i am surprised to see this as news. In Holland we did the experiement in some towns. Not the large metropools but the small to average sized towns. The experiment was succesful.
The idea behind unsafe is safe works very well. When everything is regulated you don't need too think anymore. Just weatch the traffic lights and do your thing. It creates a false sense of safety. When the light jumps on green everybody step on the gas and races away without even looking left or right.
But without the signs and traffic lights people had to think fot themselfs. People didn't had that false feeling of safety and started too look out for themselfs. When you have too think about safety you are much more careful.
I drive the motorcycle and it can be very dangerus when people in cars don't look around and pay more attention to their mobiles/make up/breakfast then the road. Again, without trafficsigns people have too think for themselfs and that will never be a bad thing.
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For years, people laughed at Bragi Arnason - a pudgy Icelandic Professor who had a dream of society powered by hydrogen. Now they're feting him as a visionary, as Iceland embarks on a radical plan to get rid of all fossil fuels in the country in the next fifty years.
Europe Correspondent Geoff Hutchison explores the stunning vistas of Iceland, a remote island high in the North Atlantic, and home to one of Europe's last pristine wildernesses.
Settled by Norwegian Vikings in the 900s, it's a land of glaciers and arctic deserts, and - most importantly - rivers and volcanoes. Iceland has no fossil fuels of its own, and in the oil crisis of the 1970s, the fiercely independent Icelanders realised that their high standard of living could not be sustained so long as all fuel had to be imported. But abundant supplies of water means cheap, clean electricity, and it's here that the clue to the hydrogen economy lies.
Thirty years ago, a plan was hatched to heat the capital, Reykjavik, with steam-powered turbines using Iceland's huge reservoirs of hot underground water. It worked, and today, hot water from Reykjavik is piped all over the country. But it was a massive step from geo-thermal power, to cars running on water. Now, that's about to happen.
And it's all down to Professor Hydrogen, as Bragi Arnason is known today.
In the 1970s, Arnason was living on top of a glacier and mapping Iceland's underground water reservoirs as part of his doctoral thesis in chemistry. The reservoirs were no secret, in a land where people have been known to cook by burying boxes of bread in the ground. But the professor was the first to map the extent of Iceland's geothermic energy reserves. He began to wonder why, if Iceland could heat its houses, it couldn't fuel its cars - and thus the idea of the hydrogen economy was born.
He spent the next few decades trying to convince his colleagues, and the government, that his vision could work, but it wasn't until 1999, when Daimler-Chrysler arrived in town to set up a joint venture with the Icelandic government, that the sceptics were finally silenced. In a couple of months, Iceland's first hydrogen-powered buses will be on the streets, filling up at the world's first hydrogen filling station.
"This is a new energy resource coming into the market, and we as an energy company want to be involved in the future," a Shell representative tells Geoff.
The key to producing power from H2Ois to zap it with electricity. This splits the hydrogen from the oxygen. The hydrogen is then passed through a fuel cell that powers an electric motor. There are no pollutants, just steam.
Iceland currently owns more cars per head than almost any other nation on earth, and is the largest per capita producer of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases, due to its huge fishing fleet and metal smelting industry, so the benefits of a switch to hydrogen power will be global. Not only that - Icelanders are hoping that they can serve as a laboratory for the rest of the world.
"If it comes together in a positive way we can show the rest of the world that it's possible to have an entire society based on a new kind of energy," President Olafur Ragnar Grimmson tells Geoff.
"Energy that doesn't threaten the life on earth, doesn't threaten the climate and is friendly to the future of mankind."
Of course there are still many hurdles to overcome - at the moment it costs twice to three times as much to produce hydrogen as the equivalent amount of oil, and the buses cost around six times as much to manufacture as their conventional counterparts. The cost of replacing an entire infrastructure based around oil will also be huge. Shell Hydrogen estimates it would take at least $US19 billion to build hydrogen fuel stations in the US. But because Iceland is so small, the cost will be millions rather than billions - making it the ideal location for a grand experiment.
It's also a nation accustomed to being in front - famous for its innovation, and the imagination of its people. It seems that once more, Iceland is ahead of the rest of world. "I will see the first steps," says Professor Arnason. "My children will watch the transformation, and my grandchildren will live in this new energy economy.'
Quote: But new with USA Today coverage now the rest of the US can hear about it.
Not only the US of A. I live in the Netherlands and it was on the radio this morning. So make it world news.
I find it unbelievable that someone can get this kind of money when an other person says something wrong to you. If I sued everybody who accused me wrongly I could afford Bill Gates as my gardener.
[quote]'freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.'... [/quote]
What is Bush scared of? Some fundamentalist marsian threathend to blow up all US space going vehicles?
The funny part is that the USA is standing alone in this world. When war breaks out between America and Europe who will be the allies on the side of the USA? I think in such a scenario the USA will be alone and Europe will probably have Russia, middle east and even the far East on their sites. Do not under estimate the low popularity of the USA in the rest of the world.
I do not agree with the writer. I takes me a lot of creativity to find different ways to frag my friends in Battlefield 1942.
Also playing battlefield teach me some nice skills for the real life. (press 9 for parachute whenever I fall out of a airplane and such)
And are you the one who is too afraid to come outside to enjoy life? I rather live in denial than always being afraid to die. Afterall it's not the duration of life that counts but the quality.
yeah yeah, just make fun of your average non english speaking foreigeners. Or mayby I started too early working with computers and have permanent damage already.
Reading this post is bad for my eyes.
Going to the toilet to often can give me RSI and serious backproblems.
Eating wears out my jawbones.
Everything is bad for you if you sart thinking about it. Everything dangerous is called life.
I work for Dell EMEA. We use two different prices for the Netherlands and Belgium. At every order that goes to Belgium I have to raise a certain amount of enviroment tax. The Tax of CRT screens is much higher then of flatpanels.
1,65 EUR for a laptop
2,48 EUR for the processor
4,96 EUR for a flatpanel
6,61 EUR for a CRT screen
Also in Counter-strike you can find some maps of Moria, helmsdeep and Isengard on line.
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Couldn't tell you. I didn't see matrix II and III yet.
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There could be a major negative aspect of improving IA.
It could be possible that people find it more easy to socialize with IA instead with real humans.
Who need friends when they can get a perfectpartner3000?
Didn't America use one big conventional bomb (the flairy blossom or something) to kill 5000 fleeing Taliban warriors?
I believe this is a weapon of mass destruction aswell.
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The dislike for the US of A will bind us Europeans.
i am surprised to see this as news. In Holland we did the experiement in some towns. Not the large metropools but the small to average sized towns. The experiment was succesful.
The idea behind unsafe is safe works very well. When everything is regulated you don't need too think anymore. Just weatch the traffic lights and do your thing. It creates a false sense of safety. When the light jumps on green everybody step on the gas and races away without even looking left or right.
But without the signs and traffic lights people had to think fot themselfs. People didn't had that false feeling of safety and started too look out for themselfs. When you have too think about safety you are much more careful.
I drive the motorcycle and it can be very dangerus when people in cars don't look around and pay more attention to their mobiles/make up/breakfast then the road. Again, without trafficsigns people have too think for themselfs and that will never be a bad thing.
M$ is a commercial entity. If they decide to pull out of a market there must be an other reason then the politics stated above.
My guess: M$ cannot sue chinese citizens if they use an illegal copy.
Synopsis For years, people laughed at Bragi Arnason - a pudgy Icelandic Professor who had a dream of society powered by hydrogen. Now they're feting him as a visionary, as Iceland embarks on a radical plan to get rid of all fossil fuels in the country in the next fifty years. Europe Correspondent Geoff Hutchison explores the stunning vistas of Iceland, a remote island high in the North Atlantic, and home to one of Europe's last pristine wildernesses. Settled by Norwegian Vikings in the 900s, it's a land of glaciers and arctic deserts, and - most importantly - rivers and volcanoes. Iceland has no fossil fuels of its own, and in the oil crisis of the 1970s, the fiercely independent Icelanders realised that their high standard of living could not be sustained so long as all fuel had to be imported. But abundant supplies of water means cheap, clean electricity, and it's here that the clue to the hydrogen economy lies. Thirty years ago, a plan was hatched to heat the capital, Reykjavik, with steam-powered turbines using Iceland's huge reservoirs of hot underground water. It worked, and today, hot water from Reykjavik is piped all over the country. But it was a massive step from geo-thermal power, to cars running on water. Now, that's about to happen. And it's all down to Professor Hydrogen, as Bragi Arnason is known today. In the 1970s, Arnason was living on top of a glacier and mapping Iceland's underground water reservoirs as part of his doctoral thesis in chemistry. The reservoirs were no secret, in a land where people have been known to cook by burying boxes of bread in the ground. But the professor was the first to map the extent of Iceland's geothermic energy reserves. He began to wonder why, if Iceland could heat its houses, it couldn't fuel its cars - and thus the idea of the hydrogen economy was born. He spent the next few decades trying to convince his colleagues, and the government, that his vision could work, but it wasn't until 1999, when Daimler-Chrysler arrived in town to set up a joint venture with the Icelandic government, that the sceptics were finally silenced. In a couple of months, Iceland's first hydrogen-powered buses will be on the streets, filling up at the world's first hydrogen filling station. "This is a new energy resource coming into the market, and we as an energy company want to be involved in the future," a Shell representative tells Geoff. The key to producing power from H2Ois to zap it with electricity. This splits the hydrogen from the oxygen. The hydrogen is then passed through a fuel cell that powers an electric motor. There are no pollutants, just steam. Iceland currently owns more cars per head than almost any other nation on earth, and is the largest per capita producer of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases, due to its huge fishing fleet and metal smelting industry, so the benefits of a switch to hydrogen power will be global. Not only that - Icelanders are hoping that they can serve as a laboratory for the rest of the world. "If it comes together in a positive way we can show the rest of the world that it's possible to have an entire society based on a new kind of energy," President Olafur Ragnar Grimmson tells Geoff. "Energy that doesn't threaten the life on earth, doesn't threaten the climate and is friendly to the future of mankind." Of course there are still many hurdles to overcome - at the moment it costs twice to three times as much to produce hydrogen as the equivalent amount of oil, and the buses cost around six times as much to manufacture as their conventional counterparts. The cost of replacing an entire infrastructure based around oil will also be huge. Shell Hydrogen estimates it would take at least $US19 billion to build hydrogen fuel stations in the US. But because Iceland is so small, the cost will be millions rather than billions - making it the ideal location for a grand experiment. It's also a nation accustomed to being in front - famous for its innovation, and the imagination of its people. It seems that once more, Iceland is ahead of the rest of world. "I will see the first steps," says Professor Arnason. "My children will watch the transformation, and my grandchildren will live in this new energy economy.'
Quote: But new with USA Today coverage now the rest of the US can hear about it. Not only the US of A. I live in the Netherlands and it was on the radio this morning. So make it world news. I find it unbelievable that someone can get this kind of money when an other person says something wrong to you. If I sued everybody who accused me wrongly I could afford Bill Gates as my gardener.
What makes a programmer great? The software they produce? The influence they have in the markt? The money they earn?
You say it right. Any other president . . . .
[quote]'freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.'... [/quote] What is Bush scared of? Some fundamentalist marsian threathend to blow up all US space going vehicles?
Seems logic to me. The core is spinning and the outside of earth has drag to cope with.
Don't you have something better to do mr. President?
That's exactly the same what the Nazi's said to the people of all the countries they invaded.
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Don't worry, if you are a nice Nazi you won't get hurt. If you have different idea's . .
And I tought America was supposed to be the land of the free.
Sometimes I feel a certain proudness of being dutch.
One of the worlds most progressive country.
The funny part is that the USA is standing alone in this world. When war breaks out between America and Europe who will be the allies on the side of the USA? I think in such a scenario the USA will be alone and Europe will probably have Russia, middle east and even the far East on their sites. Do not under estimate the low popularity of the USA in the rest of the world.
Mayby we Europeans ignore problems but atleast we don't start problems in other parts of the world.
He probably means the dunes in the west which protect Holland from the sea.
I do not agree with the writer. I takes me a lot of creativity to find different ways to frag my friends in Battlefield 1942. Also playing battlefield teach me some nice skills for the real life. (press 9 for parachute whenever I fall out of a airplane and such)
And are you the one who is too afraid to come outside to enjoy life? I rather live in denial than always being afraid to die. Afterall it's not the duration of life that counts but the quality.
yeah yeah, just make fun of your average non english speaking foreigeners. Or mayby I started too early working with computers and have permanent damage already.
Reading this post is bad for my eyes. Going to the toilet to often can give me RSI and serious backproblems. Eating wears out my jawbones. Everything is bad for you if you sart thinking about it. Everything dangerous is called life.
I work for Dell EMEA. We use two different prices for the Netherlands and Belgium. At every order that goes to Belgium I have to raise a certain amount of enviroment tax. The Tax of CRT screens is much higher then of flatpanels. 1,65 EUR for a laptop 2,48 EUR for the processor 4,96 EUR for a flatpanel 6,61 EUR for a CRT screen
I am. Security experts work only 8 hours a day. Hackers work 20 hours every day.
Also in Counter-strike you can find some maps of Moria, helmsdeep and Isengard on line.
Couldn't tell you. I didn't see matrix II and III yet.
There could be a major negative aspect of improving IA. It could be possible that people find it more easy to socialize with IA instead with real humans. Who need friends when they can get a perfectpartner3000?
Didn't America use one big conventional bomb (the flairy blossom or something) to kill 5000 fleeing Taliban warriors? I believe this is a weapon of mass destruction aswell.