" What is more, as costs for wind and solar power have plummeted over the past decade, and the new report points out that for a given amount of land, solar panels are at least 50 times more efficient than bio fuels at capturing the energy of sunlight in a useful form."
1. Wind and Solar do not complete with bio fuels. You can not run a truck, ship, or airliner on electricity effectively because of battery technology.. Even cars are limited today by cost. Now if you are talking about bio fuels to run generators then maybe, but for transportation not at all.
It is kind of like that big huge lie that people like to tell about wind and solar reducing our dependence on foreign oil.
They do but then they take a big expensive ship find the cable and bring it to the surface to fix it. The real issue is not if it is possible because it is possible. The big question is if it is worth it? Removing all the 02 mean no fires and reduced corrosion. It also means more cost for fixing thing that go wrong. The simplest way to do this would be to flood the bunker with Argon since it heavier than O2 and N2 it should displace the O2 but again the question would be why?
Or how about having the array swap in spares. Every few weeks or so one of the spares could start to act as a mirror of an active drive and once that drive is mirrored you swap the active drive to the spare and the spare to the active?
Simple answer is you take them to court for not paying but do it now while the merger is in the works. I really hope that this merger fails like the TMobile AT&T merger did but since the current president does not need to get reelected I have little hope. He is hoping his legacy will be opening Cuba.
And with a 3 meter dish at 300mhz you are have a several degree beam. At 300 meters that is a big stinking beam. At the 4 db contour your at around 25degs beam. It is simply too dangerous and impractical of a solution.
Might I add that reading magazines like Car and Driver, Motorcycle, or any other graphics/photo heavy reading material is much nicer on a large tablet.
Wrong. Metal is not the only thing that returns RF.
To Jam maybe but a jamming is not "frying" and a jammed drone does not really help a lot because it is just out of control at that point. You also have the issue of size so unless you want a massive radar set on top of the white house you are not going to fry anything and it would be bad to start with. Even if you had a perfect detection system then what? The interception is the problem. Not even hitting it but not hurting anyone that is standing around.
Simple. A radio controlled quad copter would have about the same RCS as a bird and fly at about the same speed. To burn out the electronics you would put just about everyone around the Whitehouse in danger of being hurt. If it was a weaponized rc quadcopter you could blow it up over innocent people if it had not crossed the fence. In other words too many false positives as far as the frying the electronics too much risk of collateral damage. The amount of power to fry a quadcopter would be high enough to do some real harm to people.
XP was still for sale 24 months ago. People should not count support from launch but from end of sales IMHO. It is the phone vendors and carriers that are not updating devices. It like blaming Linux for not updating a router that you rent from a cable company. Google can not update those devices
Actually in 1957 an all out nuclear war with the USSR would not have a Doomsday for the US. The USSR had no effective way to deliver nuclear weapons to most of the US. The SS-6 rocket took days to launch and they only had like 6 of them. Their bombers lacked the range to hit many US targets in the South and the US actually had SAMs and fighters that defended major US cities. Add that they would have had to fly over Canada as well to hit US targets and most would not make it. Did I mention that a lot of US interceptors carried nuclear armed air to air missiles? So New York, San Francisco, LA, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and maybe Washington DC might have been hit but Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Jacksonville, Atlanta, and many others would have been fine. Today things are very different but at that time number of targets that USSR could hit in the US was very limited and we would have hours of warning. Europe, Japan, and Korea would have been a much different story.
Ahhh... No From the Wikipedia "In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on several lines of the Tokyo subway, killing 12 people, severely injuring 50 and causing temporary vision problems for nearly 1,000 others." And yes that was without an effective dispersal system. Yes sparky, terrorists have created chemical weapons and used them to kill and injure a lot of people.
Boeing and Lockheed have been in the launch business for decades and have a proven track record. SpaceX does not have a heavy launch system yet and a very short track record. The Military wanted one supplier for all launches to get bulk pricing and SpaceX can not offer that yet. As to the support they get... Yep if you have jobs in the district your Congress people will fight for you because it means votes party does not really matter. Frankly that is their job. To help the people that voted for them.
Actually a plane like the Telemaster would be better than a jet. Paint it grey so it blends in and if possible use an electric motor. It would fly too low and too slow to be shot down. I do not think that they would use SAMs to attack a model aircraft at 100ft over a city since you would probably kill more people from the sam blast than the plane. At this point I will stop since I do not want to give anyone ideas but I would not use such an aircraft to attack the WH.
I am not afraid of it. Mustard gas was developed during WWI. Nerve gas during WWII. Sarin has been made by terrorists and used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
I am not afraid of a chemical weapon drone attack because the payload is so low. But why say something that has happened can never happen? Frankly I wonder just how long it will be before some other wack job pulls of a chemical weapons attack. I doubt that it will be any worse than some of the regular bombs in death toll and again I am not going to live in terror waiting for it but to say it is too hard to happen is just wrong.
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And I have to say that Windows 10 does not suck.
" What is more, as costs for wind and solar power have plummeted over the past decade, and the new report points out that for a given amount of land, solar panels are at least 50 times more efficient than bio fuels at capturing the energy of sunlight in a useful form."
1. Wind and Solar do not complete with bio fuels. You can not run a truck, ship, or airliner on electricity effectively because of battery technology.. Even cars are limited today by cost. Now if you are talking about bio fuels to run generators then maybe, but for transportation not at all.
It is kind of like that big huge lie that people like to tell about wind and solar reducing our dependence on foreign oil.
Not 1957 but 1958 which is close enough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A....
It was in production in 57 with a live test shot in 1957.
They do but then they take a big expensive ship find the cable and bring it to the surface to fix it.
The real issue is not if it is possible because it is possible. The big question is if it is worth it?
Removing all the 02 mean no fires and reduced corrosion.
It also means more cost for fixing thing that go wrong.
The simplest way to do this would be to flood the bunker with Argon since it heavier than O2 and N2 it should displace the O2 but again the question would be why?
Or how about having the array swap in spares.
Every few weeks or so one of the spares could start to act as a mirror of an active drive and once that drive is mirrored you swap the active drive to the spare and the spare to the active?
The phased array will have to be even larger than the dish to get the same beam size.
Simple answer is you take them to court for not paying but do it now while the merger is in the works.
I really hope that this merger fails like the TMobile AT&T merger did but since the current president does not need to get reelected I have little hope.
He is hoping his legacy will be opening Cuba.
And with a 3 meter dish at 300mhz you are have a several degree beam. At 300 meters that is a big stinking beam. At the 4 db contour your at around 25degs beam.
It is simply too dangerous and impractical of a solution.
Might I add that reading magazines like Car and Driver, Motorcycle, or any other graphics/photo heavy reading material is much nicer on a large tablet.
And the power needed at 100 meters?
How about at 300 meters?
Wrong. Metal is not the only thing that returns RF.
To Jam maybe but a jamming is not "frying" and a jammed drone does not really help a lot because it is just out of control at that point.
You also have the issue of size so unless you want a massive radar set on top of the white house you are not going to fry anything and it would be bad to start with.
Even if you had a perfect detection system then what? The interception is the problem. Not even hitting it but not hurting anyone that is standing around.
Simple. A radio controlled quad copter would have about the same RCS as a bird and fly at about the same speed. To burn out the electronics you would put just about everyone around the Whitehouse in danger of being hurt. If it was a weaponized rc quadcopter you could blow it up over innocent people if it had not crossed the fence.
In other words too many false positives as far as the frying the electronics too much risk of collateral damage. The amount of power to fry a quadcopter would be high enough to do some real harm to people.
No but you could be pretty sure that someone with an RC aircraft in the zone should not have one.
Better Radar?
Let me guess, you have a degree in liberal arts.
The difference is every few years in democratic nations you have the chance to over through the government legally.
It is called a free election.
XP was still for sale 24 months ago. People should not count support from launch but from end of sales IMHO.
It is the phone vendors and carriers that are not updating devices. It like blaming Linux for not updating a router that you rent from a cable company.
Google can not update those devices
Actually in 1957 an all out nuclear war with the USSR would not have a Doomsday for the US.
The USSR had no effective way to deliver nuclear weapons to most of the US. The SS-6 rocket took days to launch and they only had like 6 of them. Their bombers lacked the range to hit many US targets in the South and the US actually had SAMs and fighters that defended major US cities.
Add that they would have had to fly over Canada as well to hit US targets and most would not make it. Did I mention that a lot of US interceptors carried nuclear armed air to air missiles?
So New York, San Francisco, LA, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and maybe Washington DC might have been hit but Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Jacksonville, Atlanta, and many others would have been fine.
Today things are very different but at that time number of targets that USSR could hit in the US was very limited and we would have hours of warning.
Europe, Japan, and Korea would have been a much different story.
Ahhh... No
From the Wikipedia
"In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on several lines of the Tokyo subway, killing 12 people, severely injuring 50 and causing temporary vision problems for nearly 1,000 others."
And yes that was without an effective dispersal system.
Yes sparky, terrorists have created chemical weapons and used them to kill and injure a lot of people.
You mean what Kennedy (Dem) did?
Spying is bad okay...
You are correct but Slashdot is full of wackattacks that think everyone is spying on them.
Boeing and Lockheed have been in the launch business for decades and have a proven track record.
SpaceX does not have a heavy launch system yet and a very short track record.
The Military wanted one supplier for all launches to get bulk pricing and SpaceX can not offer that yet.
As to the support they get... Yep if you have jobs in the district your Congress people will fight for you because it means votes party does not really matter.
Frankly that is their job. To help the people that voted for them.
But isn't the guy cheating on his wife asshole #1?
Actually a plane like the Telemaster would be better than a jet. Paint it grey so it blends in and if possible use an electric motor.
It would fly too low and too slow to be shot down. I do not think that they would use SAMs to attack a model aircraft at 100ft over a city since you would probably kill more people from the sam blast than the plane.
At this point I will stop since I do not want to give anyone ideas but I would not use such an aircraft to attack the WH.
I was talking about the terrorists in japan that made Sarin and used it in two attacks.
I am not afraid of it. Mustard gas was developed during WWI. Nerve gas during WWII.
Sarin has been made by terrorists and used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
I am not afraid of a chemical weapon drone attack because the payload is so low. But why say something that has happened can never happen? Frankly I wonder just how long it will be before some other wack job pulls of a chemical weapons attack. I doubt that it will be any worse than some of the regular bombs in death toll and again I am not going to live in terror waiting for it but to say it is too hard to happen is just wrong.