It's not so much a hack but someone's understanding and implementation of Physical Chemistry. Flourescent bulbs produce light by exciting electrons into the singlet state. Phosphouresence excites them into the triplet state which can produce a lot more light for less energy. That is about the only understanding that I got from that shitty class.
Real efficient use of electricity also. Most people will ogle at the fact that it doesn't produce harmful emmissions but neglect the fact the the emmissions are just further upstream.
What made Buster be Buster was not his DNA. They way he was raised and environment and what not affected his personality way more than DNA ever could. In a few hundred years you might be able to put him in a copy machine and spit out an identical one, but until then he'll be alike in DNA only. Even spots aren't hereditary.
The people that were headed to California were somewhat expendable. Astronauts, on the other hand, are not a dime a dozen. It makes sense that you would want to keep somebody alive that you've spent all the time and money training.
I agree that we've become too gun shy. If we were just going to use them as expendable parts, why not use prisoners or foreigners as pilots and crewmen?
Or you could download Google earth that has a measure feature. It allows you to measure a path or a straight line. There are a variety of units available including American and Metric.
Check that. I wonder if the one with the boxes is the inspiration that the new guy had. It said he was inspired by a piece of art in the '50s. If that's the case, the new one really sucks.
If you view the slideshow, slide six has a picture of the actual chart that is much easier to follow. It has boxes for elements and arrows connecting like elements. I do agree that the one with circles sucks. It's rather misleading, too. Why don't they just publish a decent picture of it instead of making us guess on what it looks like?
When will it be released for Opera? You can search Google from Opera, but it doesn't have the highlighter and collapsable tree function that the toolbar has.
Wrong again. You can't simply plant soybeans and plow them under to increase the nitrogen in the soil. The bacteria that are attached to the soybean roots are lazy. They only start affixing their own nitrogen when the available nitrogen in the soil decreases below a certain level.
Also, why would you want to leave the corn on the cob? Let nature do the drying in the field, and then remove the corn from the cob with a machine that has proven itself.
Most of the energy required for ethanol production comes from the distillation process. It requires a large amount of energy to boil that much liquid. No, you can't just crystallize it out because it forms an azeotrope with water. What they do in industry to get 200 proof stuff is add benzene which causes a tertiary azeotrope to form. Alcohol can then be separated from the resulting mixture.
It is also flawed in that they considered solar energy as a power input. Yes, ethanol production uses more energy than you get from the product. By looking at the diagram that is included with the article, they considered solar energy as an input. While this is technically correct, it artificially inflates the amount of energy required to produce a gallon of EtOH. Solar energy, for the most part, is non-depreciable. That energy is going to strike the earth's surface if the corn or milo is there or not. He should rework his numbers to just include the energy required to plant the seed, fertilize, harvest, ship, ferment, and distill.
Dig a little deeper and you'll probably find that this study was funded by OPEC.
I thought that was the best article, too. They guy makes such a complete and honest argument that you can't help but laugh at it. That's what I enjoy about the Onion--their stories are outrageously fake, but written like they are the solid truth.
They're taking off from Kansas State University-Salina, which is almost dead center Kansas. It seems that every week they cancel the thing because of bad weather. It's friggin' Kansas in February, of course it's going to be bad weather!! But on the other hand, they cancel it a day or so in advance when they could just wait five minutes for the weather to change.....
Sea Monkies+Seamen= Seaciety Now if only NASA can find some dude in an ally that will let them have his seamen by merly closing their eyes and sucking on a hose.
Nope. Those plants are considered volunteer and would be treated as weeds and killed.
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My chemistry professor said he once had some students break into the lab and distill some ethanol that was sitting on the shelf. The students failed to realize that what they were distilling was not just ethanol, but denatured ethanol. The denaturing agent was methanol--the shit that fucks you up. One student died and the other student went blind from their stupidness.
I'm from Northwest Kansas, so the farmland here is very good. Sunflowers lose their leaves, the stalks get very hard and brown, the heads lose their petals and turn brown. The texture of the dried stems/leaves and back of the heads is about like sandpaper. They are harvested with a row crop headed on a combine. The head is cut off and fed through the machine where the seeds are separated. Premiums are paid for low trash content and high oil content.
Here are some links to pictures of fields that are ready to harvest: http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/drie dsunpj.jpg http://www.bowbellsnd.com/farming/sunflower_harv es t50.jpg http://www.seedimex.hu/image/angol27.jpg
Soybeans are a very profitalble oil seed. The only canola that is in the area was planted at the local Research-Extension Center. As for sunflowers for florists....no dice if they are oil seeds or confectionary. They go from one of the prettiest crops in the field to the ugliest in about a week.
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It's not so much a hack but someone's understanding and implementation of Physical Chemistry. Flourescent bulbs produce light by exciting electrons into the singlet state. Phosphouresence excites them into the triplet state which can produce a lot more light for less energy. That is about the only understanding that I got from that shitty class.
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Spelling errors abound--I don't care.
Real efficient use of electricity also. Most people will ogle at the fact that it doesn't produce harmful emmissions but neglect the fact the the emmissions are just further upstream.
What made Buster be Buster was not his DNA. They way he was raised and environment and what not affected his personality way more than DNA ever could. In a few hundred years you might be able to put him in a copy machine and spit out an identical one, but until then he'll be alike in DNA only. Even spots aren't hereditary.
The people that were headed to California were somewhat expendable. Astronauts, on the other hand, are not a dime a dozen. It makes sense that you would want to keep somebody alive that you've spent all the time and money training.
I agree that we've become too gun shy. If we were just going to use them as expendable parts, why not use prisoners or foreigners as pilots and crewmen?
Or you could download Google earth that has a measure feature. It allows you to measure a path or a straight line. There are a variety of units available including American and Metric.
Check that. I wonder if the one with the boxes is the inspiration that the new guy had. It said he was inspired by a piece of art in the '50s. If that's the case, the new one really sucks.
If you view the slideshow, slide six has a picture of the actual chart that is much easier to follow. It has boxes for elements and arrows connecting like elements. I do agree that the one with circles sucks. It's rather misleading, too. Why don't they just publish a decent picture of it instead of making us guess on what it looks like?
They've just got to pay.
When will it be released for Opera? You can search Google from Opera, but it doesn't have the highlighter and collapsable tree function that the toolbar has.
Wrong again. You can't simply plant soybeans and plow them under to increase the nitrogen in the soil. The bacteria that are attached to the soybean roots are lazy. They only start affixing their own nitrogen when the available nitrogen in the soil decreases below a certain level.
Also, why would you want to leave the corn on the cob? Let nature do the drying in the field, and then remove the corn from the cob with a machine that has proven itself.
Most of the energy required for ethanol production comes from the distillation process. It requires a large amount of energy to boil that much liquid. No, you can't just crystallize it out because it forms an azeotrope with water. What they do in industry to get 200 proof stuff is add benzene which causes a tertiary azeotrope to form. Alcohol can then be separated from the resulting mixture.
It is also flawed in that they considered solar energy as a power input. Yes, ethanol production uses more energy than you get from the product. By looking at the diagram that is included with the article, they considered solar energy as an input. While this is technically correct, it artificially inflates the amount of energy required to produce a gallon of EtOH. Solar energy, for the most part, is non-depreciable. That energy is going to strike the earth's surface if the corn or milo is there or not. He should rework his numbers to just include the energy required to plant the seed, fertilize, harvest, ship, ferment, and distill.
Dig a little deeper and you'll probably find that this study was funded by OPEC.
If by The Hobbit you mean "whoopie", then I would say that there's a good chance.
I thought that was the best article, too. They guy makes such a complete and honest argument that you can't help but laugh at it. That's what I enjoy about the Onion--their stories are outrageously fake, but written like they are the solid truth.
Not a dupe, just similar. Dumbass.
It'd be worse if you reached down for some leaves to wipe with and ended up wiping you ass with poison ivy.
I was thinking personal hygeine would be a good one.
They're taking off from Kansas State University-Salina, which is almost dead center Kansas. It seems that every week they cancel the thing because of bad weather. It's friggin' Kansas in February, of course it's going to be bad weather!! But on the other hand, they cancel it a day or so in advance when they could just wait five minutes for the weather to change.....
Sea Monkies+Seamen= Seaciety
Now if only NASA can find some dude in an ally that will let them have his seamen by merly closing their eyes and sucking on a hose.
Nope. Those plants are considered volunteer and would be treated as weeds and killed.
My chemistry professor said he once had some students break into the lab and distill some ethanol that was sitting on the shelf. The students failed to realize that what they were distilling was not just ethanol, but denatured ethanol. The denaturing agent was methanol--the shit that fucks you up. One student died and the other student went blind from their stupidness.
I believe the correct spelling would be: Monsatan.
I've got the same problem. "Quicktime does not recognize this file"
I'm from Northwest Kansas, so the farmland here is very good. Sunflowers lose their leaves, the stalks get very hard and brown, the heads lose their petals and turn brown. The texture of the dried stems/leaves and back of the heads is about like sandpaper. They are harvested with a row crop headed on a combine. The head is cut off and fed through the machine where the seeds are separated. Premiums are paid for low trash content and high oil content.
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Here are some links to pictures of fields that are ready to harvest:
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/dri
http://www.bowbellsnd.com/farming/sunflower_har
http://www.seedimex.hu/image/angol27.jpg
Soybeans are a very profitalble oil seed. The only canola that is in the area was planted at the local Research-Extension Center. As for sunflowers for florists....no dice if they are oil seeds or confectionary. They go from one of the prettiest crops in the field to the ugliest in about a week.