A metal detector won't detect a non-metallic water line such as the PVC water lines in use in every single new residential construction job in the last 20 years. Ground penetrating radar is expensive as hell. Witching works well if you can find a compotent person to do it and have some spare time to kill for a project this massive.
The implement you're talking about is a "vibratory plow," also known as a shudder plow and cable plow. Vermeer makes a lot of them. You can a use shudder plow to lay a large bundle of fiber, such as what you'd use to connect COs together, but you can't use it to run fiber to individual houses. You're only talking about pulling 2-4 pairs of SMF to each residence. You would need an immense amount of insulation to keep the plow for beating the SMF to death in such a small pull.
Companies and counties that do an incompotent job of maintaining accurate cable/line plant records should be fined harshly. There's no excuse for relying on and distributing outdated records that pose risks to property, especially if you're as big as Hillsborough County, FL. These problems should have been solved many years ago. Better yet, they never should have happened in the first place.
Bullshit. Do you have any idea how hard it is to not break a 3" PVC residential water inlet on new construction? Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep from digging up a pipe that's not supposed to be there? The county's maps are screwed up. You can't blame the contractors for that. There aren't many options for finding a buried PVC water line. Witching doesn't always work. Ground penetrating radar is expensive as hell. That's why the county is supposed to have accurate maps to guide workers. If the maps are borked then you should expect nothing less than hundreds of broken lines in a project of this size. In fact I'm truly surprised that there haven't been more broken lines witha crew of 2000 spread out across the county. I speak from experience as both a netadm and as a backhoe operator. I'm a jack of all trades.
This blame game wouldn't happen in Kansas. Kansas law requires an official "locate" before digging can commence. If the owners of said buried lines fail to locate their lines or mark them in the wrong spots, causing them to be dug up, they are responsible for the damage. Not the one doing the digging. I'm surprised Florida doesn't have a similar law.
LOL. Quite possibly. Or at least a dual-head Tivo-like box. I wish those cards had an internal splitter so I wouldn't have to spring for another TV-in card.
I see. So the old goat is just going to get kicked off the committee. It would be nice if those idiots in Utah would stop voting for the sell-out. I wonder how much $$ I have to give to Hatch to buy a specific piece of legislation. $2? $3? It can't be too much I doubt.
That's tempting. Unfortunately I've got 480GB in my desktop and it's full to the brim. I need to work on that a bit. I'd like to build a Myth or Freevo box but don't have the $$ to build a really good one.
I just have one problem. Could they possibly not run a full evening of Stargate SG-1 on the same evening as a a full run of West Wing? On Monday nights both series run a full evening of their respective shows and I end up flipping back and forth between them and tend to get really confused. Not that I mind seeing Amanda Tapping and Janel Moloney on the same nights. I just want to see both shows. Dammit. I need a Tivo.
Thanks for the info. So I guess it comes down to the likelyhood of hydrogen igniting then. I would think with all the safety measures currently in use for liquid fuel that there is surely enoug safety measures to handle hydrogen gas. My only thought is what would happen if a spark actually reached an underground tank (not that it would or could but what if)? A spark in a underground tank of gasoline won't do jack if there isn't any oxygen. It also won't do anything for a full tank of fuel. A full can of fuel is safe. An empty can is what's dangerous. Perhaps they could replace the hydrogen with an inert gas of a different weight to keep oxygen out. For example, replace the hydrogen as you're pumping it into your vehicle with something heavier than hydrogen. Then make sure you pump off the tank from the top where it should always be hydrogen. You'd have to have a sensor array to detect when the content of inert gas was close to the tank's outlet. Similarly you could use a lighter gas and pump off the bottom. Whatever works best. The biggest hurdle at this point is not having to double your costs by supplying each station with two gases. You need a way of storing the inert gas and reusing it. As you pump in hydrogen from a truck you could allow the heavier inert gas to be pumped back into another storage tank. Do it all with pressue and strategically located inlets and outlets. I'm sure they'll figure something out.
Does anyone know if Hydrogen is more volatile that Gasoline vapor? I wouldn't think that Hydrogen would be any more volatile than that. The article says that the Hydrogen tanks are underground, like most gasoline or diesel tanks, and are under 24/7 monitoring, also like gasoline or diesel tanks. I'm sure the have the required amount of insurance as well. Are peoples' fears justified?
I haven't gotten mine!:-( I can't get enough people to sign up for something. It doesn't help that the free ipod folks stopped offering the no-cost subscription options like the stamps deal they had going. Now it actually costs you some $$. Marketing is such a pain.;-)
:-) I figure it will get more clicks than via my own website. Unfortunately I haven't been able to lure the fanatical gamers and techs to my own site. Maybe I should offer dating tips. Yeah, that might do it.;-)
Amazon started selling them today too. It looks like Halo 2 already has the top Amazon.com sales rank for Computer and Video Games and Halo 2 Limited Edition is coming in at # 2. Not too shabby! They must have had some awesome pre-release orders to put them in the top 2 spots.
Sure. Why not? Everyone else does, or are you new here? By the looks of your UID it appears you are. Oh, and I've already ordered the game via my link. I might as well since I've been following the status of the game for months now and am personally excited it's out. So take your creep comment and troll moderation over to someone that deserves it.
Sorry for the delay. I was AFK all weekend. I grew up in south central Kansas. The ranch I'm talking about, Eagle Head, is just north of where my folks are building a log house. It's 27,000. Not too shabby.:-) As for grad school, I'll let you know when I first graduate. I spent 3 years at K-State and then left to work for 3 years at another Kansas Unv. Then a year or so private consulting. Now I'm heading back to school to finish my EE degree at Wichita State. I may transfer back to K-State once I get some more hours under my belt in Wichita. That's it in a nutshell.
Fowl is one of those animals where they pack them in pretty tight. Veal on the other hand isn't like that. The only instance in a cow's life that they are packed in rather tight is related to transport. Cattle don't generally sit in a stockyard longer than is absolutely necessary to ship them off somewhere else. It costs too much money to leave them sitting in a stockyard. Someone has to feed them multiple times a day and grain isn't cheap. Most cattle graze during the summer, winter on a wheat crop until the first snow, and are then moved to an ungrazed pasture to winter (with extra hay and pellets).
Yeah, the fowl is a rather disgusting mix. Almost makes you want to only eat what you grow, almost. I still like my extra crispy KFC.;-)
I'll be keeping an eye on biodiesel. I'm curious to see where it goes from here. As someone who invests in their spare time, I'm also curious as to who I should invest in to take advantage of the biodiesel potential. Someday...
LOL. Well it wasn't obvious enough that I got it. I've written and read so many replies over the last 2 days I'm sure I missed something along the way. I did some reading on solar panels though and looked at a diagram of one. I didn't realize there was a reflective layer that's meant to let light in from the outside but keep it from bouncing off the cells and back out the front. This would obviously make seeing through the rig a little difficult. I'm really not up on solar panels. About all I know is I have a couple small ones hooked up to my vehicles to keep the batteries hot. That's about it. The reason I mentioned windows is because who'd want to see a bunch of ugly solar panels on the walls of their home? The roof is still an option if you can keep the panels flat on the roof and keep them from being too ugly. Think curb appeal.:-) The windows seemed like an obvious choice. They'd just appear tinted, or so I was thinking. That line of thought seems to not be going anywhere though now that I've read up on them a bit more.
Thanks for the link. I read it and a couple others. GaAs looks to be a compound used in highly efficient solar cells. That doesn't mean it's poisoning anybody though. I bet the concentration in solar cells in less than in pressured-treated wood (don't get me started on the bad rap it's gotten). Still if they can find another compound that's as efficient or better than there isn't any reason to continue using GaAs. They'll surely find it eventually.
I know that solar cells used to be horribly inefficient, something like 20%, but I thought they'd gotten up around 80% or better in the decades since they first got started. Haven't they? I was thinking I read that while researching alternate eletrical sources.
I didn't realize that Chemical Engineering was all about making plants. Then again since a degree in Chemistry != a degree in Chemical Engineering then I suppose I could foresee that being the big difference. That makes sense. I'm working on an engineering degree but not a chemical one. It would be nice is all producton processes could be efficient enough to turn all their waste into a viable product. Think of it like the Native Americans. They wasted no part of the buffalo. They used even the smallest bone for something.
The articles I read about the methane over electrical generating plants indicated that the output was fairly clean. It's been a long while since I read those articles though. That might mean they've refined it even further. Our electrical grids could surely use some help. They haven't had a decent overhaul since their initial inception. What's amazing is that they still work, most of the time.
You know, I'm not sure about your grain to feed statistic. Being a country boy myself that certainly seems off. I'd have to do some research to find out for sure though. Around here we feed our cattle very little if any grain. The only time they get any sort of grain-based product is very the protein content in the grass is low (winter) or occasionally when they need to bulk up before a sale. Any other time they're eating grass (hopefully bluestem). I don't see any reason why a rancher can't graze the same pastures he has windmills in. Cattle are skittish but they also learn fast. They won't be afraid of the windmills for very long. Growing more soy for biodiesel would be a good thing IMHO. The only problem is getting more biodiesel refineries. Last I heard there weren't enough refineries to mass produce it. Then of course you have the trouble of finding a place to fill up on biodiesel. There aren't enough stations to make that feasible. Down the road I hope it really takes off. It just isn't right now (unlike my TASR stock. Woo!)
I preparing to return to college to work on my EE.
DDT has absolutely no harmful side effects you idiot. Quit believing all the BS Uncle Sam tells you via the media and read the independent reports for yourself. I swear this country is full of mindless sheeple.
I'm not so sure about the breathing cheese philosophy. It doesn't get to breathe when it's shrink-wrapped in plastic straight from the factory. I've had blocks of mild cheddar sit in my extremely cold fridge for over a year and still be good. Granted it was very sharp when I finally used it but it was still good. I believe this was so because it had no air, especially oxygen and CO2. Mold, like all other plants, need photosynthesis to survive. It's not just for our benefit. Take away that source of nourishment and they can't grow. That's why I'm thinking that sucking the air out of a baggie that contains a block of cheese is a good thing. I could be wrong but that's my understanding of it. Air == bad.
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The implement you're talking about is a "vibratory plow," also known as a shudder plow and cable plow. Vermeer makes a lot of them. You can a use shudder plow to lay a large bundle of fiber, such as what you'd use to connect COs together, but you can't use it to run fiber to individual houses. You're only talking about pulling 2-4 pairs of SMF to each residence. You would need an immense amount of insulation to keep the plow for beating the SMF to death in such a small pull.
Companies and counties that do an incompotent job of maintaining accurate cable/line plant records should be fined harshly. There's no excuse for relying on and distributing outdated records that pose risks to property, especially if you're as big as Hillsborough County, FL. These problems should have been solved many years ago. Better yet, they never should have happened in the first place.
This blame game wouldn't happen in Kansas. Kansas law requires an official "locate" before digging can commence. If the owners of said buried lines fail to locate their lines or mark them in the wrong spots, causing them to be dug up, they are responsible for the damage. Not the one doing the digging. I'm surprised Florida doesn't have a similar law.
LOL. Quite possibly. Or at least a dual-head Tivo-like box. I wish those cards had an internal splitter so I wouldn't have to spring for another TV-in card.
I see. So the old goat is just going to get kicked off the committee. It would be nice if those idiots in Utah would stop voting for the sell-out. I wonder how much $$ I have to give to Hatch to buy a specific piece of legislation. $2? $3? It can't be too much I doubt.
End of Hatch? Did he get beat out in the elections? I hadn't heard anything about him. I sure hope he did lose though.
That's tempting. Unfortunately I've got 480GB in my desktop and it's full to the brim. I need to work on that a bit. I'd like to build a Myth or Freevo box but don't have the $$ to build a really good one.
Or the Thrustmaster Enzo Ferrari Force Feedback Wheel And Pedals. "Hehe, he said Thrustmaster. Hehe."
Does the T-Mobile Sidekick II come with a fully licensed copy of Mrs. Claus? 8-)
I just have one problem. Could they possibly not run a full evening of Stargate SG-1 on the same evening as a a full run of West Wing? On Monday nights both series run a full evening of their respective shows and I end up flipping back and forth between them and tend to get really confused. Not that I mind seeing Amanda Tapping and Janel Moloney on the same nights. I just want to see both shows. Dammit. I need a Tivo.
Thanks for the info. So I guess it comes down to the likelyhood of hydrogen igniting then. I would think with all the safety measures currently in use for liquid fuel that there is surely enoug safety measures to handle hydrogen gas. My only thought is what would happen if a spark actually reached an underground tank (not that it would or could but what if)? A spark in a underground tank of gasoline won't do jack if there isn't any oxygen. It also won't do anything for a full tank of fuel. A full can of fuel is safe. An empty can is what's dangerous. Perhaps they could replace the hydrogen with an inert gas of a different weight to keep oxygen out. For example, replace the hydrogen as you're pumping it into your vehicle with something heavier than hydrogen. Then make sure you pump off the tank from the top where it should always be hydrogen. You'd have to have a sensor array to detect when the content of inert gas was close to the tank's outlet. Similarly you could use a lighter gas and pump off the bottom. Whatever works best. The biggest hurdle at this point is not having to double your costs by supplying each station with two gases. You need a way of storing the inert gas and reusing it. As you pump in hydrogen from a truck you could allow the heavier inert gas to be pumped back into another storage tank. Do it all with pressue and strategically located inlets and outlets. I'm sure they'll figure something out.
Does anyone know if Hydrogen is more volatile that Gasoline vapor? I wouldn't think that Hydrogen would be any more volatile than that. The article says that the Hydrogen tanks are underground, like most gasoline or diesel tanks, and are under 24/7 monitoring, also like gasoline or diesel tanks. I'm sure the have the required amount of insurance as well. Are peoples' fears justified?
I haven't gotten mine! :-( I can't get enough people to sign up for something. It doesn't help that the free ipod folks stopped offering the no-cost subscription options like the stamps deal they had going. Now it actually costs you some $$. Marketing is such a pain. ;-)
:-) I figure it will get more clicks than via my own website. Unfortunately I haven't been able to lure the fanatical gamers and techs to my own site. Maybe I should offer dating tips. Yeah, that might do it. ;-)
Amazon started selling them today too. It looks like Halo 2 already has the top Amazon.com sales rank for Computer and Video Games and Halo 2 Limited Edition is coming in at # 2. Not too shabby! They must have had some awesome pre-release orders to put them in the top 2 spots.
Sure. Why not? Everyone else does, or are you new here? By the looks of your UID it appears you are. Oh, and I've already ordered the game via my link. I might as well since I've been following the status of the game for months now and am personally excited it's out. So take your creep comment and troll moderation over to someone that deserves it.
Kick ass! Amazon already has the EverQuest II DVD available. They also have the EverQuest II Collector's Edition AND they also have the "EverQuest II: Prima Offical Game Guide" for those of you that are more than a little confused by E2. I'm gonna go order my copies now.
Sorry for the delay. I was AFK all weekend. I grew up in south central Kansas. The ranch I'm talking about, Eagle Head, is just north of where my folks are building a log house. It's 27,000. Not too shabby. :-) As for grad school, I'll let you know when I first graduate. I spent 3 years at K-State and then left to work for 3 years at another Kansas Unv. Then a year or so private consulting. Now I'm heading back to school to finish my EE degree at Wichita State. I may transfer back to K-State once I get some more hours under my belt in Wichita. That's it in a nutshell.
I must be thinking of another bottom-dweller. I haven't bothered updating my huge blacklist in a few months and I've somewhat lost touch.
Yeah, the fowl is a rather disgusting mix. Almost makes you want to only eat what you grow, almost. I still like my extra crispy KFC. ;-)
I'll be keeping an eye on biodiesel. I'm curious to see where it goes from here. As someone who invests in their spare time, I'm also curious as to who I should invest in to take advantage of the biodiesel potential. Someday...
Isn't it Boca Raton, FL where Scott Richter lives, works, and spams?
LOL. Well it wasn't obvious enough that I got it. I've written and read so many replies over the last 2 days I'm sure I missed something along the way. I did some reading on solar panels though and looked at a diagram of one. I didn't realize there was a reflective layer that's meant to let light in from the outside but keep it from bouncing off the cells and back out the front. This would obviously make seeing through the rig a little difficult. I'm really not up on solar panels. About all I know is I have a couple small ones hooked up to my vehicles to keep the batteries hot. That's about it. The reason I mentioned windows is because who'd want to see a bunch of ugly solar panels on the walls of their home? The roof is still an option if you can keep the panels flat on the roof and keep them from being too ugly. Think curb appeal. :-) The windows seemed like an obvious choice. They'd just appear tinted, or so I was thinking. That line of thought seems to not be going anywhere though now that I've read up on them a bit more.
I know that solar cells used to be horribly inefficient, something like 20%, but I thought they'd gotten up around 80% or better in the decades since they first got started. Haven't they? I was thinking I read that while researching alternate eletrical sources.
I didn't realize that Chemical Engineering was all about making plants. Then again since a degree in Chemistry != a degree in Chemical Engineering then I suppose I could foresee that being the big difference. That makes sense. I'm working on an engineering degree but not a chemical one. It would be nice is all producton processes could be efficient enough to turn all their waste into a viable product. Think of it like the Native Americans. They wasted no part of the buffalo. They used even the smallest bone for something.
The articles I read about the methane over electrical generating plants indicated that the output was fairly clean. It's been a long while since I read those articles though. That might mean they've refined it even further. Our electrical grids could surely use some help. They haven't had a decent overhaul since their initial inception. What's amazing is that they still work, most of the time.
You know, I'm not sure about your grain to feed statistic. Being a country boy myself that certainly seems off. I'd have to do some research to find out for sure though. Around here we feed our cattle very little if any grain. The only time they get any sort of grain-based product is very the protein content in the grass is low (winter) or occasionally when they need to bulk up before a sale. Any other time they're eating grass (hopefully bluestem). I don't see any reason why a rancher can't graze the same pastures he has windmills in. Cattle are skittish but they also learn fast. They won't be afraid of the windmills for very long. Growing more soy for biodiesel would be a good thing IMHO. The only problem is getting more biodiesel refineries. Last I heard there weren't enough refineries to mass produce it. Then of course you have the trouble of finding a place to fill up on biodiesel. There aren't enough stations to make that feasible. Down the road I hope it really takes off. It just isn't right now (unlike my TASR stock. Woo!)
I preparing to return to college to work on my EE.
Your reply is confusing me. What are you quoting? Could you explain?
DDT has absolutely no harmful side effects you idiot. Quit believing all the BS Uncle Sam tells you via the media and read the independent reports for yourself. I swear this country is full of mindless sheeple.
I'm not so sure about the breathing cheese philosophy. It doesn't get to breathe when it's shrink-wrapped in plastic straight from the factory. I've had blocks of mild cheddar sit in my extremely cold fridge for over a year and still be good. Granted it was very sharp when I finally used it but it was still good. I believe this was so because it had no air, especially oxygen and CO2. Mold, like all other plants, need photosynthesis to survive. It's not just for our benefit. Take away that source of nourishment and they can't grow. That's why I'm thinking that sucking the air out of a baggie that contains a block of cheese is a good thing. I could be wrong but that's my understanding of it. Air == bad.