I took my neice to Disneyland this past weekend. This ride was sweet, as was the Flying over California @ California Adventure. Think flying seats *literally* 30 ft above the ground completely immersed in an IMAX screen. So much fun. My new fav ride.
In the event your buddy gets blown to bits in front of you, forget the dog tags and grab his toe.
let's role!
NO to nuclear; YES to 100% renewable sources
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Nucular Hydrogen Economy
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Why do I feel that more and more cash is being poured into special interests in Washington? Oh yeah, that's because they are. The current regime needs to wake up and smell the algae. Research into 100% green renewable fuel sources should rule this next century. Terrorist want to crash an airplane into the fields of H2 producing algae? I didn't think so. One front runner in the field is the use of green-algae based H2 production by exploiting a metabolic switch by reducing the amount of sulfur available to the organisms.
A couple of links: http://www.melisenergy.com/SF_Chronicle.ht m http://www.h2net.org.uk/PDFs/Prod2001/H2NetFRH. pdf http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,5445 6, 00.html
Interesting article: http://www.hfcletter.com/letter/march00/ feature.ht ml
DoE News: Berkeley/NREL Team Develops Green-Algae-Based Renewable H2 Production Technique
BERKELEY, CA/GOLDEN, CO - It sounds a little wild, but a lowly micro-organism, a green alga, may come one of the milk cows of the hydrogen age. Better make that "fuel" cows.
Voila, the hydrogen herd:
Cultures of tiny algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, can be conditioned via a simple microbial switch to forego what they normally do best: produce plant matter via photosynthesis and give off oxygen in the process. Instead, switched-on algae would produce hydrogen renewably, essentially from sunlight and water, stored in its cells as carbohydrates and other biochemical materials.
Nor is this process, discovered by a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO, a one-shot proposition that would kill the "cows:" After generating hydrogen for several days, the gas can be drawn off and the molecular switch can be reversed again, permitting the algae to recover to their normal state and produce more plant matter, including carbohydrate fuel.
That process can be repeated "many times," says Prof. Tasios Melis, a specialist in plant and microbial biology at Berkeley who heads the team. How many times isn't clear so far.
At present, the overall energy conversion efficiency of the process - photons absorbed and converted into hydrogen product - is only about 10%. But, says Melis, with optimization, it could come close to or be about the same as photosynthesis itself: With the right amount of light - not too much because otherwise photons would be wasted - it could be anywhere between 85 and 90%, possibly as high as 95%. "Photosynthesis is nearly perfect machinery," Melis says.
The work has already attracted wide public attention. A press briefing in late February in Washington, DC, arranged by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and scheduled for one hour, lasted a lot longer because the 45-odd reporters kept asking questions past the cut-off time. Stories by the Associated Press, Reuters and BBC generated later phone calls from as far away as Portugal and Greece, Melis said.
Two-Year Investigation
Melis, together with postdoctoral associate Liping Zhang and with NREL's Michael Seibert, Maria Ghirardi and postdoctoral associate Marc Forestier, described the outcome of their two-year investigation, the result of a suggestion made at an April 1998 hydrogen workshop sponsored by the Energy Department and the National Science Foundation, in a paper in the January 2000 issue of the journal "Plant Physiology." Both institutions have taken out a joint patent for the process.
"I guess it's the equivalent of striking oil," a university press release quoted Melis as saying. "It's enormously exciting."
The fact that green algae can produce hydrogen has been known for more than half a century, the team reported, but only in very small amounts.
The production rates of the new Berkeley/NREL process are very small so far as well, but Melis thinks this novel p
California is always leading the way. Medical marijuana is now held up in court as a viable treatment for people who can benefit from its side-effects.
The feds can still bust you, but the state has realized that people as smart as this can smoke pot and still contribute a great amount to society.
I have driven cross-country several times now, and nothing would've make the entire state of Kansas more cool than being able to surf the web while riding through it.
click here to shut off the pop up until Tue Sep 22 12:38:09 2009, and it even redirects you to a friendly page instead of more x10 crap. By 2009 I think they should be sufficiently out of business.;)
Heh, actually with the trend of the market today, I probably could've set it for 60 and I would've been fine.
With such an explosion in free adult sites on the Net as he suggests, where is all of this content coming from? Do each of these sites have all of their own models that they photograph? I can bet that most pay sites would be interested in exactly what their content consists of. Of course I'm not labeling free sites as all being perpetrators... but with an exponential increase in these free sites it makes me wonder.
Why hasn't any company taken this info and made a card that runs at 72fps no matter what the conditions. Put the greater processing power to work doing something important. Jeeze
The biggest lie the world has yet to uncover is that "rap is music"...
Corporate America has never been interested in anything but money. There are plenty of bands that get along fine with minimal revenue. Look at all the Punk / Hardcore bands that haven't sold out, yet have a huge following! Slogans on their CD's such as, "Pay no more than $5 for this!" are common, and $10 for a show is pretty expensive. My favorite bands keep putting out CD's and are constantly on tour, but do you know why they are coming out?
TO MEET THEIR FANS
There is nothing better to them, than to play a show where the fans get to come up on stage and sing along...the mosh pit is going crazy...and everyone walks away feeling a little bit better about themselves.
FUCK THE CORPORATE MUSIC INDUSTRY
All they care about is whether you go out and buy their next CD or not. Why? Because this is how they can keep up with their $$$$ lifestyles.
I say we open their eyes a little wider, and if it takes Napster or Gnutella or something similar to do it, then GREAT! Besides, wouldn't it be fun to see Dr. Dre trying to live off $20,000 a year! HAHAHA, oh my. He would probably kill himself.
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as butter.. with some salt.
I took my neice to Disneyland this past weekend. This ride was sweet, as was the Flying over California @ California Adventure. Think flying seats *literally* 30 ft above the ground completely immersed in an IMAX screen. So much fun. My new fav ride.
1. A model year wouldn't be available until AFTER that calendar year.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you would just accept this.
4. You could only have one person at a time in your car, unless you bought a Car 95 or a Car NT, but then you'd have to buy more seats.
5. Sun Motorsystems would make a car that was solar powered, twice as reliable, 5 times as fast, but only ran on 5% of the roads.
6. The oil, alternator, gas, engine warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.
7. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other brands for years.
8. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft Gas (tm).
You might as well ask Bush why he doesn't strictly adhere to the Articles of Confederation.
What you *should* be asking is why doesn't Busch strictly adhere to the first 10 amendments to the constitution...
wtf just happend /. got /.'d ?
i was getting 500 and 503 errs
In the event your buddy gets blown to bits in front of you, forget the dog tags and grab his toe.
let's role!
Why do I feel that more and more cash is being poured into special interests in Washington? Oh yeah, that's because they are. The current regime needs to wake up and smell the algae. Research into 100% green renewable fuel sources should rule this next century. Terrorist want to crash an airplane into the fields of H2 producing algae? I didn't think so.
One front runner in the field is the use of green-algae based H2 production by exploiting a metabolic switch by reducing the amount of sulfur available to the organisms.
A couple of links:
http://www.melisenergy.com/SF_Chronicle.ht m
http://www.h2net.org.uk/PDFs/Prod2001/H2NetFRH. pdf
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,5445 6, 00.html
Interesting article:
http://www.hfcletter.com/letter/march00/ feature.ht ml
DoE News: Berkeley/NREL Team Develops Green-Algae-Based Renewable H2 Production Technique
BERKELEY, CA/GOLDEN, CO - It sounds a little wild, but a lowly micro-organism, a green alga, may come one of the milk cows of the hydrogen age. Better make that "fuel" cows.
Voila, the hydrogen herd:
Cultures of tiny algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, can be conditioned via a simple microbial switch to forego what they normally do best: produce plant matter via photosynthesis and give off oxygen in the process. Instead, switched-on algae would produce hydrogen renewably, essentially from sunlight and water, stored in its cells as carbohydrates and other biochemical materials.
Nor is this process, discovered by a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO, a one-shot proposition that would kill the "cows:" After generating hydrogen for several days, the gas can be drawn off and the molecular switch can be reversed again, permitting the algae to recover to their normal state and produce more plant matter, including carbohydrate fuel.
That process can be repeated "many times," says Prof. Tasios Melis, a specialist in plant and microbial biology at Berkeley who heads the team. How many times isn't clear so far.
At present, the overall energy conversion efficiency of the process - photons absorbed and converted into hydrogen product - is only about 10%. But, says Melis, with optimization, it could come close to or be about the same as photosynthesis itself: With the right amount of light - not too much because otherwise photons would be wasted - it could be anywhere between 85 and 90%, possibly as high as 95%. "Photosynthesis is nearly perfect machinery," Melis says.
The work has already attracted wide public attention. A press briefing in late February in Washington, DC, arranged by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and scheduled for one hour, lasted a lot longer because the 45-odd reporters kept asking questions past the cut-off time. Stories by the Associated Press, Reuters and BBC generated later phone calls from as far away as Portugal and Greece, Melis said.
Two-Year Investigation
Melis, together with postdoctoral associate Liping Zhang and with NREL's Michael Seibert, Maria Ghirardi and postdoctoral associate Marc Forestier, described the outcome of their two-year investigation, the result of a suggestion made at an April 1998 hydrogen workshop sponsored by the Energy Department and the National Science Foundation, in a paper in the January 2000 issue of the journal "Plant Physiology." Both institutions have taken out a joint patent for the process.
"I guess it's the equivalent of striking oil," a university press release quoted Melis as saying. "It's enormously exciting."
The fact that green algae can produce hydrogen has been known for more than half a century, the team reported, but only in very small amounts.
The production rates of the new Berkeley/NREL process are very small so far as well, but Melis thinks this novel p
California is always leading the way. Medical marijuana is now held up in court as a viable treatment for people who can benefit from its side-effects.
The feds can still bust you, but the state has realized that people as smart as this can smoke pot and still contribute a great amount to society.
I have driven cross-country several times now, and nothing would've make the entire state of Kansas more cool than being able to surf the web while riding through it.
sorry, but it's true.
Win 2000 / MSIE 6 worked for all but the second link. Scary indeed.
Yea mozilla is getting better by the second. No more need to deal with this!
Scarfo: "Shit, what's this little icon in the corner...I've never seen that before."
FBI #1: "Damnit, he's onto us! Pull the plug!"
FBI #2: "No! It's okay. We embedded it into the Virtual Vixen (tm?) EXE. He'll play with it all day and never figure it out."
Scarfo: "Oh wow, when did I get this? This is great!"
FBI #1 and #2 simultaneously: "MUA HA HA HA"
or they'll commision the FBI to come in with Carnivore and eat everyone who links to this doc.
click here to shut off the pop up until Tue Sep 22 12:38:09 2009, and it even redirects you to a friendly page instead of more x10 crap. By 2009 I think they should be sufficiently out of business. ;)
Heh, actually with the trend of the market today, I probably could've set it for 60 and I would've been fine.
With such an explosion in free adult sites on the Net as he suggests, where is all of this content coming from? Do each of these sites have all of their own models that they photograph? I can bet that most pay sites would be interested in exactly what their content consists of. Of course I'm not labeling free sites as all being perpetrators... but with an exponential increase in these free sites it makes me wonder.
I wonder what playboy is thinking right now...
It is from TLC and if it's half as cool as the episode of Junkyard wars where they built the dragsters I'll be a happy boy.
Why hasn't any company taken this info and made a card that runs at 72fps no matter what the conditions. Put the greater processing power to work doing something important. Jeeze
250,000 people trading Metallica, of all bands...
Now that is just sad.
The biggest lie the world has yet to uncover is that "rap is music" ...
Corporate America has never been interested in anything but money. There are plenty of bands that get along fine with minimal revenue. Look at all the Punk / Hardcore bands that haven't sold out, yet have a huge following! Slogans on their CD's such as, "Pay no more than $5 for this!" are common, and $10 for a show is pretty expensive. My favorite bands keep putting out CD's and are constantly on tour, but do you know why they are coming out?
TO MEET THEIR FANS
There is nothing better to them, than to play a show where the fans get to come up on stage and sing along...the mosh pit is going crazy...and everyone walks away feeling a little bit better about themselves.
FUCK THE CORPORATE MUSIC INDUSTRY
All they care about is whether you go out and buy their next CD or not. Why? Because this is how they can keep up with their $$$$ lifestyles.
I say we open their eyes a little wider, and if it takes Napster or Gnutella or something similar to do it, then GREAT! Besides, wouldn't it be fun to see Dr. Dre trying to live off $20,000 a year! HAHAHA, oh my. He would probably kill himself.
Minor Threat rules.
I just wanted to say one thing... D-Flip-flop yeah.