And hoses to carry significant power levels of electricity are huge compared to those for carrying diesel, and a good deal less safe.
These are problems that can be solved. A high voltage cable doesn't have to be any bulkier than a typical fuel hose. And with good engineering, an electric cable can be made safer than a fuel hose. For instance, you can have a special shielded cable and power connector that locks in place, and checks its own integrity before switching on the power. Compare this to old grannies and stoned teenagers handling a hose capable of spraying 1MJ of extremely flammable fuel per second.
Since burning the fuel returns it back into CO2 and H2O, the amount of energy in the various bonds is irrelevant. All the energy you put in will come out again.
Very unlikely that this is a practical solution in the given form. Just the electrolysis step alone wastes more energy than the entire windmill to Tesla pathway.
You can't have low prices, high quality, and high wages for the worker - pick two.
You'd be lucky to pick two. Sometimes you can't even pick one. On several occasions, I've seen very expensive, poor quality, strawberries in the supermarket.
If Pandora makes an agreement with SoundExchange about the fee per song, there's no reason why they can't include publicity/advertising as a component of that price.
Broadcast radio pays nothing, so the notion isn't so crazy as you think.
That's only true if you figure that the battery is worthless at the end of its useful life. That's a silly assumption, because it's still full of the same amount of lithium as when you bought it. Recycling that lithium is much easier and cheaper than mining new lithium, so they battery is going to have a decent trade in value.
The latest gen consoles don't even have a single crack or mod in place, much less an actual break, and with hardware DRM, it will be the same thing.
A crucial difference is that a movie is read only. There's no interaction. So, all it takes it playing the stream, and finding the weak spot where it can be grabbed, for instance by hooking up special hardware to the LCD panel.
Of course, without the cost for the manned space program, we could have launched a dozen replacement telescopes, and still have money left over for a cake.
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Agriculture in a high-CO2 atmosphere will place higher demands on aquifers
Unsustainable use of aquifers is a huge problem already. It's probably not a good idea to make it worse.
Now do you want your paycheck for the work that you do? So you have money for things like food, shelter, and supporting a family?
Sure, but most people only get a paycheck for the work they did that month, not for the work they did 5 years ago.
Most developers are only paid for the hours they are actually working, and are not getting paid for actual use of their product.
And hoses to carry significant power levels of electricity are huge compared to those for carrying diesel, and a good deal less safe.
These are problems that can be solved. A high voltage cable doesn't have to be any bulkier than a typical fuel hose. And with good engineering, an electric cable can be made safer than a fuel hose. For instance, you can have a special shielded cable and power connector that locks in place, and checks its own integrity before switching on the power. Compare this to old grannies and stoned teenagers handling a hose capable of spraying 1MJ of extremely flammable fuel per second.
Since burning the fuel returns it back into CO2 and H2O, the amount of energy in the various bonds is irrelevant. All the energy you put in will come out again.
What, did you figure that Audi was just making diesel to pump back into the ground and forget about?
Obviously not. They're going to mix it with kerosine, gasoline and bitumen to make synthetic crude. And then they'll pump that back into the ground,
I'd assume it will end up somewhat close to Fischer–Tropsch, about 50-60% max efficiency.
With added losses due to having to extract CO2 from the air, hydrogen from water, and the conversion from CO2 to CO.
There's surely a future in electric cars
The future for electric cars is closer than the future for synthetic fuel made from air.
Very unlikely that this is a practical solution in the given form. Just the electrolysis step alone wastes more energy than the entire windmill to Tesla pathway.
This process is CO2 neutral. As the fuel is burned, the carbon is released back into the atmosphere.
It would be even smarter to stop before hydrogen and store the electricity directly in a battery.
You can't have low prices, high quality, and high wages for the worker - pick two.
You'd be lucky to pick two. Sometimes you can't even pick one. On several occasions, I've seen very expensive, poor quality, strawberries in the supermarket.
If Pandora makes an agreement with SoundExchange about the fee per song, there's no reason why they can't include publicity/advertising as a component of that price.
Broadcast radio pays nothing, so the notion isn't so crazy as you think.
At what point did Pandora explicitly ask the artists if they wanted their work advertising
Since most artists don't own the rights to their work, they didn't need to ask.
there is nothing as important to human life as food. Why does worker reward not reflect this?
Current worker reward produces more than enough food, so it is reflecting what it should.
That's only true if you figure that the battery is worthless at the end of its useful life. That's a silly assumption, because it's still full of the same amount of lithium as when you bought it. Recycling that lithium is much easier and cheaper than mining new lithium, so they battery is going to have a decent trade in value.
What did you assume for the battery trade in value when it's worn out ?
Gee, that sounds like a great idea. I wonder what could possibly go wrong.
Probably nothing. The battery controller will simply prevent anything stupid from happening.
The question is : can you make the math work out, and agree with all observations ?
If yes, please collect nobel prize. If no, don't bother. If you have no clue, why even speculate ?
The latest gen consoles don't even have a single crack or mod in place, much less an actual break, and with hardware DRM, it will be the same thing.
A crucial difference is that a movie is read only. There's no interaction. So, all it takes it playing the stream, and finding the weak spot where it can be grabbed, for instance by hooking up special hardware to the LCD panel.
Yes, of course. Just like gravity causes two objects to attract each other, right up until some fellow shows the force sometimes repels.
Quantum entanglement cannot be used to send information.
Of course, without the cost for the manned space program, we could have launched a dozen replacement telescopes, and still have money left over for a cake.
Yes there are a million volts present.
Voltage can be 100 million for negative lightning to 1 billion Volt for positive.
"And we're going to save lives because of this!!!1!!"