1. Yes, it is easy if the boiling apparatus is designed correctly. I've done it. And you can distill water without actually boiling it, though it is a slower process. And it is under active development; http://www.solarconference.net/abstract_selection. phphttp://www.ecozen.com/steam1.htmhttp://www.epsea.org/stills.htmlhttp://www.solaqua.com/solwatdis1.htmlhttp://www.fsec.ucf.edu/pubs/EnergyNotes/en-3.htm 2. The volatiles that come out at water boiling temperature are usually relatively benign, and as I said, a coconut hull carbon stage removes them. 3. My home distillation device wastes only about 1% of the water you put into it. It uses air to cool and condense the steam, so no flow of cool water is required at all. 4. Distilled water is not acidic at all. I just tested mine. Totally neutral, pH 7. That is by definition, as distilled water is what is used to calibrate the middle of the scale. And the lack of minerals is not a deficit to the healthiness of the water at all. You would have to drink many gallons of water every day to get even 1% of any of the important minerals. In other words, you get these from your food, and the contribution of the water is insignificant. Add to that the fact that minerals can include things like Arsenic, Lead, Mercury, Uranium, and other things that are bad for you even in trace amounts.
Finally, some people say that distilled water tastes funny. But the taste of water is governed by the amount of oxygen in the water, and fresh distilled water very much lacks oxygen. This can be remedied by filling a container half full of water and shaking vigorously.
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You totally miss the point.
How do you suppose those children will score more than 400 on a 1200 point scale given those conditions of education.
Isn't going to happen whether you use teacher assigned A's or SAT assigned numbers.
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Chicago schools are nowhere near equal to one another. Some are fine. Others are worse than what you would imagine conditions are in third world countries.
My friend taught science and math in a Chicago school in a poor neighborhood.
In all the years he taught there; they NEVER had books, they NEVER had lab supplies, they SELDOM had working AV equipment, they NEVER had a computer.
Not that this effected the average grades, because any grade he assigned that was below a C was magically changed to a C by the principal.
How the fsck can you teach school without books?
I submit to you that basing his pay on the number of A's is corrupt in the extreme. (Though, thankfully, he is retired now.)
I guess it gives you a bigger woody to bash those damn "liberals", and blame every problem ever on them, and to label anyone not Republican and "conservative" a traitor or a pervert. WTG!!!!
Especially when recent events show that it is the "conservatives" (they aren't) who are the traitors and perverts! And in Rush's case, opiate-analog drug junkies.
You can easily boil water with a few steel mirrors. Distillation removes not only organic but inorganic pollutants, and renders the water sterile.
The only thing that distillation cannot deal with is the few volatile organic molecules that have a boiling point near that of water, and a charcoal filtration step on the condensate will deal with those.
Where electricity is available, a gallon of distilled water can be prepared with two kilowatt hours of energy, at a cost in most places of under sixty cents.
I think spam would drop precipitously if spammers were found dead on a regular basis...
NO, I'm not really serious, but we need laws with some teeth and rewards for finding the originators so that they can be physically stopped by the law.
I was referring to Mark Foley. (Not to mention the allegations about Dennis Hastert when he was a wrestling coach.) Nice spin, though. Just as slimy as I expect you GOPers to be.
That we *know* of. What else are they covering up?
And he certainly TRIED to get that to happen. So he's not only a god damned piece of crap pedophile, he's an inept one if he tried and failed. Just like ALL GOPers I know. Slime. Pure, evil slime.
They are just freaking lucky that they did not KILL somebody. Or many somebodies. Like, what if one of these batteries started a fire on an airliner in mid-Atlantic?
Worse, they KNEW of the problem for quite some time before they issued the recall.
Had there been deaths, a smart lawyer would have ripped them to shreds, and left the scraps for the maggots to fight over.
Google did not need You Tube to do what you suggest. They have zero in the way of patents or trade secrets that would make this easier for Google. And Google does not need the YouTube BRAND either as that dilutes their own very valuable brand name.
No, this was an immense mistake for Google, almost as bad as 3Com buying US Robotics.
Virtually every link I have ever followed to there has been some clip of television that was far beyond "fair use". The whole point behind You Tube is like the point behind the original Napster; Free access to proprietary content. Remove the desired content, and it will not matter if it remains free. Charge for it what it costs to pay for rights, and it won't matter that the content is still there.
No energy whatsoever is saved by this as the starting inertia is negligible if the drive is allowed to run for more than a few minutes.
While it might save energy in notebook drives which could then start and stop on an as-needed basis, but much better would be to design a drive which stored energy at shutdown in a supercap and used that to augment spin-up.
I use it because with Bittorrent you need to know where something is before you can download it. With Limewire, you can search. For example, if you search for Old Time Radio, you find things you didn't know existed prior. And you can share all files in a huge collection individually without having to maintain a torrent for each and every one!
I run http://www.whiterosesociety.org/ and I share my library of Liberal/Progressive political talk radio programs, ALL of which I have explicit permission to share.
Yes, I have a legitimate use, I'll tell you what *I* use Limewire for; I trade Old Time Radio shows that are out of copyright, and unscoped airchecks of political talk shows that I actually have PERMISSION to share. I run http://www.whiterosesociety.org/ where we have 100% legal content all for free.
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Actually, you are incorrect about most of this;
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1. Yes, it is easy if the boiling apparatus is designed correctly. I've done it. And you can distill water without actually boiling it, though it is a slower process. And it is under active development; http://www.solarconference.net/abstract_selection
2. The volatiles that come out at water boiling temperature are usually relatively benign, and as I said, a coconut hull carbon stage removes them.
3. My home distillation device wastes only about 1% of the water you put into it. It uses air to cool and condense the steam, so no flow of cool water is required at all.
4. Distilled water is not acidic at all. I just tested mine. Totally neutral, pH 7. That is by definition, as distilled water is what is used to calibrate the middle of the scale. And the lack of minerals is not a deficit to the healthiness of the water at all. You would have to drink many gallons of water every day to get even 1% of any of the important minerals. In other words, you get these from your food, and the contribution of the water is insignificant. Add to that the fact that minerals can include things like Arsenic, Lead, Mercury, Uranium, and other things that are bad for you even in trace amounts.
Finally, some people say that distilled water tastes funny. But the taste of water is governed by the amount of oxygen in the water, and fresh distilled water very much lacks oxygen. This can be remedied by filling a container half full of water and shaking vigorously.
You totally miss the point.
How do you suppose those children will score more than 400 on a 1200 point scale given those conditions of education.
Isn't going to happen whether you use teacher assigned A's or SAT assigned numbers.
Chicago schools are nowhere near equal to one another. Some are fine. Others are worse than what you would imagine conditions are in third world countries.
My friend taught science and math in a Chicago school in a poor neighborhood.
In all the years he taught there; they NEVER had books, they NEVER had lab supplies, they SELDOM had working AV equipment, they NEVER had a computer.
Not that this effected the average grades, because any grade he assigned that was below a C was magically changed to a C by the principal.
How the fsck can you teach school without books?
I submit to you that basing his pay on the number of A's is corrupt in the extreme. (Though, thankfully, he is retired now.)
I guess it gives you a bigger woody to bash those damn "liberals", and blame every problem ever on them, and to label anyone not Republican and "conservative" a traitor or a pervert. WTG!!!!
Especially when recent events show that it is the "conservatives" (they aren't) who are the traitors and perverts! And in Rush's case, opiate-analog drug junkies.
You can easily boil water with a few steel mirrors. Distillation removes not only organic but inorganic pollutants, and renders the water sterile.
The only thing that distillation cannot deal with is the few volatile organic molecules that have a boiling point near that of water, and a charcoal filtration step on the condensate will deal with those.
Where electricity is available, a gallon of distilled water can be prepared with two kilowatt hours of energy, at a cost in most places of under sixty cents.
You can even get stovetop distillers.
I think spam would drop precipitously if spammers were found dead on a regular basis...
NO, I'm not really serious, but we need laws with some teeth and rewards for finding the originators so that they can be physically stopped by the law.
I was referring to Mark Foley. (Not to mention the allegations about Dennis Hastert when he was a wrestling coach.) Nice spin, though. Just as slimy as I expect you GOPers to be.
That we *know* of. What else are they covering up?
And he certainly TRIED to get that to happen. So he's not only a god damned piece of crap pedophile, he's an inept one if he tried and failed. Just like ALL GOPers I know. Slime. Pure, evil slime.
And they SHOULD. But the damages are nothing compared to the suit they would lose had there been multiple deaths.
They are just freaking lucky that they did not KILL somebody. Or many somebodies. Like, what if one of these batteries started a fire on an airliner in mid-Atlantic?
Worse, they KNEW of the problem for quite some time before they issued the recall.
Had there been deaths, a smart lawyer would have ripped them to shreds, and left the scraps for the maggots to fight over.
When you have a review site, do you get to KEEP the hardware?
And predictably every moodbatty slashdot conservative is a complete jerk.
Google did not need You Tube to do what you suggest. They have zero in the way of patents or trade secrets that would make this easier for Google. And Google does not need the YouTube BRAND either as that dilutes their own very valuable brand name.
No, this was an immense mistake for Google, almost as bad as 3Com buying US Robotics.
Virtually every link I have ever followed to there has been some clip of television that was far beyond "fair use". The whole point behind You Tube is like the point behind the original Napster; Free access to proprietary content. Remove the desired content, and it will not matter if it remains free. Charge for it what it costs to pay for rights, and it won't matter that the content is still there.
Google got had.
No energy whatsoever is saved by this as the starting inertia is negligible if the drive is allowed to run for more than a few minutes.
While it might save energy in notebook drives which could then start and stop on an as-needed basis, but much better would be to design a drive which stored energy at shutdown in a supercap and used that to augment spin-up.
And a foil platter would NOT be shock resistant.
This idea is a non-starter.
She's dead and feels nothing.
And I don't much care what he is feeling right now, given the circumstances...
...or I would have tagged this one as FUNNY!
Learn the law? What he posted here is HEARSAY, and not admissible.
You are most welcome!
...and REAL media has to take donations; http://www.whiterosesociety.org/
I use it because with Bittorrent you need to know where something is before you can download it. With Limewire, you can search. For example, if you search for Old Time Radio, you find things you didn't know existed prior. And you can share all files in a huge collection individually without having to maintain a torrent for each and every one!
Limewire already makes it simple to NOT share your download folder!
See me comment above, please...
I run http://www.whiterosesociety.org/ and I share my library of Liberal/Progressive political talk radio programs, ALL of which I have explicit permission to share.
People share LEGAL material on Limewire ALL THE TIME.
I do. That is all I share.
And in fact, the developers have made it easy to prevent any illegal material from showing up in searches.
And if you think this suit, or even the demise of Limewire, LLC, will make Limewire go away, then you do not understand Open Source Software at all.
Yes, I have a legitimate use, I'll tell you what *I* use Limewire for; I trade Old Time Radio shows that are out of copyright, and unscoped airchecks of political talk shows that I actually have PERMISSION to share. I run http://www.whiterosesociety.org/ where we have 100% legal content all for free.