replacing petroleum with renewable energy sources is a pipe dream.
It may be 1000 years, but it has to happen eventually. The reason is right there in the word "non-renewable": sooner or later it's going to run out. It's going to have to be replaced with something, or it's back to the stone age.
Burning 1 gallon of octane produces about 35 kWhr of energy. 35x$.08 = $2.80, more expensive than gasoline at $2.45. Unfortunately, automotive gasoline engines are only about 30% efficient, so only 10.5 kWhr reaches the transmission. 10.5x$.08 = $.84, cheaper than gasoline at $2.45.
If electric charging of cars becomes common, 2 bad things will happen: the government will want its cut (add about 40% to the price of electricity used for car charging) and market action will drive up the cost of electricity. Thinking of a time frame of about 20 years, I wouldn't expect either technique to have a substantial advantage.
The NYT claim that plug-in technology would add $2000 to $3000 to the cost of a hybrid car is pure BS. We're talking about a battery charger here, only slightly more sophisticated than the $60 charger available retail at places like AutoZone. Figure another $30 for beefier components and a heatsink, $10 for an easily accessed connector, and you're done.
Yes, the SiO2 is probably there to seal the surface. Note that there is a CdS layer, and CdS has a very bad reputation for degradation when used as a photoresistor, so it needs protection.
How about an education as an investment, to learn that the word is "paid", not "payed".
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And over the past 20 years, under republican control, we have lost many rights your grandparents took for granted.
Fifty years ago many states had laws that made it illegal for most businesses to serve the public on Sunday.
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"their corporate masters"
If you think that most federal elected officials have any primary interest beyond their own power, you are deluded. They'll screw over any corporation they can.
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Note that the Japanese internment was a west coast phenomenon and also occurred in Canada. A bad thing, but not the horror many assume, when taken in context.
Unless the service is of the poor-quality one-direction-at-a-time variety, there is some reflection (echo). A fabricated conversation will have inconsistencies in the echo which might be detectable by a careful analysis of the digital record. Knowing that an expert would likely be able to detect such a fraud, police would not be likely to submit such a fabricated digital record as evidence. If they did, and were caught, they would be subject to laws on perjury, tampering with evidence, various sorts of conspiracy, etc..
Licensing of guns can be, and has been -- recently -- used to subsequently seize those guns so registered. Widespread gun ownership is an important safeguard against tyranny; government registration of guns is a step toward tyranny.
You definitely should not pay taxes for the state to indoctrinate someone else's spawn. Tax-funded education (other than military academies like West Point) is monumental theft providing a lousy "service" enriching foul unions.
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Although I wouldn't put up with a $5/$1 difference, there is a point to paying more for shipping than is saved in sales tax: the money goes to a (presumably honest) packager or shipper instead of a politician who will use the money to extort more money from me. This is a political decision made by someone whose vision extends beyond range-of-the-moment.
Unfortunately, they were not imaged, but deduced from the reduction in (IR) light when hidden behind the associated suns.
IR is at a disadvantage for actual imaging compared to visible light, due to the longer wavelength making diffraction worse. IR's advantage is that the planets are radiating (or reflecting) more in IR than visible.
The DNA information will be on computerized database(s). It gets backed up, as it should be in any responsible organization. It would be nearly impossible to selectively remove the information from hundreds or thousands of backup tapes.
The claim that the information would be discarded is thus a transparent lie. They couldn't get rid of it if they wanted to.
State accumulates DNA on all residents. Insurance company files FOI request and gets all the data, then refuses to issue health insurance for anyone they think might have a genetic predisposition for certain diseases. Since many now think that homosexuality is genetic, and homosexuals are more likely to get AIDS, they might refuse to insure all persons whose DNA might imply homosexuality.
It was my understanding that all recent "productivity" gains are from laying off large numbers of people and telling the survivors to "kick it up a notch or get the f out"...
You've got it exactly backwards. Automation improves productivity. Productivity is output per person. If productivity is increased, then either production is increased or the people now sitting around doing nothing have to be let go. If production is not increased, the productivity gains cause the layoffs, not layoffs increase productivity.
In every transaction, one party must win and the other must lose.
If this were true, there would be very few voluntary transactions. Most voluntary transactions take place because each party gains from the transaction, because each party has different needs, different desires, and different abilities.
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It may be 1000 years, but it has to happen eventually. The reason is right there in the word "non-renewable": sooner or later it's going to run out. It's going to have to be replaced with something, or it's back to the stone age.
Power plant efficiency is not the only concern. There are transmission losses and losses in battery charge/discharge.
Refining oil to useable products is already fairly efficient, better than 83% last time I looked.
If electric charging of cars becomes common, 2 bad things will happen: the government will want its cut (add about 40% to the price of electricity used for car charging) and market action will drive up the cost of electricity. Thinking of a time frame of about 20 years, I wouldn't expect either technique to have a substantial advantage.
The NYT claim that plug-in technology would add $2000 to $3000 to the cost of a hybrid car is pure BS. We're talking about a battery charger here, only slightly more sophisticated than the $60 charger available retail at places like AutoZone. Figure another $30 for beefier components and a heatsink, $10 for an easily accessed connector, and you're done.
The US is already paying far too much attention to environmentalism and the phony "science" behind it. The cost, in dollars and lives, is immense.
Yes, the SiO2 is probably there to seal the surface. Note that there is a CdS layer, and CdS has a very bad reputation for degradation when used as a photoresistor, so it needs protection.
That's a really big paragraph to hide the fact that the money is stolen from taxpayers in the first place.
How about an education as an investment, to learn that the word is "paid", not "payed".
Fifty years ago many states had laws that made it illegal for most businesses to serve the public on Sunday.
If you think that most federal elected officials have any primary interest beyond their own power, you are deluded. They'll screw over any corporation they can.
Note that the Japanese internment was a west coast phenomenon and also occurred in Canada. A bad thing, but not the horror many assume, when taken in context.
Unless the service is of the poor-quality one-direction-at-a-time variety, there is some reflection (echo). A fabricated conversation will have inconsistencies in the echo which might be detectable by a careful analysis of the digital record. Knowing that an expert would likely be able to detect such a fraud, police would not be likely to submit such a fabricated digital record as evidence. If they did, and were caught, they would be subject to laws on perjury, tampering with evidence, various sorts of conspiracy, etc..
Licensing of guns can be, and has been -- recently -- used to subsequently seize those guns so registered. Widespread gun ownership is an important safeguard against tyranny; government registration of guns is a step toward tyranny.
You definitely should not pay taxes for the state to indoctrinate someone else's spawn. Tax-funded education (other than military academies like West Point) is monumental theft providing a lousy "service" enriching foul unions.
Although I wouldn't put up with a $5/$1 difference, there is a point to paying more for shipping than is saved in sales tax: the money goes to a (presumably honest) packager or shipper instead of a politician who will use the money to extort more money from me. This is a political decision made by someone whose vision extends beyond range-of-the-moment.
It only took a couple of thousand years for bacteria in the pyramids to be harmful (deadly?) to some of those who opened the pyramids circa 1900.
They preserved soft tissues because they had a successful anti-aging skin cream industry.
AFAIK Laser Disks are an analog medium, like FM. Copies would not be perfect.
IR is at a disadvantage for actual imaging compared to visible light, due to the longer wavelength making diffraction worse. IR's advantage is that the planets are radiating (or reflecting) more in IR than visible.
The claim that the information would be discarded is thus a transparent lie. They couldn't get rid of it if they wanted to.
State accumulates DNA on all residents. Insurance company files FOI request and gets all the data, then refuses to issue health insurance for anyone they think might have a genetic predisposition for certain diseases. Since many now think that homosexuality is genetic, and homosexuals are more likely to get AIDS, they might refuse to insure all persons whose DNA might imply homosexuality.
You've got it exactly backwards. Automation improves productivity. Productivity is output per person. If productivity is increased, then either production is increased or the people now sitting around doing nothing have to be let go. If production is not increased, the productivity gains cause the layoffs, not layoffs increase productivity.
Is this an example of what you teach?
writing suffers immeasurably when using a computer.
If you can't measure any difference, who cares?
If this were true, there would be very few voluntary transactions. Most voluntary transactions take place because each party gains from the transaction, because each party has different needs, different desires, and different abilities.