I remember the first time that Sun opened SunOS. I supported it. But, when they closed it, it became obvious to me that it is trivial for commercial companies to pull this kind of BS. SO, a number of years pass and suddenly SUn re-opens Solaris. As I pointed out, that if and when Sun (or any owner) want to kill it again, then it would happen. How many of the sun marketers stormed in here declaring that it absolutely could never happen again. Had the Sun fan bois screaming that I was just FUDING. And yet, here we are AGAIN.
WHile I will likely do Solaris contracts, I will never again push their junk. It will only be a matter of time before they pull a MS/Sun style hit.
The ones in mid 60s through early 70's in the USA WERE on-time. Then along came environmentalists and other carping about them. Add the NUMBY's, and yes, the prices rose and time slipped. But the price rise was mostly DUE to the time slips. So, if we really streamline building these, and get these on time, then the prices will stay where they belong.
Nukes could have VERY LITTLE WASTE. The problem is that ppl like Kerry (and even W) have KILLED IFR which would use up nearly all of what is considered waste.
BTW, the generation of power, regardless if nukes, AE, coal, etc. will ALWAYS be inefficient since it has to handle various loads, UNLESS storage is used. The storage is needed to deal with the various demands and needs and then allow the power companies to buy for a set or seasonal demand, rather than hourly demands.
First and foremost, water is a great storage. In addition, so is HEAT. Take a salt or oil solution and heat it up. Then simply create steam from it. Do the storage at nights. In addition, the smart situation is to encourage SMALL storage. By doing that, small companies can cover say a 1 mile block. They buy the energy at night and then sell it back during the day. BUT, when you have a power-outage (winter storm, hurricane, earthquake, terrorists, etc), then you have a back-up for the local area.
Now, when I speak of subsidies for storage, I am thinking of the fact that an electrical car owner has a strong incentive to charge at night, and then during the daytime to sell it back at a higher price. And as to AC-DC-> DC-AC, well, that equipment would only get better and cheaper once such an incentive is going.
is that if we pushed electrical cars TODAY, then you can count on it that the electric companies will push for more AE, more nukes, more natural gas power plants. In addition, we would spend our money on Capacitor RD, rather than batteries. I am amazed that we are not deciding to leap frog batteries.
Finally, if the feds were REALLY sincere about getting us off oil/gas, then all they would have to do is change the electrical subsidies. Right now, we subsidize Oil, Coal, and Nukes heavily, with some light subsidies for AE. If we drop all that and simply change to subsidies for
clean production
clean production with BASE LOAD
Storage.
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then we would see loads of new electrical generation, wind, geo-thermal, nukes, AND new forms of storage, in particular, parked cars being used to get energy back. The latter is not that great for batteries, but it is IDEAL for ultra-caps.
Doing a breeder and separating isotopes does NOT violate our treaties. What would violate it is if we undertook ACTIVE weapons development similar to what China is doing. But that is not what I am suggesting. I am suggesting that we restart our breeder and deal with the various isotopes. Nothing more. However, even the treaties do not forbid us from updating the weapons. What matters in the russian treaties is the count, yield, and delivery systems.
Yes, and almost all of that mess was made in the 50-70's. And rocky flats is still not cleaned up. But in the end, we need to restart a small project and do it RIGHT.
Your point being?
The simple fact is that we used to handle this FAIRLY safely. Yes, there were accidents and pollution. But, we know better now and how to deal with it.
At the least, we need a small reactor for NASA. In reality, we need a small reactor to make certain that we never lose the capability and can improve the process.
Funny. I remember playing with it a few times, but I do not recall the book corner. Regardless, there is SOOO much prior art that I am amazed that MS is trying this. What it shows is that the MS RD of old that I recall is going strong; Steal what you can and claim it for your own.
There is no communication between the powersupply and laptop. The smart move would be add at least a comm link between these 2 so that interesting new approaches can be taken.
While I am a fan of this mission, you really can not call it a landing since the asteroid has such little gravity. The fact is, that if you were next to the asteroid and simply had a small leak in your face place, and faced the asteroid, you would take off. It is probably more accurate to say that Hayabusa was parked next to the asteroid, which in itself is quite an accomplishment.
IFF they were using a form and gathering data, then yes, that part needs to come down (and the data really should be destroyed). HOWEVER, if the form was null, or data was discarded, then it is all fair use.
Then if you are infected, SUE THE COMPANY. Look, this is ridiculous. Companies have a total lack of security. When they have an issue, they apologize and pass the buck (Windows is responsible; MS then denies responsibility). Once companies get hit with LARGE lawsuits, then security will jump up in priority.
Clinton really screwed up by dumping 50 years worth of Helium on the market. It needs to be taken off and then encourage the natural gas guys to restart helium separation by allowing the prices to rise.
The really sad part about this, is that the helium reserves were about being a RESERVE. That way the west had guaranteed access to it (which IS hard to come by).
BTW, I thought that you might find the geothermal map and natural gas map interesting: Gas Map and of course
older heat map.
This would not benefit everywhere, HOWEVER, the geo-thermal map is an older one and we do not really know how good these things are.
Basically, by pushing the approach that I suggest, we may actually find more heat pockets. At the very least, in parts of east texas, and then through the rocket mountain region and California, we will see loads of geo-thermal production.
The heat is generated by decay. Heat will flow through the crust at a set rate. We could not increase it any significant amount. What we do, is grab the heat that WOULD flow upwards and pump it through a heat pump. To find out if there would be any significant damage look at CA geysers.
In the end, we are tapping heat that will flow outward REGARDLESS. OTH, when we burn fossil fuel, we release energy and CO2 that was trapped and would never have been emitted. Basically, we do far less damage to the world, if we are 100% on geo-thermal then on Fossil Fuel
You know, 20 years ago, when I joined the Libertarian party, I was fanatical. In 20 years of sucking hind teat to the likes of W, I have become a lot more pragmatic. My response was why it is better over the grants. Now, as to your judging my statement against your perception of the party, I have to laugh. So many ppl have this perception that Libertarian == anarchism. In addition, they seem to ignore what the party puts out, and just push points made by dems/pubs which really are false. Too bad.
heheheh.
Yeah, it is amazing how much ppl miss that point. Down the road, I hope that it will replace oil, BUT, the trick is develop ultra-caps (screw the batteries; expensive and a mistake). Once ultra-caps become cheaper then batteries on a $/kw, then oil cars as well as batteries are gone.
I had been following that company since its inception. Prior to the blow out on habanero, they were pretty good about giving news updates (not quite as good as Elon Musk, but of that level). Since that time, the company turned into an L-Mart; ZIP. The problem is, that they have limited amounts of money and their wells are DEEP and they appear to not have the money that they had once.
BTW, there are a number of spots that are considered better (shallower and easier to drill), such as in Western Colorado, and Indonesia. BUT, that is the best spot in Australia. And with the remoteness, it was a great choice.
I will point out that each of those wells are expensive. IIRC, They are all the deepest that Australia has. The good news is that potter drilling/Foro Energy will make the price of these wells DROP. In addition, each of these techs should be FAST compared to traditional mechanical drilling. Here in America we have LOADS of drilling rigs and companies. THe smart thing is for politicians to encourage EGS drilling, since it has been shown that America has the most potential. Sadly, altarock was drilling in CA, when ppl in CA got spoked because of Germany's tiny quake. So, now, they have to re-start it in Oregon. Personally, I think that they should have tried it in Wyoming, or in Western CO, but anyplace will work. Right now, there are no less than 12 companies in North America who are doing geo-thermal and they are growing. All of it is regular shallow low-temp binary systems, so, these are typically 50-100 MW of power. BUT, that also means that these companies will be ready to go on EGS once potter is ready. They will also be selling equipment to other drilling companies,
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Yes, I am. Go ahead and send some money to my account in Nigeria and I will look into him for you.
I remember the first time that Sun opened SunOS. I supported it. But, when they closed it, it became obvious to me that it is trivial for commercial companies to pull this kind of BS. SO, a number of years pass and suddenly SUn re-opens Solaris. As I pointed out, that if and when Sun (or any owner) want to kill it again, then it would happen. How many of the sun marketers stormed in here declaring that it absolutely could never happen again. Had the Sun fan bois screaming that I was just FUDING. And yet, here we are AGAIN.
WHile I will likely do Solaris contracts, I will never again push their junk. It will only be a matter of time before they pull a MS/Sun style hit.
The ones in mid 60s through early 70's in the USA WERE on-time. Then along came environmentalists and other carping about them. Add the NUMBY's, and yes, the prices rose and time slipped. But the price rise was mostly DUE to the time slips. So, if we really streamline building these, and get these on time, then the prices will stay where they belong.
Nukes could have VERY LITTLE WASTE. The problem is that ppl like Kerry (and even W) have KILLED IFR which would use up nearly all of what is considered waste.
BTW, the generation of power, regardless if nukes, AE, coal, etc. will ALWAYS be inefficient since it has to handle various loads, UNLESS storage is used. The storage is needed to deal with the various demands and needs and then allow the power companies to buy for a set or seasonal demand, rather than hourly demands.
First and foremost, water is a great storage. In addition, so is HEAT. Take a salt or oil solution and heat it up. Then simply create steam from it. Do the storage at nights. In addition, the smart situation is to encourage SMALL storage. By doing that, small companies can cover say a 1 mile block. They buy the energy at night and then sell it back during the day. BUT, when you have a power-outage (winter storm, hurricane, earthquake, terrorists, etc), then you have a back-up for the local area.
Now, when I speak of subsidies for storage, I am thinking of the fact that an electrical car owner has a strong incentive to charge at night, and then during the daytime to sell it back at a higher price. And as to AC-DC-> DC-AC, well, that equipment would only get better and cheaper once such an incentive is going.
Finally, if the feds were REALLY sincere about getting us off oil/gas, then all they would have to do is change the electrical subsidies. Right now, we subsidize Oil, Coal, and Nukes heavily, with some light subsidies for AE. If we drop all that and simply change to subsidies for
, then we would see loads of new electrical generation, wind, geo-thermal, nukes, AND new forms of storage, in particular, parked cars being used to get energy back. The latter is not that great for batteries, but it is IDEAL for ultra-caps.
Doing a breeder and separating isotopes does NOT violate our treaties. What would violate it is if we undertook ACTIVE weapons development similar to what China is doing. But that is not what I am suggesting. I am suggesting that we restart our breeder and deal with the various isotopes. Nothing more. However, even the treaties do not forbid us from updating the weapons. What matters in the russian treaties is the count, yield, and delivery systems.
Yes, and almost all of that mess was made in the 50-70's. And rocky flats is still not cleaned up. But in the end, we need to restart a small project and do it RIGHT.
Restarting pit production is radically different, then restarting a breeder/separation work.
Your point being?
The simple fact is that we used to handle this FAIRLY safely. Yes, there were accidents and pollution. But, we know better now and how to deal with it.
At the least, we need a small reactor for NASA. In reality, we need a small reactor to make certain that we never lose the capability and can improve the process.
Yes, there were no books prior to gutenberg. All knowledge started in 1440's.
yes to all. At the least, we need more RD
Funny. I remember playing with it a few times, but I do not recall the book corner. Regardless, there is SOOO much prior art that I am amazed that MS is trying this. What it shows is that the MS RD of old that I recall is going strong; Steal what you can and claim it for your own.
Hypercard on Apple by Winkle. late 80's.
There is no communication between the powersupply and laptop. The smart move would be add at least a comm link between these 2 so that interesting new approaches can be taken.
While I am a fan of this mission, you really can not call it a landing since the asteroid has such little gravity. The fact is, that if you were next to the asteroid and simply had a small leak in your face place, and faced the asteroid, you would take off. It is probably more accurate to say that Hayabusa was parked next to the asteroid, which in itself is quite an accomplishment.
IFF they were using a form and gathering data, then yes, that part needs to come down (and the data really should be destroyed). HOWEVER, if the form was null, or data was discarded, then it is all fair use.
Then if you are infected, SUE THE COMPANY. Look, this is ridiculous. Companies have a total lack of security. When they have an issue, they apologize and pass the buck (Windows is responsible; MS then denies responsibility). Once companies get hit with LARGE lawsuits, then security will jump up in priority.
Clinton really screwed up by dumping 50 years worth of Helium on the market. It needs to be taken off and then encourage the natural gas guys to restart helium separation by allowing the prices to rise.
The really sad part about this, is that the helium reserves were about being a RESERVE. That way the west had guaranteed access to it (which IS hard to come by).
BTW, I thought that you might find the geothermal map and natural gas map interesting:
Gas Map and of course older heat map.
This would not benefit everywhere, HOWEVER, the geo-thermal map is an older one and we do not really know how good these things are. Basically, by pushing the approach that I suggest, we may actually find more heat pockets. At the very least, in parts of east texas, and then through the rocket mountain region and California, we will see loads of geo-thermal production.
The heat is generated by decay. Heat will flow through the crust at a set rate. We could not increase it any significant amount. What we do, is grab the heat that WOULD flow upwards and pump it through a heat pump. To find out if there would be any significant damage look at CA geysers.
In the end, we are tapping heat that will flow outward REGARDLESS. OTH, when we burn fossil fuel, we release energy and CO2 that was trapped and would never have been emitted. Basically, we do far less damage to the world, if we are 100% on geo-thermal then on Fossil Fuel
You know, 20 years ago, when I joined the Libertarian party, I was fanatical. In 20 years of sucking hind teat to the likes of W, I have become a lot more pragmatic. My response was why it is better over the grants. Now, as to your judging my statement against your perception of the party, I have to laugh. So many ppl have this perception that Libertarian == anarchism. In addition, they seem to ignore what the party puts out, and just push points made by dems/pubs which really are false. Too bad.
heheheh.
Yeah, it is amazing how much ppl miss that point. Down the road, I hope that it will replace oil, BUT, the trick is develop ultra-caps (screw the batteries; expensive and a mistake). Once ultra-caps become cheaper then batteries on a $/kw, then oil cars as well as batteries are gone.
I had been following that company since its inception. Prior to the blow out on habanero, they were pretty good about giving news updates (not quite as good as Elon Musk, but of that level). Since that time, the company turned into an L-Mart; ZIP. The problem is, that they have limited amounts of money and their wells are DEEP and they appear to not have the money that they had once. BTW, there are a number of spots that are considered better (shallower and easier to drill), such as in Western Colorado, and Indonesia. BUT, that is the best spot in Australia. And with the remoteness, it was a great choice.
I will point out that each of those wells are expensive. IIRC, They are all the deepest that Australia has. The good news is that potter drilling/Foro Energy will make the price of these wells DROP. In addition, each of these techs should be FAST compared to traditional mechanical drilling. Here in America we have LOADS of drilling rigs and companies. THe smart thing is for politicians to encourage EGS drilling, since it has been shown that America has the most potential. Sadly, altarock was drilling in CA, when ppl in CA got spoked because of Germany's tiny quake. So, now, they have to re-start it in Oregon. Personally, I think that they should have tried it in Wyoming, or in Western CO, but anyplace will work. Right now, there are no less than 12 companies in North America who are doing geo-thermal and they are growing. All of it is regular shallow low-temp binary systems, so, these are typically 50-100 MW of power. BUT, that also means that these companies will be ready to go on EGS once potter is ready. They will also be selling equipment to other drilling companies,