It's funny because that's how religion works, but not how science works. The difference is that each priest hears a different voice of God talking to him, but every scientist looks at the same underlying reality.
UNLESS, the scientist hide their data and the computer models they use to arrive at the results.
Long story short: if you are a truthful climate scientist, you acknowledge that the Earth is getting warmer and it is at least in part due to us.
The first part is a clear fact. The second part in bold is still very much controversial, no matter how much people want to keep repeating it.
For instance, there is the "add a new tax on everybody" fix. Well, add a new tax on everyone, except for certain special countries that will pollute more than anyone else. You see, creating an entirely new market made up of imaginary "credits" on the back of productive systems will weigh them down so badly that they won't need to be convinced to live like the Amish. They'll have no choice.
A college professor explained it to me as, "If I get an 80, that should mean that I don't understand 20% of the material presented."
Grades for handing in papers is bull, and is just a carrot/stick to coerce students to do the work to actually learn the material. Grade progression should only occur based on if you know the material or not. Not if you got extra credit for helping the teacher decorate a corkboard.
I still think it is to early to replace DVDs, yet we see this insane push for Blu-ray, and now there are other technologies trying to push it off the hill.
And all the while, my 5-yr old computer is taking everything I can think to throw at it.
A simple physical fact that batteries will never be able to overcome is that you don't have to carry your oxidant for an Earth traveling ICE powered vehicle. In cruise, the air to fuel ratio can be as high as 17 to 1. The engine will swallow 17lbs of air for every pound of fuel. The battery essentially carries both the fuel and oxidant.
Granted, the comparison is not that straight forward, but petrol power will always have the advantage of not having to carry an oxidant.
Because you can charge in 5 minutes, doesn't mean you have to charge in 5 minutes. The fuel station can have local battery storage that evens out the load on the grid, and the charge time can be upped for a more reasonable charge rate. You can also have trickle chargers in parking spaces that deliver the energy at a much slower rate. A "charge while you shop" or "charge while you dine" sort of deal.
But the biggest benefit of a fast recharge will be recovering energy from regenerative braking. Currently regenerative braking has limits placed on it, because so much energy is created so quickly and then there is no place to put it. The current battery technology can't absorb the charge quickly enough. This technology will help relieve that particular bottleneck.
The car is still there, but you drove away in an exact duplicate, except with the backseat full of the viewers. The car was a cab, and those were toll paying customers.
There were two days of filming. Have you ever sat for a two day exam? You will eventually trip up. These weren't written questions. The manner and demeanor of the questioner carries a lot of information, and Katie Couric was offensively haughty. The question about what she read was particularly snarky, and delivered in an offensive way. If I were forced to suffer through that, my response would have been, "Fuck you. I read whatever I damn well please, and it usually talks about how Katie Couric is butch."
Yeah, I'll never be President. Tell me this, why didn't they air all the times that Couric asked Palin about abortion. Wouldn't want to give the impression that it was an extended badgering session would we?
Time and again Obama is linked to one radical after another. In every case, his excuse has been that he didn't know. He didn't know Rev. Wright was a racist. He didn't know that he was at Bill Ayers house. He didn't know. He didn't know.
# 39 percent of Republicans believe Obama should be impeached, 29 percent are not sure, 32 percent said he should not be voted out of office.
And there weren't any Democrats saying that Bush should be impeached? What this statistic shoes is that a large percentage of the opposing party doesn't like our leader. Jeesh, how is this a crazy belief? It might actually mean something if not for the fact that 49% of the people in the US overall disapprove of the job he is doing (http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/jobapproval-obama.php)
# 36 percent of Republicans believe Obama was not born in the United States, 22 percent are not sure, 42 percent think he is a natural citizen.
And how many Democrats believe that Bush was a draft dodger, when the facts and his commanding officer show that he was trying his best to get into the Vietnam conflict as a fighter pilot (like his father was).
# 31 percent of Republicans believe Obama is a "Racist who hates White people" -- the description once adopted by Fox News's Glenn Beck. 33 percent were not sure, and 36 percent said he was not a racist.
You have Eric Holder, who Obama appointed as Attorney General, intervening in the case of a black man standing outside a polling site with a club, threatening white people. The same man who stands on a street corner yelling that black people need to rise up and "kill some white cracker babies." Even though there was clear video/audio evidence that lead to a conviction, Holder intervened to set the weirdo free (he got a token slap on the wrist...he's not allowed to be at that polling booth during the next election.) I see your point. No reason to think Obama might be racist.
# 63 percent of Republicans think Obama is a socialist, 16 percent are not sure, 21 percent say he is not
"We need to spread the wealth". He appoints socialist to high positions. No. You're right. Nothing at all to suggest he might be a socialist. That's just crazy.
# 24 percent of Republicans believe Obama wants "the terrorists to win," 33 percent aren't sure, 43 percent said he did not want the terrorist to win.
2 months dithering over whether or not to fulfill the commanding general's request for more troops MIGHT have something to do with that. Or maybe not?
# 21 percent of Republicans believe ACORN stole the 2008 election, 55 percent are not sure, 24 percent said the community organizing group did not steal the election.
And Bush leaves office to Democrats still proclaiming that Gore won by a hanging chad.
# 23 percent of Republicans believe that their state should secede from the United States, 19 percent aren't sure, 58 percent said no.
How is that crazy, as opposed to a desire to live under a more responsive and less repressive government? (I didn't just say "oppressive". I said, "less oppressive".)
# 53 percent of Republicans said they believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than Obama.
Winnie the friggin' Pooh is more qualified to be president that Obama. What's your point?
Lipstick on a pig? Running for the highest office in the land, and he did not realize how it would be taken...the controversy it would cause after having been so effectively used by his opponent only a week earlier? He did not have enough socializing to know that it would be correctly be taken as a lowbrow insult? Either he knew how his words would be interpreted and is given to nasty insults, or he was completely unaware of all the press around Palin using that comment to so much applause and is therefore an idiot. Given that after only weeks in office, he uses his bully pulpit to say that he doesn't have all the facts but that the police are stupid, I still don't know which way to categorize him.
Moving troops into Pakistan? As a candidate for the highest office in the land, he will proclaim far and wide that he will invade one of our few tenuous allies in a war torn region? How in the HELL can anyone read that as anything less than complete shoe-size-IQ asinine is beyond me.
How about, "We need to spread the wealth around." And conservatives are idiots for calling him a socialist? WTF?
I can see why he picked a dolt like Biden for a running mate. They can share stories about the taste of shoe leather after they both get their feet out of their mouths.
The people interviewing Palin were definitely out to get her. Their entire demeanor screamed it for the entire interview. On the other hand, Chris Matthews was talking about getting a chill up his leg as he was peeing his pants watching an Obama speech. I mean, when Saturday Night Live does a skit about it, you know it is blaringly obvious.
Palin spoke as well, if not better, than Obama. Still does. Not that the bar is very high.
Pull your head out of the sand, Surt. How about President Obama appointing Van Jones, a 911 Truther and otherwise complete idiot, to a high office position?
Sorry, but I couldn't watch the "Saw" movies. Well, I could, but why the hell do I want to sit there with that sick feeling in my stomach. I get cut and burned enough with the metal working I do to know that it hurts like hell, and I don't want to watch other people enduring it, even if I know it is acting.
Dehumanizing the enemy is a REQUIREMENT if you are to remain sane. There was the study of a short story in English class at the Air Force Academy. The "other guy" gradually went from "friend", to "buddy", to "enemy", then eventually to "dirty bastard" before being shot in the head. You can't shoot "the innocent other guy" in the head and remain sane.
And now you have the problem of who pays for the necessary upgrades. The guy who added the last windmill that exceeded the limit? All windmill owners? The Oregon grid, which needs upgrading? The California consumers who want this green power? Everybody says it is not their responsibility and the US, with its dislike of government control, does not have the mechanisms for someone to take charge and decide who pays for it in the short term, and how they are going to get paid back buy the other beneficiaries.
As a staunch conservative Libertarian, I cry bullstuff. The mechanism is for the Federal government to build the lines. Our Constitution gives the Feds the responsibility for building interstate roads. The reason being that not having a umbrella organization building the roads for everyone to use would create a complex system of tolls that would make the roads nearly impossible to use, and poorly maintained. Travel and trade would become very difficult. The Feds build most of the roads, and we pay for it proportional to how much we use it through fuel taxes.
This is 100% analagous to the power grid situation. It is overly complicated to move power around, because what we really have is a complex mash-up of toll roads. Travel and trade are overly complicated, and the lines are poorly maintained.
You can construct the water pump to act as a break to keep the mill from overspeeding and throwing a blade. When capped, a centrifugal pump absorbs close to zero energy. A simple mechanical connect to a centrifugal weight would activate a lever that would open a valve that would enable the centrifugal pump. You give the windmills a safety break, at the same time you are storing the excess energy.
Use the material extracted from the hole to build a large above ground lake. The farms where these windmills are located need to store some irrigation water anyway. Then the water has to be pumped higher, increasing the efficiency of the generators and the storage area.
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It's funny because that's how religion works, but not how science works. The difference is that each priest hears a different voice of God talking to him, but every scientist looks at the same underlying reality.
UNLESS, the scientist hide their data and the computer models they use to arrive at the results.
Long story short: if you are a truthful climate scientist, you acknowledge that the Earth is getting warmer and it is at least in part due to us.
The first part is a clear fact. The second part in bold is still very much controversial, no matter how much people want to keep repeating it.
overwhelming scientific evidence,
Of?
Global warming, or global warming caused by industrialization? Proof of the first is NOT proof of the second.
Right! You tell him, spun!
For instance, there is the "add a new tax on everybody" fix. Well, add a new tax on everyone, except for certain special countries that will pollute more than anyone else. You see, creating an entirely new market made up of imaginary "credits" on the back of productive systems will weigh them down so badly that they won't need to be convinced to live like the Amish. They'll have no choice.
A college professor explained it to me as, "If I get an 80, that should mean that I don't understand 20% of the material presented."
Grades for handing in papers is bull, and is just a carrot/stick to coerce students to do the work to actually learn the material. Grade progression should only occur based on if you know the material or not. Not if you got extra credit for helping the teacher decorate a corkboard.
NetApp and the rest have no real interest in selling you less drives.
Then why is about half of their feature set aimed at helping their customers reduce storage usage (wafl file system, dedupe, etc)?
Why have the instituted a systems group to do nothing BUT coach customers in how to reduce disk usage?
There is a LOT of competitive advantage in selling less drives.
I still think it is to early to replace DVDs, yet we see this insane push for Blu-ray, and now there are other technologies trying to push it off the hill.
And all the while, my 5-yr old computer is taking everything I can think to throw at it.
Oh, the Peace and Economics prizes are often indications of whim,
Nice understatement.
Let's see, off the top of my head we have a man who has done nothing and a known terrorist
Hold up a minute there, GooberToo. I may not agree with the man's politics, but I don't think you can label Al Gore a terrorist.
A simple physical fact that batteries will never be able to overcome is that you don't have to carry your oxidant for an Earth traveling ICE powered vehicle. In cruise, the air to fuel ratio can be as high as 17 to 1. The engine will swallow 17lbs of air for every pound of fuel. The battery essentially carries both the fuel and oxidant.
Granted, the comparison is not that straight forward, but petrol power will always have the advantage of not having to carry an oxidant.
Because you can charge in 5 minutes, doesn't mean you have to charge in 5 minutes. The fuel station can have local battery storage that evens out the load on the grid, and the charge time can be upped for a more reasonable charge rate. You can also have trickle chargers in parking spaces that deliver the energy at a much slower rate. A "charge while you shop" or "charge while you dine" sort of deal.
But the biggest benefit of a fast recharge will be recovering energy from regenerative braking. Currently regenerative braking has limits placed on it, because so much energy is created so quickly and then there is no place to put it. The current battery technology can't absorb the charge quickly enough. This technology will help relieve that particular bottleneck.
The car is still there, but you drove away in an exact duplicate, except with the backseat full of the viewers. The car was a cab, and those were toll paying customers.
There were two days of filming. Have you ever sat for a two day exam? You will eventually trip up. These weren't written questions. The manner and demeanor of the questioner carries a lot of information, and Katie Couric was offensively haughty. The question about what she read was particularly snarky, and delivered in an offensive way. If I were forced to suffer through that, my response would have been, "Fuck you. I read whatever I damn well please, and it usually talks about how Katie Couric is butch."
Yeah, I'll never be President. Tell me this, why didn't they air all the times that Couric asked Palin about abortion. Wouldn't want to give the impression that it was an extended badgering session would we?
Time and again Obama is linked to one radical after another. In every case, his excuse has been that he didn't know. He didn't know Rev. Wright was a racist. He didn't know that he was at Bill Ayers house. He didn't know. He didn't know.
After a while, one has to just say bullshit.
'Obamacare wants to EAT your babies.
Are the babies made of crackers?
How can proof that the grandparent is wrong be considered offtopic when the grandparent is rated insightful?
How is the parent flamebait?
And none of that makes Obama more qualified. "I did things badly" still trumps "I did nothing at all."
# 39 percent of Republicans believe Obama should be impeached, 29 percent are not sure, 32 percent said he should not be voted out of office.
And there weren't any Democrats saying that Bush should be impeached? What this statistic shoes is that a large percentage of the opposing party doesn't like our leader. Jeesh, how is this a crazy belief? It might actually mean something if not for the fact that 49% of the people in the US overall disapprove of the job he is doing (http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/jobapproval-obama.php)
# 36 percent of Republicans believe Obama was not born in the United States, 22 percent are not sure, 42 percent think he is a natural citizen.
And how many Democrats believe that Bush was a draft dodger, when the facts and his commanding officer show that he was trying his best to get into the Vietnam conflict as a fighter pilot (like his father was).
# 31 percent of Republicans believe Obama is a "Racist who hates White people" -- the description once adopted by Fox News's Glenn Beck. 33 percent were not sure, and 36 percent said he was not a racist.
You have Eric Holder, who Obama appointed as Attorney General, intervening in the case of a black man standing outside a polling site with a club, threatening white people. The same man who stands on a street corner yelling that black people need to rise up and "kill some white cracker babies." Even though there was clear video/audio evidence that lead to a conviction, Holder intervened to set the weirdo free (he got a token slap on the wrist...he's not allowed to be at that polling booth during the next election.) I see your point. No reason to think Obama might be racist.
# 63 percent of Republicans think Obama is a socialist, 16 percent are not sure, 21 percent say he is not
"We need to spread the wealth". He appoints socialist to high positions. No. You're right. Nothing at all to suggest he might be a socialist. That's just crazy.
# 24 percent of Republicans believe Obama wants "the terrorists to win," 33 percent aren't sure, 43 percent said he did not want the terrorist to win.
2 months dithering over whether or not to fulfill the commanding general's request for more troops MIGHT have something to do with that. Or maybe not?
# 21 percent of Republicans believe ACORN stole the 2008 election, 55 percent are not sure, 24 percent said the community organizing group did not steal the election.
And Bush leaves office to Democrats still proclaiming that Gore won by a hanging chad.
# 23 percent of Republicans believe that their state should secede from the United States, 19 percent aren't sure, 58 percent said no.
How is that crazy, as opposed to a desire to live under a more responsive and less repressive government? (I didn't just say "oppressive". I said, "less oppressive".)
# 53 percent of Republicans said they believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than Obama.
Winnie the friggin' Pooh is more qualified to be president that Obama. What's your point?
And Obama is any better? Really?
Lipstick on a pig? Running for the highest office in the land, and he did not realize how it would be taken...the controversy it would cause after having been so effectively used by his opponent only a week earlier? He did not have enough socializing to know that it would be correctly be taken as a lowbrow insult? Either he knew how his words would be interpreted and is given to nasty insults, or he was completely unaware of all the press around Palin using that comment to so much applause and is therefore an idiot. Given that after only weeks in office, he uses his bully pulpit to say that he doesn't have all the facts but that the police are stupid, I still don't know which way to categorize him.
Moving troops into Pakistan? As a candidate for the highest office in the land, he will proclaim far and wide that he will invade one of our few tenuous allies in a war torn region? How in the HELL can anyone read that as anything less than complete shoe-size-IQ asinine is beyond me.
How about, "We need to spread the wealth around." And conservatives are idiots for calling him a socialist? WTF?
I can see why he picked a dolt like Biden for a running mate. They can share stories about the taste of shoe leather after they both get their feet out of their mouths.
The people interviewing Palin were definitely out to get her. Their entire demeanor screamed it for the entire interview. On the other hand, Chris Matthews was talking about getting a chill up his leg as he was peeing his pants watching an Obama speech. I mean, when Saturday Night Live does a skit about it, you know it is blaringly obvious.
Palin spoke as well, if not better, than Obama. Still does. Not that the bar is very high.
Pull your head out of the sand, Surt. How about President Obama appointing Van Jones, a 911 Truther and otherwise complete idiot, to a high office position?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/controversial-obama-administration-official-denies-being-part-of-911-truther-movement-apologizes-for.html
Yes, surprise, surprise, he denied it after he was found out. As if anyone would believe that.
Sorry, but I couldn't watch the "Saw" movies. Well, I could, but why the hell do I want to sit there with that sick feeling in my stomach. I get cut and burned enough with the metal working I do to know that it hurts like hell, and I don't want to watch other people enduring it, even if I know it is acting.
Dehumanizing the enemy is a REQUIREMENT if you are to remain sane. There was the study of a short story in English class at the Air Force Academy. The "other guy" gradually went from "friend", to "buddy", to "enemy", then eventually to "dirty bastard" before being shot in the head. You can't shoot "the innocent other guy" in the head and remain sane.
Watch "Pulp Fiction", "Inglorious Bastards", "Kill Bill", or any war movie made after "Full Metal Jacket".
Have we all gone bonkers yet?
And now you have the problem of who pays for the necessary upgrades. The guy who added the last windmill that exceeded the limit? All windmill owners? The Oregon grid, which needs upgrading? The California consumers who want this green power? Everybody says it is not their responsibility and the US, with its dislike of government control, does not have the mechanisms for someone to take charge and decide who pays for it in the short term, and how they are going to get paid back buy the other beneficiaries.
As a staunch conservative Libertarian, I cry bullstuff. The mechanism is for the Federal government to build the lines. Our Constitution gives the Feds the responsibility for building interstate roads. The reason being that not having a umbrella organization building the roads for everyone to use would create a complex system of tolls that would make the roads nearly impossible to use, and poorly maintained. Travel and trade would become very difficult. The Feds build most of the roads, and we pay for it proportional to how much we use it through fuel taxes.
This is 100% analagous to the power grid situation. It is overly complicated to move power around, because what we really have is a complex mash-up of toll roads. Travel and trade are overly complicated, and the lines are poorly maintained.
You can construct the water pump to act as a break to keep the mill from overspeeding and throwing a blade. When capped, a centrifugal pump absorbs close to zero energy. A simple mechanical connect to a centrifugal weight would activate a lever that would open a valve that would enable the centrifugal pump. You give the windmills a safety break, at the same time you are storing the excess energy.
Use the material extracted from the hole to build a large above ground lake. The farms where these windmills are located need to store some irrigation water anyway. Then the water has to be pumped higher, increasing the efficiency of the generators and the storage area.