This device is the same as having a pocket calculator (or a functioning brain) and a waiter who doesn't make too much trouble of making separate bills. It doesn't add much for the customer yet.
I think that if a number of restaurants will get this system, you'll see other restaurants offering the same service with more old fashioned devices.
I don't seem to understand the whole tax thing. If you catch fish in international waters, you still pay tax in a port, right?
I bet that the whole tax advantage will be extremely short lived. Governments are experts at getting your tax money. I foresee a connection-tax (I invented that name) for any data-cable crossing a coastline.
For the cooling, it is a good idea. In open seas there is no limit (and no regulation on the amount of cooling water you can take in, whereas such limits/regulations exist at many coastlines of developed countries.
the cooling is the main energy consumption of data centers. Therefore, the ships will not need too much energy, and the wave power generators will not need to be as huge as some might think (data centers use up to 50 MW sometimes, but that's mainly cooling).
I think that there is a mass-transfer problem.
Wind (convection) is measured in meters per second, and it really beats diffusion which is... well... slower.
It's not necessarily bad to remove a bit of NOx, but I doubt that 1 road is gonna make a lot of difference. A whole city covered in these stones, that might do something.
The white paint on your walls is also white because of the TiO2 by the way. Perhaps we can turn our paint into a nitrate producing paint too (nitrate is also white, so who cares it'll stick to your walls)?
Doesn't hovering near an asteroid mean that you point your exhaust towards that piece of rock? While you attract it by your massive gravity pull (caused by your one ton of mass), you push it away with your exhaust gases that crash into the asteroid.
I think we need to install an international committee to investigate the procedures and then install a subcommittee to discuss whether the standard laws of physics are allowed to obstruct the original plan. We might have to sue Newton.
Mars or Venus... choosing between 1 bar of acidic gas (sulphuric acid) or 0.007 bar of CO2... that's like choosing between death by hanging or drowning.
Not sure which is the worst, but at least Mars offers some soil to stand on.
Floating around on Venus on the other hand makes waste disposal quite easy... Pollution coming from humans is likely to only dilute the real nastiness in Venus' atmosphere and actually make it more habitable).
So, I applied for a budget for my new test to check if a laser connection works at a distance of a thousand light years.
The test starts tomorrow, and the first results are due in... oh, wait.
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This device is the same as having a pocket calculator (or a functioning brain) and a waiter who doesn't make too much trouble of making separate bills. It doesn't add much for the customer yet. I think that if a number of restaurants will get this system, you'll see other restaurants offering the same service with more old fashioned devices.
You're right. Canadians apparently don't have trains. Or buses. Or passengers in their cars. Or car-kits for handsfree calling.
I don't seem to understand the whole tax thing. If you catch fish in international waters, you still pay tax in a port, right? I bet that the whole tax advantage will be extremely short lived. Governments are experts at getting your tax money. I foresee a connection-tax (I invented that name) for any data-cable crossing a coastline. For the cooling, it is a good idea. In open seas there is no limit (and no regulation on the amount of cooling water you can take in, whereas such limits/regulations exist at many coastlines of developed countries. the cooling is the main energy consumption of data centers. Therefore, the ships will not need too much energy, and the wave power generators will not need to be as huge as some might think (data centers use up to 50 MW sometimes, but that's mainly cooling).
This is the moment that Google becomes officially more evil than Microsoft. Congratulations.
This is a good thing, right?
I think that there is a mass-transfer problem. Wind (convection) is measured in meters per second, and it really beats diffusion which is... well... slower. It's not necessarily bad to remove a bit of NOx, but I doubt that 1 road is gonna make a lot of difference. A whole city covered in these stones, that might do something. The white paint on your walls is also white because of the TiO2 by the way. Perhaps we can turn our paint into a nitrate producing paint too (nitrate is also white, so who cares it'll stick to your walls)?
Doesn't hovering near an asteroid mean that you point your exhaust towards that piece of rock? While you attract it by your massive gravity pull (caused by your one ton of mass), you push it away with your exhaust gases that crash into the asteroid. I think we need to install an international committee to investigate the procedures and then install a subcommittee to discuss whether the standard laws of physics are allowed to obstruct the original plan. We might have to sue Newton.
Mars or Venus... choosing between 1 bar of acidic gas (sulphuric acid) or 0.007 bar of CO2... that's like choosing between death by hanging or drowning. Not sure which is the worst, but at least Mars offers some soil to stand on. Floating around on Venus on the other hand makes waste disposal quite easy... Pollution coming from humans is likely to only dilute the real nastiness in Venus' atmosphere and actually make it more habitable).
So, I applied for a budget for my new test to check if a laser connection works at a distance of a thousand light years. The test starts tomorrow, and the first results are due in... oh, wait.