It wouldn't be impossible, but sometimes inconvenient is a big obstacle. Also, wind and solar don't necessarily have peak supply during times of peak demand. If you build extra capacity into the wind and solar equipment so that you have enough extra during peak supply to store some up, making propane could be a storage method - not necessarily the most efficient one, but one that also does something with that CO2 and reduces demand for hydrocarbons out of the ground.
Why not propane?
They could cart the CO2 and some water to a place with lots of wind or solar but inconvenient access to a hungry power grid and use the Fischer-Tropsch process to synthesize "carbon neutral" ish propane. When it burns, they could recapture the CO2 and do it again.
There's a reason private pilots aren't allowed to fly manned aircraft over urban airspace. If there aren't rules restricting the use of drones in cities to licensed operators with lots of insurance, there will be. I doubt it'll ever be economical for pizza delivery.
I've read these stories and looked up fuel cell research for years, and it's very frustrating when I consider to actually buy a fuel cell. It always turns out that the smallest model costs like a car or the largest model is a science class demonstrator kit. A 5kw fuel cell that costs only double the cost of a 5kw Honda generator would likely find lots of consumer interest, but despite "promising research" since the '70s (and before, I'm sure), the one people would want to own never makes an appearance in the marketplace.
you can sort of do both, by giving two weeks notice on the morning of the first day of your two week vacation. They get two weeks notice, and you don't have to go back after you've quit some place you don't like anymore.
I thought the notion was to force a situation where really large employers get raped by insurance companies so that, after this starts happening, the lobbying & advertising money from these employers would counterbalance the lobbying & advertising money from the insurance companies.
Elon Musk should provide them with a satellite. If he uses PayPal's new "bill me later" service, he won't have to pay himself for the launch in advance...
So, with the same code for bluetooth pairing with any toilet, are you able to bring your own collection of all these settings to whatever toilet you use, or is the pairing process too much of a hassle for this to work well?
I live too far out for high speed, & until I got a personal hotspot, I would use McDonalds & Starbucks a lot. What I noticed was that I got more personal space at McDonalds. Most of their money seems to be made at the drive-through, and so long as I'm occupying a table, that's one they don't have to wipe when they pass through the place on their rounds. They seem relieved that I don't want to talk to them. Something about Starbucks always makes me feel like I'm being rude by ignoring everyone and focusing on my browsing.
Glad to hear it. For boats, there used to be Loran C (which was radio based), but it's essentially gone. The magnetic compass works pretty well, but doesn't compensate for drift. I was one of the people riding a little Russian tug from Magadan out to a seafood processing vessel in the Sea of O. once and noticed a gap on the paper chart where they were plotting our course. I asked "why the gap," and the reply I got was ~"last night we crossed near a freighter that had GPS, so we called over and asked where we were."
But, punishment happens after a conviction. Usually when someone is tortured for information, it happens before they go to trial. The eighth amendment might keep you from burning the witch if she floats, but if she sinks, that was part of the investigation.
Is there any backup for GPS or other information source in IFR conditions?
On a boat near shore, there's the picture from the radar, which will let you know something's up if it doesn't match what the electronic map suggests you ought to be seeing. That can be helpful if a bird decides to try and perch on a GPS antenna. Far from shore, it would be
harder to recognize a problem, but also harder for a position error to create catastrophic circumstances.
In the case of boats, it's often an old Sperry gyrocompass. The kind that tumbles if is loses power for 10 minutes and can take half a day before it's reliable again. Ours died during the first quarter of this year, and we replaced it with a nice Furuno satellite compass that actually sends numbers over an NMEA 0183 connection instead of just the ticks that the Sperry gave. We still have a Magnetic compass, though.
But honestly, you don't need a sextant to know what part of the sky ought to have the sun in it at a given time of day.
If you want to make boats more terrorist resistant, decentralize the communication capabilities. If terrorists decide to so something with a boat, they'll board it and take control away from the crew. Boats generally move too slowly for terrorists to use them to enact sudden plans, so a hard-to-disable omnipresent wireless data network with which anyone could call for help from any part of the boat would make it a lot less practical for taking over a boat to be a part of terrorists' plans.
I spend most of my life at sea these days. Unless it's really foggy, I can generally detect an anomalous course change by looking out the window. I'll bet airplane pilots in VFR conditions can do the same.
I wonder how it does with the scanners in airport security? I can imagine trying to explain to some security official of a country I'm visiting why I have a transmitter installed in my head: "No, really - it's because I'm fat."
I think you've got the right idea, but I take a slightly different viewpoint. The impulse to reproduce exists without concern for thoughts of the future. After you instinctively reproduce, the species/evolution combo want the resources to go to your offspring rather than you. Once you enable them to survive well enough for them to reproduce, you fail to regenerate, age and die so that you don't consume their resources.
I think in order for a species of individuals that regenerate to successfully compete with one that does the - lots of reproduction with genetic mixing, survival of the fittest genetics - the individuals that regenerate will need to find a way to improve themselves. Otherwise they'll eventually fail at competition with future generations of the species that keeps improving its members the evolutionary way.
I got the light fixture mounted ok, but I keep burning myself on the heat exchanger that cools the processor for motion compensating the motion sensor so that it only goes off on external movement and not on the changing frame of reference as I move my head. I'm thinking maybe if I move the heat exchanger to a hat, I could put one of those little propellers on top & then I'd be all set.
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It's pretty easy to get hydrogen from water. It's not super efficient, but the cost-benefit item for comparison is making bricks.
Fortunately, a process for removing the extra oxygen atom has been considered by others.
It wouldn't be impossible, but sometimes inconvenient is a big obstacle. Also, wind and solar don't necessarily have peak supply during times of peak demand. If you build extra capacity into the wind and solar equipment so that you have enough extra during peak supply to store some up, making propane could be a storage method - not necessarily the most efficient one, but one that also does something with that CO2 and reduces demand for hydrocarbons out of the ground.
My first thought had been methane, using the Sabatier Effect, but propane becomes a liquid at much more convenient temperature/pressure points.
Why not propane?
They could cart the CO2 and some water to a place with lots of wind or solar but inconvenient access to a hungry power grid and use the Fischer-Tropsch process to synthesize "carbon neutral" ish propane. When it burns, they could recapture the CO2 and do it again.
That's quite a wait. Do you like the Slashdot for passing the time away?
There's a reason private pilots aren't allowed to fly manned aircraft over urban airspace. If there aren't rules restricting the use of drones in cities to licensed operators with lots of insurance, there will be. I doubt it'll ever be economical for pizza delivery.
I've read these stories and looked up fuel cell research for years, and it's very frustrating when I consider to actually buy a fuel cell. It always turns out that the smallest model costs like a car or the largest model is a science class demonstrator kit. A 5kw fuel cell that costs only double the cost of a 5kw Honda generator would likely find lots of consumer interest, but despite "promising research" since the '70s (and before, I'm sure), the one people would want to own never makes an appearance in the marketplace.
you can sort of do both, by giving two weeks notice on the morning of the first day of your two week vacation. They get two weeks notice, and you don't have to go back after you've quit some place you don't like anymore.
I thought the notion was to force a situation where really large employers get raped by insurance companies so that, after this starts happening, the lobbying & advertising money from these employers would counterbalance the lobbying & advertising money from the insurance companies.
Elon Musk should provide them with a satellite. If he uses PayPal's new "bill me later" service, he won't have to pay himself for the launch in advance...
GPS?
So, with the same code for bluetooth pairing with any toilet, are you able to bring your own collection of all these settings to whatever toilet you use, or is the pairing process too much of a hassle for this to work well?
Toto distributes in the West.
I'll think of it as forever.
Or, will I still have to find "Wayport Access" at McDonalds? If I remember correctly, the Google sponsored WiFi at SeaTac airport is Linux friendly.
I live too far out for high speed, & until I got a personal hotspot, I would use McDonalds & Starbucks a lot. What I noticed was that I got more personal space at McDonalds. Most of their money seems to be made at the drive-through, and so long as I'm occupying a table, that's one they don't have to wipe when they pass through the place on their rounds. They seem relieved that I don't want to talk to them. Something about Starbucks always makes me feel like I'm being rude by ignoring everyone and focusing on my browsing.
Glad to hear it. For boats, there used to be Loran C (which was radio based), but it's essentially gone. The magnetic compass works pretty well, but doesn't compensate for drift. I was one of the people riding a little Russian tug from Magadan out to a seafood processing vessel in the Sea of O. once and noticed a gap on the paper chart where they were plotting our course. I asked "why the gap," and the reply I got was ~"last night we crossed near a freighter that had GPS, so we called over and asked where we were."
But, punishment happens after a conviction. Usually when someone is tortured for information, it happens before they go to trial. The eighth amendment might keep you from burning the witch if she floats, but if she sinks, that was part of the investigation.
Is there any backup for GPS or other information source in IFR conditions?
On a boat near shore, there's the picture from the radar, which will let you know something's up if it doesn't match what the electronic map suggests you ought to be seeing. That can be helpful if a bird decides to try and perch on a GPS antenna. Far from shore, it would be harder to recognize a problem, but also harder for a position error to create catastrophic circumstances.
In the case of boats, it's often an old Sperry gyrocompass. The kind that tumbles if is loses power for 10 minutes and can take half a day before it's reliable again. Ours died during the first quarter of this year, and we replaced it with a nice Furuno satellite compass that actually sends numbers over an NMEA 0183 connection instead of just the ticks that the Sperry gave. We still have a Magnetic compass, though.
But honestly, you don't need a sextant to know what part of the sky ought to have the sun in it at a given time of day.
If you want to make boats more terrorist resistant, decentralize the communication capabilities. If terrorists decide to so something with a boat, they'll board it and take control away from the crew. Boats generally move too slowly for terrorists to use them to enact sudden plans, so a hard-to-disable omnipresent wireless data network with which anyone could call for help from any part of the boat would make it a lot less practical for taking over a boat to be a part of terrorists' plans.
I spend most of my life at sea these days. Unless it's really foggy, I can generally detect an anomalous course change by looking out the window. I'll bet airplane pilots in VFR conditions can do the same.
I wonder how it does with the scanners in airport security? I can imagine trying to explain to some security official of a country I'm visiting why I have a transmitter installed in my head: "No, really - it's because I'm fat."
I think you've got the right idea, but I take a slightly different viewpoint. The impulse to reproduce exists without concern for thoughts of the future. After you instinctively reproduce, the species/evolution combo want the resources to go to your offspring rather than you. Once you enable them to survive well enough for them to reproduce, you fail to regenerate, age and die so that you don't consume their resources.
I think in order for a species of individuals that regenerate to successfully compete with one that does the - lots of reproduction with genetic mixing, survival of the fittest genetics - the individuals that regenerate will need to find a way to improve themselves. Otherwise they'll eventually fail at competition with future generations of the species that keeps improving its members the evolutionary way.
I got the light fixture mounted ok, but I keep burning myself on the heat exchanger that cools the processor for motion compensating the motion sensor so that it only goes off on external movement and not on the changing frame of reference as I move my head. I'm thinking maybe if I move the heat exchanger to a hat, I could put one of those little propellers on top & then I'd be all set.