The five states with the most deficient bridges are Iowa with 4,968, Pennsylvania with 4,506, Oklahoma with 3,460, Missouri with 3,195 and Nebraska with 2,361....
Finding a new funding stream for road and bridge construction is a priority for state and federal officials because the gas tax that primarily funds the highway trust fund hasn’t kept pace with construction priorities as cars become more efficient.
Efficient cars aren't the problem. The problem is that legislatures can't keep their grubby hands off that money. Pennsylvania is second on the list, yet it has the highest fuel tax rate in the country, How can that be? Because about half the money is diverted away from road and bridge construction to projects like mass transportation and funding the state police.
Those are unlikely to provide enough power when you need it (I assume batteries would be charged in the early morning hours when there is little demand for the buses). On the other hand, hydroelectric and nuclear are zero emissions and very dependable.
As an aside, this headline is a great example of Fake News. Note that it doesn't actually say electric buses are cheaper and could dominate the market; it only quotes a guy who manufactures electric buses making that claim.
Shares in the group slid 8 percent, putting the company's market value at 973 billion yen ($8.6 billion), less than half its value in mid-December. Just under a decade ago, the firm was worth almost 5 trillion yen.
Lost over 80% of it's market value in ten years. Sounds like Toshiba has other problems besides this.
"She's clearly having to swerve to miss a vehicle going the wrong way on a one-way street.
She's clearly drunk and driving out of control when she's hitting the tree and scattering the car over a 150 yard long debris field. It remains to be seen if there was another car on the street at the time.
Hillary still beat him by every real measure, in both votes and delegates.
Without the super-delegates it would have been a contest with more contestants. It was very clear from the beginning who the party insiders were going to have as their candidate.
Didn't they try that "shovel ready" stuff about 8 years ago? About the only thing I saw was a few roads that didn't need resurfacing were resurfaced with some kind of pork.
Facebook and Twitter are echo chambers, no doubt about that. But did those echos really change anyone's vote? I doubt it. People who liked or disliked one candidate read stories that reinforced their opinion.
Clinton lost because she was anointed by the DNC rather than being selected by the voters. There was no enthusiasm for her, not in the primaries, not in the general election. I haven't heard of anyone who started out intending to vote for Hillary, then changed their mind after reading Facebook.
I'm sure it would be very upsetting for the ACs if/. started tracking IPs, but I suspect that a disproportionate number of "Trolls" come from the same IPs.
I'd prefer that/. only allowed posts from signed-in users and still allow AC posting. That would allow more reliable stifling of trolls while still protecting people who make good faith but controversial posts. Some groups here have been known to follow and down-mod/attack a person who has made statements they disagree with.
The gene is passed from father to son(s). Females breed with whatever male is available; most will get pregnant by the GM males and have all male litters. Lather, rinse, repeat. No more females.
The "new capacity" is on top of the existing base load power plants. So when they do generate you might save some fossil fuel, when they don't generate there's not a problem.
That said, when people speak of "capacity" you can be sure they're blowing smoke. Actual generated megawatt hours is what matters; capacity means nothing, especially solar capacity in northern, cloudy areas like Europe
There's no "should" or "this was correct" about it.
Pay close attention to what he said:
"We used to watch three or four people tell us the news... now you are growing up in an environment where everyone is telling you the news... So take extra care and try to learn the accuracy"
He's contrasting what "used" to be with "now" - which I interpret to mean that now is different from what used to be. Then he points out the difference - that now you can't trust what people tell you.
We used to watch three or four people tell us the news, and generally speaking most of us trusted that... now you are growing up in an environment where everyone is telling you the news and everyone is trying to influence your opinion on something
What he did way is that you should trust the mainstream media ('three or four people"), and he implies that, in the past, those people weren't "trying to influence your opinion". If you believe that I have a bridge in New York you might be interested in buying.
Any prudent investor would not give "all the money" at once.
That's exactly what the article/summary said. Rounds of funding should be the *result* of the company showing progress on its business plan. The funding itself isn't progress.
It isn't the sinking that would cause the radiation release. It is the massive explosions, as a result of battle, that could breach the reactors while sinking the ship at the same time.
Nope. Naval vessels don't get blown apart unless you hit them with a nuke of your own. The massive explosions that would follow are the ICBMs that would rain down on whoever sank the ship.
The limiting factor with nuke powered ships is the propellers; you can only spin them so fast before they start to cavitate (usually somewhere around 100 knots for a big surface ship, somewhat higher for a submarine), The engines can deliver the horsepower.
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Exactly what I was going to say. They're only pretending they don't have a CEO.
gut feeling tells me if the end result of hiring and firing was a net gain, we wouldn't be talking about this
Your gut should tell you that if this was real news the reporter would state the net change, not layoffs without mentioning hires.
In other words, article is total BS.
Doudna suggested it could be done, but she couldn't figure out how to make it happen. Zhang's patent is for a process that actually works.
Under Obama.
Funny thing too, because I remember how Obama's stimulus plan was supposed to go towards this sort of issues.
No, the point of that program was to buy votes for the Democrats. It had nothing to do with anything useful to the general public.
Trump has shown he doesn't give a damn about Americans. He withheld federal money to pay for the dam that the state of CA build and maintained.
Seriously? He's been in office less than a month.
The five states with the most deficient bridges are Iowa with 4,968, Pennsylvania with 4,506, Oklahoma with 3,460, Missouri with 3,195 and Nebraska with 2,361....
Finding a new funding stream for road and bridge construction is a priority for state and federal officials because the gas tax that primarily funds the highway trust fund hasn’t kept pace with construction priorities as cars become more efficient.
Efficient cars aren't the problem. The problem is that legislatures can't keep their grubby hands off that money. Pennsylvania is second on the list, yet it has the highest fuel tax rate in the country, How can that be? Because about half the money is diverted away from road and bridge construction to projects like mass transportation and funding the state police.
unless it's wind/solar/wave
Those are unlikely to provide enough power when you need it (I assume batteries would be charged in the early morning hours when there is little demand for the buses). On the other hand, hydroelectric and nuclear are zero emissions and very dependable.
As an aside, this headline is a great example of Fake News. Note that it doesn't actually say electric buses are cheaper and could dominate the market; it only quotes a guy who manufactures electric buses making that claim.
Which is why Jimmy Carter's executive order to halt recycling was so stupid. Hopefully that will be reversed soon.
Shares in the group slid 8 percent, putting the company's market value at 973 billion yen ($8.6 billion), less than half its value in mid-December. Just under a decade ago, the firm was worth almost 5 trillion yen.
Lost over 80% of it's market value in ten years. Sounds like Toshiba has other problems besides this.
"She's clearly having to swerve to miss a vehicle going the wrong way on a one-way street.
She's clearly drunk and driving out of control when she's hitting the tree and scattering the car over a 150 yard long debris field. It remains to be seen if there was another car on the street at the time.
So they can immigrate and compete for jobs along with everyone else. That's much different than H-1B contracting.
They went from Google engineer to CEO of their own company.
Hillary still beat him by every real measure, in both votes and delegates.
Without the super-delegates it would have been a contest with more contestants. It was very clear from the beginning who the party insiders were going to have as their candidate.
Didn't they try that "shovel ready" stuff about 8 years ago? About the only thing I saw was a few roads that didn't need resurfacing were resurfaced with some kind of pork.
Facebook and Twitter are echo chambers, no doubt about that. But did those echos really change anyone's vote? I doubt it. People who liked or disliked one candidate read stories that reinforced their opinion.
Clinton lost because she was anointed by the DNC rather than being selected by the voters. There was no enthusiasm for her, not in the primaries, not in the general election. I haven't heard of anyone who started out intending to vote for Hillary, then changed their mind after reading Facebook.
I'm sure it would be very upsetting for the ACs if /. started tracking IPs, but I suspect that a disproportionate number of "Trolls" come from the same IPs.
I'd prefer that /. only allowed posts from signed-in users and still allow AC posting. That would allow more reliable stifling of trolls while still protecting people who make good faith but controversial posts. Some groups here have been known to follow and down-mod/attack a person who has made statements they disagree with.
The gene is passed from father to son(s). Females breed with whatever male is available; most will get pregnant by the GM males and have all male litters. Lather, rinse, repeat. No more females.
The "new capacity" is on top of the existing base load power plants. So when they do generate you might save some fossil fuel, when they don't generate there's not a problem.
That said, when people speak of "capacity" you can be sure they're blowing smoke. Actual generated megawatt hours is what matters; capacity means nothing, especially solar capacity in northern, cloudy areas like Europe
There's no "should" or "this was correct" about it.
Pay close attention to what he said: ... now you are growing up in an environment where everyone is telling you the news ... So take extra care and try to learn the accuracy"
"We used to watch three or four people tell us the news
He's contrasting what "used" to be with "now" - which I interpret to mean that now is different from what used to be. Then he points out the difference - that now you can't trust what people tell you.
We used to watch three or four people tell us the news, and generally speaking most of us trusted that ... now you are growing up in an environment where everyone is telling you the news and everyone is trying to influence your opinion on something
What he did way is that you should trust the mainstream media ('three or four people"), and he implies that, in the past, those people weren't "trying to influence your opinion". If you believe that I have a bridge in New York you might be interested in buying.
Any prudent investor would not give "all the money" at once.
That's exactly what the article/summary said. Rounds of funding should be the *result* of the company showing progress on its business plan. The funding itself isn't progress.
You'll need to submit a claim before July 1st, and the money won't be released until other defendants in the litigation have settled.
It sounds like your chances of actually getting any money are slim. Probably all this does is raise the damages so the lawyers get a bigger payday.
It isn't the sinking that would cause the radiation release. It is the massive explosions, as a result of battle, that could breach the reactors while sinking the ship at the same time.
Nope. Naval vessels don't get blown apart unless you hit them with a nuke of your own. The massive explosions that would follow are the ICBMs that would rain down on whoever sank the ship.
The limiting factor with nuke powered ships is the propellers; you can only spin them so fast before they start to cavitate (usually somewhere around 100 knots for a big surface ship, somewhat higher for a submarine), The engines can deliver the horsepower.