Sadly, the idiots in CONgress are doing all that they can to destroy NSA and other aspect of our security.
What I find interesing is that NSA (the agency, but not all individuals) works hard to avoid spying on Americans. As such, Boston happened. Had those 2 contacted a KNOWN terrorists, we would have known about them. But that was not the case.
Look, when he spoke about spying on Americans, it was somewhat whistle blowing (individuals were being spied on by individuals, but NOT by the agency; at least, he has not shown otherwise). And the fact that those individuals were let go, rather than prosecuted is actually a concern. They should be doing time for that.
BUT, once he spoke about spying on others OUTSIDE out nation, he became a traitor. Look, nearly all nations spy on each other. Perhaps the worse is China, BUT, USA (along with our partners in 5i) is doing their share, as is France, Germany, Russia, Brazil, Japan, Israel, etc. And none of that is ILLEGAL per USA or even UN laws.
As such, he is also a traitor. To claim that this is political discussion is a joke.
You will find that most of the current active geo-thermal systems are located close to the surface (like 1000-3000' down).
And I think that you were looking for hot dry rock(Australian) or EGS (USA) for enhanced geothermal system is what you are looking for.
Now, for being able to drill most anywhere, you need to go deeper with a supply well that pushes a working fluid through cracks out to other collection wells that then generate steam. This concept was developed in America back in the 70's, but was stopped by reagan.
You will find that about 10 different implementation have/are being done. 2 are worth looking at, which is the Aussie's project (google for australia geo-thermal habenero and that should tell you something ).
The other big one is America's EGS over in Oregon. It is located by an extinct volcano (newberry) and like the Aussie project is moving forward and looking good.
Actually, NSA has said what % they spy on us. And nothing from Snowden differs with it. The issue is that all sorts of bozos are running up with all sorts of conspiracy theories rather than listen to what is being said, and applying logic.
And the patriot act conceived and produced by the neo-cons, allows the NSA to have a warrant that allows them to follow the leads quickly and find the terrorists.
Sadly, under W, it was abused (stats showed that more than 95% of these warrants were NOT used on terrorists but simple local criminals). However, in 2008, the GOP forced this to be a closed issue. So, we do not know what has happened under O, but considering that neo-cons/tea* have been on the intelligence committee to review this, I would guess that things improved.
WP has to be the worst rag going with some of the stupidest journalists possible.
In this case, NSA is NOT doing anywhere near the spying that WP implies. NSA has said that they as a group are not spying on Americans the way that WP and others imply.
OTOH, the author clearly misses the point on why the data is sent to UK, and back, AND why data from all of the west and many other nations pass through USA, rather than keep it local.
Love the sarcasm.
But why would you convict a foreigner of treason? Treason is for citizens, not foreigners. And the best thing to do is to deny those ppl or any businesses associated with them, the ability to work in/with America.
binary power plants, are basically, closed cycles. That is, they pull up steam or CO2 and then use that to heat water or even ammonia, while the original steam/CO2 is re-inected back into the ground. Note that the secondary steam/ammonia drives the generators.
First off, most oil wells in America are currently drilled at 6000-10000' feet deep. That is, 1.5 - ~3 KM deep.
Secondly, many of those oil wells have temps of 125-150C.
With fractional drilling and the pump out of these areas, one smart idea is to drill and bend at around 12K' under a number of oil wells that are mostly spent. Then use that to push either water or CO2 through and heat up.
Now, as to Yellowstone, you can drill less than 1000' and hit loads of places with LOTS of heat. And yeah, they have mapped it already. What is missing is that the laws forbid it, yet, I think that they are making horrible mistakes. A simple binary system would work great there. AND, it could be used to return large amounts of minerals that can be pulled from the water.
The one group that did it was a religious nut group who also did an open system. And yeah, it had an impact. So now, we are insane in our action. We need to allow small ones with binary to go in there and test these, and then raise them up from small to medium.
If a company is above board, all they have to do, is offer up a reward of getting H1B's local LEGAL jobs, if they will rat out situations in which they are employed illegally. By doing this, any company that chooses to cheat, will quickly get nailed.
Yup. I have been saying that all along. Heck, they can bring in all of the temp immigrants that they want, so long as they pay double on taxes, AND are required to be paid 10% or more above the prevailing wages.
why? These were foreign executives. These were not Americans. There was no treason here. They, and any businesses that they are connected with in ANY FASHION, should simply be denied business licences in America.
nope. Just deny them their business licence and all of the foreigners that were associated with that company will be denied any business dealings in America.
BTW, if they did this to America, I would bet that they have pulled similar actions on other nations.
Not really? He probably brought in a couple of hundred million. This would just be considered the costs of business. Hell, this is just like Microsoft.
Seriously, Infosys and other companies that play games like this, should be denied business licenses, but at the least, should not be able to get any gov. contracts any more.
is that South Korea is right up there with nations that I do not want to building reactors. And I am guessing that while they will quickly shut theirs down for not being good enough, they will be trying to sell the same design to 3rd world nations.
They are pushing hybrids, not electric cars. If they have junk like the volt, which will encourage daytime charging, then our electric bills will go up.
Instead, you really want to encourage real electric cars, not hybrids. And they should have 100 mile range or better. In addition, the chargers should charge a tax if you use them in the busy time. By switching the charging to nighttime, it actually lowers the cost of electricity for all, and this not only cleans up the environment, but drops our imports.
then how about a 90 second battery change? Tesla offers you the ability to charge in 20 minutes for free, OR to change the battery for about the price of a tank of gas.
The fact is, that the US gov. allowed mail(in fact, continued to push it through most of the war), but stopped all other supplies once UK declared the blockaide. Now, there were a NUMBER of Americans of German, Italian, and even French descent, that supported Hitler. However, Our gov. did NOT.
and I note the fact that German, Italian, AND UK businesses were busy trading with Sadaam and that the evidence came forward once we invaded him (yeah, yeah, we had no business doing that, but, by the same token, it was obvious afterwards that european business had kept him very comfortable).
And as to W, yeah, the guy was a colossal idiot. I did not vote for him. I considered him along the lines of Nixon, reagan, vitter, Craig, Delay, etc. and other criminals. Heck, the idiot had a supposed history degree and did not have a grasp of WWII, let alone simple American history.
BUT just because W was an idiot (and I wish that other western nations would pick him up and try him), it does not mean that you are even close to the truth in either of your 2 postings.
BS.
The tea baggers have prevented the gov. from raising taxes, even though they are at an all time low.
In addition, teabaggers and neo-cons constantly blocked cuts that they did not like.
for example, both teabaggers/neo-cons continue to push the SLS which will cost us 30B and not be ready until 2022 at the earliest (it is now expected for man's first flight on it at 2025, and several studies say that it will run closer to 50B). So, where are they getting the money for this nightmare? By gutting private space inside of NASA. Even now, when it was agreed to that private space would get a TOTAL of 2B, for funding 3 companies to be ready by 2015, the neo-cons cut that and has forced NASA to limit the downselect to ONE private space company.
Then we have again, both neo-cons/teabaggers pushing the nightmare of keeping our M1A1 tank lines going. Yet, the DOD IS SCREAMING THAT IT IS NOT THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT FOR FUTURE wars. Worse, we have plenty of core M1A1 tanks. But the house is blocking the stoppage of the line.
It continues over and over and over.
The problem is not that we are not making spending cuts. |
The real problem is that 49 teabaggers in the house are blocking compromise on ANYTHING from happening, and the neo-cons are going along because the teabaggers are threatening them at the next election.
In the past, we did not worry about our memorials being attacked by terrorists such as AQ or republicans like Nichols/McVeigh. As such, they had to stop the total police and clean-up funding that was not there before.
Here in Colorado we have republican judges that I think that would charge a rape victim money and say that it was money owed for services rendered. It seems like the GOP has lost sight of what a balanced budget, real science, and even justice operates. Basically, they have forgotten how to lead. And the corruption in that party is just horrible.
Sadly, it is not much better in the dems.
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Well spoken.
Sadly, the idiots in CONgress are doing all that they can to destroy NSA and other aspect of our security.
What I find interesing is that NSA (the agency, but not all individuals) works hard to avoid spying on Americans. As such, Boston happened. Had those 2 contacted a KNOWN terrorists, we would have known about them. But that was not the case.
Look, when he spoke about spying on Americans, it was somewhat whistle blowing (individuals were being spied on by individuals, but NOT by the agency; at least, he has not shown otherwise). And the fact that those individuals were let go, rather than prosecuted is actually a concern. They should be doing time for that.
BUT, once he spoke about spying on others OUTSIDE out nation, he became a traitor. Look, nearly all nations spy on each other. Perhaps the worse is China, BUT, USA (along with our partners in 5i) is doing their share, as is France, Germany, Russia, Brazil, Japan, Israel, etc. And none of that is ILLEGAL per USA or even UN laws.
As such, he is also a traitor. To claim that this is political discussion is a joke.
You will find that most of the current active geo-thermal systems are located close to the surface (like 1000-3000' down).
And I think that you were looking for hot dry rock(Australian) or EGS (USA) for enhanced geothermal system is what you are looking for.
Now, for being able to drill most anywhere, you need to go deeper with a supply well that pushes a working fluid through cracks out to other collection wells that then generate steam. This concept was developed in America back in the 70's, but was stopped by reagan.
You will find that about 10 different implementation have/are being done. 2 are worth looking at, which is the Aussie's project (google for australia geo-thermal habenero and that should tell you something ).
The other big one is America's EGS over in Oregon. It is located by an extinct volcano (newberry) and like the Aussie project is moving forward and looking good.
Actually, NSA has said what % they spy on us. And nothing from Snowden differs with it. The issue is that all sorts of bozos are running up with all sorts of conspiracy theories rather than listen to what is being said, and applying logic.
And the patriot act conceived and produced by the neo-cons, allows the NSA to have a warrant that allows them to follow the leads quickly and find the terrorists.
Sadly, under W, it was abused (stats showed that more than 95% of these warrants were NOT used on terrorists but simple local criminals). However, in 2008, the GOP forced this to be a closed issue. So, we do not know what has happened under O, but considering that neo-cons/tea* have been on the intelligence committee to review this, I would guess that things improved.
WP has to be the worst rag going with some of the stupidest journalists possible.
In this case, NSA is NOT doing anywhere near the spying that WP implies. NSA has said that they as a group are not spying on Americans the way that WP and others imply.
OTOH, the author clearly misses the point on why the data is sent to UK, and back, AND why data from all of the west and many other nations pass through USA, rather than keep it local.
5i, anybody?
Love the sarcasm.
But why would you convict a foreigner of treason? Treason is for citizens, not foreigners. And the best thing to do is to deny those ppl or any businesses associated with them, the ability to work in/with America.
binary power plants, are basically, closed cycles. That is, they pull up steam or CO2 and then use that to heat water or even ammonia, while the original steam/CO2 is re-inected back into the ground. Note that the secondary steam/ammonia drives the generators.
First off, most oil wells in America are currently drilled at 6000-10000' feet deep. That is, 1.5 - ~3 KM deep. Secondly, many of those oil wells have temps of 125-150C.
With fractional drilling and the pump out of these areas, one smart idea is to drill and bend at around 12K' under a number of oil wells that are mostly spent. Then use that to push either water or CO2 through and heat up.
Now, as to Yellowstone, you can drill less than 1000' and hit loads of places with LOTS of heat. And yeah, they have mapped it already. What is missing is that the laws forbid it, yet, I think that they are making horrible mistakes. A simple binary system would work great there. AND, it could be used to return large amounts of minerals that can be pulled from the water.
The one group that did it was a religious nut group who also did an open system. And yeah, it had an impact. So now, we are insane in our action. We need to allow small ones with binary to go in there and test these, and then raise them up from small to medium.
If a company is above board, all they have to do, is offer up a reward of getting H1B's local LEGAL jobs, if they will rat out situations in which they are employed illegally. By doing this, any company that chooses to cheat, will quickly get nailed.
Yup. I have been saying that all along. Heck, they can bring in all of the temp immigrants that they want, so long as they pay double on taxes, AND are required to be paid 10% or more above the prevailing wages.
why? These were foreign executives. These were not Americans. There was no treason here. They, and any businesses that they are connected with in ANY FASHION, should simply be denied business licences in America.
nope. Just deny them their business licence and all of the foreigners that were associated with that company will be denied any business dealings in America.
BTW, if they did this to America, I would bet that they have pulled similar actions on other nations.
Not really? He probably brought in a couple of hundred million. This would just be considered the costs of business. Hell, this is just like Microsoft.
Seriously, Infosys and other companies that play games like this, should be denied business licenses, but at the least, should not be able to get any gov. contracts any more.
No, far better to have loads of medium sized ones spread all over.
is that South Korea is right up there with nations that I do not want to building reactors. And I am guessing that while they will quickly shut theirs down for not being good enough, they will be trying to sell the same design to 3rd world nations.
They are pushing hybrids, not electric cars. If they have junk like the volt, which will encourage daytime charging, then our electric bills will go up.
Instead, you really want to encourage real electric cars, not hybrids. And they should have 100 mile range or better. In addition, the chargers should charge a tax if you use them in the busy time. By switching the charging to nighttime, it actually lowers the cost of electricity for all, and this not only cleans up the environment, but drops our imports.
then how about a 90 second battery change? Tesla offers you the ability to charge in 20 minutes for free, OR to change the battery for about the price of a tank of gas.
Like I said, once a liar, always a liar.
The fact is, that the US gov. allowed mail(in fact, continued to push it through most of the war), but stopped all other supplies once UK declared the blockaide. Now, there were a NUMBER of Americans of German, Italian, and even French descent, that supported Hitler. However, Our gov. did NOT.
and I note the fact that German, Italian, AND UK businesses were busy trading with Sadaam and that the evidence came forward once we invaded him (yeah, yeah, we had no business doing that, but, by the same token, it was obvious afterwards that european business had kept him very comfortable).
And as to W, yeah, the guy was a colossal idiot. I did not vote for him. I considered him along the lines of Nixon, reagan, vitter, Craig, Delay, etc. and other criminals. Heck, the idiot had a supposed history degree and did not have a grasp of WWII, let alone simple American history.
BUT just because W was an idiot (and I wish that other western nations would pick him up and try him), it does not mean that you are even close to the truth in either of your 2 postings.
Not really. To be honest, little of what he said has any truth. At best, it is spin, but far more likely, it is just his extremists views coming out.
BS.
The tea baggers have prevented the gov. from raising taxes, even though they are at an all time low.
In addition, teabaggers and neo-cons constantly blocked cuts that they did not like.
for example, both teabaggers/neo-cons continue to push the SLS which will cost us 30B and not be ready until 2022 at the earliest (it is now expected for man's first flight on it at 2025, and several studies say that it will run closer to 50B). So, where are they getting the money for this nightmare? By gutting private space inside of NASA. Even now, when it was agreed to that private space would get a TOTAL of 2B, for funding 3 companies to be ready by 2015, the neo-cons cut that and has forced NASA to limit the downselect to ONE private space company.
Then we have again, both neo-cons/teabaggers pushing the nightmare of keeping our M1A1 tank lines going. Yet, the DOD IS SCREAMING THAT IT IS NOT THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT FOR FUTURE wars. Worse, we have plenty of core M1A1 tanks. But the house is blocking the stoppage of the line.
It continues over and over and over.
The problem is not that we are not making spending cuts.
| The real problem is that 49 teabaggers in the house are blocking compromise on ANYTHING from happening, and the neo-cons are going along because the teabaggers are threatening them at the next election.
In the past, we did not worry about our memorials being attacked by terrorists such as AQ or republicans like Nichols/McVeigh. As such, they had to stop the total police and clean-up funding that was not there before.
Here in Colorado we have republican judges that I think that would charge a rape victim money and say that it was money owed for services rendered. It seems like the GOP has lost sight of what a balanced budget, real science, and even justice operates. Basically, they have forgotten how to lead. And the corruption in that party is just horrible.
Sadly, it is not much better in the dems.