No, we probably won't run out of concrete. What I was saying is that the amount of concrete put into a nuclear plant creates a significant amount of global climate change pollutants. I'm all for significantly increasing our nuclear power stations (as well as implementing reprocessing, Damn you Jimmy!) but it's foolish to think that those plants are 100% clean.
I haven't actually looked at the numbers in depth but I believe that the amount of emissions from similar sized solar or wind farms would not be as much. Every technology has it's pluses and minuses, nothing is perfect.
Sure, we could build enough nuclear plants to power the world, but the costs, oh the costs. Not to mention the gross amount of concrete that would be needed to create all those plants and the resulting global climate effects resulting from the emissions in creating that concrete. The only solution is to use a wide variety of technologies, geothermal, solar, nuclear, wind, and renewable bio-fuels (catalysis of sugars into all forms of carbon fuels not those silly corn-based ethanol fermentors). And there probably will need to be a change in the way we consume energy because at our current pace there will not be enough raw materials to meet the demands that we will have in 100 years. It's upsetting but it's true, we need a fundamental change in how we use our energy and in how we create our energy.
until we finally perfect a practical fusion reactor.
That's a nice idea but honestly, I don't see fusion ever becoming a viable solution. It works fine and well for the sun but I don't see anything living anywhere near that.
Well, technically speaking, if the computer is running at 89 Watts per hour ( 89 J/sec/hr ), that means it's ramping up an additional 89 Watts of power every hour and after 16 hours it will be drawing an impressive 1.424kW of power. I think that adds up to about 11.4kWh of energy.
But in all seriousness, that part of the article just made me laugh and I would contend that the average PC does not draw 89 W/hr, but maybe there's something about PCs that I don't know.
That's only if you make sure to buy it in the plan when you're leaving the States. If you have the barebones plan with t-mobile I would think that the extra charge for international roaming might be quite high. Not that this is any different than the other providers, and it might be easier on t-mobile to switch to a cheaper international plan than with the others.
Amen. Wish I had mod points because you put it well. Software EULA statements are the most outrageous things in the world. We click accept because we want to use the programs and there doesn't really seem to be an alternative. But if people understood the language in these I think there would be more of a backlash to them. It's like a car company saying that they're not liable if their transmission falls off the chassis, it's just insane.
...actually take time out of what is normally a 60+ hour week (that's when they're not teaching!) to do something about it that was 4. rather than fire off a two...
Really, I'm sick and tired of hearing about how hard professors have it. I understand that the job isn't simply the few hours a week that they spend in class teaching, but don't act like it's some form of slave labor. If someone chooses to get a PhD and then go to a university they should expect to teach and do research, that's what they're signing up for. It's not like other jobs don't require 60+ hours a week (like a public grade/high school teacher). I mean, look at the typical grad student, 40 hours of work a week minimum and not a lick of money left over after rent and food. Now being a professor doesn't seem so bad.
I may be wrong but I believe that selling at a loss to clear out the market and then raising the costs is in some way related to monopolistic/anticompetitive business practice. If this happens then you can get a nice little suit together with all the other little guys.
If SSN wasn't used as a catchall proof of identity in nearly all forms of financial transaction then it wouldn't be as big a deal. If the SSN was only used as a way to provide identity to the government (the original intent) then we wouldn't have people so afraid of this. But that's not the case, now if someone has your home address, SSN and maybe a family name they can take out all forms of credit in your name and ruin your ability to function in western society. I feel bad for those who die from terrorism but whatever restrictions we put on the purchase of phones, etc. there will be a way around it and the terrorists will still succeed in some way. The only true way to combat terrorism is to convince them that it is not worth the violence that they cause, a tremendously daunting and perhaps impossible task.
That's how everything works in the US. Things start in the cities and then the rest of the nation eventually catches on. California has been demanding higher efficiency appliances for decades now and because of the vast purchasing power of the state manufacturers are forced to meet our demand. This in turn allows other states to have the option to purchase those more efficient appliances, though it appears most opt for the cheaper up front appliances as opposed to the long run cheaper more efficient appliances. I guess some people just don't get this whole environmental thing.
I've never liked that line of logic. Here's my spin on it.
I know what two objects that are dissimilar look like. I know what two objects that are similar look like.
By induction I can imagine two objects that are so similar they are identical.
This is how I view our understanding of equality, taking the difference between dissimilar objects and similar ones and applying that difference once again to similar objets to get identical objects.
Or, along a completely different line of thought, since no one has truly experienced two objects that are identical do we truly comprehend the idea of equality, or do we simply comprehend the idea of extremely similar. Likewise, the notion that humans understand the infinite is suspicious, does anyone truly understand the infinite, because I usually hear it described as really really really really large, which doesn't seem to adequately describe the notion of infinite.
If someone thought about something you should have thought of it before you posted, bow out. Be a man. Construct an argument or idea. Deliver it once and deliver it well. If you fail, better luck next time.
Actually, the cost of his power to him would be identical as your power. Because of the Utility Consensus and government regulation everyone must be offered reliable power at a fair price. This means that the cost of expensive customers is pushed to all customers at an equal cost per kwh.
I never said I didn't appreciate them, but when I'm paying $800,000 for house on a third of an acre and over $100 a month for my cable, internet and phone I don't want to hear someone complaining about having to pay $200 a month for similar services but can live on 30 times as much land at half the cost or less. We all make our decisions and there are pluses and minuses to all of them.
I don't mean to sound harsh but tough luck. If you choose to live in an area where it is not competitive to offer the same rates for internet service then you'll have to pay a premium. The government is already providing those areas with cheap power. If it weren't for government regulation then people in densely populated areas would be paying a hell of a lot less for electricity. There are tradeoffs in life, and living far away from urban locations might mean you have to pay more for certain services. Aren't the property savings more than enough to make up for this.
I think you're missing the point of the tollway. It's not to pay for anything, it's there simply to annoy anyone who wants to travel along that road. Just like there is always construction on the way to Chicago, no matter which way you might be taking.
Completely translucent... you mean clear? Seriously, wtf is almost completely translucent?
Clear would be completely transparent. Completely translucent would almost be the opposite of clear. I'd say almost completely translucent would be something you could see through and maybe barely make out what was on the other side.
translucent
This extension of the echo chamber has produced things like the obama=muslim crap, and i've seen morons posting absurdities about how rome was a welfare state.
The saddest part about this is the fact that people in the United States of America view a person being Muslim as a bad thing. Shows how backwater our country is, but I have a feeling we're not alone.
note: This is not a judgement of the parent poster just an observation of the culture of the USA.
$40/month. I live in a one bedroom apartment and pay $55/month. And everything is off in my place between 9AM and 5PM. You must have really cheap electricity.
Yes, disabling a power plant in Kansas would make my gasoline powered car fail to start.
Yes, disabling a power plant in Kansas would make your gasoline powered, computer controlled, car fail to start.
If you happen to live close enough to the blast.
No, disabling a power plant in Kansas would not make your gasoline powered car fail to start. The EMP blast itself would cause all the electronic parts to keep the car from starting. It's important to use cause and effect and not correlation and effect.
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No, we probably won't run out of concrete. What I was saying is that the amount of concrete put into a nuclear plant creates a significant amount of global climate change pollutants. I'm all for significantly increasing our nuclear power stations (as well as implementing reprocessing, Damn you Jimmy!) but it's foolish to think that those plants are 100% clean.
I haven't actually looked at the numbers in depth but I believe that the amount of emissions from similar sized solar or wind farms would not be as much. Every technology has it's pluses and minuses, nothing is perfect.
until we finally perfect a practical fusion reactor.
That's a nice idea but honestly, I don't see fusion ever becoming a viable solution. It works fine and well for the sun but I don't see anything living anywhere near that.
To put it plainly "There are a lot of reasons why birds die."
Well, technically speaking, if the computer is running at 89 Watts per hour ( 89 J/sec/hr ), that means it's ramping up an additional 89 Watts of power every hour and after 16 hours it will be drawing an impressive 1.424kW of power. I think that adds up to about 11.4kWh of energy.
But in all seriousness, that part of the article just made me laugh and I would contend that the average PC does not draw 89 W/hr, but maybe there's something about PCs that I don't know.
That's only if you make sure to buy it in the plan when you're leaving the States. If you have the barebones plan with t-mobile I would think that the extra charge for international roaming might be quite high. Not that this is any different than the other providers, and it might be easier on t-mobile to switch to a cheaper international plan than with the others.
Amen. Wish I had mod points because you put it well. Software EULA statements are the most outrageous things in the world. We click accept because we want to use the programs and there doesn't really seem to be an alternative. But if people understood the language in these I think there would be more of a backlash to them. It's like a car company saying that they're not liable if their transmission falls off the chassis, it's just insane.
...actually take time out of what is normally a 60+ hour week (that's when they're not teaching!) to do something about it that was 4. rather than fire off a two...
Really, I'm sick and tired of hearing about how hard professors have it. I understand that the job isn't simply the few hours a week that they spend in class teaching, but don't act like it's some form of slave labor. If someone chooses to get a PhD and then go to a university they should expect to teach and do research, that's what they're signing up for. It's not like other jobs don't require 60+ hours a week (like a public grade/high school teacher). I mean, look at the typical grad student, 40 hours of work a week minimum and not a lick of money left over after rent and food. Now being a professor doesn't seem so bad.
I may be wrong but I believe that selling at a loss to clear out the market and then raising the costs is in some way related to monopolistic/anticompetitive business practice. If this happens then you can get a nice little suit together with all the other little guys.
If SSN wasn't used as a catchall proof of identity in nearly all forms of financial transaction then it wouldn't be as big a deal. If the SSN was only used as a way to provide identity to the government (the original intent) then we wouldn't have people so afraid of this. But that's not the case, now if someone has your home address, SSN and maybe a family name they can take out all forms of credit in your name and ruin your ability to function in western society. I feel bad for those who die from terrorism but whatever restrictions we put on the purchase of phones, etc. there will be a way around it and the terrorists will still succeed in some way. The only true way to combat terrorism is to convince them that it is not worth the violence that they cause, a tremendously daunting and perhaps impossible task.
That's how everything works in the US. Things start in the cities and then the rest of the nation eventually catches on. California has been demanding higher efficiency appliances for decades now and because of the vast purchasing power of the state manufacturers are forced to meet our demand. This in turn allows other states to have the option to purchase those more efficient appliances, though it appears most opt for the cheaper up front appliances as opposed to the long run cheaper more efficient appliances. I guess some people just don't get this whole environmental thing.
How about sending the ADA instead.
I know what two objects that are dissimilar look like.
I know what two objects that are similar look like.
By induction I can imagine two objects that are so similar they are identical.
This is how I view our understanding of equality, taking the difference between dissimilar objects and similar ones and applying that difference once again to similar objets to get identical objects.
Or, along a completely different line of thought, since no one has truly experienced two objects that are identical do we truly comprehend the idea of equality, or do we simply comprehend the idea of extremely similar. Likewise, the notion that humans understand the infinite is suspicious, does anyone truly understand the infinite, because I usually hear it described as really really really really large, which doesn't seem to adequately describe the notion of infinite.
But LA and Manhattan aren't part of the real america so they don't count.
If someone thought about something you should have thought of it before you posted, bow out. Be a man. Construct an argument or idea. Deliver it once and deliver it well. If you fail, better luck next time.
Is that how it works? Really?
Actually, the cost of his power to him would be identical as your power. Because of the Utility Consensus and government regulation everyone must be offered reliable power at a fair price. This means that the cost of expensive customers is pushed to all customers at an equal cost per kwh.
I never said I didn't appreciate them, but when I'm paying $800,000 for house on a third of an acre and over $100 a month for my cable, internet and phone I don't want to hear someone complaining about having to pay $200 a month for similar services but can live on 30 times as much land at half the cost or less. We all make our decisions and there are pluses and minuses to all of them.
I don't mean to sound harsh but tough luck. If you choose to live in an area where it is not competitive to offer the same rates for internet service then you'll have to pay a premium. The government is already providing those areas with cheap power. If it weren't for government regulation then people in densely populated areas would be paying a hell of a lot less for electricity. There are tradeoffs in life, and living far away from urban locations might mean you have to pay more for certain services. Aren't the property savings more than enough to make up for this.
I don't think the British would care so much about it being anti-american, but that's just me.
I think you're missing the point of the tollway. It's not to pay for anything, it's there simply to annoy anyone who wants to travel along that road. Just like there is always construction on the way to Chicago, no matter which way you might be taking.
Completely translucent... you mean clear? Seriously, wtf is almost completely translucent?
Clear would be completely transparent. Completely translucent would almost be the opposite of clear. I'd say almost completely translucent would be something you could see through and maybe barely make out what was on the other side. translucent
This extension of the echo chamber has produced things like the obama=muslim crap, and i've seen morons posting absurdities about how rome was a welfare state.
The saddest part about this is the fact that people in the United States of America view a person being Muslim as a bad thing. Shows how backwater our country is, but I have a feeling we're not alone.
note: This is not a judgement of the parent poster just an observation of the culture of the USA.
I grew up in New Jersey (lots of light and air pollution), and was blown away on my first camping trip in upstate ny.
So what you're saying is that without the pollution it was much more windy?
No, what he's saying is that those of us in the Fake America have fake skies unlike those people in the Real America.
Just like there are people who post without reading the parent. Reading comprehension is a wonderful thing.
$40/month. I live in a one bedroom apartment and pay $55/month. And everything is off in my place between 9AM and 5PM. You must have really cheap electricity.
Yes, disabling a power plant in Kansas would make my gasoline powered car fail to start.
Yes, disabling a power plant in Kansas would make your gasoline powered, computer controlled, car fail to start. If you happen to live close enough to the blast.
No, disabling a power plant in Kansas would not make your gasoline powered car fail to start. The EMP blast itself would cause all the electronic parts to keep the car from starting. It's important to use cause and effect and not correlation and effect.