A hydro-electric dam is small scale compared to replacing petro-fuels with bio-fuels; I'm not saying it couldn't be done but most mega-corps with the resources to do it are way too fuedalistic in attitute to do it right.
People will always assume one of two things if not both, first if enough is good, then too much is better and secondly if too much is bad than any is almost as bad. Because of that faulty logic and because too much CO2 in the atmosphere is bad than any CO2 in the atmosphere is almost as bad. If any CO2 in the atmosphere is bad than hydrogen that doesn't release CO2 is good. Now I agree that methane would make a pretty good fuel, just like natural gas (slightly impure methane) would but if you look hard enough you'll find a wart on anything so the eco-whackos will fight tooth and nail to kepp us from having something that's pretty damn good just because it's not perfect. To be honest, butanol sounds pretty good to me, much better than ethanol.
Yeah right like the eco-nazis are going to let you destroy the ecologically fragile deserts; hell even I don't think it's a particularly good idea to put algea farms in the desert willy-nilly and I usually get karma-raped on eco-threads in/.
Right now algae ponds are typically shallow, and the collection isn't complicated just inefficient. The biggest advantage of the mutant algae is it's "thin", it doesn't have as much chlorophyll as normal algae so the light penetrates deeper growing more algae. It doesn't make sense to me. I'd think that less chlorophyll would mean less photosynthesis, less hydrogen etc. but the guys with 3 letters after their names figure it'll work. The only thing that makes any sense to me is that by making the algae "thinner" and the productive zone of the "pond" deeper they'll get more hydrogen producing volume per a given surface area and that'll make it easier to collect the hydrogen for fuel.
I live in sugar beet country and I can assure you that we didn't forget, I'm also in corn country so that gets a lot of noise as well. The real answer will be more like 1. grow the corn, 2. grow the beets, 3. press out the oils out of the corn for food use, 4. reclaim the used food stuff oils aned animal fats for biodiesel, 5 extract the sugars from the corn, feed the distiller's dried grain and roughage back to the cows (makes food and animal fat for step 4) 6. add beet sugar to the corn sugar and make Butanol instead of inefficient Ethanol 7. profit!
I don't think there will ever be a one answer answer; the answer will be multi-use feed the waste of one almost economical process to the next almost economical process.
It occurred to me that because a black-hole was esentially a region of space-time that had walled itself out from the universe, that any photons inside the event horizon would circulate endlessly, well at least untill the black-hole evaporated enough for the event horizon to puncture, which would release all of the photons that had been accumulating over the eons and would make one hell-of-a-bang!
a sig that has a link to Madonna in a feminist post...compared to a programming language? Hmmm.... Hairy arm pits, does C have hairy arm pits too? Maybe C's boobs keep popping out of its bra
You say that like women never look at porn, I've had some outrageously good times going to the titty-bar with a lesbian friend; and I've never seen my fag friends looking at naked women, just naked men.
Somebody who wasn't lazy or clueless was Sun, Java installs into WinXP SP2 using limited user account exactly the way every XP compatable program should install.
It was also a code term for "Uppity Niger", for people who were to proper to say Uppity Nigger, but could also refer to Jews and white people who supported the civil rights movement. Maybe it's apropos that Microsoft refers to people shunning their DRMed OS and are asserting their consumer rights with the same term used to refer to the Uppity Nigers in the civil rights movement trying to assert their rights.
And we are certain they are subversive elements, who else would object to DRM but pirates and thieves trying actually watch or listen to the content that they have paid for!
Still causing try actually running WinXP in a Limited User Account. You can download a software installer, save it on a Limited User's desktop, and "run as Admin" and be told Admin has insufficient permission!
The thing about a slide-rule is it makes you think about the answers, so your less likely to forget to convert the acceleration of your ship, from furlongs per fortnight squared to meters per second ^2, like a certain space agency did a while back when they assumed the math was correct because the numbers came out of a computer. Slide ruler have an inherent requirment for the operator to do sanity checking, using a calculator or a computer usually means the operator doesn't even realize when the wrong keys produced outrageous results.
That was pretty lame, my slide rule used to calculate nuclear yield by setting the flash-to-bang times and the cloud-top height or the 2/3rds cloud top height, would calculate decay exponents and normalize dose rates to H+1 and most importantly calculate the optimum time to exit; and it sill worked when everything else was EMPed to death.
How are they going to get automatic critical updates into the computer? They designed the nuclear generators to autopilot while the computers reboot to install, it was all proven safe at Chernobyl.
Shipping gold around is scary stuff, ships sink and trains get robbed. More often the title to the gold was transfered, and that was called money! Many goevernments used to just hold US Dollars instead of gold, untill Nixon screwed them by stopping the backing of dollars by gold. When I was in Germany in the late seventies I got a twenty dollar bill from one of the german banks that was a 1936 series silver certificate, when compared to one of the '70s series FERN twenty in the picture of the White House on the back you could see how much the trees had grown.
Don't worry any weight saved by new gear is automaticaly consumed by either more new gear, or ammo, grunts have carried the same load since Christ was a corporal.
IANAL but the law talks about actual and statutory damages being at the copyright owner's choise and statutory damages are 750 - 30,000 and if the infringement is willful the damages go to 200 - 150,000.00, I've heard that registration in regards to willful before, but with a copyright notice in every file of source it would be difficult to say sorry I didn't see it.
There are no punitive damages in copyright, there are actual and statutory whaer statutory may be for increased for willfull infringement. Statutory damages start at $750.00 to $30,000.00, willfull is $200.00 through $150,000.00; the copyright owner has the option of asking for actual or statutory damages.
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A hydro-electric dam is small scale compared to replacing petro-fuels with bio-fuels; I'm not saying it couldn't be done but most mega-corps with the resources to do it are way too fuedalistic in attitute to do it right.
People will always assume one of two things if not both,
first if enough is good, then too much is better and secondly if too much is bad than any is almost as bad.
Because of that faulty logic and because too much CO2 in the atmosphere is bad than any CO2 in the atmosphere is almost as bad. If any CO2 in the atmosphere is bad than hydrogen that doesn't release CO2 is good. Now I agree that methane would make a pretty good fuel, just like natural gas (slightly impure methane) would but if you look hard enough you'll find a wart on anything so the eco-whackos will fight tooth and nail to kepp us from having something that's pretty damn good just because it's not perfect.
To be honest, butanol sounds pretty good to me, much better than ethanol.
Yeah right like the eco-nazis are going to let you destroy the ecologically fragile deserts; hell even I don't think it's a particularly good idea to put algea farms in the desert willy-nilly and I usually get karma-raped on eco-threads in /.
Right now algae ponds are typically shallow, and the collection isn't complicated just inefficient. The biggest advantage of the mutant algae is it's "thin", it doesn't have as much chlorophyll as normal algae so the light penetrates deeper growing more algae. It doesn't make sense to me. I'd think that less chlorophyll would mean less photosynthesis, less hydrogen etc. but the guys with 3 letters after their names figure it'll work. The only thing that makes any sense to me is that by making the algae "thinner" and the productive zone of the "pond" deeper they'll get more hydrogen producing volume per a given surface area and that'll make it easier to collect the hydrogen for fuel.
How are you going to collect the hydrogen for fuel? OOPs forgot about that didn't we.
I live in sugar beet country and I can assure you that we didn't forget, I'm also in corn country so that gets a lot of noise as well. The real answer will be more like
1. grow the corn,
2. grow the beets,
3. press out the oils out of the corn for food use,
4. reclaim the used food stuff oils aned animal fats for biodiesel,
5 extract the sugars from the corn, feed the distiller's dried grain and roughage back to the cows (makes food and animal fat for step 4)
6. add beet sugar to the corn sugar and make Butanol instead of inefficient Ethanol
7. profit!
I don't think there will ever be a one answer answer; the answer will be multi-use feed the waste of one almost economical process to the next almost economical process.
It occurred to me that because a black-hole was esentially a region of space-time that had walled itself out from the universe, that any photons inside the event horizon would circulate endlessly, well at least untill the black-hole evaporated enough for the event horizon to puncture, which would release all of the photons that had been accumulating over the eons and would make one hell-of-a-bang!
a sig that has a link to Madonna in a feminist post...compared to a programming language? Hmmm....
Hairy arm pits, does C have hairy arm pits too? Maybe C's boobs keep popping out of its bra
Like Gloria Steinem?
You say that like women never look at porn, I've had some outrageously good times going to the titty-bar with a lesbian friend; and I've never seen my fag friends looking at naked women, just naked men.
Somebody who wasn't lazy or clueless was Sun, Java installs into WinXP SP2 using limited user account exactly the way every XP compatable program should install.
It was also a code term for "Uppity Niger", for people who were to proper to say Uppity Nigger, but could also refer to Jews and white people who supported the civil rights movement. Maybe it's apropos that Microsoft refers to people shunning their DRMed OS and are asserting their consumer rights with the same term used to refer to the Uppity Nigers in the civil rights movement trying to assert their rights.
And we are certain they are subversive elements, who else would object to DRM but pirates and thieves trying actually watch or listen to the content that they have paid for!
Still causing try actually running WinXP in a Limited User Account. You can download a software installer, save it on a Limited User's desktop, and "run as Admin" and be told Admin has insufficient permission!
sexagesimal numbers rock for doing math in your head, they have so many common demominators
There is this woman I know that really enjoys using a buggy whip.
The thing about a slide-rule is it makes you think about the answers, so your less likely to forget to convert the acceleration of your ship, from furlongs per fortnight squared to meters per second ^2, like a certain space agency did a while back when they assumed the math was correct because the numbers came out of a computer. Slide ruler have an inherent requirment for the operator to do sanity checking, using a calculator or a computer usually means the operator doesn't even realize when the wrong keys produced outrageous results.
That was pretty lame, my slide rule used to calculate
nuclear yield by setting the flash-to-bang times and the cloud-top height or the 2/3rds cloud top height, would calculate decay exponents and normalize dose rates to H+1 and most importantly calculate the optimum time to exit; and it sill worked when everything else was EMPed to death.
That must be one of those Linux command-line abominations, because no matter how hard I try I cant get the mouse pointer to the Print Screen key!
How are they going to get automatic critical updates into the computer? They designed the nuclear generators to autopilot while the computers reboot to install, it was all proven safe at Chernobyl.
Shipping gold around is scary stuff, ships sink and trains get robbed. More often the title to the gold was transfered, and that was called money! Many goevernments used to just hold US Dollars instead of gold, untill Nixon screwed them by stopping the backing of dollars by gold. When I was in Germany in the late seventies I got a twenty dollar bill from one of the german banks that was a 1936 series silver certificate, when compared to one of the '70s series FERN twenty in the picture of the White House on the back you could see how much the trees had grown.
Don't worry any weight saved by new gear is automaticaly consumed by either more new gear, or ammo, grunts have carried the same load since Christ was a corporal.
I'll tell you what, why wouldn't each box that contains the infringing code be an infringement, to so me it is.
IANAL but the law talks about actual and statutory damages being at the copyright owner's choise and statutory damages are 750 - 30,000 and if the infringement is willful the damages go to 200 - 150,000.00, I've heard that registration in regards to willful before, but with a copyright notice in every file of source it would be difficult to say sorry I didn't see it.
There are no punitive damages in copyright, there are actual and statutory whaer statutory may be for increased for willfull infringement. Statutory damages start at $750.00 to $30,000.00, willfull is $200.00 through $150,000.00; the copyright owner has the option of asking for actual or statutory damages.