The Prineville airport is just across the highway from the data centers but it's not set up for heavy aircraft. The runways are paved but only 5,000 feet by 60 feet and 4,000 feet by 40 feet. The 2 runways at Redmond are 7,000 feet by 150 feet and by 100 feet. Building a large runway isn't cheap. To handle the load of landing aircraft the pavement is often more than two feet thick, up to 4 feet sometimes.
The USPS would be doing ok financially if they didn't have to fund medical coverage for employees who aren't even born yet. They have to fund 75 years of retiree health care benefits, $59 billion, in 10 years after the passage of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. Who else has to do anything even close to that?
The airport at Redmond (less than 30 miles away) is capable of handling all but the largest modern aircraft (anything smaller than a 747 or A380.) It has scheduled service with daily flights to Portland, Seattle, San Fransisco, Salt Lake City and Denver.
I know the Prineville area well. It is very dry there. It's cold in the winter but a big snowfall is pretty rare. More than 6 inches of snow on the ground is rare. It can get into the 90's and occasionally the 100's (Fahrenheit) in the summer but the overnight lows are still in the 50's and 60's generally. The only time it gets humid is when there are thunderstorms, maybe 5 days a year. No hurricanes or tornadoes and where the data centers are located flooding is not an issue. It's not a seismic zone and probably the worse natural disaster would be one of the volcanoes in the area going off but that's so rare it's not worth worrying about.
I believe Crook County did give them some sort of tax deal but it's not zero property taxes and they'll come out ahead in the long run. The biggest problem probably is finding people to work there. It's a long way from anywhere. Bend and Redmond (Oregon) are 30-40 miles away and it's a 4 hour drive to Portland. The night life in Prineville (what there is of it) consists mainly of redneck bars but Bend has some good things going on. If you're the city type you wouldn't like it much but if the the outdoorsy type it's a great area to live. The cost of living is fairly low there. The road access is good and US 97 which goes through Bend and Redmond is the major highway just east of the Cascade Mountains.
The first edition of Unix let programmers call 34 different low-level routines built into the operating system. It's a testament to the system's enduring nature that nearly all of these system calls are still available—and still heavily used—on modern Unix and Linux systems four decades on. For its time, first-edition Unix provided a remarkably powerful environment for software development. Yet it contained just 4200 lines of code at its heart and occupied a measly 16 KB of main memory when it ran.
Yes, there are tipping points. When I said a smooth curve I was talking about the primary effects of greenhouse gases. But possible tipping points are the loss of albedo as Arctic ice melts and the CO2 and methane released as the permafrost melts and undersea clathrates decompose from a warming sea. I don't really think we'll know what a tipping point was until after we've passed it and by then it's too late.
That's more binary thinking. Why would you think sea level rise would stop at 3 meters? If all of the ice on Antarctica and Greenland were to melt the stopping point would be around 70 meters (230 feet). Of course it would take a thousand years or more for all of that ice to melt but it's inevitable if we continue business as usual. As I said, the sooner we do something about it the less bad the final result will be.
Once the permafrost thaws out it will probably take hundreds of years for the land to become useable for much. Parts of the permafrost could become coal... if we covered it over (Tear down the Rocky Mountains? Be careful around Yellowstone.) and waited a million years.
How do you propose to capture methane dribbling out over hundreds of thousands of sq. miles/km of land and sea? It's definitely better to convert methane to CO2 and water than to leave it as methane.
1. There have been reports that we really can't stop global warming anyways. It is "too late".
It's not a binary issue. The more we increase greenhouse gases in the atmosphere the worse it gets on a smooth curve. There is the global warming that's already occurred and is in the pipeline that we can't stop. That includes the fact that once we get really serious about CO2 emissions it will take 30 or 40 years to to build the infrastructure necessary to convert to non-carbon energy sources so CO2 levels will continue to rise until then. But in the end the total global warming we will see (barring a significant change in the Sun) is largely set by the maximum level that CO2 reaches in the atmosphere. There is good reason to slow down and eventually stop carbon dioxide emissions to keep things from getting worse than they already have to be.
Yes, I could have stated that better. Copyright allows the creator of an original work to control the distribution of it for a certain amount of time. It doesn't just apply to written works.
I think you're thinking about patenting software. Copyright is a different thing. Generally you patent a device. Copyright is for protecting written information.
Talking about temperature records, the data is what it is. There's no way to go back and improve it to current collection standards. You have to deal with it as it is. The BEST study used all of the raw data that was available as well as other data sets including satellite records and all of the stations that the CRU, GISS and NCDC stopped using because they were superfluous*. Much of that was raw data that they had to process themselves. The fact is if you compare the raw data to the processed data the difference isn't that much. Certainly not enough to change the conclusions the data lead to. You can complain about the processed data all you want but until you provide actual evidence that the processing was invalid you're just making a political argument. The raw data is available.
*The big temperature records from CRU, GISS and NCDC use around 7,000 stations to produce their output. The BEST study used data from over 39,000 stations and had a total of over 1.6 billion individual temperature records from various sources to work with.
I think one of the reasons the UK is doing ok is that they kept their own currency. Greece wouldn't be in such bad trouble if they still had their own currency.
"Oh, well, that's different," screams the AGW crowd. Maybe. But it does show the limitations of science, does it not? I appreciate everything that the hurricane forecasters have accomplished. They've saved a lot of lives. But there's a good, hard example of the limitations of ANY model that seeks to predict the behavior of a huge, complex, chaotic system.
Another guy confusing weather with climate. While climate is complex it is not chaotic. It's like the comparison of rolling a die. Each individual roll of the die (weather) is chaotic but when you start averaging the results of a lot of rolls the result is predictable within a range of error (climate). As you do more and more rolls the range of error drops. One way to look at climate is it defines the envelope within which weather is chaotic.
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The Navy no longer has any airships. The hangar is left over from WWII when they used blimps to patrol off the coast for Japanese submarines.
The Prineville airport is just across the highway from the data centers but it's not set up for heavy aircraft. The runways are paved but only 5,000 feet by 60 feet and 4,000 feet by 40 feet. The 2 runways at Redmond are 7,000 feet by 150 feet and by 100 feet. Building a large runway isn't cheap. To handle the load of landing aircraft the pavement is often more than two feet thick, up to 4 feet sometimes.
The USPS would be doing ok financially if they didn't have to fund medical coverage for employees who aren't even born yet. They have to fund 75 years of retiree health care benefits, $59 billion, in 10 years after the passage of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. Who else has to do anything even close to that?
The airport at Redmond (less than 30 miles away) is capable of handling all but the largest modern aircraft (anything smaller than a 747 or A380.) It has scheduled service with daily flights to Portland, Seattle, San Fransisco, Salt Lake City and Denver.
I know the Prineville area well. It is very dry there. It's cold in the winter but a big snowfall is pretty rare. More than 6 inches of snow on the ground is rare. It can get into the 90's and occasionally the 100's (Fahrenheit) in the summer but the overnight lows are still in the 50's and 60's generally. The only time it gets humid is when there are thunderstorms, maybe 5 days a year. No hurricanes or tornadoes and where the data centers are located flooding is not an issue. It's not a seismic zone and probably the worse natural disaster would be one of the volcanoes in the area going off but that's so rare it's not worth worrying about.
I believe Crook County did give them some sort of tax deal but it's not zero property taxes and they'll come out ahead in the long run. The biggest problem probably is finding people to work there. It's a long way from anywhere. Bend and Redmond (Oregon) are 30-40 miles away and it's a 4 hour drive to Portland. The night life in Prineville (what there is of it) consists mainly of redneck bars but Bend has some good things going on. If you're the city type you wouldn't like it much but if the the outdoorsy type it's a great area to live. The cost of living is fairly low there. The road access is good and US 97 which goes through Bend and Redmond is the major highway just east of the Cascade Mountains.
From TFA (emphasis added):
The first edition of Unix let programmers call 34 different low-level routines built into the operating system. It's a testament to the system's enduring nature that nearly all of these system calls are still available—and still heavily used—on modern Unix and Linux systems four decades on. For its time, first-edition Unix provided a remarkably powerful environment for software development. Yet it contained just 4200 lines of code at its heart and occupied a measly 16 KB of main memory when it ran.
Yes, there are tipping points. When I said a smooth curve I was talking about the primary effects of greenhouse gases. But possible tipping points are the loss of albedo as Arctic ice melts and the CO2 and methane released as the permafrost melts and undersea clathrates decompose from a warming sea. I don't really think we'll know what a tipping point was until after we've passed it and by then it's too late.
That's more binary thinking. Why would you think sea level rise would stop at 3 meters? If all of the ice on Antarctica and Greenland were to melt the stopping point would be around 70 meters (230 feet). Of course it would take a thousand years or more for all of that ice to melt but it's inevitable if we continue business as usual. As I said, the sooner we do something about it the less bad the final result will be.
The name could be changed to permamelt.
You live in a world of instant gratification, don't you?
You need a better imagination.
I, for one, plan to welcome our new Mosquito Overlords.
All one hundred billion of them.
Not if the GM mosquitoes have their way.
Once the permafrost thaws out it will probably take hundreds of years for the land to become useable for much. Parts of the permafrost could become coal ... if we covered it over (Tear down the Rocky Mountains? Be careful around Yellowstone.) and waited a million years.
There's a limit to how much the well resourced can shield themselves. What happens to the riffraff will have an effect on them too.
How do you propose to capture methane dribbling out over hundreds of thousands of sq. miles/km of land and sea? It's definitely better to convert methane to CO2 and water than to leave it as methane.
1. There have been reports that we really can't stop global warming anyways. It is "too late".
It's not a binary issue. The more we increase greenhouse gases in the atmosphere the worse it gets on a smooth curve. There is the global warming that's already occurred and is in the pipeline that we can't stop. That includes the fact that once we get really serious about CO2 emissions it will take 30 or 40 years to to build the infrastructure necessary to convert to non-carbon energy sources so CO2 levels will continue to rise until then. But in the end the total global warming we will see (barring a significant change in the Sun) is largely set by the maximum level that CO2 reaches in the atmosphere. There is good reason to slow down and eventually stop carbon dioxide emissions to keep things from getting worse than they already have to be.
I believe there is lightning on Venus, Jupiter and several other bodies in the Solar System so theoretically you could detect it there as well.
Yes, I could have stated that better. Copyright allows the creator of an original work to control the distribution of it for a certain amount of time. It doesn't just apply to written works.
I think you're thinking about patenting software. Copyright is a different thing. Generally you patent a device. Copyright is for protecting written information.
Talking about temperature records, the data is what it is. There's no way to go back and improve it to current collection standards. You have to deal with it as it is. The BEST study used all of the raw data that was available as well as other data sets including satellite records and all of the stations that the CRU, GISS and NCDC stopped using because they were superfluous*. Much of that was raw data that they had to process themselves. The fact is if you compare the raw data to the processed data the difference isn't that much. Certainly not enough to change the conclusions the data lead to. You can complain about the processed data all you want but until you provide actual evidence that the processing was invalid you're just making a political argument. The raw data is available.
*The big temperature records from CRU, GISS and NCDC use around 7,000 stations to produce their output. The BEST study used data from over 39,000 stations and had a total of over 1.6 billion individual temperature records from various sources to work with.
I think one of the reasons the UK is doing ok is that they kept their own currency. Greece wouldn't be in such bad trouble if they still had their own currency.
Quick, someone tell Ralph Lauren.
If you need more information first go learn the difference between weather and climate.
"Oh, well, that's different," screams the AGW crowd. Maybe. But it does show the limitations of science, does it not? I appreciate everything that the hurricane forecasters have accomplished. They've saved a lot of lives. But there's a good, hard example of the limitations of ANY model that seeks to predict the behavior of a huge, complex, chaotic system.
Another guy confusing weather with climate. While climate is complex it is not chaotic. It's like the comparison of rolling a die. Each individual roll of the die (weather) is chaotic but when you start averaging the results of a lot of rolls the result is predictable within a range of error (climate). As you do more and more rolls the range of error drops. One way to look at climate is it defines the envelope within which weather is chaotic.
Methane may have been a factor in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.