That's off point, as my post was clearly in response to "The way children are taught to share, to learn, and to behave".
But to you point, while it certainly is bad for teachers to teach the wrong stuff, they can still teach some correct things. Kids that don't learn either are the ones that will suffer in life. If they have parents that teach them good learning habits, they are more likely to figure out the truth sooner or later. I don't think there is a big problem with teachers "that (don't) know anything to teach them that's true", as you cited.
You're right that there's a possibility for hydro power lake emissions to be significant. The emissions from the O&G industry are just many time larger, which is why they're a primary target.
Are you certain methane from leaks is many times larger per unit of energy consumed? O&G generates huge amounts of energy, I would think the relative release from leaks is probably pretty low.
That's not really true, solar panel and wind power are both seeing annual double digit growth, and around 10% of the power generated in Europe now comes from wind.
I was not saying we do not have solar and wind growth. I said global CO2 emission reductions are still negligible.
Yeap, they'll be puffing a cloud of smug just like New Zealand did when it shut down its last coal fired plant, but still sells it to who ever us willing to buy it and burn it. Very responsible.
If everyone on the planet stopped selling coal today, we'd have a lot worse problems than coal pollution to deal with.
Norway has the highest percentage of electric car adoption in the world, so I don't think they are being hypocritical. If they stopped pumping oil ad gas from the North Sea, it would just mean more money going to Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Exactly. I don't know why its so hard for some to understand that if a country were to give up it's primary economic driver it would be unable to do the very costly things that are required to significantly reduce carbon emissions. All too often I see folks here completely disregard the socioeconomic factors that MUST be considered in order for the world to change enough to impact AGW. As a global society, we've made essentially ZERO progress in actual carbon reduction, but some countries have some nice symbolic windmills and solar panels to point to as 'feel good' icons. Unless we address the socioeconomic challenges and accept what the facts tell us, we will continue to stagnate.
You know nothing about child development. I'd take the teacher with a master's in childhood education any day. The way children are taught to share, to learn, and to behave can make a tremendous difference.
Parental influence far outweighs the teacher's influence in these behaviors, no matter what degree the teacher holds. A degree also matters little when the ability to enforce discipline is severely limited.
Methane has a much more powerful greenhouse effect the CO2. This is really bad news.
But, when I've pointed out the massive methane emissions from hydro power lakes, I've had folks here arguing that methane doesn't last long in the atmosphere, therefore is not a significant problem.
I'd rather have employees that get their work done and go home early than those that are always working late and behind schedule. I kind of think leaving early is a nice reward for getting done early. OTOH, occasionally when work needs call for logging extra hours to meet a deadline, I expect everyone to carry their share of the load.
"A typical seat in economy class now weighs 74 to 82 pounds."
I'm also sure people wouldnt be hauling a ton of luggage around for a one hour flight, so I can't see this being an issue.
Its a space issue if you need overhead storage. Something would have to change because there would not be enough headroom to stand. Even without overhead storage, I could stand up near a window with the existing floor placement, I would have to crouch.
I don't think passengers would stand freely like in a bar. I think they still would be strapped to some kind of railing they would lean on. I think on ahort flights (1-2h) this might be even better than sqeezed into a seat, especially for people with long legs. Imagine a seat where your legs are stretched downwards so you take up less horizontal space.
You can just sit on your carry-on, as long as it is no wider than your shoulders.
Life forrce energy is the lose translation for Ki or Qi.
And it is a concept in basically all traditional healing methods (world wide), so I would not dismiss it as 'fantasie'.
So, we are back where we started. If you are OK with that belief, then fine. Don't try to proselytize it to me with no scientific explanation. Praying is also a traditional healing method.
Because at the time the people discovered that effect, they used a word from their language. In Japanese that is Ki, in Chinese it is Qi.
If you had tried to pay attention instead of putting me into the "wacko corner" that would have been obvious 3, 4 or 5 posts back.
On the other hand, I'm not convinced that it is only increased blood flow:D but that is what the "scientists" saw.
You are the one the called it 'life force energy', then went about giving it some sort of context by talking about ancient civilizations beliefs. But blood flow is nothing of the sort. Don't blame me for the path you chose to walk, you posted that.....and your last sentence pretty much puts you where I thought you were.
Information density is very low. It wastes lots of space, presents less information, fewer links and what remains is spread over multiple URLs (for example, one has to click on "Local" to see local news).
Horrible.
Its also distracting with the different font size levels scattered about. I just want a headline and the source to the right of it, not below. And more, not fewer, headlines on each topic as was before.
Paper maps, compared to a SatNav have a couple of problems:
- A small one :
One needs to know how to read them.
- And a *major one* :
You're not supposed to read while driving, nor fussy around with books and papers.
You're supposed to keep your eyes on the road.
So you need that the person riding shotgun takes care of the maps (and hope is map-litterate enough to be actually able to do it).
(As opposed to a SatNav that handles everything alone and that you can keep within your far aways field of view, like right above of the dashboard)
(Just don't be an idiot, don't stick it in the middle of the front window as most idiots seem to be doing lately).
The obvious advantages are obvious. Thanks for taking time to explain them to everyone thought. I'm sure you have not insulted anybody's intelligence.
All power plants fluctuate. Nuke stations need refuelling and maintenance at least twice a year dropping or stopping output.
Nuclear refueling cycles are almost always 12 or 18 months. Not 6, you have an inaccurate source of info that you should no longer trust or repeat. The outages are planned for low demand times, typically Spring and Fall, and therefore do not present the same problems that widely varying output on an hourly basis that we can see from wind.
It takes three points to stop rotation of the platform while allowing movement (you could stop rotation with two but the anchor lines would need to be more taught). That is why three. The likelihood of an anchor break and the consequences are hard to know from information available. Two lines would likely stop any significant movement from its original position.
So you believe they'll NEVER have to replace a blade or generator?
I'd take money on that. Planned or not planned, things happens, blades have fractures that eventually give way, generators will seize up, etc.
Ferret
A certain percentage of blades will fail earlier, the rest replaced when their design life is up. While the generators claim a 25 year "design life", maintenance over those years will likely replace the windings and most of the parts, some more than once.
I suppose the movement of these 'bobbing' structures might increase the difficulty of blade replacement.
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That's off point, as my post was clearly in response to "The way children are taught to share, to learn, and to behave".
But to you point, while it certainly is bad for teachers to teach the wrong stuff, they can still teach some correct things. Kids that don't learn either are the ones that will suffer in life. If they have parents that teach them good learning habits, they are more likely to figure out the truth sooner or later. I don't think there is a big problem with teachers "that (don't) know anything to teach them that's true", as you cited.
You're right that there's a possibility for hydro power lake emissions to be significant. The emissions from the O&G industry are just many time larger, which is why they're a primary target.
Are you certain methane from leaks is many times larger per unit of energy consumed? O&G generates huge amounts of energy, I would think the relative release from leaks is probably pretty low.
That's not really true, solar panel and wind power are both seeing annual double digit growth, and around 10% of the power generated in Europe now comes from wind.
I was not saying we do not have solar and wind growth. I said global CO2 emission reductions are still negligible.
And you are confused as to the benefits of disciplined behavior in learning.
Yeap, they'll be puffing a cloud of smug just like New Zealand did when it shut down its last coal fired plant, but still sells it to who ever us willing to buy it and burn it. Very responsible.
If everyone on the planet stopped selling coal today, we'd have a lot worse problems than coal pollution to deal with.
Norway has the highest percentage of electric car adoption in the world, so I don't think they are being hypocritical. If they stopped pumping oil ad gas from the North Sea, it would just mean more money going to Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Exactly. I don't know why its so hard for some to understand that if a country were to give up it's primary economic driver it would be unable to do the very costly things that are required to significantly reduce carbon emissions. All too often I see folks here completely disregard the socioeconomic factors that MUST be considered in order for the world to change enough to impact AGW. As a global society, we've made essentially ZERO progress in actual carbon reduction, but some countries have some nice symbolic windmills and solar panels to point to as 'feel good' icons. Unless we address the socioeconomic challenges and accept what the facts tell us, we will continue to stagnate.
You know nothing about child development. I'd take the teacher with a master's in childhood education any day. The way children are taught to share, to learn, and to behave can make a tremendous difference.
Parental influence far outweighs the teacher's influence in these behaviors, no matter what degree the teacher holds. A degree also matters little when the ability to enforce discipline is severely limited.
Methane has a much more powerful greenhouse effect the CO2. This is really bad news.
But, when I've pointed out the massive methane emissions from hydro power lakes, I've had folks here arguing that methane doesn't last long in the atmosphere, therefore is not a significant problem.
And kids already 'think like computers'. Garbage in, garbage out.
I'd rather have employees that get their work done and go home early than those that are always working late and behind schedule. I kind of think leaving early is a nice reward for getting done early. OTOH, occasionally when work needs call for logging extra hours to meet a deadline, I expect everyone to carry their share of the load.
"A typical seat in economy class now weighs 74 to 82 pounds."
I'm also sure people wouldnt be hauling a ton of luggage around for a one hour flight, so I can't see this being an issue.
Its a space issue if you need overhead storage. Something would have to change because there would not be enough headroom to stand. Even without overhead storage, I could stand up near a window with the existing floor placement, I would have to crouch.
I don't think passengers would stand freely like in a bar. I think they still would be strapped to some kind of railing they would lean on. I think on ahort flights (1-2h) this might be even better than sqeezed into a seat, especially for people with long legs. Imagine a seat where your legs are stretched downwards so you take up less horizontal space.
You can just sit on your carry-on, as long as it is no wider than your shoulders.
Life forrce energy is the lose translation for Ki or Qi. And it is a concept in basically all traditional healing methods (world wide), so I would not dismiss it as 'fantasie'.
So, we are back where we started. If you are OK with that belief, then fine. Don't try to proselytize it to me with no scientific explanation. Praying is also a traditional healing method.
Because at the time the people discovered that effect, they used a word from their language. In Japanese that is Ki, in Chinese it is Qi.
If you had tried to pay attention instead of putting me into the "wacko corner" that would have been obvious 3, 4 or 5 posts back.
On the other hand, I'm not convinced that it is only increased blood flow :D but that is what the "scientists" saw.
You are the one the called it 'life force energy', then went about giving it some sort of context by talking about ancient civilizations beliefs. But blood flow is nothing of the sort. Don't blame me for the path you chose to walk, you posted that.....and your last sentence pretty much puts you where I thought you were.
Information density is very low. It wastes lots of space, presents less information, fewer links and what remains is spread over multiple URLs (for example, one has to click on "Local" to see local news).
Horrible.
Its also distracting with the different font size levels scattered about. I just want a headline and the source to the right of it, not below. And more, not fewer, headlines on each topic as was before.
Horrible^2.
Its good to know that since yesterday nothing has changed.
Paper maps, compared to a SatNav have a couple of problems :
- A small one : One needs to know how to read them.
- And a *major one* : You're not supposed to read while driving, nor fussy around with books and papers. You're supposed to keep your eyes on the road. So you need that the person riding shotgun takes care of the maps (and hope is map-litterate enough to be actually able to do it). (As opposed to a SatNav that handles everything alone and that you can keep within your far aways field of view, like right above of the dashboard) (Just don't be an idiot, don't stick it in the middle of the front window as most idiots seem to be doing lately).
The obvious advantages are obvious. Thanks for taking time to explain them to everyone thought. I'm sure you have not insulted anybody's intelligence.
Something similar might be said for solar power. The point?
I think I have some offline maps stored on paper somewhere.
All power plants fluctuate. Nuke stations need refuelling and maintenance at least twice a year dropping or stopping output.
Nuclear refueling cycles are almost always 12 or 18 months. Not 6, you have an inaccurate source of info that you should no longer trust or repeat. The outages are planned for low demand times, typically Spring and Fall, and therefore do not present the same problems that widely varying output on an hourly basis that we can see from wind.
sail boats could bring the charged batteries back to shore! problem solved.
It takes three points to stop rotation of the platform while allowing movement (you could stop rotation with two but the anchor lines would need to be more taught). That is why three. The likelihood of an anchor break and the consequences are hard to know from information available. Two lines would likely stop any significant movement from its original position.
Yup, none of those" poor people" benefited from low cost reliably electric power. It was only the rich folks that wanted it. GMAFB.
Coal was (and is) dominant because of practicality. The driving force behind coal use was DEMAND for electricity.
So you believe they'll NEVER have to replace a blade or generator? I'd take money on that. Planned or not planned, things happens, blades have fractures that eventually give way, generators will seize up, etc. Ferret
A certain percentage of blades will fail earlier, the rest replaced when their design life is up. While the generators claim a 25 year "design life", maintenance over those years will likely replace the windings and most of the parts, some more than once.
I suppose the movement of these 'bobbing' structures might increase the difficulty of blade replacement.
The difference is the lack of training data. Volvo didn't try hard enough to get this right.
Maybe they should just train the damn kangaroos to stay the heck out of the way.