I work in a mine. Nitrate laden dust is generated each day during the blast, and that dust gets everywhere and on everyone. So I have explosive residue in my clothes, hair and (probably) luggage.
Guess what happens when my crew walks into the airport to fly into the minesite for our two week shift?
Amen, Jeff
Canadian experience with communist style "supply management" of milk, eggs, cheese, turkey, and other foodstuffs: consumers pay more.
Canadians pay between nine and 36 cents more for a litre of whole milk than Americans. For all dairy products, Canadians may pay nearly $1 billion more per year than Americans. In addition, Canadian milk producers have used high domestic prices to subsidize exports. This will likely result in World Trade Organization (WTO) rulings against milk supply management in December, and could lead to punitive tariffs against other Canadian agricultural exports.
The Perfect Food in a Perfect Mess: The Cost of Milk in Canada
The tar sand pilot plant you mention is actually a 155,000 barrel per day facility called Albian Sands. I've worked on the design of this plant and I can assure you it is not a pilot plant. The cyclone feed pumps are >half metre dia impellers, about as large as they get! The problem with oilsand is there are not enough workers who understand it.
I had a run-in with a IGCC coal gasification technology at work last week. Coal is reacted with oxygen in a "reaction tower". The gas they create is none other than carbon monoxide. They burn it to make, wait for it, carbon dioxide. Sounds like combusion in a closed vessel, to me.
I have been downloading the Canadian Globe and Mail newspaper into my Palm for a couple of years now. I sent them some money because I think the service was great. They almost sent it back because they didn't know how this cheque was supposed to be entered into the General Ledger.
I run sites for bands: 12.
The single most important thing for them is getting signed to do live performances. This means the site is promoter friendly, as well as fan friendly. Tell them when you are playing and where. Fans and festival promoters like to know when you are in their area.
Have your promo pack on the site. Only one of my Clients does, but that gives them an advantage over the competition. Make sure the promoters know who you are, what you play, and what you need on stage for plugs and boards.
And photos! Fans love em. Promoters need em. Find yourself a good PHP type package like yappa-ng and smile for the birdie!
My $0.05 about music online: consider it your radio play. Release a few "singles" to your website (and wherever else you can) and don't skimp on the quality. The promoters are listing to a dozen MP3s a day and if yours doesn't stand out, then you won't be on stage.
The FAQ of Iogen, the company that is 'commercializing' this process states, (and no, I'm not joking)
Is there enough agricultural residue in Canada to support a commercial cellulose ethanol industry?
There are substantial quantities of straw and other crop residues already produced in Canada. In the Western provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta alone, annual production of straw is about 40 million tonnes. If 1/3 of this material was used to make fuel, the nation could replace 10% of its gasoline usage.
So, Alberta alone can provide enough oil to power the equivalent of all of Canada's cars. But ALL the biomass of Canada's wheat belt can only produce 10% of the energy needed to power our transportation network? Yeah, they said 1/3, but that is about the amount of straw they can expect to not be moldy when they get around to picking it up off the fields. And how much of that 10% will be spent trucking otherwise worthless straw from outside Moose Jaw, Sask to the processing plant in Regina that I'm sure the socialist government of Saskatchewan will want to build?
My 12 year engineering career has taken me to Australia, Chile, Indonesia, the USA and elsewhere in Canada. The only places I really didn't love to live in were Indonesia and California (no offense, y'all).
I'm presently on the move from Alberta to British Columbia for work, so yes, migration can also happen without leaving your own country. There has always been a place for mobile professionals in the world -- in the 1800s they were explorers, fur traders and mercenaries, in the 1900s they were generally business men, and in the 2000s they are engineers and exotic dancers.
I can help with the first item: yes, most Linux distributions will have this capability but you need to tell Linux what kind of plug-in your palm has (USB, serial, bluetooth). Typically, you can do a symbolic link between where your palm lives (mine is/dev/ttyUSB0) and where pilot-link looks (/dev/pilot). As root:
ln -s/dev/ttyUSB0/dev/pilot
My SuSE install came with several ways to achieve this syncing, but kPilot is likely best for the new folks. The database syncs you asked about work fine, but there is a bug in the Palm's software that prevents my Tungesten T from completely backing up everything (Pilot-link.org says this bug is now fixed, so get a distribution with this updated code). Also more here (scroll down to the section heading 'Synchronising the Palm and the PC').
To date, I know of nothing that does your second request. I generally just use the memo pad, and the text files do transfer across just fine.
The oilsand projects I'm working on cost, typically, $1B per 22k bbls/day.
Iraq is now producing about 1.5 Mbbls/day of crude. Let's assume that the $85B is a capital cost to keep this oil moving (which is nonsense, but you insist in including these costs in the oil capex. So be it). This means that the capex to develop a 1500k bbl/day plant should cost $65B. So, yes, the cost is a little bit higher than developing oil in a safe place like Alberta or Alaska but it is not orders of magnitude higher.
Tbe USA imports most of its oil from Canada and Latin America. Europe imports most of its oil from Russia. Japan and Asia imports most of their oil from the Middle East. So, no, the cost of the middle east activities doesn't affect the US oil price directly.
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Like when it is -30 degrees in Alberta, tends to be quite calm in an arctic Low pressure system. Same when we cook in the summer with +30 degree (C) temps. If the wind ain't blowing, then we still need Genesse running.
Offshore Wind Energy report by Deltf Univ, Netherlands, on the economics of a wind power system offshore in Europe.
Page 5 gives the cost of producing power, including capital costs, at Eur 0.051/kWh (~5.5 US cents/kWhr). This gives a payback of about 7-8 years. So, NO, the power doesn't cost USD0.01/kWh.
This is a subsidized price. The article says students can pay this, but it doesn't say what the cost is to produce the power. I expect that even at $0.045/kWh the payback on the windmills is 15 years.
Couple of degrees likely won't make much difference. Plankton growth is, AFAIK limited by sunlight, and the distance light can penetrate water is determined by things like cloud cover, turbidity, plankton blooms (!) and so on.
Besides, isn't making more biomass a good thing? Wouldn't we be setting the seeds for a new oil deposit in a couple million years.
yup, in Australia people are expected to pay to put customers on hold. The Australian music monopolists have decided that even a phone call deserves a usage tax.
Had Lasik surgery over three years ago and it went perfectly. Both eyes are 20/20 or better and haven't changed measurably since shortly after the surgery.
Best $3000 I ever spent and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Large cable shovels (used in coal mines and oilsand operations) tend to be electric. This picture shows the cable on a shovel at a Canadian copper/gold mine.
Underground equipment tends to be even more electrified. Here is a photo of a chairlift, yes- like the skiing kind, being used in an underground gold mine in Africa.
Ya, ok, he was over the top with his comparison. But he clearly makes the point the US is paying a price for 'improved' security by scaring away would-be tourists and business travelers.
Perception is reality, and if enough (uninformed) people share the poster's view, then the US can kiss its tourism industry goodbye. And all those high tech jobs being created in India won't be visiting the US either due to the same foreign paranoia.
Gold works well because it doesn't oxidize. Both silver and copper will oxidize if left in an air & water environment so the nuggets will disintegrate at the same time as they are being 'grown'. If you won't have air and water, then you also won't have the bacteria that are allegedly doing the dirty work.
Another process that can produce gold nuggets is simply smacking together smaller bits of gold. Think hammering. Since water action can concentrate gold in parts of streams & rivers, these would be natural places for the gold flakes to be squeezed into nuggets that then are then washed away and rounded.
Yes, I am a mining engineer currently working on a silver poject when I'm not trolling Slashdot.
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I work in a mine. Nitrate laden dust is generated each day during the blast, and that dust gets everywhere and on everyone. So I have explosive residue in my clothes, hair and (probably) luggage.
Guess what happens when my crew walks into the airport to fly into the minesite for our two week shift?
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My Journal Entry describing incident
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Did Alexander Graham Bell get a broadcasting licence from the CRTC?
Did Mme Currie have a permit to work with radionuclides
Did Captian Cook put up with this crap when he commissioned his vessels?
Have your promo pack on the site. Only one of my Clients does, but that gives them an advantage over the competition. Make sure the promoters know who you are, what you play, and what you need on stage for plugs and boards.
And photos! Fans love em. Promoters need em. Find yourself a good PHP type package like yappa-ng and smile for the birdie!
My $0.05 about music online: consider it your radio play. Release a few "singles" to your website (and wherever else you can) and don't skimp on the quality. The promoters are listing to a dozen MP3s a day and if yours doesn't stand out, then you won't be on stage.
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Is there enough agricultural residue in Canada to support a commercial cellulose ethanol industry?
There are substantial quantities of straw and other crop residues already produced in Canada. In the Western provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta alone, annual production of straw is about 40 million tonnes. If 1/3 of this material was used to make fuel, the nation could replace 10% of its gasoline usage.
So, Alberta alone can provide enough oil to power the equivalent of all of Canada's cars. But ALL the biomass of Canada's wheat belt can only produce 10% of the energy needed to power our transportation network? Yeah, they said 1/3, but that is about the amount of straw they can expect to not be moldy when they get around to picking it up off the fields. And how much of that 10% will be spent trucking otherwise worthless straw from outside Moose Jaw, Sask to the processing plant in Regina that I'm sure the socialist government of Saskatchewan will want to build?
And just when was Alberta separating from Canada? Oh, sorry, that was Newfoundland who was separating. Silly me.
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I'm presently on the move from Alberta to British Columbia for work, so yes, migration can also happen without leaving your own country. There has always been a place for mobile professionals in the world -- in the 1800s they were explorers, fur traders and mercenaries, in the 1900s they were generally business men, and in the 2000s they are engineers and exotic dancers.
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ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/pilot
My SuSE install came with several ways to achieve this syncing, but kPilot is likely best for the new folks. The database syncs you asked about work fine, but there is a bug in the Palm's software that prevents my Tungesten T from completely backing up everything (Pilot-link.org says this bug is now fixed, so get a distribution with this updated code). Also more here (scroll down to the section heading 'Synchronising the Palm and the PC').
To date, I know of nothing that does your second request. I generally just use the memo pad, and the text files do transfer across just fine.
Can't help with the last item.
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http://www.calgaryhealthregion.ca/newslink/er_pack 052103/motta052103.html
Smoke is where the first place that buckyballs and nanotubes were discovered. All we are doing is making normal smoke a little chunkier.
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The oilsand projects I'm working on cost, typically, $1B per 22k bbls/day.
Iraq is now producing about 1.5 Mbbls/day of crude. Let's assume that the $85B is a capital cost to keep this oil moving (which is nonsense, but you insist in including these costs in the oil capex. So be it). This means that the capex to develop a 1500k bbl/day plant should cost $65B. So, yes, the cost is a little bit higher than developing oil in a safe place like Alberta or Alaska but it is not orders of magnitude higher.
-AD
Tbe USA imports most of its oil from Canada and Latin America. Europe imports most of its oil from Russia. Japan and Asia imports most of their oil from the Middle East. So, no, the cost of the middle east activities doesn't affect the US oil price directly. -AD
Like when it is -30 degrees in Alberta, tends to be quite calm in an arctic Low pressure system. Same when we cook in the summer with +30 degree (C) temps. If the wind ain't blowing, then we still need Genesse running.
And pollution to build the turbines. Think mining, smelting, carbon fibre production, transportation, maintenance...
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Offshore Wind Energy report by Deltf Univ, Netherlands, on the economics of a wind power system offshore in Europe.
Page 5 gives the cost of producing power, including capital costs, at Eur 0.051/kWh (~5.5 US cents/kWhr). This gives a payback of about 7-8 years. So, NO, the power doesn't cost USD0.01/kWh.
-AD
This is a subsidized price. The article says students can pay this, but it doesn't say what the cost is to produce the power. I expect that even at $0.045/kWh the payback on the windmills is 15 years.
-AD
Couple of degrees likely won't make much difference. Plankton growth is, AFAIK limited by sunlight, and the distance light can penetrate water is determined by things like cloud cover, turbidity, plankton blooms (!) and so on.
Besides, isn't making more biomass a good thing? Wouldn't we be setting the seeds for a new oil deposit in a couple million years.
-AD
yup, in Australia people are expected to pay to put customers on hold. The Australian music monopolists have decided that even a phone call deserves a usage tax.
-AD
Had Lasik surgery over three years ago and it went perfectly. Both eyes are 20/20 or better and haven't changed measurably since shortly after the surgery.
Best $3000 I ever spent and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
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Underground equipment tends to be even more electrified. Here is a photo of a chairlift, yes- like the skiing kind, being used in an underground gold mine in Africa.
-AD
Ya, ok, he was over the top with his comparison. But he clearly makes the point the US is paying a price for 'improved' security by scaring away would-be tourists and business travelers.
Perception is reality, and if enough (uninformed) people share the poster's view, then the US can kiss its tourism industry goodbye. And all those high tech jobs being created in India won't be visiting the US either due to the same foreign paranoia.
-AD
Gold works well because it doesn't oxidize. Both silver and copper will oxidize if left in an air & water environment so the nuggets will disintegrate at the same time as they are being 'grown'. If you won't have air and water, then you also won't have the bacteria that are allegedly doing the dirty work.
Another process that can produce gold nuggets is simply smacking together smaller bits of gold. Think hammering. Since water action can concentrate gold in parts of streams & rivers, these would be natural places for the gold flakes to be squeezed into nuggets that then are then washed away and rounded.
Yes, I am a mining engineer currently working on a silver poject when I'm not trolling Slashdot.
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I went with incentre.net for my DSL -- they gave me 2 static IPs with only P2P blocked so I could run my HTTP/FTP servers.
C$50/month = us$37/month