Domestic wind can produce a fair bit more than solar, and the tech is always improving. I looked back and I don't see a claim that fuel cells are safer, but I will assert that they're much easier on the environment to produce. Lithium mining is a very messy business from what I hear.
I'm not trying to claim that fuel cells are THE solution, just that they're not a dead end tech as cpu6502 had claimed.
Ah, so you're saying that while the impactor mass would be a small portion of the Earth as a whole, it would be concentrated toward the surface? Perhaps. I'm not geologist enough to know how much mixing there was at the time.
Fuel cells aren't any more hazardous than a high energy density battery, will likely be much lighter and cheaper, and can be refilled much more rapidly. In addition, I can make electricity (and therefore hydrogen) at home. I can't make gasoline at home, and even making biodiesel takes a huge setup.
If you get it off axis even a tiny bit you also have to worry about side loading, which at 1% would be 4200 pounds. Oh, NM, he said SUV, so it'll easily flip before the tires slip.
Hydrogen compressed to 700 bar holds 5.6 megajoules per liter, and with properly constructed systems could be transferred in less than a minute just like gasoline. How long would it take to transfer 5.6 megajoules of electricity with any reasonable hardware?
Fuel cell cars are an answer to the problem of energy storage, not energy source. High performance batteries are expensive, and hard on the environment to produce. You can make hydrogen with clean energy almost as easily as you can charge a battery with it, and you can transfer hydrogen faster than electricity.
The impactor would have been much smaller than Earth, so the 60% of the impactor that became part of the Earth would have been a much smaller percentage of the Earth than 40%. As was pointed out elsewhere however, there's no reason to assume that the impactor did not form at or near the same orbital distance from the Sun as Earth. Doing so would have given it a very similar isotopic distribution to Earth.
You mean by prohibiting the use of gold and silver as media of exchange? Making a fiat note the only legal tender, and raiding anyone who attempts to circumvent your system? Like the US does?
Buying futures reduces supply until the point that you sell. As a speculator you can decide to not sell until you can get a certain percent profit. If a very small portion of the supply is speculated on the effects will be trivial, but when the speculated volume surpasses the slack in the market (80% of the supply is demanded but only 70% is on the market at the moment, the other 30% being held by speculators) the price will rise until: enough people can't afford it that demand drops to 70%, the price rises enough to satisfy 1/3 the speculators and they sell, or a mix of the two meeting somewhere in the middle.
Hmm. You made me think a scary thought. Food speculation. If you were one of the richest people / companies in the world, why couldn't you buy up all the food and food production, thus raising the price of food and effectively enslaving everyone?
That's more along the lines I was thinking. When EVERYONE is observable all the time, social standards will change. You will no longer have the dual standards of what's acceptable in public verses what's acceptable in private, because everything everywhere will be public. That's short term, like in the next generation. Long term, as communication becomes ever faster and easier and with neural interface devices there will be an effective merging of consciousness between people.
It's hard to block UAVs and vans with x-ray backscatter and other scanning devices that can see through your walls and roof. If you take the effort you'll make yourself a target.
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Domestic wind can produce a fair bit more than solar, and the tech is always improving. I looked back and I don't see a claim that fuel cells are safer, but I will assert that they're much easier on the environment to produce. Lithium mining is a very messy business from what I hear.
I'm not trying to claim that fuel cells are THE solution, just that they're not a dead end tech as cpu6502 had claimed.
Ah, so you're saying that while the impactor mass would be a small portion of the Earth as a whole, it would be concentrated toward the surface? Perhaps. I'm not geologist enough to know how much mixing there was at the time.
Fuel cells aren't any more hazardous than a high energy density battery, will likely be much lighter and cheaper, and can be refilled much more rapidly. In addition, I can make electricity (and therefore hydrogen) at home. I can't make gasoline at home, and even making biodiesel takes a huge setup.
If you get it off axis even a tiny bit you also have to worry about side loading, which at 1% would be 4200 pounds. Oh, NM, he said SUV, so it'll easily flip before the tires slip.
Hydrogen compressed to 700 bar holds 5.6 megajoules per liter, and with properly constructed systems could be transferred in less than a minute just like gasoline. How long would it take to transfer 5.6 megajoules of electricity with any reasonable hardware?
Fuel cell cars are an answer to the problem of energy storage, not energy source. High performance batteries are expensive, and hard on the environment to produce. You can make hydrogen with clean energy almost as easily as you can charge a battery with it, and you can transfer hydrogen faster than electricity.
Just like quelling rebellions.
The impactor would have been much smaller than Earth, so the 60% of the impactor that became part of the Earth would have been a much smaller percentage of the Earth than 40%. As was pointed out elsewhere however, there's no reason to assume that the impactor did not form at or near the same orbital distance from the Sun as Earth. Doing so would have given it a very similar isotopic distribution to Earth.
They're asserting that 40% of the Moon's mass must have come from the impactor, and thus would have a different isotope balance.
That's the excuse they'll use for implanting it.
Would Misuer prefer to be hanged with a red rope, or a blue rope?
You mean for yet another one that's just the same?
You mean by prohibiting the use of gold and silver as media of exchange? Making a fiat note the only legal tender, and raiding anyone who attempts to circumvent your system? Like the US does?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_Control_Law
So do you jail the intelligence agents who monitor said sites?
Buying futures reduces supply until the point that you sell. As a speculator you can decide to not sell until you can get a certain percent profit. If a very small portion of the supply is speculated on the effects will be trivial, but when the speculated volume surpasses the slack in the market (80% of the supply is demanded but only 70% is on the market at the moment, the other 30% being held by speculators) the price will rise until: enough people can't afford it that demand drops to 70%, the price rises enough to satisfy 1/3 the speculators and they sell, or a mix of the two meeting somewhere in the middle.
Hmm. You made me think a scary thought. Food speculation. If you were one of the richest people / companies in the world, why couldn't you buy up all the food and food production, thus raising the price of food and effectively enslaving everyone?
Stargate Atlantis reference.
Bohemian Rhapsody on old computer equipment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4
"Good news everyone!"
But do you contain the exotic particles or push them into a parallel universe?
Lol
That's more along the lines I was thinking. When EVERYONE is observable all the time, social standards will change. You will no longer have the dual standards of what's acceptable in public verses what's acceptable in private, because everything everywhere will be public. That's short term, like in the next generation. Long term, as communication becomes ever faster and easier and with neural interface devices there will be an effective merging of consciousness between people.
It's hard to block UAVs and vans with x-ray backscatter and other scanning devices that can see through your walls and roof. If you take the effort you'll make yourself a target.
Cellophane tape might work as well without being permanent.