"Switch to bio fuels that are carbon neutral and we have no problem"
I'm not sure you have a very good grasp of the basics of energy flows as in ecosystem thermodynamics.
Bio Fuels have very poor EROEI ratios, meaning you need more energy going in than you get out. Fossil fuels have the great advantage of having concentrated solar energy over millions of years before being cooked in the earth for another couple of milion They do have the disadvantage of being a finite resource..
Google Exxon's funding of Craig Venter's research into bio fuels from algae
Though Bio fuels still have their uses for niche application while fossil fuels long term are a dead end, that's our civilization's current dillema.
While solar energy probably will not power air cargo transport any time soon, wind and solar can certainly power high speed trains...
" In particular, I think deep learning neural networks are the core technology that will make effective fully-autonomous cars feasible (plus the sensors, but those have been available for years), and to a large degree the whole world got access to that theory and practice at about the same time."
Jeremy Howard has a TED talk on deep learning algorithms and he has a slide of a self driving Google vehicle with a caption claiming it had driven over a million miles on standard roads without incident. That talk was posted in 2014.
No! No! No! Pfizer just wanted to be based in the country that ranked #1 on the Good Country list! Which just happens to be Ireland, If you were Pfizer wouldn't you? http://www.goodcountry.org/
Yep, I live in Hollywood Fl near A1A. When I moved there 20 years ago we would get an occasional flood now and then.
Nowadays it seems A1A floods almost every time there is a full moon and there is a wind blowing towards shore at high tide.
Though I do enjoy seeing the gliterrati driving their Ferrari's and Lamborghini's through the saltwater flooding the streets down in South Beach.
I'm betting that there will be severe flooding down there when Erika blows in this weekend. Though personally I'm not too worried since I'm down in Brazil for the next couple of months...
So eat protein made from grasshoppers! Someone up thread bemoaned a general lack of understanding of thermodynamics... it's even worse if you don't grasp Ecosystem Thermodynamics...
The aircraft and the technology are impressive enough in their own right. The team and the sponsors that made this happen are not lightweights by any measure!
However the real point of this project and adventure is basically twofold. One, to prove that off the shelf technology is available to be applied to real world applications right now, PV and battery technology is quite mature already and it does work. The second point is that whether we like it or not we, as a global industrial civilization are on the cusp of a historical transition to a completely new energy paradigm. BAU and fossil fuels got us here but from here on things will be changing at a very fast pace. We will all have to make do, and do better, with less available energy. Some of us will rise to the challenge and hopefully forge a new better and cleaner future with a smaller ecological footprint. Clinging to the old paradigm is a mistake!
100% agree with this comment and I too am an atheist and a fan of Krauss et al. The Pope did what he could do within the limited context in which he can do and say things. A billion people will listen to him and possibly start to act. I also admire the Pope for having the guts to rock the boat of the status quo!
"Understandable. Daniel Kahneman has some amusing anecdotes who people who work in finance really don't seem to figure out what it is they're really doing."
Lead author Dr Roel Brienen, from the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, said: “Tree mortality rates have increased by more than a third since the mid-1980s, and this is affecting the Amazon’s capacity to store carbon.”
Initially, an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – a key ingredient for photosynthesis – led to a growth spurt for the Amazon’s trees, the researchers say. But the extra carbon appears to have had unexpected consequences.
Study co-author Professor Oliver Phillips, also from the University’s School of Geography, said: “With time, the growth stimulation feeds through the system, causing trees to live faster, and so die younger.”
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly Roy"
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In Soviet Russia, Big Data encrypts you!
"Switch to bio fuels that are carbon neutral and we have no problem"
I'm not sure you have a very good grasp of the basics of energy flows as in ecosystem thermodynamics.
Bio Fuels have very poor EROEI ratios, meaning you need more energy going in than you get out. Fossil fuels have the great advantage of having concentrated solar energy over millions of years before being cooked in the earth for another couple of milion They do have the disadvantage of being a finite resource..
Google Exxon's funding of Craig Venter's research into bio fuels from algae
Though Bio fuels still have their uses for niche application while fossil fuels long term are a dead end, that's our civilization's current dillema.
While solar energy probably will not power air cargo transport any time soon, wind and solar can certainly power high speed trains...
This has nothing to do with Greece or any ISMs The world is changing and we are all going to have to adapt
Here's some more food for thought
https://medium.com/basic-incom...
Tony Seba has an interesting talk about disruption. In 1900 there were no cars on the streets of New York
By 1913 there were no horses on the streets of New York
Not many people saw that coming!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I will support nuclear power as soon as it becomes too cheap to meter. Not a day sooner!
You mean like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
So is pi. Maybe we could round it off to 3 so we can finally square the circle..
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http://xkcd.com/301/
Maybe I should buy a few and boot up my old VIC 20...
" In particular, I think deep learning neural networks are the core technology that will make effective fully-autonomous cars feasible (plus the sensors, but those have been available for years), and to a large degree the whole world got access to that theory and practice at about the same time."
Jeremy Howard has a TED talk on deep learning algorithms and he has a slide of a self driving Google vehicle with a caption claiming it had driven over a million miles on standard roads without incident. That talk was posted in 2014.
That would cost mucho mucho latinum...
No! No! No! Pfizer just wanted to be based in the country that ranked #1 on the Good Country list! Which just happens to be Ireland, If you were Pfizer wouldn't you? http://www.goodcountry.org/
Yes, most of them were done in Scandinavian countries...
TEDGlobal 2014 Filmed October 2014 21:42
Ricardo Semler: How to run a company with (almost) no rules
https://www.ted.com/talks/rica...
Yep, I live in Hollywood Fl near A1A. When I moved there 20 years ago we would get an occasional flood now and then. Nowadays it seems A1A floods almost every time there is a full moon and there is a wind blowing towards shore at high tide. Though I do enjoy seeing the gliterrati driving their Ferrari's and Lamborghini's through the saltwater flooding the streets down in South Beach. I'm betting that there will be severe flooding down there when Erika blows in this weekend. Though personally I'm not too worried since I'm down in Brazil for the next couple of months...
Placebo Blocker http://xkcd.com/1526/
So eat protein made from grasshoppers! Someone up thread bemoaned a general lack of understanding of thermodynamics... it's even worse if you don't grasp Ecosystem Thermodynamics...
The aircraft and the technology are impressive enough in their own right. The team and the sponsors that made this happen are not lightweights by any measure! However the real point of this project and adventure is basically twofold. One, to prove that off the shelf technology is available to be applied to real world applications right now, PV and battery technology is quite mature already and it does work. The second point is that whether we like it or not we, as a global industrial civilization are on the cusp of a historical transition to a completely new energy paradigm. BAU and fossil fuels got us here but from here on things will be changing at a very fast pace. We will all have to make do, and do better, with less available energy. Some of us will rise to the challenge and hopefully forge a new better and cleaner future with a smaller ecological footprint. Clinging to the old paradigm is a mistake!
100% agree with this comment and I too am an atheist and a fan of Krauss et al. The Pope did what he could do within the limited context in which he can do and say things. A billion people will listen to him and possibly start to act. I also admire the Pope for having the guts to rock the boat of the status quo!
It was just a natural reaction, a sort of self defense mechanism. Self driving cars tend to feel threatened by the presence people...
Give each Californian a Stillsuit... I'm assuming most here are familiar with 'Dune'.
Klingon!
Disclaimer, I've actually taught English as a second language to scientists and technical personnel...
"Understandable. Daniel Kahneman has some amusing anecdotes who people who work in finance really don't seem to figure out what it is they're really doing."
Daniel Kahneman is highly suspect, he's friends with Nassim Taleb https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Games?! Bah! I remember inputting the source code for a graphic of the space shuttle on my Commodore Vic 20 that had a 16 Kb memory expansion card...
Luckily the memory was good
"declaring that "at 400 parts per million, all our food crops, forests, and natural ecosystems are still on a starvation diet for carbon dioxide."
Yeah but it seems there may be some unintended consequences...
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/ar...
Lead author Dr Roel Brienen, from the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, said: “Tree mortality rates have increased by more than a third since the mid-1980s, and this is affecting the Amazon’s capacity to store carbon.” Initially, an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – a key ingredient for photosynthesis – led to a growth spurt for the Amazon’s trees, the researchers say. But the extra carbon appears to have had unexpected consequences. Study co-author Professor Oliver Phillips, also from the University’s School of Geography, said: “With time, the growth stimulation feeds through the system, causing trees to live faster, and so die younger.”
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly Roy"