Of course, after you've replaced all or most CO2 sources, then you can work on sequestering the CO2 that's already been produced. But that wouldn't involve formic acid, because that's not a very convenient storage material.
But photosynthesis efficiency is really poor, and using the wood as fuel isn't very efficient either. With modern technology we can do much better than trees.
Claimed efficiency is only 2%, using PV panels. It would make more sense to just use the PV panels to replace coal fired plants for generating electricity.
Yes, somebody is on the other side of the transaction with some amount of bitcoin, but the exchange just facilitates trade between these two parties. They don't have to get any exposure to bitcoin themselves. It's the same with any other trading exchange.
Yes, just call it "speed" instead of "time", and then larger will be better. No need to use a log scale: if the different in time between worst and best is a factor of 10, you will have also have a factor of 10 after the variable is inverted.
Why would exchanges care about the price crashing ? The more the price swings, the higher the trade volume, and the higher the profit for the exchanges.
Most often a type of bacterium may be able to digest a type of ingredient within a type of plastic, and that is all to it, which means, the other chemicals inside the plastic are still left intact, not dissolved, not digested, not broken down
So when the bacterium dies, and breaks open to release these chemicals, other bacteria will digest them. Doesn't sound like a problem.
Seems to me that plastics can be split into 2 parts: the biologically active part that gets broken down by bacteria and other lifeforms, and the biologically inert part that just gets smaller over time. The biologically active parts will get modified into other chemicals, and ultimately turn into harmless substances. The inert bits will be harmless if the size is small enough to not cause physical damage.
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Of course, after you've replaced all or most CO2 sources, then you can work on sequestering the CO2 that's already been produced. But that wouldn't involve formic acid, because that's not a very convenient storage material.
Not all harmful emissions, just CO2. And you'd need a big area of solar panels to negate the CO2 production of a single car.
But photosynthesis efficiency is really poor, and using the wood as fuel isn't very efficient either. With modern technology we can do much better than trees.
Obviously, the methane would be used as fuel, not released into the atmosphere.
There's no point at removing a small amount of CO2 if you continue to add 10 times the amount somewhere else.
Claimed efficiency is only 2%, using PV panels. It would make more sense to just use the PV panels to replace coal fired plants for generating electricity.
Only if accompanied by a suitable number of witty comments.
Even if there's no cap, there's a bandwidth limit. I wouldn't want to have some rogue device eating up a significant portion of it.
He could prove it was him by signing a message with the bitcoin address' private key.
I don't know. My provider doesn't have caps. Also, I can choose between 8 different VDSL providers as well as cable.
But it's easier to hide from the government that you're dealing in bitcoin, so there it could offer an advantage over strong foreign currencies.
Right now bitcoin is still inflationary, and it will remain that way for a while to come.
That's not an argument. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
Why not religion ? Stallman makes a decent prophet.
You honestly think that the time to write a file to a SSD will ever reach 0 ?
Yes, somebody is on the other side of the transaction with some amount of bitcoin, but the exchange just facilitates trade between these two parties. They don't have to get any exposure to bitcoin themselves. It's the same with any other trading exchange.
Which exchange carries an inventory of bitcoins for their own use, rather than just maintaining customer accounts ?
Yes, just call it "speed" instead of "time", and then larger will be better. No need to use a log scale: if the different in time between worst and best is a factor of 10, you will have also have a factor of 10 after the variable is inverted.
Lower is better. It's confusing, though. Instead of having "lower is better" graphs, why not just invert the variable of interest ?
All they've done is acknowledging that the bitcoins have a value to some people. But we already knew that.
Why would exchanges care about the price crashing ? The more the price swings, the higher the trade volume, and the higher the profit for the exchanges.
Most often a type of bacterium may be able to digest a type of ingredient within a type of plastic, and that is all to it, which means, the other chemicals inside the plastic are still left intact, not dissolved, not digested, not broken down
So when the bacterium dies, and breaks open to release these chemicals, other bacteria will digest them. Doesn't sound like a problem.
Seems to me that plastics can be split into 2 parts: the biologically active part that gets broken down by bacteria and other lifeforms, and the biologically inert part that just gets smaller over time. The biologically active parts will get modified into other chemicals, and ultimately turn into harmless substances. The inert bits will be harmless if the size is small enough to not cause physical damage.
Instead of worrying about the benches, wouldn't it be smarter to make a phone that doesn't send important information to any random charger ?
I guess I don't understand how sleeping on a public bench is leaching off others when the bench is made available to anyone who wants to use it.
I imagine it's hard to use a public bench when somebody else is sleeping on it.