No more than burning the trash in a more classic way, is my guess. My concern is on the amount of energy needed to be produced in order to power the plant. Are we using coal-produced energy for that?
> which in turn spins turbines to generate 60MW of electricity
What they forget to say is that it will take a lot more than 60MW to create the plasma turbines. One doesn't get "free" energy. But I'm all in favor of vaporizing trash, as long as it doesn't harm the environment more than normal trash does.
I own over 500 DVDs, I love to collect movies and my favorite shows and I look forward to collect BD as well, but I will never support any kind of "protection" that punishes a honest person. I travel all over the world and I often pick up movies from other countries, why shouldn't I have the right to play them back at home, in my living room? The region protection was stupid and any protection is stupid because it doesn't keep pirates away but just honest people like myself who paid dearly for their discs. If my DVD Player had not been unlocked I would not have spent a good chunk of that money on DVD. And I'll go even further: I should be able to send my original DVD of movie XY (not related to Kyle;) ) and upgrade for a reasonable cost to the same movie on BD, after all it's movie studios that pushed the new standard.
That's exactly what we need... another town on the planet where people walk around with belt-sized particle accelerators and wormholes are created recklessly every day... and more SMART cars (which are all over Europe already).
Well that bit is funny: in the TV show the SMART car is considered the car of the future, in Europe it has been driving around for years... ok it doesn't talk, still...)
So you're confirming exactly what I said: 2 times 9 months is 18 months. Not the 24-30 months suggested before.
And there's no difference in speed whatsoever between a small probe and a manned mission as long as the same kind of engines are used.
2 to 2 1/2 years? A trip to Mars is 9 Months, it has been done plenty times, which is well within the time spend by astronauts in orbit. Plus Mars has less gravity than Earth, so the effects of bone decalcification would be less severe.
The major problem to this trip would be bringing enough food and resources to possibly start cultures on Mars (a rudimentary very localized terraforming), but it's not sci-fi, it can be done.
Ok, the trip was to Titan, one of Saturn's moons, but it was pretty much the same idea nonetheless.
I recommend reading "Titan" by Stephen Baxter, which describes in vivid details the preparation for such a long trip and the necessity for the crew to take a one way ticket.
>You know, a long time ago, the citizens of America in the south didn't have a problem with slavery.
I know the United States is a young country, but last week is not a "long time ago";-)
I take 3 international trips every year (next one coming up in 3 days) and I've never been asked to turn on my laptop except on one occasion on a domestic flight in Italy 3 years ago when security (police there, actually) asked me to turn in on and log in just to make sure the laptop worked and wasn't just a fake laptop used to smuggle stuff.
I disagree. We are spending a c*apload of money in fixing the bull$hit that this administration has done for the past 8 years. Why does science have to suffer? Start cutting down paychecks and jobs in D.C. and subsidies to big oil and tobacco companies.
I understand that in the U.S. (where I live, but I grew up in Europe and still spend 2 months there every year) people are under the misconception that diesel emission are the most polluting thing there is. Well, it's not true. Green Diesel (it's actually of a white color) has been available in Europe for many years now and pollution laws in the European Union are as strict, if not stricter, than those in the States. Yes you can have diesel that pollutes less than gasoline, it exists and people outside of the US use it. I don't trust Wikipedia on everything, I just use it for a general idea. If Tokyo has banned diesel I'd like to know what type they were using. I was just in Japan in April and I didn't pay attention to cars in Tokyo, but I've seen diesel cars and they didn't strike me as being more pollutant than gasoline ones. On the other hand, in Peru, diesel cars were not running green diesel, just like trucks in the U.S. don't.
I don't need to carry many batteries, all I need is a laptop with a power supply lower than 75W (mine is 65). I fly a lot and my plane seat always has a power plug.
My HP laptop's battery lasts 1 hour with non-intensive tasks and 45 minutes with DVD/DiVX play. Well, kinda, it slows to a crawl that the video skips and audio goes out of synch so you can'r really watch.
And I'm talking a laptop that came out only 11 months ago with a Dual core processor and 2GB RAM.
I've been there twice. Done both shows. Original one is cool with special effects of you being teleported, but Borg Encounter is awesome, it really makes you feel like you're inside Voyager!
3 million people in 10 years is a lot, plus it's expensive, nearly half the price of a Walt Disney World ticket.
I'm sorry I don't have a reference handy, but last month the European Union announced a solar plant project that will take a good chunk of the Sahara desert to power all of Europe, so I guess that would be the biggest plant in the world.
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Thus resolving the problems created by Hurricanes in Florida. It's called: PREVENTION! It's a win-win situation, really! ;-)
No more than burning the trash in a more classic way, is my guess. My concern is on the amount of energy needed to be produced in order to power the plant. Are we using coal-produced energy for that?
What they forget to say is that it will take a lot more than 60MW to create the plasma turbines. One doesn't get "free" energy. But I'm all in favor of vaporizing trash, as long as it doesn't harm the environment more than normal trash does.
I own over 500 DVDs, I love to collect movies and my favorite shows and I look forward to collect BD as well, but I will never support any kind of "protection" that punishes a honest person. I travel all over the world and I often pick up movies from other countries, why shouldn't I have the right to play them back at home, in my living room? The region protection was stupid and any protection is stupid because it doesn't keep pirates away but just honest people like myself who paid dearly for their discs. If my DVD Player had not been unlocked I would not have spent a good chunk of that money on DVD. And I'll go even further: I should be able to send my original DVD of movie XY (not related to Kyle ;) ) and upgrade for a reasonable cost to the same movie on BD, after all it's movie studios that pushed the new standard.
Well that bit is funny: in the TV show the SMART car is considered the car of the future, in Europe it has been driving around for years... ok it doesn't talk, still...)
So you're confirming exactly what I said: 2 times 9 months is 18 months. Not the 24-30 months suggested before. And there's no difference in speed whatsoever between a small probe and a manned mission as long as the same kind of engines are used.
2 to 2 1/2 years? A trip to Mars is 9 Months, it has been done plenty times, which is well within the time spend by astronauts in orbit. Plus Mars has less gravity than Earth, so the effects of bone decalcification would be less severe. The major problem to this trip would be bringing enough food and resources to possibly start cultures on Mars (a rudimentary very localized terraforming), but it's not sci-fi, it can be done.
Ok, the trip was to Titan, one of Saturn's moons, but it was pretty much the same idea nonetheless. I recommend reading "Titan" by Stephen Baxter, which describes in vivid details the preparation for such a long trip and the necessity for the crew to take a one way ticket.
How the heck is that a Flamebait?
Ugh, I'm going to get punished too for saying "heck" --- twice, damn! ---Damn! I said damn too and heck! Aaaargh!
>You know, a long time ago, the citizens of America in the south didn't have a problem with slavery. I know the United States is a young country, but last week is not a "long time ago" ;-)
I take 3 international trips every year (next one coming up in 3 days) and I've never been asked to turn on my laptop except on one occasion on a domestic flight in Italy 3 years ago when security (police there, actually) asked me to turn in on and log in just to make sure the laptop worked and wasn't just a fake laptop used to smuggle stuff.
Then I'll pick a PS3 as BD player when the time comes for me to get one.
Then let's bring lots of iron to Mars and increase gravity... or use a graviton gun.
I can already see a "Disney Orbit Resort" (leased by Oriental Land. The same owners of Tokyo Disney Resort, of course)
I disagree. We are spending a c*apload of money in fixing the bull$hit that this administration has done for the past 8 years. Why does science have to suffer? Start cutting down paychecks and jobs in D.C. and subsidies to big oil and tobacco companies.
Aren't we supposed to go to Titan? Nobody reads Stephen Baxter anymore? :)
I didn't mean Green Diesel as "green" colored diesel. Green as in "ecologically less damaging than regular, old type, diesel"
I understand that in the U.S. (where I live, but I grew up in Europe and still spend 2 months there every year) people are under the misconception that diesel emission are the most polluting thing there is. Well, it's not true. Green Diesel (it's actually of a white color) has been available in Europe for many years now and pollution laws in the European Union are as strict, if not stricter, than those in the States. Yes you can have diesel that pollutes less than gasoline, it exists and people outside of the US use it. I don't trust Wikipedia on everything, I just use it for a general idea. If Tokyo has banned diesel I'd like to know what type they were using. I was just in Japan in April and I didn't pay attention to cars in Tokyo, but I've seen diesel cars and they didn't strike me as being more pollutant than gasoline ones. On the other hand, in Peru, diesel cars were not running green diesel, just like trucks in the U.S. don't.
Humans have never sent anything to Mars, it's a lie. Look at that photo, it's all black and white, everybody knows Mars is red.
I don't need to carry many batteries, all I need is a laptop with a power supply lower than 75W (mine is 65). I fly a lot and my plane seat always has a power plug.
My HP laptop's battery lasts 1 hour with non-intensive tasks and 45 minutes with DVD/DiVX play. Well, kinda, it slows to a crawl that the video skips and audio goes out of synch so you can'r really watch. And I'm talking a laptop that came out only 11 months ago with a Dual core processor and 2GB RAM.
Exactly. You just need the technology to read the molecular structure and then replicate it.
I've been there twice. Done both shows. Original one is cool with special effects of you being teleported, but Borg Encounter is awesome, it really makes you feel like you're inside Voyager! 3 million people in 10 years is a lot, plus it's expensive, nearly half the price of a Walt Disney World ticket.
I'm sorry I don't have a reference handy, but last month the European Union announced a solar plant project that will take a good chunk of the Sahara desert to power all of Europe, so I guess that would be the biggest plant in the world.
I think you're confusing "there is no free will" with "there is no common sense"