What you have to remember is that electricity to power a city is best, most efficiently transported over large distances by HVDC power lines;
I agree but transmission is only part of the issue. The main issue with green energy is that it is not possible to synchronize production with demand. Right now it is easy to turn up the boilers to produce more power. It is difficult to adjust the sun on demand. One of the solutions to that is to store energy and one way is to create hydrogen. Batteries won't cut it.
By the way, my two-story house uses about 400kWh per month, or 0.013MWh per day. Turn your TV off when you go to bed.
Is your furnace, hot water heater, cloths dryer and/or stove electric? If you are using other energy sources for that yous usage may be skewed to the lower end.
Which will run your fridge for about ten seconds.A 2 story house uses about 50Mwhrs per day. A NiMH batter is about 300 milliamphours and costs $3.39. It would take $470,000 worth of batteries to power that house for one day. Scale that up to a whole city. How would you transport those 140,000 batteries from where they are charged to where they are used? The issue is not duration it is capacity and transpotability.
Bottom line: if you see Kawamoto's name listed as the submitter, you know it's a Dice ad right away.
How is reporting on one's area of interest which is also one's job an ad? Were similar stories submitted by others and the ones from the "corporate overlords" chosen instead? Look at the articles themselves. They are newsworthy and completely factual.
which notes her as "First time accepted submitter Dawn Kawamoto."
So what if the first two submissions from someone are chosen. The important part is that they are good factual news articles. The second submission got a yellow Firehose rating. Someone must have voted for it.
But if you're going to try to pass your content off as news, instead of sponsored content,
How are the facts that the H-1B limit has been reached in record time and the closure of a games studio not news? I would not have known it without the submissions and articles so it is news to me.
You said you weren't going to interfere with Slashdot's editorial independence.
Excellent accusation with no proof whatsoever. Do you have any proof that Dice pressured Slashdot to post the submissions are are you making assumptions based on what things look like to you?
Had they been crap stories with links to Dice services in the stories it would be a different issue. That didn't happen and baseless assumption do not hold water.
That's bad news for a news site because yes, they are getting more and more aggressive putting their own spin on the news mix slant.
What spin is there in this news story?
So far you have accused them of conflict of interest and slanting news. I do not see them as doing either. All I see is a factual report of a closure and a eulogy.
but submarine shills for the owner company is yet another new trick
I think where the argument is lost in that the byline of the fist two articles is Dawn Kawamoto and the links have dice.com in them. If they were trying to "submarine shill" something they were pretty bad at it. It is hard to "go incognito as pseudo-user" when one's name is on the submission and the article. How did you notice it if it was so well hidden? She submitted an article just like any other user and it was approved just like any other article. The submission has a yellow Firehose rating. If you can show special treatment you may have a point but I haven't seen it yet.
You still have not answered the original question; "Would the article been accepted if it had been submitted by someone else?" I have told you my opinion; what is yours?
It's called full disclosure. If a reporter or columnist at The New York Times or The Washington Post owns stock in a company they mention
That is not what is happening here. Does Dice have controlling interest in Disney? This is not a conflict of interest between a source and a subject. There is a huge difference between linking and article about a parent company and an article by a parent company.
if Slashdot is going to promote its parent company's content as news, the connection should be noted in the summary.
It is news content; The fact that a writer is from a parent company is irrelevant.
Also, this is Kawamoto's second accepted submission. Her first was two days ago
Which was also an employment related article. Wow that's strange for an employment related writer. It must be a plot./sarcasm
The Reuters story had all the key facts that the Dice story did, but Dice owns Slashdot so its two stories went on top. See the pattern yet?
The writer puts her articles first; it must be a plot./sarcasm
If you want to see plots everywhere go right ahead.
A test for editorial independence is "would this article be published if submitted by someone else?". In this case I would say yes and see no problem. Gee they wrote a couple of article expanding on the issue. That is not a bad thing. By the way you ignored the fact that the third link was to a MSN Money article or is Slashdot controlled by them too?
The disappearance of LucasArts may be Slashdot-worthy news, but when Slashdot's parent company, Dice, is writing the story it looks like they just want lots of techies to think "techies are losing their jobs, it could happen to me, I should look and see what's out there."
I would define that as reaching. Do you think it strange that a company that deals in tech jobs would not be one of the first ones to knows about job cuts? Why can't they pass that information on without people assuming ulterior motives? What is wrong with "We heard something related to our business; you might want to know too".
You seem to be a player of words rather than a physician.
I don't see how being a medical doctor has anything to do with this discussion. Did you mean physicist?
I don't see any relation to our previous discussion. What exactly is your point?
1. more transmission lines and switsching stations don't make the energy grid unstable. Your claim is nonsense.
My point is that each additional transmission line and switching station adds points of failure. More points of failure means more instability.
Where do you actually get your power from? Increase that and you are fine.
I get mine from rivers and some fossil fuel plants. Most of the usable rivers are already being used and we are trying to move away from fossil fuel plants. We need new sources to meed the demand and wind and solar sources are not everywhere.
Minnesota is an excellent place for solar power.
I guess you never have had to deal with snow storms.
However you claimed: to increase power transfered you have to increase the frequency. Which is either plain wrong or misleading. Your call.
What I meant was that to send more power down the line frequency must be increased back to the desired level not over. he point I was trying to make is that over draw of power causes frequency variations and not peak voltage variations.
You don't even know what this (capacitive) means, or you would not link the wrong "graph" (mixing up capacity as in storage capacity of a capacitor/battery with transport "capability" of a power line, sigh, that is such a retarded mistake).
Again you do not understand the physics of a long AC conductor. Capacitance and inductance resist the changes in voltage. As the conductor gets longer the capacitance and inductance gets larger decreasing the capacity of the conductor to transmit power. There is a physical limit to how long an AC conductor can be.
First of all: such nonsense is written by people like you. I doubt anyone with a degree in physics or engineering was involved in that article.
Again, you prefer to assume facts instead of actually looking them up. The Reference is to an article from the Global Energy Network Institute so your assumption is patently false.
Why should it not be cost effective to import electric power... from neighbouring states that are not so far away?
Because neighboring states have similar climate issues which limit the availability of green power.
It seems that your solution is to build more plants and transmission lines close to cities. It is not that simple to supply electricity and recuce greenhouse gasses.
All I have seen tapping used for is to get a choir's attention. How does tapping convey volume change? Can the tapping be heard during loud portions of the song? Does tapping interfere with the music? Depending on where the wand is in the air also conveys which beat Conducting is much more than being a metronome.
By that logic a conductor is not needed during a performance; all they would have to do is press play. Every performance is a little different as the conductor modifies volume and tempo.
First of all, if a point fails, the houses connected to it lose power, that is all. the rest of the grid is unaffected. Usually another endpoint gets reconfigured to support that block then.
If that point is a switching station then a lot more people will be effected. A blackout that effected most of the east coast of the US was traced back to the failure of one small relay that started a cascade failure. A similar failure was caused by the unscheduled shutdown of a power plant. You really need to have a better understanding what a point of failure is.
Frequencies never change. In europe they are at 50Hz fixed and in the USA at 60. If the frequency would change the grid would break down pretty fast.
Again, you need to do more research before posting. Did you even look at the meter I linked? Did you read the explanation?
I don't get your point about Minnesota and solar plants
Minnesota needs electricity. We are trying to use wind and solar power. It is not a great solar or wind place. Where will they get electricity? It will have to come from further away. AC does not travel long distances very well.
Sure, if you laid every power line from end to end but the distance that electricity travels from it's source to its sink is nowhere near that. Electricity is produced close to where it is used.
With voltages in the million volt range the loss over 5000km is perhaps 8% or so... you can google for that or do the math your self.
If you are only calculate resistive loss and ignore capacitive and inductive loss. Take a look at this chart. Notice how capacity goes down as distance gets larger. At least read Wikipedia and educate yourself about the issues of long distance AC transmission. Here's a quote;
As of 1980, the longest cost-effective distance for DC electricity was determined to be 7,000 km (4,300 mi). For AC it was 4,000 km (2,500 mi), though all transmission lines in use today are substantially shorter.
Think about why the lines are shorter and you may understand
When points fail the ability to supply power to the lines decreases. The power companies compensate for this by changing the frequency of the AC current not the voltage. The peak voltages are the same but the frequency is different. As frequencies increase power transmitted increases. Here is a meter showing the frequency of the UK grid. Read the explanation.
You can upgrade current plants or simply build new plants in proximity.
Sorry but a solar farm in Minnesota would not be very effective in the winter. New green technology is quite restricted in where it can be placed. Fossil fuel powered thermal plants can be placed anywhere but we are trying to get away from that.
Perhaps you don't know: all europe and northern asia is interconnected in an AC grid spanning 10,000ds of miles
Considering the earth's circumference is about 24,000miles you may be exaggerating and that exaggeration is not helping your case. Here is a map of the European grid. The longest straight line distance is about 3,000 miles.I guess you missed the recent HVDC lines put in between the UK and continent, Africa and Europe and several connections across the Baltic.
1. More switches equals more points of failure. More transmission line equals more points of failure and more complex routing of power. Combined that equals more instability. Take a look at this graph and notice the number of abnormal re-routing and frequency fluctuations that is already growing. It is not going to get better in the future with a more complex system. 2. Sure it works now but what happens when the demand doubles and we have to move power longer distances? Sure solar power is great but if we have to move the power from Texas to New York? AC is not going to cut it. Take a look at this chart notice how the capacity drops as the distances get larger? There is only so much generation capacity near our population centers causing us to have to draw power from further away. AC does not go far enough in many instances.
According to these specifications a taster is less than 1Kw. The Tesla Roadster, uses high-power 16.8 kW Level 2 charging station, which can charge the car in 3.5 hours. So that is like running 16 toasters continually for 3.5 hours for a total of 58.8Kwh. Assuming a toasting cycle takes 3 minutes that would make 2240 slices of toast. Few people do that.
According to this post an average 2-story 3-bedroom house uses 50 Kwatt-hours per day. That makes the car even worse than the house as it draws more then 24 hours worth of power in 3..5 hours.
2. Resistance is not the only issue with electricity transmission. As I stated, so is inductance and capacitance is present in AC systems and gets larger as the conductor get longer. induction leaches by causing voltages in nearby objects and capacitance stores energy and resists voltage change. This is the reason that large DC lines are being put in across the English Channel, the Mediterranean and the Baltic. Line loss is also not only issue. There are switching losses, transformer losses, etc. Take a look at this chart. Notice how capacity goes down as distance gets larger?
Who said trucks? How about ships and pipelines? There are a couple of issues with the "use the grid" philosophy; 1. The grid has a finite volume capacity. Every electric car adds the equivelant of a small house to the grid. If we convert from fossil fuels to electricity we will quickly outstrip the capacity of the existing grid. That would require more transmission line and more switching stations making the grid more unstable and increasing costs. 2. Alternating current does not travel well over long distances. For every mile there is loss due to resistance, inductance and capacitance. Direct current helps but it too has limitations.
The team liberates the high-purity hydrogen under mild reaction conditions at 122 degree Fahrenheit and normal atmospheric pressure. The biocatalysts used to release the hydrogen are a group of enzymes artificially isolated from different microorganisms that thrive at extreme temperatures, some of which could grow at around the boiling point of water.
How much energy will it take to produce the biocatalysts and will that reduce the EROEI to less than 1?
The difference is that hydrogen is easier to store and transport without loss. This technology could also be used to transform waste into hydrogen therefore reducing two issues at the same time.
You have a million dollars and they're in Mexico; go to Canada. Or Japan.
How do you export that ill gotten cash to Canada or Japan? If you want to launder it, California is much closer to Mexico than it is to Canada or Japan.
Fuck man, you're a criminal, why aren't you stealing shit?
I am not a criminal but it is not difficult to think like one.
(3) I guess you don't watch the news where almost ever drug bust mentions a large quantity of cash. (4) and he didn't ask and clarify if he was going to be breaking the law or not. It is the same as somone buying a tv of the back of a truck for 20% of the value and then crying about being hit for posession of stolen property. (5) Lower level drug dealers and couriers don't carry a lot of cash. Higher level dealers do. It is a known fact. If you don't know that fact then you do not know anything about the drug trade. Since drugs are a cash only operation, how does one traffic a lot of drugs without trafficking a lot of cash?
Honestly I wouldn't expect a drug runner to have nearly $1M on him,
I would expect a money courier for a drug dealer who has accumulated cash and is trying to smuggle it into Mexico to have $800K of cash on him. One has to declare the import or export of large amounts of cash and it is difficult to justify exporting drug money. Many convictions are made by following the money. Tax evasion is just as good a jail term as drug trafficking; as the Mafia.
Go ahead and attempt to hide behind plausible deniability. The "I see nothing. I hear nothing. I know nothing" approach to life is disingenuous and easilly seen through by intelligent people.
I just love debating people who look at one aspect of a situation and, when the argument falls through, looks at another different aspect to "prove" a point. A argument is not a collection of unrelated facts that can each be picked apart to disprove something. An argument is much like a wall and the facts much like bricks. It is the way the facts interact that create the complete argument. Taking each fact separately is like taking each brick separately, identifying it as not a wall and throwing it away. Here are the facts; 1. He knew of a law against making traps for drug dealers. 2. He knew there was a large amount of cash. 3. He knew there were a number of drug dealers around who dealt in large quantities of cash. 4. He new the owner of the truck had no reasonable legal reason to have the cash. 5. He attempted to gain "plausible deniability" after seeing the cash. 6. He decided to work for them again He knowingly took a risk and lost. Willful ignorance is not a defense.
Considering that Anya installed the trap and knew it capacity I bet he could come up with a fairly accurate idea of how much cash there was. He indited himself with is desire to know nothing about the money. Willful ignorance is not an excuse.
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German Panzer and Tiger.
I think you meant Panther as panzer is the German word for tank.
What you have to remember is that electricity to power a city is best, most efficiently transported over large distances by HVDC power lines;
I agree but transmission is only part of the issue. The main issue with green energy is that it is not possible to synchronize production with demand. Right now it is easy to turn up the boilers to produce more power. It is difficult to adjust the sun on demand. One of the solutions to that is to store energy and one way is to create hydrogen. Batteries won't cut it.
By the way, my two-story house uses about 400kWh per month, or 0.013MWh per day. Turn your TV off when you go to bed.
Is your furnace, hot water heater, cloths dryer and/or stove electric? If you are using other energy sources for that yous usage may be skewed to the lower end.
Which will run your fridge for about ten seconds.A 2 story house uses about 50Mwhrs per day. A NiMH batter is about 300 milliamphours and costs $3.39. It would take $470,000 worth of batteries to power that house for one day. Scale that up to a whole city. How would you transport those 140,000 batteries from where they are charged to where they are used? The issue is not duration it is capacity and transpotability.
Bottom line: if you see Kawamoto's name listed as the submitter, you know it's a Dice ad right away.
How is reporting on one's area of interest which is also one's job an ad? Were similar stories submitted by others and the ones from the "corporate overlords" chosen instead? Look at the articles themselves. They are newsworthy and completely factual.
which notes her as "First time accepted submitter Dawn Kawamoto."
So what if the first two submissions from someone are chosen. The important part is that they are good factual news articles. The second submission got a yellow Firehose rating. Someone must have voted for it.
But if you're going to try to pass your content off as news, instead of sponsored content,
How are the facts that the H-1B limit has been reached in record time and the closure of a games studio not news? I would not have known it without the submissions and articles so it is news to me.
You said you weren't going to interfere with Slashdot's editorial independence.
Excellent accusation with no proof whatsoever. Do you have any proof that Dice pressured Slashdot to post the submissions are are you making assumptions based on what things look like to you?
Had they been crap stories with links to Dice services in the stories it would be a different issue. That didn't happen and baseless assumption do not hold water.
That's bad news for a news site because yes, they are getting more and more aggressive putting their own spin on the news mix slant.
What spin is there in this news story?
So far you have accused them of conflict of interest and slanting news. I do not see them as doing either. All I see is a factual report of a closure and a eulogy.
but submarine shills for the owner company is yet another new trick
I think where the argument is lost in that the byline of the fist two articles is Dawn Kawamoto and the links have dice.com in them. If they were trying to "submarine shill" something they were pretty bad at it. It is hard to "go incognito as pseudo-user" when one's name is on the submission and the article. How did you notice it if it was so well hidden? She submitted an article just like any other user and it was approved just like any other article. The submission has a yellow Firehose rating. If you can show special treatment you may have a point but I haven't seen it yet.
You still have not answered the original question; "Would the article been accepted if it had been submitted by someone else?" I have told you my opinion; what is yours?
It's called full disclosure. If a reporter or columnist at The New York Times or The Washington Post owns stock in a company they mention
That is not what is happening here. Does Dice have controlling interest in Disney? This is not a conflict of interest between a source and a subject. There is a huge difference between linking and article about a parent company and an article by a parent company.
if Slashdot is going to promote its parent company's content as news, the connection should be noted in the summary.
It is news content; The fact that a writer is from a parent company is irrelevant.
Also, this is Kawamoto's second accepted submission. Her first was two days ago
Which was also an employment related article. Wow that's strange for an employment related writer. It must be a plot. /sarcasm
The Reuters story had all the key facts that the Dice story did, but Dice owns Slashdot so its two stories went on top. See the pattern yet?
The writer puts her articles first; it must be a plot. /sarcasm
If you want to see plots everywhere go right ahead.
A test for editorial independence is "would this article be published if submitted by someone else?". In this case I would say yes and see no problem. Gee they wrote a couple of article expanding on the issue. That is not a bad thing. By the way you ignored the fact that the third link was to a MSN Money article or is Slashdot controlled by them too?
The disappearance of LucasArts may be Slashdot-worthy news, but when Slashdot's parent company, Dice, is writing the story it looks like they just want lots of techies to think "techies are losing their jobs, it could happen to me, I should look and see what's out there."
I would define that as reaching. Do you think it strange that a company that deals in tech jobs would not be one of the first ones to knows about job cuts? Why can't they pass that information on without people assuming ulterior motives? What is wrong with "We heard something related to our business; you might want to know too".
You seem to be a player of words rather than a physician.
I don't see how being a medical doctor has anything to do with this discussion. Did you mean physicist?
I don't see any relation to our previous discussion. What exactly is your point?
1. more transmission lines and switsching stations don't make the energy grid unstable. Your claim is nonsense.
My point is that each additional transmission line and switching station adds points of failure. More points of failure means more instability.
Where do you actually get your power from? Increase that and you are fine.
I get mine from rivers and some fossil fuel plants. Most of the usable rivers are already being used and we are trying to move away from fossil fuel plants. We need new sources to meed the demand and wind and solar sources are not everywhere.
Minnesota is an excellent place for solar power .
I guess you never have had to deal with snow storms.
However you claimed: to increase power transfered you have to increase the frequency. Which is either plain wrong or misleading. Your call.
What I meant was that to send more power down the line frequency must be increased back to the desired level not over. he point I was trying to make is that over draw of power causes frequency variations and not peak voltage variations.
You don't even know what this (capacitive) means, or you would not link the wrong "graph" (mixing up capacity as in storage capacity of a capacitor/battery with transport "capability" of a power line, sigh, that is such a retarded mistake).
Again you do not understand the physics of a long AC conductor. Capacitance and inductance resist the changes in voltage. As the conductor gets longer the capacitance and inductance gets larger decreasing the capacity of the conductor to transmit power. There is a physical limit to how long an AC conductor can be.
First of all: such nonsense is written by people like you. I doubt anyone with a degree in physics or engineering was involved in that article.
Again, you prefer to assume facts instead of actually looking them up. The Reference is to an article from the Global Energy Network Institute so your assumption is patently false.
Why should it not be cost effective to import electric power ... from neighbouring states that are not so far away?
Because neighboring states have similar climate issues which limit the availability of green power.
It seems that your solution is to build more plants and transmission lines close to cities. It is not that simple to supply electricity and recuce greenhouse gasses.
All I have seen tapping used for is to get a choir's attention. How does tapping convey volume change? Can the tapping be heard during loud portions of the song? Does tapping interfere with the music? Depending on where the wand is in the air also conveys which beat Conducting is much more than being a metronome.
By that logic a conductor is not needed during a performance; all they would have to do is press play. Every performance is a little different as the conductor modifies volume and tempo.
First of all, if a point fails, the houses connected to it lose power, that is all. the rest of the grid is unaffected. Usually another endpoint gets reconfigured to support that block then.
If that point is a switching station then a lot more people will be effected. A blackout that effected most of the east coast of the US was traced back to the failure of one small relay that started a cascade failure. A similar failure was caused by the unscheduled shutdown of a power plant. You really need to have a better understanding what a point of failure is.
Frequencies never change. In europe they are at 50Hz fixed and in the USA at 60. If the frequency would change the grid would break down pretty fast.
Again, you need to do more research before posting. Did you even look at the meter I linked? Did you read the explanation?
I don't get your point about Minnesota and solar plants
Minnesota needs electricity. We are trying to use wind and solar power. It is not a great solar or wind place. Where will they get electricity? It will have to come from further away. AC does not travel long distances very well.
The largest synchronous grid is this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continental_Europe [wikipedia.org] far more than 10.000 miles ...
Sure, if you laid every power line from end to end but the distance that electricity travels from it's source to its sink is nowhere near that. Electricity is produced close to where it is used.
With voltages in the million volt range the loss over 5000km is perhaps 8% or so ... you can google for that or do the math your self.
If you are only calculate resistive loss and ignore capacitive and inductive loss.
Take a look at this chart. Notice how capacity goes down as distance gets larger. At least read Wikipedia and educate yourself about the issues of long distance AC transmission. Here's a quote;
As of 1980, the longest cost-effective distance for DC electricity was determined to be 7,000 km (4,300 mi). For AC it was 4,000 km (2,500 mi), though all transmission lines in use today are substantially shorter.
Think about why the lines are shorter and you may understand
When points fail the ability to supply power to the lines decreases. The power companies compensate for this by changing the frequency of the AC current not the voltage. The peak voltages are the same but the frequency is different. As frequencies increase power transmitted increases. Here is a meter showing the frequency of the UK grid. Read the explanation.
You can upgrade current plants or simply build new plants in proximity.
Sorry but a solar farm in Minnesota would not be very effective in the winter. New green technology is quite restricted in where it can be placed. Fossil fuel powered thermal plants can be placed anywhere but we are trying to get away from that.
Perhaps you don't know: all europe and northern asia is interconnected in an AC grid spanning 10,000ds of miles
Considering the earth's circumference is about 24,000miles you may be exaggerating and that exaggeration is not helping your case.
Here is a map of the European grid. The longest straight line distance is about 3,000 miles.I guess you missed the recent HVDC lines put in between the UK and continent, Africa and Europe and several connections across the Baltic.
1. More switches equals more points of failure. More transmission line equals more points of failure and more complex routing of power. Combined that equals more instability. Take a look at this graph and notice the number of abnormal re-routing and frequency fluctuations that is already growing. It is not going to get better in the future with a more complex system.
2. Sure it works now but what happens when the demand doubles and we have to move power longer distances? Sure solar power is great but if we have to move the power from Texas to New York? AC is not going to cut it. Take a look at this chart notice how the capacity drops as the distances get larger? There is only so much generation capacity near our population centers causing us to have to draw power from further away. AC does not go far enough in many instances.
According to these specifications a taster is less than 1Kw. The Tesla Roadster, uses high-power 16.8 kW Level 2 charging station, which can charge the car in 3.5 hours. So that is like running 16 toasters continually for 3.5 hours for a total of 58.8Kwh. Assuming a toasting cycle takes 3 minutes that would make 2240 slices of toast. Few people do that.
According to this post an average 2-story 3-bedroom house uses 50 Kwatt-hours per day. That makes the car even worse than the house as it draws more then 24 hours worth of power in 3..5 hours.
Moving energy around through ships and pipelines would be akin to the internet running through a "vast network of little tubes."
What do you think "the grid" is but a vast network of metal wires.
1. Where is your proof that the grid has sufficient capacity for the foreseeable future? Thisand this> article have a different view.
2. Resistance is not the only issue with electricity transmission. As I stated, so is inductance and capacitance is present in AC systems and gets larger as the conductor get longer. induction leaches by causing voltages in nearby objects and capacitance stores energy and resists voltage change. This is the reason that large DC lines are being put in across the English Channel, the Mediterranean and the Baltic. Line loss is also not only issue. There are switching losses, transformer losses, etc. Take a look at this chart. Notice how capacity goes down as distance gets larger?
Who said trucks? How about ships and pipelines?
There are a couple of issues with the "use the grid" philosophy;
1. The grid has a finite volume capacity. Every electric car adds the equivelant of a small house to the grid. If we convert from fossil fuels to electricity we will quickly outstrip the capacity of the existing grid. That would require more transmission line and more switching stations making the grid more unstable and increasing costs.
2. Alternating current does not travel well over long distances. For every mile there is loss due to resistance, inductance and capacitance. Direct current helps but it too has limitations.
How much energy and material does it take to make the biocatalysts? By concentrating on the final step we are only getting part of the story.
So maybe not zero loss but still a heck of a lot less loss than electricity.
The team liberates the high-purity hydrogen under mild reaction conditions at 122 degree Fahrenheit and normal atmospheric pressure. The biocatalysts used to release the hydrogen are a group of enzymes artificially isolated from different microorganisms that thrive at extreme temperatures, some of which could grow at around the boiling point of water.
How much energy will it take to produce the biocatalysts and will that reduce the EROEI to less than 1?
The difference is that hydrogen is easier to store and transport without loss. This technology could also be used to transform waste into hydrogen therefore reducing two issues at the same time.
You have a million dollars and they're in Mexico; go to Canada. Or Japan.
How do you export that ill gotten cash to Canada or Japan? If you want to launder it, California is much closer to Mexico than it is to Canada or Japan.
Fuck man, you're a criminal, why aren't you stealing shit?
I am not a criminal but it is not difficult to think like one.
(3) I guess you don't watch the news where almost ever drug bust mentions a large quantity of cash.
(4) and he didn't ask and clarify if he was going to be breaking the law or not. It is the same as somone buying a tv of the back of a truck for 20% of the value and then crying about being hit for posession of stolen property.
(5) Lower level drug dealers and couriers don't carry a lot of cash. Higher level dealers do. It is a known fact. If you don't know that fact then you do not know anything about the drug trade. Since drugs are a cash only operation, how does one traffic a lot of drugs without trafficking a lot of cash?
Honestly I wouldn't expect a drug runner to have nearly $1M on him,
I would expect a money courier for a drug dealer who has accumulated cash and is trying to smuggle it into Mexico to have $800K of cash on him. One has to declare the import or export of large amounts of cash and it is difficult to justify exporting drug money. Many convictions are made by following the money. Tax evasion is just as good a jail term as drug trafficking; as the Mafia.
Go ahead and attempt to hide behind plausible deniability. The "I see nothing. I hear nothing. I know nothing" approach to life is disingenuous and easilly seen through by intelligent people.
I just love debating people who look at one aspect of a situation and, when the argument falls through, looks at another different aspect to "prove" a point. A argument is not a collection of unrelated facts that can each be picked apart to disprove something. An argument is much like a wall and the facts much like bricks. It is the way the facts interact that create the complete argument. Taking each fact separately is like taking each brick separately, identifying it as not a wall and throwing it away.
Here are the facts;
1. He knew of a law against making traps for drug dealers.
2. He knew there was a large amount of cash.
3. He knew there were a number of drug dealers around who dealt in large quantities of cash.
4. He new the owner of the truck had no reasonable legal reason to have the cash.
5. He attempted to gain "plausible deniability" after seeing the cash.
6. He decided to work for them again
He knowingly took a risk and lost. Willful ignorance is not a defense.
Considering that Anya installed the trap and knew it capacity I bet he could come up with a fairly accurate idea of how much cash there was. He indited himself with is desire to know nothing about the money. Willful ignorance is not an excuse.
The bounty hunter would be registered and have a business. The drug dealers didn't. Use some common sense