the last thing that you want to do is break up something about 6" around into 1" pieces. Can not track it. OTH, a laser CAN be used to slow down pieces with relatively little energy, which will take it out of orbit MUCH faster. Though to be honest, I would think that at this time, the companies and govs should instead pay to have their sats deorbited and THEN worry about the little stuff. That way, it avoids this issues.
Humans have advanced on this planet more than any other species ever has. We cover ALL OF IT. And in a relatively short period of time. Heck, we may even manage to wipe ourselves out BECAUSE of how fast we have moved. If you look at relatively recent history, we actually are moving quickly. We first got to the moon 40 years ago. And we are about to go back there. This is one of the HARDEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE TRIPS TO DO IN HISTORY. Even the searches by Europe, China, or Vikings did not cost close to this relative to GDP. What is interesting is that this may hold out the most riches of all. IOW, just as Europes moves towards the ïndies allowed settlement, we are now looking at worlds. THe question is, who will they be allied with? The World or nations? IDEALLY, it will be the world. History says otherwise.
Russia and Iridium sue each other. Or perhaps one of the other sat owners sue them both (slim chance of that one). Either would cause other sat owners to re-think about just scrapping their sats. That would also lead to a new industry that would almost certainly be picked up by private enterprise (a sat de-orbit tug).
Totally sux if we lose the hubble mission. I wonder if it is possible to develop a tug to bring it down and up, or one that could remotely do the job (that I really doubt).
What I really want to see is a glider, or a ballon/lander combo survive that long. Something of that nature would be really useful if it could pop all over.
As I read my above post, I really wish that I had previewed it first. Horrible grammar. My grandmother would be upset. It would be useful to have an edit on our posts assuming not used yet.
Still the point remains. The idea of a trailer to carry a motor/generator OR other electrical generation (including a supercap) for OCCASIONAL long distance makes more sense than carrying around a motor/gen in the hybrids.
This is NOT for your everyday driving. This is for the 1-4 a year that you drive more than 50 miles. If you do this regularly, then using this car is the wrong one. BUT, the MAJORITY of ppl do not drive that far. More important, think of MOM's. They drive their kids to schools, soccar matches, grocery, etc. That does not require hauling around a motor/generator along with all the associated weight, expenses, etc. More importantly, this approach would give battery/SuperCap tech AND service stations to come about.
Finally, I was not suggesting hauling batteries. I was suggesting hauling a gas generator combo. As to the trailer, yes, they are a pain to back up. As such, the drivers might not want to back up, or be careful in doing it. Finally, a van with a 100 mile range of batteries has MORE than enough weight and power to pull said trailer. I would expect the trailer to be less than 400 lbs, so not a big deal.
BTW, I spent 12 year hauling around boats on trailers. Most locally (under 20 miles), sometimes to a couple of hundred miles. We had a blazer (the real ones) and several different jeep wagoners. The boats were 20' 90 HP IO (heavy), while the race boat was a melges c-scow (half ton; kind of heavy). In addition, we used the scow trailer to haul rocks, lumber, etc. At other times, we used a small flat trailer that hauled 2 motorcycles.
Basically, it comes to, the issue about trailers is overblown.
First, who cares? There are 2 super capcitors that are heading towards production that have about 3/4 of the energy density of li-ion. BUT there are several important things about this.
These are capable of accepting a charge as fast as it comes. That means that a set up that does 40 miles will probably charge in under 4 minutes, and close to 2 (obviously not 110 or even 220).
These will outlast the cars.
What is needed is for increased research into these to make them have higher energy density and lower costs. EESTOR is supposed to be there, but more and more it looks like a MS ploy; just around the bend.
It will not stimulate any American jobs.
That will depend on what is done. The issue with China (and India as well as other countries) is that the countries have their money tied to ours and is designed to drain us. China was suppose to free up their money in 2002 as well as drop trade barriers, but reneged on it. W did nothing. Geithner is now pushing that he wants that enforced. So is EU. Likewise, China was suppose to drop trade barriers, but I give that one little chance of happening for the next 5 years.
In addition, we need to use E-Verify on all jobs under the stimulus package. That means that all Contractors AND sub-contractors MUST use e-verify. If we do not, we will simply have loads of illegals move here and send the money elsewhere.
Both of these issues will leave the stimulus package gutless unless dealt with.
Just, lets make cars have more weight than either approach alone, and have all the issues of both as well.
I have never understood why ppl push such crap. The serial hybrid makes sense for SOME vehicles. For example, an offroad like a hummer, or a long distance semi truck. That REALLY makes sense for both. BUT for the average driver, they rarely drive more than 100 miles/day. So instead, cars should electrical with at least 100 mile range, AND the ability to have a trailer with power. In particular, a van is the ideal EV to start with. Not commercial, but home use. For moms. Most home vans carry ppl and little else for 10-30 miles. But if you could rent a small trailer and then drive across country, it would be ideal for the occasional event.
Good point. So instead of insisting that we get our goods from clean sources,we should instead try to make the west look like parts of China, India, USSR, Chile, etc. In fact, we could recreate lake Erie and Love canal. The really good news is that it would help move along evolution.
Batteries are slow to recharge, and tricks are done to make it happen. In addition, they ALL have limited recharge. OTH, a capacitor has nearly unlimited lifetime, can charge (and discharge) in large amounts.
as vat on all pollution will. In particular, the cap/trade will only work on single point emissions, rather than distributed emissions. So, what is needed is for countries to do a time incremental VAT that is tied to pollution including CO2. IOW, every region is assigned a value based on their energy pollution as well as what is given from all their inputs (such as mining, transportation, etc). Then the tax is raised over time. If the country does not give information OR if it is found to be lying on various items, then all goods from that country are raised to maximum tax.
This approach will not only solve the global warming and pollution, but would also help level the ground (though not enough).
Ruppe is "freely" traded, BUT the Indian gov plays the market and fixes it against the dollar. This past summer, they started to allow it to drift upwards to lower their costs of imported goods, but a number of hi-tech firms threatened to stop hiring Indian coders. That quickly changed Indian policy. So, no, it is fixed.
To be honest, I can understand why they do it, but we should not allow it. Countries like Brazil and Mexico allows their money to float freely, which mean that once they drop their trade barriers, things will get better (mexico still has trade barriers with EU).
Hmmm. I think that what you really want to say is that 2 (or 4) are fine with you. The simple fact is, that many companies do not agree with these 4 BECAUSE they do not handle every situation. Saying that a very limited number should work for everybody would be like saying that 1 OS or even 640K will work for everyone.
France is in Afghanistan not soley because of NATO commitments. AQ is a full threat to the west. They continue to attack there and are certainly trying to attack America even now. Sadly, had we had real leadership in 2000, AQ would be but a memory. As it is, the west is likely going to lose Afghanistan to AQ, just like Pakistan is slowly being taken over by Talibahn/AQ. And this was because of a total idiot.
Do not get me wrong. I have nothing against France. BUT, the rest of NATO was burned badly by France during the Cold war. As such, we tend to be CAUTIOUS about who gets info from us. The same is true of UK. They do not give but a fraction of the info to France that they give to USA. That includes their nukes. America has a good idea of which ships are operating where and missions. France is given a little bit of info, but not that much. Hopefully with Sarkozy in office and new policies slowly going into place, things will change.
I find it interesting that my original post was modded a troll. It was anything but. The simple fact is, that UK does not fully trust France and does not give them enough info to know where the sub was.
During the Cold War, France was giving up all sorts of NATO and esp American secrets to USSR. It is why they were dropped from the Military side of NATO (no, France did not quit it; they were forced out) in the 60s. I doubt that they would do it today, but you still have wildly differing attitudes about security. Certain EU countries really do not care if info about UK or USA make it over to China, Al Qaeda, North Korea, etc. , thought they get upset when we do the same thing to do them (for a tit for tat). Even now, about the only fully cooperating countries out there are US and UK, and then we both cooperate MOSTLY with Australia, Canada, and Israel. Then NATO comes after that.
The reason it is so high in places like China and India is because they have their money FIXED against ours and designed to pull the jobs away from the west. That causes high import prices. NOW, by lowering the price ARTIFICIALLY, and most likely moving the manufacturing lines to these countries, they kill their own future as well as those of us who did the RD in the first place. The fact that companies would do this is abhorrent. Now, we need to be allowed to re-import these drugs BACK to the west at the MUCH LOWER costs and kill these companies profits.
The reason why you are bombarded with spam is because IDIOTS BUY IT. If they did not buy from spam, then spam would stop within a month. And the reasons why virus are sent on Windows is because it is an easy system to crack. Once it is no longer dead last on the security trail, then the spam writers will target the easier system. Put the blame where it belongs; BOTH the fools that buy the spammed products and use bad OSs as well as those that send the spam and the virus.
that illegals here in the America (and in EU) depress the pay, and then with CHina/India/etc fixing their money to ours, the.41/hr sounds low, but by their standards are quite high. In particular, they have their dorm, medical, food, etc all paid for.
We DESPERATELY need to automate like America use to. But to pull that off, we must change several things.
Cheap energy. Need to dump the expensive Coal (and it is expensive EVERYWHERE). Simple solution is to put a time incremental tax on pollutions including carbon emission on ALL Products.
Put up a time incremental tariff on all countries that have their money fixed against ours. That is, we do not want a full tariff going in place, but you want it raised slowly to give the countries to change their money handling, or to adjust.
re-invest into automation. America ONCE was a massive investor into sciences and engineering. reagan and W did massive cuts to that. The west MUST re-invest into this.
The vast majority of Natrual Gas for EU goes to home heating. They are now moving towards geo-thermal HVAC. I think that it will speed up this year.
Let me ask something? WHy do you trash them? THey are already close to doing this. They have the FULL backing of NASA and DOD. What do you KNOW that real experts say that you are wrong about? Please, where is your resume on being a rocket scientists. In addition, please let me know WHAT SpaceX is doing that will prevent them from being up there soon with Dragon.
Yes. I did it back in the 80's. BUT, where are the license? Nearly all were simply saying what you could NOT do with it. He is looking for a well thought out license.
First, there is a lot of engineering. We have learned that many of Russias items really are not suitable for this while others are. In addition, we are developing our own set of devices that HOPEFULLY will stand up better. Right now, the water recycling leaves a bit to be desired (though it is one of the more critical pieces considering the costs of transportation).
Sadly, though you are correct. Probably the MOST important device that we could have put on this was the life centrifuge. That would have enabled us to study long term issues of various G on small mammals. Hopefully, Obama comes to understand how important that one little issue is. It is possible that a simple.1 G is all that is needed for us to go to Mars on. But W and congress killed it 4 years ago. Idiots.
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the last thing that you want to do is break up something about 6" around into 1" pieces. Can not track it. OTH, a laser CAN be used to slow down pieces with relatively little energy, which will take it out of orbit MUCH faster. Though to be honest, I would think that at this time, the companies and govs should instead pay to have their sats deorbited and THEN worry about the little stuff. That way, it avoids this issues.
Humans have advanced on this planet more than any other species ever has. We cover ALL OF IT. And in a relatively short period of time. Heck, we may even manage to wipe ourselves out BECAUSE of how fast we have moved. If you look at relatively recent history, we actually are moving quickly. We first got to the moon 40 years ago. And we are about to go back there. This is one of the HARDEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE TRIPS TO DO IN HISTORY. Even the searches by Europe, China, or Vikings did not cost close to this relative to GDP. What is interesting is that this may hold out the most riches of all. IOW, just as Europes moves towards the ïndies allowed settlement, we are now looking at worlds. THe question is, who will they be allied with? The World or nations? IDEALLY, it will be the world. History says otherwise.
Russia and Iridium sue each other. Or perhaps one of the other sat owners sue them both (slim chance of that one). Either would cause other sat owners to re-think about just scrapping their sats. That would also lead to a new industry that would almost certainly be picked up by private enterprise (a sat de-orbit tug).
Totally sux if we lose the hubble mission. I wonder if it is possible to develop a tug to bring it down and up, or one that could remotely do the job (that I really doubt).
What I really want to see is a glider, or a ballon/lander combo survive that long. Something of that nature would be really useful if it could pop all over.
As I read my above post, I really wish that I had previewed it first. Horrible grammar. My grandmother would be upset. It would be useful to have an edit on our posts assuming not used yet.
Still the point remains. The idea of a trailer to carry a motor/generator OR other electrical generation (including a supercap) for OCCASIONAL long distance makes more sense than carrying around a motor/gen in the hybrids.
This is NOT for your everyday driving. This is for the 1-4 a year that you drive more than 50 miles. If you do this regularly, then using this car is the wrong one. BUT, the MAJORITY of ppl do not drive that far. More important, think of MOM's. They drive their kids to schools, soccar matches, grocery, etc. That does not require hauling around a motor/generator along with all the associated weight, expenses, etc. More importantly, this approach would give battery/SuperCap tech AND service stations to come about.
Finally, I was not suggesting hauling batteries. I was suggesting hauling a gas generator combo. As to the trailer, yes, they are a pain to back up. As such, the drivers might not want to back up, or be careful in doing it. Finally, a van with a 100 mile range of batteries has MORE than enough weight and power to pull said trailer. I would expect the trailer to be less than 400 lbs, so not a big deal.
BTW, I spent 12 year hauling around boats on trailers. Most locally (under 20 miles), sometimes to a couple of hundred miles. We had a blazer (the real ones) and several different jeep wagoners. The boats were 20' 90 HP IO (heavy), while the race boat was a melges c-scow (half ton; kind of heavy). In addition, we used the scow trailer to haul rocks, lumber, etc. At other times, we used a small flat trailer that hauled 2 motorcycles.
Basically, it comes to, the issue about trailers is overblown.
What is needed is for increased research into these to make them have higher energy density and lower costs. EESTOR is supposed to be there, but more and more it looks like a MS ploy; just around the bend.
It will not stimulate any American jobs.
That will depend on what is done. The issue with China (and India as well as other countries) is that the countries have their money tied to ours and is designed to drain us. China was suppose to free up their money in 2002 as well as drop trade barriers, but reneged on it. W did nothing. Geithner is now pushing that he wants that enforced. So is EU. Likewise, China was suppose to drop trade barriers, but I give that one little chance of happening for the next 5 years.
In addition, we need to use E-Verify on all jobs under the stimulus package. That means that all Contractors AND sub-contractors MUST use e-verify. If we do not, we will simply have loads of illegals move here and send the money elsewhere.
Both of these issues will leave the stimulus package gutless unless dealt with.
Just, lets make cars have more weight than either approach alone, and have all the issues of both as well.
I have never understood why ppl push such crap. The serial hybrid makes sense for SOME vehicles. For example, an offroad like a hummer, or a long distance semi truck. That REALLY makes sense for both. BUT for the average driver, they rarely drive more than 100 miles/day. So instead, cars should electrical with at least 100 mile range, AND the ability to have a trailer with power. In particular, a van is the ideal EV to start with. Not commercial, but home use. For moms. Most home vans carry ppl and little else for 10-30 miles. But if you could rent a small trailer and then drive across country, it would be ideal for the occasional event.
Good point. So instead of insisting that we get our goods from clean sources,we should instead try to make the west look like parts of China, India, USSR, Chile, etc. In fact, we could recreate lake Erie and Love canal. The really good news is that it would help move along evolution.
Batteries are slow to recharge, and tricks are done to make it happen. In addition, they ALL have limited recharge. OTH, a capacitor has nearly unlimited lifetime, can charge (and discharge) in large amounts.
as vat on all pollution will. In particular, the cap/trade will only work on single point emissions, rather than distributed emissions. So, what is needed is for countries to do a time incremental VAT that is tied to pollution including CO2. IOW, every region is assigned a value based on their energy pollution as well as what is given from all their inputs (such as mining, transportation, etc). Then the tax is raised over time. If the country does not give information OR if it is found to be lying on various items, then all goods from that country are raised to maximum tax.
This approach will not only solve the global warming and pollution, but would also help level the ground (though not enough).
one crazy idea would be to set up a compile farm for Linux, BSD, etc. Only make them do ads on them.
Ruppe is "freely" traded, BUT the Indian gov plays the market and fixes it against the dollar. This past summer, they started to allow it to drift upwards to lower their costs of imported goods, but a number of hi-tech firms threatened to stop hiring Indian coders. That quickly changed Indian policy. So, no, it is fixed.
To be honest, I can understand why they do it, but we should not allow it. Countries like Brazil and Mexico allows their money to float freely, which mean that once they drop their trade barriers, things will get better (mexico still has trade barriers with EU).
Hmmm. I think that what you really want to say is that 2 (or 4) are fine with you. The simple fact is, that many companies do not agree with these 4 BECAUSE they do not handle every situation. Saying that a very limited number should work for everybody would be like saying that 1 OS or even 640K will work for everyone.
France is in Afghanistan not soley because of NATO commitments. AQ is a full threat to the west. They continue to attack there and are certainly trying to attack America even now. Sadly, had we had real leadership in 2000, AQ would be but a memory. As it is, the west is likely going to lose Afghanistan to AQ, just like Pakistan is slowly being taken over by Talibahn/AQ. And this was because of a total idiot.
Do not get me wrong. I have nothing against France. BUT, the rest of NATO was burned badly by France during the Cold war. As such, we tend to be CAUTIOUS about who gets info from us. The same is true of UK. They do not give but a fraction of the info to France that they give to USA. That includes their nukes. America has a good idea of which ships are operating where and missions. France is given a little bit of info, but not that much. Hopefully with Sarkozy in office and new policies slowly going into place, things will change.
I find it interesting that my original post was modded a troll. It was anything but. The simple fact is, that UK does not fully trust France and does not give them enough info to know where the sub was.
During the Cold War, France was giving up all sorts of NATO and esp American secrets to USSR. It is why they were dropped from the Military side of NATO (no, France did not quit it; they were forced out) in the 60s. I doubt that they would do it today, but you still have wildly differing attitudes about security. Certain EU countries really do not care if info about UK or USA make it over to China, Al Qaeda, North Korea, etc. , thought they get upset when we do the same thing to do them (for a tit for tat). Even now, about the only fully cooperating countries out there are US and UK, and then we both cooperate MOSTLY with Australia, Canada, and Israel. Then NATO comes after that.
The reason it is so high in places like China and India is because they have their money FIXED against ours and designed to pull the jobs away from the west. That causes high import prices. NOW, by lowering the price ARTIFICIALLY, and most likely moving the manufacturing lines to these countries, they kill their own future as well as those of us who did the RD in the first place. The fact that companies would do this is abhorrent. Now, we need to be allowed to re-import these drugs BACK to the west at the MUCH LOWER costs and kill these companies profits.
The reason why you are bombarded with spam is because IDIOTS BUY IT. If they did not buy from spam, then spam would stop within a month. And the reasons why virus are sent on Windows is because it is an easy system to crack. Once it is no longer dead last on the security trail, then the spam writers will target the easier system. Put the blame where it belongs; BOTH the fools that buy the spammed products and use bad OSs as well as those that send the spam and the virus.
We DESPERATELY need to automate like America use to. But to pull that off, we must change several things.
The vast majority of Natrual Gas for EU goes to home heating. They are now moving towards geo-thermal HVAC. I think that it will speed up this year.
Let me ask something? WHy do you trash them? THey are already close to doing this. They have the FULL backing of NASA and DOD. What do you KNOW that real experts say that you are wrong about? Please, where is your resume on being a rocket scientists. In addition, please let me know WHAT SpaceX is doing that will prevent them from being up there soon with Dragon.
Yes. I did it back in the 80's. BUT, where are the license? Nearly all were simply saying what you could NOT do with it. He is looking for a well thought out license.
First, there is a lot of engineering. We have learned that many of Russias items really are not suitable for this while others are. In addition, we are developing our own set of devices that HOPEFULLY will stand up better. Right now, the water recycling leaves a bit to be desired (though it is one of the more critical pieces considering the costs of transportation).
.1 G is all that is needed for us to go to Mars on. But W and congress killed it 4 years ago. Idiots.
Sadly, though you are correct. Probably the MOST important device that we could have put on this was the life centrifuge. That would have enabled us to study long term issues of various G on small mammals. Hopefully, Obama comes to understand how important that one little issue is. It is possible that a simple
It is interesting, but I think that you have missed a HUGE market. Built-in devices.