For stationary applications, Bloom Energy is arguably the current commercial leader in terms of deployed SOFC units. Their zirconia-based SOFCs are reported to deliver power densities of ~0.2 W/cm2 at ~900C (21, 22). Our current LT-SOFC power densities (at the cell level) are higher by a factor of 10 at ~250C lower temperature, indicating the potential for much higher energy efficiency with considerable cost reduction.
Well, they might go the way of Dodo. Once the patent expires, some may use the published paper and a sufficiently advanced 3D printer to get their your own fuel cell.
(letting aside the tongue-in-cheek tone, my main point above: here's an article with details on the technology. Others as well)
(2) It's more efficient to generate power on a large scale
This is only true for generators. It is NOT true for fuel cells, which is what this article is about. Fuel cells benefit little from "scale", and not enough to offset the transmission losses you avoid with local generation.
Ummm.... underlying assumption in your statement: the maintenance cost of fuel cells are low enough. For example: it may not happen if the catalysts need frequent replacement - the power company can afford discounts for "bulk buying" those catalysts and their replacement costs will be lower than the sum of all individual costs for calling a technician at the premises.
Our house has all electric utilities - stove, oven water heater, dryer, home heating (in-wall heaters, no central furnace). I'm too lazy to add up the exact numbers, but we're probably paying $2000-2500 a year for electricity (Washington state).
Another way of saying: it may go by the time the patent expire (if, at the time, the power production is still mainly generated by burning fossil fuels and we didn't run off natural gas until then).
We might as well be honest here: Every day that you knew you had no oversight; but remained as a FISC justice, much less chief justice, you knowingly operated as a rubber stamp and a pitiful facade of rule of law. A rubber stamp for a program that you cannot have been stupid enough to think was entirely on the up-and-up. Unimpressive. Cowardly. Unworthy of your office.
What you missed to mentioned: it's a life-long tenure as a rubber stamp; he just happened he liked his life long (as opposed to NSA starting to spill whatever skeletons in his closet and/or the equivalent of whatever passed nowadays as sending-in-a-drone on US soil).
On this line of thinking, why wouldn't IRL publish those photos to be tagged in a non-game environ?
I mean, until attempting to recruit gamers to do the job, was it practically (In Real Life) proven the bottleneck is the lack of people willing to do it anyway? (or is it a "theoretical projection" to impress TED?)
It occasionally goes wrong, but a bit of testing could easily keep that under control.
You sound like most of the managers I met: their wording always used a bit and easily when it comes to testing and QA.
(not to mention the display of varying amount of ignorance about the actual process they are suppose to support and control).
Not helpful in obtaining a key with which to send email.
You don't need to trust a key to use it. All you have to do is be assured that the recipient received and was able to read your email. If you communicate with that person via other means you simply ask if they got it.
How do you know the recipient is actually the person you do intend to send messages to?
If the above is not an issue, why do you use encryption?
My RSS feed shows the following story between the 5:12pm story and the 6:49pm story about camels. Following the link, Slashdot says "The item you're trying to view either does not exist, or is not viewable to you."
What? That's true!!!
What the hell is happening? Is/. censoring or censored?
A google search managed to land me on a deeper link that still retrieves the thread.For now.
Maybe somebody is quick enough to make a copy and post it somewhere (how does one upload a page on Wayback Machine???) - I'm at the office now, can't do it.
Oh come one, seriously?
It doesn't matter whether this is a naturally occurring virus or something created by whatever government around the world wants to make people afraid of Muslims, this is just plain silly.
The Haj is coming soon (i believe it will be October). If MERS escapes into the pilgrim population, it will be a global disaster.
* The good news: MERS may not be that bad, human-to-human transmission is low.
* The bad news: there's another one making progress, and this may be the winner between the two.
Take your popcorn, set yourself comfy on the couch and watch (:grin: - it may well be the last time you're doing it)
A team of scientists from Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Granada in Spain have successfully reconstructed active enzymes from four-billion-year-old extinct organisms. [...] In their study, published in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, the researchers used vast amounts of genetic data to computationally reconstruct the genes of extinct species, a technique known as ancestral sequence reconstruction. The researchers then went a step further and synthesized the proteins encoded by these genes. They focused their efforts on a specific protein, thioredoxin, which is a vital enzyme found in all living cells.
Having said that, I'd recommend Americans, especially young ones to have second passport and be ready to leave this shithole when things go full retard (eg. your fucked up government starts some mega-war and will need as much cannon fodder as possible).
You serious? This shithole is still the first place in this world for the launch of the next iGadget!
...after rifling through emails. What a bull's natural fertilizer smell-bomb! Makes one's mind boiling like a pressure cooker to think he got that prize from dynamite inventor's foundation.
obv the number 2^20000 is stupidly high. the point is it's billions of mitosis events, or in your estimate a billion of billions, not billions of rounds of mitosis.
yes (FTFY)
To put it in perspective, the number of atoms in the observable universe is on the order of 1e+80 (approx, since not all the atoms will be hydrogen); which means a puny amount of approx 2^266 atoms.
it's not billions of rounds of growth, but billions of individual mitosis events. 2^22588, to first order approximation.
No, that's actualy the maximum limit.
All in all, the estimated amount of HeLa tissue used in research until now is around 20 tons. With an estimated weight of a cell at 27 picograms, the number of cells would be in the order of 1e+18 (implying around 2^61 to 2^62 mitosis events)
All this research is going to earn mega bucks, but zero phucks and zero bucks granted by corporations to the family or individual that they have done this to, the donor.... How about 'corporate bitches'? See?
Yeah, Henrietta Lacks worked hard and with a high determination, for 31 long years, to pick and nurture those cells which are now so successful, she was crealy a gen(iu/e)s creator... and now, how is she rewarded?
Slashdot Mirror
"supersoldier," in a way that will compromise the long term health or well being of he human being.
I think the idea is to compromise the health of the other human being.
Well, the solution is deceptively simple: take the other human being and fuse a computer in her/his brain.
Bloombox anyone
Maybe better. Page 5:
The municipal power plant isn't going anywhere.
Well, they might go the way of Dodo. Once the patent expires, some may use the published paper and a sufficiently advanced 3D printer to get their your own fuel cell.
(letting aside the tongue-in-cheek tone, my main point above: here's an article with details on the technology. Others as well)
(2) It's more efficient to generate power on a large scale
This is only true for generators. It is NOT true for fuel cells, which is what this article is about. Fuel cells benefit little from "scale", and not enough to offset the transmission losses you avoid with local generation.
Ummm.... underlying assumption in your statement: the maintenance cost of fuel cells are low enough. For example: it may not happen if the catalysts need frequent replacement - the power company can afford discounts for "bulk buying" those catalysts and their replacement costs will be lower than the sum of all individual costs for calling a technician at the premises.
The municipal power plant isn't going anywhere.
Our house has all electric utilities - stove, oven water heater, dryer, home heating (in-wall heaters, no central furnace). I'm too lazy to add up the exact numbers, but we're probably paying $2000-2500 a year for electricity (Washington state).
Another way of saying: it may go by the time the patent expire (if, at the time, the power production is still mainly generated by burning fossil fuels and we didn't run off natural gas until then).
We might as well be honest here: Every day that you knew you had no oversight; but remained as a FISC justice, much less chief justice, you knowingly operated as a rubber stamp and a pitiful facade of rule of law. A rubber stamp for a program that you cannot have been stupid enough to think was entirely on the up-and-up. Unimpressive. Cowardly. Unworthy of your office.
What you missed to mentioned: it's a life-long tenure as a rubber stamp; he just happened he liked his life long (as opposed to NSA starting to spill whatever skeletons in his closet and/or the equivalent of whatever passed nowadays as sending-in-a-drone on US soil).
Contrast with, oh, Pulp Fiction:
There you have it.
Zed's dead, baby. - Zed's dead./Rest easy, love, the rascal's truly dead.
It's the one that says "Badass Motherfucker." - With “Blasted Oedipus” stitched upon it.
$5 milkshake? What, does it have bourbon in it? - Tis laced with spirits, to be sure! for sweet cream / from e'en the fines't cow could not be so dear.
Do you see a sign outside that says "Dead nigger disposal"? - Didst chance to read a sign which beckoned out,/ "Dead Nigger Storage" declaring my trade?
On this line of thinking, why wouldn't IRL publish those photos to be tagged in a non-game environ?
I mean, until attempting to recruit gamers to do the job, was it practically (In Real Life) proven the bottleneck is the lack of people willing to do it anyway? (or is it a "theoretical projection" to impress TED?)
The copy will always suffer genome degradation over the span of many generations.
Tell that to bacteria. Heck, your individual cells. No real limit.
Say, WHAT?
It occasionally goes wrong, but a bit of testing could easily keep that under control.
You sound like most of the managers I met: their wording always used a bit and easily when it comes to testing and QA.
(not to mention the display of varying amount of ignorance about the actual process they are suppose to support and control).
What the hell? How much of 14500 pages could have been relevant to the trial?
Are you guys competing with Stasi?
any pub is good pub
Not this one, no.
Not helpful in obtaining a key with which to send email.
You don't need to trust a key to use it. All you have to do is be assured that the recipient received and was able to read your email. If you communicate with that person via other means you simply ask if they got it.
How do you know the recipient is actually the person you do intend to send messages to?
If the above is not an issue, why do you use encryption?
Attend or organize a key signing party.
My RSS feed shows the following story between the 5:12pm story and the 6:49pm story about camels. Following the link, Slashdot says "The item you're trying to view either does not exist, or is not viewable to you."
What? That's true!!! /. censoring or censored?
What the hell is happening? Is
A google search managed to land me on a deeper link that still retrieves the thread. For now. Maybe somebody is quick enough to make a copy and post it somewhere (how does one upload a page on Wayback Machine???) - I'm at the office now, can't do it.
Oh come one, seriously? It doesn't matter whether this is a naturally occurring virus or something created by whatever government around the world wants to make people afraid of Muslims, this is just plain silly.
Plain silly you say? Well, how do you explain that Hendra virus is passed to humans by... wait for it... descendents from arabian horses!!!
Coincidence? I don't think so.
.
(large grin - waiting for the bites)
The Haj is coming soon (i believe it will be October). If MERS escapes into the pilgrim population, it will be a global disaster.
* The good news: MERS may not be that bad, human-to-human transmission is low.
* The bad news: there's another one making progress, and this may be the winner between the two.
Take your popcorn, set yourself comfy on the couch and watch (:grin: - it may well be the last time you're doing it)
A team of scientists from Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Granada in Spain have successfully reconstructed active enzymes from four-billion-year-old extinct organisms.
[...]
In their study, published in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, the researchers used vast amounts of genetic data to computationally reconstruct the genes of extinct species, a technique known as ancestral sequence reconstruction. The researchers then went a step further and synthesized the proteins encoded by these genes. They focused their efforts on a specific protein, thioredoxin, which is a vital enzyme found in all living cells.
Having said that, I'd recommend Americans, especially young ones to have second passport and be ready to leave this shithole when things go full retard (eg. your fucked up government starts some mega-war and will need as much cannon fodder as possible).
You serious? This shithole is still the first place in this world for the launch of the next iGadget!
What does that even mean?
Death metal to America!
Obama's been laden!
...after rifling through emails. What a bull's natural fertilizer smell-bomb! Makes one's mind boiling like a pressure cooker to think he got that prize from dynamite inventor's foundation.
Three weeks of downtime in even a single unit of a power plant sounds incredibly expensive to me.
Yeap. Put that in the context of the GPP whining about "my expensive movie theatre projector" and wondering who's equally unfortunate like him?
What does that even mean?
Death metal to America!
For your sake, I hope you are not living in US. Because they may come after you on drug charges
But I wonder how many other folks have very expensive hardware like this that will probably never be upgraded to run on anything other than XP.
Expensive like ... what?!? Are you kidding?
obv the number 2^20000 is stupidly high. the point is it's billions of mitosis events, or in your estimate a billion of billions, not billions of rounds of mitosis.
yes (FTFY)
To put it in perspective, the number of atoms in the observable universe is on the order of 1e+80 (approx, since not all the atoms will be hydrogen); which means a puny amount of approx 2^266 atoms.
it's not billions of rounds of growth, but billions of individual mitosis events. 2^22588, to first order approximation.
No, that's actualy the maximum limit.
All in all, the estimated amount of HeLa tissue used in research until now is around 20 tons .
With an estimated weight of a cell at 27 picograms, the number of cells would be in the order of 1e+18 (implying around 2^61 to 2^62 mitosis events)
All this research is going to earn mega bucks, but zero phucks and zero bucks granted by corporations to the family or individual that they have done this to, the donor. ... How about 'corporate bitches'? See?
Yeah, Henrietta Lacks worked hard and with a high determination, for 31 long years, to pick and nurture those cells which are now so successful, she was crealy a gen(iu/e)s creator... and now, how is she rewarded?