10Ghz wrote: I don't have any links at hand right now, but I have read studies which indicate that while Asia is developing and progressing quickly, Africa is not.
narcc wrote: A developing nation is a lot like 'the projects'. You have a population of poorly education and unskilled individuals that need the opportunity to advance as a society.
Having lived in the detroit area for quite a while, I can back up the parent's post. I know people who work for particular companies, and if they drive the wrong vehicle to work it will get keyed.
In Oregon, that alone is grounds to quit and still draw a salary due to hostile work environment. I suggest you do the same if this is a problem for you.
These companies expect their employees to support the company, and punish those who don't.
In the manner you describe, it's 100% illegal for them to do so. Your state's bureau of labor and industries would be very interested in this.
It isn't company doing it. It is the UAW. UAW = Mafia.
NATOMAS, Calif. -- A house that neighbors called an eyesore is starting to blend in after a Sacramento family spent the weekend removing the metal covering their house.
The D'Souza family started taking it down this weekend. They claim neighbors are bombarding their home with harmful microwave radiation and it's making them sick.
The D'Souza's lined the inside and outside of their home with metal and aluminum to block the rays, but the Sacramento city building inspector ordered them to take it down by Monday.
The city says that all the metal is dangerous and that there is no evidence of radiation.
Semi trucks have undersized brakes relative to their gross vehicle weights, regardless of whether those brakes are disc or drum. Discs have been tried on semi trucks and have failed because of insufficient cooling power. . http://yarchive.net/car/drum_brakes.html
Disks on trucks present enormous heat dissipation problems because there is insufficient area to cool them unless multiple disks are used as on railways where as many as four 400mm diameter 100mm disks are uses per axle of a passenger car. This is an enormous expense but is necessary because skidding is so hard to control with any other brake. There is nothing "traditional" about brakes on highly competitive long haul trucking. Multiple disks are not a viable option for trucks.
Walking or biking would mean I spend more time commuting than I do now.
When you walk or bike you are doing two things at once, unless you do not consider exercise valuable. When you drive, OTOH, you are working (performing the job of driving, during which time you are not legally allowed to do anything else) while not getting paid for it.
1 a : a member of the order Primates excepting man and usually also the lemurs and tarsiers b : any of the smaller longer-tailed primates (as members of the New World family Cebidae) as contrasted with the larger nearly or quite tailless apes
Even if there were a competition between solar and nuclear electricity, there is no technically valid reason to prefer the former. It was pointed out previously that production of the materials for deploying a solar cell array requires burning 3% as much coal as would be burned in generating the same amount of electricity in coal-burning power plants. Roughly the same is true for the power tower and wind turbine applications of solar energy. That means that they produce 3% as much air pollution as coal burning. This is not a great environmental problem, but it still makes them more harmful to health than nuclear power. In addition, there are long-term waste problems, discussed in Chapter 12, which pose many times more of a health problem than the widely publicized nuclear waste. There are lots of poisonous chemicals used in fabricating solar cells, such as hydrofluoric acid, boron trifluoride, arsenic, cadmium, tellurium, and selenium compounds, which can cause health problems. Also, there is much more construction work needed for solar installations than for nuclear; construction is one of the most dangerous industries from the standpoint of accidents to workers.
If photovoltaic panels on houses become widespread, how many people would be killed and injured in cleaning or replacing solar panels on roofs, or in clearing them of snow? What about the dangers in repairing the complex electric conversion systems? Over a thousand Americans now die each year from electrocution, and the power-conditioning equipment needed for a solar electricity installation would represent a major increase in this risk. Back-up systems, most especially diesel engines in the home, have serious health problems. Diesel exhausts include some of the most potent carcinogens known, and they contribute to most of the other air pollution problems discussed in connection with coal burning in Chapter 3.
Large solar plants also create environmental and ecological problems. What happens to the land and animals that live on it when a 5-mile diameter area is covered with solar cells or mirrors? Desert areas, which are most attractive for solar installations, are especially fragile in this regard.
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amias wrote: [...] solar panels [...] Petrol [...]
What might solar panels have to do with petrol?
HaggiZ wrote: >30% effeciency [...] equates to cheaper power than what you can get off the grid.
Homepower runs about $1/kwh. The grid in most places runs less than $0.10/kwh.
rif42: In the wind turbine usage US could be a world leader.
The U.S. could also be a world leader in pizza speed-eating. Neither is relevant to energy policy.
Charcharodon wrote: What I don't get out here they haven't made it mandatory to use solar hotwater heating yet.
Do you think it might matter whether or not it is cost effective?
We definitely get plenty of sun.
That is not relevant.
Solar panels have nothing to do with anything oil has to do with.
If we stuck with the current reactor technology and we would still have an inexhaustible supply of uranium.
michael_cain wrote: the local utility is required to accept my excess and run my meter backwards
Yes. And because the grid is not a storage battery, the local utility takes that excess and dumps it.
50% efficient cheap solar cells would go a long ways towards making the suburbs quite energy efficient.
If you were talking about energy efficiency, your comment about the utility being required to buy your excess power was off topic.
10Ghz wrote: I don't have any links at hand right now, but I have read studies which indicate that while Asia is developing and progressing quickly, Africa is not.
FreshFunk510 wrote: I think it's great that we provide them with the ability to get an education and close the gaps of information.
IQ and the Wealth of Nations
narcc wrote: A developing nation is a lot like 'the projects'. You have a population of poorly education and unskilled individuals that need the opportunity to advance as a society.
IQ and the Wealth of Nations
Having lived in the detroit area for quite a while, I can back up the parent's post. I know people who work for particular companies, and if they drive the wrong vehicle to work it will get keyed.
In Oregon, that alone is grounds to quit and still draw a salary due to hostile work environment. I suggest you do the same if this is a problem for you.
These companies expect their employees to support the company, and punish those who don't.
In the manner you describe, it's 100% illegal for them to do so. Your state's bureau of labor and industries would be very interested in this.
It isn't company doing it. It is the UAW. UAW = Mafia.
What else could be done to get to space with minimal harm to the planet?
Orion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion
Family Takes Down Metal That Covered Home. html
POSTED: 11:12 am PDT May 23, 2005
UPDATED: 1:26 pm PDT May 23, 2005
http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/4520485/detail
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NATOMAS, Calif. -- A house that neighbors called an eyesore is starting to blend in after a Sacramento family spent the weekend removing the metal covering their house.
The D'Souza family started taking it down this weekend. They claim neighbors are bombarding their home with harmful microwave radiation and it's making them sick.
The D'Souza's lined the inside and outside of their home with metal and aluminum to block the rays, but the Sacramento city building inspector ordered them to take it down by Monday.
The city says that all the metal is dangerous and that there is no evidence of radiation.
Thank God. Now I can get some hair and some teeth.
I have no problems with 60hz on my 20"... though on everything else I can simulate an LSD flashback just by crunching an ice cube.
Ice cubes should not be chewed. The coldness cracks tooth enamel.
LCDs don't have this problem [....] There's no flickering, because it often takes more than one refresh for a pixel to go completely blank.
Refresh rate has nothing to do with flicker.
Semi trucks have undersized brakes relative to their gross vehicle weights, regardless of whether those brakes are disc or drum. Discs have been tried on semi trucks and have failed because of insufficient cooling power.
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http://yarchive.net/car/drum_brakes.html
You're welcome, though it looks like I was partially mistaken as the only IR LED review I can find now is this one... ...and there do not seem to be any IR flashlights reviewed there. The above review links to this IR LED supplier... ...which seems to no longer exist. I googled and found this company, though... ...selling the following two IR LEDs:t ml t ml
http://ledmuseum.home.att.net/ledir.htm
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http://www.ledsupply.com/
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http://store.yahoo.com/ledsupply/l2-0-ir3th60-1.h
http://store.yahoo.com/ledsupply/l2-0-ir5th30-1.h
You can find IR flashlights and LEDs reviewed here:
http://ledmuseum.home.att.net/
Engine braking is going to save your brake pads
And it is going to put wear on your drivetrain.
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and keep you from having brake fade due to overheating on long downgrades, of course. This hasn't been a factor for me in the last ten years
Maybe it is because you have been driving a car and not a semi.
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in the last ten years; all of my cars have had either front or 4-wheel discs with good cooling
Drum brakes cool better than disc brakes. This is because drum brakes have greater surface area.
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unless I'm on a twisty 2-lane road I just put the car in neutral and let 'er rip.
This is illegal in most states.
* Spray expansive foam insulation into your exterior facing walls.
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Like this?:
http://www.monolithic.com/construction/foam/index
* Hang heavy curtains over your windows. Keep the curtains closed at night.
Why put windows in your house?
http://www.monolithic.com/gallery/homes/young/
Walking or biking would mean I spend more time commuting than I do now.
When you walk or bike you are doing two things at once, unless you do not consider exercise valuable. When you drive, OTOH, you are working (performing the job of driving, during which time you are not legally allowed to do anything else) while not getting paid for it.
Now, who is it who is wasting time?
http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter14.ht
http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter12.ht
You evolved from a dinosaur?
Damn, my ape based genetic heritage seems so dull and inadequate all of a sudden
Actually, you did not evolve from apes. You are an ape, and you share common ancestry with other apes.