The water vapor is cooler than the surrounding areas. Why would it be radiating into space?
The water vapor is cooler than the surrounding area. Cool air sinks. Hot air rises. How is this vapor going to be lofted to higher and cooler altitudes?
Actually, you don't want to aspirate to much of it. The problem with the water mist is that it isn't pure water. Tap water carries an incredible amount of 'stuff', be it dissolved minerals or bacteria. Several types of humidifiers have been taken off the market due to this problem.
It's frustrating, because you're doing it totally wrong.
You say you've got Ubuntu installed. Look for a program called Synaptic, or Adept. It'll ask for your root password when you start it.
Once it is running, look around for a search bar. Type what you want to do in the search bar. Not the name of the program, what you want to do. In this case, instead of 'firefox' you would type in 'web browser'.
You'll get a list of programs that may or may not meet your needs. Read the descriptions. Choose to install what you think will be interesting. Most programs are set up to put an icon on your start bar menu.
As a new user, your better off only getting programs from the official repositories. Once you've got your feet under you, it's not to hard to stray, but stay where it is safe for the time being. All the dependancies and such have already been worked out for you.
We'll have to wait and see. Right now, they're just pleading for money. They haven't received any yet.
I'm hoping every industry in the country takes a trip to Washington to beg. Maybe at some point, the politicians will come to their senses and realize that our country doesn't run that way.
No, but you can imagine what it would be like to buy clothes that are made there.
The facts of the matter are that people hate pollution just enough to legislate it out of their immediate neighborhood, but not enough to pay more for the stuff they buy if they can find the same stuff cheaper. Businessmen with money to invest usually aren't stupid, else they wouldn't have money to invest. All the factories have left the US, because the produce pollutants and the labor is cheaper overseas.
You mean Ford, GM and Chrysler wanted to make fuel efficient cars but the UWA prevented them?
That's a stupid question. They didn't want to make fuel efficient cars because no one wanted to buy them. Up until a few years ago, fuel was cheap, a big SUV indicated status, and there were high tariffs on imported trucks. Yes, Mr. Coward, SUV are categorized as trucks.
Stop with the "they try to sell cars no one wants" foolishness. They sold a bunch of trucks that everyone wanted and at a high profit margin. Enough of a profit margin to stay in business even with the ridiculous wages and benefits they had to pay to UAW workers.
The problem is that some politicians ARE actually good, and removing them removes the right of people to elect their representatives.
I would be content with making committee membership, and especially committee chairmanships, completely random. Why should the district represented by Barney Frank have more power than the district represented by Kay Hagan? Barney Frank, Robert Stevens, et.al. get elected time after time for one reason...because they can bring home the bacon. Congressional 'seniority' is an enabler of pork-barrel politics that distorts voter preferences.
Er, how? The moderates usually have no authority over the extremists, so how should they police them?
The moderates police the extremists by objecting loudly and clearly to the abuses of their good name. You have your greatest leaders go on TV and say that people who hijack planes and fly them into buildings have no place in your congregations or the heaven you believe in.
Here, let me demonstrate. People who burn crosses to intimidate others will have a special place reserved for them in hottest section hell. The DON'T know Jesus Christ, haven't a bit of understanding about what he taught, and I will refuse to congregate with anyone that will openly express such views. I have left a church when the Pastor told me that, "We need to just understand the older people in the congregation."
That's how you police the extremist. You marginalize them. You don't try to understand them, or have an open mind to their point of view. Harming people in the name of God is not to be tolerated in any way, shape or form.
A few facts (if you can believe NASA), from http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/factoids/funfacts.htm
Each of the Shuttle's solid rocket motors burns 5 tons (4,536 kilograms) of propellant per second.
From http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/basics/launch.html
The journey starts relatively slowly: at liftoff, the shuttle weighs more than 2.04 million kilograms (4.5 million pounds) and it takes eight seconds for the engines and boosters to accelerate the ship to 161 kilometers per hour (100 mph.)
So, to get to 100mph, the SRBs will burn 40tons of propellant. To hold all of that fuel and thrust, the SRBs casings are 1/2" thick steel. You cut down on the need for the SRBs, means you can cut down on the size of their casing. You can pump all that back into payload, or you can eliminate some of the launch structure.
You can take a mile to accelerate to 100mph. The launch becomes less time critical.
The other benefit of the spacetrain is safety. Currently, astronauts sit on top of a big bomb and light it. Escape is problematic. If you've already accelerated to flight speeds before the rockets are lit, you have more options. (You're not safe, but you have more options.)
Of course, it is easier just to build an even bigger 'use-once' roman candle, and I'm sure that is exactly what they will do.
You are so right. Windows 3.1 will disappear any day now.
No, seriously. I have been waiting for people to wake up and catch a clue since I first found OS/2. After a while, you just resign yourself to the fact that people are stupid.
What you really want is a solution like Netapp file servers. It will distribute the files at the file system block level, updating only the blocks that have changed. You install a filer at your central office, then have multiple mirrors of that one at the various field offices. All the PCs get their boot image off the network file server (the local one). With one update, you can upgrade every PC in the entire company.
How will it perform after they add back the error checking code?
IBM and Microsoft had a competition to build the fastest implementation of the HPFS file system for OS/2. They brought the two implementation into a room and ran some benchmarks. Microsoft won, and their implementation went into OS/2. IBM engineers then had to go into the code and add the error checking that the MS guys left out...at which point it was much slower than the IBM codeline.
The US imposed heavy tariffs on truck imports. The SUV's the car companies were building qualified as trucks, which allowed the companies to actually make a profit on them. People were buying them up as fast as they could be built. They were making big profits on a fast selling product. What is not bright about that?
Oh, they should have seen the oil crisis coming? We've had an oil crisis coming since the 70's!!
I have one question: why aren't diesels being used in the USA?
You ever seen those dispensers of plastic gloves next to the diesel pumps at gas stations. Diesel
-stinks (the raw fuel you pump), and the stink hangs around. -has a reputation for being a dirty, smoky fuel used by truckers and dualy-driving construction workers.
That is enough right there to get the "wife veto" on any diesel purchase.
PS.- Save the protest about it doesn't smell that bad, or today's diesels are better than yesterdays. You're preaching to the choir. The question is why don't they sell, and I've tried to answer that question.
A better plan would be to dump the coffee grounds into an organic waste dump with everything else and have some hearty microbes eat it all at once. Breaking out waste streams into individual components will be more efficient only if the individual components are large enough. There will be a threshold where it makes more sense to just throw them all together.
You place the price of the unprocessed oil at $.50/lb. Oil weighs a little more than 6lb/gal. You are saying that the raw, unprocessed stock is worth $3/gal? That's going to make for some expensive fuel.
Ethanol, bio or otherwise, is not a sane replacement for gasoline. It might look good in a laboratory, but it sucks in the real world. The main problems revolve around its hygroscopic nature, and the corrosiveness of the resulting mix.
Ethanol is a terrible thing to add to a fuel tank.
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The water vapor is cooler than the surrounding areas. Why would it be radiating into space?
The water vapor is cooler than the surrounding area. Cool air sinks. Hot air rises. How is this vapor going to be lofted to higher and cooler altitudes?
Actually, you don't want to aspirate to much of it. The problem with the water mist is that it isn't pure water. Tap water carries an incredible amount of 'stuff', be it dissolved minerals or bacteria. Several types of humidifiers have been taken off the market due to this problem.
It's frustrating, because you're doing it totally wrong.
You say you've got Ubuntu installed. Look for a program called Synaptic, or Adept. It'll ask for your root password when you start it.
Once it is running, look around for a search bar. Type what you want to do in the search bar. Not the name of the program, what you want to do. In this case, instead of 'firefox' you would type in 'web browser'.
You'll get a list of programs that may or may not meet your needs. Read the descriptions. Choose to install what you think will be interesting. Most programs are set up to put an icon on your start bar menu.
As a new user, your better off only getting programs from the official repositories. Once you've got your feet under you, it's not to hard to stray, but stay where it is safe for the time being. All the dependancies and such have already been worked out for you.
Adept/Synaptic/Yum ARE the killer apps for Linux.
We'll have to wait and see. Right now, they're just pleading for money. They haven't received any yet.
I'm hoping every industry in the country takes a trip to Washington to beg. Maybe at some point, the politicians will come to their senses and realize that our country doesn't run that way.
And you assume that the government has been given the power to 'invest' in anything. The government is a notoriously awful investor.
No, but you can imagine what it would be like to buy clothes that are made there.
The facts of the matter are that people hate pollution just enough to legislate it out of their immediate neighborhood, but not enough to pay more for the stuff they buy if they can find the same stuff cheaper. Businessmen with money to invest usually aren't stupid, else they wouldn't have money to invest. All the factories have left the US, because the produce pollutants and the labor is cheaper overseas.
My delivery needs work.
They've kept "MY motor running"...as in me. We are talking about bio fuels, after all.
Were they realistically feasible in the first place?
I would have to say, "Yes." They've kept my motor running for quite a few years now.
my job is protected as long as I do it and do it right.
You don't have a job. You have skills. The employer is the one with the job.
You mean Ford, GM and Chrysler wanted to make fuel efficient cars but the UWA prevented them?
That's a stupid question. They didn't want to make fuel efficient cars because no one wanted to buy them. Up until a few years ago, fuel was cheap, a big SUV indicated status, and there were high tariffs on imported trucks. Yes, Mr. Coward, SUV are categorized as trucks.
Stop with the "they try to sell cars no one wants" foolishness. They sold a bunch of trucks that everyone wanted and at a high profit margin. Enough of a profit margin to stay in business even with the ridiculous wages and benefits they had to pay to UAW workers.
GM makes crappy cars? And just who is this 'GM' person?
Could you define 'crappy car' in such a way that does not implicate the working members of the UAW?
Unions were against slaves that didn't pay dues? Go figure.
Unions were against lower paid, and hence lower due paying, child labor? Who'd a thunk it?
(and from another post)
Unions supported an 8hr day, which would mean more workers (and more dues payers)? What philanthropist!!
The problem is that some politicians ARE actually good, and removing them removes the right of people to elect their representatives.
I would be content with making committee membership, and especially committee chairmanships, completely random. Why should the district represented by Barney Frank have more power than the district represented by Kay Hagan? Barney Frank, Robert Stevens, et.al. get elected time after time for one reason...because they can bring home the bacon. Congressional 'seniority' is an enabler of pork-barrel politics that distorts voter preferences.
Er, how? The moderates usually have no authority over the extremists, so how should they police them?
The moderates police the extremists by objecting loudly and clearly to the abuses of their good name. You have your greatest leaders go on TV and say that people who hijack planes and fly them into buildings have no place in your congregations or the heaven you believe in.
Here, let me demonstrate. People who burn crosses to intimidate others will have a special place reserved for them in hottest section hell. The DON'T know Jesus Christ, haven't a bit of understanding about what he taught, and I will refuse to congregate with anyone that will openly express such views. I have left a church when the Pastor told me that, "We need to just understand the older people in the congregation."
That's how you police the extremist. You marginalize them. You don't try to understand them, or have an open mind to their point of view. Harming people in the name of God is not to be tolerated in any way, shape or form.
Virgin, Utah?
Forget about terrorist. You don't see too many PEOPLE there.
A few facts (if you can believe NASA), from http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/factoids/funfacts.htm
Each of the Shuttle's solid rocket motors burns 5 tons (4,536 kilograms) of propellant per second.
From http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/basics/launch.html
The journey starts relatively slowly: at liftoff, the shuttle weighs more than 2.04 million kilograms (4.5 million pounds) and it takes eight seconds for the engines and boosters to accelerate the ship to 161 kilometers per hour (100 mph.)
So, to get to 100mph, the SRBs will burn 40tons of propellant. To hold all of that fuel and thrust, the SRBs casings are 1/2" thick steel. You cut down on the need for the SRBs, means you can cut down on the size of their casing. You can pump all that back into payload, or you can eliminate some of the launch structure.
You can take a mile to accelerate to 100mph. The launch becomes less time critical.
The other benefit of the spacetrain is safety. Currently, astronauts sit on top of a big bomb and light it. Escape is problematic. If you've already accelerated to flight speeds before the rockets are lit, you have more options. (You're not safe, but you have more options.)
Of course, it is easier just to build an even bigger 'use-once' roman candle, and I'm sure that is exactly what they will do.
You are so right. Windows 3.1 will disappear any day now.
No, seriously. I have been waiting for people to wake up and catch a clue since I first found OS/2. After a while, you just resign yourself to the fact that people are stupid.
What you really want is a solution like Netapp file servers. It will distribute the files at the file system block level, updating only the blocks that have changed. You install a filer at your central office, then have multiple mirrors of that one at the various field offices. All the PCs get their boot image off the network file server (the local one). With one update, you can upgrade every PC in the entire company.
How will it perform after they add back the error checking code?
IBM and Microsoft had a competition to build the fastest implementation of the HPFS file system for OS/2. They brought the two implementation into a room and ran some benchmarks. Microsoft won, and their implementation went into OS/2. IBM engineers then had to go into the code and add the error checking that the MS guys left out...at which point it was much slower than the IBM codeline.
I wouldn't trust these 'benchmarks' for squat.
Bullshit.
The US imposed heavy tariffs on truck imports. The SUV's the car companies were building qualified as trucks, which allowed the companies to actually make a profit on them. People were buying them up as fast as they could be built. They were making big profits on a fast selling product. What is not bright about that?
Oh, they should have seen the oil crisis coming? We've had an oil crisis coming since the 70's!!
I have one question: why aren't diesels being used in the USA?
You ever seen those dispensers of plastic gloves next to the diesel pumps at gas stations. Diesel
-stinks (the raw fuel you pump), and the stink hangs around.
-has a reputation for being a dirty, smoky fuel used by truckers and dualy-driving construction workers.
That is enough right there to get the "wife veto" on any diesel purchase.
PS.- Save the protest about it doesn't smell that bad, or today's diesels are better than yesterdays. You're preaching to the choir. The question is why don't they sell, and I've tried to answer that question.
A better plan would be to dump the coffee grounds into an organic waste dump with everything else and have some hearty microbes eat it all at once. Breaking out waste streams into individual components will be more efficient only if the individual components are large enough. There will be a threshold where it makes more sense to just throw them all together.
I welcome the new supertankers coming to a Starbucks near you.
You place the price of the unprocessed oil at $.50/lb. Oil weighs a little more than 6lb/gal. You are saying that the raw, unprocessed stock is worth $3/gal? That's going to make for some expensive fuel.
Ethanol, bio or otherwise, is not a sane replacement for gasoline. It might look good in a laboratory, but it sucks in the real world. The main problems revolve around its hygroscopic nature, and the corrosiveness of the resulting mix.
Ethanol is a terrible thing to add to a fuel tank.