So we don't have those forms of transportation available to us.
Try Google Earth and get a better idea of the size of America and where half the population lives - unable to use any useful form of transportation except for motor vehicles.
Do you have the money to -give- us all electric cars, the battery storage and solar power panels? Because most of us can't afford them, and the electrical grid sure can't handle it!
You are missing quite a bit, such as the fact that people already own vehicles and most can't afford to buy new ones right away.
As to sawgrass, what is the tonnage per acre of usable biomass compared to modern maize hybrids? What climate zones does it grow well in? What are its water and fertilizer requirements compared to maize or sorghum?
If you provide the market and the profitability, the farmers will be happy to plant it.
solar is still considerably less efficient and manufacture is still very poisonously pollutant. That may be changing, but it isn't here, yet.
Nuclear isn't really all that finite (especially if you include the Sun) Carter issued a decree that makes us waste the majority of the usable fuel in fuel rods. We aren't using breeder reactors, which would make more fuel. Thorium breeders are even better, and abundance is similar to lead. The amount of uranium in seawater is astronomical. Then you have fusion. Bussard, shortly before his death, brought the Farnsworth Fusor reactor up to and slightly beyond break-even. It is a far more efficient and scalable (as in small enough for ocean vessels, space craft, and maybe even vehicles). It burns boron and hydrogen. We have extremely vast supplies of boron in Death Valley alone (Borax is made from the boron deposits - 40-mule team to the future!)
We need to see ethanol as a storage mechanism for solar energy that works in existing vehicles. The same goes for biodiesel. Just as petroleum is a storage mechanism for the bacterial metabolisms in the deep, hot biosphere eating methane and rocks in the crust of the Earth.
Absolutely correct. Farmers here in the midwest of America are faxing a five-fold increase in the cost of producing food. Of course, farmers don't set the prices, the monopolistic grain companies and speculators on the Chicago Board of Trade do that.
There is a drought in Australia that has radically reduced the availability of rice in the world.
Ethanol production in the US is from dent corn, and that portion (about 8%) that used to rot on the ground due to a lack of market (due to Brazil's increase in agriculture(!)). It doesn't come from rice or wheat, or even the kinds of corn that people eat.
Still, the oil companies are scared and have their shills blaming ethanol production.
In Brazil, ethanol is made from sugar cane, which works better, but doesn't grow at our lattitudes in the upper midwest.
Meanwhile cellulosic ethanol production is coming on-line, and that will use the entire maize plant, or any other highly productive plant material (in Iowa, when the corn is growing, the increase in biomass is similar to that of the Amazon), this will be much more efficient per acre, and make the fuel rather less expensive.
It sounds like we are on the road to inventing the Ansible (Authoress Le Guin's term), allowing instantaneous communication, which would come in very handy in driving rovers around on Mars, for example.
There is still a need for minivans that filled in when the Cafe regulations killed off the station wagon.
It is more fuel efficient to take a family - or group of friends, in one minivan than in several Ford Focii.
And there are still plenty of people who live north of the Mason Dixon line and need ground clearance a good six months of the year, due to several inches of snow on the road (plows are set two to four inches above the pavement (in this town, four inches).
There are still farmers and ranchers who need pickup trucks.
And those few who actually are climatologists, like Mr. Hanson, know that they are lying.
The facts are plain. There has been no warming (except where they move thermometers to hang over asphalt parking lots), and now there is cooling, in sync with the sunspot minimum in progress, and the Pacific Decadal Occilation. 31,000 climatologists, climate scientists and other scientists just signed a petition against the 1900 IPCC sociologists and a handful of scientists getting their grant money from promoting warming alarmism.
The ice sheets are getting thicker, too.
You are sooo easily deceived. Would you happen to be interested in buying a bridge? Or male enhancement pills?
Let us get past the hate and think about this: Do ads work, or don't they? If they do, then we cannot rule out that people are affected by such things. If they don't, then Slashdot is going to have to find a different revenue stream.
Numerous studies show that violence in video games, particularly fps, DO affect people in harmful ways.
Whether the government is the best way to deal with this is another question.
It is plainly the case from history and the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers that the citizenry is to own and practice with standard infantry weapons and each lawful militia (under the autority of duly-elected constitutional officers, not political factions) having control of artillery (which is what the Brits were trying to grab in April of '75)
It isn't about hunting. It is about who will watch the watchmen - which is why the gun control people are so opposed to it, they uniformly favor the totalist State.
Since when is a family of four, barely able to get by, a behemoth?
Because those are the people growing the corn.
Do you work for Big Oil or something?
This is the excess that the farm States spend hundreds of millions trying to market around the world. Converting that into fuel with a 67% energy gain in the process (contrary to what you may have read from interests opposed to ethanol) does not hurt the world food supply in the least. It takes what would go to waste and makes good use of it.
Biodiesel is an even better bet, and that primarily uses soybeans that likewise go into animal feed, not the soybeans used for tofu production (which males shouldn't eat, anyway). Do both and you maintain the crop rotation cycle which eliminates the need for pesticides and cuts the need for petroleum-based fertilizer, significantly.
Australia apparently believes that the people are property of the State, and may only have and do what the State declares.
In America, we have/had this thing called 'freedom' and 'liberty'. The civil government was the creation of the people and the several States. It was strictly limited and defined. All rights came from God, so the civil government had no authority to remove or over-ride them, and you'd have no nonsense of 'what legitimate reason do you have for x' What authority do you have to even ask the question??
it is time for Iowans to re-read their -real- State motto, and cast the urban demonrats out of office.
And DON'T give in to losing representation and self-governance through the county reorganization proposal!
They still can't explain, and can't even understand or decode (yet) the operating system with error correction and compression, and the instruction sets for life. Without that, all you have are raw materials.
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So we don't have those forms of transportation available to us. Try Google Earth and get a better idea of the size of America and where half the population lives - unable to use any useful form of transportation except for motor vehicles. Do you have the money to -give- us all electric cars, the battery storage and solar power panels? Because most of us can't afford them, and the electrical grid sure can't handle it!
As to sawgrass, what is the tonnage per acre of usable biomass compared to modern maize hybrids? What climate zones does it grow well in? What are its water and fertilizer requirements compared to maize or sorghum?
If you provide the market and the profitability, the farmers will be happy to plant it.
solar is still considerably less efficient and manufacture is still very poisonously pollutant. That may be changing, but it isn't here, yet.
Nuclear isn't really all that finite (especially if you include the Sun) Carter issued a decree that makes us waste the majority of the usable fuel in fuel rods. We aren't using breeder reactors, which would make more fuel. Thorium breeders are even better, and abundance is similar to lead. The amount of uranium in seawater is astronomical. Then you have fusion. Bussard, shortly before his death, brought the Farnsworth Fusor reactor up to and slightly beyond break-even. It is a far more efficient and scalable (as in small enough for ocean vessels, space craft, and maybe even vehicles). It burns boron and hydrogen. We have extremely vast supplies of boron in Death Valley alone (Borax is made from the boron deposits - 40-mule team to the future!)
We need to see ethanol as a storage mechanism for solar energy that works in existing vehicles. The same goes for biodiesel. Just as petroleum is a storage mechanism for the bacterial metabolisms in the deep, hot biosphere eating methane and rocks in the crust of the Earth.
Absolutely correct. Farmers here in the midwest of America are faxing a five-fold increase in the cost of producing food. Of course, farmers don't set the prices, the monopolistic grain companies and speculators on the Chicago Board of Trade do that. There is a drought in Australia that has radically reduced the availability of rice in the world. Ethanol production in the US is from dent corn, and that portion (about 8%) that used to rot on the ground due to a lack of market (due to Brazil's increase in agriculture(!)). It doesn't come from rice or wheat, or even the kinds of corn that people eat. Still, the oil companies are scared and have their shills blaming ethanol production. In Brazil, ethanol is made from sugar cane, which works better, but doesn't grow at our lattitudes in the upper midwest. Meanwhile cellulosic ethanol production is coming on-line, and that will use the entire maize plant, or any other highly productive plant material (in Iowa, when the corn is growing, the increase in biomass is similar to that of the Amazon), this will be much more efficient per acre, and make the fuel rather less expensive.
It sounds like we are on the road to inventing the Ansible (Authoress Le Guin's term), allowing instantaneous communication, which would come in very handy in driving rovers around on Mars, for example.
There is still a need for minivans that filled in when the Cafe regulations killed off the station wagon. It is more fuel efficient to take a family - or group of friends, in one minivan than in several Ford Focii. And there are still plenty of people who live north of the Mason Dixon line and need ground clearance a good six months of the year, due to several inches of snow on the road (plows are set two to four inches above the pavement (in this town, four inches). There are still farmers and ranchers who need pickup trucks.
And those few who actually are climatologists, like Mr. Hanson, know that they are lying. The facts are plain. There has been no warming (except where they move thermometers to hang over asphalt parking lots), and now there is cooling, in sync with the sunspot minimum in progress, and the Pacific Decadal Occilation. 31,000 climatologists, climate scientists and other scientists just signed a petition against the 1900 IPCC sociologists and a handful of scientists getting their grant money from promoting warming alarmism. The ice sheets are getting thicker, too. You are sooo easily deceived. Would you happen to be interested in buying a bridge? Or male enhancement pills?
Let us get past the hate and think about this: Do ads work, or don't they? If they do, then we cannot rule out that people are affected by such things. If they don't, then Slashdot is going to have to find a different revenue stream. Numerous studies show that violence in video games, particularly fps, DO affect people in harmful ways. Whether the government is the best way to deal with this is another question.
It is plainly the case from history and the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers that the citizenry is to own and practice with standard infantry weapons and each lawful militia (under the autority of duly-elected constitutional officers, not political factions) having control of artillery (which is what the Brits were trying to grab in April of '75) It isn't about hunting. It is about who will watch the watchmen - which is why the gun control people are so opposed to it, they uniformly favor the totalist State.
James Hansen, who has been using his post for nearly non-stop politicking and junk science for well over a decade?
Why would anyone willingly work on such a project???
Information is not a property of matter-energy. In this sense, the medium is not the message. GR and SR deal with matter-energy.
Since when is a family of four, barely able to get by, a behemoth? Because those are the people growing the corn. Do you work for Big Oil or something?
You really don't want to do that.
It's called _Firefly_.
and in the Gitmo, bind them.
original field corn stock. What a deal, eh?
This is the excess that the farm States spend hundreds of millions trying to market around the world. Converting that into fuel with a 67% energy gain in the process (contrary to what you may have read from interests opposed to ethanol) does not hurt the world food supply in the least. It takes what would go to waste and makes good use of it. Biodiesel is an even better bet, and that primarily uses soybeans that likewise go into animal feed, not the soybeans used for tofu production (which males shouldn't eat, anyway). Do both and you maintain the crop rotation cycle which eliminates the need for pesticides and cuts the need for petroleum-based fertilizer, significantly.
Australia apparently believes that the people are property of the State, and may only have and do what the State declares. In America, we have/had this thing called 'freedom' and 'liberty'. The civil government was the creation of the people and the several States. It was strictly limited and defined. All rights came from God, so the civil government had no authority to remove or over-ride them, and you'd have no nonsense of 'what legitimate reason do you have for x' What authority do you have to even ask the question??
Could easily deliberately bump, or better yet, attract Apophis into an impact trajectory. Pakistan could do it. China could do it. Iran could do it.
I thought you knew that. . .
it is time for Iowans to re-read their -real- State motto, and cast the urban demonrats out of office. And DON'T give in to losing representation and self-governance through the county reorganization proposal!
I recall the British East India Company having some difficulties collecting that tax at one point. . . ;-)
In fact, this is one of the chief reasons that we have the Constitution instead of the Articles of Confederation.
And other navigation routes. I bet that Chicago to Boston would bring a lot of revenue!
They still can't explain, and can't even understand or decode (yet) the operating system with error correction and compression, and the instruction sets for life. Without that, all you have are raw materials.