In general, two companies failing to come to an agreement means... two companies failed to come to an agreement. Not, "one company is 'worried' and 'has bitten off more than it really wants to chew'."
And perhaps, just perhaps, he meant "perhaps" when he wrote "perhaps"....
It's important to note though, that if you can make twice as much panel area for less money, then you are being more efficient.
This is true, assuming you don't have a limit as to the area of panels you can deploy (rooftop solar installations are slightly limited by the area of the roof).
Note though that TFA specified high cost and low efficiency as problems solved by this design. In spite of the lower efficiency of the design, and without bothering to mention the actual cost at all...
but taking the time to educate a room full of children why they shouldn't steal has no immediate, tangible benefit.
Hard to argue successfully that someone shouldn't steal when you're also saying "we really don't have time to catch thieves, which is why we wish you wouldn't"....
He mentioned that this new solar cell design was intended to solve (among other things) the "low efficiency" of current designs.
According to TFA, the new design has a 10.2% conversion efficiency, as opposed to the 11-12% efficiency of the "Gratzel cell" it was supposed to improve upon.
It was further noted (in TFA) that traditional cells have up to 20% efficiency.
But the deaths are still real.. The people that were alive between 1948 and 1970 (the period of exposure) are/were the primary ones affected. I've known a couple of people that turned out to be from the midwest (one of the harder hit regions from Nevada testing) who had leukemia (they're dead now).
You seem to have forgotten to prove that the leukemia deaths you mentioned were caused by any nuclear activity.
I mean, I know people who have died of cancer too. But there's absolutely no evidence that their cancer was caused by nuclear testing, nuclear reactors, nuclear anything....
It's only for I-131, and then only for the Nevada tests (other sources not included), but have some fun with the risk calculator if you were around back in the day.
Fascinating calculator. According to it, I've gotten more radiation from flying around the country than from fallout, in spite of living in the area where such things were meaningful.
Also, my risk of getting thyroid cancer is essentially indistinguishable from that of someone who was never exposed to any fallout...
8. China does nothing but pirate and steal. There has never been an original thought from anyone east of South Korea.
Too funny!
You're obviously unaware that South Korea is WEST of the USA and EAST of China.
So "anyone east of South Korea" includes the USA, but not China, making your point self-contradictory....
Is it at all possible to accept the -possibility- that the world is slightly more complex than such trite paradigms?
Yes. It's also possible to decide that someone who is unaware that the USA is EAST of Korea isn't worth listening to when it comes to discussing complex issues...
Of course not. The United States dropped a 15-kiloton bomb on Hiroshima, killing 125,000 people. A few days later, a 21-kiloton bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing about 45,000. That's around 170,000 people who died for the "deterrent". Does it really matter that those people died from a nuclear bomb, or would it somehow be better if we'd dropped a ton of regular ol' incendiary bombs, then kept fighting the war for a few more years?
No, if we'd firebombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we'd probably have killed a lot more people than were killed by the nuclear blasts - hills can protect you from a nuke blast if you're in their shadow, but not so much if you're being chased by a firestorm.
Note that Tokyo suffered a million-plus casualties from a couple-three firebombings...
Looking at "Fairewinds Energy Education" website, it doesn't look like anything other than an anti-nuke shill, producing reports on demand for the anti-nuke hysterics...
Gamma goes through everything but doesn't stick around as much.
Alpha can stick around in an environment for decades continuously poisoning and re-poisoning those who come in contact with it.
Gamma rays go through everything, but doesn't stick around at all.
Alpha particles are helium ions, and are neither poisonous nor particularly prone to sticking around.
That said...
Gamma EMITTERS can be in the environment for extended periods, based entirely on their half-life (long half-life means the emitters are around for a long time, short halflife rather the reverse).
Alpha EMITTERS can be in the environment for extended periods, based entirely on their half-life (same parenthetical comment).
And THAT said...
Gamma emitters are moderately dangerous, but alpha emitters can safely be stored under your bed (an alpha emitter wrapped in yesterday's newspaper is pretty much safe, since an alpha particle won't penetrate a single sheet of paper).
Well, it still has debt that it hasn't paid off yet, I know. But it has never defaulted on its loans nor said it won't pay, AFAIK.
True enough.
It should be noted that "still has debt it hasn't paid off yet" includes literally trillions of dollars of debt that has been rolled over - they borrowed it, paid interest on it, and when it came due, borrowed more money to pay off the first loan.
Note that the national debt has not decreased in my lifetime. And my kid is probably older than most/.'ers.
There's still going to be a damages phase, but the numbers likely to be involved are so small that the sides agreed that the judge could set the damages himself, rather than having a jury do it.
Not quite.
The judge will determine damages since Oracle and Google agreed to "statutory damages" on the copyright infringement.
Assuming that the judge doesn't decide that 9 lines of 15 million isn't de minimus (worth zero damages), then the damages will range from $200 to $150K, which are the legal limits....
As it was, the US defeated Japan but made a half-baked attempt to invade Europe, resulting in the Russian takeover and the Cold War. Nothing else was politically possible because, with Japan beaten, Eisenhower (and Montgomery) were not allowed high-casualty operations.
You seem unaware that the war in Europe was over before the war in Japan was...
Hint: other than Naval forces, the majority of the US war effort was aimed at Germany. Which is why we did D-Day in June 1944, but weren't even beginning to do serious planning of an invasion of Japan until 1945.
Note that the Battle of Okinawa wasn't over till a month after Germany's surrender.
Note further that the invasion of Japan, absent schedule slippage, wasn't supposed to begin till October 1945 (Kyushu) and early 1946 (Honshu).
Which puts the war in Europe about 18 months to two years ahead of the war in the Pacific in terms of allied planning....
NASA ponied up some money when they did the COTS idea (and will pony up more when SPaceX starts regular cargo flights to the ISS next year), but SpaceX had been developing Falcon 1 & 9 and Dragon before NASA got involved.
Besides, the XX is a heavy launch *concept* and won't be going anywhere beyond LEO (or perhaps GTO) even when it is build.
It's a concept at this point. It must be noted, however, that all of the hardware was tested this morning (Falcon XX uses three Falcon9 first stages, plus one Falcon 9 second stage).
Note that Falcon XX can put 19000 kg into GEO. Which implies enough deltaV to put 19000 kg into a an orbit to Mars (it takes about the same delta-V to reach Mars as it does to reach GEO).
The actual getting to Mars bit isn't even a concept yet.
Hmm, a quick Google shows that JPL is already considering a Mars mission using Falcon XX, with Dragon as the lander. They want to fly it in 2018, assuming they get the budget next year....
Getting to Mars with chemical rockets is very slow, makes rather inefficient use of launch vehicles, and is almost certainly not the best solution.
If the choice is ~$200 million for a Falcon XX to Mars in 2018, or ~$2 billion for a design study that might turn into usable hardware by 2030, I know where I'd be putting my money, if I wanted to do some science on Mars....
If I had to pick the single biggest cause, it was having their budget radically slashed due to waning public interest in space post-Apollo and the increasing funding demands of the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War had little, if anything, to do with Shuttle's budget problems. US involvement in Vietnam ended about a year after Apollo, and about a year after spending on Shuttle actually began.
That said, you won't see me arguing much about the "radical budget slashing" at NASA, since it was reduced about 40% after Apollo.
And still isn't as much, in constant dollars, as it was at the height of Apollo.
Dams actually meter the water out at a specific rate, but that rate is typically less than what would flow naturally.
Absent significant evaporation, releasing water at a rate lower than it would flow naturally will cause the level of the reservoir to increase constantly.
Since this is not the case, I have to assume that either (a) evaporation is a huge factor, or (b) you're wrong....
screw the semantics, if you go up really high to get a view that few people have, but have no room to turn and actually take in the view, it would suck if the capsule was facing the wrong way.
True enough.
Frankly, I'm claustrophobic enough that being inside something that size would be enough to keep me from enjoying the view, even assuming I were facing the right direction.
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It's not that big. 22klb is loaded, not empty. The 18000 lb of fuel is long since gone.
Dry, it's less than 4500 lb.
And perhaps, just perhaps, he meant "perhaps" when he wrote "perhaps"....
This is true, assuming you don't have a limit as to the area of panels you can deploy (rooftop solar installations are slightly limited by the area of the roof).
Note though that TFA specified high cost and low efficiency as problems solved by this design. In spite of the lower efficiency of the design, and without bothering to mention the actual cost at all...
In other words, lot of hype, not much else...
Hard to argue successfully that someone shouldn't steal when you're also saying "we really don't have time to catch thieves, which is why we wish you wouldn't"....
So, did they try something obvious like "go to the place that iRetrieve says the phone is, then dial the phone and listen for ringing"?
Or did they just ask the people they met if they had a stolen iPhone?
He mentioned that this new solar cell design was intended to solve (among other things) the "low efficiency" of current designs.
According to TFA, the new design has a 10.2% conversion efficiency, as opposed to the 11-12% efficiency of the "Gratzel cell" it was supposed to improve upon.
It was further noted (in TFA) that traditional cells have up to 20% efficiency.
You seem to have forgotten to prove that the leukemia deaths you mentioned were caused by any nuclear activity.
I mean, I know people who have died of cancer too. But there's absolutely no evidence that their cancer was caused by nuclear testing, nuclear reactors, nuclear anything....
Fascinating calculator. According to it, I've gotten more radiation from flying around the country than from fallout, in spite of living in the area where such things were meaningful.
Also, my risk of getting thyroid cancer is essentially indistinguishable from that of someone who was never exposed to any fallout...
Actually, he said "fewer than", not "a few less". They mean different things.
As examples, 5200 is both "fewer than" and "a few less" than 5259. On the other hand, 2 is "fewer than" but NOT "a few less" than 5259.
Too funny!
You're obviously unaware that South Korea is WEST of the USA and EAST of China.
So "anyone east of South Korea" includes the USA, but not China, making your point self-contradictory....
Yes. It's also possible to decide that someone who is unaware that the USA is EAST of Korea isn't worth listening to when it comes to discussing complex issues...
No, if we'd firebombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we'd probably have killed a lot more people than were killed by the nuclear blasts - hills can protect you from a nuke blast if you're in their shadow, but not so much if you're being chased by a firestorm.
Note that Tokyo suffered a million-plus casualties from a couple-three firebombings...
Looking at "Fairewinds Energy Education" website, it doesn't look like anything other than an anti-nuke shill, producing reports on demand for the anti-nuke hysterics...
Gamma rays go through everything, but doesn't stick around at all.
Alpha particles are helium ions, and are neither poisonous nor particularly prone to sticking around.
That said...
Gamma EMITTERS can be in the environment for extended periods, based entirely on their half-life (long half-life means the emitters are around for a long time, short halflife rather the reverse).
Alpha EMITTERS can be in the environment for extended periods, based entirely on their half-life (same parenthetical comment).
And THAT said...
Gamma emitters are moderately dangerous, but alpha emitters can safely be stored under your bed (an alpha emitter wrapped in yesterday's newspaper is pretty much safe, since an alpha particle won't penetrate a single sheet of paper).
True enough.
It should be noted that "still has debt it hasn't paid off yet" includes literally trillions of dollars of debt that has been rolled over - they borrowed it, paid interest on it, and when it came due, borrowed more money to pay off the first loan.
Note that the national debt has not decreased in my lifetime. And my kid is probably older than most /.'ers.
Not quite.
The judge will determine damages since Oracle and Google agreed to "statutory damages" on the copyright infringement.
Assuming that the judge doesn't decide that 9 lines of 15 million isn't de minimus (worth zero damages), then the damages will range from $200 to $150K, which are the legal limits....
As I recall, the "nine lines" included several blank lines....
The US has never not paid the interest on its debt, I think you mean.
Which is not quite the same thing....
You seem unaware that the war in Europe was over before the war in Japan was...
Hint: other than Naval forces, the majority of the US war effort was aimed at Germany. Which is why we did D-Day in June 1944, but weren't even beginning to do serious planning of an invasion of Japan until 1945.
Note that the Battle of Okinawa wasn't over till a month after Germany's surrender.
Note further that the invasion of Japan, absent schedule slippage, wasn't supposed to begin till October 1945 (Kyushu) and early 1946 (Honshu).
Which puts the war in Europe about 18 months to two years ahead of the war in the Pacific in terms of allied planning....
Closer to half that.
1.46 million active-duty military, not counting Reservists who might be deployed.
Only $740 billion in military budget....
No, actually it didn't.
NASA ponied up some money when they did the COTS idea (and will pony up more when SPaceX starts regular cargo flights to the ISS next year), but SpaceX had been developing Falcon 1 & 9 and Dragon before NASA got involved.
So hard that we've been doing it four 40+ years.
It's a concept at this point. It must be noted, however, that all of the hardware was tested this morning (Falcon XX uses three Falcon9 first stages, plus one Falcon 9 second stage).
Note that Falcon XX can put 19000 kg into GEO. Which implies enough deltaV to put 19000 kg into a an orbit to Mars (it takes about the same delta-V to reach Mars as it does to reach GEO).
Hmm, a quick Google shows that JPL is already considering a Mars mission using Falcon XX, with Dragon as the lander. They want to fly it in 2018, assuming they get the budget next year....
If the choice is ~$200 million for a Falcon XX to Mars in 2018, or ~$2 billion for a design study that might turn into usable hardware by 2030, I know where I'd be putting my money, if I wanted to do some science on Mars....
The Vietnam War had little, if anything, to do with Shuttle's budget problems. US involvement in Vietnam ended about a year after Apollo, and about a year after spending on Shuttle actually began.
That said, you won't see me arguing much about the "radical budget slashing" at NASA, since it was reduced about 40% after Apollo.
And still isn't as much, in constant dollars, as it was at the height of Apollo.
Actually, it looks like he's saying the mean rise would be ZERO, with an uncertainty of 10 cm.
Plus or minus 10, but not more than 10....
Absent significant evaporation, releasing water at a rate lower than it would flow naturally will cause the level of the reservoir to increase constantly.
Since this is not the case, I have to assume that either (a) evaporation is a huge factor, or (b) you're wrong....
True enough.
Frankly, I'm claustrophobic enough that being inside something that size would be enough to keep me from enjoying the view, even assuming I were facing the right direction.
71kg+ is too much for this rocket.
But 71kg+ isn't especially heavy as humans go - I'm 188 cm tall, and haven't massed as little as 70 kg in close to 40 years.
And no, I'm not overweight as such things are measured these days....