totally agree with that, but, that does not change the fact that we need to stop the subsidies on wind and solar.
Heck, if we are going to keep wind subsidy going, then lets change to so that all of the new generators have to be the tall ones that have a 40-50% run time.
Seriously, it is LONG past time to stop the wind/solar subsidies and instead, take other steps:
1) require that all new buildings below 6 stories to have on-site AE that equals or exceeds the energy needed by the HVAC. This allows builders to decide how to deal with this, while also stopping the massive energy growth for buildings.
2) stop the subsidies for oil/gas drilling and instead convert them to drilling for geo-thermal energy. In particular, for those that convert old wells to geo-thermal. This will keep the drillers going while allowing them to produce clean energy.
3) add in more safe nuclear into our energy matrix. In particular, we need gen IV reactors, not the old gen III (or III+) that are too expensive to build.
China needs to block those companies. And the west needs to block much of Chinese imports since much of it is subsidized and dumped on the west as well.
Seriously, if this is about terrorists, why not NSA? They are the ones that are supposed to listen in, as well as protect western tech. In fact, this was a terrorists, and it is NSA that is supposed to crack the iphone, not FBI.
While I support tech companies working with NSA (quietly), allowing the FBI to have access to source/phones/network/etc is akin to giving it to chinese gov. it will be massively abused and misused.
Seriously, we need to get red dragon going so that we can simply load on various sensors, robots, etc. And with a costs of under 200M to launch one to mars, it becomes very cheap to send one. Once we have that, it makes it easy to send multiple dragons even in the same year.
Hopefully, musk will send a dragon to mars once he has gotten dragon fly working on earth. And if he does one in 2018, with his garden and extra sensors, he will make it possible to send loads more in 2020.
Which is a lie. First off, if you lived here, you would know that Nat gas is far far cheaper than coal. Secondly, it has been utilities that have decided how to make the energy matrix, except that the state requires xcell to have 20% renewable. Of that, the wind is already more than 20% of Xcel and is cheaper than then coal. So go peddle your lies elsewhere.
That study is a joke. In the end, studies like that are based on numerous lies from gov. And China lies a lot.
OTOH, data from oco-2, and gosat, are empirical data and have not been falsified.IOW, we KNOW that China's co2 emissions are much much higher than what ppl guess it to be. And when gosat2, along with oco-3 are in place, I am sure that Chinese numbers will show to account for around 50% of global co2. The reason I have said this for the last 7 years here, is that I had some friends go to China to measure actual pollution . they also measured co2. In this case, the data was given to the Chinese gov and they were not allowed to publish or even report it to UN or America, etc. In return, they were allowed unfettered access to all of China ( well, not military areas ) and to test where they wanted to. They found out then that co2 was much much higher. I have been speaking about it here and the fact that it would show around 45% or so. Of course, that was 7 years ago. And I spoke about how oco2 would show this as it has. I am guessing that gosat2 and oco3 will bump their numbers higher. U have a long history of trying to cover for China, but if u actually cared about the environment the way u claim, u would look at scientific facts and quit lying.
This is about treaties and how much a nation emits in total. When doing bottom up, a lot of the data for individual sources comes from the gov. It is worthless when nations lie about their primary sources. Recently, China has admitted that they burned 17% more coal over the last 30+ years. This is because oco-2 caught them. Now, gosat2, along with oco-3 will further increase monitoring only at higher resolution. This will likely result in China, along with the rest of BRIC, having their values go up. We need empirical data and not guesswork based on lies.
Bingo. Right now, oco-2 has been showing that there are lots of issues with numbers, which is why China had to grow their coal emissions by 17%. And it is still far too low. Gosat2, along with oco-3 ( being added to iss ) should give us a much better idea of real national co2 levels. In fact, I am guessing that once these are added, it will force China and a few other nations ( generally BRIC ) to revise their numbers upwards again.
First off, road systems already occur. Here in Denver, CO, we monitor from highway on-ramps to determine which cars are in need of repairs. But, that really is more about IDing a single known source and not the overall system levels, which is far more important when dealing with treaties about a nations total emissions.
Ray is correct that the current means does not enable true measuring. It is far too unreliable ESP since gov data is used by nations with a proclivity for 'inaccurate' data. But rather than use aircrafts, we should be using a network of SATs that are equal or better to oco-2. By using a network, we can see exactly what co2 flows in and out of a nation. Oco-2 had provided a number of surprises for the climate scientists that are still being reconciled.
That is not entirely accurate. What was announced is mostly guess work. In addition, so far, the only constant landings are on stable land, while medium to rough seas seems to have all sorts of mechanical issues, but it is never the barge's motion.
However, if I were musk, the last thing that I would do is tell the world exactly what is wrong and how we solved it.
Quite the opposite. Fins are only good for ships underway. When they are stationary or the water is moving that slow, then the fins are worthless.
OTOH, VERTICAL STABILIZERS, or vertical thrusters, can and are used in various systems (namely a number of floating oil rigs). They will not stop the roll and pitch, BUT, they will limit it under the right conditions. And that is what is needed. Basically, the barge needs to have limited pitch.
Right now, both of the barges have horizontal thrusters that will keep the barges in 1 place. In that regard, it makes much easier for the craft to come down. However, the barges do not have vertical thrusters, so, they will pitch and roll in the same location. Without these, it is going to be impossible for these to land on the barge during heavy seas such as what was seen. On a calmer day, with say 1 m waves and under, the stages will do just fine.
THis is about nothing but throwing money at his friends.
Right now, the DOD is focused on railguns and lasers. These will start being deployed over the next couple of years. The naval railgun alone has the ability to fire over 100 miles into the air. And army's new changes to the M1 will allow it to carry a railgun that will shoot over 60 miles into the air. USAF is working on putting lasers into its aircrafts that can shoot down missiles of all sorts.
And yet, cruz wants to give MASSIVE tax breaks to his friends, while increasing the spending on projects that are worthless, but also to his friends.
And ppl wonder why Trump is looking so good in the GOP.
Tesla owners report how wonderful it is to drive in their EVs. That is without using autopilot. It is just that the car is a decent drive. But, that is leading to those owners jumping from 12-15K miles / year, to driving 20-25K miles / year. Yes, these owners are simply increasing their fun driving, the way that we use to do back in the 60s and 70s.
With the autopilot, it is very likely that they will increase driving distance as well. Tesla owners are going 200 miles on autopilot and simply enjoying the view. Not a bad thing, but the fact is, that it will increase energy used.
That would be true for the LARGE nuclear reactors. That is NOT true of the small reactors that burn up old nuclear waste. In particular, because these burn up the old waste, it would be possible to use the money that has been set aside for handling disposal. It would allow for nuke sites to replace old reactors with new smaller reactors that do nothing but burn up that waste.
Lets hope that it does go to court. It would be nice to see Louisville win this in federal court. If so, then it allows many municipalities to do something similar, even when state law says otherwise.
I am all in favor of NSA doing the job that they do. However, the reason that it works well, is that they have NO REAL POWER. As such, it limits the possibility for real abuse.
If raw data is allowed to go straight to ppl within FBI, CIA, DIA, etc. that increases the possibility of abuse exponentially.
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totally agree with that, but, that does not change the fact that we need to stop the subsidies on wind and solar.
Heck, if we are going to keep wind subsidy going, then lets change to so that all of the new generators have to be the tall ones that have a 40-50% run time.
While Alaska and even Seattle are not really useful spots, Boston is actually doable. This is more true as the panel efficiency go up.
Seriously, it is LONG past time to stop the wind/solar subsidies and instead, take other steps:
1) require that all new buildings below 6 stories to have on-site AE that equals or exceeds the energy needed by the HVAC. This allows builders to decide how to deal with this, while also stopping the massive energy growth for buildings.
2) stop the subsidies for oil/gas drilling and instead convert them to drilling for geo-thermal energy. In particular, for those that convert old wells to geo-thermal. This will keep the drillers going while allowing them to produce clean energy.
3) add in more safe nuclear into our energy matrix. In particular, we need gen IV reactors, not the old gen III (or III+) that are too expensive to build.
China needs to block those companies. And the west needs to block much of Chinese imports since much of it is subsidized and dumped on the west as well.
assuming that you are American, we now have ACA and you can get back on your lithium.
Seriously, we need NEW reactors to replace the old ones. With gen IV, we can even burn up the old waste and even use it to clean coal waste.
Seriously, if this is about terrorists, why not NSA? They are the ones that are supposed to listen in, as well as protect western tech. In fact, this was a terrorists, and it is NSA that is supposed to crack the iphone, not FBI.
While I support tech companies working with NSA (quietly), allowing the FBI to have access to source/phones/network/etc is akin to giving it to chinese gov. it will be massively abused and misused.
Seriously, we need to get red dragon going so that we can simply load on various sensors, robots, etc. And with a costs of under 200M to launch one to mars, it becomes very cheap to send one. Once we have that, it makes it easy to send multiple dragons even in the same year.
Hopefully, musk will send a dragon to mars once he has gotten dragon fly working on earth. And if he does one in 2018, with his garden and extra sensors, he will make it possible to send loads more in 2020.
Even here we are being astroturfed by what is pretty much American far right fascisism. I miss having Republicans in the GOP.
Which is a lie. First off, if you lived here, you would know that Nat gas is far far cheaper than coal. Secondly, it has been utilities that have decided how to make the energy matrix, except that the state requires xcell to have 20% renewable. Of that, the wind is already more than 20% of Xcel and is cheaper than then coal. So go peddle your lies elsewhere.
That study is a joke. In the end, studies like that are based on numerous lies from gov. And China lies a lot. OTOH, data from oco-2, and gosat, are empirical data and have not been falsified.IOW, we KNOW that China's co2 emissions are much much higher than what ppl guess it to be. And when gosat2, along with oco-3 are in place, I am sure that Chinese numbers will show to account for around 50% of global co2. The reason I have said this for the last 7 years here, is that I had some friends go to China to measure actual pollution . they also measured co2. In this case, the data was given to the Chinese gov and they were not allowed to publish or even report it to UN or America, etc. In return, they were allowed unfettered access to all of China ( well, not military areas ) and to test where they wanted to. They found out then that co2 was much much higher. I have been speaking about it here and the fact that it would show around 45% or so. Of course, that was 7 years ago. And I spoke about how oco2 would show this as it has. I am guessing that gosat2 and oco3 will bump their numbers higher. U have a long history of trying to cover for China, but if u actually cared about the environment the way u claim, u would look at scientific facts and quit lying.
That is already happening. Oco-2 forced China to admit that they lied about their coal and increase numbers 17%.
This is about treaties and how much a nation emits in total. When doing bottom up, a lot of the data for individual sources comes from the gov. It is worthless when nations lie about their primary sources. Recently, China has admitted that they burned 17% more coal over the last 30+ years. This is because oco-2 caught them. Now, gosat2, along with oco-3 will further increase monitoring only at higher resolution. This will likely result in China, along with the rest of BRIC, having their values go up. We need empirical data and not guesswork based on lies.
Bingo. Right now, oco-2 has been showing that there are lots of issues with numbers, which is why China had to grow their coal emissions by 17%. And it is still far too low. Gosat2, along with oco-3 ( being added to iss ) should give us a much better idea of real national co2 levels. In fact, I am guessing that once these are added, it will force China and a few other nations ( generally BRIC ) to revise their numbers upwards again.
First off, road systems already occur. Here in Denver, CO, we monitor from highway on-ramps to determine which cars are in need of repairs. But, that really is more about IDing a single known source and not the overall system levels, which is far more important when dealing with treaties about a nations total emissions.
Ray is correct that the current means does not enable true measuring. It is far too unreliable ESP since gov data is used by nations with a proclivity for 'inaccurate' data. But rather than use aircrafts, we should be using a network of SATs that are equal or better to oco-2. By using a network, we can see exactly what co2 flows in and out of a nation. Oco-2 had provided a number of surprises for the climate scientists that are still being reconciled.
That is not entirely accurate. What was announced is mostly guess work. In addition, so far, the only constant landings are on stable land, while medium to rough seas seems to have all sorts of mechanical issues, but it is never the barge's motion.
However, if I were musk, the last thing that I would do is tell the world exactly what is wrong and how we solved it.
Quite the opposite. Fins are only good for ships underway. When they are stationary or the water is moving that slow, then the fins are worthless.
OTOH, VERTICAL STABILIZERS, or vertical thrusters, can and are used in various systems (namely a number of floating oil rigs). They will not stop the roll and pitch, BUT, they will limit it under the right conditions. And that is what is needed. Basically, the barge needs to have limited pitch.
Right now, both of the barges have horizontal thrusters that will keep the barges in 1 place. In that regard, it makes much easier for the craft to come down. However, the barges do not have vertical thrusters, so, they will pitch and roll in the same location. Without these, it is going to be impossible for these to land on the barge during heavy seas such as what was seen. On a calmer day, with say 1 m waves and under, the stages will do just fine.
THis is about nothing but throwing money at his friends.
Right now, the DOD is focused on railguns and lasers. These will start being deployed over the next couple of years. The naval railgun alone has the ability to fire over 100 miles into the air. And army's new changes to the M1 will allow it to carry a railgun that will shoot over 60 miles into the air. USAF is working on putting lasers into its aircrafts that can shoot down missiles of all sorts.
And yet, cruz wants to give MASSIVE tax breaks to his friends, while increasing the spending on projects that are worthless, but also to his friends.
And ppl wonder why Trump is looking so good in the GOP.
Tesla owners report how wonderful it is to drive in their EVs. That is without using autopilot. It is just that the car is a decent drive. But, that is leading to those owners jumping from 12-15K miles / year, to driving 20-25K miles / year. Yes, these owners are simply increasing their fun driving, the way that we use to do back in the 60s and 70s.
With the autopilot, it is very likely that they will increase driving distance as well. Tesla owners are going 200 miles on autopilot and simply enjoying the view. Not a bad thing, but the fact is, that it will increase energy used.
That would be true for the LARGE nuclear reactors. That is NOT true of the small reactors that burn up old nuclear waste. In particular, because these burn up the old waste, it would be possible to use the money that has been set aside for handling disposal. It would allow for nuke sites to replace old reactors with new smaller reactors that do nothing but burn up that waste.
Lets hope that it does go to court. It would be nice to see Louisville win this in federal court. If so, then it allows many municipalities to do something similar, even when state law says otherwise.
I am all in favor of NSA doing the job that they do. However, the reason that it works well, is that they have NO REAL POWER. As such, it limits the possibility for real abuse.
If raw data is allowed to go straight to ppl within FBI, CIA, DIA, etc. that increases the possibility of abuse exponentially.
It appears to be a combination of both conservative and liberal colleges. I would have expected it to be more 1 sided than split.