The Netherlands has chosen to go the value-added route in agriculture, with flowers and cheese accounting for the majority of their revenues in the ag sector. This doesn't negate your point at all, but I felt the need to add some context.
Yay, another Economist reader. Seriously, teach the Africans to mulch, just as a stater. That will improve things enormously by itself. Send wood chippers.
Potatoes do not thrive in hot, wet, humid environments, areas also known as most of the rice belt. There's a reason most potatoes in the US are grown in Idaho and mountain Washington state. Get the soil around a potato plant wet and you get rotten potatoes, not to mention the spread of scab and an assortment of other viral diseases that will bring your yield rapidly to zero. Cassava works pretty well in most of those climate areas, but requires extensive post-processing.
It's Scotland. The disaster is likely to be a major snow or ice storm, in which case you bury your frozen food in the snow. Not a big deal to keep most of your stash frozen in that situation.
Not biology, but one applied to head the University of Kentucky's student astronomy lab and was soundly rejected. My former (rather intemperate) undergraduate advisor made some poorly considered remarks in an email that got out, and the guy sued UK just before statute of limitations ran out and after moving to (surprise) Texas, and just before taking a position with a university in Columbia. UK settled for 125k, which I took to mean that the guy either knew his case was full of holes and he would take what he could get or just wanted to go ahead and get on his way to Columbia.
Maybe you need to go look at the destruction photos again. No, the backup generators could NOT have been offsite and remained connected. I'll agree they could have been more highly elevated, though. No, they are not able to pull power from the grid because the grid was DESTROYED. There are people running cable as fast as humanly possible, but high voltage cabling is not something you just grab off the shelf at WalMart and start unspooling - assuming the WalMart or equivalent wasn't washed thirty miles out to sea.
The three other reactors - all of which have higher generating capacity than these that are going down- on site were shut down and scheduled to be restarted sometime soon, especially since the three affected were scheduled to be decommissioned and replaced _next_year_. There's no good time for this to happen, but this could really be far worse than it is. The replacement is already planned, budgeted, scheduled, part paid for, and ready to go. Probably the containment vessels - the complicated part that takes longest - is already in manufacture. They'll be at reduced capacity for two years or so while the infrastructure is rebuilt.
Silage is fed primarily to dairy animals and at cow-calf operations for exactly that reason. CAFOs to my limited knowledge feed primarily straight grain blends, with a heavy emphasis on corn, and just enough roughage to help keep the fermentation down. Silage is expensive to transport. Grain is energy dense.
I'd think that a difference in boiling points that significant would make it easy to separate - you can boil off the water and leave the alcohol in the initial tank . And then you have distilled water to feed back into your growing tanks.
I'm sorry you don't pay attention to your driving. And while VW does need to improve their electrics if what you are reporting is true, running out of fuel on the road was your fault, as are the dead batteries. Know your rate of consumption and check all switches before getting out, basic good driver practices.
It shouldn't be too hard, just time consuming. Get some agar gel and make a suspension. Liquidize some grass compost (hint: use your blender. You don't even need a fancy one) and pasteurize it by gently boiling over your grill for a few minutes. I wouldn't do it in the kitchen as it's likely to be fragrant. Combine the first batch of grass compost liquid with your first batch of agar and make plates - the grass juice will feed your bacteria. Run a second batch of grass liquid through a few filters - we're talking bacteria, not viruses, so you won't need anything fancy, maybe boiled cheesecloth for the chunkies, boiled muslin for microorganisms, a coffee filter for bacteria and viruses. Don't worry too much about viruses, we're not talking about medical quality stuff here. Test various level of exudate until you get some bacterial cultures going on your plates. Isolate interesting colonies. Repeat. When you have a good one, move to liquid flask culture and start scaling up. Tah-dah, innoculating culture.
My city collects lawn waste and composts it, then hands out free compost to residents. They also use it in all public parks and garden areas, saving a ton of money on fertilizers and soil supplements. Composting is far more efficient in large scale, so I have no problem letting the city do it for me.
Corn does make livestock sick. If you feed a cow nothing but corn, they get overgrowths of bacteria in their rumen, produce excessive gas, and can suffer from stomach and intestinal ruptures. This is a large part of the reason why 80% of antibiotics used in the USA are fed to farm animals as prophylaxis, in an attempt to prevent stomach ruptures and feedlot deaths. You're correct, though, that the sick livestock cost ranchers. They just don't see any (fast, easy) way out of the feedlot model. The feedlot cows are ALL sick, but just healthy enough to walk from truck to slaughterhouse. That's close to all the USDA requires.
This occurs regularly in plants. The wheat used in breadmaking today is almost entirely tetraploid and some is even octoploid, meaning it has multiple copies of it's entire genome. This can be induced to occur in the lab at will by taking a wild-type wheat plant and treating it with an assortment of hormones and mild radiation. While it's most common in plants, it occasionally occurs in animals as well; horses have one more pair of chromosomes than donkeys, but you get the occasional fertile female mule. In smaller animals with faster generation times, this could easily lead to a population establishing in a favorable environment.
Ahem. My abortion was due to a broken condom, not to being unaware of the consequences of sex. Awareness of the consequences of sex are why I had a small pile of cash ready in case said condom broke. Pills were not suitable for me at the time due to medical contraindications. So thanks, but keep your ideology off of my body.
I think he realized he had a guaranteed income stream which was larger than what he would get from residuals alone and decided to milk it. Did he intend to die before finishing? No - very few people have a stated intention to die, after all. But I do not believe he had after book six or so any intention of writing the story he initially set out to write in the way he initially expected to write it.
His Livejournal had a confirmation a couple of days ago, but his editor posted somewhere else saying it wasn't in the can yet and she'd sleep better if it was. Like always I'll believe it when I see it.
No, he's saying that you retain all of your original rights but that you should not gain a second voice and set of rights simply by creating a legal fiction which exists solely as a remnant of 1600s era Venetian business practices.
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The Netherlands has chosen to go the value-added route in agriculture, with flowers and cheese accounting for the majority of their revenues in the ag sector. This doesn't negate your point at all, but I felt the need to add some context.
Yay, another Economist reader. Seriously, teach the Africans to mulch, just as a stater. That will improve things enormously by itself. Send wood chippers.
Potatoes do not thrive in hot, wet, humid environments, areas also known as most of the rice belt. There's a reason most potatoes in the US are grown in Idaho and mountain Washington state. Get the soil around a potato plant wet and you get rotten potatoes, not to mention the spread of scab and an assortment of other viral diseases that will bring your yield rapidly to zero. Cassava works pretty well in most of those climate areas, but requires extensive post-processing.
It's Scotland. The disaster is likely to be a major snow or ice storm, in which case you bury your frozen food in the snow. Not a big deal to keep most of your stash frozen in that situation.
Not biology, but one applied to head the University of Kentucky's student astronomy lab and was soundly rejected. My former (rather intemperate) undergraduate advisor made some poorly considered remarks in an email that got out, and the guy sued UK just before statute of limitations ran out and after moving to (surprise) Texas, and just before taking a position with a university in Columbia. UK settled for 125k, which I took to mean that the guy either knew his case was full of holes and he would take what he could get or just wanted to go ahead and get on his way to Columbia.
Maybe you need to go look at the destruction photos again. No, the backup generators could NOT have been offsite and remained connected. I'll agree they could have been more highly elevated, though. No, they are not able to pull power from the grid because the grid was DESTROYED. There are people running cable as fast as humanly possible, but high voltage cabling is not something you just grab off the shelf at WalMart and start unspooling - assuming the WalMart or equivalent wasn't washed thirty miles out to sea.
The three other reactors - all of which have higher generating capacity than these that are going down- on site were shut down and scheduled to be restarted sometime soon, especially since the three affected were scheduled to be decommissioned and replaced _next_year_. There's no good time for this to happen, but this could really be far worse than it is. The replacement is already planned, budgeted, scheduled, part paid for, and ready to go. Probably the containment vessels - the complicated part that takes longest - is already in manufacture. They'll be at reduced capacity for two years or so while the infrastructure is rebuilt.
Silage is fed primarily to dairy animals and at cow-calf operations for exactly that reason. CAFOs to my limited knowledge feed primarily straight grain blends, with a heavy emphasis on corn, and just enough roughage to help keep the fermentation down. Silage is expensive to transport. Grain is energy dense.
I'd think that a difference in boiling points that significant would make it easy to separate - you can boil off the water and leave the alcohol in the initial tank . And then you have distilled water to feed back into your growing tanks.
I'm sorry you don't pay attention to your driving. And while VW does need to improve their electrics if what you are reporting is true, running out of fuel on the road was your fault, as are the dead batteries. Know your rate of consumption and check all switches before getting out, basic good driver practices.
It shouldn't be too hard, just time consuming. Get some agar gel and make a suspension. Liquidize some grass compost (hint: use your blender. You don't even need a fancy one) and pasteurize it by gently boiling over your grill for a few minutes. I wouldn't do it in the kitchen as it's likely to be fragrant. Combine the first batch of grass compost liquid with your first batch of agar and make plates - the grass juice will feed your bacteria. Run a second batch of grass liquid through a few filters - we're talking bacteria, not viruses, so you won't need anything fancy, maybe boiled cheesecloth for the chunkies, boiled muslin for microorganisms, a coffee filter for bacteria and viruses. Don't worry too much about viruses, we're not talking about medical quality stuff here. Test various level of exudate until you get some bacterial cultures going on your plates. Isolate interesting colonies. Repeat. When you have a good one, move to liquid flask culture and start scaling up. Tah-dah, innoculating culture.
My city collects lawn waste and composts it, then hands out free compost to residents. They also use it in all public parks and garden areas, saving a ton of money on fertilizers and soil supplements. Composting is far more efficient in large scale, so I have no problem letting the city do it for me.
Corn does make livestock sick. If you feed a cow nothing but corn, they get overgrowths of bacteria in their rumen, produce excessive gas, and can suffer from stomach and intestinal ruptures. This is a large part of the reason why 80% of antibiotics used in the USA are fed to farm animals as prophylaxis, in an attempt to prevent stomach ruptures and feedlot deaths. You're correct, though, that the sick livestock cost ranchers. They just don't see any (fast, easy) way out of the feedlot model. The feedlot cows are ALL sick, but just healthy enough to walk from truck to slaughterhouse. That's close to all the USDA requires.
How gracious of you, not to hold against me something that's none of your business.
Yes, and California is broke. You're suffering from blindness to externalized costs. Next...
I'm not too worried, but I'm not unarmed. Thanks for the concern.
This occurs regularly in plants. The wheat used in breadmaking today is almost entirely tetraploid and some is even octoploid, meaning it has multiple copies of it's entire genome. This can be induced to occur in the lab at will by taking a wild-type wheat plant and treating it with an assortment of hormones and mild radiation. While it's most common in plants, it occasionally occurs in animals as well; horses have one more pair of chromosomes than donkeys, but you get the occasional fertile female mule. In smaller animals with faster generation times, this could easily lead to a population establishing in a favorable environment.
Ahem. My abortion was due to a broken condom, not to being unaware of the consequences of sex. Awareness of the consequences of sex are why I had a small pile of cash ready in case said condom broke. Pills were not suitable for me at the time due to medical contraindications. So thanks, but keep your ideology off of my body.
He's been upstaged, thank you. I'll avoid picking that one up if I find it on the rack before I'm fifty.
I think he realized he had a guaranteed income stream which was larger than what he would get from residuals alone and decided to milk it. Did he intend to die before finishing? No - very few people have a stated intention to die, after all. But I do not believe he had after book six or so any intention of writing the story he initially set out to write in the way he initially expected to write it.
Agreed. Wizard's First Rule was excellent. The second, meh. Third and on, save the trees man, I'd rather have them than this potboilery shit.
His Livejournal had a confirmation a couple of days ago, but his editor posted somewhere else saying it wasn't in the can yet and she'd sleep better if it was. Like always I'll believe it when I see it.
I'll echo someone I read a couple of days ago and say this is the longest wait for half of a book I've ever encountered.
No, he's saying that you retain all of your original rights but that you should not gain a second voice and set of rights simply by creating a legal fiction which exists solely as a remnant of 1600s era Venetian business practices.