Or in the absence of grid-scale storage, we could use the German approach: wait until there's a problem, then dig enormous strip mines for spinning-reserve coal. Moah jerbs in Wyoming and West Virginia!
The initial implementation of the US system had the same problem, Amber Alerts in places that were irrelevantly distant from the crime. This is a bug that has been worked out.
At currently foreseeable values of ocean rise, we're not going to lose any entire cities except possibly for New Orleans. We will lose the lowest-lying parts of the coast, which to a city the size of, say, Los Angeles, is just a shaving.
Take a look at an atlas. See how much we love to live near the sea? Those large cities radiate political force that draws in water from lakes and rivers thousands of miles inland, forcing inland populations to pump local groundwater.
If coastal cities would desalinate their own local water supplies, the lakes and rivers would now be available for use by those living inland.
The threshold model is not a great model. After all, low-dose exposure to some carcinogens actually decreases cancer risk. For example, areas with higher background radiation have lower cancer risks than average.
Yes it is, precisely BECAUSE even vitally necessary substances, like the salt I cited, have a fatal larger dosage. The dosage curve for many things, including radiation, looks like a checkmark: beneficial or neutral in small amounts, then a threshold above which it becomes increasingly toxic.
Prop 65 uses a no-threshold model for everything. Because there is some amount of caffeine that will kill, you have to post a sign in every Starbucks. Actually, the high prices will kill you first.
The paper bag may not be reusable once you have filled it with trash, but because they are made from trees, the usage is sustainable. Here in the US when we cut down a tree, we grow new ones to replace it. I know that in the UK after the trees were logged off, you just left the hills bare (I have hiked across it). That's why since you converted the Drax power plant in Yorkshire from coal to wood, you have had to burn American firewood in it, thereby allowing you to classify the plant as a sustainable operation, notwithstanding the fleet of diesel-burning container ships it takes to bring that wood to your shores.
Like... whatever happened to the paper bags we used to get out groceries in? You know, environmentally friendly, renewable, cheap, QUICKLY biodegradable, strong, reusable paper bags.
Those paper bags are still there, in every supermarket. You just have to ask for them.
That's why if we required that plastic be denser than seawater, that would get rid of most of the problem - not because it would sink in the ocean, but because it would sink at the first place where it was dumped into water, in telltale accumulations. Currently, no one knows where all this plastic is being dumped.
Repeat after me, slowly: From a human point of view, any natural cycle that affects climates where we live must be handled in the same way as any manmade cause. This is why the proper response to climate change is engineering, not hysteria.
Hyperloop is the kind of technology that should be tried out first on cargo. If it proves successful, that will generate interest in using it for passengers.
The story describes a standard union work rules situation. The carpenter arrives on scene and notesthat there are books on the floor. But the Book-Stackers Local is tied up right now on a library addition. Eventually, the prof restacks the books himself. Now he can have the carpenter over, but when word gets out about the prof's unauthorized performance of union work, he will be denied tenure.
The good news is that there is a decent position waiting for him at Arizona State.
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Or in the absence of grid-scale storage, we could use the German approach: wait until there's a problem, then dig enormous strip mines for spinning-reserve coal. Moah jerbs in Wyoming and West Virginia!
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Could you be more specific about the compounds in your blue pills and red pills? Some of us have to worry about allergies and side effects, you know.
You're getting alerts from how far away, exactly?
The initial implementation of the US system had the same problem, Amber Alerts in places that were irrelevantly distant from the crime. This is a bug that has been worked out.
At currently foreseeable values of ocean rise, we're not going to lose any entire cities except possibly for New Orleans. We will lose the lowest-lying parts of the coast, which to a city the size of, say, Los Angeles, is just a shaving.
The earth has had just about enough of us parasites and it doing something about it.
No, Mother Gaia will not allow harm to come to a blue state. The evangelical God might, however.
Is Subnuclear fission a possibility?
You would have to identify a usable lower energy state that you could 'fission down' to.
Take a look at an atlas. See how much we love to live near the sea? Those large cities radiate political force that draws in water from lakes and rivers thousands of miles inland, forcing inland populations to pump local groundwater.
If coastal cities would desalinate their own local water supplies, the lakes and rivers would now be available for use by those living inland.
The threshold model is not a great model. After all, low-dose exposure to some carcinogens actually decreases cancer risk. For example, areas with higher background radiation have lower cancer risks than average.
Yes it is, precisely BECAUSE even vitally necessary substances, like the salt I cited, have a fatal larger dosage. The dosage curve for many things, including radiation, looks like a checkmark: beneficial or neutral in small amounts, then a threshold above which it becomes increasingly toxic.
Prop 65 uses a no-threshold model for everything. Because there is some amount of caffeine that will kill, you have to post a sign in every Starbucks. Actually, the high prices will kill you first.
Those are two unrelated sentences. The threshold model has nothing to do with LD50, it's specifically about cancer.
LD50 is just a standard for comparing toxicities of different substances: the amount that is fatal to half the test population.
The threshold model applies to all substances. The LD50 fatal dose of NaCl for an average adult is about 7 ounces.
Venice? Scooter drivers, meet hordes of gypsy pickpockets.
Here is a handy chart of particulate sizes the EPA has detected in the city air:
http://www.ballistics101.com/h...
The paper bag may not be reusable once you have filled it with trash, but because they are made from trees, the usage is sustainable. Here in the US when we cut down a tree, we grow new ones to replace it. I know that in the UK after the trees were logged off, you just left the hills bare (I have hiked across it). That's why since you converted the Drax power plant in Yorkshire from coal to wood, you have had to burn American firewood in it, thereby allowing you to classify the plant as a sustainable operation, notwithstanding the fleet of diesel-burning container ships it takes to bring that wood to your shores.
Our bags have handles and compost down just fine in landfills.
And yes, I remember rain.
Develop? Bullshit. Which country did the Chinese scientists steal this technology from?
Just like all the otehr times, probably some country that didn't bother exploiting its intellectual property.
If China can build it, more power to them.
Like... whatever happened to the paper bags we used to get out groceries in? You know, environmentally friendly, renewable, cheap, QUICKLY biodegradable, strong, reusable paper bags.
Those paper bags are still there, in every supermarket. You just have to ask for them.
That's why if we required that plastic be denser than seawater, that would get rid of most of the problem - not because it would sink in the ocean, but because it would sink at the first place where it was dumped into water, in telltale accumulations. Currently, no one knows where all this plastic is being dumped.
This particular plastic bag is not a problem, because sitting on the bottom of the ocean means that it will eventually become petroleum once again.
What we need to find is a way of making the rest of the floating plastic sink to abyssal depths.
Let's make sure that Uber doesn't identify Santa as a bearded homeless guy with a shopping cart.
Repeat after me, slowly: From a human point of view, any natural cycle that affects climates where we live must be handled in the same way as any manmade cause. This is why the proper response to climate change is engineering, not hysteria.
Ice ages happen on a timescale of tens of millions of years.
Actually we have had four glacial periods in the last million years.
Hyperloop is the kind of technology that should be tried out first on cargo. If it proves successful, that will generate interest in using it for passengers.
The story describes a standard union work rules situation. The carpenter arrives on scene and notesthat there are books on the floor. But the Book-Stackers Local is tied up right now on a library addition. Eventually, the prof restacks the books himself. Now he can have the carpenter over, but when word gets out about the prof's unauthorized performance of union work, he will be denied tenure.
The good news is that there is a decent position waiting for him at Arizona State.
Also comes in a flavor for taking photos (usually with tripod) to prevent introducing motion shake into the shot.
That's funny. I use an iPhone app for no-shake shooting of my Olympus. It's like a remote for the camera.