When the 10 kilowatts of power are expected to reach over 12,000 square miles, I think the exposure to people is going to be minimal.
I imagine a more immediate source of concern is MRI's, X-Rays, and various other medical scans, much less making a phone call with a cellphone that's probably pumping at least 500mw of power directly into your head.
At the very least, the life expectancy of the average person hasn't seemed to go down at all since the proliferation of TV and the massive growth of EM radiation in every imaginable spectrum.
DTV (national channels) (7 channels, broadcast power of 10kw, 1 wide area Kanto (sort of the center of the main island), 1 nation wide, 4 Kanto Area) Expected to reach 14 million households
DTV (Tokyo channels) (1 channel, broadcast power 3kw)
FM stations (2, broadcast power of 10kw) 81.3, 82.5
"Multimedia broadcast" (Not sure, maybe cellular television?) 1 station at 25kw, effective radiated power up to 105kw
And a few special purpose taxiTV stations are moving to the sky tree, they play advertisements and entertainment in the taxi.
At Sumida official land prices (for tax purposes) are about $3600/square meter. So that would put the land value of the total building site at about ~130m dollars. If you were to duplicate the effect with a bunch of smaller towers, you could easily go over the ~600m combined price for the Tokyo sky tree on land prices alone.
There is some level of precedent in the law system for unauthorized access, and it's called tresspassing. While I agree that the act of unauthorized access is indeed non harmful, so is the act of entering private property without authorization. However, this is also a punishable crime, so I don't see why unauthorized computer access is. The law exists not necessarily to punish everyone who attempts it, but to give the OPTION to punish. If you walk onto someone's farm, and they catch you, demand to know what you're doing, and decide that you weren't a serious threat, and let you go, then the law isn't enforced. However, they would have the right at any point to bring the law down on your own head and you only have yourself to blame.
Unauthorized access is illegal for the same reason that government eavesdropping on data communications has people up in arms. They shouldn't HAVE to work to prevent this sort of thing, and when they do have to respond to an intrusion it costs them time and money to investigate it.
King Abdullah II of Jordan, and his father King Hussein. They crafted one of the freest arab nations in the middle east. While they're track record probably isn't completely spotless, they are by NO definition political despots.
First of all, according to the article it's meant to be used as an electric loaner city car. So it won't be going on the highway.
Second of all, it's a half scale model, so the actual car will be much, much bigger. Probably still only enough for one occupant, and probably about the size of a small car. However, you'll be able to cram MANY more of them at a parking lot.
So, let's say you take commuter rail into a city. Then, when you arrive at your train station, there's a parking lot full of 200 of these guys folded up, waiting for you to hop in. You pay $10, take it to your destination, once you finish working you bring it back to the commuter rail station, park it there, and go home. You've saved yourself on gas AND parking, and helped contribute to the lowered congestion of the city's parking lots.
My opinion is that person hood begins when an embryo enters into a situation that, given the maintenance of the status quo (no miscarriages, terminal genetic diseases etc), will develop into a human being. This is strictly my opinion, based off the logic that if the embryo does not yet have the potential to become a person in it's current environment, given the high failure rate of IVF, we shouldn't assume that every embryo is a human because 90% of them will never have the chance to become one, even if implanted.
The implant rate on IVF i've heard is about 10%. That would mean that, if put through the IVF procedure, only 1/10th of them would proceed onto person hood.
If I remember correctly, only about 10% of fertilized eggs make it to implantation in IVF. I'm not sure if it's terribly higher than that for natural conception, but with such a dismal rate i'd say that the vast majority of embryos, if defined as people, essentially die of starvation. However, I doubt this fact is widely publicised.
However, due to the need to reconcile this with myself, I would call an embryo a fetus once it successfully implants onto a womb. Without a womb, there is no chance at life. And a failed implantation probably ends in embryo death faster than the brain would have a chance to develop.
While apple may save money by manufacturing overseas, they can take every penny they save and spend it on things like research and design. That creates high paying R&D jobs, which are much more attractive than the $10 an hour pay they would probably pay to a non union worker in a factory in the US.
Plus, i've heard from various sources that some of US factories, for textiles, actually employ immigrants at poor conditions not unlike the foxconn factories in China, enriching the factory owners and not the workers. If apple contracted out to other factories, similar situations may arise.
I remember seeing some statistics on slashdot that only about 2% of the purchase price of an iPhone was actual labor fees. So I don't think moving manufacturing stateside would actually enrich America that much. If anything, making sure they can meet demand with Chinese megafactories running 24/7 means they can employ people in sales, logistics, and the like over here. Much more pleasant jobs than manufacturing.
This is a link to an article with a picture of a Foxconn dormitory, although it looks vacated. However, the article is an anti-apple article. Do with it what you wish.
Wouldn't the preciousness of water also make boiling water in those turbines a bit costly too? If you add condensers you can cut your losses dramatically, but that adds to the cost.
It'll be interesting to see if Gen 3+ and Gen 4 nuclear reactors will be allowed longer terms of lease, given that they have less parts to fail and more passive saftey systems. I think that nuclear could really be a keystone of Japan's nuclear energy future. That, and the Japanese have done research on how to extract uranium from the sea after Uranium prices spike in the future once easily mineable resources become exhausted. If we don't get breeders or thorium running, Japan has done the research.
Japan's only major energy resource is the sea. And the sea has enough Uranium to keep Japan ticking long after their population dwindles away due to their low birth rate.
This analogy breaks down when you consider Japan Canada Sweden Germany and the many other countries that have no nuclear weapons programs but operate a large nuclear reactor fleet. This would've particularly helped Japan when the cooling was cut off at daiichi too.
What about the mercury in the ocean that has rendered most tasty fish a toxic hazard, to the global population?
Isn't that a catastrophy in itself? And coal power has been around not that much longer than nuclear. That's a catastrophic (killing off the food supply is a fundamental limiter of human growth as much as land is, given that most land is used to grow food.) accident happening around us as we speak.
I'm used to getting the hell gouged out of me for computer hardware in Japan. Graphics cards in particular are murderous, usually 20% higher over here than back in the US. When Japan is a good 25%+ cheaper, there's something very, very fishy going on.
If you're going 100 MPH you use 10,000 mystery energy units. If you're going 200 MPH you use 40,000 mystery energy units.
Over the same hour, you get one mile per 100 mystery energy units for 100MPH, and at 200MPH you get 1 mile for 200 mystery energy units. Thus, your efficency is halved by doubling your speed.
Square doesn't equal double.
The majority of the increased energy loss is due to rising air resistance as your speed increases. This is why you consume less gas traveling the same distance at 55mph vs 75mph.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but PCB when we're talking about finish generally refers to polychlorinated biphenyls, chemicals that were used as coolants and dialectric (prevention of sparking/arcing) fluids in transformers and such.
Yeah, the big question though, is whether or not the savings from sourcing heat from a refrigerant system would pay for the added cost of plumbing in every single CPU in the box. Although if you managed to evacuate all of the CPU heat, you might be able to do some neat things with it, such as feed it to a neighboring paper mill or something.
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When the 10 kilowatts of power are expected to reach over 12,000 square miles, I think the exposure to people is going to be minimal.
I imagine a more immediate source of concern is MRI's, X-Rays, and various other medical scans, much less making a phone call with a cellphone that's probably pumping at least 500mw of power directly into your head.
At the very least, the life expectancy of the average person hasn't seemed to go down at all since the proliferation of TV and the massive growth of EM radiation in every imaginable spectrum.
It broadcasts
DTV (national channels)
(7 channels, broadcast power of 10kw, 1 wide area Kanto (sort of the center of the main island), 1 nation wide, 4 Kanto Area)
Expected to reach 14 million households
DTV (Tokyo channels)
(1 channel, broadcast power 3kw)
FM stations (2, broadcast power of 10kw)
81.3, 82.5
"Multimedia broadcast" (Not sure, maybe cellular television?)
1 station at 25kw, effective radiated power up to 105kw
And a few special purpose taxiTV stations are moving to the sky tree, they play advertisements and entertainment in the taxi.
Indeed, land prices in Tokyo are murderous. If I'm understanding the Japanese wikipedia article right, the base area is roughly 38,000 square meters.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%84%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
At Sumida official land prices (for tax purposes) are about $3600/square meter. So that would put the land value of the total building site at about ~130m dollars. If you were to duplicate the effect with a bunch of smaller towers, you could easily go over the ~600m combined price for the Tokyo sky tree on land prices alone.
There is some level of precedent in the law system for unauthorized access, and it's called tresspassing. While I agree that the act of unauthorized access is indeed non harmful, so is the act of entering private property without authorization. However, this is also a punishable crime, so I don't see why unauthorized computer access is. The law exists not necessarily to punish everyone who attempts it, but to give the OPTION to punish. If you walk onto someone's farm, and they catch you, demand to know what you're doing, and decide that you weren't a serious threat, and let you go, then the law isn't enforced. However, they would have the right at any point to bring the law down on your own head and you only have yourself to blame.
Unauthorized access is illegal for the same reason that government eavesdropping on data communications has people up in arms. They shouldn't HAVE to work to prevent this sort of thing, and when they do have to respond to an intrusion it costs them time and money to investigate it.
King Abdullah II of Jordan, and his father King Hussein. They crafted one of the freest arab nations in the middle east. While they're track record probably isn't completely spotless, they are by NO definition political despots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Hussein
First of all, according to the article it's meant to be used as an electric loaner city car. So it won't be going on the highway.
Second of all, it's a half scale model, so the actual car will be much, much bigger. Probably still only enough for one occupant, and probably about the size of a small car. However, you'll be able to cram MANY more of them at a parking lot.
So, let's say you take commuter rail into a city. Then, when you arrive at your train station, there's a parking lot full of 200 of these guys folded up, waiting for you to hop in. You pay $10, take it to your destination, once you finish working you bring it back to the commuter rail station, park it there, and go home. You've saved yourself on gas AND parking, and helped contribute to the lowered congestion of the city's parking lots.
How is this not a win?
My opinion is that person hood begins when an embryo enters into a situation that, given the maintenance of the status quo (no miscarriages, terminal genetic diseases etc), will develop into a human being. This is strictly my opinion, based off the logic that if the embryo does not yet have the potential to become a person in it's current environment, given the high failure rate of IVF, we shouldn't assume that every embryo is a human because 90% of them will never have the chance to become one, even if implanted.
The implant rate on IVF i've heard is about 10%. That would mean that, if put through the IVF procedure, only 1/10th of them would proceed onto person hood.
If I remember correctly, only about 10% of fertilized eggs make it to implantation in IVF. I'm not sure if it's terribly higher than that for natural conception, but with such a dismal rate i'd say that the vast majority of embryos, if defined as people, essentially die of starvation. However, I doubt this fact is widely publicised.
However, due to the need to reconcile this with myself, I would call an embryo a fetus once it successfully implants onto a womb. Without a womb, there is no chance at life. And a failed implantation probably ends in embryo death faster than the brain would have a chance to develop.
While apple may save money by manufacturing overseas, they can take every penny they save and spend it on things like research and design. That creates high paying R&D jobs, which are much more attractive than the $10 an hour pay they would probably pay to a non union worker in a factory in the US.
Plus, i've heard from various sources that some of US factories, for textiles, actually employ immigrants at poor conditions not unlike the foxconn factories in China, enriching the factory owners and not the workers. If apple contracted out to other factories, similar situations may arise.
I remember seeing some statistics on slashdot that only about 2% of the purchase price of an iPhone was actual labor fees. So I don't think moving manufacturing stateside would actually enrich America that much. If anything, making sure they can meet demand with Chinese megafactories running 24/7 means they can employ people in sales, logistics, and the like over here. Much more pleasant jobs than manufacturing.
By the way, the comment on the photo fro the Chinese website, says that in the average dorm room in a Foxconn dormitory, there are 8-10 people.
http://www.iceo.com.cn/phore/2010/0527/194406_7.shtml
This is from a chinese journalism website that got permission to enter the foxconn facility after the suicide incident.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285980/Revealed-Inside-Chinese-suicide-sweatshop-workers-toil-34-hour-shifts-make-iPod.html
This is a link to an article with a picture of a Foxconn dormitory, although it looks vacated. However, the article is an anti-apple article. Do with it what you wish.
Wouldn't the preciousness of water also make boiling water in those turbines a bit costly too? If you add condensers you can cut your losses dramatically, but that adds to the cost.
It'll be interesting to see if Gen 3+ and Gen 4 nuclear reactors will be allowed longer terms of lease, given that they have less parts to fail and more passive saftey systems. I think that nuclear could really be a keystone of Japan's nuclear energy future. That, and the Japanese have done research on how to extract uranium from the sea after Uranium prices spike in the future once easily mineable resources become exhausted. If we don't get breeders or thorium running, Japan has done the research.
http://www.jaea.go.jp/jaeri/english/ff/ff43/topics.html
Japan's only major energy resource is the sea. And the sea has enough Uranium to keep Japan ticking long after their population dwindles away due to their low birth rate.
This analogy breaks down when you consider Japan Canada Sweden Germany and the many other countries that have no nuclear weapons programs but operate a large nuclear reactor fleet. This would've particularly helped Japan when the cooling was cut off at daiichi too.
What about the mercury in the ocean that has rendered most tasty fish a toxic hazard, to the global population?
Isn't that a catastrophy in itself? And coal power has been around not that much longer than nuclear. That's a catastrophic (killing off the food supply is a fundamental limiter of human growth as much as land is, given that most land is used to grow food.) accident happening around us as we speak.
There is definatley gouging going on.
Here's a 3TB WD green caviar on a Japanese site
http://www.pocdesse.com/welcome.html?vo=ka&c1=99&c2=99&c3=99&id=4515479533301
~$180
Now here's the same drive on new egg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136874&Tpk=WD30EZRX
~$249
I'm used to getting the hell gouged out of me for computer hardware in Japan. Graphics cards in particular are murderous, usually 20% higher over here than back in the US. When Japan is a good 25%+ cheaper, there's something very, very fishy going on.
If you're going 100 MPH you use 10,000 mystery energy units.
If you're going 200 MPH you use 40,000 mystery energy units.
Over the same hour, you get one mile per 100 mystery energy units for 100MPH, and at 200MPH you get 1 mile for 200 mystery energy units. Thus, your efficency is halved by doubling your speed.
Square doesn't equal double.
The majority of the increased energy loss is due to rising air resistance as your speed increases. This is why you consume less gas traveling the same distance at 55mph vs 75mph.
The Avacado is a fruit, and isn't very sweet.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but PCB when we're talking about finish generally refers to polychlorinated biphenyls, chemicals that were used as coolants and dialectric (prevention of sparking/arcing) fluids in transformers and such.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl
They were banned because some of the compounds in them are toxic, similar to dioxin.
How would we go about genetically modifying it to not require 6 miles of water ontop of it?
Generally deep sea stuff tends to explode once we bring it up due to pressure differential.
The answer to that problem is to use reclaimed waste water.
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/28/Hillsborough/Ethanol_faces_big_hur.shtml
That should be 45 BTU/Tonmile instead of 4.5
Yeah, the big question though, is whether or not the savings from sourcing heat from a refrigerant system would pay for the added cost of plumbing in every single CPU in the box. Although if you managed to evacuate all of the CPU heat, you might be able to do some neat things with it, such as feed it to a neighboring paper mill or something.
It might be possible to use a heatpump sourcing heat from the 50c air. That would make it fantastically efficient.