Sorry pal,you're talking to an engineer and I do have industry experience as scheduler. The problem of coal to nat gas (or hydrocarbon fuel for that matter) was solved in the 19th century. The plant under discussion *already* is a nat gas power plant. Lignite is not dirt, it carbon + hydrocarbons + water + ash. The volatile content is so high it's easy to convert to nat gas or other hydrocarbon and that has been done for decades. By removing the water, it becomes equivalent to high grade coal.
Claiming it's essentially a refinery and then googling oil refinery costs is stupid and irrelevant.
the grid is necessary for most the country. The grid absolutely does need stability of power, why don't you educate yourself on power transmission. The reality is that even if we go to 100% solar, that will mostly be done by huge collection facilities and distributed long distance.
I cannot comprehend how what I see could cost a significant fraction of $1 billion, let alone several. For $300M, you can R&D, build, launch and operate a rover on fucking Mars! What the hell? I think this whole thing was just a huge scam and the players made their bucks off us.
then we'll explain it to you young-uns. The first smartphone to work with iTunes was made by Motorola. the iPhone was revolutionary because of...exactly nothing.
I actually wasn't thinking of standard made by law, but industry one. Anyway, your 128,603 troy ounces in a cube 0.56 meters on a side of osmium would at the moment be worth $50,155,000, better put the little included 50 cent padlock on that suitcase.
huge problem with advice, the" bearings" most luggage wheels are garbage, they wear, become rough on their surfaces and seize when pulled very quickly. We need a safety standard for luggage wheels, people get their backs hurt from this problem
alarmist trash, there is no problem at present. this is the same nonsense as the "third of world's population exposed to heat wave danger " article today, as if that weren't always true, and as if we didn't have more massive amounts of deaths from heat waves decades and more ago.
I'm against carbon pollution; we have smarter ways to make energy now than burning organic fossil matter. but this kind of tabloid trash hype isn't helping any cause
this is alarmist trash, study the history of heat waves and find out when the massive deaths were. Hint, not recently. 5,000 dead in the 1936 north american heat wave, for example
kids. imagining any and every bad thing that happens in their lifetime is the world's greatest tragedy. pffft, this is alarmist nonsense.
No, I'm just reading peer reviewed studies. Maybe you should too before spewing ignorance. Coal is the deadliest energy source and causes the most cancer deaths per year.
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Sorry pal,you're talking to an engineer and I do have industry experience as scheduler. The problem of coal to nat gas (or hydrocarbon fuel for that matter) was solved in the 19th century. The plant under discussion *already* is a nat gas power plant. Lignite is not dirt, it carbon + hydrocarbons + water + ash. The volatile content is so high it's easy to convert to nat gas or other hydrocarbon and that has been done for decades. By removing the water, it becomes equivalent to high grade coal.
Claiming it's essentially a refinery and then googling oil refinery costs is stupid and irrelevant.
the grid is necessary for most the country. The grid absolutely does need stability of power, why don't you educate yourself on power transmission. The reality is that even if we go to 100% solar, that will mostly be done by huge collection facilities and distributed long distance.
I cannot comprehend how what I see could cost a significant fraction of $1 billion, let alone several. For $300M, you can R&D, build, launch and operate a rover on fucking Mars! What the hell? I think this whole thing was just a huge scam and the players made their bucks off us.
the huge heat wave before that in the USA was 1896.
that plant already burns nat gas, so the answer is they really don't do anything other than stop building extraneous bits
eh, natural gas has carbon
the yeast in beer and wine is a probiotic
You're using today's standards, young-un. ROKR had a browser, games, email and MMS messaging (photos, music, video)
oh I'll agree about the iTunes...but that's the kind of marketing hype that made the iphone
then we'll explain it to you young-uns. The first smartphone to work with iTunes was made by Motorola. the iPhone was revolutionary because of...exactly nothing.
what nonsense, those who educate themselves and work don't have scraps. get off your ass
now that's a laugh, considering the useless parasites who voted Obama because they thought he would give them something
Minix is extremely useful for education though.
To anyone interested, minix3 runs on two architectures: i586 or later processors, or beagle arm7v boards. It uses NETBSD's packages
I actually wasn't thinking of standard made by law, but industry one. Anyway, your 128,603 troy ounces in a cube 0.56 meters on a side of osmium would at the moment be worth $50,155,000, better put the little included 50 cent padlock on that suitcase.
huge problem with advice, the" bearings" most luggage wheels are garbage, they wear, become rough on their surfaces and seize when pulled very quickly. We need a safety standard for luggage wheels, people get their backs hurt from this problem
the fallacy of asserting the consequent has been committed twice in that post
I'm just being rational, I'm not denying anything, just sticking with facts. It even hit 118 in the 1950s, wow how about that.
yes.
it regularly gets this hot in phoenix.
wake me up when they break that old record
buillshit.
over 20 years ago it was hotter in Phoenix, 122 degrees.
second of all, jet aircraft regularly operate in parts of the world that get hotter than that
couldn't we say a smarter kid is one with just the right touch of autism, having just enough to stay focused and be a deep thinker?
good news for you, Ethopian coffee doesn't in fact taste like shit. That shit you taste is Ethopian's.
alarmist trash, there is no problem at present. this is the same nonsense as the "third of world's population exposed to heat wave danger " article today, as if that weren't always true, and as if we didn't have more massive amounts of deaths from heat waves decades and more ago.
I'm against carbon pollution; we have smarter ways to make energy now than burning organic fossil matter. but this kind of tabloid trash hype isn't helping any cause
in 1990 it was 122 deg F in Phoenix.
this is alarmist trash, study the history of heat waves and find out when the massive deaths were. Hint, not recently. 5,000 dead in the 1936 north american heat wave, for example
kids. imagining any and every bad thing that happens in their lifetime is the world's greatest tragedy. pffft, this is alarmist nonsense.
because there were no massive heat waves with even more deaths before that? Like say the 1936 North American heat wave?
we have better new coverage nowadays, that's all. This is all alarmist trash for young people with no knowledge of recent past let alone history
No, I'm just reading peer reviewed studies. Maybe you should too before spewing ignorance. Coal is the deadliest energy source and causes the most cancer deaths per year.