Procedures and required equipment and inspections are already in place for off road refueling from pony tanks, drums, and portable fueling vehicles and fuel trailers. How do you think all the heavy equipment at a construction site gets fueled up?
The only objection is refueling on city streets where a problem could make a larger fire hazard that you would have at an off road location. Commonly what you have for job site refueling is: Annual certification of transfer equipment and metering equipment (same as for gas pumps) Portable berm for refueling operation. (catch spills) Daily inspection of equipment record. Fire suppression equipment mounted on fuel hauling equipment. (specifics determined by amount and type and amount of fuel) Appropriate hazard placarding for taking fuel over the roadways. No smoking or open flame boundaries either posted or guarded. (20-50 feet dependent on jurisdiction.)
You could probably do retail fuel sales right now if you kept over 50 feet from public roadways. It isn't uncommon to get fueled up in a parking lot if heavy equipment is being fueled at the same time.... "top off all the company vehicles when you are done with the off road equipment" type of thing.
If you want to miniaturize, go with board mounted punch down blocks. Then you don't have the clunky connector. Oh, you want quick re-configuration capability? Most people use RJ-45 connectors as they are cheap, easy to install, and big enough to be manipulated without special tools. But, there is nothing that says you have to use a RJ-45 for any given twisted pair connection. You can wire up with polarized sub-mini molex connectors but changing jumpers requires some tweezers.
My work computer (Panasonic Toughbook with proprietary telemetry software) had Win10 install itself and render the proprietary software unusable in addition to killing the serial ports. (yes, two old school DB9 connector ports. I guess, like floppy drives, they just aren't supported with Win10).
Wiping the hard drive and reloading did not work. Why? Because Microsoft has crippled the Win7 activation system and will not allow activation of a previously activated COA even on the same computer it was activated on. You don't want to hear my rant about the interactions with what came across as a Pakistani call center when I tried to resolve the activation issue.
Thanks to Microsoft games and being at a remote job site without a lot of IT resources; I had to pay for a hard drive with a pristine Win7 install complete with Toughbook drivers to get back working in a timely manner.
INPO had a lovely report in 1993 on radioactive traces emitted out the stack of coal fired plants. The study covered 1980-1990.
Nuclear plants, nationwide, controlled and disposed of 7,000,000 Ci of low level radioactive waste a year. Note the "controlled disposal" bit, please.
Based on coal usage and average contaminant levels; coal power plants were putting 300,000 Ci out their stacks per week.
Hmm, assuming 50 weeks a year for 24/7 operations that would be a total of 15,000,000 Ci released to the environment out the stacks. But, the radioactive trace elements in coal don't count because they are "natural".
Current numbers would probably be different if anyone cared to do the comparison study again. But the scale is probably about the same.
Where this came home to me is doing work (I work in radiation protection) for a utility company that had both nuclear, oil fired, and coal fired power plants. When the nuclear plants shut down for refuel and maintenance; workers came from the coal and oil fired plants to lend a hand with the maintenance. The workers from the coal plants had to be issued new boots and uniforms as the ones they habitually wore at the coal fired plants would not let them pass the portal radiation monitors. And, we are talking clean uniforms that were commercially laundered.
Actually, nuclear is cheaper than coal as well. But, yes, hydro is the cheapest.
Now, going "coal free" may not shut down any power plants. It is bloody easy and doesn't cost a whole lot to convert a coal burner into an oil burner. Although, #2 bunker fuel is more expensive than coal.
Having done repair work at St. Lucie; I've been down to the intakes. The actual plant intake is down a canal and has a mechanical fish screen over the intake so fish aren't sucked in to foul the pumps.
There is no way the diver was anywhere near the intake if his path was as he described. Did the bozo go into the sewage treatment plant down the road from the nuclear plant?
Total FUD without numbers. 80% higher can mean increase from 1 to 1.8 Bequerel or it can mean increase from 100 to 180 Curies. Without real numbers to show scale; nothing but alarmist twaddle.
Interesting that you don't think the party that brought an end to slavery and civil rights legislation is equated with not being for the people while you expect the party of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the KKK is interested in supporting the common people.
Yes, the Democratic party changed. The Democratic party bought some really good spin doctors to change their image (circa 1968) while the same old money families still run the party machine.
Get a phone with a better capacity battery, keep on charge when not walking with it, and ditch apps that use a lot of data that aren't work related.
I chose a BLU Studio Energy. Dual sim slots so I have my business number and my personal number in one phone. 3 days between charging if I want to push it. (I do a lot of data)
I guess it depends on how you define autonomous weapons.
Back in the 1980s there were several weapons systems that would be programmed to lock in on a certain target characteristic (sound signature, EM signature, heat signature) and autonomously maneuver to strike their programmed target. Later tech could be programmed to automatically acquire a target based on signature parameters. Digi-cam actually makes it more difficult for certain tech to automatically acquire a shape and heat signature for a human body.
Many would think of the hunter-seeker drones when they hear "autonomous weapons" but there are many more variants that could be included in that term.
What needs a ban is attaching weapons to surveillance cameras. If man can network it, man can hack it. To my knowledge; only a few localized insane installations have weaponized their security surveillance system. But, wow, if we had those in schools we could prevent school shootings! Or, you could have school shootings with the whack job not even having to enter the building.
This curmudgeonly old fart thinks of the movie "Runaway" every time I read a reference to the "Internet of Things". The death by weaponized, networked, vacuum cleaner in that movie was a sphincter clenching meme when you start thinking of automating to a "smart house" level of tech. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/?ref_=nv_sr_6
Because state, county, and local governments are constrained from taxing INTERSTATE commerce. That is the purview of the federal government. The internet is an interstate communications network. Any tax revenue from the internet is accumulated by taxes on the internet service provider's profits.
We don't want to go there. Not at all. We don't want an internet tax. Implementing something like one mil per gigabyte usage tax would require a nightmarish expensive bureaucratic infrastructure to implement. Tax profits of tech companies that profit from the internet. Tax the profits of the internet service providers.
"Taxing the internet" is just an insane concept to even consider implementing. A good example of fuzzy wuzzy logic. "Yep, make dem damn millennial kids pay a penny a tweet in taxes and get rid of the national debt."
It is almost a decade since Microsoft quit actually supporting Windows Phone. I miss the old functionality they allowed to wither. You could plug in your phone or PDA and all your contact information, calendar information, and Office files in the transfer directory, and even Quicken data synchronized with your desktop or laptop.
They quit supporting then came out with a NEW version that would sync nothing. Just like Office 2007 they went for eye candy like ribbon bars and forgot functionality.
You really have to consider that a protest is not a military operation. Using unsecure public frequency Baofeng radios is quite legal. Using encrypted equipment without a FCC license is NOT legal.
Again, the protest in Oregon was not a military operation but a protest by ranchers that some of the more clueless of the media keep trying to make a militia attack.
I remember the Challenger very well. I was in U.S. Navy Nuclear Power school in Orlando. Our class was so distracted by the fact there was going to be a launch; our instructor took us out to the quad between buildings, put us in formation, and faced us towards Cape Canaveral.
We were all watching as the rocket went up and exploded with the radio commentary of the launch playing over the P.A. system.
They aren't. The internal network for operational controls mirrors data to administrative servers so managers can check current plant status. The admin network connects to the internet via a firewalled gateway. (at most of the plants I've contracted with during the last decade)
The real problem is inflation. Cheapening the specie is just a symptom of the planned corruption of the dollar. The original coinage had a definition in law. A dime was a coin containing one gram of silver. A dollar was a coin containing one gram of gold. Ever since we moved to fiat money (based on a political promise that it has value) the monetary value has been systematically eroded over time. It has been over twenty years since the last degradation of the coinage. Coins went to laminated metal. Pennies were no longer made of copper alloy but copper plated zinc. The current cost of a nickel candy bar from the 1960s is $1.39.
Just go diesel. Otto von Diesel had renewable sources of fuel in the initial design in the 19th century. A farmer could grow crops to power his farm machinery. Making bio-diesel is actually very easy.
One of the things I grumble about with those that tout electric cars is that electric cars burn more fossil fuel than gasoline cars when you factor in that most of electric generation is done with fossil fuel burning generators. (.28 power factor in both generators and motors)
The kindle size screen mimics the size of a paperback book. Easy to read holding in one hand yet large enough to display a decent size page for clarity. You can read a magazine while sipping soup.
Tablets that try to simulate a functional computing device are too unwieldy for comfortable, casual, reading. When you change from what has come to be the most popular form factor; it is like trying to market a customized toothbrush handle. Why a customized toothbrush handle? "Because we can" just doesn't sell that well. Form follows function... So, most e-readers end up with a similar size and form factor; sized as a paperback book. And most tablets seem to emulate a standard sheet of paper size.
Hmmm, how much money do you take from the idiots when they blithered their way to being a national laughing stock?
I'd sue for 30 million then settle for sacking the idiots that pressed charges, a formal public apology from the school board, and lunch at MacDonald's.
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Procedures and required equipment and inspections are already in place for off road refueling from pony tanks, drums, and portable fueling vehicles and fuel trailers. How do you think all the heavy equipment at a construction site gets fueled up?
The only objection is refueling on city streets where a problem could make a larger fire hazard that you would have at an off road location. Commonly what you have for job site refueling is:
Annual certification of transfer equipment and metering equipment (same as for gas pumps)
Portable berm for refueling operation. (catch spills)
Daily inspection of equipment record.
Fire suppression equipment mounted on fuel hauling equipment. (specifics determined by amount and type and amount of fuel)
Appropriate hazard placarding for taking fuel over the roadways.
No smoking or open flame boundaries either posted or guarded. (20-50 feet dependent on jurisdiction.)
You could probably do retail fuel sales right now if you kept over 50 feet from public roadways. It isn't uncommon to get fueled up in a parking lot if heavy equipment is being fueled at the same time.... "top off all the company vehicles when you are done with the off road equipment" type of thing.
If you want to miniaturize, go with board mounted punch down blocks. Then you don't have the clunky connector. Oh, you want quick re-configuration capability? Most people use RJ-45 connectors as they are cheap, easy to install, and big enough to be manipulated without special tools. But, there is nothing that says you have to use a RJ-45 for any given twisted pair connection. You can wire up with polarized sub-mini molex connectors but changing jumpers requires some tweezers.
Hmmm, if tube launched so they could be quietly deployed; great tactical advantage there.
Count me in.
My work computer (Panasonic Toughbook with proprietary telemetry software) had Win10 install itself and render the proprietary software unusable in addition to killing the serial ports. (yes, two old school DB9 connector ports. I guess, like floppy drives, they just aren't supported with Win10).
Wiping the hard drive and reloading did not work. Why? Because Microsoft has crippled the Win7 activation system and will not allow activation of a previously activated COA even on the same computer it was activated on. You don't want to hear my rant about the interactions with what came across as a Pakistani call center when I tried to resolve the activation issue.
Thanks to Microsoft games and being at a remote job site without a lot of IT resources; I had to pay for a hard drive with a pristine Win7 install complete with Toughbook drivers to get back working in a timely manner.
INPO had a lovely report in 1993 on radioactive traces emitted out the stack of coal fired plants. The study covered 1980-1990.
Nuclear plants, nationwide, controlled and disposed of 7,000,000 Ci of low level radioactive waste a year. Note the "controlled disposal" bit, please.
Based on coal usage and average contaminant levels; coal power plants were putting 300,000 Ci out their stacks per week.
Hmm, assuming 50 weeks a year for 24/7 operations that would be a total of 15,000,000 Ci released to the environment out the stacks. But, the radioactive trace elements in coal don't count because they are "natural".
Current numbers would probably be different if anyone cared to do the comparison study again. But the scale is probably about the same.
Where this came home to me is doing work (I work in radiation protection) for a utility company that had both nuclear, oil fired, and coal fired power plants. When the nuclear plants shut down for refuel and maintenance; workers came from the coal and oil fired plants to lend a hand with the maintenance. The workers from the coal plants had to be issued new boots and uniforms as the ones they habitually wore at the coal fired plants would not let them pass the portal radiation monitors. And, we are talking clean uniforms that were commercially laundered.
Actually, nuclear is cheaper than coal as well. But, yes, hydro is the cheapest.
Now, going "coal free" may not shut down any power plants. It is bloody easy and doesn't cost a whole lot to convert a coal burner into an oil burner. Although, #2 bunker fuel is more expensive than coal.
Having done repair work at St. Lucie; I've been down to the intakes.
The actual plant intake is down a canal and has a mechanical fish screen over the intake so fish aren't sucked in to foul the pumps.
There is no way the diver was anywhere near the intake if his path was as he described. Did the bozo go into the sewage treatment plant down the road from the nuclear plant?
Total FUD without numbers.
80% higher can mean increase from 1 to 1.8 Bequerel or it can mean increase from 100 to 180 Curies. Without real numbers to show scale; nothing but alarmist twaddle.
Interesting that you don't think the party that brought an end to slavery and civil rights legislation is equated with not being for the people while you expect the party of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the KKK is interested in supporting the common people.
Yes, the Democratic party changed. The Democratic party bought some really good spin doctors to change their image (circa 1968) while the same old money families still run the party machine.
Get a phone with a better capacity battery, keep on charge when not walking with it, and ditch apps that use a lot of data that aren't work related.
I chose a BLU Studio Energy. Dual sim slots so I have my business number and my personal number in one phone. 3 days between charging if I want to push it. (I do a lot of data)
http://www.bluproducts.com/index.php/studio-energy
I guess it depends on how you define autonomous weapons.
Back in the 1980s there were several weapons systems that would be programmed to lock in on a certain target characteristic (sound signature, EM signature, heat signature) and autonomously maneuver to strike their programmed target. Later tech could be programmed to automatically acquire a target based on signature parameters. Digi-cam actually makes it more difficult for certain tech to automatically acquire a shape and heat signature for a human body.
Many would think of the hunter-seeker drones when they hear "autonomous weapons" but there are many more variants that could be included in that term.
What needs a ban is attaching weapons to surveillance cameras. If man can network it, man can hack it. To my knowledge; only a few localized insane installations have weaponized their security surveillance system. But, wow, if we had those in schools we could prevent school shootings! Or, you could have school shootings with the whack job not even having to enter the building.
This curmudgeonly old fart thinks of the movie "Runaway" every time I read a reference to the "Internet of Things". The death by weaponized, networked, vacuum cleaner in that movie was a sphincter clenching meme when you start thinking of automating to a "smart house" level of tech.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/?ref_=nv_sr_6
Because state, county, and local governments are constrained from taxing INTERSTATE commerce. That is the purview of the federal government. The internet is an interstate communications network. Any tax revenue from the internet is accumulated by taxes on the internet service provider's profits.
We don't want to go there. Not at all. We don't want an internet tax. Implementing something like one mil per gigabyte usage tax would require a nightmarish expensive bureaucratic infrastructure to implement. Tax profits of tech companies that profit from the internet. Tax the profits of the internet service providers.
"Taxing the internet" is just an insane concept to even consider implementing. A good example of fuzzy wuzzy logic. "Yep, make dem damn millennial kids pay a penny a tweet in taxes and get rid of the national debt."
It is almost a decade since Microsoft quit actually supporting Windows Phone. I miss the old functionality they allowed to wither. You could plug in your phone or PDA and all your contact information, calendar information, and Office files in the transfer directory, and even Quicken data synchronized with your desktop or laptop.
They quit supporting then came out with a NEW version that would sync nothing. Just like Office 2007 they went for eye candy like ribbon bars and forgot functionality.
You really have to consider that a protest is not a military operation. Using unsecure public frequency Baofeng radios is quite legal. Using encrypted equipment without a FCC license is NOT legal.
Again, the protest in Oregon was not a military operation but a protest by ranchers that some of the more clueless of the media keep trying to make a militia attack.
After two decades of being told to close and encrypt your router for security; now we are supposed to make them part of a public network? Hmmmm
I remember the Challenger very well. I was in U.S. Navy Nuclear Power school in Orlando. Our class was so distracted by the fact there was going to be a launch; our instructor took us out to the quad between buildings, put us in formation, and faced us towards Cape Canaveral.
We were all watching as the rocket went up and exploded with the radio commentary of the launch playing over the P.A. system.
They aren't.
The internal network for operational controls mirrors data to administrative servers so managers can check current plant status. The admin network connects to the internet via a firewalled gateway. (at most of the plants I've contracted with during the last decade)
My question too. ATF investigating grease dumpers? Pull the other one; it has bells on.
The real problem is inflation. Cheapening the specie is just a symptom of the planned corruption of the dollar.
The original coinage had a definition in law. A dime was a coin containing one gram of silver. A dollar was a coin containing one gram of gold.
Ever since we moved to fiat money (based on a political promise that it has value) the monetary value has been systematically eroded over time.
It has been over twenty years since the last degradation of the coinage. Coins went to laminated metal. Pennies were no longer made of copper alloy but copper plated zinc.
The current cost of a nickel candy bar from the 1960s is $1.39.
One must not disrespect the sacred solar cow that only lives an average of five years after taking 17 years worth of output to create.
Before there were bark collars; there was alum.
Season a bit of meat with alum. When the dog barks; five him the treat.
Watching a dog make barking motions with no sound coming out and just realizing it is hilarious.
Very old training method to teach hunting dogs not to bark just to hear themselves make noise.
Rather than mixing ethanol into gasoline; it would be more useful making bio-diesel.
Vegatable oils + Ethanol + Potassium Hydroxide (recoverable catalyst) = Cetane + water
Dewater and you have bio-diesel.
If you have methanol (wood alcohol) you need NaOH as the catalyst but the end product is still diesel fuel.
Converting to diesel only is quite do-able. U.S. DoD has already gone that way for logistics with their "single fuel logistics" already.
Just go diesel.
Otto von Diesel had renewable sources of fuel in the initial design in the 19th century. A farmer could grow crops to power his farm machinery. Making bio-diesel is actually very easy.
One of the things I grumble about with those that tout electric cars is that electric cars burn more fossil fuel than gasoline cars when you factor in that most of electric generation is done with fossil fuel burning generators. (.28 power factor in both generators and motors)
The kindle size screen mimics the size of a paperback book. Easy to read holding in one hand yet large enough to display a decent size page for clarity. You can read a magazine while sipping soup.
Tablets that try to simulate a functional computing device are too unwieldy for comfortable, casual, reading. When you change from what has come to be the most popular form factor; it is like trying to market a customized toothbrush handle. Why a customized toothbrush handle? "Because we can" just doesn't sell that well.
Form follows function...
So, most e-readers end up with a similar size and form factor; sized as a paperback book. And most tablets seem to emulate a standard sheet of paper size.
Hmmm, how much money do you take from the idiots when they blithered their way to being a national laughing stock?
I'd sue for 30 million then settle for sacking the idiots that pressed charges, a formal public apology from the school board, and lunch at MacDonald's.