I wrote to the editor and asked if they were going todo a follow up article and I got a response saying that they were infact going todo a follow up story and it'll be in discover next year!!!
Now, I just want to win the lottery so I can start one of these plants!
However, since most slashdotters are lazy, I'll explain it in 52 words.
TDP or Thermal Depolymerization is the process of using heat and pressure to turn any carbon based organic material back into its original components. Basically it does what the earth does, just it does it in minutes, not millions of years. Hydrocarbons go in, oil and water and raw materials come out.
a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=83454&ci d=7299978">my original post the other day"</a> sums it up.<p>However, since most slashdotters are lazy, I'll explain it in __ words. <p> TDP or Thermal Depolymerization is the process of using heat and pressure to turn any carbon based organic material back into its original components. Basically it does what the earth does, just it does it in minutes, not millions of years. Hydrocarbons go in, oil and water and raw materials come out.
Well, that is something to think about... Pitch someone into one of these machines and there's no evidence, their just gone.
On a side note, this could be an alternative to cremation.
p1: "What's this cylinder of gas?" p2: "Grandpa" p1: "That's weird" p2: "Hey, were having burgers, want one..." p1: "Um, considering there probably being cooked over grandma, no..."
I think one technology that has great potential for both recycling and reducing our need out foreign oil is "Thermal Depolymerization". Essensially, TDP uses heat and pressure to digest any hydorgen or carbon based organic material into it's base components + oil and gas.
This technology had a couple false starts and inital designs sucked in terms of ROI for energy spent, but company called "Changing World Technolgies" built a demonstration plant that worked and then built a plant next to a turkey processing plant that digests the left overs from the turkey plant into 40 weight oil and gas (which it uses as fuel in the first stage of the digester).
*puts down the pom-poms* I think this technology is great. It's not perfect because it still keeps us dependant on oil (just not oil from foreign contributors) however, I think it's a step in the right direction.
I went looking for the link I read in the Discover magazine and it seems dead, so I've put in the google cache link instead.
How about this! Instead of wasting time passing pointless legislation that'll do nothing to better the lives of Americans, why not spend time working on something of real value...
Washington@politics]$ gcc -Wall -o president dubya.c/tmp/ccDVSvBk.o: In function `provide_leadership'/tmp/ccDVSvBk.o(.text+0xb3): undefined reference to `brain_stem'
I wouldn't put it past them if this was done on purpose. Purposely take a crappy DRM scheme and blow it open in the public, knowing full well that the corporation will pull the DMCA card. Hence showing the public how the DMCA is an innovation and education stifler.
It could be argued that the DMCA is the best thing that ever happened to low quality software. Why innovate when can litigate!
But see, that would be the case. There wouldn't be any casual users.
You'd still have your corporate network and all that good stuff. But you then have a seperate isolated DEV net and you'd have someone in charge of white listing all the hardware that gets attached to it.
I understand that the measures are strict and might cramp the styles of some programmers. Oh well. Getting a pink slip because they checked out the whole tree onto their laptop, went home, connected their unpatched laptop to their cable modem, only to have it rooted and all the code stolen will seriously cramp their style!
It's really simple. You setup a completely isolated development network on it's own non internet connected lan. Even put a mail server on your little internet so people can email one another.
Yeah, it'll cost a few bucks to setup, but weighted against what your losses might be through a loss of IP, it's trivial.
Have your little italy have everything. Connect everything via gigE, put a couple nice fast build servers out there.
Then, when you're ready to mint a copy of the game, you do a final build and burn a CD with only binaries on it.
Say some third party buys a copy of the code. Burn them a DVD and put the thing in the mail!
Researchers at the University of Texas have created a process where they can create nanotubes at 70cm per minute. Once a bunch of good production engineers get their hands on it, I could see them uping that figure to 10 or more meters per minute. Plus, once researchers figure out how to "knit" nanofibers together, then the benefits of parallel production come into the fold.
So, I'm riding along on my self powered segway that battery powered gyros to keep itself upright and I get a low battery warning and I ignore it. Then I get all upset when the thing pitches me off like a ragdoll to test the local dirt.
Hmm, I think that S in CPSC should be for Stupidity...
Note to stupid people... Firstly, if you've got too much money, I can help you with this problem;-) Secondly, I highly recommend you never get fitted with a pace maker... as you expire your dying words will be something like "Damn, I guess the doctor wasn't lying, the battery really is only good for 5 years..."
Well, there's a question... What if I went and bought some colo space with a nice fat connection and setup a Jabber server and then set it up so everybody who wanted to use it would just have to pay a dollar a month. All the money I collected would then go to pay the bill.
I'd make zero profit. As more people on the system, and generated more money, I'd use that money to put into better hardware.
Would people pay 12 dollars a year for hassle free IM? Or is everybody just gonna stick with AOL;-)
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I guess I just saw a blog as a different thing from what other people are using.
I login to my blog page and add to the running log. No place for people to spam.
Though as a side note, I love getting spam about anti-spam software!
You should see if you can get him todo a slashdot interview... oh wait, you'd never get a response from the slashdot staff ;-)
I wrote to the editor and asked if they were going todo a follow up article and I got a response saying that they were infact going todo a follow up story and it'll be in discover next year!!!
Now, I just want to win the lottery so I can start one of these plants!
my original post the other day" sums it up.
However, since most slashdotters are lazy, I'll explain it in 52 words.
TDP or Thermal Depolymerization is the process of using heat and pressure to turn any carbon based organic material back into its original components. Basically it does what the earth does, just it does it in minutes, not millions of years. Hydrocarbons go in, oil and water and raw materials come out.
a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=83454&ci d=7299978">my original post the other day"</a> sums it up.<p>However, since most slashdotters are lazy, I'll explain it in __ words.
<p>
TDP or Thermal Depolymerization is the process of using heat and pressure to turn any carbon based organic material back into its original components. Basically it does what the earth does, just it does it in minutes, not millions of years. Hydrocarbons go in, oil and water and raw materials come out.
You my friend are a spineless ass whore.
That is a great handle!
Not to be overly critical, but if you look at the theme of the gui of an OS as an indicator of it's maturity, that's frightening...
I've worked with lots of very advanced OS's with no gui.
Then again, OSX is a good example of a mature OS w/ a slick gui.
Nice soilent reference ;-)
Well, that is something to think about... Pitch someone into one of these machines and there's no evidence, their just gone.
On a side note, this could be an alternative to cremation.
p1: "What's this cylinder of gas?"
p2: "Grandpa"
p1: "That's weird"
p2: "Hey, were having burgers, want one..."
p1: "Um, considering there probably being cooked over grandma, no..."
This technology had a couple false starts and inital designs sucked in terms of ROI for energy spent, but company called "Changing World Technolgies" built a demonstration plant that worked and then built a plant next to a turkey processing plant that digests the left overs from the turkey plant into 40 weight oil and gas (which it uses as fuel in the first stage of the digester).
*puts down the pom-poms* I think this technology is great. It's not perfect because it still keeps us dependant on oil (just not oil from foreign contributors) however, I think it's a step in the right direction.
I went looking for the link I read in the Discover magazine and it seems dead, so I've put in the google cache link instead.
Anything into oil
Damn, you beat me to the tick reference!
The laser lab at WPI (www.wpi.edu) has the best sign on the door.
"Do not look into laser with remaining eye"
How about this! Instead of wasting time passing pointless legislation that'll do nothing to better the lives of Americans, why not spend time working on something of real value...
So, how would one compile politics???
/tmp/ccDVSvBk.o: In function `provide_leadership' /tmp/ccDVSvBk.o(.text+0xb3): undefined reference to `brain_stem'
Washington@politics]$ gcc -Wall -o president dubya.c
Your copy of LongHorn will come with a free copy of Duke Nukem Forever...
I wouldn't put it past them if this was done on purpose. Purposely take a crappy DRM scheme and blow it open in the public, knowing full well that the corporation will pull the DMCA card. Hence showing the public how the DMCA is an innovation and education stifler.
It could be argued that the DMCA is the best thing that ever happened to low quality software. Why innovate when can litigate!
Where I work, duel and tri monitor setups are the norm. Once you get your head wrapped around how to use them efficently, your productivity goes up.
But see, that would be the case. There wouldn't be any casual users.
You'd still have your corporate network and all that good stuff. But you then have a seperate isolated DEV net and you'd have someone in charge of white listing all the hardware that gets attached to it.
I understand that the measures are strict and might cramp the styles of some programmers. Oh well. Getting a pink slip because they checked out the whole tree onto their laptop, went home, connected their unpatched laptop to their cable modem, only to have it rooted and all the code stolen will seriously cramp their style!
It's really simple. You setup a completely isolated development network on it's own non internet connected lan. Even put a mail server on your little internet so people can email one another.
Yeah, it'll cost a few bucks to setup, but weighted against what your losses might be through a loss of IP, it's trivial.
Have your little italy have everything. Connect everything via gigE, put a couple nice fast build servers out there.
Then, when you're ready to mint a copy of the game, you do a final build and burn a CD with only binaries on it.
Say some third party buys a copy of the code. Burn them a DVD and put the thing in the mail!
Researchers at the University of Texas have created a process where they can create nanotubes at 70cm per minute. Once a bunch of good production engineers get their hands on it, I could see them uping that figure to 10 or more meters per minute. Plus, once researchers figure out how to "knit" nanofibers together, then the benefits of parallel production come into the fold.
Here's a link to that story: link
So, I'm riding along on my self powered segway that battery powered gyros to keep itself upright and I get a low battery warning and I ignore it. Then I get all upset when the thing pitches me off like a ragdoll to test the local dirt.
;-)
Hmm, I think that S in CPSC should be for Stupidity...
Note to stupid people... Firstly, if you've got too much money, I can help you with this problem
Secondly, I highly recommend you never get fitted with a pace maker... as you expire your dying words will be something like "Damn, I guess the doctor wasn't lying, the battery really is only good for 5 years..."
My parents have Charter and I can attest for its suckiness.
There's times my parents net connection feels like a noisy 56k...
This sounds like a sweet technology. Hopefully we'll see this in a real product in the near future.
Though the way people talk about SUN, were more likely to see it licensed to some other company...
Geez, at least one person found it funny...
Well, there's a question... What if I went and bought some colo space with a nice fat connection and setup a Jabber server and then set it up so everybody who wanted to use it would just have to pay a dollar a month. All the money I collected would then go to pay the bill.
;-)
I'd make zero profit. As more people on the system, and generated more money, I'd use that money to put into better hardware.
Would people pay 12 dollars a year for hassle free IM? Or is everybody just gonna stick with AOL