I guess Iceland's made its peace with geological instability (one would think you'd have to, by definition), but other geothermal efforts around the world are being halted or seriously delayed because of earthquakes they are believed to have caused:
Agree, plus the abortion that replaced SunSolve is clunky, buggy and quite horrible. There's a few decades of sunsolve and docs links that are now borked, which makes life a bit less pleasant.
I don't think there's enough CO2 in air (a few hundred ppm) to make this practical. Using the waste gas stream from a coal fired plant (as suggested in TFA) would probably be a better option.
Scale it up REALLY BIG and put it in a humid place near coal/gas power plants (Austin, TX area?).. So it sucks the water and CO2 out of the air, and you can either run it at higher temp than liquid N2/O2 and 'exhale' dry air into the region, or chill down and make/sell those industrial liquid gases.. Say a farm of cryo towers 100m or taller...
But yeah, piping power plant exhaust into the cryo intake stream wouldn't hurt, and perhaps this could be sited adjacent to that and burn the coal, and have a reprocessor extract thorium from the ash..
Using a cryogenic separator, pull CO2 out of air (now considered a waste product or at best sold as dry ice) and use it as feedstock, and power the ceria reactor with solar during the day and thorium at night... Then reformulate (again, using thorium power) into common hydrocarbon motor fuels or other hydrocarbon-based product (fertilizers, plastics, etc) precursors.
Unless, of course, you build a gigantic Solar plant that can provide power for all phases of the process, but given that we have the thorium for hundreds if not thousands of years, and with reprocessing we can likely fit a year's national waste in a cube van, not implementing modern, safe, molten-salt reactors would be the most obnoxious form of NIMBYism and eco-luddism..
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Agree.
I gave up on KDE back when the various distros decided to drop KDE3. I haven't really kept up since I switched (first to xfce, then GNOME, but my next build may be xfce again), but AFAIK KDE4 does not yet have all the functionality that KDE3 did, and is not as stable, even now.
One step further: pure VDI, where every new employee can login to a virtual desktop (running as a VM on a Big Honkin Server) via their LDAP/AD credentials, and can attach to it over VPN from anywhere. As long as the client is universal (VNC, RDC or Java), it should make things even easier and more secure, especially if you disable USB/optical passthru and virtual disk images for everyone you can.
Virtual desktops with enough cpu/ram for Office and whatever proprietary junk needs to be supported.
IIRC Redhat actually has something interesting in this area, as a result of their acquisition of Qumranet, and while their RHEV product didn't make the cut during my last virtualization evals, it did have interesting VDI stuff that I'd never use for the project at the time.
A large number of legally possessed firearms increases the number of illegal ones.
What, do they fuck in the gun safe and start having little unregistered baby guns or something?
Gun control is racist, either against the Irish (origins of British gun control), or blacks (most US gun control).. Is it any wonder that the areas with the strictest gun laws in the US are also the ones with the highest concentrations of black people? You'd think that the hippiest-dippiest places in the US would have the strictest laws, but look at Vermont.. Hyper-liberal, but with the freest gun laws in the US. It's also one of the lily-whitest states in the union. In California, gun control only got popular after the Black Panthers scared whitey by indulging in their right to bear arms openly.
And when guns are outlawed, criminals won't carry them because they're actually just misunderstood artists and sensitive souls crying out for succour. Making something illegal means that _nobody_ will use it.
And while we're at it, why not outlaw cars too? Crazy people can use cars to mow people down, so because of that, nobody should be able to use one, they should have to ride buses or trains which are driven by credentialed civic employees.
Belt-driven devices need to be designed to operate with a wide RPM operating range, which reduces their efficiency. Also, the belt is dragging at all times, and limiting the motor's rev range (or requiring even wider RPM ranges for the pumps/compressor) .
You need higher voltages to get the best efficiency, but presumably you could have a LiIon higher-voltage battery that has a transformer to drive the 'legacy' 12V accessories..
Also, direct-drive electric motors engineered for a fixed RPM are more reliable than belt-driven pumps with clutches and variable RPM.. If only because a belt is a SPOF..
What has me interested is seeing electrification of all the accessories (power steering/brakes/AC compressor/etc) that are currently typically driven by belts off of the engine. Besides being more efficient, removing them from the motor reduces drag on the motor and enables higher RPMs, thus more power density. Hopefully, even on 'normal' cars, we'll get to the point where the only things driven from the motor will be the output shaft and the starternator (starter/alternator combo unit, possibly integrated in-line between the engine output shaft and transmission input).
Hopefully this will help reduce the cost of these components due to economies of scale.
Who knows, perhaps the early '00s "mild" hybridization will morph into something that's standard across all non-dedicated hybrid vehicles, perhaps even reducing weight overall (starternator, lithium battery replacing lead-acid).
The US military subsidizes the security of oil, some estimate to the tune of $100/bbl if the Iraq war is included (and while Iraq may not be a 'war for oil', we wouldn't have had anything to do with that whole godforsaken region of the world if it weren't for oil in the first place).
What's worse, we pay that money and the rest of the world is a free rider on the back of our military. I would like all "freedom of the seas" military spending stopped, and the US military return to a defensive posture plus R&D and maintenance of industrial readiness (enough work to keep a core of contractors going in case of another war). Let Europe and Asia pay the cost of world peace, especially if the US loses seignorage of world currency if/when the dollar loses its 'reserve status'.
I never cease to be amazed that people use this as an example of "deregulation gone wrong", when it is actually an example of over regulation by a lobbyist corrupted government.
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The faster this channel can be made dead the better, they've been out of my Tivo channel list for many years. Fuck them dead with a fuck tool.
I guess Iceland's made its peace with geological instability (one would think you'd have to, by definition), but other geothermal efforts around the world are being halted or seriously delayed because of earthquakes they are believed to have caused:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/science/earth/11basel.html
Real admins don't make mistakes.
Or, at the very least, they have full backups.
sudo bash
Agree, plus the abortion that replaced SunSolve is clunky, buggy and quite horrible. There's a few decades of sunsolve and docs links that are now borked, which makes life a bit less pleasant.
Thanks, Larry...
I won't take any new currency seriously unless it's denominated in credits. Or possibly quatloos.
http://www.unixslave.com/ysmb.png
to the late, great Madeline Kahn?
Actually, if you read your history, you'd know that they were driven out or forced into dhimmitude when Mohammed conquered Jerusalem.
Additionally, Medina was originally a Jewish city, its name was Hebrew, and Mohammed murdered every Jew there.
Oh, BTW, Mohammed was also a fucking degenerate child rapist.
You mean like the Arabs that lost the west bank and gaza during the six day war and the yom kippur war did?
So we set the marker in the ground only where _YOU_ think we should start over?
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/297544-1
Worth watching in its entirety to get a good idea what Israel is up against.
I don't think there's enough CO2 in air (a few hundred ppm) to make this practical. Using the waste gas stream from a coal fired plant (as suggested in TFA) would probably be a better option.
Scale it up REALLY BIG and put it in a humid place near coal/gas power plants (Austin, TX area?).. So it sucks the water and CO2 out of the air, and you can either run it at higher temp than liquid N2/O2 and 'exhale' dry air into the region, or chill down and make/sell those industrial liquid gases.. Say a farm of cryo towers 100m or taller...
But yeah, piping power plant exhaust into the cryo intake stream wouldn't hurt, and perhaps this could be sited adjacent to that and burn the coal, and have a reprocessor extract thorium from the ash..
Using a cryogenic separator, pull CO2 out of air (now considered a waste product or at best sold as dry ice) and use it as feedstock, and power the ceria reactor with solar during the day and thorium at night... Then reformulate (again, using thorium power) into common hydrocarbon motor fuels or other hydrocarbon-based product (fertilizers, plastics, etc) precursors.
Unless, of course, you build a gigantic Solar plant that can provide power for all phases of the process, but given that we have the thorium for hundreds if not thousands of years, and with reprocessing we can likely fit a year's national waste in a cube van, not implementing modern, safe, molten-salt reactors would be the most obnoxious form of NIMBYism and eco-luddism..
Agree.
I gave up on KDE back when the various distros decided to drop KDE3. I haven't really kept up since I switched (first to xfce, then GNOME, but my next build may be xfce again), but AFAIK KDE4 does not yet have all the functionality that KDE3 did, and is not as stable, even now.
I wonder if, given the rash of cancellations and scalebacks lately, this isn't about the programs so much as it is about Boeing?
Or is Boeing just that big and pervasive?
I'm perfectly happy doing my office junk in an rdesktop window off my laptop on my linux box, I even get sound. Good enough for corporate work IMO.
One step further: pure VDI, where every new employee can login to a virtual desktop (running as a VM on a Big Honkin Server) via their LDAP/AD credentials, and can attach to it over VPN from anywhere. As long as the client is universal (VNC, RDC or Java), it should make things even easier and more secure, especially if you disable USB/optical passthru and virtual disk images for everyone you can.
Virtual desktops with enough cpu/ram for Office and whatever proprietary junk needs to be supported.
IIRC Redhat actually has something interesting in this area, as a result of their acquisition of Qumranet, and while their RHEV product didn't make the cut during my last virtualization evals, it did have interesting VDI stuff that I'd never use for the project at the time.
And a frickin windows utility at that.
I'm thinking nothing of value was lost.
Still, prosecute, because if you don't exercise your rights you lose them.
A large number of legally possessed firearms increases the number of illegal ones.
What, do they fuck in the gun safe and start having little unregistered baby guns or something?
Gun control is racist, either against the Irish (origins of British gun control), or blacks (most US gun control).. Is it any wonder that the areas with the strictest gun laws in the US are also the ones with the highest concentrations of black people? You'd think that the hippiest-dippiest places in the US would have the strictest laws, but look at Vermont.. Hyper-liberal, but with the freest gun laws in the US. It's also one of the lily-whitest states in the union. In California, gun control only got popular after the Black Panthers scared whitey by indulging in their right to bear arms openly.
And when guns are outlawed, criminals won't carry them because they're actually just misunderstood artists and sensitive souls crying out for succour. Making something illegal means that _nobody_ will use it.
And while we're at it, why not outlaw cars too? Crazy people can use cars to mow people down, so because of that, nobody should be able to use one, they should have to ride buses or trains which are driven by credentialed civic employees.
Belt-driven devices need to be designed to operate with a wide RPM operating range, which reduces their efficiency. Also, the belt is dragging at all times, and limiting the motor's rev range (or requiring even wider RPM ranges for the pumps/compressor) .
You need higher voltages to get the best efficiency, but presumably you could have a LiIon higher-voltage battery that has a transformer to drive the 'legacy' 12V accessories..
Also, direct-drive electric motors engineered for a fixed RPM are more reliable than belt-driven pumps with clutches and variable RPM.. If only because a belt is a SPOF..
What has me interested is seeing electrification of all the accessories (power steering/brakes/AC compressor/etc) that are currently typically driven by belts off of the engine. Besides being more efficient, removing them from the motor reduces drag on the motor and enables higher RPMs, thus more power density. Hopefully, even on 'normal' cars, we'll get to the point where the only things driven from the motor will be the output shaft and the starternator (starter/alternator combo unit, possibly integrated in-line between the engine output shaft and transmission input).
Hopefully this will help reduce the cost of these components due to economies of scale.
Who knows, perhaps the early '00s "mild" hybridization will morph into something that's standard across all non-dedicated hybrid vehicles, perhaps even reducing weight overall (starternator, lithium battery replacing lead-acid).
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2010/0510dancs.html
The US military subsidizes the security of oil, some estimate to the tune of $100/bbl if the Iraq war is included (and while Iraq may not be a 'war for oil', we wouldn't have had anything to do with that whole godforsaken region of the world if it weren't for oil in the first place).
What's worse, we pay that money and the rest of the world is a free rider on the back of our military. I would like all "freedom of the seas" military spending stopped, and the US military return to a defensive posture plus R&D and maintenance of industrial readiness (enough work to keep a core of contractors going in case of another war). Let Europe and Asia pay the cost of world peace, especially if the US loses seignorage of world currency if/when the dollar loses its 'reserve status'.
And with solid-oxide fuel cells, you can use liquid gasoline or diesel instead of H2 gas for a fully electric vehicle..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_oxide_fuel_cell
I never cease to be amazed that people use this as an example of "deregulation gone wrong", when it is actually an example of over regulation by a lobbyist corrupted government.
Orwell fans wouldn't be terribly amazed..
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=doublespeak