While they do not say directly in the article, the artcile does have hints that thier method of turning hydrogen solid is to react it with something. This will form a powerder at room temperature. The thing is they only have six percent of this powder is hydrogen so there is alot of dead weight to haul around so little H2. Also this method of a reversible reaction will use up energy. It is yet to be seen if this is more or less than the energy required to compress a similar volume of hydrogen.
This article has absolutly vague information on what research they are doing. Storing hydrogen as a solid, apparetly as a powder? What would be interesting is to see how much energy is lost in the chemical reactions of reacting hydrogen with whatever they react it with and then changing it back into hydrogen gas. I would also like to see how this compares to the energy required to compress hydrogen as it is currently done. This is what will determine this technologies usefulness in reality.
Only nine percent hydrogen by weight is success? How much fuel will it waste in transportation if there is nine times as much "pakaging" material as there is hydrogen. Yes the currently used hydrogen cylinders are heavy, but I do not believe they weigh nine times as much as they can carry.
This opens up some possibilities for treatment of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Drugging all troops before combat will be much less expensive than paying for PTSD treatment. What a Brave New World this opens up.
FTA:
The idea seems simple. Say you lowered the temperature of all large coldstores in Europe by just 1C during the night when electricity demand is low, then let it rise 1C by switching them off during the day when demand is at peak. The net effect would be that the warehouses would act as batteries -- potentially storing 50,000 megawatt-hours of energy -- and the food wouldn't melt.,
The problem is that now those that over reacted now feel justified in thier actions. The admission of guilt means that they were right to shut down the city and next time they will do even more. Now, no matter how many people tell them they overreacted thier minds can justify thier actions. The last thing this country needs is more emboldened idiots.
I had the same thoughts.
FTA:
he is banned from accessing the internet for personal reasons for an unknown amount of time"
How do you ban someone from the internet? What if he leaves the country? What if he tries to download movie times on his cell phone? I do not think any governing power would have the ability to ban someone from the internet.
IS the scientist in this video wearing flip flops with this ball lightning scurrying around the floor by hiw feet? Is it just me or is this not a good idea. I want to see the blooper reel of this video.
I think this technology is still cannot compete with having the actuall DVD sent to you. I usually on't mind waiting one day.
I use dvdone.com.
I get the DVD the next day before noon if I order by 5pm. (and the movie is not rented out)
I can pay online with wa wire transfer
I pay less than 2 dollars for shipping up to 4 DVDs round trip
I can rent as many DVDs as I want, renting many DVDs does not affect when they ship the DVDs I want. (ahem netflix)
Sorry if this sounds like a plug but it is not, I just want to tell other people what is possible so other companies improve thier services (ahem netflix).
They were first to do this in the 700 nm range but the article state that previously this could only be done in the 1400 nm range. I guess 700 nm is significant because it is the start of the visual spectrum. 700 is red i think.
I think people should not just be upset with the spammers, but those who buy from spammers. Spammers just fill a market need. If nobody was buying penis pills, you would never be spammed.
I chose where I wanted to move to(Basel, Switzerland), moved there and then conducted a normal job search with online resurces, newspapers, and headhunters. I suppose this choice depends on your personality. Is the location more important or the position you want to have. For me personally Basel is the perfect place as it has a great chemical industry for me to find a job in (I am a chemist) and it also has the social aspects I want in a community.
ps If you want to find a job here look at jobs.ch
I was american. I did emigrate. (to Switzerland) I love it here am I am not going back. Not that we don't have our problems but it is definatly greener over here.
I saw this ten plus years ago on PBS. It was a professor somewhere could control hos sail boat with this. This is nothing new. Call me when they can do more than binary control. That would be interesting.
Do you have a high percentage of your clients that are guilty or do you specialize in the exceptions, the clients that have good legal ground to defend themselves?
The problem is filling out the paperwork in triplicate. They may have enough time to safely repair the shuttle for launch, thye just don't have the time to do all the paperwork. This is why private space endeavors are they way of the future.
The FTC is trying to prevent child predators access to young children, a noble endeavor. The problem is that there are few good ways to confirm a person age online. If they disallow users under 13 from creating accounts, the users will lie about there age. If they want age confirmation, then it costs much more, and less people will wan tto go throug the trouble. I have credit cards but I am not about to use one online for age verification purposes. What about all the legitmate users over 13 that do not have the ability to confirm ones age. I don't know how a 15 year old would go about this online. A 15 year old would not have a drivers license, a credit card, or any other indentification. This will do nothing to help thier goals of protecting children.
That being said, they seem to have broken the law, it doesn't matter that the law has no value.
I was thinking more along the lines of doing a square root and not accepting approximate answers. Though, even though I could do this, I wouldn't want to.
The cultural background idea sounds good, but that may just reduce the number of Captchas these laborers can solve in an hour. A simple internet search should be able to solve these questions. What would be a few examples of a good Captcha for Americans. You will always find a good portion of Americans that are unable to answer even the simplest.
US customs has been known to ask cultural questions at border crossings. My sister was once asked what Dan Quayle's parents did for a living after she said she lived in Indiana. This question is a bit before her time. (His parents ran a newspaper in Indiana.) This also brings into question age. My parents kill me in the original version of trivial pursuit that they play, but I win when playing the newest version.
A temporary stop gap measure might be to use the current Captchas in combination of looking at the users geolocation. I can see how this measure though would really anger free speech advocates for the third world.
How about a mathematical Captcha that cannot be solved with a calculator. Well educated foreigners will not even work for $.60. Then again, how many Americans could solve these.
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If you do not want people at restaurants to spit in your food, even though they might not be as well educated as you, don't call them idiots.
...And if you are so smart, why don't you know that?
While they do not say directly in the article, the artcile does have hints that thier method of turning hydrogen solid is to react it with something. This will form a powerder at room temperature. The thing is they only have six percent of this powder is hydrogen so there is alot of dead weight to haul around so little H2. Also this method of a reversible reaction will use up energy. It is yet to be seen if this is more or less than the energy required to compress a similar volume of hydrogen.
This article has absolutly vague information on what research they are doing. Storing hydrogen as a solid, apparetly as a powder? What would be interesting is to see how much energy is lost in the chemical reactions of reacting hydrogen with whatever they react it with and then changing it back into hydrogen gas. I would also like to see how this compares to the energy required to compress hydrogen as it is currently done. This is what will determine this technologies usefulness in reality.
Only nine percent hydrogen by weight is success? How much fuel will it waste in transportation if there is nine times as much "pakaging" material as there is hydrogen. Yes the currently used hydrogen cylinders are heavy, but I do not believe they weigh nine times as much as they can carry.
This opens up some possibilities for treatment of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Drugging all troops before combat will be much less expensive than paying for PTSD treatment. What a Brave New World this opens up.
Any municipal government that does not take advantage of this (assuming it gets further developement) should be considered completely incompetent.
Most municipal goverments are already considered completely incompetent.
The problem is that now those that over reacted now feel justified in thier actions. The admission of guilt means that they were right to shut down the city and next time they will do even more. Now, no matter how many people tell them they overreacted thier minds can justify thier actions. The last thing this country needs is more emboldened idiots.
I had the same thoughts. FTA: he is banned from accessing the internet for personal reasons for an unknown amount of time"
How do you ban someone from the internet? What if he leaves the country? What if he tries to download movie times on his cell phone? I do not think any governing power would have the ability to ban someone from the internet.
IS the scientist in this video wearing flip flops with this ball lightning scurrying around the floor by hiw feet? Is it just me or is this not a good idea. I want to see the blooper reel of this video.
sorry, the web site is DVDONE.CH.
I think this technology is still cannot compete with having the actuall DVD sent to you. I usually on't mind waiting one day.
I use dvdone.com.
I get the DVD the next day before noon if I order by 5pm. (and the movie is not rented out)
I can pay online with wa wire transfer
I pay less than 2 dollars for shipping up to 4 DVDs round trip
I can rent as many DVDs as I want, renting many DVDs does not affect when they ship the DVDs I want. (ahem netflix)
Sorry if this sounds like a plug but it is not, I just want to tell other people what is possible so other companies improve thier services (ahem netflix).
Unfortunatly this kind of logical reasoning precludes you from the job.
They were first to do this in the 700 nm range but the article state that previously this could only be done in the 1400 nm range. I guess 700 nm is significant because it is the start of the visual spectrum. 700 is red i think.
I think people should not just be upset with the spammers, but those who buy from spammers. Spammers just fill a market need. If nobody was buying penis pills, you would never be spammed.
I chose where I wanted to move to(Basel, Switzerland), moved there and then conducted a normal job search with online resurces, newspapers, and headhunters. I suppose this choice depends on your personality. Is the location more important or the position you want to have. For me personally Basel is the perfect place as it has a great chemical industry for me to find a job in (I am a chemist) and it also has the social aspects I want in a community. ps If you want to find a job here look at jobs.ch
I was american. I did emigrate. (to Switzerland) I love it here am I am not going back. Not that we don't have our problems but it is definatly greener over here.
I saw this ten plus years ago on PBS. It was a professor somewhere could control hos sail boat with this. This is nothing new. Call me when they can do more than binary control. That would be interesting.
Do you have a high percentage of your clients that are guilty or do you specialize in the exceptions, the clients that have good legal ground to defend themselves?
If you are completely guilty and are sued, but do not have the money to pay, what are your options?
The problem is filling out the paperwork in triplicate. They may have enough time to safely repair the shuttle for launch, thye just don't have the time to do all the paperwork. This is why private space endeavors are they way of the future.
The FTC is trying to prevent child predators access to young children, a noble endeavor. The problem is that there are few good ways to confirm a person age online. If they disallow users under 13 from creating accounts, the users will lie about there age. If they want age confirmation, then it costs much more, and less people will wan tto go throug the trouble. I have credit cards but I am not about to use one online for age verification purposes. What about all the legitmate users over 13 that do not have the ability to confirm ones age. I don't know how a 15 year old would go about this online. A 15 year old would not have a drivers license, a credit card, or any other indentification. This will do nothing to help thier goals of protecting children.
That being said, they seem to have broken the law, it doesn't matter that the law has no value.
I know as well as you do that you can only approximate irrational numbers.
FYI, the square root button on your calculator gives you an approximate answer.
I was thinking more along the lines of doing a square root and not accepting approximate answers. Though, even though I could do this, I wouldn't want to.
The cultural background idea sounds good, but that may just reduce the number of Captchas these laborers can solve in an hour. A simple internet search should be able to solve these questions. What would be a few examples of a good Captcha for Americans. You will always find a good portion of Americans that are unable to answer even the simplest.
US customs has been known to ask cultural questions at border crossings. My sister was once asked what Dan Quayle's parents did for a living after she said she lived in Indiana. This question is a bit before her time. (His parents ran a newspaper in Indiana.) This also brings into question age. My parents kill me in the original version of trivial pursuit that they play, but I win when playing the newest version.
A temporary stop gap measure might be to use the current Captchas in combination of looking at the users geolocation. I can see how this measure though would really anger free speech advocates for the third world.
How about a mathematical Captcha that cannot be solved with a calculator. Well educated foreigners will not even work for $.60. Then again, how many Americans could solve these.