Obviously your not a climatologist, because they'll never admit that climate is chaotic, and therefore unpredictable due to sensitive dependence on intial conditions and all that. Even worst it would mean that reducing CO2 wouldn't even get us back to where we started.
So the scientists are postulating that our spring is cold because the arctic Sea Ice is greatly diminished; then they publish a scary looking picture show lots of open water, but wait, that picture is from August 2012, going to the Danish Meterological Institute's site we see how bad it was infact august, september and november had dramatic reductions in Arctic sea-ice sea ice extend, yet it is now spring, a cold spring it seems, and what do we see, Arctic Sea-ice extent is at several time higher than it has been in the last 7 years, so what does it look like today well the National Snow and Ice Center says it looks like This!
So if a lack of Arctic ice cause cold spring weather, then I should be unpacking my bathing suit!
A sugar plant out in california compostes it bags it up and sells it, which was amusing as it was being sold in a Family, Farm and Fleet store, across the road from a sugar beet plant in Croswell Michigan.
You can run straight butanol in engines designed for gasoline without problems, it's plausable that butanol could confuse the sensors in flex-fuel vehicle, if any gear-heads know, feel free to chime in.
Please provide a link for that US government subsidized corn production, I know a lot of farmers around here who would like to get them some of that money.
Algea to biodiesel isn't a complete answer, while algea provides copius amounts of lipids for conversion to FFA, Free Fatty Acids, you still an alcohol like methanol (preferable) or ethanol to complete the process. So where do you get the methanol? Evil techniques like Pyrolysis of bio-material, and Petro-chemical convertion. Next problem is your going to have trouble getting most cars to run well on more than 10% biodiesel because most cars run on gasoline! To get over that you have to convince all the "green-in-theory" soccer moms to become "green-in-reality" soccer moms and buy some "stinky" diesel SUV's; good luck with that.
"Topsoil-based fuels are wrongheaded in every way", not so, beets require soils that are unsuitable for less robust crops, FTA "the beets are an ideal crop: they grow in poor and salty soils, and can use lesser-quality water," furthermore
“Farmers who raise energy beets may see greater soil health because the tap root penetrates as deep as 6 to 8 feet, using nutrients, nitrogen and water that other crops don't reach.” Energy beets for ethanol
when beets are harvested, these long tap-roots often remain in the ground, opening deep channels through any hardpan to alow better drainage into subsoil aquafers, bringing plants nutrients and minerals from the deep subsoils and leaving necessary organic material which will produce a deepening of the top-soil. Additionally the top growth is left on the fields providing compost. Sure you can't monoculture beets for long (like anything else), but as part of a crop rotation with science based fertilization it has positive effects on the soil, processing the beets is pretty stinky tho.
Your going to get people to buy flex-fuel vehicles running sugar-beet based E85 a long time before your going to convert our fleet to diesel vehicles running on biodiesel.
Well Bosch is selling out of PV, so if you really think renewables are so essential, get you and your friends together and buy it up at the fire-sale prices!
Don't worry the bikes that Harley was complaining about was 2 cycle dirt bikes, the Japanese had developed that market in the US, with some competion from Europeans like Husqavarna; Harley jumped into the market and got their asses handed to them. Even with the protective tariffs, Harley got beaten in that market. If I want a Harley I want a a 2 cylinder rumblely vibrating cruiser with massive torque, not a dirt bike.
First a DMCA takedown is porposed to get the ISP out of the middle, when they get the takedown notice, they take down the alleged infringing content and thaqt's the end of the liability; the alleged infringer can couter-claim and put the content back up. At tthat point any further actions are between the content owner, the alleged infringer and the courts. What I don't inderstand is why filing a blatently false claim like GoPro did isn't libel and restraint of trade?
Canada has plenty of refineries, in fact the area south of Sarnia Ontario is called chemical valley refineries and chemical plants as far as the eye can see. In 1858, oil was discovered in Oil Springs Ontario and the expertise developed by the Canadians in drilling and refining pretty much established oil industries all over the world. Unfortunately do to geography, it's much closer and easier to transport the crude from the Athabasca oil sands to refineries in Houston-New Orleans area via the Keystone Pipeline System than it is to Sarnia; to get to Sarnia they would have to extend the proposed pipeline through Illinois, Indiana and Michigan then cross the St. Clair river into Chemical Valley.
Trust me, these energy company would much rather have renewables profitable, and sell their dwindling petrolium oil as high profit boutique chemicals than sell them as low profit commodity goods. When these big-boys figure that the renewables ROI and profit margins are right, the rapidity of their penetration into that market will be mind-boggleing. The existing renewable companies will either be consumed or crushed, and the good 'ol boys in energy will still be the good 'ol boys.
Well that's not how I read the article, they are taking the lease revenues to the govenment, from the general fund and ear-marking it for "clean energy research" and who is going to makeup the resultant revenue shortfall? It's not going to be the bottom 47% who's not paying taxes and it's not going to be the top 15% who pay little taxes, nope it's going to be the middle-class, that ones Obama promised not to raise taxes on!
The only times methane in the water is a problem is when you burp while smoking or when the glass gets knocked out of your hand due to a gas bubble going through the water tap.
Yes you are, you have to stay within recomended tollerances, but most synthetics are slipperier and protect better than mineral oils. There are synthetics for automatics tranmissions that meet manufacturers specs, and some modern manual transmissions use engine oil. Gear oils and bearing grease are also available synthetics.
Some ecomodders put PV cells on their roof to charge the battery while parked, this keeps the battery topped off to combat internal resistance discharge while the engine is off.
My 2001 Oldsmobile Aurora 3.5L is rated at 17 city, 25 highway, 20 combined and with 124,000 miles on the odometer I average 29.5 MPG in the summer and 27.8 in the winter.
I drive mainly with the cruise-control set and saw little difference between car manufacturer's inflation and fully inflated tires. My wife on the other hand saw a consistant real improvement in millage, I figured it was due to her not speeding as much. The additional road-feel through fully inflated tires feels like your going faster!
I'm sceptical that stripping seams would make that much difference, you'd be better off with rear wheel skirts and smooth full-moon hub caps on the front. Before that I'd go to low viscosity synthetic engine and transmission oils and bearing grease, then the above. Next I'd get rid of any badges in the airstream and mod the car so the winshield wiper park below the hood out of the airflow. After that you need to get really radical like decent air dams, full belly pans, grill shutters and boat-tail the car. Lots of ideas over at Ecomoder's forums.
We didn't stop producing plutonium just because it wasn't economically feasible (when did that stop the government from doing anything) -- the history of plutonium in the United States has been littered with accidents and costly, multi-decade cleanup projects that cost billions of dollars. See Rocky Flats, et al.
If it's any consolation, we have what not to do down pat.
Actually non-fissile material can be used as a X-ray/gamma reflector, once thing get cooking good in the pit, the gama rays get reflected back to the secondary implode it and the excess neutrons which can transmute some of the PU-238 into fissile PU-239, some of which is going to fission.
No, the geeks aren't that lazy, just the posers. I mean after all he said " We would need help with various technologies including at least Powershell and SQL.", what's nerdy about that, what he needs is some script-kiddies.
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Obviously your not a climatologist, because they'll never admit that climate is chaotic, and therefore unpredictable due to sensitive dependence on intial conditions and all that. Even worst it would mean that reducing CO2 wouldn't even get us back to where we started.
So the scientists are postulating that our spring is cold because the arctic Sea Ice is greatly diminished; then they publish a scary looking picture show lots of open water, but wait, that picture is from August 2012, going to the Danish Meterological Institute's site we see how bad it was infact august, september and november had dramatic reductions in Arctic sea-ice sea ice extend, yet it is now spring, a cold spring it seems, and what do we see, Arctic Sea-ice extent is at several time higher than it has been in the last 7 years, so what does it look like today well the National Snow and Ice Center says it looks like This!
So if a lack of Arctic ice cause cold spring weather, then I should be unpacking my bathing suit!
A sugar plant out in california compostes it bags it up and sells it, which was amusing as it was being sold in a Family, Farm and Fleet store, across the road from a sugar beet plant in Croswell Michigan.
You can run straight butanol in engines designed for gasoline without problems, it's plausable that butanol could confuse the sensors in flex-fuel vehicle, if any gear-heads know, feel free to chime in.
Hemp has been cultivated by people for over 12,000 years and production in 2004 was over 30,000 tons.
Please provide a link for that US government subsidized corn production, I know a lot of farmers around here who would like to get them some of that money.
Algea to biodiesel isn't a complete answer, while algea provides copius amounts of lipids for conversion to FFA, Free Fatty Acids, you still an alcohol like methanol (preferable) or ethanol to complete the process. So where do you get the methanol? Evil techniques like Pyrolysis of bio-material, and Petro-chemical convertion. Next problem is your going to have trouble getting most cars to run well on more than 10% biodiesel because most cars run on gasoline! To get over that you have to convince all the "green-in-theory" soccer moms to become "green-in-reality" soccer moms and buy some "stinky" diesel SUV's; good luck with that.
"Topsoil-based fuels are wrongheaded in every way", not so, beets require soils that are unsuitable for less robust crops, FTA "the beets are an ideal crop: they grow in poor and salty soils, and can use lesser-quality water," furthermore
when beets are harvested, these long tap-roots often remain in the ground, opening deep channels through any hardpan to alow better drainage into subsoil aquafers, bringing plants nutrients and minerals from the deep subsoils and leaving necessary organic material which will produce a deepening of the top-soil. Additionally the top growth is left on the fields providing compost. Sure you can't monoculture beets for long (like anything else), but as part of a crop rotation with science based fertilization it has positive effects on the soil, processing the beets is pretty stinky tho.
Your going to get people to buy flex-fuel vehicles running sugar-beet based E85 a long time before your going to convert our fleet to diesel vehicles running on biodiesel.
Well Bosch is selling out of PV, so if you really think renewables are so essential, get you and your friends together and buy it up at the fire-sale prices!
Don't worry the bikes that Harley was complaining about was 2 cycle dirt bikes, the Japanese had developed that market in the US, with some competion from Europeans like Husqavarna; Harley jumped into the market and got their asses handed to them. Even with the protective tariffs, Harley got beaten in that market. If I want a Harley I want a a 2 cylinder rumblely vibrating cruiser with massive torque, not a dirt bike.
First a DMCA takedown is porposed to get the ISP out of the middle, when they get the takedown notice, they take down the alleged infringing content and thaqt's the end of the liability; the alleged infringer can couter-claim and put the content back up. At tthat point any further actions are between the content owner, the alleged infringer and the courts. What I don't inderstand is why filing a blatently false claim like GoPro did isn't libel and restraint of trade?
Canada has plenty of refineries, in fact the area south of Sarnia Ontario is called chemical valley refineries and chemical plants as far as the eye can see. In 1858, oil was discovered in Oil Springs Ontario and the expertise developed by the Canadians in drilling and refining pretty much established oil industries all over the world. Unfortunately do to geography, it's much closer and easier to transport the crude from the Athabasca oil sands to refineries in Houston-New Orleans area via the Keystone Pipeline System than it is to Sarnia; to get to Sarnia they would have to extend the proposed pipeline through Illinois, Indiana and Michigan then cross the St. Clair river into Chemical Valley.
Trust me, these energy company would much rather have renewables profitable, and sell their dwindling petrolium oil as high profit boutique chemicals than sell them as low profit commodity goods. When these big-boys figure that the renewables ROI and profit margins are right, the rapidity of their penetration into that market will be mind-boggleing. The existing renewable companies will either be consumed or crushed, and the good 'ol boys in energy will still be the good 'ol boys.
Well that's not how I read the article, they are taking the lease revenues to the govenment, from the general fund and ear-marking it for "clean energy research" and who is going to makeup the resultant revenue shortfall? It's not going to be the bottom 47% who's not paying taxes and it's not going to be the top 15% who pay little taxes, nope it's going to be the middle-class, that ones Obama promised not to raise taxes on!
Lake Huron is 577 ft (176 m) above sealevel, Superior is 600 ft (180 m) not 2000 ft.
The salt doesn't filter out, many places the underground aquifers are saline, we have a local pickle factory that has a brine well.
The only times methane in the water is a problem is when you burp while smoking or when the glass gets knocked out of your hand due to a gas bubble going through the water tap.
That's the easy stuff, there are guys installing custom air dams and full belly pan, boat-tail rear-ends, fender skirts (front and back)
Yes you are, you have to stay within recomended tollerances, but most synthetics are slipperier and protect better than mineral oils. There are synthetics for automatics tranmissions that meet manufacturers specs, and some modern manual transmissions use engine oil. Gear oils and bearing grease are also available synthetics.
Some ecomodders put PV cells on their roof to charge the battery while parked, this keeps the battery topped off to combat internal resistance discharge while the engine is off.
My 2001 Oldsmobile Aurora 3.5L is rated at 17 city, 25 highway, 20 combined and with 124,000 miles on the odometer I average 29.5 MPG in the summer and 27.8 in the winter.
I drive mainly with the cruise-control set and saw little difference between car manufacturer's inflation and fully inflated tires. My wife on the other hand saw a consistant real improvement in millage, I figured it was due to her not speeding as much. The additional road-feel through fully inflated tires feels like your going faster!
I'm sceptical that stripping seams would make that much difference, you'd be better off with rear wheel skirts and smooth full-moon hub caps on the front. Before that I'd go to low viscosity synthetic engine and transmission oils and bearing grease, then the above. Next I'd get rid of any badges in the airstream and mod the car so the winshield wiper park below the hood out of the airflow. After that you need to get really radical like decent air dams, full belly pans, grill shutters and boat-tail the car. Lots of ideas over at Ecomoder's forums.
We didn't stop producing plutonium just because it wasn't economically feasible (when did that stop the government from doing anything) -- the history of plutonium in the United States has been littered with accidents and costly, multi-decade cleanup projects that cost billions of dollars. See Rocky Flats, et al.
If it's any consolation, we have what not to do down pat.
Actually non-fissile material can be used as a X-ray/gamma reflector, once thing get cooking good in the pit, the gama rays get reflected back to the secondary implode it and the excess neutrons which can transmute some of the PU-238 into fissile PU-239, some of which is going to fission.
No, the geeks aren't that lazy, just the posers. I mean after all he said " We would need help with various technologies including at least Powershell and SQL.", what's nerdy about that, what he needs is some script-kiddies.