Assume Ebola goes airborne and hits all. Once it is through the population, it is done.
OTOH, radiation is an environmental issue that would continue for centuries.
Biological death is far better than nukes.
The truth is, that whenever the world has mass die offs due to nature, we do not get wars.
Right now, we have massive numbers of small wars popping up. This has gotten old. In addition, it could lead to a real war with nukes.
But, if the world takes a massive loss of life due to say Ebola going airborne, it would lower the likelihood of a nuke war.
Chinas rate is still on the lower edge of European countries like Denmark or Germany.
in 2012, China's per capita was at ~7.2, while Europe's was at ~7.3. That was two years ago.
Since that time, Chinas CO2 emissions have risen more than 20%. China now accounts for more than 1/3 of the global emissions, with less than 1/6 of the world population.
And all of that is based on numbers that Chinese gov. has given up. OCO2 is about to shock the world and liars like yourself.
Secondly, over the last 20 years, Europe's rate has not changed much
That is complete nonsense. Europes footprint dropped by 30%.
In POF, america is the only major nation to have made major cuts
That is nonsense, too.
Since 1997 you dropped perhaps in 5%... if at all.
And while China continues to grow their emissions by 3-5% a year, and Europe is actually growing as well, only Americas continues to fall.
wow three lies in one sentence, you are good at that.
Per edgar, EU27 was at 4.12 in 1992. In 2012, you were at 3.74. That is a 10% drop.
Now, in the same time span, we increased heavily due to W (from 5->5.91), and then due to our cheap nat gas, we dropped BELOW 5, though, edgar shows America at 5.19 in 2012. However, other groups show that 2013 was a major drop for America, pretty much a fixed level for Europe (esp. due to Germany's killing of their nukes and their massive build-out of coal plants), and a REAL MASSIVE increase for China's emissions.
Several things wrong with that BS.
1) China has NEVER been transparent with their budget.
2) much of what is considered military in America and the west, goes under civilian budget, but military control, in china.
3) China is not a TRUE capitalism. As such, all those that work on the military side, are paid a fraction of what they are paid elsewhere. As such, building an AK-47 in China is a REAL fraction of what it would costs to build in America.
Far more important, is the speed with which China is growing their military, combined with the large number of military secrets that China has stolen from the west (esp. America).
and yet, Germany is the large per capita CO2 emitter in Europe at 9.7. In addition, with more coal plants coming on-line, again, Germany will jump up again.
Zero chance. America helped China before and what was found is that solutions were put into military before civilians. Basically, China values military use over civilian use of space.
where life us going to get interesting is when american private space lands on the moon in 2020-2022 and starts a base.
Busses are too few and at this time, generally do not lend themselves well to pure electric approaches.
Far more important are the large number of Commercial vehicles, esp. Semis.
About 3 years, O and the Dems tried to push a tax break that would enable us to move new commercial vehicles off diesel and over the nat gas. Sadly, the neo-cons/tea* fought that because the large oil companies do not want to see the price of oil plummet.
What is really needed is to drop the massive subsidies that we have on oil/nat gas/coal, and the moderate subsidies on hybrids and electric vehicles.
Instead, we should have a set of LIMITED TIME subsidy that solves a few of these issues:
1) for any pure electric car with a range of 100-149 MPC (via epa rating), they get 7.5K. For any pure electric with a range above 150 MPC, give them $15K. This should drop by $1.5K each year.
2) a subsidy for any commercial vehicle using [LC] Nat Gas. In addition, if this is for a serial hybrid, the subsidy should start at the same amount (i.e. a serial hybrid using Nat Gas will have double subsidy what a simple nat gas truck would have. In addition, the large the vehicle, the more subsidy for it. Finally, the nat gas subsidy should drop by 20%, and the serial hybrid should start dropping after that. So, that means that the nat gas subsidy is gone after 5 years, and the hybrid portion will be a steady rate for the first 5 years, but then drop 20% for the next 5 years, meaning that it will last 10 years.
Commercial vehicles makers are ready to do nat gas. It will be expensive at first, but will drop rather quickly. It is the hybrid portion that is of interest since it allows a company to focus on creating pure electric vehicles down the road.
Sadly, idiots like you do not look at facts and need to put somebody else down all the time, typically with lies.
First, america or capita is about 2x both Europe's AND China. China's per capita has risen fast to be about Europe's rate.
Secondly, over the last 20 years, Europe's rate has not changed much. In POF, america is the only major nation to have made major cuts.
Thirld, Co2 is tied to manufacturing, not ppl. Those who choose per capita are kidding themselves. As such, Europe is in the lead on that, but america is in the middle of the European pack.
But China is in the bottom 5 in terms of co2 per $ real GDP.
And while China continues to grow their emissions by 3-5% a year, and Europe is actually growing as well, only Americas continues to fall.
And yet, america has cut its emissions the most over the last 20 years.
And when oco2 has numbers, it will no doubt shock the world to find USA at the lower end of emissions.
The fact is that the seats pitch is too little in terms of emergency operations.
In a bad crash, far more ppl will be hurt due to inability to get out of the row.
Finally, the airlines are hurting their reputation and profits with these antics.
Actually, we have replaced our talent with cheaper overseas ppl. In fact, everybody that is being cracked employ many overseas coders (along with Windows).
Think that there is a relationship?
Some of the stupidest ppl elsewhere and here screamed that target was caused by having an HVAC key. So, I guess that HVAC everywhere is making it possible to break into these systems?
Or is is far more likely that all of them using Windows, combined with using off-shore admin/coding, specifically India where the 60 rupees to $1 means that their engineers are making less than $10K / year, the far more likely route?
My bet is that the idiots, combined with those who are doing the bribes, continue to push the idea that it was an American inside job.
On the flow batteries, nothing.
OTOH, put a bullet through li-ion, and it will heat up over time.
BUT, put a leak into a nat gas line, near some sparks, well, then you have a REAL EXPLOSION.
And that is exactly why gas/diesel cars have many times more death per car mile, than do real electric cars.
That does not mean that it will be.
What is needed is for the utilities to change direction. The profit should be in providing grid and storage. Basically, they need to spin off the electricity production and focus on the monopoly. By doing this, they can change their large grids into small 100 MW grids, use the storage to meet say 2 hours of demand. Then pay the same price for electricity no matter if it is from coal, nukes, nat gas, wind, geo-thermal, solar, etc. Then they make the money CHARGING for the difference (whole sale vs. retail).
You are right that storage has losses. In fact, with EOS energy, you will lose about 15-25% but with much of it coming from line losses. That is why ideally, utilities will not do single large storage, but will instead, work on the 100 MWh size storage while creating microgrids.
Yeah, but what is really needed is to get utilities to do the storage, but on smaller scales. Ideally, they utilities would do storage AND GRID SEPARATION. The small grids should be around 100 MW, with the storage able to do say, 15-120 minutes. Now to many, the separation sounds foolish, however, with this, it enables a utility to make faster changes to the super grids, while the storage allows for utilities to not only deal with AE, but also to better handle the variables demand. Interestingly, you mentioned a number of these that have been going on for a LONG TIME.
BUT, one that is new and really gaining traction are the flow batteries. These are built to a certain size (i.e. a maximum amps that it can deliver) combined with a reserve of liquid (which is the total kWHs). One that I like is the EOS Energy which uses zinc (dirt cheap and plentiful). They are charging less than what a nat gas plant costs and have around 75% efficiency. As such, they are around.12-.17 / kWh, and is dropping quickly. Right now, the national average is.13 / kWh, so, this will only get better.
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Seriously, England said that they would do better. Hopefully, they will mean it.
Seriously, this guy has written about Tesla for a number of years. Yet, he has always been negative on them, and WRONG.
The global EV market will grow from 65,000 units in 2012 to 450,000 in 2020; and yet, pure evs nearly doubled in 2013 to 111K and on-track to double last years sales in 2014. Heck, at the end of 2015, Tesla ALONE will be producing 50K cars / year.
and here, he gripes about Tesla as being a large unknown, and not likely to hit its numbers.
Basically, Anderman is NOT about batteries, but just an industry troll, with lousy ability to make accurate predictions.
Yeah, that issue was SOOOO 30 years ago.
Do you need a good modem?
That is exactly what is going on.
As it is, the FAA is stiffling drone development before it really gets off the ground.
and more need to encourage building of many more.
Assume Ebola goes airborne and hits all. Once it is through the population, it is done. OTOH, radiation is an environmental issue that would continue for centuries. Biological death is far better than nukes.
The truth is, that whenever the world has mass die offs due to nature, we do not get wars.
Right now, we have massive numbers of small wars popping up. This has gotten old. In addition, it could lead to a real war with nukes.
But, if the world takes a massive loss of life due to say Ebola going airborne, it would lower the likelihood of a nuke war.
The one who is lying is you.
Germany roughly 7tons per capita, USA roughly 18tons, that is close to a factor of 3, not 2.
Per the European Edgar DB, Figure 2.4, American per capita in 2012, was 16.4. In Germany, it was just under 10. That is a factor of 1.5, and no where NEAR 3x.
Chinas rate is still on the lower edge of European countries like Denmark or Germany.
in 2012, China's per capita was at ~7.2, while Europe's was at ~7.3. That was two years ago.
Since that time, Chinas CO2 emissions have risen more than 20%. China now accounts for more than 1/3 of the global emissions, with less than 1/6 of the world population.
And all of that is based on numbers that Chinese gov. has given up. OCO2 is about to shock the world and liars like yourself.
Secondly, over the last 20 years, Europe's rate has not changed much That is complete nonsense. Europes footprint dropped by 30%.
In POF, america is the only major nation to have made major cuts That is nonsense, too. Since 1997 you dropped perhaps in 5% ... if at all.
And while China continues to grow their emissions by 3-5% a year, and Europe is actually growing as well, only Americas continues to fall. wow three lies in one sentence, you are good at that.
Per edgar, EU27 was at 4.12 in 1992. In 2012, you were at 3.74. That is a 10% drop.
Now, in the same time span, we increased heavily due to W (from 5->5.91), and then due to our cheap nat gas, we dropped BELOW 5, though, edgar shows America at 5.19 in 2012. However, other groups show that 2013 was a major drop for America, pretty much a fixed level for Europe (esp. due to Germany's killing of their nukes and their massive build-out of coal plants), and a REAL MASSIVE increase for China's emissions.
Several things wrong with that BS.
1) China has NEVER been transparent with their budget.
2) much of what is considered military in America and the west, goes under civilian budget, but military control, in china.
3) China is not a TRUE capitalism. As such, all those that work on the military side, are paid a fraction of what they are paid elsewhere. As such, building an AK-47 in China is a REAL fraction of what it would costs to build in America.
Far more important, is the speed with which China is growing their military, combined with the large number of military secrets that China has stolen from the west (esp. America).
and yet, Germany is the large per capita CO2 emitter in Europe at 9.7. In addition, with more coal plants coming on-line, again, Germany will jump up again.
No, Europe's really is about economics, but China and Russia join america's military focus on this.
Zero chance. America helped China before and what was found is that solutions were put into military before civilians. Basically, China values military use over civilian use of space.
where life us going to get interesting is when american private space lands on the moon in 2020-2022 and starts a base.
Busses are too few and at this time, generally do not lend themselves well to pure electric approaches.
Far more important are the large number of Commercial vehicles, esp. Semis.
About 3 years, O and the Dems tried to push a tax break that would enable us to move new commercial vehicles off diesel and over the nat gas. Sadly, the neo-cons/tea* fought that because the large oil companies do not want to see the price of oil plummet.
What is really needed is to drop the massive subsidies that we have on oil/nat gas/coal, and the moderate subsidies on hybrids and electric vehicles.
Instead, we should have a set of LIMITED TIME subsidy that solves a few of these issues:
1) for any pure electric car with a range of 100-149 MPC (via epa rating), they get 7.5K. For any pure electric with a range above 150 MPC, give them $15K.
This should drop by $1.5K each year. 2) a subsidy for any commercial vehicle using [LC] Nat Gas. In addition, if this is for a serial hybrid, the subsidy should start at the same amount (i.e. a serial hybrid using Nat Gas will have double subsidy what a simple nat gas truck would have. In addition, the large the vehicle, the more subsidy for it. Finally, the nat gas subsidy should drop by 20%, and the serial hybrid should start dropping after that. So, that means that the nat gas subsidy is gone after 5 years, and the hybrid portion will be a steady rate for the first 5 years, but then drop 20% for the next 5 years, meaning that it will last 10 years.
Commercial vehicles makers are ready to do nat gas. It will be expensive at first, but will drop rather quickly. It is the hybrid portion that is of interest since it allows a company to focus on creating pure electric vehicles down the road.
Sadly, idiots like you do not look at facts and need to put somebody else down all the time, typically with lies.
First, america or capita is about 2x both Europe's AND China. China's per capita has risen fast to be about Europe's rate.
Secondly, over the last 20 years, Europe's rate has not changed much. In POF, america is the only major nation to have made major cuts.
Thirld, Co2 is tied to manufacturing, not ppl. Those who choose per capita are kidding themselves. As such, Europe is in the lead on that, but america is in the middle of the European pack. But China is in the bottom 5 in terms of co2 per $ real GDP.
And while China continues to grow their emissions by 3-5% a year, and Europe is actually growing as well, only Americas continues to fall.
And yet, america has cut its emissions the most over the last 20 years. And when oco2 has numbers, it will no doubt shock the world to find USA at the lower end of emissions.
Well, that is either BS, or you just stunk bad due to lack of showering.
The fact is that the seats pitch is too little in terms of emergency operations. In a bad crash, far more ppl will be hurt due to inability to get out of the row. Finally, the airlines are hurting their reputation and profits with these antics.
100% of the systems broken into use windows AND have India based admin/coding.
Actually, we have replaced our talent with cheaper overseas ppl. In fact, everybody that is being cracked employ many overseas coders (along with Windows).
Think that there is a relationship?
Some of the stupidest ppl elsewhere and here screamed that target was caused by having an HVAC key. So, I guess that HVAC everywhere is making it possible to break into these systems?
Or is is far more likely that all of them using Windows, combined with using off-shore admin/coding, specifically India where the 60 rupees to $1 means that their engineers are making less than $10K / year, the far more likely route?
My bet is that the idiots, combined with those who are doing the bribes, continue to push the idea that it was an American inside job.
On the flow batteries, nothing.
OTOH, put a bullet through li-ion, and it will heat up over time.
BUT, put a leak into a nat gas line, near some sparks, well, then you have a REAL EXPLOSION.
And that is exactly why gas/diesel cars have many times more death per car mile, than do real electric cars.
That does not mean that it will be.
What is needed is for the utilities to change direction. The profit should be in providing grid and storage. Basically, they need to spin off the electricity production and focus on the monopoly. By doing this, they can change their large grids into small 100 MW grids, use the storage to meet say 2 hours of demand. Then pay the same price for electricity no matter if it is from coal, nukes, nat gas, wind, geo-thermal, solar, etc. Then they make the money CHARGING for the difference (whole sale vs. retail).
You are right that storage has losses. In fact, with EOS energy, you will lose about 15-25% but with much of it coming from line losses. That is why ideally, utilities will not do single large storage, but will instead, work on the 100 MWh size storage while creating microgrids.
Yeah, but what is really needed is to get utilities to do the storage, but on smaller scales. Ideally, they utilities would do storage AND GRID SEPARATION. The small grids should be around 100 MW, with the storage able to do say, 15-120 minutes. Now to many, the separation sounds foolish, however, with this, it enables a utility to make faster changes to the super grids, while the storage allows for utilities to not only deal with AE, but also to better handle the variables demand. Interestingly, you mentioned a number of these that have been going on for a LONG TIME.
.12-.17 / kWh, and is dropping quickly. Right now, the national average is .13 / kWh, so, this will only get better.
BUT, one that is new and really gaining traction are the flow batteries. These are built to a certain size (i.e. a maximum amps that it can deliver) combined with a reserve of liquid (which is the total kWHs). One that I like is the EOS Energy which uses zinc (dirt cheap and plentiful). They are charging less than what a nat gas plant costs and have around 75% efficiency. As such, they are around