You left out the big one, were still on AC power and capacitance is very high for buried cables, driving up losses and required cable sizes. Switch to DC this goes away and it is much easier to hook solar into it as well.
if the size of whatever we blow up the satellite with is less than the satellite it is likely to hit, then you would have less debris blowing it up. Also I would think the resulting debris field would be more contained. If it was from 2 high-speed large satellites they may wound each other enough to then have large obstacles aiming at more satellites...
You should probably read the Snopes reference link from your wikipedia article, which makes it very clear that USA, Japan never exported anything as "Made in USA." That transistor radio may have been imported through Saipan thus getting the made in USA label, but it didn't get that label from USA, Japan. That was never done.
> if you are not through the crossing when the light turns red. While traffic laws very state to state, this part is universal, you must enter the intersection on red to get a ticket for violating a red light. what varies is what is considered entering the intersection. In Arizona this line is where you enter the other lane, often in the city the line youa are required to stop at is behind a crosswalk, and can thus be 6 foot behind the line where you must not cross on red. This causes the confusion when people see the ticket pictures. It is a pain cause the line your deciding if you can stop at, is not the same line that says your safely in the intersection.
> Increasing yellow light times Does reduce the amount of green light time, which decreases the number of cars that can pass through the intersection, which increases the traffic congestion, which increases the desire to run the red light... The citys with the worst congestion are the ones with the most red light running issues. There is a formula for speeds traveling... that gives the optimal yellow light time. If that is being followed, then driver behavior change is the one to encourage.
Computers suck at tens, if your using floating point conversions will take a imprecise hit every time. Your metric sucks you need to all convert to the hex system, where kb is the much better 400 bytes (thats 1024 in your slow decimals.) Not to mention using my fingers i can count to 400h not your slight 0 to A fingering ability.
The price may be steep for many tasks, but I would think for california Lifegaurds, for example, this could be enough better, IE they don't need to offroad much, but need to be able to cruise the beech, and rescue surfers, this could significantly improve their performance if they can strap a backboard to the back.
A right doesn't equal funding or even government sponsored. IE the right to free speech, or bear arms doesn't equal no cost access to both, it does say undue restriction by government, ether by rule or cost is wrong. I would apply this to mobile internet. IE call it a right, so if the government, or provider ever bans a device because say the device didn't have a security back door for snooping, we have standing to say that is illegal, and mobile internet must not be overly restricted.
From this I think internet in the US, meets that definition. To have a meaningfull say in the right to free speech, assembly, and information on how laws are interpreted... We are to the point where everyone needs to be given access to internet to defend these Human rights. Now the second part of the question is, does having that access freely available at public library still cover the need, or do we need to extend that to giving free access to anyone carrying say, a expired smartphone, like we do with dialing 911 and a dumb phone.... I would come down on the side of "not a right" but I think the line is not nearly as far off, as your definition of rights goes. IE I don't think your definition of a right would include free speech.
The electrical infrastructure is the one I dislike. It will likely need to grow to 3x it's current size to support a all electric transportation system if we continue driving the same distance. It is costly and ugly, and very resource intensive, requiring constant maintenance, and government control and security. The density of fuel is the one people fail to appreciate, I have 200 amp 240 service, It can pull down the equivalent energy of 1.5 Gallons of gasoline per hour, when maxed out. The high power lines feeding my neighborhood will take a year to transfer the same energy as a single tanker truck of fuel. A single tanker truck 8800 gallons* 36Kwh/gallon of energy would be enough energy to provide all the electric power of a city of 100k people for a entire month. Compare that to the size of the high power lines going into a city of that size, and the setback requred,
Also your doing energy losses, the other difficulty is energy used in transport, etc. While true for gas, as well as electric, it appears from national average prices, electric goes from $.06 entering the grid to $.20 exiting the grid, so the cost of transportation is 200%, while gas from the refinery to the pump goes from $2 to $3, or closer to 75%. Currently much of the electric support, as well as the gas support comes more from petro (natural gas, diesiel) than electric.
Your also in a environment where gasoline cars may be cheaper per mile than electric. Keep in mind the often touted 20-30% efficiency of a gasoline engine, that efficiency is measured in the conversion from the energy in the fuel to the energy in propelling the car. The engine is going to be over 90% efficient in converting the energy in fuel to heat. It is the coversion from heat to movement that hurts most. Depending on how much of that waste heat you need, you may want a hybrid for the free heat.
>Electric vehicles for everyone powered by nuclear power are a complete zero emission system, no matter how many cars you have.
No it is not, that is (part of) the articles point. If the system is in place the incremental cost of one more mile is a zero emission cost. But the system still has a lot of environmental impacts. Tires are still produced from oil, electric wires and batteries are (made from copper for example), is mined from the ground using diesel equipment, then smelted in a natural gas/coal furnace, producing more off gassing. The entire plant, electric infrastructure, right of ways for power lines batteries exploding... None of this exists in any developed country to a extent ready to replace all gasoline cars with electric cars, so a few electric cars can be added in places where excess capacity exists, at very little impact (other than the additional, and larger than a conventional cars, impact of producing the car) But to go all electric, we will have to greatly increase the number of plants, the amount of wiring, the number of high power lines, the size of transformers at any place where more than one car is to be charging...
>Insider trading isn't "considered" illegal, it IS illegal Depends on how you trade on inside information, there are legal ways, and illegal ways see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading
why would you be worried about a risk of an accident that basically can't happen
Or because 0% chance of accident requires complete control of design, manufacture, maintenance, operation and security. Since no one will pay millions then drop all control, thus your left with the only option of government taking over supervision of all these items, and thus the only one that can make the guarantee.
Fyi, those are the rates for commercial, epa.gov shows more current rates. Shows averages $.12 before taxes and delivery charges, etc. which brings my bill to $.20. And at least here those overnight rates were due to a state mandate where they were required to have a renewable/reduction program. They allowed this reduced rate count as part of the program, basically a teaser rate paid for by a higher day rate for those who signed up; and additional charge to the rest of us customers.
Not sure where you get the electric cost equivilent from. In usa electric at home is $.20 average per kwhr energy of gasoline gallon is 36 kwhr per gallon. That is about $7 per gallon equivalent. Conversion to heat is nearly 90%, conversion to electric about 40%. So even if your generating the equivalent would be $2.33 / gallon. Look at this tesla, that 60kwhr battery goes max of 160 miles, and would cost me over $12 to charge. Current sub $4 gas I can get 3 gallons thus 53 mpg is worse than a prius.
Hard to argue about a theoretical e vote systems relative ease strengths againstant corruption, But I can't think of a way to make it easier than the availability of a a mail in ballot. Ie with the internet system a corrupt business, to have any reason to do this would have to influence hundreds of ballets, so the idea they would log in and out of all these accounts before the employees had a chance (if the first vote in counts.) Or neer midnight if it's the last one... Much much easier to just collect and mark absentee paper whenever...
Not a new vector, I think every state in the USA allows mail in ballots. Any boss that could make you vote at work in a e system could today force you to request a absentee ballot, and turn it over.
Based on cost, more efficient than electric. IE compare production cost of electric ($.03 to $.08 per kwhr) to the cost at my house $.25, net cost of Ng per BTU is less than the delivery cost of electric, where I live.
This would probably be a better "last mile" solution. Currently they drop cocaine loads in the ocean off Florida (from planes I assume) then use speed boats to retrieve the floating packages later. With a Wifi tether, and a few floating AccessPoints set as repeaters, I could see attaching a tether line (spool of fishing line) to this, the other end to the drugs. by keeping it all under water, it wouldn't be likely to get hit, guide it into shore from any laptop with wifi anywhere near the AP's, loop it onto a fishing pole, and start reeling.
It is slightly different, with the energy savings, home loans, dependent child deduction... they are deductions. While insurance is a penalty. I for one am very curious what the supreme court rules, is it simply a matter of wording, that the law simply needs to give a $5k deduction to those with insurance and raise taxes enough to cover the difference. Or does the raise taxes and lower the taxes have to be done in different laws to be legal. Or will a negative ruling essentially through all these tax deductions in areas not specified as part of congresses deamed powers into the scrap heap. I for one am a supporter of the bill, but would be tickled if it did through all those deductions out (especially since I used none of them, and thus paid $20k in payroll taxes this year.)
>folks who live in that district don't want to or can't afford to pay enough in property taxes to afford good teachers.
I agree up until that part. The teachers are probably fine, if they had the right support. If the school has a winning sports team, and no robotics team, then it is clear the parents, admin, alum have set the priorities, and they are maximizing that success. If you went to more HS basketball matches, than robotic competitions your showing the kids who you idolize more. No one would blame a coach for a loosing team with no players, and no interested parents. But everyone blames the school/teachers when few kids are going to the harder math classes... We have are priorities in this USA, and it does not appear to be academics and engineers we are counting on to take us into the future.
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You left out the big one, were still on AC power and capacitance is very high for buried cables, driving up losses and required cable sizes. Switch to DC this goes away and it is much easier to hook solar into it as well.
if the size of whatever we blow up the satellite with is less than the satellite it is likely to hit, then you would have less debris blowing it up. Also I would think the resulting debris field would be more contained. If it was from 2 high-speed large satellites they may wound each other enough to then have large obstacles aiming at more satellites...
You should probably read the Snopes reference link from your wikipedia article, which makes it very clear that USA, Japan never exported anything as "Made in USA." That transistor radio may have been imported through Saipan thus getting the made in USA label, but it didn't get that label from USA, Japan. That was never done.
> if you are not through the crossing when the light turns red.
While traffic laws very state to state, this part is universal, you must enter the intersection on red to get a ticket for violating a red light. what varies is what is considered entering the intersection. In Arizona this line is where you enter the other lane, often in the city the line youa are required to stop at is behind a crosswalk, and can thus be 6 foot behind the line where you must not cross on red. This causes the confusion when people see the ticket pictures. It is a pain cause the line your deciding if you can stop at, is not the same line that says your safely in the intersection.
> Increasing yellow light times
Does reduce the amount of green light time, which decreases the number of cars that can pass through the intersection, which increases the traffic congestion, which increases the desire to run the red light...
The citys with the worst congestion are the ones with the most red light running issues. There is a formula for speeds traveling... that gives the optimal yellow light time. If that is being followed, then driver behavior change is the one to encourage.
Computers suck at tens, if your using floating point conversions will take a imprecise hit every time. Your metric sucks you need to all convert to the hex system, where kb is the much better 400 bytes (thats 1024 in your slow decimals.) Not to mention using my fingers i can count to 400h not your slight 0 to A fingering ability.
The price may be steep for many tasks, but I would think for california Lifegaurds, for example, this could be enough better, IE they don't need to offroad much, but need to be able to cruise the beech, and rescue surfers, this could significantly improve their performance if they can strap a backboard to the back.
A right doesn't equal funding or even government sponsored. IE the right to free speech, or bear arms doesn't equal no cost access to both, it does say undue restriction by government, ether by rule or cost is wrong. I would apply this to mobile internet. IE call it a right, so if the government, or provider ever bans a device because say the device didn't have a security back door for snooping, we have standing to say that is illegal, and mobile internet must not be overly restricted.
The supreme court affirmed the following as rights:
1 free speech for
2 own semi automatics and hand guns
3 right to have abortions
Would you rank internet access above any of these?
I wouldn't use your definition to read this article, I would more use the American Convention of Human rights, to set a baseline:
commits its parties to respect the civil and political rights of individuals, including the right to life, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, electoral rights and rights to due process and a fair trial
From this I think internet in the US, meets that definition. To have a meaningfull say in the right to free speech, assembly, and information on how laws are interpreted... We are to the point where everyone needs to be given access to internet to defend these Human rights. Now the second part of the question is, does having that access freely available at public library still cover the need, or do we need to extend that to giving free access to anyone carrying say, a expired smartphone, like we do with dialing 911 and a dumb phone....
I would come down on the side of "not a right" but I think the line is not nearly as far off, as your definition of rights goes. IE I don't think your definition of a right would include free speech.
The electrical infrastructure is the one I dislike. It will likely need to grow to 3x it's current size to support a all electric transportation system if we continue driving the same distance. It is costly and ugly, and very resource intensive, requiring constant maintenance, and government control and security. The density of fuel is the one people fail to appreciate, I have 200 amp 240 service, It can pull down the equivalent energy of 1.5 Gallons of gasoline per hour, when maxed out. The high power lines feeding my neighborhood will take a year to transfer the same energy as a single tanker truck of fuel. A single tanker truck 8800 gallons* 36Kwh/gallon of energy would be enough energy to provide all the electric power of a city of 100k people for a entire month. Compare that to the size of the high power lines going into a city of that size, and the setback requred,
Also your doing energy losses, the other difficulty is energy used in transport, etc. While true for gas, as well as electric, it appears from national average prices, electric goes from $.06 entering the grid to $.20 exiting the grid, so the cost of transportation is 200%, while gas from the refinery to the pump goes from $2 to $3, or closer to 75%. Currently much of the electric support, as well as the gas support comes more from petro (natural gas, diesiel) than electric.
Your also in a environment where gasoline cars may be cheaper per mile than electric. Keep in mind the often touted 20-30% efficiency of a gasoline engine, that efficiency is measured in the conversion from the energy in the fuel to the energy in propelling the car. The engine is going to be over 90% efficient in converting the energy in fuel to heat. It is the coversion from heat to movement that hurts most. Depending on how much of that waste heat you need, you may want a hybrid for the free heat.
>Electric vehicles for everyone powered by nuclear power are a complete zero emission system, no matter how many cars you have.
No it is not, that is (part of) the articles point. If the system is in place the incremental cost of one more mile is a zero emission cost. But the system still has a lot of environmental impacts. Tires are still produced from oil, electric wires and batteries are (made from copper for example), is mined from the ground using diesel equipment, then smelted in a natural gas/coal furnace, producing more off gassing. The entire plant, electric infrastructure, right of ways for power lines batteries exploding... None of this exists in any developed country to a extent ready to replace all gasoline cars with electric cars, so a few electric cars can be added in places where excess capacity exists, at very little impact (other than the additional, and larger than a conventional cars, impact of producing the car) But to go all electric, we will have to greatly increase the number of plants, the amount of wiring, the number of high power lines, the size of transformers at any place where more than one car is to be charging...
> Can you read that Nexus in the sun? You can read an ebook reader there. Can you go for a month without a charge? An e-reader can.
The E-Ink nook (not mentioned in this) is the only nook that would qualify as a e-reader with that description.
I own both the Nook Color, and the original Nook. The color nooks don't have any significant advantage in battery life/sun readability over the Nexus.
>Insider trading isn't "considered" illegal, it IS illegal
Depends on how you trade on inside information, there are legal ways, and illegal ways see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading
why would you be worried about a risk of an accident that basically can't happen
Or because 0% chance of accident requires complete control of design, manufacture, maintenance, operation and security. Since no one will pay millions then drop all control, thus your left with the only option of government taking over supervision of all these items, and thus the only one that can make the guarantee.
Fyi, those are the rates for commercial, epa.gov shows more current rates. Shows averages $.12 before taxes and delivery charges, etc. which brings my bill to $.20. And at least here those overnight rates were due to a state mandate where they were required to have a renewable/reduction program. They allowed this reduced rate count as part of the program, basically a teaser rate paid for by a higher day rate for those who signed up; and additional charge to the rest of us customers.
Not sure where you get the electric cost equivilent from. In usa electric at home is $.20 average per kwhr energy of gasoline gallon is 36 kwhr per gallon. That is about $7 per gallon equivalent. Conversion to heat is nearly 90%, conversion to electric about 40%. So even if your generating the equivalent would be $2.33 / gallon. Look at this tesla, that 60kwhr battery goes max of 160 miles, and would cost me over $12 to charge. Current sub $4 gas I can get 3 gallons thus 53 mpg is worse than a prius.
Hard to argue about a theoretical e vote systems relative ease strengths againstant corruption, But I can't think of a way to make it easier than the availability of a a mail in ballot. Ie with the internet system a corrupt business, to have any reason to do this would have to influence hundreds of ballets, so the idea they would log in and out of all these accounts before the employees had a chance (if the first vote in counts.) Or neer midnight if it's the last one... Much much easier to just collect and mark absentee paper whenever...
Not a new vector, I think every state in the USA allows mail in ballots. Any boss that could make you vote at work in a e system could today force you to request a absentee ballot, and turn it over.
Based on cost, more efficient than electric. IE compare production cost of electric ($.03 to $.08 per kwhr) to the cost at my house $.25, net cost of Ng per BTU is less than the delivery cost of electric, where I live.
This would probably be a better "last mile" solution. Currently they drop cocaine loads in the ocean off Florida (from planes I assume) then use speed boats to retrieve the floating packages later. With a Wifi tether, and a few floating AccessPoints set as repeaters, I could see attaching a tether line (spool of fishing line) to this, the other end to the drugs. by keeping it all under water, it wouldn't be likely to get hit, guide it into shore from any laptop with wifi anywhere near the AP's, loop it onto a fishing pole, and start reeling.
It is slightly different, with the energy savings, home loans, dependent child deduction... they are deductions. While insurance is a penalty. I for one am very curious what the supreme court rules, is it simply a matter of wording, that the law simply needs to give a $5k deduction to those with insurance and raise taxes enough to cover the difference. Or does the raise taxes and lower the taxes have to be done in different laws to be legal. Or will a negative ruling essentially through all these tax deductions in areas not specified as part of congresses deamed powers into the scrap heap. I for one am a supporter of the bill, but would be tickled if it did through all those deductions out (especially since I used none of them, and thus paid $20k in payroll taxes this year.)
>folks who live in that district don't want to or can't afford to pay enough in property taxes to afford good teachers.
I agree up until that part. The teachers are probably fine, if they had the right support. If the school has a winning sports team, and no robotics team, then it is clear the parents, admin, alum have set the priorities, and they are maximizing that success. If you went to more HS basketball matches, than robotic competitions your showing the kids who you idolize more. No one would blame a coach for a loosing team with no players, and no interested parents. But everyone blames the school/teachers when few kids are going to the harder math classes... We have are priorities in this USA, and it does not appear to be academics and engineers we are counting on to take us into the future.