Actually, no hand on the button, so to speak. Instead, super fast sensors that trigger in an instance, combined a redundant set of 8 dracos ( and only 4 required ). I would guess that they are likely to have a false abort, and yet, no injuries.
yes. And right now, China is the largest cumulative emitter. And that is just back to 1850. Considering that CHina has been burning coal since LONG before Christ, they continue to add to it.
Nice to see somebody sincere and not just a troll here.
Ok, actually, it IS an engineering plan. The plan is how to determine all CO2 levels, normalize if, and then to get all nations to address their OWN CO2 sources.
In particular, the solutions needed for America are NOT the same as what Denmark or Finland used. That is why I said that we needed to get down to THEIR LEVELS. I never said that we need to be like them. Denmark does not measure their levels. I suspect that they will turn out to have much higher levels, but in spite of that, we still need to get to what they advertise to IPCC (let OCO2/OCO3 show the facts on all this).
Ok, I think that you looked at this all wrong. You simply looked at our electricity and nothing else. Instead, lets look at where CO2 comes from.
Electricity USED to be our main source. Now, it and Transportation are tied.
Transportation emissions is about about to take a huge drop over the next 2-4 years, as long as Tesla keeps going. They will very likely kill ICE sales. Even now, the Model 3 has gone up to #8 in sales in America, and this month, should be around #3-4. This is going to force all western carmakers to address lack of ICE sales. So, IOW, Transportation will take care of itself, assuming Tesla does not die.
That brings us to electricity.
You went through pointing out to the top 3, but ignored the other low ones. In addition, you made it solely about emissions, which I think is a HORRIBLE mistake.
Instead, for national security reasons, we need to assume that China/Russia will attack or that Yellowstone will erupt. As such, we need at least a good chunk of our power to come from on-demand systems. IOW, Perry is correct when he speaks of needing these kinds of systems.
As such, 2/3 of it should be from on-demand systems.
That means that 1/3 could come from wind/solar, but the other 2/3 really needs to come from hydro, nukes, geo-thermal, since these are all on-demand.
Geo-thermal is CHEAP to add, and we can add a lot of it.
Hydro is not as cheap, but more importantly, it is limited. IIRC, America has enough potential in hydro to provide up to 15-20%, but, in particular, the 12-20% is EXPENSIVE and damaging. IOW, we can add more, but we can not even double it.
SO, yeah, like you, I am a huge fan of nuke power. In fact, I think that we need to get a number of companies going that build gen 4 reactors. At least 1 should be capable of burning the 'waste'. In fact, I would like to see us use the money for 'waste' storage to build up reactors to burn the current waste. Likewise, we need to install some NuScale or similar SMRs in our territories. It is insane that we continue to send either oil or coal to islands. Just insane. SHould have a mix of wind/solar as well as nuke or geo-thermal if possible.
I would like to suggest that we also need to lower our energy use. A major burner for America is building HVACs and lighting. One of the easiest ways to solve this is to modify CA's recent regulation. In particular, if we require that all new buildings have enough on-site unsubsidized AE to => HVAC energy, it will encourage builders to build with maximum insulation and best available HVAC (i.e. geo-thermal for much of America).
In addition, for lighting, require > 70 lumens / watt and that residential buildings not have harmful elements in the bulb. This is to be applied to all homes that are sold (new/old), as well as upon tenant change. It will lower our energy 5-10%.
The last saver that we should do, is require that all landlords pay the HVAC. Yes, they can include it in the rent. The smart landlord will insulate, possibly switch furnace/AC to geo-thermal and then take a lot of profit for themselves.
This is obviously for America. For other nations, they need other approaches.
Actually, it is trivial to cheat when you do not measure emissions (for most nations, it is calculated) and govs lie about consumption, populations, etc.
However, what they can NOT lie or manipulate easily is real GDP. And while China is by far the largest cheaters, they are not the only ones. That is why we need to get EVERYBODY on-board. Otherwise, it is not fair.
Basically, this is the same problem that we have with corporate taxes. All these gov are playing as many games as they possibly can.
America pulled out of Kyoto and Paris. In spite of that, America dropped nearly the amount that we were required for Kyoto. And chances are high that we will continue dropping for next 10 years. But many nations will not.
Which is actually pretty impressive, don't you think?
They emit literally 1/3rd the CO2 per person as the United States, and have over 4 times the population.
Wrong. They emit more than 1/2 of what an American does. They are over 8 tonnes while Americans are under 15. More importantly, they continue to climb, while America comes down.
The population size does not matter. What matters is that they continue to grow their emissions. You seem to not realize that this 'shit' is for real. China has emitted the MOST as a nation since the time of christ, 1850, 1950, last 10 years, etc. They continue to grow their emissions.
Only an idiot would sit in this shit and continue to let it happen.
Have all nations drop their emissions together. We need to get to the levels of Denmark and Finland . They have some of the lowest, and correct levels.
The question is how to measure, which really needs to be sats. Only a few nations are well measured, and we have nations like china with a communist gov, that prohibits it. So, sats will at least be precise.
And then normalisation should be emission/$GDP( real ). That will cause all give and businesses to drop emissions.
More than 1/3 of co2 being emitted is from china. In addition, china is by far the largest in terms of total emissions across all time frames.
Now china not grows their own, but also continues to grow co2 emissions in other nations. The only place for Putin to increase oil/nat gas is china, who will likely do to Russia, what they are doing to Venezuela.
Actually, it should make a HUGE difference.
NY is a fairly tiny state. It is in the bottom 1/2 (almost bottom 1/3) and only around 47,000 sq miles. However, HUGE population. There are almost 9 million in NYC ALONE, vs 20M in the New York state. So, adding in the surrounding areas of NYC and you are looking at 1/2 of the state being in NYC area (SWAG). Even though most of the ppl outside of NYC will have further to drive, they are mostly SHORT SHORT distances (here in Colorado, I used to drive >200 miles / day just to get to/from work). So, I would say, it is safe to assume that at least 1/2 of the gasoline consumed there is in the city. New York is 4th largest consumer of fuel in America. Note that this one has CA off by a magnitude. It is #1, so NY moves down to 4This indicates around 129K barrels for 2016
So, giving half, that would be around 64K barrels of gas, which does not include the diesel or the commercial stuff. So, with 42 gal/barrel that would give ~ 2688000 gal of gas. Note that it is about 20 lbs / gal of gas, which is around 27K tons of CO2 / year.
That is just the gas portion for regular cars. It does not include the diesel, which is even worse.
One nice thing about NY is that they have a varied electricity matrix. Basically, Hydro, Nuke, and nat gas. And they are working towards killing off most of their nat gas. So, if they kill the nat gas electricity AND kill the ICE, they will be one of the cleanest population in terms of CO2.
nothing to pay for.
1) by adding enough UNSUBSIDIZED on-site AE to equl HVAC, they will have to decide of they are going to lower the energy used or simply put a lot of solar panels on. The later is expensive. But adding insulation and using geo-thermal HVAC instead of gas furnace/AC, is MUCH MUCH cheaper. IOW, this will lead to better built buildings with low utility costs.
2) Requiring high lumen/watt bulbs saves enough energy to pay for themselve. In the case of the landlords, the bulbs last 5-10 years. And the rental only needs to be changed when a new tenant comes in. That makes it staggered for the landlords
3) many buildings, esp in NYC, are slumlords type places. By requiring the landlords to pay for the HVAC, they will either charge a great deal more than neighbors which will lose them tenants, OR they will insulate and perhaps add solar to the building so as to lower the total energy needed. IOW, they can charge more, while cutting costs way back and actually make money.
4) Stopping ICE vehicles in the city is a no-brainer. Everybody has the right to be there, but you do not have the right to pollute my air. So, by phasing it out slowly, it cleans up the air and drops the CO2. What costs is there? Well, ICE pollution has caused loads of medical bills. They would be down a great deal.
Seriously, in any large city, there are 2 main sources of pollution and CO2.
1) electricity since most cities have 1 or more coal plants.
2) vehicles, esp since nearly all are ICE.
NY and NYC have been going at things in a catywhumpus sort of way. At this time, NY would be smart to implement a modified form of CA's new regs; require that all new buildings of 6 stories and under to have enough unsubsidized on-site AE to equal/exceed the energy used by HVAC. This will encourage things like more insulation,geo-thermal HVAC, and even high lumens/watt bulbs. The reason is that solar is more expensive than those alternatives.
Likewise, all rentals AND home sales, should be required to have all high lumens/watt bulbs upon tenant turnover. THis will drop the energy used by about 5-10%.
In addition, for any building below 6 stories that is doing rentals/leasing, they should be required to pay for the HVAC. In doing that, it will encourage the landlord to either insulate it and move to CHEAP HVAC, OR sell it to somebody that will do it.
Finally, it is time for cities to have some courage and stop allowing vehicles in.
FOr starters, stop all passenger diesels.
Year after that, stop the commercial diesel.
Then ALL ICE passenger vehicles.
Followed by all ICE.
Do not crack down on tata, wipro, etc. Simply enforce the rules with denying companies future immigrants if they do not obey them. In addition, we need to add rules such as saying that if a company brings over an H1B and then sends the work back with the person (disney comes to mind), they will also be denied anymore immigrants of any kind.
H1Bs should not be allowed to be contracted out, or to work on contracts. Basically, it should be for a company to do the work local, and later, if the work is sent back to said contractors home, then the company should be denied future H1Bs or any form of immigration work. If we are going to keep H1B, It is time for us to enforce the laws on this.
Note that this means that if a company like tata wants to hire H1Bs here, then it can only be for their own local work, not for work brought in-house. The same for IBM, etc.
Seriously, if a recruiter is getting a number of no-shows, they should be fired. The reason is that they are obviously picking the wrong ppl to interview/hire.
In general, a recruiter that has a number of no-shows, was very likely arrogant, rude, or just a troll type that the person would see unless they got a job.
And the idea of not notifying said recruiter really hints that they are the issue.
OTOH, if it happens 1-2 a year, that is likely the candidate's fault.
So many of them speak about cleaning the air and yet, few put their money where their mouth is. Building fast transportation across the edge of cities into the heart of them, would make lots of money. Right now, most of the public transportation is either outrageously expensive, AND/OR it is as slow as cars, but with numerous stops. Musk is developing a system where by they can do 100-150 mph which would enable moving from the edge of a city to the heart in just minutes. This system will make a LOT of money over time. Few 'public' systems in America will.
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NASA is not the one building it. Boeing, L-Mart and all other old space companies are building it. Blame them.
If you are incapable of reading and comprehending English than go back to mandarin.
You continue to lie. America has NEVER been the all time highest emitter.
Really? What do they do wrong?
Actually, no hand on the button, so to speak. Instead, super fast sensors that trigger in an instance, combined a redundant set of 8 dracos ( and only 4 required ). I would guess that they are likely to have a false abort, and yet, no injuries.
Most of which companies hire them.
And yet, NASA require the zip line because it is still not safe with a fully loaded system.
yes. And right now, China is the largest cumulative emitter. And that is just back to 1850. Considering that CHina has been burning coal since LONG before Christ, they continue to add to it.
Nice to see somebody sincere and not just a troll here.
/old), as well as upon tenant change. It will lower our energy 5-10%.
Ok, actually, it IS an engineering plan. The plan is how to determine all CO2 levels, normalize if, and then to get all nations to address their OWN CO2 sources.
In particular, the solutions needed for America are NOT the same as what Denmark or Finland used. That is why I said that we needed to get down to THEIR LEVELS. I never said that we need to be like them. Denmark does not measure their levels. I suspect that they will turn out to have much higher levels, but in spite of that, we still need to get to what they advertise to IPCC (let OCO2/OCO3 show the facts on all this).
Ok, I think that you looked at this all wrong. You simply looked at our electricity and nothing else. Instead, lets look at where CO2 comes from. Electricity USED to be our main source. Now, it and Transportation are tied.
Transportation emissions is about about to take a huge drop over the next 2-4 years, as long as Tesla keeps going. They will very likely kill ICE sales. Even now, the Model 3 has gone up to #8 in sales in America, and this month, should be around #3-4. This is going to force all western carmakers to address lack of ICE sales. So, IOW, Transportation will take care of itself, assuming Tesla does not die.
That brings us to electricity.
You went through pointing out to the top 3, but ignored the other low ones. In addition, you made it solely about emissions, which I think is a HORRIBLE mistake.
Instead, for national security reasons, we need to assume that China/Russia will attack or that Yellowstone will erupt. As such, we need at least a good chunk of our power to come from on-demand systems. IOW, Perry is correct when he speaks of needing these kinds of systems.
As such, 2/3 of it should be from on-demand systems.
That means that 1/3 could come from wind/solar, but the other 2/3 really needs to come from hydro, nukes, geo-thermal, since these are all on-demand.
Geo-thermal is CHEAP to add, and we can add a lot of it.
Hydro is not as cheap, but more importantly, it is limited. IIRC, America has enough potential in hydro to provide up to 15-20%, but, in particular, the 12-20% is EXPENSIVE and damaging. IOW, we can add more, but we can not even double it.
SO, yeah, like you, I am a huge fan of nuke power. In fact, I think that we need to get a number of companies going that build gen 4 reactors. At least 1 should be capable of burning the 'waste'. In fact, I would like to see us use the money for 'waste' storage to build up reactors to burn the current waste. Likewise, we need to install some NuScale or similar SMRs in our territories. It is insane that we continue to send either oil or coal to islands. Just insane. SHould have a mix of wind/solar as well as nuke or geo-thermal if possible.
I would like to suggest that we also need to lower our energy use. A major burner for America is building HVACs and lighting. One of the easiest ways to solve this is to modify CA's recent regulation. In particular, if we require that all new buildings have enough on-site unsubsidized AE to => HVAC energy, it will encourage builders to build with maximum insulation and best available HVAC (i.e. geo-thermal for much of America).
In addition, for lighting, require > 70 lumens / watt and that residential buildings not have harmful elements in the bulb. This is to be applied to all homes that are sold (new
The last saver that we should do, is require that all landlords pay the HVAC. Yes, they can include it in the rent. The smart landlord will insulate, possibly switch furnace/AC to geo-thermal and then take a lot of profit for themselves.
This is obviously for America. For other nations, they need other approaches.
Actually, it is trivial to cheat when you do not measure emissions (for most nations, it is calculated) and govs lie about consumption, populations, etc.
However, what they can NOT lie or manipulate easily is real GDP. And while China is by far the largest cheaters, they are not the only ones. That is why we need to get EVERYBODY on-board. Otherwise, it is not fair.
Basically, this is the same problem that we have with corporate taxes. All these gov are playing as many games as they possibly can.
America pulled out of Kyoto and Paris. In spite of that, America dropped nearly the amount that we were required for Kyoto. And chances are high that we will continue dropping for next 10 years. But many nations will not.
Which is actually pretty impressive, don't you think? They emit literally 1/3rd the CO2 per person as the United States, and have over 4 times the population.
Wrong. They emit more than 1/2 of what an American does. They are over 8 tonnes while Americans are under 15. More importantly, they continue to climb, while America comes down.
The population size does not matter. What matters is that they continue to grow their emissions. You seem to not realize that this 'shit' is for real. China has emitted the MOST as a nation since the time of christ, 1850, 1950, last 10 years, etc. They continue to grow their emissions.
Only an idiot would sit in this shit and continue to let it happen.
And God says take care of his creations. You are destroying them.
Have all nations drop their emissions together. We need to get to the levels of Denmark and Finland . They have some of the lowest, and correct levels. The question is how to measure, which really needs to be sats. Only a few nations are well measured, and we have nations like china with a communist gov, that prohibits it. So, sats will at least be precise. And then normalisation should be emission /$GDP( real ). That will cause all give and businesses to drop emissions.
Amazing how many ppl really do not look at reality. Good posting.
More than 1/3 of co2 being emitted is from china. In addition, china is by far the largest in terms of total emissions across all time frames. Now china not grows their own, but also continues to grow co2 emissions in other nations. The only place for Putin to increase oil/nat gas is china, who will likely do to Russia, what they are doing to Venezuela.
Actually, it should make a HUGE difference.
NY is a fairly tiny state. It is in the bottom 1/2 (almost bottom 1/3) and only around 47,000 sq miles. However, HUGE population. There are almost 9 million in NYC ALONE, vs 20M in the New York state. So, adding in the surrounding areas of NYC and you are looking at 1/2 of the state being in NYC area (SWAG). Even though most of the ppl outside of NYC will have further to drive, they are mostly SHORT SHORT distances (here in Colorado, I used to drive >200 miles / day just to get to/from work). So, I would say, it is safe to assume that at least 1/2 of the gasoline consumed there is in the city. New York is 4th largest consumer of fuel in America.
Note that this one has CA off by a magnitude. It is #1, so NY moves down to 4 This indicates around 129K barrels for 2016 So, giving half, that would be around 64K barrels of gas, which does not include the diesel or the commercial stuff. So, with 42 gal/barrel that would give ~ 2688000 gal of gas. Note that it is about 20 lbs / gal of gas, which is around 27K tons of CO2 / year.
That is just the gas portion for regular cars. It does not include the diesel, which is even worse.
One nice thing about NY is that they have a varied electricity matrix. Basically, Hydro, Nuke, and nat gas. And they are working towards killing off most of their nat gas. So, if they kill the nat gas electricity AND kill the ICE, they will be one of the cleanest population in terms of CO2.
nothing to pay for.
1) by adding enough UNSUBSIDIZED on-site AE to equl HVAC, they will have to decide of they are going to lower the energy used or simply put a lot of solar panels on. The later is expensive. But adding insulation and using geo-thermal HVAC instead of gas furnace/AC, is MUCH MUCH cheaper. IOW, this will lead to better built buildings with low utility costs.
2) Requiring high lumen/watt bulbs saves enough energy to pay for themselve. In the case of the landlords, the bulbs last 5-10 years. And the rental only needs to be changed when a new tenant comes in. That makes it staggered for the landlords
3) many buildings, esp in NYC, are slumlords type places. By requiring the landlords to pay for the HVAC, they will either charge a great deal more than neighbors which will lose them tenants, OR they will insulate and perhaps add solar to the building so as to lower the total energy needed. IOW, they can charge more, while cutting costs way back and actually make money.
4) Stopping ICE vehicles in the city is a no-brainer. Everybody has the right to be there, but you do not have the right to pollute my air. So, by phasing it out slowly, it cleans up the air and drops the CO2. What costs is there? Well, ICE pollution has caused loads of medical bills. They would be down a great deal.
Seriously, in any large city, there are 2 main sources of pollution and CO2.
1) electricity since most cities have 1 or more coal plants.
2) vehicles, esp since nearly all are ICE.
NY and NYC have been going at things in a catywhumpus sort of way. At this time, NY would be smart to implement a modified form of CA's new regs; require that all new buildings of 6 stories and under to have enough unsubsidized on-site AE to equal/exceed the energy used by HVAC. This will encourage things like more insulation,geo-thermal HVAC, and even high lumens/watt bulbs. The reason is that solar is more expensive than those alternatives.
Likewise, all rentals AND home sales, should be required to have all high lumens/watt bulbs upon tenant turnover. THis will drop the energy used by about 5-10%.
In addition, for any building below 6 stories that is doing rentals/leasing, they should be required to pay for the HVAC. In doing that, it will encourage the landlord to either insulate it and move to CHEAP HVAC, OR sell it to somebody that will do it.
Finally, it is time for cities to have some courage and stop allowing vehicles in.
FOr starters, stop all passenger diesels.
Year after that, stop the commercial diesel.
Then ALL ICE passenger vehicles.
Followed by all ICE.
4 years is plenty long.
Do not crack down on tata, wipro, etc. Simply enforce the rules with denying companies future immigrants if they do not obey them. In addition, we need to add rules such as saying that if a company brings over an H1B and then sends the work back with the person (disney comes to mind), they will also be denied anymore immigrants of any kind.
H1Bs should not be allowed to be contracted out, or to work on contracts. Basically, it should be for a company to do the work local, and later, if the work is sent back to said contractors home, then the company should be denied future H1Bs or any form of immigration work. If we are going to keep H1B, It is time for us to enforce the laws on this.
Note that this means that if a company like tata wants to hire H1Bs here, then it can only be for their own local work, not for work brought in-house. The same for IBM, etc.
Crimson Tsunami/Caffinated Bacon. ,take a hike. You continue to troll everywhere.
The simple answer is, that it will depend on how smart a builder is.
If they look far enough ahead, then they make it trivial to connect multiple systems into 1.
Seriously, if a recruiter is getting a number of no-shows, they should be fired. The reason is that they are obviously picking the wrong ppl to interview/hire.
In general, a recruiter that has a number of no-shows, was very likely arrogant, rude, or just a troll type that the person would see unless they got a job.
And the idea of not notifying said recruiter really hints that they are the issue.
OTOH, if it happens 1-2 a year, that is likely the candidate's fault.
mod down, please. Hard to believe that we have so many fucking trolls at such low numbers.
So many of them speak about cleaning the air and yet, few put their money where their mouth is. Building fast transportation across the edge of cities into the heart of them, would make lots of money. Right now, most of the public transportation is either outrageously expensive, AND/OR it is as slow as cars, but with numerous stops. Musk is developing a system where by they can do 100-150 mph which would enable moving from the edge of a city to the heart in just minutes. This system will make a LOT of money over time. Few 'public' systems in America will.