Actually if the manage to caputure all of the leaking oil, 60,000 BPD * U$70.00/B= U$ 4,200,000/day, U$ 20,000,000,000 / U$ 4,200,000 = 4762 days, or less than 13 years till break even. Seriously, even if they get this thing under control, I doubt it means we have the technological capability to turn it off, we'll be forced to drink out of the fire-hose for quite a while. This test well has effectively turned itself into a production well and will probably turn an accounting profit in twenty years. I'm actually surprised that we're not seeing privateers down there skimming the oil for profit, with current crude at U$ 78.86 / 42 = U$ 1.88 a gallon, potential seems to be there to me.
Yeah but we're on a nice solid plate, energy travels well through it like ringing a bell, you guys are sitting on a pile of gravel plate. In Port Huron MI (43.020940 , -82.448266 , I felt it real well it rocked my chair for sever seconds at about.75Hz in a north-south direction, my wife's coffee was sloshing in her cup, so it was a pretty good rocking for this neck of the woods.
After years of everything from Chinese military cyber-attacks to Aspies like Gary McKinnon poking around in their systems, I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't set up more than a few honey-pots; a low level Army intel analyst stumbling into that many state department docs with out much trouble strains the my credibility. My hunch is some people really kissed the tar-baby here. As far as,
Top Secret information must cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security if leaked.
remember we once had a president that said "it depends on what your definition of "is" is"
Except that " the other white meat(tm)" is a trademarked phrase not a copyrighted phrase so I don't think that parody is a defense, additionally Trademarks are protect it or lose it, so the lawyers really had no choice no matter how ridiculous the infringement was.
Compared to just letting 20GWh/year just uselessly dissipate into the atmosphere? Even in the, OMG they waste so much energy, US, using biogass to run pumps and generators in sewage treatment plants is SOP!
it's very possible the scientists themselves didn't understand all of the risks.
How could they understand the risks when they didn't even understand the procedure! what they were trying to do is,
1. extract the woman's bone marrow and save it for later use,
2. destroy her immune system to prevent it from attacking her kidneys,
3. inject her with her own bone marrow cells into the blood stream to rebuild her immune system,
4. hope like hell the hard-reset of her immune system leaves her with a functioning immune system that doesn't attack her kidney. This actually works more often than it sounds like it would; but what they actuall did was
1. extract the woman's bone marrow and save it for later use,
2. destroy her immune system to prevent it from attacking her kidneys,
3. inject her with her own bone marrow cells into her kidneys to turn her kidneys into bone marrow,
4. hope like hell the hard-reset of her immune system lets leaves the country her with a functioning kidney system that lasts long enough for the check to clear!
Synthetic cannabinoids are available as prescription drugs in many countries. Examples include Marinol, available in Germany and the United States, and Cesamet, available in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and also in the United States. Medical cannabis
, the Pharmas spent boatloads of money developing synthetics and getting them approved, because they are not as effective and safe as preexisting narcotics.
I aways figured it was the insurance companies, if they can get the pharma's to move something from Rx to OTC, then they don't have to pay for it anymore. Possibly it's less expense for the insurance Co. to fund the research studies on their own and push it through the FDA than to pay for the Rx rates.
How sharp do you really need the corners? Seriously NASA has a perfectionist syndrome, many times good enough is better than perfect because perfection can never be achieved.
I thought that was pretty interesting as well, doing before and after scans after body and paint mods might be very popular in areas where the police use radar instead of laser for speed measurement. It occured to me that graphite absorbs microwaves very well, and might be used as a paint pigment, and be toning down the highly reflective areas by changing the shape before painting a car might be almost invisible to radar..
one problem is wind turbines typically only generate 27% of their nameplate capacity, at best,
Britain’s biggest wind farm – the 140-turbine installation at Whitelee, near East Kilbride – operated to just 7.3 per cent of its capacity that year. Does money grow in wind farms?
; this means to get 20 to the grid, we'd need to have 74 to 274 of nameplate capacity. Add to that the need for backup power,
Campbell Dunford, director of the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF), says that Germany – which has the largest number of wind turbines in Europe – “is building five new coal power stations, which it does not otherwise need, purely to provide covering power for the fluctuations from their wind farms. I am not sure [wind] has been a great success for them.” Mr Dunford claims that Germany’s CO2 emissions have actually risen since it increased its use of wind power. Though the wind itself might, in RUK’s words, be “free,” the cost of backup capacity is likely to be astronomical.
Wind power just doesn't seem all that green, at least in it's present incarnation.
Insurance companies typically have a contractual agreement to pay the healthcare provider a percentage of the areas "Usual And Customary" fees. The insurance determines what the UAC should be by averaging the areas billed fees, so if I'm healthcare provider and I want to receive $80.00 for a procedure, I charge $100.00 for it to get the $80.00 paid to me. The magic word "accepted" mean the healthcare provider has to eat the $20.00 as a write-off, with out it the patient pays the $20.00. If your a cash patient ask for a discount, you'll be surprised how many times the provider will extend a 20% courtesy to you.
I'm aware of a study that was retracted by the Lancet, authored by a gastroenterologist who had his license to practise medicine revoked that talked mentioned MMR, is that the one?
Many autistics don't want a cure, they would probably welcome getting some of the obnoxious symptoms under control, but for many Autistics, being cured of autism would be like Negroes being cured of negroism!
The development of annular centrifugal contactors began at the National Laboratories more than three decades ago. The first centrifugal contactors were devised at the Savannah River Laboratory (SRL) and, subsequently modified at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) to the form known as the annular centrifugal contactor. A reasonably complete description of the technology has been provided in papers by ANL scientists (1–4). The contactors consist of a vertical centrifuge providing for both the mixing and for the separating of liquids in a single unit. They can be easily interconnected to allow multistage processing. In each contactor, two immiscible liquids are fed into the annulus, formed by the spinning rotor and the stationary housing wall, through different inlets close to the top of the device. The liquids mixed in the annular region are pumped into the rotor bottom. Upon entering the rotor region or separation zone, the liquids are accelerated to the wall with the heavier fluid going to the outside. Each liquid leaves the device through an exit port. Transfer of a species between the two phases depends on the extent of the contacting surface, on the separation between the two phases, and the time of contact between the phases. Centrifugal Contactors: Separation of an Aqueous and an Organic Stream
Seems like he was re-inventing the wheel here, this is COTS, Commercial Of The Shelf, technoloy; and old tech at that. I got interested in it for separating algae from water and for making Biodiesel.
D2O goes for about $70.00/100gm @ 'Ultrex' grade (99.999% pure), DOE has 580 MT up for bid, but it's contaminated with tritium; a bit more than your looking for.
The oil is bad, but we know from experience that introducing new organism to already vulnerable ecosystems is generally a bad idea.
It's actually a slightly different strain of a very common bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, that's better a biodegrading the very toxic PAHs, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons because of the Biosurfactant they produce. Many other stains of P. aeruginosa are already there naturally eating up the oil spilled.
Actually the Oil producers are being hurt by the worldwide recession reducing demand, so they are taking a profit hit to keep cash-flow up as much as they can.
Will you accept all responsibility for any damages that this new bacteria may or may not cause?
I didn't RTFA, but I think it's always good to take things with some skepticism.
Your assuming many things, mainly "Newly Discovered" = "New", it doesn't, it's a very common species of bacteria that learned how to eat oil a little bit better than it's oil eating siblings did.
This is a newly discover strain of a very common and widely dispersed bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This strain developed naturally in an oil contaminated enviroment, and P. aeruginosa is a well known for eating oil. My hunch is this strain is either already there or will evolve on it's own, if the strain isn't introduced into the GoM by us.
Over the last two winters here in SE Michigan, I've found that by opening and closing windows drapes at rational times to maximize solar gain has frequently cause my home to be a warm 21C, (72F) while the thermostat was set at 18C (64F). While my home isn't optimized for solar gain or heat retention, I imagine that if it were, my heat energy use would be quite small.
There is a spill contingency plan, it even warns the workers about walrus attacks while cleaning up the oil, the reliable part not so much. As far as permissions, they've always gotten them, Obama might have done something but he seemed pretty distracted by Afghanistan and health care.
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Actually if the manage to caputure all of the leaking oil,
60,000 BPD * U$70.00/B= U$ 4,200,000/day,
U$ 20,000,000,000 / U$ 4,200,000 = 4762 days, or less than 13 years till break even.
Seriously, even if they get this thing under control, I doubt it means we have the technological capability to turn it off, we'll be forced to drink out of the fire-hose for quite a while. This test well has effectively turned itself into a production well and will probably turn an accounting profit in twenty years. I'm actually surprised that we're not seeing privateers down there skimming the oil for profit, with current crude at U$ 78.86 / 42 = U$ 1.88 a gallon, potential seems to be there to me.
2 feet of snow at 50F is a horrendous slippery wet icy mess that lasts for a couple days.
Yeah but we're on a nice solid plate, energy travels well through it like ringing a bell, you guys are sitting on a pile of gravel plate. In Port Huron MI (43.020940 , -82.448266 , I felt it real well it rocked my chair for sever seconds at about .75Hz in a north-south direction, my wife's coffee was sloshing in her cup, so it was a pretty good rocking for this neck of the woods.
After years of everything from Chinese military cyber-attacks to Aspies like Gary McKinnon poking around in their systems, I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't set up more than a few honey-pots; a low level Army intel analyst stumbling into that many state department docs with out much trouble strains the my credibility. My hunch is some people really kissed the tar-baby here.
As far as,
Top Secret information must cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security if leaked.
remember we once had a president that said "it depends on what your definition of "is" is"
Except that " the other white meat(tm)" is a trademarked phrase not a copyrighted phrase so I don't think that parody is a defense, additionally Trademarks are protect it or lose it, so the lawyers really had no choice no matter how ridiculous the infringement was.
20 GWh/year is pathethic.
Compared to just letting 20GWh/year just uselessly dissipate into the atmosphere? Even in the, OMG they waste so much energy, US, using biogass to run pumps and generators in sewage treatment plants is SOP!
it's very possible the scientists themselves didn't understand all of the risks.
How could they understand the risks when they didn't even understand the procedure!
what they were trying to do is,
1. extract the woman's bone marrow and save it for later use,
2. destroy her immune system to prevent it from attacking her kidneys,
3. inject her with her own bone marrow cells into the blood stream to rebuild her immune system,
4. hope like hell the hard-reset of her immune system leaves her with a functioning immune system that doesn't attack her kidney.
This actually works more often than it sounds like it would; but what they actuall did was
1. extract the woman's bone marrow and save it for later use,
2. destroy her immune system to prevent it from attacking her kidneys,
3. inject her with her own bone marrow cells into her kidneys to turn her kidneys into bone marrow,
4. hope like hell the hard-reset of her immune system lets leaves the country her with a functioning kidney system that lasts long enough for the check to clear!
I suppose that's why
, the Pharmas spent boatloads of money developing synthetics and getting them approved, because they are not as effective and safe as preexisting narcotics.
I aways figured it was the insurance companies, if they can get the pharma's to move something from Rx to OTC, then they don't have to pay for it anymore. Possibly it's less expense for the insurance Co. to fund the research studies on their own and push it through the FDA than to pay for the Rx rates.
How sharp do you really need the corners? Seriously NASA has a perfectionist syndrome, many times good enough is better than perfect because perfection can never be achieved.
I thought that was pretty interesting as well, doing before and after scans after body and paint mods might be very popular in areas where the police use radar instead of laser for speed measurement. It occured to me that graphite absorbs microwaves very well, and might be used as a paint pigment, and be toning down the highly reflective areas by changing the shape before painting a car might be almost invisible to radar..
one problem is wind turbines typically only generate 27% of their nameplate capacity, at best,
; this means to get 20 to the grid, we'd need to have 74 to 274 of nameplate capacity. Add to that the need for backup power,
Wind power just doesn't seem all that green, at least in it's present incarnation.
Insurance companies typically have a contractual agreement to pay the healthcare provider a percentage of the areas "Usual And Customary" fees. The insurance determines what the UAC should be by averaging the areas billed fees, so if I'm healthcare provider and I want to receive $80.00 for a procedure, I charge $100.00 for it to get the $80.00 paid to me. The magic word "accepted" mean the healthcare provider has to eat the $20.00 as a write-off, with out it the patient pays the $20.00. If your a cash patient ask for a discount, you'll be surprised how many times the provider will extend a 20% courtesy to you.
I'm aware of a study that was retracted by the Lancet, authored by a gastroenterologist who had his license to practise medicine revoked that talked mentioned MMR, is that the one?
Social Behavior Transformed With One New Gene and Gene Mutation Is Linked to Autism-Like Symptoms in Mice, Researchers Find will give you an idea of the differences.
Many autistics don't want a cure, they would probably welcome getting some of the obnoxious symptoms under control, but for many Autistics, being cured of autism would be like Negroes being cured of negroism!
Seems like he was re-inventing the wheel here, this is COTS, Commercial Of The Shelf, technoloy; and old tech at that. I got interested in it for separating algae from water and for making Biodiesel.
D2O goes for about $70.00/100gm @ 'Ultrex' grade (99.999% pure), DOE has 580 MT up for bid, but it's contaminated with tritium; a bit more than your looking for.
The oil is bad, but we know from experience that introducing new organism to already vulnerable ecosystems is generally a bad idea.
It's actually a slightly different strain of a very common bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, that's better a biodegrading the very toxic PAHs, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons because of the Biosurfactant they produce. Many other stains of P. aeruginosa are already there naturally eating up the oil spilled.
Actually the Oil producers are being hurt by the worldwide recession reducing demand, so they are taking a profit hit to keep cash-flow up as much as they can.
Will you accept all responsibility for any damages that this new bacteria may or may not cause?
I didn't RTFA, but I think it's always good to take things with some skepticism.
Your assuming many things, mainly "Newly Discovered" = "New", it doesn't, it's a very common species of bacteria that learned how to eat oil a little bit better than it's oil eating siblings did.
This is a newly discover strain of a very common and widely dispersed bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This strain developed naturally in an oil contaminated enviroment, and P. aeruginosa is a well known for eating oil. My hunch is this strain is either already there or will evolve on it's own, if the strain isn't introduced into the GoM by us.
Over the last two winters here in SE Michigan, I've found that by opening and closing windows drapes at rational times to maximize solar gain has frequently cause my home to be a warm 21C, (72F) while the thermostat was set at 18C (64F). While my home isn't optimized for solar gain or heat retention, I imagine that if it were, my heat energy use would be quite small.
There is a spill contingency plan, it even warns the workers about walrus attacks while cleaning up the oil, the reliable part not so much. As far as permissions, they've always gotten them, Obama might have done something but he seemed pretty distracted by Afghanistan and health care.
You can only burn down to the waterline, with wave and wind action, a lot of oil is below the waterline.