When the music was purchased, you are given a license from the vendor that sold it to you. They each have there own licensing cluster for the music they sell. The URL for that cluster is embedded in the license. So MS shutting down their servers will not affect other services.
Yes I understand that, but my comment was based on the statement above about Switchgrass being pwned by algae. Switchgrass provides ethanol for gas engines, algae provides oil for biodiesel. Ookabooka makes it sound like switchgrass will not even matter once algae takes over for biofuels. Since most US cars run on gas, then we need a good source for ethanol. If people realized the a diesel vehicles is more fun to drive and tune, then we would not be concerned with ethanol production and we would be looking for Arizona/California to become the biofuel capitals of the US.
I personally already use B99 in my truck anytime I get a chance to fill up with it. I wish it was easier to get in California, but it is not. I think that will change this year with the new ATSM standards being written right now, if they get approved.
It may be possible, but I think unlikely.. Ethanol runs in a spark-ignition engine, diesel is a compression-ignition engine. The two engine are very different in the way they run and when the fuel is mixed in with the air. I am not sure that an engine could be designed to handle both styles of combustion, but I could be wrong.
Nice article, but it only addresses the replacement of petro-diesel not gasoline. I have yet to read an article yet on running my car on waste cooking oil or soy based gasoline. So this algae will only be used to replace petro-diesel. Last time I checked, there are more gas cars on the road then diesel cars. So looks like ethanol from switchgrass is still top for gas based engines. On the note of development, with Boeing now backing biofuels to replace kerosene for commercial aircraft, I am sure this technology will start developing fast.
This service is available on 8 airlines and more to come... Check out this http://www.connexionbyboeing.com/index.cfm?p=cbb.s erviceavailable&lang=en
After 6 odd years, economics is the only thing on Boeing and the stock holders minds. Boeing is not the US Congress, they can not make money at the stroke of a pen. No campany can afford to keep feeding a "black hole" forever. They have to show a break even or profit sometime.
"It doesn't cost a whole lot for them to offer the service."
What do you base this on? FCC regulations require a dedicated air-to-ground system, which currently does not exist, or an air-to-satellite system. If you want to offer the service over water, then you need to support air-to-sat. If you want low latency over the ground, then you want air-to-ground. Boeing spent Billions setting up the system they have. Yes inmarsat offers a similar service with lower bandwidth. The FAA would not allow WiFi in the cabin unless you can prove that the system will not interfere with the avionics systems. Boeing spent the time and money developing an AP that does not. They did not go out and buy a Linksys WAP and connect it to a satellite transmitter/receiver and call it Internet service. Boeing, like any other business, had to pass the cost onto the airlines that wanted to use the service. So the statement that it does not "cost a whole lot for them to offer the service" is baseless and not well thought out.
I get my BD from a local distributor that sells to fleets and other entities interested in using it. So it is made from virgin soy. There is talk that we may see some production tests soon using algae feed stock. I would not make my own since getting the used vegetable oil is not always a simple task. I too have heard about the continuous-production system, but I do not know anyone using it yet.
Because of some of the concerns regarding the use of BD, there is a slow uptake of its production right now. The biggest draw back is the increased release of NOX when it is running at a blend of B30 or higher. There is an additive that is being tested that resolves this issue. Once that is fully available you will see a huge push for BD. Once production goes up, the technology to produce it cheaply will be developed. Starting in 06 you will see more diesel cars available for sale then before. The companies are getting ready for the big BD push and the huge increase in demand for bio-diesel powered cars. BD is also gaining ground in Europe where 40% of the cars on the road are powered by petro-diesel.
That is true that the normal feed stock like soy, corn, etc is not enough to replace all petro use in the US. That is why there is a slow push to extract the oil from algea. If you are interested in more info, you can read this article http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
I personaly run 100% biodiesel in my new pickup truck and love it. It currently does not cost me anymore than good old petro-diesel. There is little to no loss in power and my mileage has increased. So it seems to be a great way to remove the dependancy on petro-oil for cars and trucks. This would leave the petro-oil available to aircraft and other uses untill we find a replacment for that us too. Removing cars, trucks, trains, and ships from petro-oil usage would leave petro-oil in less demand.
Welcome to LA, you mean welcome to Southern California. Where most major cities of commerce double in population between the hours of 8am and 6pm. Where the East LA Interchange alown sees an average of more than 430,000 cars a day drive over it. No wonder it takes me 2h to drive 62 miles to work. There is no real public transportion to get me to work and home better than I can drive. I live 15 miles from a train station and no bus gets me close. Also the train schedule does not even work close to my work schedule. I would end up spending more time at work than I need. Most public transportaion in SoCal does not work for the majority of the public. It is tailored to a few commuter routes and no matter how convienient it is, not much will get a Californian to give up the conveniance of having his car there for him all the time.
I do not agree... I work for a very large enterprise and we are sending all our NT admins to Solaris training because we are using more and more Sun/Linux servers. There has also been a push from way up high to start using VMware ESX instead of buying servers for every project that comes up the line. Since this is just a Linux server, they have to deal with Linux even when building a new Windows servers for projects.
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When the music was purchased, you are given a license from the vendor that sold it to you. They each have there own licensing cluster for the music they sell. The URL for that cluster is embedded in the license. So MS shutting down their servers will not affect other services.
Yes I understand that, but my comment was based on the statement above about Switchgrass being pwned by algae. Switchgrass provides ethanol for gas engines, algae provides oil for biodiesel. Ookabooka makes it sound like switchgrass will not even matter once algae takes over for biofuels. Since most US cars run on gas, then we need a good source for ethanol. If people realized the a diesel vehicles is more fun to drive and tune, then we would not be concerned with ethanol production and we would be looking for Arizona/California to become the biofuel capitals of the US.
I personally already use B99 in my truck anytime I get a chance to fill up with it. I wish it was easier to get in California, but it is not. I think that will change this year with the new ATSM standards being written right now, if they get approved.
It may be possible, but I think unlikely.. Ethanol runs in a spark-ignition engine, diesel is a compression-ignition engine. The two engine are very different in the way they run and when the fuel is mixed in with the air. I am not sure that an engine could be designed to handle both styles of combustion, but I could be wrong.
Nice article, but it only addresses the replacement of petro-diesel not gasoline. I have yet to read an article yet on running my car on waste cooking oil or soy based gasoline. So this algae will only be used to replace petro-diesel. Last time I checked, there are more gas cars on the road then diesel cars. So looks like ethanol from switchgrass is still top for gas based engines. On the note of development, with Boeing now backing biofuels to replace kerosene for commercial aircraft, I am sure this technology will start developing fast.
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This service is available on 8 airlines and more to come... Check out this http://www.connexionbyboeing.com/index.cfm?p=cbb.s erviceavailable&lang=en
After 6 odd years, economics is the only thing on Boeing and the stock holders minds. Boeing is not the US Congress, they can not make money at the stroke of a pen. No campany can afford to keep feeding a "black hole" forever. They have to show a break even or profit sometime.
"It doesn't cost a whole lot for them to offer the service."
What do you base this on? FCC regulations require a dedicated air-to-ground system, which currently does not exist, or an air-to-satellite system. If you want to offer the service over water, then you need to support air-to-sat. If you want low latency over the ground, then you want air-to-ground. Boeing spent Billions setting up the system they have. Yes inmarsat offers a similar service with lower bandwidth. The FAA would not allow WiFi in the cabin unless you can prove that the system will not interfere with the avionics systems. Boeing spent the time and money developing an AP that does not. They did not go out and buy a Linksys WAP and connect it to a satellite transmitter/receiver and call it Internet service. Boeing, like any other business, had to pass the cost onto the airlines that wanted to use the service. So the statement that it does not "cost a whole lot for them to offer the service" is baseless and not well thought out.
I get my BD from a local distributor that sells to fleets and other entities interested in using it. So it is made from virgin soy. There is talk that we may see some production tests soon using algae feed stock. I would not make my own since getting the used vegetable oil is not always a simple task. I too have heard about the continuous-production system, but I do not know anyone using it yet.
Because of some of the concerns regarding the use of BD, there is a slow uptake of its production right now. The biggest draw back is the increased release of NOX when it is running at a blend of B30 or higher. There is an additive that is being tested that resolves this issue. Once that is fully available you will see a huge push for BD. Once production goes up, the technology to produce it cheaply will be developed. Starting in 06 you will see more diesel cars available for sale then before. The companies are getting ready for the big BD push and the huge increase in demand for bio-diesel powered cars. BD is also gaining ground in Europe where 40% of the cars on the road are powered by petro-diesel.
That is true that the normal feed stock like soy, corn, etc is not enough to replace all petro use in the US. That is why there is a slow push to extract the oil from algea. If you are interested in more info, you can read this article http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
I personaly run 100% biodiesel in my new pickup truck and love it. It currently does not cost me anymore than good old petro-diesel. There is little to no loss in power and my mileage has increased. So it seems to be a great way to remove the dependancy on petro-oil for cars and trucks. This would leave the petro-oil available to aircraft and other uses untill we find a replacment for that us too. Removing cars, trucks, trains, and ships from petro-oil usage would leave petro-oil in less demand.
Welcome to LA, you mean welcome to Southern California. Where most major cities of commerce double in population between the hours of 8am and 6pm. Where the East LA Interchange alown sees an average of more than 430,000 cars a day drive over it. No wonder it takes me 2h to drive 62 miles to work. There is no real public transportion to get me to work and home better than I can drive. I live 15 miles from a train station and no bus gets me close. Also the train schedule does not even work close to my work schedule. I would end up spending more time at work than I need. Most public transportaion in SoCal does not work for the majority of the public. It is tailored to a few commuter routes and no matter how convienient it is, not much will get a Californian to give up the conveniance of having his car there for him all the time.
I do not agree... I work for a very large enterprise and we are sending all our NT admins to Solaris training because we are using more and more Sun/Linux servers. There has also been a push from way up high to start using VMware ESX instead of buying servers for every project that comes up the line. Since this is just a Linux server, they have to deal with Linux even when building a new Windows servers for projects.