"Gasoline is in fact the BEST fuel known in terms of energy released per reaction per unit mass of gasoline for oxidation reactions."
Ignoring your circular use of "gasoline", gasoline is not the best in terms of energy per fuel mass, hydrogen is. That's why hydrogen is used in rockets, because energy/mass is so critical. (FWIW, the three highest energy chemical fuel systems in ascending order are H2-O2, H2-F2, H2-O3. H2-F2 produces poisonous fumes, and O3 is too unstable to be practical.)
Your 3% loss figure from oxygenates does not agree with my experience in California: 15% loss in economy and noticeable (but unmeasured) loss of power.
"Quite a bit of land" is relative. The figure is a square about 105 miles on a side. That's big, and there's a lot of construction to be done, but it's small compared to the US, small even compared to the area of the US already devoted to agriculture.
Your approach sounds interesting; I have no idea if it's practical. A couple of years ago I tried to find out what methods of separation were practical for just this purpose. My first thought was centrifugal separation, and I couldn't find much information, likewise for fractional distillation and the Hilsch vortex. It looks like the best approach is a molecular filter. It's not cheap and it probably gets clogged with dirt quickly.
The problem with blindly enforcing bad laws is that people get hurt until the law is changed. There is no good solution to the problem of bad laws once they are laws. The workarounds all seem deficient to me: blind enforcement, selective enforcement, selective prosecution in criminal cases, jury nullification, wise judges throwing cases out of court, write-in campaigns, massive civil disobedience... none of these seem adequate when so many of the laws are bad.
B.S.. Most practical hydro in the US is in use. But most is not all, and practical is in large part an economic decision. I live three miles from a dam used for hydroelectric generation 80 years ago, but it is now too small (and seasonal) to be practical for use.
The durability of software is an essential problem for the software industry. Unlike machinery, once a non-subscription piece of software works, it works forever. The need for the company producing that software disappears.
IIRC, you have to be able to document that it is an unreimbursed expense required by your company, and of course it has to be something that you would not normally be required to have, such as clothing. Read your IRS documents carefully for guidelines.
Someone should open a restaurant with a pushbutton at each table to turn on an "I want service" light. No more culturally unmatched expectations, no excuses. No waving to catch a waiter's eye, only to get "This isn't my table."
Nordstrom generally sells expensive goods and sells them at list price. This allows them more leeway in taking back goods at a loss. Also, Nordstrom caters to a high class clientele who would not be pleased by hearing some customer yelling that he'd been cheated. The atmosphere is civilized and it comes from both the customers and the company.
I'd love to. No support for my modem under Linux. I have to reboot to Windows, download the missing RPMs, and reboot to Linux, try again. And again. And again.
man -k requires that the apropos database is already built. How do I find out about that? Info is a word easier to guess, but learning the navigation takes effort. The user really needs to be able to type "help" and get enough information to at least tell him how to find things.
I think perhaps the vision defect he had would be much like holding a thin sheet of paper in front of the eye. Dimness, but not lack of light, would not entirely prevent development of the visual system. Resolution would be very poor, but I'd guess he could track a finger moving an inch from his eye. Once the mechanical problem is fixed, vision stands a good chance for substantial improvement. Even if vision is never good enough to allow safe car driving, it can still be very usable.
Humans develop more slowly than cats and remain "plastic" in their mental abilities much longer. As long as the development of the visual system has not been prevented, there is reasonable hope.
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The only lie here is your implication that Red Hat is lying.
Ignoring your circular use of "gasoline", gasoline is not the best in terms of energy per fuel mass, hydrogen is. That's why hydrogen is used in rockets, because energy/mass is so critical. (FWIW, the three highest energy chemical fuel systems in ascending order are H2-O2, H2-F2, H2-O3. H2-F2 produces poisonous fumes, and O3 is too unstable to be practical.)
Your 3% loss figure from oxygenates does not agree with my experience in California: 15% loss in economy and noticeable (but unmeasured) loss of power.
"Quite a bit of land" is relative. The figure is a square about 105 miles on a side. That's big, and there's a lot of construction to be done, but it's small compared to the US, small even compared to the area of the US already devoted to agriculture.
Your approach sounds interesting; I have no idea if it's practical. A couple of years ago I tried to find out what methods of separation were practical for just this purpose. My first thought was centrifugal separation, and I couldn't find much information, likewise for fractional distillation and the Hilsch vortex. It looks like the best approach is a molecular filter. It's not cheap and it probably gets clogged with dirt quickly.
If you write about automobiles, you ought to know the difference between break and brake.
The problem with blindly enforcing bad laws is that people get hurt until the law is changed. There is no good solution to the problem of bad laws once they are laws. The workarounds all seem deficient to me: blind enforcement, selective enforcement, selective prosecution in criminal cases, jury nullification, wise judges throwing cases out of court, write-in campaigns, massive civil disobedience ... none of these seem adequate when so many of the laws are bad.
Wind turbines have to have their blades kept clean or they lose efficiency.
Nonsense. Everyone who reads BC knows that clams got feet!
B.S.. Most practical hydro in the US is in use. But most is not all, and practical is in large part an economic decision. I live three miles from a dam used for hydroelectric generation 80 years ago, but it is now too small (and seasonal) to be practical for use.
The durability of software is an essential problem for the software industry. Unlike machinery, once a non-subscription piece of software works, it works forever. The need for the company producing that software disappears.
Or Wal-Mart could just buy the winning company.
Imagine how much fun Lincoln had!
IIRC, you have to be able to document that it is an unreimbursed expense required by your company, and of course it has to be something that you would not normally be required to have, such as clothing. Read your IRS documents carefully for guidelines.
Someone should open a restaurant with a pushbutton at each table to turn on an "I want service" light. No more culturally unmatched expectations, no excuses. No waving to catch a waiter's eye, only to get "This isn't my table."
Nordstrom generally sells expensive goods and sells them at list price. This allows them more leeway in taking back goods at a loss. Also, Nordstrom caters to a high class clientele who would not be pleased by hearing some customer yelling that he'd been cheated. The atmosphere is civilized and it comes from both the customers and the company.
Infrared remote. Just like for your TV.
I'd love to. No support for my modem under Linux. I have to reboot to Windows, download the missing RPMs, and reboot to Linux, try again. And again. And again.
man -k requires that the apropos database is already built. How do I find out about that? Info is a word easier to guess, but learning the navigation takes effort. The user really needs to be able to type "help" and get enough information to at least tell him how to find things.
Humans develop more slowly than cats and remain "plastic" in their mental abilities much longer. As long as the development of the visual system has not been prevented, there is reasonable hope.
Good point. Nominal telephone voltage is about 48 volts DC, ring is more and can be 100 volts AC.
teeming. Unless, perhaps, you think it will be engaging in sports.
A better question is "Who the hell do you think you are, trying to violate my right to explore this nifty place?"
At home, put 2 gallons of carefully measured gasoline into a legal 5 gallon container. Go to the station and see how much more it takes to fill it up.
Their name notwithstanding, The Economist is pretty weak on economics.