Marketing to drive the price up; "Green"land is covered with ice (well, more than it has now), "Little" John was a giant and Brienne the Beauty really wasn't, except for lovely blue eyes.
Oil companies have been getting billions in corporate welfare for a long time. Why is this necessary? BP, despite spending over $20 billion on the DeepWater Horizon spill, have already returned to profitability. Gore's supposed "millions" pale in comparison to the clout and resources of just the oil and coal industries. While most plants grow more quickly as CO2 increases, it's not a slam dunk. Researchers have discovered that soybean crops grown in higher levels of CO2 are more susceptible to attack by insects. Bigger and faster doesn't necessarily mean better and healthier.
Is there a way to make a portable version of it using ThinApp or some such? Even with today's powerful PCs and gobs of disk space, it seems a waste to have a full VM just for a freebie, outdated web browser that made by the same folks who make both the OSes you're running.
Jack Layton's NDP is a center-left party; the Quebec surge began after he appeared on the most popular French talk show in Quebec. This is Jack's chance to do what Stephen did for the alliance that is now the majority party but he will probably have to adopt some level of Harperian control until his young rookies learn how to play with the big dogs. Note also that they have been the strongest opponents of the minority Conservatives, which made them attractive to those whose distrust Harper and were unsure about Ignatieff.
Don't underestimate personal charm - Jack Layton has been consistently regarded as the most likeable leader for years, he comes across as genuine, is known to hang out at local pubs and fit in with the regular guys (befitting his leadership of the working man's party) and is the only current leader who's equally expressive in both English and French. Harper's stiff smile engenders distrust in those who like leaders to be affable and many still cite that published photo of him sending his son off to school with a handshake as an indication of his aloofness.
While the Harper Conservatives won their first majority, the other outcomes of the May 2011 election were nothing short of shocking. Perhaps not quite as historic as Obama's election but certainly a momentous chapter in Canadian politics.
Not at all - he made a clear mistatement or miscalculation. Yes, there is a hell of a lot of energy content in our liquid fuels but since a fairly small percentage actually moves the vehicle versus heating the engine, it's not a one-to-one replacement. A gallon of gasoline has more energy than a fully charged Nissan Leaf but I don't know any comparable street legal cars that'll get 100 mpg.
If my math is right, you're off by nearly a factor of 10. To replace every ICE passenger vehicle in America with an EV with double the battery capacity of the Nissan Leaf would increase annual US electric consumption by 40% not a 300% increase by replacing only a third.
Passenger vehicles in US incl SUVs = approx 250,000,000 (2006) Nissan Leaf battery capacity is 24 kWH so double = 48kWh Assume full charge every 3 days so annual # of fillups = 120
(The vehicle number is somewhat low but the charging and capacity numbers are high) Total electricity usage for EVs = 250000000 x 48 kW-hrs x 120 / yr = 1 440 000 000 000 kWh/yr or 1,440,000,000 MWh/yr Annual US electricity usage for 2009 = 3,750,000,000 MWh/yr Divide total projected EV usage / Annual current usage =.384 or 38.4%
Not that's current USAGE not current capacity; having only a fraction of those EVs enabled with Vehicle-to-Grid in large population centers would give the grid enormous benefits for distributed storage. Businesses and manufacturing may not be so happy as the cheap or free nighttime power they've enjoyed would become a thing of the past.
Glad to hear someone is making money in the market - not been so lucky myself in the past. I think that part of problem with the rare earth minerals is that the expertise for refining them is, to a large extent, all in China. I've heard that although some mines have already been reactivated, they export the raw material to China for processing. I'm sure that the Chinese are likely charging a pretty penny for that service. Another issue is that the mining process can be an enviro-hazard and it's rumored that our Asian friends have been somewhat cavalier with the their mining practices - shocking, I know.
Jeff Veltri of Temporal Power has a flywheel design he claims can deliver twice the power at half the cost of the Beacon designs. Ten of his prototypes will be used for smoothing wind turbine power production. But his design is based on permanent magnets so I wonder how that'll fare which the rising cost of rare earth minerals.
Erm, the existence of the NSA has been KNOWN for a long time. not merely suspected. Well I hope that the Cyberchinks put out something cool or useful as a show of good faith, like the NSA did with SELinux
and I'm positive their cyber-commandos have been very, very offensive for a long time. It wouldn't surprise me if they haven't been working hand-in-glove with the North Korean counterparts as well.
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Isn't Huawei up to the task of network surveillance or are the Chinese looking for more tech to steal?
sure hope the Chinese aren't making all our guns.
Marketing to drive the price up; "Green"land is covered with ice (well, more than it has now), "Little" John was a giant and Brienne the Beauty really wasn't, except for lovely blue eyes.
Which government is that? Certainly not the US.
Oil companies have been getting billions in corporate welfare for a long time. Why is this necessary? BP, despite spending over $20 billion on the DeepWater Horizon spill, have already returned to profitability. Gore's supposed "millions" pale in comparison to the clout and resources of just the oil and coal industries.
While most plants grow more quickly as CO2 increases, it's not a slam dunk. Researchers have discovered that soybean crops grown in higher levels of CO2 are more susceptible to attack by insects. Bigger and faster doesn't necessarily mean better and healthier.
Is there a way to make a portable version of it using ThinApp or some such? Even with today's powerful PCs and gobs of disk space, it seems a waste to have a full VM just for a freebie, outdated web browser that made by the same folks who make both the OSes you're running.
If Microsoft had made it easy to support multiple versions of IE on a single Windows install, they might never have lost any corporate market share.
What? Did you understand my point? I think you're replying to the wrong post.
Does that mean Henry Ford invented the automobile?
That doesn't help if you've clicked on a link from Google, unfortunately.
Oh, never mind; the project hasn't managed to create any code in a year and a half.
It just might - http://macpp.sourceforge.net/
Haven't tried it myself as I rarely have the opportunity to use a Mac
When has the NDP not had a full slate of candidates? How did this secret power turn the people against the Bloc overnight?
Jack Layton's NDP is a center-left party; the Quebec surge began after he appeared on the most popular French talk show in Quebec. This is Jack's chance to do what Stephen did for the alliance that is now the majority party but he will probably have to adopt some level of Harperian control until his young rookies learn how to play with the big dogs.
Note also that they have been the strongest opponents of the minority Conservatives, which made them attractive to those whose distrust Harper and were unsure about Ignatieff.
Don't underestimate personal charm - Jack Layton has been consistently regarded as the most likeable leader for years, he comes across as genuine, is known to hang out at local pubs and fit in with the regular guys (befitting his leadership of the working man's party) and is the only current leader who's equally expressive in both English and French.
Harper's stiff smile engenders distrust in those who like leaders to be affable and many still cite that published photo of him sending his son off to school with a handshake as an indication of his aloofness.
While the Harper Conservatives won their first majority, the other outcomes of the May 2011 election were nothing short of shocking. Perhaps not quite as historic as Obama's election but certainly a momentous chapter in Canadian politics.
Not at all - he made a clear mistatement or miscalculation. Yes, there is a hell of a lot of energy content in our liquid fuels but since a fairly small percentage actually moves the vehicle versus heating the engine, it's not a one-to-one replacement. A gallon of gasoline has more energy than a fully charged Nissan Leaf but I don't know any comparable street legal cars that'll get 100 mpg.
If my math is right, you're off by nearly a factor of 10.
To replace every ICE passenger vehicle in America with an EV with double the battery capacity of the Nissan Leaf would increase annual US electric consumption by 40% not a 300% increase by replacing only a third.
Passenger vehicles in US incl SUVs = approx 250,000,000 (2006)
Nissan Leaf battery capacity is 24 kWH so double = 48kWh
Assume full charge every 3 days so annual # of fillups = 120
(The vehicle number is somewhat low but the charging and capacity numbers are high) .384 or 38.4%
Total electricity usage for EVs = 250000000 x 48 kW-hrs x 120 / yr = 1 440 000 000 000 kWh/yr or 1,440,000,000 MWh/yr
Annual US electricity usage for 2009 = 3,750,000,000 MWh/yr
Divide total projected EV usage / Annual current usage =
Not that's current USAGE not current capacity; having only a fraction of those EVs enabled with Vehicle-to-Grid in large population centers would give the grid enormous benefits for distributed storage. Businesses and manufacturing may not be so happy as the cheap or free nighttime power they've enjoyed would become a thing of the past.
Glad to hear someone is making money in the market - not been so lucky myself in the past. I think that part of problem with the rare earth minerals is that the expertise for refining them is, to a large extent, all in China. I've heard that although some mines have already been reactivated, they export the raw material to China for processing.
I'm sure that the Chinese are likely charging a pretty penny for that service. Another issue is that the mining process can be an enviro-hazard and it's rumored that our Asian friends have been somewhat cavalier with the their mining practices - shocking, I know.
Jeff Veltri of Temporal Power has a flywheel design he claims can deliver twice the power at half the cost of the Beacon designs. Ten of his prototypes will be used for smoothing wind turbine power production. But his design is based on permanent magnets so I wonder how that'll fare which the rising cost of rare earth minerals.
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/978578--hamilton-a-new-spin-on-energy-storage
Erm, the existence of the NSA has been KNOWN for a long time. not merely suspected. Well I hope that the Cyberchinks put out something cool or useful as a show of good faith, like the NSA did with SELinux
If that's so and they can really build them as cheaply as they claim, bring 'em on!
next-gen plant that'll run for 50 years, cost less and be safer
China takes a different attitude towards admittance - you can still find officials who'll say that noone died at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests
and I'm positive their cyber-commandos have been very, very offensive for a long time. It wouldn't surprise me if they haven't been working hand-in-glove with the North Korean counterparts as well.