One of the big issues with the Blended Wing Body, is that it is a theater seating, rather than a long tube. That meant no windows for nearly all passengers. So, with this tech, it can solve part of this.
Seriously, if our federal highways were to allocate the inner most lane as being for automated cars starting in 2020, AND allowed 20 mph higher speeds, this would encourage faster adoption of automation for cars and trucks. Ideally, the vehicles would require a freq for talking to each other with as well.
Less than 1\3 of spacex launches are us gov launches. They can now exist without them. However, NASA is speading up spacex's programs. And since these are saving America billions, it makes sense to continue.
The west is about to head into massive automation. If Europe and America grant total amnesty to all illegals, it will come to bite these nations in the butt with large amounts of un-educated and un-employable individuals.
What is really needed is for an amnesty path for a small group of the illegals (basically, those that were raised here). The rest need to go back to their homes.
And split into 3 vertically parallel companies.
Then push these companies for new ideas and innovations.
Seriously, for this to work, we need to restore competition which requires multiple companies. Likewise, we to do a COTS approach with them. One item in desperate need is new networking equipment that was not manufactured in China.
The real problem is the idea of combining humans and cargo. They really need to be on separate flights. The shuttle should never have happened. Likewise, orion on the SLS with mission cargo will be a disaster in the making.
for sometime as well. The problem is that in America, it is only cheaper than Nat Gas in a FEW areas. Otherwise, Nat Gas is actually cheaper than most wind. However, it is expected that Nat Gas will hit 5/MMBTU in the coming year, at which point, Wind is cheaper than nat gas.
What is really needed is CHEAP storage. For example, EOS energy is cheap cheap storage. We utilities to expand this, and at the same time, move to microgrids, rather than 3 large grids in America.
Good lord. Between you far left weenies, combined with far right ( who in 1940's would be called NAZIs, correctly ), you are destroying america, if not the west.
You are right. It is not all musk. All of these companies count on top ppl.
But, the original design of f9 was musk. Likewise, he is responsible for a number of manufacturing designs and innovations. Likewise, he has surrounded himself by engineers and in general, gotten rid of MBA's, who have become the bane of american businesses.
Noah, All of the major car companies are banding together to do fuel cells that use hydrogen derived from Nat gas.
When gen 3 hits the market in about 3 years, few will want to buy a fuel cell car. As it is, the only reason why leaf and volt outsell model s is not because those owners do not want Tesla. It is simply because they can not afford it. Gen 3 will force all major car companies to switch to electric, rather than loose major shares to Tesla.
You got it MOSTLY right.
The one thing that I will add to this, is with the massive amounts of security break-ins, wired will take on a preference over wireless.
Seriously, it is a lot easier to run cat 6 around a house.
First off, you have to be living in KC. That means that you have a basement. That means that you can run cat 6 into the first floor trivially. The hard part is dealing with the upstairs.
Depending on the builder, you likely have a tunnel that goes from the basement to the attic, or you might have 1-2 2 or 3" conduits going from the basement up to the attic. You can simply run a single line up there and then put in place a switch, while you splay out to the various runs from the attic.
If you do not have the easy access, then hire somebody to run a cat 6 inside of a conduit from the basement to the attic on the outside of the house. Do it in a corner, next to a downspout, etc. Then paint the conduit.
Also do yourself a favor and run a line to the outside. Ideally, it will be trivial to disconnect (or more likely connect). I ran line up from the basement up to the dining area which the deck is outside of. Inside, I put this in a single gang box, with 2 quickports RJ-45s. The bottom one goes to the basement/network switch. The upper jack goes to an outside jack. When I want the outside, I simply plug in a small 4" connector. Otherwise, it leaves me an inside connection (useful for winter).
Look, if America needs the help, then they should be getting a green card, not a temp visa. As such, we need to solve the illegal issue along with a real deal on visas. We should drop the H1-Bs, and instead, put national needs at the front of the line. That means that if an AMERICAN company is unable to hire somebody local, then THEY can get more green carded legal immigrants.
And no, foreign companies should not be allowed to bring ppl in from overseas to do the work.
These companies do NOT get X dollars / hr. They typically, get % of your hourly. That means that the more that you get paid, the more that they make.
So, what is the driving force here? To drive the technology back to their nation.
This is not about hiring by race. If you are white, but Indian, you will be picked up by infosys, tata, etc.
This is about taking the technology back to your own nation.
Seriously, the right message is to block infosys from working with American companies for at least 10 years.
To be fair, this is not just infosys that does this. So does tata and many many other companies. The reason is simple. They are NOT global in nature. They are all national, and simply want to bring the work back to their nation. The problem is that American Executives that are MBA's are in this for short-term gains. As such, it behooves them to continue to offshore, while also selling off the company bit-by-bit. GE, IBM, Boeing, etc are all good examples of companies being ran by MBAs that are destroying American companies, while screaming that this is about globalism.
After all, if it was TRULY globalism, then American and other western companies would be allowed into nations like China and India with our goods. But that is not the case.
Seriously, just like China's massive earthquake caused by their dams and reservoirs, the loss of land ice will very likely cause a major Antarctica earthquake. Upon happening, that will likely crack open a number of glaciers.
I agree with much of what you say. Nat gas is CHEAP, and that is what made this happen. O had NOTHING to do with shutting down a SINGLE coal plant up to this point. Interestingly, W's regs on stopping mercury emissions by 2016, has accounted for shutting down more than 1/3 of these coal plants.
If EPS's new regs go in effect, then yes, more coal plants WILL close down, but more importantly, no more new coal plants will be built (that is NOT a bad thing).
I agree with you about nukes. Obama has it right when he says, that our energy policy needs to be ALL OF THE ABOVE. While I am opposed to burning coal directly, I think that we should fund coal=>methane, and sell it to our western allies.
Likewise, we need to help move our commercial vehicles to nat gas serial hybrids and passenger cars to electric.
And while I like wind, solar, etc. we need more sources. That needs to include Nukes.
Oddly, all of the far left screams about nukes and storage and yet, we have the ability to burn this up CHEAPLY AND SAFELY.
So frustrating that the far right and left are destroying America.
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One of the big issues with the Blended Wing Body, is that it is a theater seating, rather than a long tube. That meant no windows for nearly all passengers. So, with this tech, it can solve part of this.
Seriously, if our federal highways were to allocate the inner most lane as being for automated cars starting in 2020, AND allowed 20 mph higher speeds, this would encourage faster adoption of automation for cars and trucks. Ideally, the vehicles would require a freq for talking to each other with as well.
Less than 1\3 of spacex launches are us gov launches. They can now exist without them. However, NASA is speading up spacex's programs. And since these are saving America billions, it makes sense to continue.
The west is about to head into massive automation. If Europe and America grant total amnesty to all illegals, it will come to bite these nations in the butt with large amounts of un-educated and un-employable individuals.
What is really needed is for an amnesty path for a small group of the illegals (basically, those that were raised here). The rest need to go back to their homes.
And split into 3 vertically parallel companies. Then push these companies for new ideas and innovations. Seriously, for this to work, we need to restore competition which requires multiple companies. Likewise, we to do a COTS approach with them. One item in desperate need is new networking equipment that was not manufactured in China.
The real problem is the idea of combining humans and cargo. They really need to be on separate flights. The shuttle should never have happened. Likewise, orion on the SLS with mission cargo will be a disaster in the making.
Seriously, this town should approach Google or WOW and push to have one of them come in.
NTU is the same university that had a capacitor that would change the world.
And that was 3 years ago.
My bet is that nothing comes from this.
for sometime as well. The problem is that in America, it is only cheaper than Nat Gas in a FEW areas. Otherwise, Nat Gas is actually cheaper than most wind. However, it is expected that Nat Gas will hit 5/MMBTU in the coming year, at which point, Wind is cheaper than nat gas.
What is really needed is CHEAP storage. For example, EOS energy is cheap cheap storage. We utilities to expand this, and at the same time, move to microgrids, rather than 3 large grids in America.
Woz and Allen. Both of those men actually made things. I view musk in the same vein as Allen or any of our previous aviation experts.
Good lord. Between you far left weenies, combined with far right ( who in 1940's would be called NAZIs, correctly ), you are destroying america, if not the west.
You are right. It is not all musk. All of these companies count on top ppl. But, the original design of f9 was musk. Likewise, he is responsible for a number of manufacturing designs and innovations. Likewise, he has surrounded himself by engineers and in general, gotten rid of MBA's, who have become the bane of american businesses.
Actually, it was o that pushed that reg over the objections from the neo-cons/tea*. They were/are opposed to that reg as obamacare.
Noah, All of the major car companies are banding together to do fuel cells that use hydrogen derived from Nat gas.
When gen 3 hits the market in about 3 years, few will want to buy a fuel cell car. As it is, the only reason why leaf and volt outsell model s is not because those owners do not want Tesla. It is simply because they can not afford it. Gen 3 will force all major car companies to switch to electric, rather than loose major shares to Tesla.
You got it MOSTLY right.
The one thing that I will add to this, is with the massive amounts of security break-ins, wired will take on a preference over wireless.
Seriously, it is a lot easier to run cat 6 around a house.
First off, you have to be living in KC. That means that you have a basement. That means that you can run cat 6 into the first floor trivially. The hard part is dealing with the upstairs.
Depending on the builder, you likely have a tunnel that goes from the basement to the attic, or you might have 1-2 2 or 3" conduits going from the basement up to the attic. You can simply run a single line up there and then put in place a switch, while you splay out to the various runs from the attic.
If you do not have the easy access, then hire somebody to run a cat 6 inside of a conduit from the basement to the attic on the outside of the house. Do it in a corner, next to a downspout, etc. Then paint the conduit.
Also do yourself a favor and run a line to the outside. Ideally, it will be trivial to disconnect (or more likely connect). I ran line up from the basement up to the dining area which the deck is outside of. Inside, I put this in a single gang box, with 2 quickports RJ-45s. The bottom one goes to the basement/network switch. The upper jack goes to an outside jack. When I want the outside, I simply plug in a small 4" connector. Otherwise, it leaves me an inside connection (useful for winter).
You are right that no laws were broken. OTOH, it can be considered acts of war when it moves from spying to direct attacks on systems.
Look, if America needs the help, then they should be getting a green card, not a temp visa. As such, we need to solve the illegal issue along with a real deal on visas. We should drop the H1-Bs, and instead, put national needs at the front of the line. That means that if an AMERICAN company is unable to hire somebody local, then THEY can get more green carded legal immigrants.
And no, foreign companies should not be allowed to bring ppl in from overseas to do the work.
These companies do NOT get X dollars / hr. They typically, get % of your hourly. That means that the more that you get paid, the more that they make.
So, what is the driving force here? To drive the technology back to their nation.
This is not about hiring by race. If you are white, but Indian, you will be picked up by infosys, tata, etc.
This is about taking the technology back to your own nation.
Seriously, the right message is to block infosys from working with American companies for at least 10 years.
To be fair, this is not just infosys that does this. So does tata and many many other companies. The reason is simple. They are NOT global in nature. They are all national, and simply want to bring the work back to their nation. The problem is that American Executives that are MBA's are in this for short-term gains. As such, it behooves them to continue to offshore, while also selling off the company bit-by-bit. GE, IBM, Boeing, etc are all good examples of companies being ran by MBAs that are destroying American companies, while screaming that this is about globalism.
After all, if it was TRULY globalism, then American and other western companies would be allowed into nations like China and India with our goods. But that is not the case.
land ice decreasing, while sea ice increasing.
Seriously, just like China's massive earthquake caused by their dams and reservoirs, the loss of land ice will very likely cause a major Antarctica earthquake. Upon happening, that will likely crack open a number of glaciers.
I agree with much of what you say. Nat gas is CHEAP, and that is what made this happen. O had NOTHING to do with shutting down a SINGLE coal plant up to this point. Interestingly, W's regs on stopping mercury emissions by 2016, has accounted for shutting down more than 1/3 of these coal plants.
If EPS's new regs go in effect, then yes, more coal plants WILL close down, but more importantly, no more new coal plants will be built (that is NOT a bad thing).
I agree with you about nukes. Obama has it right when he says, that our energy policy needs to be ALL OF THE ABOVE. While I am opposed to burning coal directly, I think that we should fund coal=>methane, and sell it to our western allies.
Likewise, we need to help move our commercial vehicles to nat gas serial hybrids and passenger cars to electric.
And while I like wind, solar, etc. we need more sources. That needs to include Nukes.
Oddly, all of the far left screams about nukes and storage and yet, we have the ability to burn this up CHEAPLY AND SAFELY.
So frustrating that the far right and left are destroying America.
Not just china, but India as well. And China is getting ready to divert it upon their own needs.