When myself and a buddy of mine did a research project on the production of CO2, NOx, SOx, and particulate matter of various H2 production methods using a bunch of DOE data, and if my memory serves me correctly we found that using H2 fuel reduced CO2 emissions by about 15% from the most efficient current form of H2 production (Coal Gassification) as the power transfer through the H2 cells was more efficient that burning gas and the gassification process is more efficient than burning fossil fuels. The greatest impact was on SOx and NOx production which went down about 20%.
Although electrolysis seems great, most of the energy in this country is produced from coal or natural gas, which still puts us in the same situation. The one example I can think of where a large amount of clean energy is produced is in the pacific northwest where a significant amount of energy is produced from hydroelectric generators in dams. The American aluminum industry is based up here in the northwest because of the cheap energy which goes wholly unused at night(as aluminum cannot be smelted, it must be electrolyzed from ore into pure Al). In an area like this H2 could be produced cheaply and with a small ecological footprint. Electrolysis, however, is still a very inefficient manufacture method for H2 production.
Well, I guess the best thing to do is to hope for nuclear fusion to finally reach break-even!
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Well, at my university we have a program which admits highschool and middle school aged kids (youngest I have heard of is 12 years old). Many of these kids are extremely intelegent, but I must say that (to different degrees) all of the kids I know who came through this program (many of which are my friends) are socially maladjusted.
On a day to day basis, many of them are able to interact with the normal aged college students, but it is not so much at the social but the academic level. I am not saying they have to aquiece to social norms, but they still need to develop the social skills to interact with a broad range of individuals and make friendships if they are going to be successful.
Being in this program these highly intellegent kids are effectively being retarded socially. Social skills are developed by interacting with a broad range of people much of which I believe happens in high-school and college. By isolating them from kids in their age group they are unable to learn social skills. It is hard for a 15 year old kid to make friends with a bunch of 20 year old college kids. The age gap in social and personal maturity is staggering.
For example, one of the kids coming out of this program (age 13 at the time), had the impulse to find out how much energy would be produced if he turned me into pure energy. Now, being a science nerd I was understanding, but your average kid would think he was wierd.
Anyways, I have ranted and not really said much. Still, I think it is important to support smart kids (I came away with a good education because I went to a good private school, but most kids aren't as lucky as I was), but I think there needs to be programs established in highschools and middle schools to support advanced children where they can still interact with their peers and hopefully develop social skills important later in life. Plus it will be easier for them to get girlfriends/boyfriends in college;-)
It is very true that hydrogen is an energy storage medium, a battery if you will. However using a battery rather than a heat engine in your car has two advantages over the old technology:
1. Your car is no longer subject to the Carnot cycle, therefore you can use most of the energy stored within the battery (hydrogen) you are carrying. Now, you may be thinking, the coal used is subject to the carnot cycle, but coal is not generally burnt but is reformed by steam to form hydrogen and CO2, which is largely more efficient than electrolysis via burning the coal.
2. The CO2 production becomes a Point Source at the Hydrogen production plant (instead of being produced at each car), and thus can be treated more efficiently using emerging scrubbing techniques or Carbon Dioxide sequestration.
The Major problem with Moving totally to H2 cars is that we would see a drop in CO2 emmisions, but there would be little to no drop in NOx, SOx, Volitile Organic and Particulate Matter emissions (all of this data can be found from goverment databases). The problem is that coal has large amounts of mainly Nitrogenous and Sulphurous impurities, and there isnt technology in place to scrub enough of those impurities out of the CO2 after combustion or reformation.
Anyways, the only way we are going to be able to do this is to start transitioning to green sources of energy soon, and anticipate the use of hydrogen as a "fuel" in the next 20 years or so. If we are going to use coal (like Bush wants us to) serious technological advances need to come into place, otherwise we may end up in a WORSE spot enviromentally.
Througout highschool and now college, I admittedly thrash the hell out of my backpacks. I have gone through all of the major brands as well (Jansport, targus, etc.) and have destroyed them all. I have gone through broken zippers, torn compartments and bottoms of bags, I even wore the metal buckle off of a messenger bag from use! The best deal I have found are the victorinox swiss army laptop backapacks (which I currently own). They use balistic nylon instead of polyester (such as targus), and have a lifetime warantee(even though that I don't know exactly how long that really is...). Anyway, it is a good backpack, very light, and provides ample padding for a laptop. The one downside is the price, coming in at about $90-100. But still, check them out!
According to all of these definitions, my Calculus professor shows that math is a sport:
I. 1. a. Pleasant pastime; entertainment or amusement; recreation, diversion.
Well, he did enjoy math...
d. Participation in games or exercises, esp. those of an athletic character or pursued in the open air; such games or amusements collectively.
He got a great deal of exercise running around the class room pointing at people challenging them to answer "What is the sine of pi/2?". Please remember this was CALCULUS, and still most couldn't answer...
c. spec. Pastime afforded by the endeavour to take or kill wild animals, game, or fish. Freq. with adjs. referring to the result achieved.
He didn't kill anybody, but he did kill one girl's spirit when he called her an idiot in class. Then after somebody next to her made the same mistake, he called the girl a virus, and claimed the disease was spreading through the class room, and that nobody should sit near her for fear of getting infected... Needless to say she promptly dropped the course.
This has happened many times before. Bollywood has copied, for example, the action hit "The Fugitive". They called their version "The Criminal". I must say it was pretty good, but they didnt have the giant sewer scene.
Japan is small, The US is huge. Converting the entire japanese network is a meager task compared to converting the entire US network, or even in all the major cities in the US.
University of Washington! If you don't mind working for Microsoft (I know, your probably resistant) for a few years after graduation, you have pretty much guaranteed yourself a job. Apparently they need more people from this country to run the country, because alot of the people coming from asia cant think for themselves due to their educational system. And it's a great College, a cool town, and a good program. Out of state tuition isnt too bad (appx $16000 w/o room and board, $23000 after all expenses). After a few years of experience with M$, you can move on and get a job somewhere else, with the experience you need to get better paying jobs anyways. It's a good deal, as evil as the company is...
Well... Since when is CSU CHICO have the third best overall masters program in the country!?! Last time I checked they were the number 1 party school. Times are a-changin'...
Well, I was standing the entry of my house, and my mom had purchased a new toy for me. I was really excited, then she wound it up and let it go and it freaked me out!
It was one of those UFO tops that you wind up on the plastic flower like device and it spins and makes the loud annoying noise. I was scared out of my mind!
Yeah! If you are going to get a ring, get an antique one. They are more unique, better quailities and cuts (usually) and they tend to be cheaper, b/c many people believe they are "used". My mom collects antique/estate jewelry and has some of the most interesting pieces I have seen, much nicer than anything new. --The oh so nervis one
Mr LinuxPimp,
I have only one question to ask you; How would you like it if someone copywrighted your UNIQUE DNA Sequence?
-The oh so nervis one
----"Casius Senex Mucidusque Est" -me
This will Never be usefull in the united states with all those stupid christians in office(I have nothing wrong with christianity, I just think that Religious and moral arguments and ideas should be left out of Politics). This is more a triumph for the Third world. Now india can grow crops with twice the nutritional value, and produce twice as much in the same amount of area. The United states has enough food anyways, but beef flavored rice would be nice!!!!
-The oh so nervis one
----"Casius Senex Mucidusque Est" -me
I have decided to support SONY and be the devils advocate.
First, when you buy Everquest(tm), all you buy is the software. Nothing else and sony has no jurisdiction over you. However when you subscribe to their service you join in a mutual contract between both parties which can be desolved on either end at ANY time. It works either way. If the user dislikes the game or whatever, they just call up and cancel their service. On the other end, If sony were to halt the production of everquest or if they decided to deny service to someone or anyone, they have that right.
Sony doesn't have the right to sue the people selling their account, but they reserve the right to stop it at any time. They decided to do so.
The ONLY way the law suits would work was if SONY and the users had entered an Indivisible contract, where they created a contract where neither party could end the contract until a certain time. The lawsuits will come to no avail.
On a more personal note, I believe that buying a charater on Everquest defeats the purpose of playing the game. This game was made so you could work to progressivly create something, a charater with certain abilities and traits, that was unique from everyone else, but if you purchase someone else's account, that is just the same as putting you brain in somone elses purchased body. You never know what they could have done!
Thats my 3 pence
--The oh so nervis one
I can tell you the MOST Ludicrous job in the world is being a student. Just think about it. You PAY for some old person who thinks they are way smarter than you to give you work? I think we should be PAID to go to school. That makes sense
-31337 Prepie
I cant believe it! The last know relic of the cold war is gone, and now comunism will die out only to be replaced by a worse evil, FUDAMENTALIST MUSLIMS!!!!!!
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Very Good Point.
When myself and a buddy of mine did a research project on the production of CO2, NOx, SOx, and particulate matter of various H2 production methods using a bunch of DOE data, and if my memory serves me correctly we found that using H2 fuel reduced CO2 emissions by about 15% from the most efficient current form of H2 production (Coal Gassification) as the power transfer through the H2 cells was more efficient that burning gas and the gassification process is more efficient than burning fossil fuels. The greatest impact was on SOx and NOx production which went down about 20%.
Although electrolysis seems great, most of the energy in this country is produced from coal or natural gas, which still puts us in the same situation. The one example I can think of where a large amount of clean energy is produced is in the pacific northwest where a significant amount of energy is produced from hydroelectric generators in dams. The American aluminum industry is based up here in the northwest because of the cheap energy which goes wholly unused at night(as aluminum cannot be smelted, it must be electrolyzed from ore into pure Al). In an area like this H2 could be produced cheaply and with a small ecological footprint. Electrolysis, however, is still a very inefficient manufacture method for H2 production.
Well, I guess the best thing to do is to hope for nuclear fusion to finally reach break-even!
--Nerviswreck
Best game ever. Bar-none
Well, at my university we have a program which admits highschool and middle school aged kids (youngest I have heard of is 12 years old). Many of these kids are extremely intelegent, but I must say that (to different degrees) all of the kids I know who came through this program (many of which are my friends) are socially maladjusted.
;-)
On a day to day basis, many of them are able to interact with the normal aged college students, but it is not so much at the social but the academic level. I am not saying they have to aquiece to social norms, but they still need to develop the social skills to interact with a broad range of individuals and make friendships if they are going to be successful.
Being in this program these highly intellegent kids are effectively being retarded socially. Social skills are developed by interacting with a broad range of people much of which I believe happens in high-school and college. By isolating them from kids in their age group they are unable to learn social skills. It is hard for a 15 year old kid to make friends with a bunch of 20 year old college kids. The age gap in social and personal maturity is staggering.
For example, one of the kids coming out of this program (age 13 at the time), had the impulse to find out how much energy would be produced if he turned me into pure energy. Now, being a science nerd I was understanding, but your average kid would think he was wierd.
Anyways, I have ranted and not really said much. Still, I think it is important to support smart kids (I came away with a good education because I went to a good private school, but most kids aren't as lucky as I was), but I think there needs to be programs established in highschools and middle schools to support advanced children where they can still interact with their peers and hopefully develop social skills important later in life. Plus it will be easier for them to get girlfriends/boyfriends in college
--Nerviswreck
It is very true that hydrogen is an energy storage medium, a battery if you will. However using a battery rather than a heat engine in your car has two advantages over the old technology:
1. Your car is no longer subject to the Carnot cycle, therefore you can use most of the energy stored within the battery (hydrogen) you are carrying. Now, you may be thinking, the coal used is subject to the carnot cycle, but coal is not generally burnt but is reformed by steam to form hydrogen and CO2, which is largely more efficient than electrolysis via burning the coal.
2. The CO2 production becomes a Point Source at the Hydrogen production plant (instead of being produced at each car), and thus can be treated more efficiently using emerging scrubbing techniques or Carbon Dioxide sequestration.
The Major problem with Moving totally to H2 cars is that we would see a drop in CO2 emmisions, but there would be little to no drop in NOx, SOx, Volitile Organic and Particulate Matter emissions (all of this data can be found from goverment databases). The problem is that coal has large amounts of mainly Nitrogenous and Sulphurous impurities, and there isnt technology in place to scrub enough of those impurities out of the CO2 after combustion or reformation.
Anyways, the only way we are going to be able to do this is to start transitioning to green sources of energy soon, and anticipate the use of hydrogen as a "fuel" in the next 20 years or so. If we are going to use coal (like Bush wants us to) serious technological advances need to come into place, otherwise we may end up in a WORSE spot enviromentally.
--nerviswreck
Througout highschool and now college, I admittedly thrash the hell out of my backpacks. I have gone through all of the major brands as well (Jansport, targus, etc.) and have destroyed them all. I have gone through broken zippers, torn compartments and bottoms of bags, I even wore the metal buckle off of a messenger bag from use! The best deal I have found are the victorinox swiss army laptop backapacks (which I currently own). They use balistic nylon instead of polyester (such as targus), and have a lifetime warantee(even though that I don't know exactly how long that really is...). Anyway, it is a good backpack, very light, and provides ample padding for a laptop. The one downside is the price, coming in at about $90-100. But still, check them out!
--nerviswreck
According to all of these definitions, my Calculus professor shows that math is a sport:
I. 1. a. Pleasant pastime; entertainment or amusement; recreation, diversion.
Well, he did enjoy math...
d. Participation in games or exercises, esp. those of an athletic character or pursued in the open air; such games or amusements collectively.
He got a great deal of exercise running around the class room pointing at people challenging them to answer "What is the sine of pi/2?". Please remember this was CALCULUS, and still most couldn't answer...
c. spec. Pastime afforded by the endeavour to take or kill wild animals, game, or fish. Freq. with adjs. referring to the result achieved.
He didn't kill anybody, but he did kill one girl's spirit when he called her an idiot in class. Then after somebody next to her made the same mistake, he called the girl a virus, and claimed the disease was spreading through the class room, and that nobody should sit near her for fear of getting infected... Needless to say she promptly dropped the course.
--nerviswreck
This has happened many times before. Bollywood has copied, for example, the action hit "The Fugitive". They called their version "The Criminal". I must say it was pretty good, but they didnt have the giant sewer scene.
--nerviswreck
How else would you sort computers? Binary Sort!
--nerviswreck
Japan is small, The US is huge. Converting the entire japanese network is a meager task compared to converting the entire US network, or even in all the major cities in the US.
--Nerviswreck
I find it a bit odd that if you add an N to the end of ARIA you get a familiar oppressive orginization...
University of Washington! If you don't mind working for Microsoft (I know, your probably resistant) for a few years after graduation, you have pretty much guaranteed yourself a job. Apparently they need more people from this country to run the country, because alot of the people coming from asia cant think for themselves due to their educational system. And it's a great College, a cool town, and a good program. Out of state tuition isnt too bad (appx $16000 w/o room and board, $23000 after all expenses). After a few years of experience with M$, you can move on and get a job somewhere else, with the experience you need to get better paying jobs anyways. It's a good deal, as evil as the company is...
--Nerviswreck
PS. I dont work for, and never will work for M$
Well... Since when is CSU CHICO have the third best overall masters program in the country!?! Last time I checked they were the number 1 party school. Times are a-changin'...
-Nerviswreck
If MIT gave out the names of all the students using Kazaa, they would loose two thirds of their student body!
--The oh so nervis one
A good burette isn't cheap...
it was a very good year...
Well, I was standing the entry of my house, and my mom had purchased a new toy for me. I was really excited, then she wound it up and let it go and it freaked me out!
It was one of those UFO tops that you wind up on the plastic flower like device and it spins and makes the loud annoying noise. I was scared out of my mind!
I don't have a bootable CD-ROM or Floppy on my laptop! Grrr. Force me to use XP. Argh! It hasnt driven me insane, yet.
Yeah! If you are going to get a ring, get an antique one. They are more unique, better quailities and cuts (usually) and they tend to be cheaper, b/c many people believe they are "used".
My mom collects antique/estate jewelry and has some of the most interesting pieces I have seen, much nicer than anything new.
--The oh so nervis one
I didnt know anybody else's school had a krunch koral. Wierd...
6th post! I'm an idiot
Mr LinuxPimp, I have only one question to ask you; How would you like it if someone copywrighted your UNIQUE DNA Sequence?
-The oh so nervis one ----"Casius Senex Mucidusque Est" -me
This will Never be usefull in the united states with all those stupid christians in office(I have nothing wrong with christianity, I just think that Religious and moral arguments and ideas should be left out of Politics). This is more a triumph for the Third world. Now india can grow crops with twice the nutritional value, and produce twice as much in the same amount of area. The United states has enough food anyways, but beef flavored rice would be nice!!!!
-The oh so nervis one ----"Casius Senex Mucidusque Est" -me
Sony doesn't have the right to sue the people selling their account, but they reserve the right to stop it at any time. They decided to do so.
The ONLY way the law suits would work was if SONY and the users had entered an Indivisible contract, where they created a contract where neither party could end the contract until a certain time. The lawsuits will come to no avail.
On a more personal note, I believe that buying a charater on Everquest defeats the purpose of playing the game. This game was made so you could work to progressivly create something, a charater with certain abilities and traits, that was unique from everyone else, but if you purchase someone else's account, that is just the same as putting you brain in somone elses purchased body. You never know what they could have done!
Thats my 3 pence
--The oh so nervis one
I can tell you the MOST Ludicrous job in the world is being a student. Just think about it. You PAY for some old person who thinks they are way smarter than you to give you work? I think we should be PAID to go to school. That makes sense -31337 Prepie
I cant believe it! The last know relic of the cold war is gone, and now comunism will die out only to be replaced by a worse evil, FUDAMENTALIST MUSLIMS!!!!!!