So I'm curious, what kind of losses would one endure from a 1000km run @ 735kV? The run from the tidal plant to Fairbanks, AK sounds like an ideal area of "long stretches over uninhabited areas":) HVDC sounds interesting, I'll have to look in to that.
Ah, for some reason I assumed it would be running along the alutians similar to highway 1 down to Key West. In that case there'd probably be a significant rail depot out of Anchorage or Fairbanks, since there's no reason to stop continious rail service before then, nor improve the back roads connecting the towns around the area.
Hm. The three largest (and really, the top 20) cities in the US are... port cities that grew to become major population centers! Imagine that. Now, I wouldn't assume more than 200,000 people in each city on either side of the tunnel in less than a decade, but really, Boston proper is only 400,000 people (granted the metropolitan area is much larger). There's no reason to assume that these would become desolate cargo depots. I would imagine that these would become giant internationally known port cities rather quickly, being the only land link between Afri-EurAsia and the Americas.
I'm going to second the 'load cars on to the train' idea. It's rediculously infeasible to vent all that car exhaust through the tunnel. There's just not enough control over the occupants of the tunnel when driving cars. Plus the trip would last a predictable amount of time. Not to mention the logistics of having people driving 600+ miles (8+ hours) more or less continiously, plus having rest stops every 2 hours, the logistics of transporting gas (highly flammable liquid!) in trucks on the tunnel/highway is just stupidly dangerous. Besides, who in their right mind would drive when for probably a much cheaper price (factoring in the cost of gas for the car), they could walk around on a train, strech, eat at a resturant for 3-5 hours and pop out on the other side, rested and ready to go.
For a project of this scope, it might be possible to up the voltage to ten times what normal high voltage long distance lines normally carry. Plus the tidal plant they want to install is fairly central to Beijing, N/S korea, so that would likely feed those populations, while the now-unloaded plants in those areas, and further north, could contribute to the transcontinental trip.
Alternately they could invest in some sort of hydro-pressure-pulse or other mechanical system with lower line losses to cross the vast distance. Either way, tidal energy is FREE in all aspects of the term, so even at 90% losses, you're still making a huge profit.
I'm not thinking that you're bending the facts, but don't soldiers go through something like 2-3 weeks of accuracy training in boot camp, and required to pass minimum requirements before continuing on? It would seem that soldiers with weeks of formal firearm training would be significantly more well equiped to fire a couple of well placed shots, rather than someone who's been handed an AK for the first time and thinks the best way to hitting someone is pulling down the trigger until the clip runs out? Holding the butt/stock against your shoulder rather than holding it out in the air is going to change the accuracy of any weapon significantly, as is switching to burst from full auto. As I understand it both guns if placed in a vise will generally shoot inside a 1" cluster at 100 feet no matter their age. Most people rate both rifles as being equally accurate up to ranges of 500 yards(!)
I recently inherited a 60 year old.22 competition plinking pistol (6" barrel? rifles have 12-22" barrels I think), and took it to the range for the first time a couple months ago. With zero practice and relying on what I saw in cop movies/tv, I was able to shoot most of my bullets within a 2" circle at 50 feet.
I think at ranges of less than 100 feet, it comes down to experience and training, not poor design.
...and nobody has reverse-engineered what this module does? If that's all that it takes to make OSX work on x86, then hell, write a new module that outputs the correct outupt regardless of hardware configuration.
What if I owned a PSP and wanted to play the New Super Mario Bros. on it? Would I be justified in warezing the rom and hacking my PSP's firmware to play it, so long as I sent my $30 check to Nintendo Norway? Could I request Microsoft release NT3.5 for my super nintendo so that it's cross platform?
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Your insightful post in one sentence: "Nobody got fired for buying Microsoft". I use a variation of that for beer at parties (in Texas); "Nobody ever got kicked out of a party for bringing Shiner".
"I can't recall a time when Microsoft continued to produce the previous version of their operating system for over a year after the new version was released."
I remember going to software etcetera in the mall with my very angry dad to buy a new copy of win 3.1 'cause i edited some file and windows no longer worked. We could have gotten win95, but we would have needed another 4mb of ram... and win95 just didn't run that well on 386s. This was durring the summer of 96 I believe, and win3.1 cost more than 95 at that point by about $10. Our computer didn't have a copy of win3.1 on floppies because we'd gotten it 2nd hand from his work back in 93 or so.
You cannot redesign the Internet to conform to every podunk country's idea of "law and order." Otherwise, you might as well give every country its own root servers and cut the cables that run between them.
Uhh... like China? "Oh man, that earthquake, it totally pwned our fiber optic lines, and it's going to take a YEAR to get things back to normal!" Screw the fact that Australia had theirs fixed in less than a month when theirs got snipped. Sure, you can send outgoing traffic still, but it's SLOW. Even today.
Hm. Seems to be the premise for BF games. Also Socom 3 has a similar mode where they use smoke flares.
Heck, if you want to go reallyoldschool we used to do this for orienteering courses in boyscouts. There's a group that does this at point fosdict park in Tacoma, WA where they give you the coordinates of the various checkpoints that have custom hole punches, and you go find them, punch out your card, and you're ranked by time to finish.
I think it's a pretty valid question, considering wikipedia nor google yield real awnsers to my question. Term papers are test/exam grade papers written for the end of a term/semester to display your mastery of a subject. Typically 10+ pages.
Hm. I thought that the pressure was what kept the earth's core at such a temperature, and that plate tectonics were just a unique feature to our planet (plate techtonics being the primary yard stick to determine geological "life"). As I understand it, plate tectonics is a relatively new (30 yo) theory, and does not itself determine wether or not the planet core is "hot".
And never, ever, try to show that you know more about the subject than your instructor. While it is fun to be cocky and show off that you've been a Linux hacker since you were 12 and have contributed over 40,000 lines into the Linux kernel by the time you graduated from High School, don't you ever dare let your professor know that was the case. You will be surely marked for heresy and doomed to drop out of college. They will make it a point to see you get flushed out in one way or another.
Someone didn't have a very good time in college. I had a friend that was like this, except about WW2 history. Fortunately he grew out of his "asshole phase" before he graduated from high school and learned to keep his mouth shut so other people in the class could learn rather than listen to him gloat about how great he thought he was.
I had a 3.2 GPA in my graduating class of 1200. Fortunately, 3 days before grade freeze, one kid dropped out/moved/died and I made it in to the top 75% of my class. This was way back in 2002.
Am I the only person that when read this thought "Spray the inside with glass and pressurize!"? Like Siberia and elsewhere on earth, once you get down about 5 feet (probably 20-50 feet in Mars' case) the ground temp is universally about 55 degrees. Ok it might be closer to 32 degrees without an atmosphere, but that's certianly hospitible, and if the power goes out for a week your water supply won't freeze solid and you can survive until you figure something out. Power goes out for 24 hours on the surface durring "winter" on mars and you're screwed.
A base station 300x300x400 feet is nothing to sneeze at when you only have to seal the walls and build a ceiling.
I'm willing to bet less than 1% of gmail users use POP3 exclusively. For those 1% they're still getting emailed links from their girlfriend's little sister that say "wow! check out this awesome youtube video!" or "click here to read your latest reply at XYZforum.com!", giving google fantastic spidering data and helps keep their engine up to date. news.google.com probably taps in to that vast database of knowledge to scrape for new headlines and helping sort the good from the bad.... it's priceless data, and a good justification for giving out free email.
I'll probably end up buying this phone as a "just a phone" and probably never even load any music on to it, just because it's simply the right size. I don't need a whole lot, and this phone does calling and texting just fine. In fact if the phone only came with the 2 line display on the front, I'd buy that model over the one with the 100% higher chance of breaking a screen model. I agree that an MP3 player that doesn't sync with iTunes is retarded, so why bother putting one in a cell phone? Most likely to drive the price up for a phone that would otherwise cost $150 or so. Hopefully the metal(?) case will make it last longer than my 3 year old nokia.
I'm still trying to fathom how someone assumed this was going to compete with the iPhone. Totally different form factor, considerably less usability, standard sprint apps. Oh, and it plays MP3s too (rolls eyes). The iPhone competes with blackberries and Treos. That's it. I think the real story here is that sprint finally has a bluetooth phone avalible that isn't a clamshell and doesn't suck. I'm considering buying this phone simply because it's smaller than my current one (nokia 8225), is in my preferred form factor (candybar) and has bluetooth. With the money they're giving me for being a customer the phone is actually in my price range.
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So I'm curious, what kind of losses would one endure from a 1000km run @ 735kV? The run from the tidal plant to Fairbanks, AK sounds like an ideal area of "long stretches over uninhabited areas" :) HVDC sounds interesting, I'll have to look in to that.
Ah, for some reason I assumed it would be running along the alutians similar to highway 1 down to Key West. In that case there'd probably be a significant rail depot out of Anchorage or Fairbanks, since there's no reason to stop continious rail service before then, nor improve the back roads connecting the towns around the area.
Hm. The three largest (and really, the top 20) cities in the US are... port cities that grew to become major population centers! Imagine that. Now, I wouldn't assume more than 200,000 people in each city on either side of the tunnel in less than a decade, but really, Boston proper is only 400,000 people (granted the metropolitan area is much larger). There's no reason to assume that these would become desolate cargo depots. I would imagine that these would become giant internationally known port cities rather quickly, being the only land link between Afri-EurAsia and the Americas.
I'm going to second the 'load cars on to the train' idea. It's rediculously infeasible to vent all that car exhaust through the tunnel. There's just not enough control over the occupants of the tunnel when driving cars. Plus the trip would last a predictable amount of time. Not to mention the logistics of having people driving 600+ miles (8+ hours) more or less continiously, plus having rest stops every 2 hours, the logistics of transporting gas (highly flammable liquid!) in trucks on the tunnel/highway is just stupidly dangerous. Besides, who in their right mind would drive when for probably a much cheaper price (factoring in the cost of gas for the car), they could walk around on a train, strech, eat at a resturant for 3-5 hours and pop out on the other side, rested and ready to go.
For a project of this scope, it might be possible to up the voltage to ten times what normal high voltage long distance lines normally carry. Plus the tidal plant they want to install is fairly central to Beijing, N/S korea, so that would likely feed those populations, while the now-unloaded plants in those areas, and further north, could contribute to the transcontinental trip.
Alternately they could invest in some sort of hydro-pressure-pulse or other mechanical system with lower line losses to cross the vast distance. Either way, tidal energy is FREE in all aspects of the term, so even at 90% losses, you're still making a huge profit.
I'm not thinking that you're bending the facts, but don't soldiers go through something like 2-3 weeks of accuracy training in boot camp, and required to pass minimum requirements before continuing on? It would seem that soldiers with weeks of formal firearm training would be significantly more well equiped to fire a couple of well placed shots, rather than someone who's been handed an AK for the first time and thinks the best way to hitting someone is pulling down the trigger until the clip runs out? Holding the butt/stock against your shoulder rather than holding it out in the air is going to change the accuracy of any weapon significantly, as is switching to burst from full auto. As I understand it both guns if placed in a vise will generally shoot inside a 1" cluster at 100 feet no matter their age. Most people rate both rifles as being equally accurate up to ranges of 500 yards(!)
.22 competition plinking pistol (6" barrel? rifles have 12-22" barrels I think), and took it to the range for the first time a couple months ago. With zero practice and relying on what I saw in cop movies/tv, I was able to shoot most of my bullets within a 2" circle at 50 feet.
I recently inherited a 60 year old
I think at ranges of less than 100 feet, it comes down to experience and training, not poor design.
...and nobody has reverse-engineered what this module does? If that's all that it takes to make OSX work on x86, then hell, write a new module that outputs the correct outupt regardless of hardware configuration.
Slippery hill argument!
What if I owned a PSP and wanted to play the New Super Mario Bros. on it? Would I be justified in warezing the rom and hacking my PSP's firmware to play it, so long as I sent my $30 check to Nintendo Norway? Could I request Microsoft release NT3.5 for my super nintendo so that it's cross platform?
Your insightful post in one sentence: "Nobody got fired for buying Microsoft". I use a variation of that for beer at parties (in Texas); "Nobody ever got kicked out of a party for bringing Shiner".
"I can't recall a time when Microsoft continued to produce the previous version of their operating system for over a year after the new version was released."
I remember going to software etcetera in the mall with my very angry dad to buy a new copy of win 3.1 'cause i edited some file and windows no longer worked. We could have gotten win95, but we would have needed another 4mb of ram... and win95 just didn't run that well on 386s. This was durring the summer of 96 I believe, and win3.1 cost more than 95 at that point by about $10. Our computer didn't have a copy of win3.1 on floppies because we'd gotten it 2nd hand from his work back in 93 or so.
You forgot Vista AIDS.
Oh haha! +5 Penny Arcade reference! I lol-ed.
Yeah. It doesn't sell well.
Uhh... like China? "Oh man, that earthquake, it totally pwned our fiber optic lines, and it's going to take a YEAR to get things back to normal!" Screw the fact that Australia had theirs fixed in less than a month when theirs got snipped. Sure, you can send outgoing traffic still, but it's SLOW. Even today.
Hm. Seems to be the premise for BF games. Also Socom 3 has a similar mode where they use smoke flares.
Heck, if you want to go really oldschool we used to do this for orienteering courses in boyscouts. There's a group that does this at point fosdict park in Tacoma, WA where they give you the coordinates of the various checkpoints that have custom hole punches, and you go find them, punch out your card, and you're ranked by time to finish.
I think it's a pretty valid question, considering wikipedia nor google yield real awnsers to my question. Term papers are test/exam grade papers written for the end of a term/semester to display your mastery of a subject. Typically 10+ pages.
Hm. I thought that the pressure was what kept the earth's core at such a temperature, and that plate tectonics were just a unique feature to our planet (plate techtonics being the primary yard stick to determine geological "life"). As I understand it, plate tectonics is a relatively new (30 yo) theory, and does not itself determine wether or not the planet core is "hot".
...Pray tell, for those of us living in the US, what continious assessment? Like, daily quizzes rather than tri-weekly tests?
Someone didn't have a very good time in college. I had a friend that was like this, except about WW2 history. Fortunately he grew out of his "asshole phase" before he graduated from high school and learned to keep his mouth shut so other people in the class could learn rather than listen to him gloat about how great he thought he was.
I had a 3.2 GPA in my graduating class of 1200. Fortunately, 3 days before grade freeze, one kid dropped out/moved/died and I made it in to the top 75% of my class. This was way back in 2002.
Am I the only person that when read this thought "Spray the inside with glass and pressurize!"? Like Siberia and elsewhere on earth, once you get down about 5 feet (probably 20-50 feet in Mars' case) the ground temp is universally about 55 degrees. Ok it might be closer to 32 degrees without an atmosphere, but that's certianly hospitible, and if the power goes out for a week your water supply won't freeze solid and you can survive until you figure something out. Power goes out for 24 hours on the surface durring "winter" on mars and you're screwed.
A base station 300x300x400 feet is nothing to sneeze at when you only have to seal the walls and build a ceiling.
Uh, I can't tell if you're kidding or not, but Saxony (Of Anglo-Saxon) is a region of Germany.
So what you're saying is, the poor people that are more likely to commit crime can't afford to live in the high rent part of town?
Did webTV come with a subscription?
I'm willing to bet less than 1% of gmail users use POP3 exclusively. For those 1% they're still getting emailed links from their girlfriend's little sister that say "wow! check out this awesome youtube video!" or "click here to read your latest reply at XYZforum.com!", giving google fantastic spidering data and helps keep their engine up to date. news.google.com probably taps in to that vast database of knowledge to scrape for new headlines and helping sort the good from the bad.... it's priceless data, and a good justification for giving out free email.
I'll probably end up buying this phone as a "just a phone" and probably never even load any music on to it, just because it's simply the right size. I don't need a whole lot, and this phone does calling and texting just fine. In fact if the phone only came with the 2 line display on the front, I'd buy that model over the one with the 100% higher chance of breaking a screen model. I agree that an MP3 player that doesn't sync with iTunes is retarded, so why bother putting one in a cell phone? Most likely to drive the price up for a phone that would otherwise cost $150 or so. Hopefully the metal(?) case will make it last longer than my 3 year old nokia.
I'm still trying to fathom how someone assumed this was going to compete with the iPhone. Totally different form factor, considerably less usability, standard sprint apps. Oh, and it plays MP3s too (rolls eyes). The iPhone competes with blackberries and Treos. That's it. I think the real story here is that sprint finally has a bluetooth phone avalible that isn't a clamshell and doesn't suck. I'm considering buying this phone simply because it's smaller than my current one (nokia 8225), is in my preferred form factor (candybar) and has bluetooth. With the money they're giving me for being a customer the phone is actually in my price range.