Well, my mother is MacGregor, so if you are Campbell, I would like to have a word with you.
It is looney, that anybody thinks that the murders of a ppl should profit from them. I wonder if the Aztec gods can strike dead those that came up with that idea.
Actually, it is being tested here in Colorado, and the UN is now looking at giving grants for that. This is a real cheap way to cut 10-20% of our emissions from existing coal plants esp. the smaller ones. In fact, in America, we have a large number of coal plants that are about to be closed due to size (too small). These typically had large yards to hold lots of coal and to keep homes and businesses away from the fall-out (lots in the old days). As such, these would be ideal to convert to a natural gas/solar thermal plant for on-demand power. In general, on-demand is daytime esp. noon. With this approach, you can pre-heat the fluid at zero costs via solar, and then when demand kicks in, run them.
Instead, do the thermal collectors on a Coal/gas/Nuke power plant. The reason is that it would be cheap to add to the large number of SMALL coal/gas plants running around the world and then lower the demand. The approach that you are talking about requires more collectors to hold the storage for nighttime. The approach that I suggest will also require no other extra infrastructure costs, other than adding the collectors.
what's the big deal about rendering SVG?
Absolutely none. They just do not want to since it does not align with their business need of a monopoly. Typically, if they embrace a competing item, it is because it is catching on, and they are losing ground.
Please show me where it says that the Feds will regularly steal something, not pay, and then claim immunity for it. Even now, if the feds take something, the courts will uphold that they must pay fair market value. Sovereign immunity is not used for theft of property.
Do you have proof that USA can do that? I mean they can in NATIONAL SECURITY issues, but they still pay "fair market value". At any other time, they pay what the market for a large company pays. So, where is your proof about America?
Well, they do have a program in Phoenix to call home if comm awakens again. Hopefully, it will. While all builders have a certain level that they go to, nearly all build to far far higher specs. There are a number of engineers/builders at l-mart who think that a number of the sub-systems will work again. The big issue will be, will comm and power work? If not, then all is lost. Personally, I will be surprised if the batteries stood up. I do know that some of those board prototypes were subjected to solid CO2 (dry ice) on the side just to see what would happen. Some survived, some did not. So, it will depend on who made the joints and how alert were they.
It's unlikely a complete collapse is possible but an airliner would do major damage and could do more damage than could easily be repaired. Interesting. That was exactly the same phrase uttered on WTC and sears.
The simple fact is, that it was smaller than the sears. They added an artificial roof to extend it above Sears to acquire the title. So much cheating that goes on over there.
OTH, there is NO DOUBT that this one is for real. What a monster. I hope that AQ never decides to take it out. Hopefully, we help them equip it with ABM. I wonder how long before the next building tops this.
This is exactly why the west should shut this down. It was one thing to help a nation to bring themselves out of the ground that they had put themselves into. It is another to allow a cold war attitude to pervade quietly, and destroy our nations in the mean time. China is constantly dumping, creating illegal monopolies. Heck, for PMFN and admission to WTO, they were to drop their trade barriers to reasonable levels (less than 5%), free their money, and obey WTO rules/laws. Instead, they have flaunted it constantly. Even now, they use the environment dumping more pollutants (pollutants, not simply co2 emissions) into the air than the entire west does. That is because they do not want to buy working solutions, but want us to give them to them.
China is cornering a NUMBER of important minerals. Sadly, the west is not taking notice. We still have idiots running around on this site claiming that this is not a big deal, even though this is PRECISELY the kind of actions that lead to wars (restriction of access to goods). Most nations can handle having goods go up in prices, and then they will find alternatives (bring it in-house, etc), but having a gov. actually buying up rare earth mines for the last 10 year and then shutting them down, or sending all the output back to that govs is a fast way to cause the rest of the world to call it quits with working with that nation.
That is also why 6 months ago, I was suggesting sending sats to asteroids to start mapping these and figuring out what resources are where. We need the ability to know where we can get resources when they are needed. Sadly, we are quickly headed there.
One last thought, Australia has several new rare earth mines that China tried VERY HARD to buy, but the Australian gov shut that down. But it turns out that several American companies have found rare earth ores in North America (America and Canada). Not sure what the contents or to what percentage, but at least that will allow the west to keep going without seeing wars come around until we can find it elsewhere.
Americans put up with constantly. In addition, there are MANY AMERICANS AVAILABLE PER SLOT. And as to working those few hours that you listed, gads, I wish that I had had it that easy. Grad students put in MUCH MUCH more time that what you listed for most of the science.
Actually, that is also not correct. While we are now limiting H1Bs and green cards, we regularly give those with advanced degrees preference over lesser. The simple fact is that nations like CHina send them here and expect that the person will return afterwards. I have to say that H1Bs are being abused by companies like IBM, MS, HP, etc and rather than lower the immigration of educated ppl, we instead need to change the rules.
Really? First, I am a Libertarian that worked in the University world, followed by long RD stints in various locations starting in the 80's. I was on the ground floor of a number of interesting items (worked at CDC in 80-81 and witnessed what really happened with HIV amongst other things). So, with that said, please, tell us how it really went. Please explain how reagan and W helped science.
Well, first, the collider NEVER should have gone to Texas. Ever wonder they have so few houses with basements, even though the soil done below would be cooler? Because it is a bitch to dig in. This SHOULD have gone into Illinois.
Now, with that said, I really wish that Clinton would have finished. It was going to be triple the price that Poppa bush's admin was push (again because of the texas soil), BUT, we were more than 1/2 way there. The science for it would have been worth the price.
National security? If you rely on someone else, you are left at their mercy. They can just turn off your economy. This is actually a problem which Europe is facing with respect to Russian gas.
Agreed. EU is in a WORLD of hurt because of some really bad choices (America has made equally bad ones). HOWEVER, when you are developing an egg and a chicken, the question is, why develop a fuel cycle, when in fact, you have LIMITED amounts of fuel? IOW, if they are depending on Uranium for energy, they have less than 20 years worth. IOW, they will have ultimately depend on other nations for their uranium. OTH, the amount of enriched uranium for bomb making would make several hundreds. And oddly, they are not trying to secure more uranium to power their fuel plant.
Declining revenues happen immediately, how would you fancy a 30 year recession? How long would it take to build a Nuclear based infrastructure? It'll take decades. All the more reason to develop the POWER PLANTS first before building fuel cycle that you do not have the supply to last for long.
Without energy, how would they run these other industries? Everything is based on energy, our primary energy source just now is oil.
Iran may well be after the bomb, but I haven't seen any evidence that they're doing anything more than planning a move away from oil. i.e. more foresight than most western governments.
Actually, other than transportation, the majority of energy is from Coal, not oil. Oil is imported heavily for its other uses, namely, plastics, Organics, fertilizers, chemical stock. How many burn Oil for electricity? Relatively little.
No, there used to be a lot of doubt in my mind, but it is slowly being erased as Iran's logic and actions are more and more against doing domestic energy and instead, using it for other neferious uses. The problem that we have is that nations like China do not care, and EU as well as Japan are still big buyers of their oil. All of us need to quit using Iran for their oil. And yes, it is easier said than done. But combined with issues about AGW, it is not just possible, it needs to happen sooner, not later.
Lets assume that was the case. Then why worry about creating the fuel, even though it is easy to get, prior to building your first reactor? Seriously, their behavior is not one that is worried about energy, but about other issues. Even if their oil has peaked, it will be many decades before a real impact is made. Instead, they should be worried about building up other industries, than about building enriched uranium and plutonium.
First, the rudeness was started by you within your posts (and even the cowardliness of it). Your lazy tag is attributed Americans all the time, yet is patently. And my post was about both intellect and labor since the 2 are intertwined. I simply choose the easiest to show an example of. BTW, I am an individual that grew up around and working on Farms, building homes and have multiple science degrees and have worked in multiple disciplines. I work regularly with foreign born and still see similar work ethics amongst all. And as several of my friends have pointed out, those that are here in America are the BEST OF THE BEST that India, China, and other nations have to offer.
As to the last paragraph, you have the first item CORRECT. That is, LAZY profs are choosing to ONLY WORK with their national kin are choosing to overlook many other, and many better, individuals JUST BECAUSE IT IS EASIER ON THEM. In addition, no doubt a number of the them are choosing ppl to take back tech to their nation.
As to the last item, the answer is no. There are PLENTY of good ppl. When I worked in RD, including in our universities, I saw loads of good ppl passed on. And a number of the ppl that were brought in, were behind in their knowledge, and others were very lazy (just here for the piece of paper). Now that does not mean all. Because I admire so much of Asian work ethics (similar to Americans), I spent time with and ended up marrying an Indian. BUT, that does not mean that Americans are lazy, either intellectually, or even in labor.
I do have to say that I DO despise those that apply simple tags to groups of ppl without even having a clue of what they are talking about. Right now, I carp about China (due to their nationalistic behaviors and their illegal actions concerning money exchange, trade barriers, dumping, lack of env. ethics, etc), but not about the Chinese (a hard working group of ppl). There is a HUGE difference. One is a gov. the other is a group of ppl. OTH, your nationalistic racism shows a great deal about you.
No, it is not. Look at China. They operate PURELY as a nation looking out for their own interest. Copenhagen should have told you that. Likewise, we see similar actions in South America. India worked with China, but even they point their finger at China for not working to do what most nations perceive as being in global interest. Brazil and nations like Veneuela point their finger at America and say that we did not do enough. Yet, we offered up large conncessions and said that we would go further if CHina would go with us. China refused. Problem is, that unless CHina changes course, then even if the entire west drops to ZERO OUTPUT TODAY (zero chance), China will drive the total emissions over the 2050 line by 2030.
What this shows is that we have a coming superpower that only recognizes national lines, not global.
I am always amazed when idiots speak about lazy Americans.
We are told that we do not want to do back-breaking work liking picking crops, yet, we do. What I see happening is that we have quite automating in this arena and instead hire illegals at much lower wages (wages that are illegal to pay). OTH, if we stop hiring illegals, then we will see either jobs return, or we will automate more (to compete, we have to automate more).
Likewise, In the universities, we decided back in the 80's that we wanted more international flavors. THat is to cooperate more with other nations, so started bringing in outside scientists. One the things that I noticed is that the vast majority of those scientists tend to bring in students from THEIR NATIONS. That is an Indian prof has the vast majority of his/her staff as being from India. Likewise, Chinese Profs will have majority from China. The American prof, OTH, tends to have a wide mix. What this shows is that foreign-born profs still have nationalism is taking place within our labs, rather than a pure selection of who is the best, while the local prof tends to push for best selection.
This needs to change esp. at our state universities.
The item about Russia and Apophis is a none item. First, Russia has been screaming about doing more space for the last decade and yet, the majority of their funding has been from America, not their own government. Second, this has a LOT more to do with Russia's new focus on doing space weapons. It is certain that they will announce a solution to Apophis. It will be:
A sat system that tracks 10's of 1000's of missiles^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h meteors.
A new missile system that can send 1000+ nuke warheads accurately to at least 1/2 of the circumference of the earth.
A new anti-meteor system using lasers and ABMs that can discern the difference between meteors that contain nuclear warheads and those that are dummies.
Had Russia been even the LEAST bit sincere about that, it would include some levels of partners, be it China, EU, or even America.
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Considering that the swastika was from India, and then from Iran before that, I doubt that Germany can lay claim.
Well, my mother is MacGregor, so if you are Campbell, I would like to have a word with you.
It is looney, that anybody thinks that the murders of a ppl should profit from them. I wonder if the Aztec gods can strike dead those that came up with that idea.
Those were developed by the gods. And they are still around.
Actually, it is being tested here in Colorado, and the UN is now looking at giving grants for that. This is a real cheap way to cut 10-20% of our emissions from existing coal plants esp. the smaller ones. In fact, in America, we have a large number of coal plants that are about to be closed due to size (too small). These typically had large yards to hold lots of coal and to keep homes and businesses away from the fall-out (lots in the old days). As such, these would be ideal to convert to a natural gas/solar thermal plant for on-demand power. In general, on-demand is daytime esp. noon. With this approach, you can pre-heat the fluid at zero costs via solar, and then when demand kicks in, run them.
Instead, do the thermal collectors on a Coal/gas/Nuke power plant. The reason is that it would be cheap to add to the large number of SMALL coal/gas plants running around the world and then lower the demand. The approach that you are talking about requires more collectors to hold the storage for nighttime. The approach that I suggest will also require no other extra infrastructure costs, other than adding the collectors.
what's the big deal about rendering SVG?
Absolutely none. They just do not want to since it does not align with their business need of a monopoly. Typically, if they embrace a competing item, it is because it is catching on, and they are losing ground.
Please show me where it says that the Feds will regularly steal something, not pay, and then claim immunity for it. Even now, if the feds take something, the courts will uphold that they must pay fair market value. Sovereign immunity is not used for theft of property.
Do you have proof that USA can do that? I mean they can in NATIONAL SECURITY issues, but they still pay "fair market value". At any other time, they pay what the market for a large company pays. So, where is your proof about America?
Well, they do have a program in Phoenix to call home if comm awakens again. Hopefully, it will. While all builders have a certain level that they go to, nearly all build to far far higher specs. There are a number of engineers/builders at l-mart who think that a number of the sub-systems will work again. The big issue will be, will comm and power work? If not, then all is lost. Personally, I will be surprised if the batteries stood up. I do know that some of those board prototypes were subjected to solid CO2 (dry ice) on the side just to see what would happen. Some survived, some did not. So, it will depend on who made the joints and how alert were they.
Actually, many at l-mart are hoping that Phoenix survived in various levels. We will not know for a bit, but......
If it works for Phoenix, then it MIGHT just work for Spirit.
It's unlikely a complete collapse is possible but an airliner would do major damage and could do more damage than could easily be repaired.
Interesting. That was exactly the same phrase uttered on WTC and sears.
The simple fact is, that it was smaller than the sears. They added an artificial roof to extend it above Sears to acquire the title. So much cheating that goes on over there. OTH, there is NO DOUBT that this one is for real. What a monster. I hope that AQ never decides to take it out. Hopefully, we help them equip it with ABM. I wonder how long before the next building tops this.
This is exactly why the west should shut this down. It was one thing to help a nation to bring themselves out of the ground that they had put themselves into. It is another to allow a cold war attitude to pervade quietly, and destroy our nations in the mean time. China is constantly dumping, creating illegal monopolies. Heck, for PMFN and admission to WTO, they were to drop their trade barriers to reasonable levels (less than 5%), free their money, and obey WTO rules/laws. Instead, they have flaunted it constantly. Even now, they use the environment dumping more pollutants (pollutants, not simply co2 emissions) into the air than the entire west does. That is because they do not want to buy working solutions, but want us to give them to them.
China is cornering a NUMBER of important minerals. Sadly, the west is not taking notice. We still have idiots running around on this site claiming that this is not a big deal, even though this is PRECISELY the kind of actions that lead to wars (restriction of access to goods). Most nations can handle having goods go up in prices, and then they will find alternatives (bring it in-house, etc), but having a gov. actually buying up rare earth mines for the last 10 year and then shutting them down, or sending all the output back to that govs is a fast way to cause the rest of the world to call it quits with working with that nation.
That is also why 6 months ago, I was suggesting sending sats to asteroids to start mapping these and figuring out what resources are where. We need the ability to know where we can get resources when they are needed. Sadly, we are quickly headed there.
One last thought, Australia has several new rare earth mines that China tried VERY HARD to buy, but the Australian gov shut that down. But it turns out that several American companies have found rare earth ores in North America (America and Canada). Not sure what the contents or to what percentage, but at least that will allow the west to keep going without seeing wars come around until we can find it elsewhere.
Americans put up with constantly. In addition, there are MANY AMERICANS AVAILABLE PER SLOT. And as to working those few hours that you listed, gads, I wish that I had had it that easy. Grad students put in MUCH MUCH more time that what you listed for most of the science.
Actually, that is also not correct. While we are now limiting H1Bs and green cards, we regularly give those with advanced degrees preference over lesser. The simple fact is that nations like CHina send them here and expect that the person will return afterwards. I have to say that H1Bs are being abused by companies like IBM, MS, HP, etc and rather than lower the immigration of educated ppl, we instead need to change the rules.
Really? First, I am a Libertarian that worked in the University world, followed by long RD stints in various locations starting in the 80's. I was on the ground floor of a number of interesting items (worked at CDC in 80-81 and witnessed what really happened with HIV amongst other things). So, with that said, please, tell us how it really went. Please explain how reagan and W helped science.
Well, first, the collider NEVER should have gone to Texas. Ever wonder they have so few houses with basements, even though the soil done below would be cooler? Because it is a bitch to dig in. This SHOULD have gone into Illinois.
Now, with that said, I really wish that Clinton would have finished. It was going to be triple the price that Poppa bush's admin was push (again because of the texas soil), BUT, we were more than 1/2 way there. The science for it would have been worth the price.
National security? If you rely on someone else, you are left at their mercy. They can just turn off your economy. This is actually a problem which Europe is facing with respect to Russian gas.
Agreed. EU is in a WORLD of hurt because of some really bad choices (America has made equally bad ones).
HOWEVER, when you are developing an egg and a chicken, the question is, why develop a fuel cycle, when in fact, you have LIMITED amounts of fuel? IOW, if they are depending on Uranium for energy, they have less than 20 years worth. IOW, they will have ultimately depend on other nations for their uranium. OTH, the amount of enriched uranium for bomb making would make several hundreds. And oddly, they are not trying to secure more uranium to power their fuel plant.
Declining revenues happen immediately, how would you fancy a 30 year recession? How long would it take to build a Nuclear based infrastructure? It'll take decades.
All the more reason to develop the POWER PLANTS first before building fuel cycle that you do not have the supply to last for long.
Without energy, how would they run these other industries? Everything is based on energy, our primary energy source just now is oil.
Iran may well be after the bomb, but I haven't seen any evidence that they're doing anything more than planning a move away from oil. i.e. more foresight than most western governments.
Actually, other than transportation, the majority of energy is from Coal, not oil. Oil is imported heavily for its other uses, namely, plastics, Organics, fertilizers, chemical stock. How many burn Oil for electricity? Relatively little.
No, there used to be a lot of doubt in my mind, but it is slowly being erased as Iran's logic and actions are more and more against doing domestic energy and instead, using it for other neferious uses. The problem that we have is that nations like China do not care, and EU as well as Japan are still big buyers of their oil. All of us need to quit using Iran for their oil. And yes, it is easier said than done. But combined with issues about AGW, it is not just possible, it needs to happen sooner, not later.
Yes, but when talking facts, then many ppl get upset. History is not what was, but what ppl of the time want it to be.
Lets assume that was the case. Then why worry about creating the fuel, even though it is easy to get, prior to building your first reactor? Seriously, their behavior is not one that is worried about energy, but about other issues. Even if their oil has peaked, it will be many decades before a real impact is made. Instead, they should be worried about building up other industries, than about building enriched uranium and plutonium.
First, the rudeness was started by you within your posts (and even the cowardliness of it). Your lazy tag is attributed Americans all the time, yet is patently. And my post was about both intellect and labor since the 2 are intertwined. I simply choose the easiest to show an example of. BTW, I am an individual that grew up around and working on Farms, building homes and have multiple science degrees and have worked in multiple disciplines. I work regularly with foreign born and still see similar work ethics amongst all. And as several of my friends have pointed out, those that are here in America are the BEST OF THE BEST that India, China, and other nations have to offer.
As to the last paragraph, you have the first item CORRECT. That is, LAZY profs are choosing to ONLY WORK with their national kin are choosing to overlook many other, and many better, individuals JUST BECAUSE IT IS EASIER ON THEM. In addition, no doubt a number of the them are choosing ppl to take back tech to their nation.
As to the last item, the answer is no. There are PLENTY of good ppl. When I worked in RD, including in our universities, I saw loads of good ppl passed on. And a number of the ppl that were brought in, were behind in their knowledge, and others were very lazy (just here for the piece of paper). Now that does not mean all. Because I admire so much of Asian work ethics (similar to Americans), I spent time with and ended up marrying an Indian. BUT, that does not mean that Americans are lazy, either intellectually, or even in labor.
I do have to say that I DO despise those that apply simple tags to groups of ppl without even having a clue of what they are talking about. Right now, I carp about China (due to their nationalistic behaviors and their illegal actions concerning money exchange, trade barriers, dumping, lack of env. ethics, etc), but not about the Chinese (a hard working group of ppl). There is a HUGE difference. One is a gov. the other is a group of ppl. OTH, your nationalistic racism shows a great deal about you.
No, it is not. Look at China. They operate PURELY as a nation looking out for their own interest. Copenhagen should have told you that. Likewise, we see similar actions in South America. India worked with China, but even they point their finger at China for not working to do what most nations perceive as being in global interest. Brazil and nations like Veneuela point their finger at America and say that we did not do enough. Yet, we offered up large conncessions and said that we would go further if CHina would go with us. China refused. Problem is, that unless CHina changes course, then even if the entire west drops to ZERO OUTPUT TODAY (zero chance), China will drive the total emissions over the 2050 line by 2030.
What this shows is that we have a coming superpower that only recognizes national lines, not global.
I am always amazed when idiots speak about lazy Americans.
We are told that we do not want to do back-breaking work liking picking crops, yet, we do. What I see happening is that we have quite automating in this arena and instead hire illegals at much lower wages (wages that are illegal to pay). OTH, if we stop hiring illegals, then we will see either jobs return, or we will automate more (to compete, we have to automate more).
Likewise, In the universities, we decided back in the 80's that we wanted more international flavors. THat is to cooperate more with other nations, so started bringing in outside scientists. One the things that I noticed is that the vast majority of those scientists tend to bring in students from THEIR NATIONS. That is an Indian prof has the vast majority of his/her staff as being from India. Likewise, Chinese Profs will have majority from China. The American prof, OTH, tends to have a wide mix. What this shows is that foreign-born profs still have nationalism is taking place within our labs, rather than a pure selection of who is the best, while the local prof tends to push for best selection.
This needs to change esp. at our state universities.
Had Russia been even the LEAST bit sincere about that, it would include some levels of partners, be it China, EU, or even America.