(a) General. No person may operate a civil aircraft of U.S. registry--
(1) At cabin pressure altitudes above 12,500 feet (MSL) up to and including 14,000 feet (MSL) unless the required minimum flight crew is provided with and uses supplemental oxygen for that part of the flight at those altitudes that is of more than 30 minutes duration;
(2) At cabin pressure altitudes above 14,000 feet (MSL) unless the required minimum flight crew is provided with and uses supplemental oxygen during the entire flight time at those altitudes; and
(3) At cabin pressure altitudes above 15,000 feet (MSL) unless each occupant of the aircraft is provided with supplemental oxygen.
(b) Pressurized cabin aircraft. (1) No person may operate a civil aircraft of U.S. registry with a pressurized cabin--
(i) At flight altitudes above flight level 250 unless at least a 10- minute supply of supplemental oxygen, in addition to any oxygen required to satisfy paragraph (a) of this section, is available for each occupant of the aircraft for use in the event that a descent is necessitated by loss of cabin pressurization; and
Most General Aviation incidents are caused by engine/fuel related problems, which are usually caused by pilot error / poor pre-flight procedures.
There are several factors that could have been factors:
1) Hypoxia. The crash site is at 10,000 feet, which means he was probably flying higher. I don't know what time of day it was, but hypoxia is much more profound at night.
2) Loss of orientation. Flying around in terrain is not easy. Also, the terrain always wins. The first time I heard the news this morning, before they found the wreckage, I looked at that town in google earth. The first words out of my mouth were, "well, I can see the mountain he flew into." And, sure enough... I was right
3) Engine/Fuel - already mentioned. "Oh, it's just a short flight," are the deadliest words in aviation. I do a 100% pre-flight whether I park the plane for 5 hours of 5 minutes. You can never ever inspect too much. It's very common for experienced pilots to get lazy.
The problem with one-uppsmanship is that now there are going to be two different refining processes for the US and Europe. Since Europe gets a lot of diesel from the US, the US refiners will have to have two different process lines for US and European diesel. This will drive up costs in both countries.
10ppm EuroV costs 25% more to refine than 15ppm ULSD, so the US will NOT adopt the EuroV standard.
If Europe had simply accepted our proposal to adopt 15ppm, there could be one giant process line, and refined diesel could be shipped back and forth between the US and Europe to handle possible supply waves.
"in fact, a good patent attorney will try to include as many things as possible in order to have the broadest reach for the resulting patent."
Have you ever actually gone through the patent application process? (sorry, I had to correct your teenage chatspeak grammar) A good patent attorney will try to include things that are pertinent to the invention in a way that makes the patent as solid as possible without including a bunch of frivolous claims that, while increasing the possibility of predatory or intimidating lawsuits against small fish, only serve in the end to weaken the patent to anyone who actually challenges its validity. That's what a *good* patent attorney does.
A patent attorney who writes the patents in such away as to allow the owner to sue as many small fish as possible to generate settlement funds is not a good patent attorney.
I've applied for numerous patents and each time the attorney spends weeks working with me, weeding out any claim that is weak, questionable, or unnecessary to adequately protect the underlying invention.
My company pays $100 for an invention disclosure (regardless of whether they elect to pursue a patent... I make it a point to dream up at least one of these every day)
$1500 if they decide to file a patent application.
"Fuel standards in Europe are higher than for the USA though (higher RON fuel)."
First, Research Octane Number, or RON, has nothing to do with diesel. Diesel is rated by its Cetane content.
If you want to talk about Diesel fuel standards, usually that's with respect to sulfur content. In the US, the standard is ULSD, and in the EU, it's Euro-IV. For Diesel, ULSD allows only 15ppm sulfur while the Euro-IV standard allows 50ppm. ULSD is currently mandatory for any road vehicle sold in the 2007 and later model years. The mandate extends to all diesel-burning vehicles (including those that use Jet-A) in 2010.
The standards are tighter in the US than they are in Europe. In 2009, Euro-V comes out, which is 10ppm. Europe chose 10ppm instead of 15ppm like ULSD to one-up the United States in its perceived "green-ness."
They can audit me all they want. My books are in order because I pay the taxes that I am supposed to pay. They audit you quite expeditiously here if you do not file Sales & Use tax returns every quarter.
I wonder what the ESR of a 1-atom thick layer of graphene is. I can't imagine it's that low. That kinda blows it out of the water for applications that have big current transients (like DC/DC controllers, parallel RAMs, anything with a lot of parallel switching I/O, really)
How would you build plates on the moon without a massive energy source (probably megawatts of power, big vehicles, big machinery, etc) to mine ore, smelt it, extrude it, and so on? Chicken and egg.. How would you dig the holes to insert the plates into? No matter what, we're talking about moving huge masses of stuff to the moon.
I think the best they can hope for is radiative cooling from metal plates that are shipped there from The Blue Marble. This kind of infrastructure is going to take decades and $billions to built... I'm just not sure I see the benefit to any of this.
Reduced pressure lowers the boiling point temperature, but not the heat of vaporization. So, it will do nothing to make it "easier" to boil water. It will just happen at a lower temperature.
I just want to know how they plan to dissipate all of the heat generated by this process.
The price of something on the street should have nothing to do with how much it costs. The only thing that is important is what the buyer is willing to pay for it.
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I believe that's called cynicism :)
How long will it be before the government mandates these things?
They'll do it in the name of "protecting the children" or "reducing emissions" or "to save us from ourselves."
More freedom for less security... business as usual.. Thanks a lot, Ford..
Care to enlighten us as to your evidence to support that claim? It's a serious allegation.
No chance this was caused by static electricity. Not a chance in hell.
Anyone who understands how computing systems actually work will see this for the sham that it is.
(a) General. No person may operate a civil aircraft of U.S.
registry--
(1) At cabin pressure altitudes above 12,500 feet (MSL) up to and
including 14,000 feet (MSL) unless the required minimum flight crew is
provided with and uses supplemental oxygen for that part of the flight
at those altitudes that is of more than 30 minutes duration;
(2) At cabin pressure altitudes above 14,000 feet (MSL) unless the
required minimum flight crew is provided with and uses supplemental
oxygen during the entire flight time at those altitudes; and
(3) At cabin pressure altitudes above 15,000 feet (MSL) unless each
occupant of the aircraft is provided with supplemental oxygen.
(b) Pressurized cabin aircraft. (1) No person may operate a civil
aircraft of U.S. registry with a pressurized cabin--
(i) At flight altitudes above flight level 250 unless at least a 10-
minute supply of supplemental oxygen, in addition to any oxygen required
to satisfy paragraph (a) of this section, is available for each occupant
of the aircraft for use in the event that a descent is necessitated by
loss of cabin pressurization; and
Most General Aviation incidents are caused by engine/fuel related problems, which are usually caused by pilot error / poor pre-flight procedures.
There are several factors that could have been factors:
1) Hypoxia. The crash site is at 10,000 feet, which means he was probably flying higher. I don't know what time of day it was, but hypoxia is much more profound at night.
2) Loss of orientation. Flying around in terrain is not easy. Also, the terrain always wins. The first time I heard the news this morning, before they found the wreckage, I looked at that town in google earth. The first words out of my mouth were, "well, I can see the mountain he flew into." And, sure enough... I was right
3) Engine/Fuel - already mentioned. "Oh, it's just a short flight," are the deadliest words in aviation. I do a 100% pre-flight whether I park the plane for 5 hours of 5 minutes. You can never ever inspect too much. It's very common for experienced pilots to get lazy.
The problem with one-uppsmanship is that now there are going to be two different refining processes for the US and Europe. Since Europe gets a lot of diesel from the US, the US refiners will have to have two different process lines for US and European diesel. This will drive up costs in both countries.
10ppm EuroV costs 25% more to refine than 15ppm ULSD, so the US will NOT adopt the EuroV standard.
If Europe had simply accepted our proposal to adopt 15ppm, there could be one giant process line, and refined diesel could be shipped back and forth between the US and Europe to handle possible supply waves.
"Gotta dream up something wacky and new to justify my grant money for next year..."
I wrote some fortran code to do that in grad school. My god those NxN matrices get big...
Just out of curiosity, which commercial code were you using?
"in fact, a good patent attorney will try to include as many things as possible in order to have the broadest reach for the resulting patent."
Have you ever actually gone through the patent application process? (sorry, I had to correct your teenage chatspeak grammar) A good patent attorney will try to include things that are pertinent to the invention in a way that makes the patent as solid as possible without including a bunch of frivolous claims that, while increasing the possibility of predatory or intimidating lawsuits against small fish, only serve in the end to weaken the patent to anyone who actually challenges its validity. That's what a *good* patent attorney does.
A patent attorney who writes the patents in such away as to allow the owner to sue as many small fish as possible to generate settlement funds is not a good patent attorney.
I've applied for numerous patents and each time the attorney spends weeks working with me, weeding out any claim that is weak, questionable, or unnecessary to adequately protect the underlying invention.
My company pays $100 for an invention disclosure (regardless of whether they elect to pursue a patent... I make it a point to dream up at least one of these every day)
$1500 if they decide to file a patent application.
And nothing beyond that...
"Fuel standards in Europe are higher than for the USA though (higher RON fuel)."
First, Research Octane Number, or RON, has nothing to do with diesel. Diesel is rated by its Cetane content.
If you want to talk about Diesel fuel standards, usually that's with respect to sulfur content. In the US, the standard is ULSD, and in the EU, it's Euro-IV. For Diesel, ULSD allows only 15ppm sulfur while the Euro-IV standard allows 50ppm. ULSD is currently mandatory for any road vehicle sold in the 2007 and later model years. The mandate extends to all diesel-burning vehicles (including those that use Jet-A) in 2010.
The standards are tighter in the US than they are in Europe. In 2009, Euro-V comes out, which is 10ppm. Europe chose 10ppm instead of 15ppm like ULSD to one-up the United States in its perceived "green-ness."
What a surprise....
They can audit me all they want. My books are in order because I pay the taxes that I am supposed to pay. They audit you quite expeditiously here if you do not file Sales & Use tax returns every quarter.
Just because you are never audited doesn't mean you don't have to pay it.
Use Tax applies to businesses and individuals and lack of enforcement does not equal absence of obligation.
I wonder what the ESR of a 1-atom thick layer of graphene is. I can't imagine it's that low. That kinda blows it out of the water for applications that have big current transients (like DC/DC controllers, parallel RAMs, anything with a lot of parallel switching I/O, really)
Isn't there some rule or law against this?
Simply because he did not ask permission. This makes it Black Hat in my book...
*clap* *clap* *clap* *clap*
Are you hiring?
Can't you already turn off the history, cookies, and the cache, not to mention remembered passwords?
How is this different, or did they take these features out in V3? I still use V2 since V3 kept crashing my box.
How would you build plates on the moon without a massive energy source (probably megawatts of power, big vehicles, big machinery, etc) to mine ore, smelt it, extrude it, and so on? Chicken and egg.. How would you dig the holes to insert the plates into? No matter what, we're talking about moving huge masses of stuff to the moon.
I think the best they can hope for is radiative cooling from metal plates that are shipped there from The Blue Marble. This kind of infrastructure is going to take decades and $billions to built... I'm just not sure I see the benefit to any of this.
Reduced pressure lowers the boiling point temperature, but not the heat of vaporization. So, it will do nothing to make it "easier" to boil water. It will just happen at a lower temperature.
I just want to know how they plan to dissipate all of the heat generated by this process.
The price of something on the street should have nothing to do with how much it costs. The only thing that is important is what the buyer is willing to pay for it.
Umm... ExperionPKS?
"Well then, I guess they'll have to change their classification of "junk DNA""
I'm sure they'd rather condemn humanity's ability to use tools and stuff than admit they were wrong.