So Trump has riled the markets by, so far: criticizing an overpriced aircraft, and being the first Republican to not kiss the butt of the pharma lobby.
I'm hoping for some more Wall Street action like this.
Wrong again. China has big plans for nuclear, including development of full-burnup technology in parallel with building current-generation plants. The primary impetus is their massive air pollution problem. http://www.world-nuclear.org/i... The only effect that Fukushima had on the Chinese reactor program was a round of system-wide special safety checks.
Since China does not have that much natural gas, load following will be up to that largest fraction of China's renewable generating capacity, which as in most other places is hydro: http://www.ecology.com/2013/03...
There is even more of a bias in what gets posted by a certain editor.
China has an industrial economy and high population density, so reducing carbon by moving the baseload from coal to nuclear is an obvious path. They are also installing what solar and wind they can manage given the nature of their economy and, since these sources are factory-built with low upfront cost, the solar and wind are what we are seeing go online first. That is the source of all those breathless stories about "OMG - China is installing a record amount of wind!"
When the construction dust clears, we will see a nuclear China with about 20% renewables.
No, global warming meands infinite drought, everywhere you look. For a few years there, every single media article on warming was headed by the same stock photo of a dry, cracked lake bed. That photographer must be worth millions.
"It's clearly a generational thing. Many older individuals can't seem to understand that dvds are inconvenient."
No, the reason that we chrono-Americans cling to our DVDs is that so little of the spectrum of content available on DVD can be found on streaming services because Hollywood won't let Netflix and other streaming providers have it. What content is available 'expires' after some short time, so that if we want to stream we have to resort to Kodi to get it.
It (and several other base tunnels are under construction as we speak) pass through many faults, but you probably mean a tectonic boundary. The California HSR route would include three mountain passes. The Altamont and Tehachapi would require at least some tunneling, but the tectonic boundary is in the Soledad, most southerly and lowest of the three. You can see it exposed on Highway 14 near the Avenue S exit. Fortunately, the HSR would not require a tunnel on this pass.
hate science so much that they made sure he would be the last person to do so.
Meanwhile, you people won't even eat GMOs or vaccinate your kids, so please hurry up and die of the next plague to come along so the rest of us can get science going again.
NASA and the military may have been first to push the technology of integrated circuitry, but it was Milton Friedman who gave rise to Silicon Valley and its privatization of space programs. That will be our return to the Moon and beyond.
Tablets have pulled away from the PC market all those users who primarily do mail, browsing and Scrabble-class games. The way forward for desktops is to upscale into the professional market. When you want to run Autocad or Photoshop, nothing will substitute for a fast desktop.
There are also changes taking place in the way people work. In my consulting days I used a large laptop for everything; now that all my heavy software is being run in the home office only, I run a desktop there and a tablet on the road.
31.4 miles as the tunnel flies. The tunnel was one of the world's long-dreamed-up "impossible" projects that everyone thought would never be built. The only tunnel that was more "impossible" was the one between Honshu and Hokkaido. I've been through that one, too.
"London and Paris are about 200 miles apart. The distance between San Francisco and Los Angeles is about 350 miles."
That's 200 miles with a stormy ocean channel in the middle vs 350 miles on land with some mountain passes. Every route has "interesting" construction problems, but the Swiss just completed a bullet train tunnel that passes under the Alps north-south in a straight line ("base tunnel") as if the range wasn't there. That dwarfs the largely political problems that are inflating California's HSR budget.
Commercial air travel is optimized for long distances. We will always use it to go from Los Angeles to Seattle, Chicago or New York. But trains in busy corridors can replace the fleet of planes it takes to shuttle people over Europe-sized distances within the US, just as they do successfully in, you know, Europe.
This is not new and unexplored tech. The cost overruns are not because it's a train, but because it's California.
SpaceX is launching for Iridium, a private corporation, and making lease payments to the Air Force for use of SLC-4B at Vandenberg. At the Cape, SpaceX sells launch services to NASA as a replacement for the more expensive Russian launches of its Progress space sattion supply missions. Eventually, it will take over NASA's other Russian operation, ferrying ISS crews.
"India is still a filthy third world country, with raw sewage flowing in the streams and rivers."
Then again if you were born in India, and grow up with your immune system warding off the bugs, you will probably be able to leap tall buildings and shoot webs with your fingertips. Why waste your time giving Americans bad customer service from call centers?
It may work eventually, but it's a boondoggle for construction companies and mayors/governors.
So I must have been just dreaming when I thought I remembered zipping from London to Paris in just over two hours and sending emails from under the Atlantic seabed.
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So Trump has riled the markets by, so far: criticizing an overpriced aircraft, and being the first Republican to not kiss the butt of the pharma lobby.
I'm hoping for some more Wall Street action like this.
If Hawaiians let us build our Thirty Meter Telescope, we will agree to cement Mark Zuckerberg into the foundation thereof.
Wrong again. China has big plans for nuclear, including development of full-burnup technology in parallel with building current-generation plants. The primary impetus is their massive air pollution problem.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/i...
The only effect that Fukushima had on the Chinese reactor program was a round of system-wide special safety checks.
Since China does not have that much natural gas, load following will be up to that largest fraction of China's renewable generating capacity, which as in most other places is hydro:
http://www.ecology.com/2013/03...
"There is a bias in all news. "
There is even more of a bias in what gets posted by a certain editor.
China has an industrial economy and high population density, so reducing carbon by moving the baseload from coal to nuclear is an obvious path. They are also installing what solar and wind they can manage given the nature of their economy and, since these sources are factory-built with low upfront cost, the solar and wind are what we are seeing go online first. That is the source of all those breathless stories about "OMG - China is installing a record amount of wind!"
When the construction dust clears, we will see a nuclear China with about 20% renewables.
No, global warming meands infinite drought, everywhere you look. For a few years there, every single media article on warming was headed by the same stock photo of a dry, cracked lake bed. That photographer must be worth millions.
"It's clearly a generational thing. Many older individuals can't seem to understand that dvds are inconvenient."
No, the reason that we chrono-Americans cling to our DVDs is that so little of the spectrum of content available on DVD can be found on streaming services because Hollywood won't let Netflix and other streaming providers have it. What content is available 'expires' after some short time, so that if we want to stream we have to resort to Kodi to get it.
It (and several other base tunnels are under construction as we speak) pass through many faults, but you probably mean a tectonic boundary. The California HSR route would include three mountain passes. The Altamont and Tehachapi would require at least some tunneling, but the tectonic boundary is in the Soledad, most southerly and lowest of the three. You can see it exposed on Highway 14 near the Avenue S exit. Fortunately, the HSR would not require a tunnel on this pass.
"You might want to stick with classically racist content producers, like Amazon & Netflix."
???
Even for an AC, this is a weird one.
"How many times must he roll per second to power the whole campus?"
Sixty times, of course.
hate science so much that they made sure he would be the last person to do so.
Meanwhile, you people won't even eat GMOs or vaccinate your kids, so please hurry up and die of the next plague to come along so the rest of us can get science going again.
Milton Friedman mostly.
NASA and the military may have been first to push the technology of integrated circuitry, but it was Milton Friedman who gave rise to Silicon Valley and its privatization of space programs. That will be our return to the Moon and beyond.
Somebody in Qatar will order a 380SUV, but there won't be a lot of places wher eit can land.
We have been here before. Late in the Prohibition era, people were getting prescriptions written for "medical beer."
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
Tablets have pulled away from the PC market all those users who primarily do mail, browsing and Scrabble-class games. The way forward for desktops is to upscale into the professional market. When you want to run Autocad or Photoshop, nothing will substitute for a fast desktop.
There are also changes taking place in the way people work. In my consulting days I used a large laptop for everything; now that all my heavy software is being run in the home office only, I run a desktop there and a tablet on the road.
31.4 miles as the tunnel flies. The tunnel was one of the world's long-dreamed-up "impossible" projects that everyone thought would never be built. The only tunnel that was more "impossible" was the one between Honshu and Hokkaido. I've been through that one, too.
"London and Paris are about 200 miles apart. The distance between San Francisco and Los Angeles is about 350 miles."
That's 200 miles with a stormy ocean channel in the middle vs 350 miles on land with some mountain passes. Every route has "interesting" construction problems, but the Swiss just completed a bullet train tunnel that passes under the Alps north-south in a straight line ("base tunnel") as if the range wasn't there. That dwarfs the largely political problems that are inflating California's HSR budget.
Commercial air travel is optimized for long distances. We will always use it to go from Los Angeles to Seattle, Chicago or New York. But trains in busy corridors can replace the fleet of planes it takes to shuttle people over Europe-sized distances within the US, just as they do successfully in, you know, Europe.
This is not new and unexplored tech. The cost overruns are not because it's a train, but because it's California.
Let us all know when you come up with some real news.
SpaceX is launching for Iridium, a private corporation, and making lease payments to the Air Force for use of SLC-4B at Vandenberg. At the Cape, SpaceX sells launch services to NASA as a replacement for the more expensive Russian launches of its Progress space sattion supply missions. Eventually, it will take over NASA's other Russian operation, ferrying ISS crews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Oxygen is not stored. it's produced on demand for those masks.
Using oxygen generators that are a flight hazard, though a necessary one, in their own right:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Just FYI, Indians hate Muslims."
That's not possible. Only white people can be racist. Everyone else on the world exhales fairy dust.
"India is still a filthy third world country, with raw sewage flowing in the streams and rivers."
Then again if you were born in India, and grow up with your immune system warding off the bugs, you will probably be able to leap tall buildings and shoot webs with your fingertips. Why waste your time giving Americans bad customer service from call centers?
It may work eventually, but it's a boondoggle for construction companies and mayors/governors.
So I must have been just dreaming when I thought I remembered zipping from London to Paris in just over two hours and sending emails from under the Atlantic seabed.
Simpsons - Monorail Song
When China wants a bullet train, they Just Fucking Build It. We sing the monorail song as our way of warding off progress.
The don't use O2 on planes.
"In the unlikely event of a drop in cabin pressure, a nitrogen mask will drop down in front of you..."