After initial compression of atmospheric air, one of the first stages in an air separation plant is to knock out CO2 and water. This is often done via a pair molecular sieves that regenerate using waste nitrogen (IIRC). Recovering the CO2 would require that the CO2 be stored somewhere.
Where do you put it?
I'm all for building an ASU in every neighbourhood and hooking them all up to some magical pipeline (I'd have design work for the next 300 years), but where does the money come from for this?
Oh right, I forgot - people want stuff they cannot afford, refuse to pay for (even if the sky IS truly falling) but have a feel-good emotion when they 'stand up' for something they believe in. Is there some manipulative, soothing brain chemical released when individuals donate to GreenPeace, WWF and the like?
And once their monthly periods synch-up they could "outsource" the emotions to Fox and have a regular free-floating, naked pretend fight c/w pillows, zero-G boob action and 'you want me? Come and get me'- type come ons.
I'd pay to see that (as would 3 billion other guys). Voila! Space exploration financing problems solved in one fell swoop.
Don't ever forget that the reason you're here is that a woman somehow managed to put up with you for awhile.
And yet some people think the only way to "save the human race" is for you humans to populate other planets via terraforming. Of course, this type of flake is always ready to criticize and propose solutions that might exist sometime in the future (based on their Star Trek knowledge of technology of course).
Typical "think globally, act locally" silliness and posturing by people who desperately want to appear to be socially/environmentally/ergonomically responsible 'citizens'. And be remembered as being right 300 years from now when everything has gone to shit.
Any moron can espouse a world-saving concept and Demand That It Be Done, Or Else.
- "Argue with colleagues"? Maybe yes-maning works in the executive suite. But when a crew of experts is chasing down a problem there will be a slew of hypotheses tried and discarded, with different workers coming up with different hypotheses and evidence to falsify them. To an outsider this looks like an argument, when it's actually progress. Experts will also often have differing opinions and will discuss them - ditto.
(I recall one company where upper-level executives quietly added themselves to an engineering internal mailing list. There we discussed the latest problems - often heatedly - until they were solved. When one was solved the traffic on THAT problem stopped cold and another would take its place.
If the jobsite is distant and the budget does not permit trained people to be on site available full-time for survey duty, this looks like a good, cheap solution to a real problem (not accurate enough for detail work, though). It also can reduce the problem of "user variance" in dimension-collecting and field fudging due to bad weather, hard-to-access areas, etc. As-built drawings are notoriously incomplete/inaccurate/nonexistent.
From an industrial process plant designer's perspective, this technology can be very useful when blocking out areas in the early stages of design and layout (say, for facility upgrades: evaluating tie-in points, accessibility, stuff like that).
Google should do open source 3D CAD, using BRL-CAD as a foundation. There are millions of CAD users/companies locked into certain file formats and becoming a draftsman/designer is much more difficult than it used to be. No, wait, that was wrong. Attaining the skills currently thought necessary to be a draftsman is easy - it's the aptitude that is lost these days.
CAD software simplifies things up to the point where prospective drafters/designers need to be proficient with 5 or 6 different programs. At that point they become software specialists, not potential designers.
Thanks. Can you distill this down to a simple yes or no? I need to know because I'd like to Friend or Foe you, but I am unsure about how you stand on global warming.
The irony seems to be that XP does this by default in order to save inexperienced users from themselves (by, say, accidentally deleting a critical file) but in doing so opens said users to attacks from slimy bastards that want to infect computers. On the other hand, can a file labelled.doc actually be a.exe?
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After initial compression of atmospheric air, one of the first stages in an air separation plant is to knock out CO2 and water. This is often done via a pair molecular sieves that regenerate using waste nitrogen (IIRC). Recovering the CO2 would require that the CO2 be stored somewhere.
Where do you put it?
I'm all for building an ASU in every neighbourhood and hooking them all up to some magical pipeline (I'd have design work for the next 300 years), but where does the money come from for this?
Oh right, I forgot - people want stuff they cannot afford, refuse to pay for (even if the sky IS truly falling) but have a feel-good emotion when they 'stand up' for something they believe in. Is there some manipulative, soothing brain chemical released when individuals donate to GreenPeace, WWF and the like?
But your activity was necessarily secretive, not public.
And once their monthly periods synch-up they could "outsource" the emotions to Fox and have a regular free-floating, naked pretend fight c/w pillows, zero-G boob action and 'you want me? Come and get me'- type come ons.
I'd pay to see that (as would 3 billion other guys). Voila! Space exploration financing problems solved in one fell swoop.
Don't ever forget that the reason you're here is that a woman somehow managed to put up with you for awhile.
And yet some people think the only way to "save the human race" is for you humans to populate other planets via terraforming. Of course, this type of flake is always ready to criticize and propose solutions that might exist sometime in the future (based on their Star Trek knowledge of technology of course).
Typical "think globally, act locally" silliness and posturing by people who desperately want to appear to be socially/environmentally/ergonomically responsible 'citizens'. And be remembered as being right 300 years from now when everything has gone to shit.
Any moron can espouse a world-saving concept and Demand That It Be Done, Or Else.
For the current level of internet pipe clogging you need piping designers and engineers, not plumbers.
Y'see, we have these things called intelligent pigs...
Thanks for the sig.
The "after" photo looks like someone subtly stretched it in the Y direction with an image manipulation program.
- "Argue with colleagues"? Maybe yes-maning works in the executive suite. But when a crew of experts is chasing down a problem there will be a slew of hypotheses tried and discarded, with different workers coming up with different hypotheses and evidence to falsify them. To an outsider this looks like an argument, when it's actually progress. Experts will also often have differing opinions and will discuss them - ditto. (I recall one company where upper-level executives quietly added themselves to an engineering internal mailing list. There we discussed the latest problems - often heatedly - until they were solved. When one was solved the traffic on THAT problem stopped cold and another would take its place.
Great observation.
Thanks for ruining April 1, jerk!
Didn't Alias (the Isogen guys, not the 3D animation guys) get bought out recently?
If the jobsite is distant and the budget does not permit trained people to be on site available full-time for survey duty, this looks like a good, cheap solution to a real problem (not accurate enough for detail work, though). It also can reduce the problem of "user variance" in dimension-collecting and field fudging due to bad weather, hard-to-access areas, etc. As-built drawings are notoriously incomplete/inaccurate/nonexistent.
From an industrial process plant designer's perspective, this technology can be very useful when blocking out areas in the early stages of design and layout (say, for facility upgrades: evaluating tie-in points, accessibility, stuff like that).
Then move to Alberta.
It was too smartish for the perceived audience?
Should I add more keywords?
They will implement a Slashdot-like ranking system for the videos so we'll see many dupes and Piquepaille-submitted videos.
Google should do open source 3D CAD, using BRL-CAD as a foundation. There are millions of CAD users/companies locked into certain file formats and becoming a draftsman/designer is much more difficult than it used to be. No, wait, that was wrong. Attaining the skills currently thought necessary to be a draftsman is easy - it's the aptitude that is lost these days.
CAD software simplifies things up to the point where prospective drafters/designers need to be proficient with 5 or 6 different programs. At that point they become software specialists, not potential designers.
butterfly effect
Butterfly effect? Is this the new term for fluid dynamics?
Thanks. Can you distill this down to a simple yes or no? I need to know because I'd like to Friend or Foe you, but I am unsure about how you stand on global warming.
Also, is oil really made from dead dinosaurs?
Nicely said.
Insightful post. Too bad about that "going forward" nonsense. Without that you'd have been good to go.
still works.
The irony seems to be that XP does this by default in order to save inexperienced users from themselves (by, say, accidentally deleting a critical file) but in doing so opens said users to attacks from slimy bastards that want to infect computers. On the other hand, can a file labelled .doc actually be a .exe?
Traditionally, drawings in patents had to be created in a certain style in order to be reviewed. These days, with CAD, I guess this requirement is no longer necessary since anyone with a cheap CAD package is now a draftsman.
Just hire skinnier stewardesses.
I was just getting used to the tubes metaphor and now it's buckets? Fer chrissakes, make up your minds!