Place a deposit on all good sold equal to the current cost of proper disposal at net present for the estimated life of the product. The manufacturer has to take the product back and dispose of it at end of life but in return they get an interest free loan for the life of the product. THis shifts the burden to the designers and rewards them for making a easy to dispose of product and rewards them for making it not disposable. The float is how Warren Buffet got rich FYI.
So what? Someone already bred a low saponin Quinoa that immediately harvested by the birds. Maybe leaving in the natural pesticide that is easy to process is a good idea?
It is a strawman. We are talking about solar. In this case we will call solar A. We are also talking about coal here we will call it C. Let's call corn E. Our argument is roughly A>C therefore E has nothing to do with the conversation. Introducing E is a strawman, a terrible example of something unrelated that you can knock down to divert us from the conversation at hand.
You are right that it requires inputs to free up those energies. That being said there is no reason that that diesel cannot be a biofuel -- eventually --. Corn is the worst bio fuel on the planet. How many gallons per acre, 13? Lab algae is at 8000 by some accounts with wild claims up to 8m. But then again what is oil other than subducted algae? Even switch grass ethanol is a joke compared to these numbers. Primary producers win every time.
Well the government was acting as a lender of last resort on highly speculative investments. This is a benefit of government we can take risks that market will not. This is good because the capital markets are not interested in building a better mouse trap they are interested in their own profit. It is almost impossible to get a loan for a first time process, product or idea. Also Solyndra was only 0.0001 of the budget and that loss was offset by other profits from the same program. Do you like highways, nuclear power, cell phones, satellite communication, weather prediction.... all government largess.
VERY little you deal with a is free market capitalism. Who do you send a check to every month? Mortgage, insurance, cell phone, cable, phone, power, gas, water, sewer, & whatever not a single one is a free market. None. You wouldn't want to live in a true free market capitalistic utopia anyway. The first rule of free markets is that like communism everyone makes the same amount of money. With no barriers to entry and transparent information there is no economic profit to be had. All profits are eventually driven to zero.
Once you start drilling MTI estimates that you can provide 100% of US energy needs from geothermal anyway. There are also ice batteries, kinetic energy storage, vanadium batteries, liquid sulfur, and even just pumping water into pressure vessels or uphill.
Strawman argument so it has no bearing. Also you might note A. Corn is the worst possible biofuel. B. All biofuels are in fact solar. C. We have pipeline and liquid fuel storage and transfer infrastructure. D. Liquid Hydrocarbons are energy dense. E. We have fuel burning devices already in use.
At least not i your home. I have a friend who's a forensic fire investigator and do oyu know the number one thing to burn your house down? Dishwasher. It gets hot, uses a lot of electricity, and is filled with pressurized water. As one who ignore "no user serviceable parts" I took this one to heart.
"each round is accounted for" such a lie. Have a friend who was in Canadian Military and did training in the US. If you lost your magazine your were fucked. They were bitching to the US quartermaster and he gave them a handful with the understanding no one really cared.
7 Immersion up to 1 m Ingress of water in harmful quantity shall not be possible when the enclosure is immersed in water under defined conditions of pressure and time (up to 1 m of submersion). Test duration: 30 minutes Tested with the lowest point of the enclosure 1000 mm below the surface of the water, or the highest point 150 mm below the surface, whichever is deeper.
IP68 is... 6 Dust tight No ingress of dust; complete protection against contact (dust tight) 8 Immersion beyond 1 m The equipment is suitable for continuous immersion in water under conditions which shall be specified by the manufacturer. However, with certain types of equipment, it can mean that water can enter but only in such a manner that it produces no harmful effects.
No mention of salt so fuck snorkling. If it is not made out of a sealed portless glass block. marine grade stainless or brass it is not going in the ocean. But i've dropped more than one phone out of a chest pocket into a stream pong or river. It if makes it through that it is better than the alternative.
Do you know what false advertising is in fact? "A reasonable person must believe it." Catch 22; no reasonable person would believe any advertising so it is hard to get a conviction. Here it might be more cut and dry because they claim an IP68 standard which does mean something. Either way I'd rather have a phone that tries to IP68 than one that doesn't. I've had a S3 Active and I took a lot of underwater video with it but I seated my cover correctly every time. The new Sony have a open USB port that is IP68 or was obviously until a rational engineer told the marketing folks that that they cannot claim X. I honestly have NO IDEA why we need any ports on any phone at all. Sure I love me some 2 batteries but with Qi, NFC, Wifi, Cloud Sync, Chromecast et al. I would be happy having all those things like USB, SIM, SD, and whatever under screw down o-ring bezels.
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Place a deposit on all good sold equal to the current cost of proper disposal at net present for the estimated life of the product. The manufacturer has to take the product back and dispose of it at end of life but in return they get an interest free loan for the life of the product. THis shifts the burden to the designers and rewards them for making a easy to dispose of product and rewards them for making it not disposable. The float is how Warren Buffet got rich FYI.
So what? Someone already bred a low saponin Quinoa that immediately harvested by the birds. Maybe leaving in the natural pesticide that is easy to process is a good idea?
It is a strawman. We are talking about solar. In this case we will call solar A. We are also talking about coal here we will call it C. Let's call corn E. Our argument is roughly A>C therefore E has nothing to do with the conversation. Introducing E is a strawman, a terrible example of something unrelated that you can knock down to divert us from the conversation at hand.
Yep; it just contains a shit load of particulates and mercury all bound up in the mix so fuck that.
You are right that it requires inputs to free up those energies. That being said there is no reason that that diesel cannot be a biofuel -- eventually --. Corn is the worst bio fuel on the planet. How many gallons per acre, 13? Lab algae is at 8000 by some accounts with wild claims up to 8m. But then again what is oil other than subducted algae? Even switch grass ethanol is a joke compared to these numbers. Primary producers win every time.
Well the government was acting as a lender of last resort on highly speculative investments. This is a benefit of government we can take risks that market will not. This is good because the capital markets are not interested in building a better mouse trap they are interested in their own profit. It is almost impossible to get a loan for a first time process, product or idea. Also Solyndra was only 0.0001 of the budget and that loss was offset by other profits from the same program. Do you like highways, nuclear power, cell phones, satellite communication, weather prediction.... all government largess.
VERY little you deal with a is free market capitalism. Who do you send a check to every month? Mortgage, insurance, cell phone, cable, phone, power, gas, water, sewer, & whatever not a single one is a free market. None. You wouldn't want to live in a true free market capitalistic utopia anyway. The first rule of free markets is that like communism everyone makes the same amount of money. With no barriers to entry and transparent information there is no economic profit to be had. All profits are eventually driven to zero.
About 8 years too late give or take but isn't that what Trump was saying he was going to do?
NPR just showed that Black Lung is dramatically underreported.
Once you start drilling MTI estimates that you can provide 100% of US energy needs from geothermal anyway. There are also ice batteries, kinetic energy storage, vanadium batteries, liquid sulfur, and even just pumping water into pressure vessels or uphill.
Strawman argument so it has no bearing. Also you might note A. Corn is the worst possible biofuel. B. All biofuels are in fact solar. C. We have pipeline and liquid fuel storage and transfer infrastructure. D. Liquid Hydrocarbons are energy dense. E. We have fuel burning devices already in use.
Name them like Iain M. Banks does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Jesus saved the life of a Roman sex slave!
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Sarcasm? Plastic melting heat + alcohol = no more dishwasher, house, kids, dog, and car.
At least not i your home. I have a friend who's a forensic fire investigator and do oyu know the number one thing to burn your house down? Dishwasher. It gets hot, uses a lot of electricity, and is filled with pressurized water. As one who ignore "no user serviceable parts" I took this one to heart.
What a shit pile of humanity that was.
So guns are not the solution to gun violence. Duly noted.
"each round is accounted for" such a lie. Have a friend who was in Canadian Military and did training in the US. If you lost your magazine your were fucked. They were bitching to the US quartermaster and he gave them a handful with the understanding no one really cared.
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Give em a command line, a compliler, and a programming language. If they want multi purpose make em make it.
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Immersion up to 1 m
Ingress of water in harmful quantity shall not be possible when the enclosure is immersed in water under defined conditions of pressure and time (up to 1 m of submersion). Test duration: 30 minutes
Tested with the lowest point of the enclosure 1000 mm below the surface of the water, or the highest point 150 mm below the surface, whichever is deeper.
Sony has at one point sued its **fucking self** take that in to account.
IP68 is...
6 Dust tight No ingress of dust; complete protection against contact (dust tight)
8 Immersion beyond 1 m The equipment is suitable for continuous immersion in water under conditions which shall be specified by the manufacturer. However, with certain types of equipment, it can mean that water can enter but only in such a manner that it produces no harmful effects.
No mention of salt so fuck snorkling. If it is not made out of a sealed portless glass block. marine grade stainless or brass it is not going in the ocean. But i've dropped more than one phone out of a chest pocket into a stream pong or river. It if makes it through that it is better than the alternative.
Do you know what false advertising is in fact? "A reasonable person must believe it." Catch 22; no reasonable person would believe any advertising so it is hard to get a conviction. Here it might be more cut and dry because they claim an IP68 standard which does mean something. Either way I'd rather have a phone that tries to IP68 than one that doesn't. I've had a S3 Active and I took a lot of underwater video with it but I seated my cover correctly every time. The new Sony have a open USB port that is IP68 or was obviously until a rational engineer told the marketing folks that that they cannot claim X. I honestly have NO IDEA why we need any ports on any phone at all. Sure I love me some 2 batteries but with Qi, NFC, Wifi, Cloud Sync, Chromecast et al. I would be happy having all those things like USB, SIM, SD, and whatever under screw down o-ring bezels.
What good are laws? The bad people don't obey them and the good people don't need them.