EGS. And yes, nearly all lower places have potential for EGS geo-thermal. Basically, drill deeper. Of course, it was expensive, but potter drilling and foro energy will change that.
coal contains many other items. Sulfur, Nitrogen, Mercury, Uranium, lead, etc. In fact, some of the worst coal is in China, and it is LOADED with those items. I wonder if those will be cleaned first?
but, will it require that the coal be clean FIRST?
If so that will be difficult. But if all it emits is CO2, and water, that is not that bad. This is then no different than running natural gas, so that at large plants, the CO2 can be directed into the ground.
Which is why I keep saying that the feds (ideally, all western nations) should do a subsidy for storage. Start it HIGH, but decrease it each and every year for say 10-15 years. By doing that, it provides incentives to move a number of ideas out of R&D into production. In addition, it would keep us from building new coal plants (though it might also encourage more coal usage for a short-term). The one advantage is that it would enable ultra-caps into cars. Cars can then use the ultra-caps to grab energy at night and return it during the day.
The amount of rare earth is a none issue.
And there is PLENTY of thorium. In the mean time, we continue work getting nations independent of dirty energy.
Actually, wind and geothermal should play a big part of UK (and USA's) energy future. To not, is just plain foolish. However, it would be just as foolish to depend on 100% of them considering that more and more advances are being done in weather control. In fact, all of the western nations should not allow a particular energy source as being more than 1/3, if not 1/4 of the market. For example, bring nukes up to 25% and stop there. Likewise, bring wind up to 25%, and geothermal up to 25%. Finally, the other 25% should be a mix of items.
As much as I believe that we need to continue doing nukes (and support it), to claim that Fkuushima has zero or hardly any casualties, is just plain wrong. There will be many casualties. That is why older ppl are now going in.
In particular, we need the thorium reactors similar to what Ft. St. Vrain had.
In addition, we really should be working towards SMALL-MEDIUM MANUFACTURED reactors ideally, doing IFR.
With that approach, we can burn up what we have, rather than pay the high costs of storage.
It should legalize all drugs, but then allow ZERO IMPORTS AND ZERO EXPORTS. If we do that, we can stop the gangs and drug lords. More importantly, we can cut way back on prison, and spend money (from taxes) on taking care of addicts and chasing the remaining gangs/drug lords.
Actually, google is NOT the best for this. Right now, Google is ran by some relatively benevolent and mostly honest ppl. However, if too much power goes to them and they turn over the keys to another Jobs,Gates, Balmer, Ellison, Palmisano, or Immelt, well, you have another MS or comcast, or worse, a combination of the two, on our hands.
As a Libertarian, What I suggest is limiting the monopoly to as little as possible. Ideally, the local gov. would own this and then hire somebody to run this. Keep in mind that you want the monopoly LIMITED in size. Personally, I like the idea of residence/small business to the greenbox. However, many will notice that is not ideal for many reason. So, on the older ones, it will likely be all the way back to a CO. Once this is in place and the company is not allowed to provide service to the COs (no service providers, then no service), and then you have a decent situation.
BTW, that is the same situation that I think that we should be using for power. Limited and SMALLER monopolies. Ideally, these would be as small as 1 mile sq, and would have their own energy STORAGE.
Sometime ago, a company had the right idea. Basically, get the monopoly from the home to the greenbox, or even to the CO. Than provide hook-ups for other companies. That one monopoly is what Google, et. al. need to do. If they get that started and push cities and states for the FIBER MONOPOLY on just that piece, than others will provide the connectivity. And if they want to limit the bandwidth or speed, then google and the partners can provide links back to their sites. Basically, bypass ATT, Verizon, Qwest, etc.
Seriously. I am now going through patents for multiple items that I am working on. It was obvious when W/neo-cons outsourced our patents. The quality of them PLUMMETED. As it is, I will have to fight one of these patents. The inspector was a guy from China and obviously had NO CLUE ABOUT PRIOR ART. Now, I have to locate in a home that has a piece that was sold in the 70's in Ace Hardware.
Total BS. OTH, if we bring in LOCALS then this would not have happened.
Energy is the key. And more importantly, the ability to deliver instant and prolonged energy or in multiple burst is important. I was suprised that we are not making DDX nuke powered. It seemed like it was the smart thing to do. However, I have suggested many times and have written my senators multiple times to suggest that we create an X-prize on beaming and storing energy. That would solve a lot of issues.
While a rail gun has physical limits on the barrel, the lasers do not. The issue as you say, is the amount of energy INSTANTLY and prolonged available to it. For example, if a 5 second shot drains all energy and it will take 5 minutes to come back up, well, this would be worthless. OTH, if you have multiple ultra-caps capable of being charged and can take multiple shots while these are charging with say 1 second downtime, then you are in pretty good shape.
Part of the reason why I support this is that it will require the ships to have loads of ultra-caps. That will mean that they will buy LOADS of them and drive the tech. In doing that, it will lower the prices for cars. Basically, I see this as a win-win all around.
Oddly, I have been writing my congress man pushing for us to do x-prizes for beaming and storing energy. The idea is that we can beam it into Afghanistan (or other bases), but also can help a ship that is in a prolonged battle. In fact, one idea would be to have an Aircraft Carrier able to beam energy to nearby destroyers so that they can quickly fire. Win-win-destroy all around:)
That was just the senate committee. The house will add it in, and then both will have to agree on this. It is all but certain that this money will be restored. Too much good science in this.
Do not sweat it. That will be returned by the house. More importantly, Gates, and I have heard Panneta, back this. So far, the only directed energy weapons that gates had issues with was the ALTB.
And yet, that has been disproved. Lasers CAN fire for long distance in many conditions. More importantly, if it can fire RAPIDLY and uses ship power, this may be very useful.
How will it handle rain, cloudy conditions, etc?
Generally, battles are started during increment weather. The reason is to make it harder for an enemy to know what you are up to. Of course, with radar, etc. that is less of an issue.
However, a laser should still be impacted by the amount of rain that it has to go through in a typical ocean storm.
In addition, it brings up the question of, how often can it fire? If it can do multiple shots than it might not be as useful as regular bullets.
However, if it has the ability to go multiple rounds quickly, then combine that with the coming railgun and of course, something like a phalynx and you have a much better chance of protection.
The final question is, how soon can we expect to see this on Chinese equipment?
In fact, I wonder if there is any tie from that guy back to L-Mart? These days L-Mart is working hard on hit jobs on SpaceX. They have done loads of lobbying jobs on SpaceX, trying to prevent them from even getting a CHANCE at a job, and
now has started
an astroturfing 'journalists' similar to MS's use of Rob Enderle against Linux and Android. Sadly, it means that SpaceX has had to waste time and money fighting not just Valador, but
L-Mart's lobbyists and hitmen.
There are now many companies that are fighting against all that Musk attempts to do. He really is shaking up the Global industries as he decides to go into them.
What is needed is for the west to bring back electronic manufacturing. Once that is done, then this is a none issue. However, publishing companies should be running.
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Ch4 + 2O2 => CO2 + 2 H20 (assuming clean burning; with a slightly off ratio, you will get other things in there).
American diesel already contains sulfer and other pollutants. We do not clean ours up.
BTW, UK has started into geo-thermal. And note the fact that geo-thermal has little to do with volcanos (though they are good sources).
EGS. And yes, nearly all lower places have potential for EGS geo-thermal. Basically, drill deeper. Of course, it was expensive, but potter drilling and foro energy will change that.
coal contains many other items. Sulfur, Nitrogen, Mercury, Uranium, lead, etc. In fact, some of the worst coal is in China, and it is LOADED with those items. I wonder if those will be cleaned first?
but, will it require that the coal be clean FIRST? If so that will be difficult. But if all it emits is CO2, and water, that is not that bad. This is then no different than running natural gas, so that at large plants, the CO2 can be directed into the ground.
Which is why I keep saying that the feds (ideally, all western nations) should do a subsidy for storage. Start it HIGH, but decrease it each and every year for say 10-15 years. By doing that, it provides incentives to move a number of ideas out of R&D into production. In addition, it would keep us from building new coal plants (though it might also encourage more coal usage for a short-term). The one advantage is that it would enable ultra-caps into cars. Cars can then use the ultra-caps to grab energy at night and return it during the day.
The amount of rare earth is a none issue. And there is PLENTY of thorium. In the mean time, we continue work getting nations independent of dirty energy.
Actually, wind and geothermal should play a big part of UK (and USA's) energy future. To not, is just plain foolish. However, it would be just as foolish to depend on 100% of them considering that more and more advances are being done in weather control. In fact, all of the western nations should not allow a particular energy source as being more than 1/3, if not 1/4 of the market. For example, bring nukes up to 25% and stop there. Likewise, bring wind up to 25%, and geothermal up to 25%. Finally, the other 25% should be a mix of items.
As much as I believe that we need to continue doing nukes (and support it), to claim that Fkuushima has zero or hardly any casualties, is just plain wrong. There will be many casualties. That is why older ppl are now going in.
In particular, we need the thorium reactors similar to what Ft. St. Vrain had.
In addition, we really should be working towards SMALL-MEDIUM MANUFACTURED reactors ideally, doing IFR. With that approach, we can burn up what we have, rather than pay the high costs of storage.
It should legalize all drugs, but then allow ZERO IMPORTS AND ZERO EXPORTS. If we do that, we can stop the gangs and drug lords. More importantly, we can cut way back on prison, and spend money (from taxes) on taking care of addicts and chasing the remaining gangs/drug lords.
Actually, google is NOT the best for this. Right now, Google is ran by some relatively benevolent and mostly honest ppl. However, if too much power goes to them and they turn over the keys to another Jobs,Gates, Balmer, Ellison, Palmisano, or Immelt, well, you have another MS or comcast, or worse, a combination of the two, on our hands.
As a Libertarian, What I suggest is limiting the monopoly to as little as possible. Ideally, the local gov. would own this and then hire somebody to run this. Keep in mind that you want the monopoly LIMITED in size. Personally, I like the idea of residence/small business to the greenbox. However, many will notice that is not ideal for many reason. So, on the older ones, it will likely be all the way back to a CO. Once this is in place and the company is not allowed to provide service to the COs (no service providers, then no service), and then you have a decent situation.
BTW, that is the same situation that I think that we should be using for power. Limited and SMALLER monopolies. Ideally, these would be as small as 1 mile sq, and would have their own energy STORAGE.
Sometime ago, a company had the right idea. Basically, get the monopoly from the home to the greenbox, or even to the CO. Than provide hook-ups for other companies. That one monopoly is what Google, et. al. need to do. If they get that started and push cities and states for the FIBER MONOPOLY on just that piece, than others will provide the connectivity. And if they want to limit the bandwidth or speed, then google and the partners can provide links back to their sites. Basically, bypass ATT, Verizon, Qwest, etc.
Seriously. I am now going through patents for multiple items that I am working on. It was obvious when W/neo-cons outsourced our patents. The quality of them PLUMMETED. As it is, I will have to fight one of these patents. The inspector was a guy from China and obviously had NO CLUE ABOUT PRIOR ART. Now, I have to locate in a home that has a piece that was sold in the 70's in Ace Hardware.
Total BS. OTH, if we bring in LOCALS then this would not have happened.
I asked on an earlier posting how far and under what conditions can a laser fire in. And yeah, my issue is that most battles are planned in heavy weather (surprise). My understanding is that FEL can fire in rain with little issues.In addition, according to Navy officials, the FEL laser can perform at different wavelengths, meaning it can operate at lower and more powerful levels so that it can be used for different applications, which other laser technology cannot. It is also not vulnerable to atmospheric conditions, as solid-state lasers are, making them wane in power depending on the weather.
Energy is the key. And more importantly, the ability to deliver instant and prolonged energy or in multiple burst is important. I was suprised that we are not making DDX nuke powered. It seemed like it was the smart thing to do. However, I have suggested many times and have written my senators multiple times to suggest that we create an X-prize on beaming and storing energy. That would solve a lot of issues.
While a rail gun has physical limits on the barrel, the lasers do not. The issue as you say, is the amount of energy INSTANTLY and prolonged available to it. For example, if a 5 second shot drains all energy and it will take 5 minutes to come back up, well, this would be worthless. OTH, if you have multiple ultra-caps capable of being charged and can take multiple shots while these are charging with say 1 second downtime, then you are in pretty good shape.
:)
Part of the reason why I support this is that it will require the ships to have loads of ultra-caps. That will mean that they will buy LOADS of them and drive the tech. In doing that, it will lower the prices for cars. Basically, I see this as a win-win all around.
Oddly, I have been writing my congress man pushing for us to do x-prizes for beaming and storing energy. The idea is that we can beam it into Afghanistan (or other bases), but also can help a ship that is in a prolonged battle. In fact, one idea would be to have an Aircraft Carrier able to beam energy to nearby destroyers so that they can quickly fire. Win-win-destroy all around
That was just the senate committee. The house will add it in, and then both will have to agree on this. It is all but certain that this money will be restored. Too much good science in this.
Do not sweat it. That will be returned by the house. More importantly, Gates, and I have heard Panneta, back this. So far, the only directed energy weapons that gates had issues with was the ALTB.
And yet, that has been disproved. Lasers CAN fire for long distance in many conditions. More importantly, if it can fire RAPIDLY and uses ship power, this may be very useful.
How will it handle rain, cloudy conditions, etc? Generally, battles are started during increment weather. The reason is to make it harder for an enemy to know what you are up to. Of course, with radar, etc. that is less of an issue. However, a laser should still be impacted by the amount of rain that it has to go through in a typical ocean storm.
In addition, it brings up the question of, how often can it fire? If it can do multiple shots than it might not be as useful as regular bullets. However, if it has the ability to go multiple rounds quickly, then combine that with the coming railgun and of course, something like a phalynx and you have a much better chance of protection.
The final question is, how soon can we expect to see this on Chinese equipment?
Sorry. I have loads of friends that work for various L-Mart divisions. As they told me, it is 'L-Mart, one step above K-Mart'.
Would somebody be so kind as to crack these spammers? Perhaps steal some money, or simply put in large fake orders so as to tie this idiot up?
In fact, I wonder if there is any tie from that guy back to L-Mart? These days L-Mart is working hard on hit jobs on SpaceX. They have done loads of lobbying jobs on SpaceX, trying to prevent them from even getting a CHANCE at a job, and now has started an astroturfing 'journalists' similar to MS's use of Rob Enderle against Linux and Android. Sadly, it means that SpaceX has had to waste time and money fighting not just Valador, but L-Mart's lobbyists and hitmen.
There are now many companies that are fighting against all that Musk attempts to do. He really is shaking up the Global industries as he decides to go into them.
What is needed is for the west to bring back electronic manufacturing. Once that is done, then this is a none issue. However, publishing companies should be running.