Windfarms are only profitable with government subsidy; wind mills cost more energy than they make in there serviceable lifetime (Hence the need for subsidy). Bad for bat populations, which are already in decline.
Wow. just wow.
The subsidies are far far far less than what is plowed into Coal, oil, OR NUKES. In addition, with our the subsidies, wind produces less than.1/kw. Right now, Wind is viable without subsidy in a number of locations (with more coming due to increasing coal and gas costs). If we assigned a real costs to the pollution from the others, then it would be less.
As to the bats, well, how much life do you think is dying from Mercury, lead, etc. emission in the air by coal and oil. How many died from that recent ash release?
Solar panels are fantastically bad environmentally. They require the production of green house gasses far worse than CO2, lifetimes are limited and exponentially decay. They require toxic batteries to work, and are unreliable due to weather. 14% efficiency. Also, bad for ground-level wildlife.
You are kidding, right? Green House gases far worse than CO2. Like water? Limited Lifetime? You mean 30-50 years? They require energy storage to work 24x7 (i.e. base power), not necessarily toxic batteries. 14% efficieny? The systems vary any where from 7% (thin film) to 35% on newer products (using mags). Bad for ground-level wildlife? You mean something on the roof is bad for the ground? Hmmmm.
Of course, the worse part about your statement is that it assumes SOlar PV. Solar Thermal is actually at the same cost as coal.
The only real alternatives are:
Solar algae (2-4% efficient)
Geo-thermal (limited places)
Wave/tidal (possible local environmental impacts, high maintenance costs)
Nuclear (low risk, high output, radioactive half-lives are down to 200 years)
Again wow. Just wow.
Solar Thermal was missed in all your stuff.
Algae 2-4% efficient?????
Geo-thermal. Have you even read the current study by MIT? Google for it. If you consider only shallow geo-thermal, then USA will only produce about 10GW of power via it. BUT deep geo-thermal can produce more than 1/2 of America's total power need (that assumes everything on electrical) before 2050.
Nukes half-lives down to 200 years? ONLY if you run it through IFR. Of course, that was killed and the program needs to be re-started (if nothing else, just to use our nuclear waste up).
Look, I am a big fan of nukes (more of the IFR), BUT, spreading garbage about AE does not help the cause. This is/., not the 5th grade. Many other also have a clue.
What has amazed me is that things are BAD WRT the mercury issue. But you know that it will get MUCH worse over the course of the next 2-4 years. The reason is that China is bringing on 1-2 new coal plants each WEEK with ZERO pollution controls and are now importing very low grade coal.
About the only good out of that is that it will also put more sulfur in the air, slowing down Global Warming.
Performance has ALWAYS been subjective. Lots of ppl bring money to a company, and yet are killed because it was not "documented". In addition, ppl are judge to be worthless based on politics, or even direction for where heading.
MS is simply, an average company with below average tech, but with a monopoly.
Funny thing is that in 1999, companies were claiming that Linux would NEVER go mainstream anything. I recall one of the assessment that said that Linux in 2005 would amount 2-3% of internet servers and would be less than 1% of the server room by 2004.
Back in 92-93 Bush recession, was when Windows and networking really caught on to take on the high costs of the mainframe. Killed IBM for 5 long years. Prior to that, Windows was languashing around and not catching on. It was mostly dumb terminals. As this Bush's recession or even depression happens, I think that we will see companies push to lower their costs a great deal. Moving jobs to other countries is starting to backfire on these companies, while for others, it is not a possibility. Instead, we will see new low costs "ideas" become available and suddenly take over.
Believe me, we have and we still hide things. I have been shocked at some of the items pulled off.
For example, back in WWII, we painted the roof tops of important buildings to make them look like regular buildings from the air.
In addition, all he really have to do, is locate a launch site in a remote location (say Africa, or South America, or simply various islands or even a sea platform).
But in this case, if a plane is used for first stage, it is trivial to hide.
Two keys to hiding things is to NOT hide them or make it believable that you do not have that capability but desire it.
For example, if you have been spying on your citizens, you then have an agency come out announcing that they do not have that capability but desire it. You even create laws that "force open certain items" (CALEA) and announce systems that are minor in their nature (Carnivore). Bait gets taken just about everytime.
In what does pointing out stats, have to do with civil liberties? Muslims are a much bigger threat, but in no way have I EVER espoused infringing on another's right.
hehehehe. I will say that was the first intelligent and humourous post about "ppl". I have habits that have been around since the 80's when we used 60, 75 baud modems (30 on the bad days). Those letters in that word disappeared back then:)
The ares V that is planned using CURRENT engines (both solid and liquid) will have the GREATEST lift capacity of any rocket ever (including over the saturnV). It is expected to operate at a LOWER cost than saturnV. Most of the parts are in production.
BUT, you suggest that America should re-start with OLD systems that have not ran in almost 40 years, had the hightest costs/ heavy lb (actually costs more than the shuttle), and you want to return to it??????????
Let me guess. You are not a rocket scientists or an economist or finance guy.
More sophisticated manned infrastructure would require cheaper and more capable space launch infrastructure than the US currently has
I think that you mean to say: More sophisticated manned infrastructure would require cheaper and more capable space launch infrastructure than I am aware of.
First, NASA has used a number of interesting launchers.
What was Mercury launched on?
Little joe, Redstone and Atlas.
How about Gemini?
Titans.
What did those launchers have in common? All were DOD missile launchers from the 50's.
In addition, NASA already makes use of ULA EELVs and DOD use to use the Shuttle for missions.
IOW, there is always some crossover that goes on. THe problem here is that China's space program is under their military and has a secret budget. It was shown that the fix that we did for their "civilian" work went right into their missiles that are targeting the west. Not surprising. But even now, China is pushing hard to militarize space (in spite of what they claim). The west needs to remain on the high ground.
"not just the african americans who fought for them"
Hmmmm. Funny thing is, that ppl like elon musk did not fight for them, yet, you attribute these to him. After all, Elon, like many others is African American.
But you make a double mistake. You seem to not want to give credit to those that died trying to bring these, such as JFK, Bobby Kennedy, the numerous jews and other whites that marched or suffered at getting beaten or murdered for doing the right thing.
If these are being funded by Federal dollars, than it should look carefully at how these are administered. In particular, part of the earnings should go back to the feds. But, also, I wonder wether the feds can say we allow the university TRUE LIMITED TIMES with these. The idea of patents and copyrights (as laid out by forefathers) was to give ppl LIMITED time to build businesses off these, make some money and then allow the idea to revert to the COMMONWEALTH. That is, into public space. Now, congress has changed it so that the patent is the money maker.
It amazes me that in this day and age, ppl think that nats are the way to go. Personally, I love being able to talk from all of my systems out on the net AND to get response to them. Yes, they have to be locked down. So what? As you said, firewalls are needed. Sadly, many ppl think that a NAT is as effective as a firewall and appear to love losing their freedom.
You know, just seeing your parents response, I think I can finally understand how private citizens can like gov. like China's, USSR, etc.. They get use to what they have and do not know what they are missing.
Think that it might have something to do with population base? The truth is that all wealthy nations consume resources. LOTS of it. Those that are exporting "consume" even more.
WTC in 1992. WTC in 2001. Richard C. Reid in 2002. And these are just a few
No, from a statistic POV (i.e. profiling), muslims are a MUCH BIGGER threat.
Suppose a few Chinese men came to the US and were violently accosted by neonazi skinheads... and then returned to China and told their tale, and from then on, every white person who goes to china gets treated with "extra prudence" because they've identified "white people" as a "problem culture". Would that be warranted? Of course not! What's the difference? Sure, to you and I a Nazi Skinhead might stick out in a crowd... but perhaps to someone from another culture, we're all just homogeneous white guys. Or what if the skin heads were KKK instead -- and truly inconspicuous amongst us? Would that make it ok for every non-white to treat all whites as as problem culture, due to KKK violence?
I will say that I think that ATA's reaction is really out of line PREDICATED on what we hear is the truth.
My family works in the airline business (america west/US Airways gate agent, US Airways Flight Attendant and AA Captain). I am aware that on a few other "stories" that have come through here, that what was told here was NOT what happened on the plane. Basically, the story had been ordered cleaned up, and the airline employees were told NOT to talk to the press or anybody else about it. On these other situations, more "statements" were made that never made it to the press. And to be honest, they were not statements; they were threats. IOW, we likely do NOT know the full story here.
Your analogy was incorrect. It should read like this: Suppose a few 100,000's American go to CHina. Then a small group of Americans declare war on China, while they hide here and in EU. Then several attempts are made against Chinese, of which finally, these deranged ppl take out 9000 Chinese Civilians. Finally, imagine that after that, western nations HIDE these ppl. What do you think that the chinese gov and ppl would do? THE EXACT SAME THING.
In the end, we are still at war, and it is difficult to know who are the enemies. With that said, it "sounds" like ATA went off the deep end.
It seems like for the last decade, that security ppl scream that Linux virus are everywhere. I am guessing that they are now screaming the same for new items.
If you can not be the price leader, then you have to learn to be the market leader. Companies like that need to create their own markets. Sadly, business ppl today are worthless.
American Airlines used to fully paint their birds. Back in the oil crisis of late 70's, crandell asked employees how to save money. My dad was one of the pilots who suggested losing most of the the paint and doing much smaller amounts of it. They figured that added something like 1-2% to the bottom line.
Spacex will likely drop the paint job down the road unless it is found that it helps against the salt in the air as well as in the ocean upon landing.
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Windfarms are only profitable with government subsidy; wind mills cost more energy than they make in there serviceable lifetime (Hence the need for subsidy). Bad for bat populations, which are already in decline. Wow. just wow. .1/kw. Right now, Wind is viable without subsidy in a number of locations (with more coming due to increasing coal and gas costs). If we assigned a real costs to the pollution from the others, then it would be less.
/., not the 5th grade. Many other also have a clue.
The subsidies are far far far less than what is plowed into Coal, oil, OR NUKES. In addition, with our the subsidies, wind produces less than
As to the bats, well, how much life do you think is dying from Mercury, lead, etc. emission in the air by coal and oil. How many died from that recent ash release?
Solar panels are fantastically bad environmentally. They require the production of green house gasses far worse than CO2, lifetimes are limited and exponentially decay. They require toxic batteries to work, and are unreliable due to weather. 14% efficiency. Also, bad for ground-level wildlife.
You are kidding, right? Green House gases far worse than CO2. Like water? Limited Lifetime? You mean 30-50 years? They require energy storage to work 24x7 (i.e. base power), not necessarily toxic batteries. 14% efficieny? The systems vary any where from 7% (thin film) to 35% on newer products (using mags). Bad for ground-level wildlife? You mean something on the roof is bad for the ground? Hmmmm.
Of course, the worse part about your statement is that it assumes SOlar PV. Solar Thermal is actually at the same cost as coal.
The only real alternatives are:
Solar algae (2-4% efficient)
Geo-thermal (limited places)
Wave/tidal (possible local environmental impacts, high maintenance costs)
Nuclear (low risk, high output, radioactive half-lives are down to 200 years)
Again wow. Just wow.
Solar Thermal was missed in all your stuff.
Algae 2-4% efficient?????
Geo-thermal. Have you even read the current study by MIT? Google for it. If you consider only shallow geo-thermal, then USA will only produce about 10GW of power via it. BUT deep geo-thermal can produce more than 1/2 of America's total power need (that assumes everything on electrical) before 2050.
Nukes half-lives down to 200 years? ONLY if you run it through IFR. Of course, that was killed and the program needs to be re-started (if nothing else, just to use our nuclear waste up).
Look, I am a big fan of nukes (more of the IFR), BUT, spreading garbage about AE does not help the cause. This is
What has amazed me is that things are BAD WRT the mercury issue. But you know that it will get MUCH worse over the course of the next 2-4 years. The reason is that China is bringing on 1-2 new coal plants each WEEK with ZERO pollution controls and are now importing very low grade coal.
About the only good out of that is that it will also put more sulfur in the air, slowing down Global Warming.
IOW, you think that rather than judging somebody based on their work, they should do more asskissing to you. Yes?
Performance has ALWAYS been subjective. Lots of ppl bring money to a company, and yet are killed because it was not "documented". In addition, ppl are judge to be worthless based on politics, or even direction for where heading.
MS is simply, an average company with below average tech, but with a monopoly.
that they are acting like other companies?
Funny thing is that in 1999, companies were claiming that Linux would NEVER go mainstream anything. I recall one of the assessment that said that Linux in 2005 would amount 2-3% of internet servers and would be less than 1% of the server room by 2004.
Back in 92-93 Bush recession, was when Windows and networking really caught on to take on the high costs of the mainframe. Killed IBM for 5 long years. Prior to that, Windows was languashing around and not catching on. It was mostly dumb terminals. As this Bush's recession or even depression happens, I think that we will see companies push to lower their costs a great deal. Moving jobs to other countries is starting to backfire on these companies, while for others, it is not a possibility. Instead, we will see new low costs "ideas" become available and suddenly take over.
Believe me, we have and we still hide things. I have been shocked at some of the items pulled off.
For example, back in WWII, we painted the roof tops of important buildings to make them look like regular buildings from the air.
In addition, all he really have to do, is locate a launch site in a remote location (say Africa, or South America, or simply various islands or even a sea platform).
But in this case, if a plane is used for first stage, it is trivial to hide.
Two keys to hiding things is to NOT hide them or make it believable that you do not have that capability but desire it.
For example, if you have been spying on your citizens, you then have an agency come out announcing that they do not have that capability but desire it. You even create laws that "force open certain items" (CALEA) and announce systems that are minor in their nature (Carnivore). Bait gets taken just about everytime.
In what does pointing out stats, have to do with civil liberties? Muslims are a much bigger threat, but in no way have I EVER espoused infringing on another's right.
hehehehe. I will say that was the first intelligent and humourous post about "ppl". I have habits that have been around since the 80's when we used 60, 75 baud modems (30 on the bad days). Those letters in that word disappeared back then :)
The ares V that is planned using CURRENT engines (both solid and liquid) will have the GREATEST lift capacity of any rocket ever (including over the saturnV). It is expected to operate at a LOWER cost than saturnV. Most of the parts are in production.
BUT, you suggest that America should re-start with OLD systems that have not ran in almost 40 years, had the hightest costs/ heavy lb (actually costs more than the shuttle), and you want to return to it??????????
Let me guess. You are not a rocket scientists or an economist or finance guy.
More sophisticated manned infrastructure would require cheaper and more capable space launch infrastructure than the US currently has :
I think that you mean to say
More sophisticated manned infrastructure would require cheaper and more capable space launch infrastructure than I am aware of.
First, NASA has used a number of interesting launchers. What was Mercury launched on?
Little joe, Redstone and Atlas.
How about Gemini?
Titans.
What did those launchers have in common? All were DOD missile launchers from the 50's.
In addition, NASA already makes use of ULA EELVs and DOD use to use the Shuttle for missions.
IOW, there is always some crossover that goes on. THe problem here is that China's space program is under their military and has a secret budget. It was shown that the fix that we did for their "civilian" work went right into their missiles that are targeting the west. Not surprising. But even now, China is pushing hard to militarize space (in spite of what they claim). The west needs to remain on the high ground.
Obama has the right idea.
Lov your panarama. I have not been up there in almost 30 years.
"not just the african americans who fought for them"
Hmmmm. Funny thing is, that ppl like elon musk did not fight for them, yet, you attribute these to him. After all, Elon, like many others is African American.
But you make a double mistake. You seem to not want to give credit to those that died trying to bring these, such as JFK, Bobby Kennedy, the numerous jews and other whites that marched or suffered at getting beaten or murdered for doing the right thing.
If these are being funded by Federal dollars, than it should look carefully at how these are administered. In particular, part of the earnings should go back to the feds. But, also, I wonder wether the feds can say we allow the university TRUE LIMITED TIMES with these. The idea of patents and copyrights (as laid out by forefathers) was to give ppl LIMITED time to build businesses off these, make some money and then allow the idea to revert to the COMMONWEALTH. That is, into public space. Now, congress has changed it so that the patent is the money maker.
It amazes me that in this day and age, ppl think that nats are the way to go. Personally, I love being able to talk from all of my systems out on the net AND to get response to them. Yes, they have to be locked down. So what? As you said, firewalls are needed. Sadly, many ppl think that a NAT is as effective as a firewall and appear to love losing their freedom.
You know, just seeing your parents response, I think I can finally understand how private citizens can like gov. like China's, USSR, etc.. They get use to what they have and do not know what they are missing.
Think that it might have something to do with population base? The truth is that all wealthy nations consume resources. LOTS of it. Those that are exporting "consume" even more.
IPv6 is the way to go.Able to control a great deal more. Back in the 80's and 90's, nearly all of the IPs were public spaced. I want that back.
WTC in 1992. WTC in 2001. Richard C. Reid in 2002. And these are just a few
No, from a statistic POV (i.e. profiling), muslims are a MUCH BIGGER threat.
Suppose a few Chinese men came to the US and were violently accosted by neonazi skinheads... and then returned to China and told their tale, and from then on, every white person who goes to china gets treated with "extra prudence" because they've identified "white people" as a "problem culture".
Would that be warranted? Of course not!
What's the difference?
Sure, to you and I a Nazi Skinhead might stick out in a crowd... but perhaps to someone from another culture, we're all just homogeneous white guys. Or what if the skin heads were KKK instead -- and truly inconspicuous amongst us? Would that make it ok for every non-white to treat all whites as as problem culture, due to KKK violence?
Suppose a few 100,000's American go to CHina. Then a small group of Americans declare war on China, while they hide here and in EU. Then several attempts are made against Chinese, of which finally, these deranged ppl take out 9000 Chinese Civilians. Finally, imagine that after that, western nations HIDE these ppl. What do you think that the chinese gov and ppl would do? THE EXACT SAME THING.
In the end, we are still at war, and it is difficult to know who are the enemies. With that said, it "sounds" like ATA went off the deep end.
It seems like for the last decade, that security ppl scream that Linux virus are everywhere. I am guessing that they are now screaming the same for new items.
If you can not be the price leader, then you have to learn to be the market leader. Companies like that need to create their own markets. Sadly, business ppl today are worthless.
Yes, but to what degree?
American Airlines used to fully paint their birds. Back in the oil crisis of late 70's, crandell asked employees how to save money. My dad was one of the pilots who suggested losing most of the the paint and doing much smaller amounts of it. They figured that added something like 1-2% to the bottom line.
Spacex will likely drop the paint job down the road unless it is found that it helps against the salt in the air as well as in the ocean upon landing.