Or just put them in a safety deposit box at a local bank.
I think that you missed the OPs concern with redundancy.
Having your backup in the local bank is really going to suck if they've been flooded out by the same event that flooded you out. (Floods may be fluids other than water, such as lava and volcanic ash.)
I'd be much more wary of shipping them across US international borders, where they'd be liable to seizure. Possibly at state borders too. But in that case, taking them to Auntie Flo isn't going to be any protection either.
Geothermal and hydrocarbon are not good bedfellows. Where you've got a high enough geothermal gradient for it to be a significant source of power, then you're going to be cooking your kerogens at depth shallow enough to have little prospect of encountering a trap, and they'll just sep out ot surface. Plus, you'd have a wider gas window and narrower oil window, and the oil is considerably the more valuable for export sales.
Could you use directly geothermally-generated steam as a steam-flood source all in the one well? You'd need to rig your surface water injector on the injection well to higher pressures than for conventional water or steam injection (higher pressures cost more and wear out faster) but the production wells wouldn't need significantly different completion. Slugging of your steam flow from the geothermal source into the flood injection leg of the well would be an issue - potentially a big issue.
What are the odds of the shape and size of your geothermal field being sufficiently close to power an outer ring of injection wells and efficiently steam-flood into the central few producers. It's not impossible, but it's also not terribly likely. Geothermal fields tending to be relatively large and disperses, but oil fields being sharply delineated by their original oil-water contacts (would you drill out in the water leg, except to provide pressure / waterflood support? Would you sign the AFE for subsidiary drilling centres, access roads etc for a 1/3 increase in well count (steam producer plus the regular injector - producer pair). You might make a case, but it's not going to be a high likelihood case.
On the other hand, having recently moved into an environment with communications,"chat" and such like bullshit, I can assure you that having your work interrupted 100 times a day (I shit you not) by numpties asking questions that they should be able to READ the answer to from their real-time data displays, is incredibly annoying. If they really want to have "hands-off" management of the "corporate risk" of operatins, perhaps they shoud get off their fat arses and come out into the field to give us 30-year veterans the beneft of their 30 days of experience in the classroom.
It's always possible that they can't cut the mustard when their errors could kill themselves, instead of other people.
Ah, got you. Still needs appreciable power, but being a continuous load, that's not a major issue. The water makers on board are RO too, feeding and washing a couple of hundred (very) sweaty bodies. But for big fresh water requirements (hundreds of cu. m. ) we bring in non-potable water on one of the flotilla boats.
You are right about the rain that falls on the ocean but I don't see how you're right when the rain falls on the land.
There is a lot more (About 3 times) area of ocean as there is land. And, as pointed out elsewhere, bunker oil is normally not burned until you're well out to sea, for precisely this reason. It's a perfectly good reason. Which is already covered.
That was pretty much my thought too. There should be fewer problems with coupling an app on a phone to a particular car - say by the same sort of link as used in BlueTooth - and if the phone comes out of screen-saver, then the engine drops through the gears, puts on the hazard lights and horn, and then shuts down. Once the phone is back in screen-lock state, then the car's engine can be re-started.
It'd still be vulnerable to a driver who wants to text using a passenger's phone. But that's going to be a comparatively small problem, largely because it requires two idiotic self-centred narcissistic morons to be in the same car at the same time.
May be able to adjust it IF you've got laws allowing use of a hands-free mobile as a speech phone to put that as another engine-allowed state.
It's annoying enough when it's just me, but my parents/wife/family respond, "This website is broken, your setup drives me nuts, I just want things to work."
Then disable disabling javascript for their users and keep their accounts in a sandbox, or on separate machines. If it's your network, and they've authorised you to manage security, backups and hardware then they get what you decide. Or they get to manage it themselves.
I've forgotten what signature I'm using. Is it still the birds ARE one?
Evidently, yes. Appropriate. I haven't changed it for several years.
It's like asking if Ronald Reagan is more closely related to Emperor Hirohito, Osama bin Laden, Otzi the Iceman, or Barak Obama.
I suppose I should add an Australian Aborigine and an Amerindian to that list, just to even out the range supplied. Let's say Montezuma (he of the Revenge, for the Amerind) and Ernie Dingo (an Australian Aboriginal TV character, according to my Australian colleague).
If more sequences have been published since 2007, then perhaps we could get a better idea of which modern bird T-rex is most closely related to,
On skeletal structure grounds, T.rex has been considered a sister group to all birds since the 1960s or so. On the basis of it's forearm structure, T.rex is a theropod dinosaur, but probably not a maniraptorinan theropod dinosaur. All birds however are considered maniraptorian theropod dinosaurs.
We don't have a good understanding of the initial evolutionary radiation of the birds, between approximately the early Late Jurassic and mid-Late Cretaceous, when we find evidence of the early roots of some modern bird groups such as the ratites. There's no particular reason to think that any modern bird is more closely related to T.rex than any other. There probably is one such, but we don't have (and are very unlikely to ever get) enough evidence to really be sure of the family tree to that degree of accuracy. It's like asking if Ronald Reagan is more closely related to Emperor Hirohito, Osama bin Laden, Otzi the Iceman, or Barak Obama.
I've forgotten what signature I'm using. Is it still the birds ARE one?
Dumping mercury-containing waste into an active volcano will only ensure that there is an increased mercury concentration in the fumes coming off the volcano in the next eruption, and in any hot water springs around the volcano (common).
I think that you mean dumping it into an active subduction zone. But you'd need to put it several kilometres down into the subduction zone (that's drilling technology ; we sell introductory courses to drilling - about $2000/week excluding your accommodation costs. Or our instructor's accommodation costs if you've got a class of 4 or more.) unless you're willing to underwrite the security of your storage equipment for around 10 million years (to get natural subduction to a similar depth).
it's deceptively dangerous it is not like a poison
That's nonsensical.
It is a poison. It's a slow-acting, low dose poison. but it's a poison nonetheless. It's difficult to estimate people's long-term exposures, because even very small levels of mercury loss from the body will have large effects on the cumulated dose over the decades.
Your mental image of what a poison is, is not adequate to make safe predictions about what is and is not poisonous, and at what doseages.
Do you remember Paracelsus' best-known dictum? If you don't know it, you really should.
and the third is not just silver mining but also outright cinnabar mining. Luckily, I live on the side of the lake which is relatively clean
Hmm, good enough reasons to consider appropriate precautions. And considering that we don't know what the safe lower exposure limit for mercury is (assuming that it's significantly different to the homeopathic concentration), that's going to need some careful thought.
and I have an RO filter because there's a hell of a lot of stuff around here in the water
Sorry, what's an "RO filter"? Run-Off? (I wouldn't have thought that snow-melt and rainfall from a clean roof would have picked up much ; unless you're horribly dusty, when you've got other issues to attend to.)
Tetraethyl Lead was used [..], and is still used in some aviation fuel. There appears to be illegal manufacture and use of the substance ongoing in the PRC.
If there is still legal manufacture and use in aviation gas, as you imply, what makes you think that there is illegal manufacture in PRC? There may be illegal or unlicensed use of PbEt4, made for the aviation market, as automobile fuel additives, but that doesn't make the manufacture itself illegal. Always assuming, of course that you're applying the appropriate laws to PRC. Whatever jurisdiction you're resident in, it's laws don't apply in the PRC (unless you're in the PRC). I don't know if the PRC has banned the manufacture of PbEt4. I do know that a very high proportion of the automobiles in China were manufactured since the 1980s, which means that they've got no need to use PbEt4. And that in itself casts serious doubt on your assertion.
The amounts involved as a fuel antiknock ingredient exceed Lead's use in mold control and paint, and should be considered the primary source for increased Lead in the environment.
That was certainly the case when I was learning to drive. But I can't remember having seen any petrol pumps supplying PbEt4-doped fuel for... over a decade, maybe approaching two decades now. I remember there being a mild wailing and gnashing of teeth from the old-car freaks when the last refinery in the country (on this continent, perhaps?) that produced PbEt4-doped fuel stopped producing it. But they've shut the fuck up because anti-knock additives are available for engines that can't be dressed-back to use lead-free fuel ; you just have to pour in an appropriate amount of additive into your tank along with the amount of fuel. Yourself. Also, the additives may be less toxic - lead is not the only metal ion that exhibits anti-knock properties, just the cheapest, when you're doing it by the hundred-tonne batch.
I stopped using M$ stuff myself at all after the train wreck that was Vista. I don't know if that was before or after the Office 365 stuff arrived, since typical network capability for my work locations then was a 256kbps link shared between 30 people on-shift and 70 off-shift or asleep. I doubt that would have been adequate for live use of an Office-like thing.
These days I use whatever email thing the client provides, my in-house software, and PDF most documents that other people need. After that, it's my choice of tools.
Truth is that nobody has any clue as to how to contain this ebola epidermic in West Africa
You contradict yourself. The solution is well-known. Quarantine.
It is just politically unacceptable, and there's a high probability of there not being enough troops to enact the quarantine by shooting people trying to escape. Which raises another problem ; having shot them, what do you do with the potentially infectious bodies?
And, who is going to order sovereign nations (four, so far, including a nation of around 100million people) to close their borders and shoot their own population?
But quarantine does have a long and good track record.
They may have aches and pains ongoing, but it sounds like they could still function well
One of the early symptoms is that you slough off the lining of your intestines. The euphemistic "bloody diarrhoea" is the lining falling off your gut and falling out of your arse. Not to mention the blood pissing out of every orifice, including many of your sweat glands.
Good luck recovering from that in a couple of months. Yeah, straight back to work as a serum mule!
After the way that haemorrhagic virus tends to make all your blood vessels thin-walled and porous, just getting a line in for taking a blood sample is likely to be a challenge.
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Blowers. You BLOW through bagpipes, not suck.
Pfffft. Kids today. Next thing you know, you'll be building horseless carriages and flying machines.
I think that you missed the OPs concern with redundancy.
Having your backup in the local bank is really going to suck if they've been flooded out by the same event that flooded you out. (Floods may be fluids other than water, such as lava and volcanic ash.)
I'd be much more wary of shipping them across US international borders, where they'd be liable to seizure. Possibly at state borders too. But in that case, taking them to Auntie Flo isn't going to be any protection either.
... signifying nothing.
Could you use directly geothermally-generated steam as a steam-flood source all in the one well? You'd need to rig your surface water injector on the injection well to higher pressures than for conventional water or steam injection (higher pressures cost more and wear out faster) but the production wells wouldn't need significantly different completion. Slugging of your steam flow from the geothermal source into the flood injection leg of the well would be an issue - potentially a big issue.
What are the odds of the shape and size of your geothermal field being sufficiently close to power an outer ring of injection wells and efficiently steam-flood into the central few producers. It's not impossible, but it's also not terribly likely. Geothermal fields tending to be relatively large and disperses, but oil fields being sharply delineated by their original oil-water contacts (would you drill out in the water leg, except to provide pressure / waterflood support? Would you sign the AFE for subsidiary drilling centres, access roads etc for a 1/3 increase in well count (steam producer plus the regular injector - producer pair). You might make a case, but it's not going to be a high likelihood case.
It's always possible that they can't cut the mustard when their errors could kill themselves, instead of other people.
Ah, got you. Still needs appreciable power, but being a continuous load, that's not a major issue. The water makers on board are RO too, feeding and washing a couple of hundred (very) sweaty bodies. But for big fresh water requirements (hundreds of cu. m. ) we bring in non-potable water on one of the flotilla boats.
Personally, I prefer to use the bus and catch up my reading when I go into town. Otherwise, I walk to the shops and back.
There is a lot more (About 3 times) area of ocean as there is land. And, as pointed out elsewhere, bunker oil is normally not burned until you're well out to sea, for precisely this reason. It's a perfectly good reason. Which is already covered.
I'd vaguely got the idea that these things were about health-Nazi-ism. Thanks for confirming that.
[Adverts for "smart watch, crumpled into ball, fly across room and ... bounce out of the rubbish bin.] Balls! I'll pick them up later.
That was pretty much my thought too. There should be fewer problems with coupling an app on a phone to a particular car - say by the same sort of link as used in BlueTooth - and if the phone comes out of screen-saver, then the engine drops through the gears, puts on the hazard lights and horn, and then shuts down. Once the phone is back in screen-lock state, then the car's engine can be re-started.
It'd still be vulnerable to a driver who wants to text using a passenger's phone. But that's going to be a comparatively small problem, largely because it requires two idiotic self-centred narcissistic morons to be in the same car at the same time.
May be able to adjust it IF you've got laws allowing use of a hands-free mobile as a speech phone to put that as another engine-allowed state.
He's using Scotch Tape. It's many criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours.
You use precious road space for PARKING on? What the fuck? That's a problem for the buildings that people are going into to attend to.
You've been eating Rum-and-Raisin ice cream?
Doom stopped working ?
My copy is still working.
Then disable disabling javascript for their users and keep their accounts in a sandbox, or on separate machines. If it's your network, and they've authorised you to manage security, backups and hardware then they get what you decide. Or they get to manage it themselves.
They do understand binary?
Evidently, yes. Appropriate. I haven't changed it for several years.
I suppose I should add an Australian Aborigine and an Amerindian to that list, just to even out the range supplied. Let's say Montezuma (he of the Revenge, for the Amerind) and Ernie Dingo (an Australian Aboriginal TV character, according to my Australian colleague).
On skeletal structure grounds, T.rex has been considered a sister group to all birds since the 1960s or so. On the basis of it's forearm structure, T.rex is a theropod dinosaur, but probably not a maniraptorinan theropod dinosaur. All birds however are considered maniraptorian theropod dinosaurs.
We don't have a good understanding of the initial evolutionary radiation of the birds, between approximately the early Late Jurassic and mid-Late Cretaceous, when we find evidence of the early roots of some modern bird groups such as the ratites. There's no particular reason to think that any modern bird is more closely related to T.rex than any other. There probably is one such, but we don't have (and are very unlikely to ever get) enough evidence to really be sure of the family tree to that degree of accuracy. It's like asking if Ronald Reagan is more closely related to Emperor Hirohito, Osama bin Laden, Otzi the Iceman, or Barak Obama.
I've forgotten what signature I'm using. Is it still the birds ARE one?
I think that you mean dumping it into an active subduction zone. But you'd need to put it several kilometres down into the subduction zone (that's drilling technology ; we sell introductory courses to drilling - about $2000/week excluding your accommodation costs. Or our instructor's accommodation costs if you've got a class of 4 or more.) unless you're willing to underwrite the security of your storage equipment for around 10 million years (to get natural subduction to a similar depth).
That's nonsensical.
It is a poison. It's a slow-acting, low dose poison. but it's a poison nonetheless. It's difficult to estimate people's long-term exposures, because even very small levels of mercury loss from the body will have large effects on the cumulated dose over the decades.
Your mental image of what a poison is, is not adequate to make safe predictions about what is and is not poisonous, and at what doseages.
Do you remember Paracelsus' best-known dictum? If you don't know it, you really should.
Hmm, good enough reasons to consider appropriate precautions. And considering that we don't know what the safe lower exposure limit for mercury is (assuming that it's significantly different to the homeopathic concentration), that's going to need some careful thought.
Sorry, what's an "RO filter"? Run-Off? (I wouldn't have thought that snow-melt and rainfall from a clean roof would have picked up much ; unless you're horribly dusty, when you've got other issues to attend to.)
If there is still legal manufacture and use in aviation gas, as you imply, what makes you think that there is illegal manufacture in PRC? There may be illegal or unlicensed use of PbEt4, made for the aviation market, as automobile fuel additives, but that doesn't make the manufacture itself illegal. Always assuming, of course that you're applying the appropriate laws to PRC. Whatever jurisdiction you're resident in, it's laws don't apply in the PRC (unless you're in the PRC). I don't know if the PRC has banned the manufacture of PbEt4. I do know that a very high proportion of the automobiles in China were manufactured since the 1980s, which means that they've got no need to use PbEt4. And that in itself casts serious doubt on your assertion.
That was certainly the case when I was learning to drive. But I can't remember having seen any petrol pumps supplying PbEt4-doped fuel for ... over a decade, maybe approaching two decades now. I remember there being a mild wailing and gnashing of teeth from the old-car freaks when the last refinery in the country (on this continent, perhaps?) that produced PbEt4-doped fuel stopped producing it. But they've shut the fuck up because anti-knock additives are available for engines that can't be dressed-back to use lead-free fuel ; you just have to pour in an appropriate amount of additive into your tank along with the amount of fuel. Yourself. Also, the additives may be less toxic - lead is not the only metal ion that exhibits anti-knock properties, just the cheapest, when you're doing it by the hundred-tonne batch.
These days I use whatever email thing the client provides, my in-house software, and PDF most documents that other people need. After that, it's my choice of tools.
You contradict yourself. The solution is well-known. Quarantine.
It is just politically unacceptable, and there's a high probability of there not being enough troops to enact the quarantine by shooting people trying to escape. Which raises another problem ; having shot them, what do you do with the potentially infectious bodies?
And, who is going to order sovereign nations (four, so far, including a nation of around 100million people) to close their borders and shoot their own population?
But quarantine does have a long and good track record.
One of the early symptoms is that you slough off the lining of your intestines. The euphemistic "bloody diarrhoea" is the lining falling off your gut and falling out of your arse. Not to mention the blood pissing out of every orifice, including many of your sweat glands.
Good luck recovering from that in a couple of months. Yeah, straight back to work as a serum mule!
After the way that haemorrhagic virus tends to make all your blood vessels thin-walled and porous, just getting a line in for taking a blood sample is likely to be a challenge.
Real geeks do not care about non-geek's grammar.
Better?