have this payed for in a way that helps with mitigation. China is the country that is pushing us into dangerous climate change with its growing emissions of greenhouse gases. Placing a tariff on imports of goods from China would help to move manufacturing to counties that are cutting emissions and thus reduce China's emissions. If we must spend on adaptation, getting the money should be helping with mitigation or we are being spendthrifts.
When you see those clean burning logos, that means no black plumes from diesel engines. That is good for people's health. It is not too surprising that there are no climate benefits. Part of the advantage for natural gas over coal is that combined cycle gas turbines are about 60% efficient while coal plants are 30 to 40% efficient. For the internal combustion engines in buses, the efficiency is about the same for both diesel and natural gas. And, diesel also has more hydrogen than coal in its makeup. But, producing a methane fuel cell is probably easier than producing a diesel fuel cell so natural gas buses have the potential to be more climate friendly than diesel buses sooner. Add that methane may be a useful hydrogen carrier for hydrogen fuel cells and the development of a methane infrastructure for trucks and buses is likely a smart move.
There is a transmission bottleneck North of NYC as well. There is lots of renewable energy available from Quebec Hydro but few ways to get it to the city. One plan that avoids overhead transmissions lines is to run transmission lines under the Hudson River. This has the potential to replace power from Indian Point. Indian Point has a particularly troubled safety record and, owing to high surrounding property values and the Price Anderson subsidy for nuclear accident liability, could cause the federal government to default on its obligations in the case of an accident. Shutting Indian Point down thus has a great attraction, and the transmission plan may help with that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Astrology used to keep astronomers fed. And, the observations that used to accompany astrology became the basis for astronomical advances. As a proto-science, astrology has appeared in Jungian archetypal motifs in psychology as well as sharing vocabulary with astronomy and planetary science. There are connections between astrology and these sciences just as there are between alchemy and both chemistry and nuclear physics or between herbalism and pharmacology.
Isn't this just a way for them to get feedback from their audience? Contributions indicate a positive response, right?
We looked at that 50 years ago. It was junk. Terrible $130 million clean up cost too.
A good place to start is "Reinventing Fire" http://www.rmi.org/reinventing... Looks like utility scale renewables are the lowest cost approach to eliminating carbon emissions. Opportunity cost is important because, when it is high, progress is slower owing to slower deployment of the less costly option.
Actually, no. It is renewables that have the capacity to sustain an even larger population while depletable don't. Wind along could provide several times current power consumption. http://news.stanford.edu/news/... Solar has much greater potential.
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Nuclear does well in propulsion for the Navy and with areal drones, it may work out in the air as well. But it just is too expensive to be considered for a solution to our climate problems. It's opportunity cost is just too high. http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-C...
In HS swimming, Coaches can use smart phones to record split times and share them with other coaches, but swimmers can't have timers embedded in their goggles to help them check their pace during a race. Learning aids are OK be competition aids are not. Probably this new technology could be used in a like manner.
Fuel cells are quite a lot more efficient than ICEs where most of our ethanol ends up. Ken Caldeira seems to have forgotten that: http://thinkprogress.org/clima...
Why not heat with a bitcoin miner? You'd help to cover the cost of the electricity. Or, do service for boinc. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty is unraveling pretty quickly as a result of the US cooperation with India. Now China is helping Pakistan http://www.newsweek.com/china-commits-65-billion-pakistani-nuclear-project-225076 Regional nuclear was is becoming more likely.
Plato pointed out that music and gymnastics are the foundation of education because they prepare the mind for grasping other subjects. One can see a place for digital composition in education, but using a traditional instrument in performance probably is more effective in what Plato meant to achieve.
First we mangle the Constitution with prohibition, grow an organized crime culture then repeal it. Now we lay down a mandate and then back peddle. It's like we are getting thrown across the shoulders of a gin-soaked barroom queen all the time.
In his new book "Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity" Lester Brown writes: "Between 2005 and 2011, the grain used to produce fuel for cars climbed from 41 million to 127 million tons—nearly a third of the U.S. grain harvest. (See Figure 4–1.) The United States is trying to replace oil fields with corn fields to meet part of its automotive fuel needs. The massive diversion of grain to fuel cars has helped drive up food prices, leaving low-income consumers everywhere to suffer some of the most severe food price inflation in history. As of mid-2012, world wheat, corn, and soybean prices were roughly double their historical levels."
He is pessimistic about cellulosic ethanol: "The unfortunate reality is that the road to this ambitious cellulosic biofuel goal is littered with bankrupt firms that tried and failed to develop a process that would produce an economically viable fuel. Despite having the advantage of not being directly part of the food supply, cellulosic ethanol has strong intrinsic characteristics that put it at a basic disadvantage compared with grain ethanol, so it may never become economically viable." http://www.earthpolicy.org/books/fpep/fpepch4