leading to similar issues as the switch from leaded fuel to standard made.
Like engines that go 250k miles without a tuneup? That's what my last 3 cars have done, no car designed for leaded fuel could do that. Oh and for almost half the year I run on E10 so your nonsense about it shortening engine life is just that, nonsense.
Then vote the incompetent idiots out of office, there's almost never a reason for more than 4" of snow to fall before the plows get to the main thoroughfares. I DO live in the secondary snowbelt and the number of times that's happened in the last decade can be counted on one hand (once this winter where we were getting 2+" per hour but that's very atypical).
No, I absolutely 100% HATED living in an apartment and I had a fairly nice one (1100 sq ft, 2 bedroom). I now live on a 1 acre lot with a single neighbor and I'm about 1,000x happier than I was having to put up with the noise and air pollution from the people around me.
Shipping is a non-issue wrt energy usage. It takes more energy to boil a bag of potatoes than it does to ship them across the Pacific. It IS a significant contributor to pollution but that's only because they use the cheapest, dirtiest fuel and most cargo ships lack even rudimentary pollution control measures. If we improve the worldwide standard for bunker fuel (good luck) and mandate pollution control devices (possible but only while in territorial waters) we can improve that portion significantly without too much cost because 95% of the cargo is carried by fewer than 2,000 ships.
What kind of crap are you people buying? I leave fuel in my snowblower year round and have done so for the last 6 years and I have zero problem starting it each fall. This is mostly 10% ethanol because the fuel is bought in the winter where all fuel in the state has 10% to help with cold start emissions. I've also left fuel in my 2 stroke trimmer and never had a problem with that either. Oh and the riding mower gets the same treatment, none of these small 2 and 4 stroke motors has ever had a problem with a little extra water in the first tank each season.
would totally collapse and people by the millions would starve to death.
Exaggerate much? Yeah losing access to 'cheap' oil would put a damper on our economic recovery, but if you want to look at the mid-term horizon it's an inevitability so we should definitely be making plans to change off it anyways. If we start investing in industry's that can function without a dwindling resource we can reestablish our manufacturing base and set it up for the next century of growth, or we could keep on the current path and end up as a nation of GM's. We should be pouring money into things like industrial algae farms and solar thermal plants, not putting up one demo plant a decade. The economic collapse was largely about fiscal policy but it certainly wasn't helped by the erosion of the manufacturing base and the dependence on $140/bbl imported oil.
Of course you can do PM. You check the charge level of each cell in your battery packs, you check the temp in all the critical portions of the converter stages of the UPS's, you test the ATS by killing the utility power and run the generators under real production loads which also tests your AC units ability to quick cycle and that's just the infrastructure side.
I could see a role for LIM directly as a weapon only if there were some application where you need to launch a relatively very heavy projectile at relatively small exit velocity.
I wonder if you could get a LIM up to enough velocity to launch shore bombardment shells? Then again I'm not sure enough electro-chemical storage for such a system would be any less dangerous than a powder magazine if it should be hit =)
The advantage is they are building in massive electrical generation and distribution into this generation of carrier. They are looking forward to railgun and solid state laser point defense systems to replace the current CIWS which is thought to be outclassed by today's best surface skimming missiles and will surely be outclassed during the 50+ year horizon for the class. Add in reduced maintenance and increased availability during peak operating times (all jets scramble) and you have an easy sell. It's also much easier to patch a damaged electrical system, all you need is the right gauge spare cable and a few tools. With a steam system you have to find the leak (no TDR) and patch it to a high pressure steam fight finish, a much more difficult task.
They do, it's called a university and the school of hard knocks. Now we could refine that and go with the European system of dual (or triple) tracks for secondary education but that would be admitting that some snowflakes are less special than others.
I had the same experience, I never really learned Calc at either a large public research school or the top tier tech school I attended but instead finally learned it from a part time faculty member at a community college who wasn't a math person but instead a practicing Engineer. Her examples helped bring it out of the dry abstract world of pure mathematics into the real world which finally made it click in my brain.
ignores that the money supplied from public funding is far greater and less accountable.
Uh, that's because industry is choosing not to make more investments in research, we're talking about less than $7B in total grants vs the $2T in cash reserves private industry is sitting on. They could fund 10x more research than the NSF for 30 years only touching the interest on that money!
Except industry often isn't better at incremental innovation either because those steps are often taken on the backs of basic science research that the government funds. A classic example is IBM taking state sponsored research that discovered GMR and fine tuning it to make better HDD's. I doubt anyone looking at the grant proposals for guys playing with thin layers of metals could see that it would lead to better HDD's 15 years later. Thinking that you can just fund the big stuff and leave everything else to industry is almost as ignorant as saying that all research should be private.
How about we start with lower hanging fruit like weapons platforms that the military doesn't even want or need first? I bet cutting one of those will fully fund the "fat" in the NSF budget!
Actually, we will just ban or greatly increase the spam score of anything coming from these NAT pools just like we do today with dialup and consumer broadband IP pools today. People with real servers will continue to have dedicated IP addresses that aren't behind these NAT pools and so we will judge them individually based on reputation (or lack thereof).
Here's my problem with that argument, it is the jury's job to be the arbiter of fact in the case and the judge's job to be the arbiter of law. Having the judge be the gatekeeper of fact puts way to much power on the side of the state and upsets the balance that was supposed to be the cornerstone of our democracy. The idea was never to have an ignorant jury dictated to by the courts, rather the expectation was that the jury would be well educated and intelligent (Jeffersonian Democracy), what we have these days is a race to the bottom where people of a free mind and some intelligence are generally dismissed by lawyers for both sides who want to be able to more easily manipulate the jury to their point of view.
That's like saying RPG's are bad because almost all of them have a healer, a warrior, a mage, and a ranged character. Just because there is a formula doesn't mean you can't make a good story using it.
Heat pumps don't work worth a damn when it's -15C outside like it was the other night. The general rule of thumb is heat pumps are useful down to ~30-32F which means they are worthless for ~4.5-5 months a year around here, in more temperate climates they are the obvious choice but a 93+% efficient gas unit is definitely the choice here.
Looks like saltpeter (sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate) with a bit of calcium nitrate mixed in is the currently preferred mix with a ~220C melting point.
Nah, scanners won't come to regional airports or the GA section of the larger airports because politicians and the people who pay them bribes fly out of those areas and they don't want to be inconvenienced like the sheep.
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leading to similar issues as the switch from leaded fuel to standard made.
Like engines that go 250k miles without a tuneup? That's what my last 3 cars have done, no car designed for leaded fuel could do that. Oh and for almost half the year I run on E10 so your nonsense about it shortening engine life is just that, nonsense.
Then vote the incompetent idiots out of office, there's almost never a reason for more than 4" of snow to fall before the plows get to the main thoroughfares. I DO live in the secondary snowbelt and the number of times that's happened in the last decade can be counted on one hand (once this winter where we were getting 2+" per hour but that's very atypical).
No, I absolutely 100% HATED living in an apartment and I had a fairly nice one (1100 sq ft, 2 bedroom). I now live on a 1 acre lot with a single neighbor and I'm about 1,000x happier than I was having to put up with the noise and air pollution from the people around me.
Shipping is a non-issue wrt energy usage. It takes more energy to boil a bag of potatoes than it does to ship them across the Pacific. It IS a significant contributor to pollution but that's only because they use the cheapest, dirtiest fuel and most cargo ships lack even rudimentary pollution control measures. If we improve the worldwide standard for bunker fuel (good luck) and mandate pollution control devices (possible but only while in territorial waters) we can improve that portion significantly without too much cost because 95% of the cargo is carried by fewer than 2,000 ships.
What kind of crap are you people buying? I leave fuel in my snowblower year round and have done so for the last 6 years and I have zero problem starting it each fall. This is mostly 10% ethanol because the fuel is bought in the winter where all fuel in the state has 10% to help with cold start emissions. I've also left fuel in my 2 stroke trimmer and never had a problem with that either. Oh and the riding mower gets the same treatment, none of these small 2 and 4 stroke motors has ever had a problem with a little extra water in the first tank each season.
would totally collapse and people by the millions would starve to death.
Exaggerate much? Yeah losing access to 'cheap' oil would put a damper on our economic recovery, but if you want to look at the mid-term horizon it's an inevitability so we should definitely be making plans to change off it anyways. If we start investing in industry's that can function without a dwindling resource we can reestablish our manufacturing base and set it up for the next century of growth, or we could keep on the current path and end up as a nation of GM's. We should be pouring money into things like industrial algae farms and solar thermal plants, not putting up one demo plant a decade. The economic collapse was largely about fiscal policy but it certainly wasn't helped by the erosion of the manufacturing base and the dependence on $140/bbl imported oil.
As does Microcenter.
Of course you can do PM. You check the charge level of each cell in your battery packs, you check the temp in all the critical portions of the converter stages of the UPS's, you test the ATS by killing the utility power and run the generators under real production loads which also tests your AC units ability to quick cycle and that's just the infrastructure side.
Uh, he was a freaking navy nuclear engineer who went on to be president, of course they named a sub after him.
The Brits converted their F-35B order to F-35C's in October.
I could see a role for LIM directly as a weapon only if there were some application where you need to launch a relatively very heavy projectile at relatively small exit velocity.
I wonder if you could get a LIM up to enough velocity to launch shore bombardment shells? Then again I'm not sure enough electro-chemical storage for such a system would be any less dangerous than a powder magazine if it should be hit =)
The advantage is they are building in massive electrical generation and distribution into this generation of carrier. They are looking forward to railgun and solid state laser point defense systems to replace the current CIWS which is thought to be outclassed by today's best surface skimming missiles and will surely be outclassed during the 50+ year horizon for the class. Add in reduced maintenance and increased availability during peak operating times (all jets scramble) and you have an easy sell. It's also much easier to patch a damaged electrical system, all you need is the right gauge spare cable and a few tools. With a steam system you have to find the leak (no TDR) and patch it to a high pressure steam fight finish, a much more difficult task.
They do, it's called a university and the school of hard knocks. Now we could refine that and go with the European system of dual (or triple) tracks for secondary education but that would be admitting that some snowflakes are less special than others.
I had the same experience, I never really learned Calc at either a large public research school or the top tier tech school I attended but instead finally learned it from a part time faculty member at a community college who wasn't a math person but instead a practicing Engineer. Her examples helped bring it out of the dry abstract world of pure mathematics into the real world which finally made it click in my brain.
ignores that the money supplied from public funding is far greater and less accountable.
Uh, that's because industry is choosing not to make more investments in research, we're talking about less than $7B in total grants vs the $2T in cash reserves private industry is sitting on. They could fund 10x more research than the NSF for 30 years only touching the interest on that money!
Actually most of the work that added value was funded by NSF aka the NSFNet backbone and NCSA MOSAIC (the original GUI web browser).
Except industry often isn't better at incremental innovation either because those steps are often taken on the backs of basic science research that the government funds. A classic example is IBM taking state sponsored research that discovered GMR and fine tuning it to make better HDD's. I doubt anyone looking at the grant proposals for guys playing with thin layers of metals could see that it would lead to better HDD's 15 years later. Thinking that you can just fund the big stuff and leave everything else to industry is almost as ignorant as saying that all research should be private.
How about we start with lower hanging fruit like weapons platforms that the military doesn't even want or need first? I bet cutting one of those will fully fund the "fat" in the NSF budget!
Actually, we will just ban or greatly increase the spam score of anything coming from these NAT pools just like we do today with dialup and consumer broadband IP pools today. People with real servers will continue to have dedicated IP addresses that aren't behind these NAT pools and so we will judge them individually based on reputation (or lack thereof).
Here's my problem with that argument, it is the jury's job to be the arbiter of fact in the case and the judge's job to be the arbiter of law. Having the judge be the gatekeeper of fact puts way to much power on the side of the state and upsets the balance that was supposed to be the cornerstone of our democracy. The idea was never to have an ignorant jury dictated to by the courts, rather the expectation was that the jury would be well educated and intelligent (Jeffersonian Democracy), what we have these days is a race to the bottom where people of a free mind and some intelligence are generally dismissed by lawyers for both sides who want to be able to more easily manipulate the jury to their point of view.
No Warehouse 13 or even better Eureka?
the end result was the same, at least abstractly
That's like saying RPG's are bad because almost all of them have a healer, a warrior, a mage, and a ranged character. Just because there is a formula doesn't mean you can't make a good story using it.
Heat pumps don't work worth a damn when it's -15C outside like it was the other night. The general rule of thumb is heat pumps are useful down to ~30-32F which means they are worthless for ~4.5-5 months a year around here, in more temperate climates they are the obvious choice but a 93+% efficient gas unit is definitely the choice here.
Looks like saltpeter (sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate) with a bit of calcium nitrate mixed in is the currently preferred mix with a ~220C melting point.
Nah, scanners won't come to regional airports or the GA section of the larger airports because politicians and the people who pay them bribes fly out of those areas and they don't want to be inconvenienced like the sheep.