We do this all of the time I remember in the North Sea of Scotland years ago a trial for wave power generation using articulated worm-like floats to generate the power years ago, there is a company in Texas using a bobber type setup to generate the power to be used for water desalination, and now this; they all used hydraulic rams and hydraulic motors turning generators. These companies come and go all the time, volatility in power prices kill some, drying up of investors kill others, many run into problems scaling up from prototypes to production, NIMBYs and Eviro-Nazis kill many; the companies go bankrupt, the IP gets sold off and somebody else tries until someday somebody hits the sweet-spot and succeeds.
My understanding is he had permission to have sex conditional on his wearing a condom, during intercourse the condom broke or came off which broke the conditions agreed to and the continuation of the sex act became rape.
Vodka was traditionally made from potatoes or potatoes peels, White lightning or "Corn squeezins" is normally Corn whiskey the mash is at least 51% corn, Moonshine is a more generic name illicit distilled alcohol so there really are no standards, many countries hhave their own version of moonshine. My understanding is distillation of spirits isn't necessarily illegal in the US, but there are taxes to be paid and permits to be acquired, the results is the level of difficulty in the permit process, and the degree of accountancy required for taxation documentation is well beyond the casual hobbyist.
I've made a pretty fair amount of beer and wine before I had minor children in the house and I'd imagine if you can do that than mashing for distillation would be second nature, I've also made several liqueurs and it always seemed easier and cheaper to just go to the liqueur store and buy some cheep vodka with the taxes paid than to play with doing everything from scratch.
... If those goods were legal here, the violence wouldn't be as much of an issue, and the smuggling business would become a more normal business..
That's pretty myopic, the Zettas are fighting the other drug cartels even more than the Federal (Mexican) Government, and don't forget that Drug Smuggling is only part of their business plan,they are also big into protection, prostitution and they consider rape, pillage and murder recreational sports.
Legalizing marijuana would be a pretty big blow to the drug cartels. The human trafficking comparison is just a logical fallacy, as narcotics and human trafficking are (as you note) different things.
I don't see how smuggling illegal marijuana is that different from smuggling illegal people, both are big and bulky, well marijuana does have a lower profit margin and considerably more competition from amateur home-growers.
Well your cigarettes and alcohol analogy has problems, both are age restricted, I'm limited by law and regulation to only producing 250 gallons of beer and wine for private home use, and cigarettes and distilled liqueur were rationed to me by the USG when I was stationed in Germany to preclude black-marketting; so completely legal maybe be an over reaching reality.
Technically the Aptera would have been classified as a motorcycle as its a reverse tricycle, no helmet is needed because of the enclosed cabin. I've seen several reverse tricycles without enclosed cabins, driven as motorcycles not as automobiles. You could drive one 9 months a year without blinking an eye, and in reality there are only a few days a year when you'd have to drive an old beater 4X4 if you did have one. I'd love to have one, outrageous fuel mileage and an exotic look gives it major geek appeal, look at how much an Edsel is worth now.
Well OK maybe the limit isn't always 15 Amp, they usually have a 20 Amp circuit supplying a typical home's kitchen, and then there is always the 240 Volt circuit to the drier and the range in the kitchen which will get you 30 Amps, the reason for this (for non-isolating PS's without transformers) is that a switching mode power supply is basically an electronically controlled switch and the current out cannot exceed the current in. Wikipedia shows where the transformer is located very clearly in this diagram. More information on SWITCHING MODE POWER SUPPLY (SMPS) TOPOLOGIES is found on the preceding link. If I found out that one of my computer's power supplies was non-isolating, the power supply would be replaced immediately and it would be the last computer I'd ever buy from that manufacturer.
Twice a week pickup? You must have a lot of trash. I noticed that same thing when the kids (adult kids) lived with us, the amount of trash and recycling skyrocketed. After they got back on their feet again the recycle bin only got taken out once a month, most of the garbage went down the disposal so if I missed taking out the trash one week it wasn't a big deal.
Actually I'm thinking that there is no reason that they can't just grind up the entire waste stream and compost everything, after an appropriate digestion period sift out the glass, metal and plastic that didn't compost. The biggest difference between a compost pile and a land fill is aeration, temperature and the time it takes to ferment.
We not only have butcher shops like that, we have slaughter houses; you can select a beef, beefaloe or swine on the hoof or take in your venison and load up your freezer a couple weeks later. That gives you the opportunity to see how your meat was raised. My son frequents one butcher shop with a good selection of exotic meat, all wrapped in real heavy butcher paper.
It's possible the can also had a deposit, in my state, Michigan, we pay the retailer an additional 10 cents which is refunded when you return the empty. Unfortunately this also leads to unemployed homeless people emptying trash cans on the ground looking for refundable bottles and cans other have thrown away. They keep talking about adding water and juice bottles to the system but haven't yet.
Potentially large deposits of methane clathrate have been found under sediments on the ocean floors of the Earth, although there are many orders of magnitudes in between the estimates of various experts.[6] In fact, the existence of vast oceanic methane clathrate formation is uncertain and usually only based on reflective seismology and pieces larger than 10 cm have only been recovered from three sites.[7]
I have an idea, let's find out how much is actually there before getting our skivies in a bunch, how hard can it be?
That's a small part of it food requires tractors, tillage, planters, sprayers and Combine Harvesters. Add to that pickup trucks to ferry fuel and operators to the equipment, semi trucks to haul the equipment to the fields and the produce to the elevator you can see that's a lot of fuel. Most small operations can't even dream of having all that equipment and contract the work out, teams start out in Texas and work north to Saskatchewan.
Somebodies, Canada to pull out of Kyoto Protocol next month, but that isn't really a change as nobody really had a snowballs chance in hell of reducing CO2 anyways. Anyone who says they did is just as well lying, the accounting was all blue smoke and mirrors at best, outright fraud most of the time.
First, You need to watch a couple episodes of "Ice Road Truckers" to regain your grip on reality, nothing can move on thawed tungra. Second, a 7.5 degrees Celsius increase would mean a CO2 level of 17.9 times or an increase from 392PPM to 7040.08 PPM at a climate sensitivity of 1.8 and an increase of 6.85 times or 2688.31 PPM at climate sensitivity of 2.9 and that's the range that even the Hockey team are use; so talking about a 7.5 degree increase is just crazy Third, I think TFA's author Alex Morales, just might be enthralled by David Suzuki Fourthly
A transformer also allows AC neutral to be bonded to ground on the transformer's secondary winding, a floating AC neutral can easy destroy a lot of equipment.
Yes they do, without a transformer, they would be limited to the 15 amps the mains supply and 12 VDC @ 15 amps is only 180 watts, that isn't enough to run some CPUs. The power supply I'm holding right now has at least two visible without opening the case
1. so you don't get a nasty surprise when some idiot manages to wire or push a plug in backwards 2. you can use the same supply on both 125VAC, 240VAC and 380VDC, they'll cost the same to make but Probably charge more for the 380VDC model
Problem is, 300 volts DC is kinda hard to handle. Dc likes to arc and does not like to stop arcing, making 300 VDC switches and circuit breakers very large and complex. Also running 300VDC to the board level increases the cost of wiring, as wires at that voltage have to meet a higher code level. it's a very delicate thing to find the right topology of AC, DC, and voltage levels.
As far as the wire, low voltage for Electrical mains is 600 volts or less so that isn't a problem, 60 Amp 380VDC DC Rack Mount Power Strip are off the shelf equipment, and if memory serves me correctly ConEd just stopped supplying 600VDC service just a year or two ago in NYC so the technology has had plenty of time to mature since Tom Edison started it.
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We do this all of the time I remember in the North Sea of Scotland years ago a trial for wave power generation using articulated worm-like floats to generate the power years ago, there is a company in Texas using a bobber type setup to generate the power to be used for water desalination, and now this; they all used hydraulic rams and hydraulic motors turning generators. These companies come and go all the time, volatility in power prices kill some, drying up of investors kill others, many run into problems scaling up from prototypes to production, NIMBYs and Eviro-Nazis kill many; the companies go bankrupt, the IP gets sold off and somebody else tries until someday somebody hits the sweet-spot and succeeds.
I'd say he was wrong, the wavelength would be sub-atomic so it wouldn't be a current by any definition I've seen
So do I, it would be a real bummer to find the Good Twin(tm) out there.
no Just saying, also I've heard of 13 year olds offering services in barter for cigarettes that would make a crack whore blush
My understanding is he had permission to have sex conditional on his wearing a condom, during intercourse the condom broke or came off which broke the conditions agreed to and the continuation of the sex act became rape.
Vodka was traditionally made from potatoes or potatoes peels, White lightning or "Corn squeezins" is normally Corn whiskey the mash is at least 51% corn, Moonshine is a more generic name illicit distilled alcohol so there really are no standards, many countries hhave their own version of moonshine. My understanding is distillation of spirits isn't necessarily illegal in the US, but there are taxes to be paid and permits to be acquired, the results is the level of difficulty in the permit process, and the degree of accountancy required for taxation documentation is well beyond the casual hobbyist.
I've made a pretty fair amount of beer and wine before I had minor children in the house and I'd imagine if you can do that than mashing for distillation would be second nature, I've also made several liqueurs and it always seemed easier and cheaper to just go to the liqueur store and buy some cheep vodka with the taxes paid than to play with doing everything from scratch.
... If those goods were legal here, the violence wouldn't be as much of an issue, and the smuggling business would become a more normal business. .
That's pretty myopic, the Zettas are fighting the other drug cartels even more than the Federal (Mexican) Government, and don't forget that Drug Smuggling is only part of their business plan,they are also big into protection, prostitution and they consider rape, pillage and murder recreational sports.
Legalizing marijuana would be a pretty big blow to the drug cartels. The human trafficking comparison is just a logical fallacy, as narcotics and human trafficking are (as you note) different things.
I don't see how smuggling illegal marijuana is that different from smuggling illegal people, both are big and bulky, well marijuana does have a lower profit margin and considerably more competition from amateur home-growers.
Well your cigarettes and alcohol analogy has problems, both are age restricted, I'm limited by law and regulation to only producing 250 gallons of beer and wine for private home use, and cigarettes and distilled liqueur were rationed to me by the USG when I was stationed in Germany to preclude black-marketting; so completely legal maybe be an over reaching reality.
Technically the Aptera would have been classified as a motorcycle as its a reverse tricycle, no helmet is needed because of the enclosed cabin. I've seen several reverse tricycles without enclosed cabins, driven as motorcycles not as automobiles. You could drive one 9 months a year without blinking an eye, and in reality there are only a few days a year when you'd have to drive an old beater 4X4 if you did have one.
I'd love to have one, outrageous fuel mileage and an exotic look gives it major geek appeal, look at how much an Edsel is worth now.
Well OK maybe the limit isn't always 15 Amp, they usually have a 20 Amp circuit supplying a typical home's kitchen, and then there is always the 240 Volt circuit to the drier and the range in the kitchen which will get you 30 Amps, the reason for this (for non-isolating PS's without transformers) is that a switching mode power supply is basically an electronically controlled switch and the current out cannot exceed the current in. Wikipedia shows where the transformer is located very clearly in this diagram. More information on SWITCHING MODE POWER SUPPLY (SMPS) TOPOLOGIES is found on the preceding link. If I found out that one of my computer's power supplies was non-isolating, the power supply would be replaced immediately and it would be the last computer I'd ever buy from that manufacturer.
Twice a week pickup? You must have a lot of trash. I noticed that same thing when the kids (adult kids) lived with us, the amount of trash and recycling skyrocketed. After they got back on their feet again the recycle bin only got taken out once a month, most of the garbage went down the disposal so if I missed taking out the trash one week it wasn't a big deal.
Actually I'm thinking that there is no reason that they can't just grind up the entire waste stream and compost everything, after an appropriate digestion period sift out the glass, metal and plastic that didn't compost. The biggest difference between a compost pile and a land fill is aeration, temperature and the time it takes to ferment.
We not only have butcher shops like that, we have slaughter houses; you can select a beef, beefaloe or swine on the hoof or take in your venison and load up your freezer a couple weeks later. That gives you the opportunity to see how your meat was raised. My son frequents one butcher shop with a good selection of exotic meat, all wrapped in real heavy butcher paper.
if it works that well why do we still get hundreds of trash trucks crossing the boarder each day?
It's possible the can also had a deposit, in my state, Michigan, we pay the retailer an additional 10 cents which is refunded when you return the empty. Unfortunately this also leads to unemployed homeless people emptying trash cans on the ground looking for refundable bottles and cans other have thrown away. They keep talking about adding water and juice bottles to the system but haven't yet.
The thing that prevents Earth becoming like Venus is we achieve Venus's air pressure at an Ocean depth of about 3,000 ft.
I have an idea, let's find out how much is actually there before getting our skivies in a bunch, how hard can it be?
That's a small part of it food requires tractors, tillage, planters, sprayers and Combine Harvesters. Add to that pickup trucks to ferry fuel and operators to the equipment, semi trucks to haul the equipment to the fields and the produce to the elevator you can see that's a lot of fuel. Most small operations can't even dream of having all that equipment and contract the work out, teams start out in Texas and work north to Saskatchewan.
Somebodies, Canada to pull out of Kyoto Protocol next month, but that isn't really a change as nobody really had a snowballs chance in hell of reducing CO2 anyways. Anyone who says they did is just as well lying, the accounting was all blue smoke and mirrors at best, outright fraud most of the time.
First, You need to watch a couple episodes of "Ice Road Truckers" to regain your grip on reality, nothing can move on thawed tungra.
Second, a 7.5 degrees Celsius increase would mean a CO2 level of 17.9 times or an increase from 392PPM to 7040.08 PPM at a climate sensitivity of 1.8 and an increase of 6.85 times or 2688.31 PPM at climate sensitivity of 2.9 and that's the range that even the Hockey team are use; so talking about a 7.5 degree increase is just crazy
Third, I think TFA's author Alex Morales, just might be enthralled by David Suzuki
Fourthly
We still have time for rational thought; Dursban isn't a deadline except for those who believe in the Cause
A transformer also allows AC neutral to be bonded to ground on the transformer's secondary winding, a floating AC neutral can easy destroy a lot of equipment.
Yes they do, without a transformer, they would be limited to the 15 amps the mains supply and 12 VDC @ 15 amps is only 180 watts, that isn't enough to run some CPUs. The power supply I'm holding right now has at least two visible without opening the case
1. Only very stupid engineers design power connectors that can fit both ways.
or only use one level of idiot proofing
1. so you don't get a nasty surprise when some idiot manages to wire or push a plug in backwards
2. you can use the same supply on both 125VAC, 240VAC and 380VDC, they'll cost the same to make but Probably charge more for the 380VDC model
Problem is, 300 volts DC is kinda hard to handle. Dc likes to arc and does not like to stop arcing, making 300 VDC switches and circuit breakers very large and complex. Also running 300VDC to the board level increases the cost of wiring, as wires at that voltage have to meet a higher code level. it's a very delicate thing to find the right topology of AC, DC, and voltage levels.
As far as the wire, low voltage for Electrical mains is 600 volts or less so that isn't a problem, 60 Amp 380VDC
DC Rack Mount Power Strip are off the shelf equipment, and if memory serves me correctly ConEd just stopped supplying 600VDC service just a year or two ago in NYC so the technology has had plenty of time to mature since Tom Edison started it.