Using fuel injection instead of a carborator increases power output, increases fuel economy and increases reliability. When mass produced, the difference in up front cost is not enormous (and is quickly made up for by the increased efficiency). A well insulated refrigerator works better than one that is less well insulated, and many of those technologies can be applied without significantly increasing costs. Phosphorus free detergents developed to control water pollution in the west can be deployed in developing nations at roughly no cost above detergents that do contain phosphorus (and all the government has to do is regulate any local manufacturers). That is what I am talking about, developing technology that is attractive for reasons other than reducing consumption, because such technology will basically automatically reduce consumption. It doesn't have anything to do with appealing to altruism. In fact, it depends on greed, a fairly reliable aspect of human nature.
What's your point? Comparing British manufactured computers to British manufactured engines is still a non sequitur, even if it is a joke (because a computer with oil in it is unexpected).
I agree that the 3 billion+ people ripping themselves towards a western middle class lifestyle are the problem, but if we can get them that lifestyle using 5 units of consumption, instead of the 10 that we are using, it will have a tremendous impact.
Technology that makes economic sense and enables conservation should have a bigger impact on developing countries than developed countries (because of the relatively enormous undeveloped population), so there is plenty of reason to focus on it.
On the other hand, throughout Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, nearly the entirely of the timber was cut. We are left with the forests that regrew after that (much of the cutting happened circa 1900).
Good news! There is room for somewhere between 100 and 300 trillion bodies in Lake Superior (I'm too lazy to come up with tighter bounds for the volume of a body, I used, roughly, between 1 and 4 cubic feet).
Be sure to wade to the edge of the corpses before dying.
If you collect solar energy, I'm pretty sure you could beat the amount of that energy that is naturally dumped (but maybe mirrors would work better in that case).
Yes, forests are quite good at planting trees, accelerating the natural cycle (by removing mature trees rather than waiting for them to die) makes much more sense to me than clear cutting.
All of the 4G technologies are basically a GSM style service over a CDMA style network, Sprint and Verizon aren't 'tearing up' their networks, the technologies are converging.
Virgin Mobile strictly uses Sprint towers, with no roaming on other networks (also, Sprint recently bought the portion of the company that they did not already own).
People love to praise the bellyaching, but the coverage I get has steadily increased over the 10 years that I have had a phone.
Efficiency often increases as you get bigger, so the 1 MW laser would probably require a smaller power system and a smaller cooling system, and be physically smaller itself.
The Y chromosome is unique in that you only get the one your father has. A paternity test can look at other genes, and probably tell the difference between brothers (for testing daughters, it would have to), but I don't have any sense of how clear the results are.
One of the things they have been working on is crashes under Windows. Firefox on XP, is, in my experience, quite stable (the last time I remember it crashing, I was messing around examining some exploit code and accidentally executed it...).
I do run Flashblock, which I think tends to help.
They have also added lots of features as far as supported html elements (stuff like canvas, from html5) and css, and also moved to a faster javascript engine.
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Please explain the WHOOSH you see to me, so I can explain why you are wrong without making any assumptions.
You clearly know more about it than I do. I think my comment is best looked at as the 'consumer' view on such things.
Using fuel injection instead of a carborator increases power output, increases fuel economy and increases reliability. When mass produced, the difference in up front cost is not enormous (and is quickly made up for by the increased efficiency). A well insulated refrigerator works better than one that is less well insulated, and many of those technologies can be applied without significantly increasing costs. Phosphorus free detergents developed to control water pollution in the west can be deployed in developing nations at roughly no cost above detergents that do contain phosphorus (and all the government has to do is regulate any local manufacturers). That is what I am talking about, developing technology that is attractive for reasons other than reducing consumption, because such technology will basically automatically reduce consumption. It doesn't have anything to do with appealing to altruism. In fact, it depends on greed, a fairly reliable aspect of human nature.
What's your point? Comparing British manufactured computers to British manufactured engines is still a non sequitur, even if it is a joke (because a computer with oil in it is unexpected).
I agree that the 3 billion+ people ripping themselves towards a western middle class lifestyle are the problem, but if we can get them that lifestyle using 5 units of consumption, instead of the 10 that we are using, it will have a tremendous impact.
Technology that makes economic sense and enables conservation should have a bigger impact on developing countries than developed countries (because of the relatively enormous undeveloped population), so there is plenty of reason to focus on it.
On the other hand, throughout Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, nearly the entirely of the timber was cut. We are left with the forests that regrew after that (much of the cutting happened circa 1900).
Which modern computers rely on oil? Especially circulating oil.
Idiot over-clockers don't particularly count.
Good news! There is room for somewhere between 100 and 300 trillion bodies in Lake Superior (I'm too lazy to come up with tighter bounds for the volume of a body, I used, roughly, between 1 and 4 cubic feet).
Be sure to wade to the edge of the corpses before dying.
If you collect solar energy, I'm pretty sure you could beat the amount of that energy that is naturally dumped (but maybe mirrors would work better in that case).
I hope you mean agriculture (the population growth in China has slowed since they majorly embraced greed, and that is just a recent loud example).
Deforestation is still a huge problem is less developed countries.
Yeah, well who is going to have human interests at heart, humans, or natural cycles?
Yes, forests are quite good at planting trees, accelerating the natural cycle (by removing mature trees rather than waiting for them to die) makes much more sense to me than clear cutting.
There are all sorts of non sequiturs that fit in there:
Q: Why didn't the British ever make a computer?
A: Have you tried the food?!
All of the 4G technologies are basically a GSM style service over a CDMA style network, Sprint and Verizon aren't 'tearing up' their networks, the technologies are converging.
Virgin Mobile strictly uses Sprint towers, with no roaming on other networks (also, Sprint recently bought the portion of the company that they did not already own).
People love to praise the bellyaching, but the coverage I get has steadily increased over the 10 years that I have had a phone.
I have rabies. I can't help it.
Always remember, Larry, Sergey and Eric have a controlling voting interest in Google, none of the other shareholders particularly matter.
So what chemical was it?
Don't worry, I'm not going to try to get some, I hate dealing with simple household bleach.
Add more cowbell.
Efficiency often increases as you get bigger, so the 1 MW laser would probably require a smaller power system and a smaller cooling system, and be physically smaller itself.
It doesn't seem real controversial to claim that population pressure sets the stage for such scenarios.
...get a gun.
The Y chromosome is unique in that you only get the one your father has. A paternity test can look at other genes, and probably tell the difference between brothers (for testing daughters, it would have to), but I don't have any sense of how clear the results are.
One of the things they have been working on is crashes under Windows. Firefox on XP, is, in my experience, quite stable (the last time I remember it crashing, I was messing around examining some exploit code and accidentally executed it...).
I do run Flashblock, which I think tends to help.
They have also added lots of features as far as supported html elements (stuff like canvas, from html5) and css, and also moved to a faster javascript engine.