1. Generate all electricity from nuclear sources. 2. Store the alpha emitting waste in a capturing facility. 3. Wait for the alpha particles to encounter electrons (shouldn't take long) 4. Siphon the generated helium off. 5. Purify sufficiently. 6.... 7. Profit.
You really don't want the mass of a battery on top. Have you ever driven in a bus? The drivers really throw them around. Having all that mass on top would cause quite a few to be tipped over.
1. Although alcohol based hand sanitizers work reasonably well against germs (mostly viruses and a few types of bacteria), they generally need 15-30 seconds to do their job well enough. You generally don't touch a door handle that long, nor is it likely to glop enough on to your hands to meet that threshold.
It's not to clean your hands. It's to keep the doorknob germ free.
Hand sanitzers mostly work against bacteria and not so much against virusses. They also don't do much more than regular washing with soap (sanitizer kills 99,9% of the bacteria with 30 second application while washing with soap cleans approx 99%). Regular washing with soap works much better if there is visible dirt on your hands. Hand sanitzer will not remove that, just spread it out.
FWIW, a more mainstream technique is to use special metal alloy door handles. Although they only work on bacteria, they are at least a known proven method;^)
I can only agree with that.
Neither method will work efficiently against a viral respiratory infection though.
Doesn't matter. The particles hits the upper atmosphere. (it either hits an atom head on, desintegrating it (low chance), or the magnetic field interactions with a lot of atoms drain energy from it to the other atoms (that's more likely)). In both cases a waterfall of lower energy particles showers down. These particles are detected with our detectors. Not the particles themselves. In other words: unless you are unshielded in the upper atmosphere you are not going to be hit by one. Even in that case I would advise you to worry more from hard UV rays than Oh-My-God particles. You would be above the ozone layer.
The total surface area of all astronauts is far less than 1 km squared so on average one should be hit by one once in far more than a century. We haven't been in space for a century. Pebble sized meteors at far lower speed but with far higher impact energy are far more common.
They do have a large interest in the matter. If SHA-1 is broken and they keep selling it they lower the belief in the system. Thus it would lower the monetary value of ALL certificates.
I often like the "similar meaning" results but not always. Ergo it should be an option IMHO. For example "Exact:" or something like it. Or it could simply allow regex with a similar prefix. Then I would have a reason to learn regex. They already use : as a special string. For example "site:http://www.slashdot.org " only gives results from/. .
That is a free add on that I don't really need. I will probably use it one day when I get a tablet, but for now that SIM card will be thrown into a drawer to collect dust. For my normal mobile internet I currently have a 1,5 GB cap. I usually don't cross the 1 GB mark in a month. Uncapped mobile internet seems nice but not really essential. I don't use it for Netflix, that's what the home connection is for.
It's the home internet + spotify + access to the KPN Hotspots that I really want. The simcard with 200 MB mobile is nice for when I will use it.
I am not a yank. They seem to get the shitty end of the Internet stick. I am Dutch. We have competition in our ISP's.
Not as much as what happens when those rednecks put a bullet through a petrol tank near a fire. Any substantial electricity storage is going to be in a building or a closed off parking lot. Since when do rednecks have bullets that can pass through a brick wall?
You are forgetting something. 2 somethings to be more precise. 1. As solar tech gets better it gets more installed. As it gets more installed economy of scale allows for lower prices. As the prices drop they get more installed. Rinse and repeat untill the minimum price of the tech is reached. During that time some companies will have invested in additional research to lower the price per watt. Rinse, repeat.
2. There are only a few solar concentrator towers now. Those will be build faster and faster if the price of coal generated power builds up because of supply problems.
This is approximately an exponential growth my friend. Don't underestimate it. 20 fold increase is not far off. To get storage up to snuff to work with 5 or 10% PV we need to research now. That is why so many companies are working hard on getting it done (also because storing a significant fraction of global use in a week is a lot and there will be a lot of money in it).
For powering a city for a week or two a tractor trailer sized battery ain't gonna cut it. Unless you sneakily fill it with an unshielded nuclear reactor with a magical heat-energy conversion (size being the impossible limit). There is a reason most coal plants suitable to power a city have water or train supply lines: that amount of coal delivered by truck is not feasible.
Solar is the future, but for storage for a city for a day you are talking about a large parking lot filled with battery containers. Even with future near magic battery tech. Or a pumped storage.
Have you seen the first drawings Galileo made of Saturn? It was clearly a goatse. God grew up and decided it was immature so he made the laws of nature permit rings to cover up his bad joke.
Sorry. Not being native and neither a lawyer my grasp of these things is limited. What's the difference? (honestly, I want to know in order to prevent misusing them in the future)
To be locked up over this is right. Whoever decide that this idiot could walk away from it without being sued should be fired. From a cannon. Into the sun.
It's happening anyway. They don't add to the muon radiation to the background because the background is already enough. It's apparently not really dangerous because we have all grown up under this radiation.
With the limited info I have I would guess either a cheapskate manufacturer that tried to pass the wrong gauge of cable as the correct one or a crappy connection between a plug and the cable. In both cases the cable can't handle the current in a hot room and that could cause the insulation to melt. Especially when the cable is buried under a stack of nice insulating and flammable paper. Molten insulation doesn't stay in it's place, cables connect, short circuit and with the hot insulation (hot means more easily flammable) a flame is born.
In our winters most plants do not need sunlight at all. They hibernate. Why wouldn't an alien plant be able to do such a thing? Creatures do not really need sunlight all that much. Only to see and there are other solutions for that (IR sensors, sound or electric signals for example). It'll get cold. True. But not 0K cold. The freezing of stuff gives off warmth, temporarily pausing the dropping of the temperature.
Al in all it doesn't have to be so different from our planet, assuming the average temp is similar and the radiation belt of a massive planet doesn't fry anything that tries to live and a million other things aren't all that different.
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1. Generate all electricity from nuclear sources. ...
2. Store the alpha emitting waste in a capturing facility.
3. Wait for the alpha particles to encounter electrons (shouldn't take long)
4. Siphon the generated helium off.
5. Purify sufficiently.
6.
7. Profit.
Short commutes suck on public transport. The travel time to bus stops is often far too long.
10 minutes by car seems to be suitable for a bike commute, if the untold circumstances allow it and you feel like it.
You really don't want the mass of a battery on top. Have you ever driven in a bus? The drivers really throw them around. Having all that mass on top would cause quite a few to be tipped over.
The current ones are quite different from ye olde frigates
We detect the particle spray that they start when they hit the upper atmosphere.
1. Although alcohol based hand sanitizers work reasonably well against germs (mostly viruses and a few types of bacteria), they generally need 15-30 seconds to do their job well enough. You generally don't touch a door handle that long, nor is it likely to glop enough on to your hands to meet that threshold.
It's not to clean your hands. It's to keep the doorknob germ free.
Hand sanitzers mostly work against bacteria and not so much against virusses. They also don't do much more than regular washing with soap (sanitizer kills 99,9% of the bacteria with 30 second application while washing with soap cleans approx 99%). Regular washing with soap works much better if there is visible dirt on your hands. Hand sanitzer will not remove that, just spread it out.
FWIW, a more mainstream technique is to use special metal alloy door handles. Although they only work on bacteria, they are at least a known proven method ;^)
I can only agree with that.
Neither method will work efficiently against a viral respiratory infection though.
Doesn't matter. The particles hits the upper atmosphere. (it either hits an atom head on, desintegrating it (low chance), or the magnetic field interactions with a lot of atoms drain energy from it to the other atoms (that's more likely)). In both cases a waterfall of lower energy particles showers down. These particles are detected with our detectors. Not the particles themselves.
In other words: unless you are unshielded in the upper atmosphere you are not going to be hit by one. Even in that case I would advise you to worry more from hard UV rays than Oh-My-God particles. You would be above the ozone layer.
The total surface area of all astronauts is far less than 1 km squared so on average one should be hit by one once in far more than a century. We haven't been in space for a century.
Pebble sized meteors at far lower speed but with far higher impact energy are far more common.
They do have a large interest in the matter. If SHA-1 is broken and they keep selling it they lower the belief in the system. Thus it would lower the monetary value of ALL certificates.
what makes Tesla the victim here?
The fact that the applicable law is idiotic.
That does not mean they don't have to comply. They should prove that they did not sell more than 150 cars.
Did you take the chance to reply "I'm not feeling so hot"?
I often like the "similar meaning" results but not always. Ergo it should be an option IMHO. /. .
For example "Exact:" or something like it.
Or it could simply allow regex with a similar prefix. Then I would have a reason to learn regex.
They already use : as a special string. For example "site:http://www.slashdot.org " only gives results from
That is a free add on that I don't really need. I will probably use it one day when I get a tablet, but for now that SIM card will be thrown into a drawer to collect dust.
For my normal mobile internet I currently have a 1,5 GB cap. I usually don't cross the 1 GB mark in a month. Uncapped mobile internet seems nice but not really essential. I don't use it for Netflix, that's what the home connection is for.
It's the home internet + spotify + access to the KPN Hotspots that I really want. The simcard with 200 MB mobile is nice for when I will use it.
I am not a yank. They seem to get the shitty end of the Internet stick.
I am Dutch. We have competition in our ISP's.
Not as much as what happens when those rednecks put a bullet through a petrol tank near a fire.
Any substantial electricity storage is going to be in a building or a closed off parking lot. Since when do rednecks have bullets that can pass through a brick wall?
This solution is not the only answer.
This + old electric car batteries + some building sized battery tech + whatever we come up with = the answer.
You are forgetting something. 2 somethings to be more precise.
1. As solar tech gets better it gets more installed. As it gets more installed economy of scale allows for lower prices. As the prices drop they get more installed. Rinse and repeat untill the minimum price of the tech is reached. During that time some companies will have invested in additional research to lower the price per watt.
Rinse, repeat.
2. There are only a few solar concentrator towers now. Those will be build faster and faster if the price of coal generated power builds up because of supply problems.
This is approximately an exponential growth my friend. Don't underestimate it.
20 fold increase is not far off. To get storage up to snuff to work with 5 or 10% PV we need to research now. That is why so many companies are working hard on getting it done (also because storing a significant fraction of global use in a week is a lot and there will be a lot of money in it).
For powering a city for a week or two a tractor trailer sized battery ain't gonna cut it. Unless you sneakily fill it with an unshielded nuclear reactor with a magical heat-energy conversion (size being the impossible limit).
There is a reason most coal plants suitable to power a city have water or train supply lines: that amount of coal delivered by truck is not feasible.
Solar is the future, but for storage for a city for a day you are talking about a large parking lot filled with battery containers. Even with future near magic battery tech.
Or a pumped storage.
woho, I'm moving to XS4all 50 mbit Fiber next month. Including Spotify, a simcard with 200mb/month mobile and KPN Hotspots acces!
Have you seen the first drawings Galileo made of Saturn? It was clearly a goatse. God grew up and decided it was immature so he made the laws of nature permit rings to cover up his bad joke.
Sorry. Not being native and neither a lawyer my grasp of these things is limited. What's the difference? (honestly, I want to know in order to prevent misusing them in the future)
To be locked up over this is right. Whoever decide that this idiot could walk away from it without being sued should be fired. From a cannon. Into the sun.
It's happening anyway. They don't add to the muon radiation to the background because the background is already enough.
It's apparently not really dangerous because we have all grown up under this radiation.
Clowns must be really well endowed.
With the limited info I have I would guess either a cheapskate manufacturer that tried to pass the wrong gauge of cable as the correct one or a crappy connection between a plug and the cable.
In both cases the cable can't handle the current in a hot room and that could cause the insulation to melt. Especially when the cable is buried under a stack of nice insulating and flammable paper. Molten insulation doesn't stay in it's place, cables connect, short circuit and with the hot insulation (hot means more easily flammable) a flame is born.
In our winters most plants do not need sunlight at all. They hibernate. Why wouldn't an alien plant be able to do such a thing?
Creatures do not really need sunlight all that much. Only to see and there are other solutions for that (IR sensors, sound or electric signals for example).
It'll get cold. True. But not 0K cold. The freezing of stuff gives off warmth, temporarily pausing the dropping of the temperature.
Al in all it doesn't have to be so different from our planet, assuming the average temp is similar and the radiation belt of a massive planet doesn't fry anything that tries to live and a million other things aren't all that different.