This waking dream has been making the rounds: what if you woke and found a strange and beautiful woman in your bed, and she was inscrutible, unpredictable, and dangerous... but oh so beautiful?
You are the only person who replied to my OP who seems to think that I am wrong: i.e. you think that ethanol will be a huge help to the oil addiction.
Instead of pretending that fuels like hydrogen are the way of the future, we should make an effort to switch to clean energy (wind, solar, nuclear) and use electric cars. This technology is available TODAY. No need to spend $4b for research.
David Pimentel, an agricultural scientist at Cornell University and one of the foremost critics of ethanol, has conducted numerous cost analyses on ethanol production. He's made a name for himself mostly by driving the ethanol industry raving mad. From its very beginnings, when hoe enters soil, ethanol production has not changed much since the nineteenth century. Pimentel found that one acre of U.S. corn field yields about 7,110 pounds of corn, which in turn produces 328 gallons of ethanol. Setting aside the environmental implications (which are substantial), the financial costs already begin to mount. To plant, grow, and harvest the corn takes about 140 gallons of fossil fuel and costs about $347 per acre. According to Pimentel's analysis, even before the corn is converted to ethanol, the feedstock alone costs $0.69 per gallon of ethanol.
More damning, however, is that converting corn to ethanol requires about 99,119 BTUs to make one gallon, which has 77,000 BTUs of available energy. So about 29 percent more energy is required to produce a gallon of ethanol than is stored in that gallon in the first place. "That helps explain why fossil fuels (not ethanol) are used to produce ethanol," Pimentel says. "The growers and processors can't afford to burn ethanol to make ethanol. U.S. drivers couldn't afford it, either, if it weren't for government subsidies that artificially lower the price." All told, a gallon of ethanol costs $2.24 to produce, compared to $0.63 for a gallon of gasoline.
Yes, it is added in places like Brazil, but that's because they derive it from sugar and not corn like the US would have to. If they could derive ethanol from any plant cellulose, that would be something.
I am an environmentalist, but ethanol is a BAD BAD idea.
As another liberal, I find it appealing that you have to identify yourself as "a liberal" in order to identify yourself as someone who believes in global warming.
But was it foreseeable that people would use the wiimote in such a way? If so, Nintendo could have a problem.
Extreme case: a company mails out guns to every person in America with instructions: NEVER TOUCH, DO NOT USE, DO NOT LOAD WITH LIVE AMMUNITION, etc. and people use them and kill each other. Very foreseeable.
Well it's having the opposite of the "Apple Halo" effect... people have brown and pink DRM laden bricks of shit that they can squirt all over each other. I'm switching to Windows Vista!
First generation was rather expensive back in 2001. But sales really took off after iTunes and the music store. On the other hand, there wasn't as much hype about it back then either.
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This waking dream has been making the rounds: what if you woke and found a strange and beautiful woman in your bed, and she was inscrutible, unpredictable, and dangerous... but oh so beautiful?
I'm gay. I'd panic.
Or president, if, like Bush, you were born with a silver spoon.. in your nose.
Just reading through those suggestions, ... I can promise you that 95% are not going to ever happen.
e.g. no preinstalled earthlink? You think they do that out of kindness to earthlink, or maybe earthlink pays for it?
Cops are people.
There are good people and there are bad people.
Therefore, there are good cops and bad cops.
Nonsense argument.
Cats are animals.
There are furry animals and there are scaly reptilian animals.
Therefore, there are furry cats and scaly reptilian cats.
The police are responding to a complaint != entrapment
The nazis respond to a complaint about anne frank != entrapment
I can basically do whatever the fuck I want to you and then phone the cops.
You have to accept it on faith alone!!
This guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvyQRdlKiwI&NR
The only good is knowledge, the only evil, ignorance.
... and all other people of the world, when I say that we just LOVE having Americans try to police us and control our affairs!
You are the only person who replied to my OP who seems to think that I am wrong: i.e. you think that ethanol will be a huge help to the oil addiction.
Instead of pretending that fuels like hydrogen are the way of the future, we should make an effort to switch to clean energy (wind, solar, nuclear) and use electric cars. This technology is available TODAY. No need to spend $4b for research.
David Pimentel, an agricultural scientist at Cornell University and one of the foremost critics of ethanol, has conducted numerous cost analyses on ethanol production. He's made a name for himself mostly by driving the ethanol industry raving mad. From its very beginnings, when hoe enters soil, ethanol production has not changed much since the nineteenth century. Pimentel found that one acre of U.S. corn field yields about 7,110 pounds of corn, which in turn produces 328 gallons of ethanol. Setting aside the environmental implications (which are substantial), the financial costs already begin to mount. To plant, grow, and harvest the corn takes about 140 gallons of fossil fuel and costs about $347 per acre. According to Pimentel's analysis, even before the corn is converted to ethanol, the feedstock alone costs $0.69 per gallon of ethanol.
More damning, however, is that converting corn to ethanol requires about 99,119 BTUs to make one gallon, which has 77,000 BTUs of available energy. So about 29 percent more energy is required to produce a gallon of ethanol than is stored in that gallon in the first place. "That helps explain why fossil fuels (not ethanol) are used to produce ethanol," Pimentel says. "The growers and processors can't afford to burn ethanol to make ethanol. U.S. drivers couldn't afford it, either, if it weren't for government subsidies that artificially lower the price." All told, a gallon of ethanol costs $2.24 to produce, compared to $0.63 for a gallon of gasoline.
Yes, it is added in places like Brazil, but that's because they derive it from sugar and not corn like the US would have to. If they could derive ethanol from any plant cellulose, that would be something.
I am an environmentalist, but ethanol is a BAD BAD idea.
This is too late to be modded, but remember, like it or not, he did not have the right to post those music files.
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE QUAR'AN!!!!!!!!
They can't be serious. Maybe, instead of "CDs should cost more" it should be "Record execs should cost less".
Unfortunately fully half of all record execs make a below-average salary. This is unacceptable, they need to be paid more!
and I've only seen one last year! Where can I find the others? :)
Americans, or movies?
As another liberal, I find it appealing that you have to identify yourself as "a liberal" in order to identify yourself as someone who believes in global warming.
Better to call it "iPhone" and get your ass sued than call it "Zune" and paint it brown and squirt it everywhere.
... or you could just not feed them parts of their dead relatives?
Hey, if you can get a first post on Slashdot, you deserve a free laptop!
I'm at like 80 times a day for Slashdot (crackdot)...
:-(
Consequently they won't let me moderate anymore...
Do not... repeat DO NOT... try to shave your balls with a "Gillette Fusion" razor (the one with five blades.)
I guarantee you, in a civil suit, the manufacturer would be liable.
But was it foreseeable that people would use the wiimote in such a way? If so, Nintendo could have a problem.
Extreme case: a company mails out guns to every person in America with instructions: NEVER TOUCH, DO NOT USE, DO NOT LOAD WITH LIVE AMMUNITION, etc. and people use them and kill each other. Very foreseeable.
Well it's having the opposite of the "Apple Halo" effect... people have brown and pink DRM laden bricks of shit that they can squirt all over each other. I'm switching to Windows Vista!
First generation was rather expensive back in 2001. But sales really took off after iTunes and the music store. On the other hand, there wasn't as much hype about it back then either.
That was 2001. Welcome to half a decade later.
Why is it that companies feel they need to conquer every aspect of every market? MS should have left portable music alone.
(Cue the naive laissez-faire capitalists who think that this competition will create magic in the music industry)
I will be continuing to run my intentionally "unsecured" wireless network.
can I get your address plz