at one time there were 4 countries that were not net food importers, the US, Canada and Argentina were net food exporters and China was a break-even country; this was back in the 70's and our agricultural efficiency is much higher now. The US quite literally gives food away, if people don't have enough to eat it's usually political.
With modern computerized fuel injection and engine management we're getting more power out of 6 cylinders that those old rat motors made. Now pro-comp is running faster than TF1 was when those cars were ruling the street imagine what could be done.
The process is running at about 50% efficiency now; the $1/gallon figure is based on getting to 100%.
this sounds all too good to be true. (especially the 100% efficiency).
"If we can get 100 percent yield, we estimate the cost to be about a dollar per gallon," Huber says. "Right now weâ(TM)re at 50 percent. Can we get 100 percent? I donâ(TM)t know. Hopefully we'll bump those numbers up."
the only one talking about efiency was the submitter in his summary
no they are talking about making "gasoline" whatever that really is, but I suspect that they are talking about a solution of primarily alkanes and alkenes in the 5 to 9 carbon range a few cyclic's and a dash of aromatics
actually they were talking about reducing the cellulose to hydrocarbons in a tight-lipped way
Using a catalyst commonly employed in the petroleum industry, Huber and his colleagues heated small amounts of cellulose very quickly for a matter of seconds before cooling it, producing a high-octane liquid similar to gasoline. âoeThe temperature window is very critical,â Huber says. If you heat too slowly, you produce mainly cokeâ"elemental carbon residue. If you heat too fast, you make mainly vapors. The sweet spot, about 1000 degrees per second, transfers roughly half the celluloseâ(TM)s energy into hydrocarbons. âoeIf we can get 100 percent yield, we estimate the cost to be about a dollar per gallon,â Huber says. âoeRight now weâ(TM)re at 50 percent. Can we get 100 percent? I donâ(TM)t know. Hopefully weâ(TM)ll bump those numbers up.â
Now the $1 a gallon part is assuming 100% conversion so that will never happen, but even $3.00 at the pump looks good right now especially since it isn't killing people through starvation to get there.
The only solution that avoids the "waaaah mommy! make the companies not fuck up the internet!" route is to create a whole new internet from scratch, planet-wide, and make it appear instantaneously with absolutely no infrastructure expense that someone will decide they absolutely must have 500000% return on. Then hope that the people in charge might not get greedy and ruin it for everyone else again. good idea, we'll just go back to Fidonet or even UUCP like in the old days.
doesn't matter what we do with routing tricks or encryption, if my packets from ebay get routed the the ISP's ghetto-router because they didn't pay a kickback to get into the fast-lane router the pages will still load slowly! Now there are actually useful and/or entertaining things to do on the internet so there is an actual reason to get on, so what happens the ISP's start bitching beacause people actual are using what they bought!
The leverage for the FCC would be indirect, everybody that provides Broadband internet that I know of also provides services that are more directly in the FCC domain; if an ISP is being thought of as obnoxious pricks they are less likely to get the benefit of the doubt in other matters where the FCC really can extract a pound of flesh. I would think that the ISP's would be on their best behavior until after the elections.
I like the way it's automatically assumed that I would rather have my genitalial viewed or patted down by the male homosexual rather than the female lesbian.
The moon is always nicely lit with sun light on one side; the reason the full moon is full is because the illuminated day side is facing the Earth's unilluminating night side. That also means that the moon is orbiting into the region that the solar wind "pushes" the magnetosphere toward, which is what creates the posible problem which is most likely worst on the nightside that isn't facing the Earth
That's only 50 gateways to the internet so what you are calling an access points, is going to be more like an IXP, Internet exchange point, by keeping the number of connection manageable they'll be able to monitor the traffic more effectively.
Fisker Coachbuild, fraudulently agreed to take on Tesla's $875,000 design contract to gain access to confidential design information and trade secrets, then announced a competing vehicle. Tesla Motors Files Suit
7/8 of a million just doesn't seem like a lot of money for what they were hired to do, I suspect that if the contracts had real NDA's and non-compete clauses the costs would have been substantially more. Even more likely the "trade secret" was that there were no trade secrets and any joe snuffy can hire an engineer or two and build one of these things using predominately off the shelf harware if he has enough mad-cash to get it going.
Wikipedia is notoriously bad at biographical content regarding famous people, it's just the nature of the beast. The wikinazi's can plaster citation needed all over the place, but it's not going to change the spin that PR types are going to places on every bit of information they can lay their lying hands on. I'm waiting for a Wikipedia article explaining how the Chinese have rolled out modern infra-structure and established human rights in Tibet
they,CNN, already have Chinese IP addresses blocked, the Chinese have their own people "Great Firewalled of China" so the effects on the fleshies in China is pretty minimal, CNN is a high-load site on a normal day and frequently a target of DDOS attacks so their Admin are well practiced; so it down to a battle of the bot's.
I took Econ with two guys that were power station operators and they told us because the public services commission limits them to 10% profit and almost automatically grants rate increases to meet the 10% limit, there is no reason for a utility to limit expenses because the more they spend, the more they make!
Up until the MRI is read by the Radiologist, it's primarily a fixed expense so doing more of them brings down the average cost. In my area their is a MRI at each of the two hospitals that are booked 24-7 and have a waiting list. The big orthopedic practice, built their own campus complete with a out-patient surgical suite and a MRI, no waiting list and a 10% rebate for immediate payment.
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at one time there were 4 countries that were not net food importers, the US, Canada and Argentina were net food exporters and China was a break-even country; this was back in the 70's and our agricultural efficiency is much higher now. The US quite literally gives food away, if people don't have enough to eat it's usually political.
With modern computerized fuel injection and engine management we're getting more power out of 6 cylinders that those old rat motors made. Now pro-comp is running faster than TF1 was when those cars were ruling the street imagine what could be done.
this sounds all too good to be true. (especially the 100% efficiency).
the only one talking about efiency was the submitter in his summary
no they are talking about making "gasoline" whatever that really is, but I suspect that they are talking about a solution of primarily alkanes and alkenes in the 5 to 9 carbon range a few cyclic's and a dash of aromatics
I suppose one could argue that burning coal and oil is carbon-neutral because it's carbon captured by plants from the air as well!
Now the $1 a gallon part is assuming 100% conversion so that will never happen, but even $3.00 at the pump looks good right now especially since it isn't killing people through starvation to get there.
doesn't matter what we do with routing tricks or encryption, if my packets from ebay get routed the the ISP's ghetto-router because they didn't pay a kickback to get into the fast-lane router the pages will still load slowly! Now there are actually useful and/or entertaining things to do on the internet so there is an actual reason to get on, so what happens the ISP's start bitching beacause people actual are using what they bought!
The leverage for the FCC would be indirect, everybody that provides Broadband internet that I know of also provides services that are more directly in the FCC domain; if an ISP is being thought of as obnoxious pricks they are less likely to get the benefit of the doubt in other matters where the FCC really can extract a pound of flesh. I would think that the ISP's would be on their best behavior until after the elections.
or buy metallic paint and sell your body for the advertising space, an alt.com ad should fit on my left butt cheek!
I like the way it's automatically assumed that I would rather have my genitalial viewed or patted down by the male homosexual rather than the female lesbian.
Doah, I even watched the eclipse too!
The moon is always nicely lit with sun light on one side; the reason the full moon is full is because the illuminated day side is facing the Earth's unilluminating night side. That also means that the moon is orbiting into the region that the solar wind "pushes" the magnetosphere toward, which is what creates the posible problem which is most likely worst on the nightside that isn't facing the Earth
That's only 50 gateways to the internet so what you are calling an access points, is going to be more like an IXP, Internet exchange point, by keeping the number of connection manageable they'll be able to monitor the traffic more effectively.
7/8 of a million just doesn't seem like a lot of money for what they were hired to do, I suspect that if the contracts had real NDA's and non-compete clauses the costs would have been substantially more. Even more likely the "trade secret" was that there were no trade secrets and any joe snuffy can hire an engineer or two and build one of these things using predominately off the shelf harware if he has enough mad-cash to get it going.
Probably too much ionization to talk to anyone.
I suspect that the difference between "dropping like a rock" and a controlled re-entry is something on the order of 0.01%
Huntsville Al, the city nearest to the Marshall Space flight center has had metric speed limit signs for 40 years that I know of.
I heard that Buick is exporting cars to China, who would have thought that would happen!
Wikipedia is notoriously bad at biographical content regarding famous people, it's just the nature of the beast. The wikinazi's can plaster citation needed all over the place, but it's not going to change the spin that PR types are going to places on every bit of information they can lay their lying hands on. I'm waiting for a Wikipedia article explaining how the Chinese have rolled out modern infra-structure and established human rights in Tibet
they,CNN, already have Chinese IP addresses blocked, the Chinese have their own people "Great Firewalled of China" so the effects on the fleshies in China is pretty minimal, CNN is a high-load site on a normal day and frequently a target of DDOS attacks so their Admin are well practiced; so it down to a battle of the bot's.
I took Econ with two guys that were power station operators and they told us because the public services commission limits them to 10% profit and almost automatically grants rate increases to meet the 10% limit, there is no reason for a utility to limit expenses because the more they spend, the more they make!
Up until the MRI is read by the Radiologist, it's primarily a fixed expense so doing more of them brings down the average cost. In my area their is a MRI at each of the two hospitals that are booked 24-7 and have a waiting list. The big orthopedic practice, built their own campus complete with a out-patient surgical suite and a MRI, no waiting list and a 10% rebate for immediate payment.