I don't know how much you'd need to reduce beef production? From my understanding, distillers grain has more of the stuff (or at least a more concentrated form of it) that cattle need to grow quickly than corn straight from the field.
It's a separate commodity and the price has historically varied with the price of gaosoline. With the additional production capacity that has come on line in the last year or so, the price of ethanol has dropped while the price of gas has gone up.
Unfortunately (for farmers), the cost of inputs has little to do with what they can get when selling their crop. Neither does the value of ethanol. Corn (and beans) are commodities and their prices are driven by the commodities markets worldwide.
What ethanol does is it reduces what is called the "basis" - the cost of transporting corn from the farm to where it will be used - because many ethanol plants are near where the corn is grown.
It probably depends where you assign the energy costs of the inputs. If you take into account the entire input of growing the crops for ethanol, but only use the energy output of the final ethanol product as an output then you've got a net loss.
If you take into account the food and other material value of the crop and assign the input energy used accordingly, then you've got a net gain.
I just got GTA: San Andreas and was poking around it a little bit. Got out of Los Santos and was driving down a freeway - next to a tractor.
The biggest reality problem that I had with that is that Rockstar decided to paint the tractor blue! There's what, 2 or 3 Ford tractors in existance in the states, and they used one of those for a model on what tractors should look like?
A lot of investors are timid about taking this kind of risk, because in the past, high oil prices have not been sustained.
A lot of ethanol plants are being built around the country (especially in Iowa) and have actually had an effect on the price of ethanol ([URL: http://www.ohiocorn.org/ethanolgaspoints.html ]
One of the interesting things that I've read is that the price of ethanol, which has historically followed the price of gasoline, has actually dropped 30% since January because production capacity in the US has gon up by 500 million gallons per year.
I'd guess that it's the amount of (destructive) power that differentiates between the two.
Both tornados and dust devils happen when the air close to the ground is warmer than the air up a bit higher. In tornados, there is a lot more power generated over a larger area (and has the potential to do more damage) than a dust devil would.
Because of the thin martian air, the dust devils have little destructive power so they aren't called tornados.
And the CIO position is such a revolving door position. I think I read somewhere that the average tenure for a Fortune X00 CIO was on the order of 18 months.
How can you get anything done (or screw anything up) in that short amount of time?
I'd move data the same way regarldess - pop the old hard drive out of the old machine and put it temporarily in the new machine, do the copy, then remove it.
USB is nice, but it's quicker to use the bandwidth of the hard drive controller.
How ironclad is the lock-in? And is utility power deregulated in your area?
Like I said, in Iowa power prices are regulated and (in my case) Alliant Energy must go begging to the utility commission to raise rates (of course, they've never been turned down on that either) - but rates don't fluctuate based upon the spot cost of fuel.
That's kind of a big stumbling block for solar (or any electric) vehicles in areas north of the Mason-Dixon line.
I had a vehicle where the heater fan wouldn't function below about 35F. That really sucked in the middle of winter.
We've got a similar program where I live in Iowa with Alliant Energy, but I'm not taking part. The wind turbines are going up all over the place with or without my acceptance of higher rates. I'm not convinced that this is anything more than a marketing ploy that gives the utility the ability to bill a higher rate to the consumer. Heck, most businesses wish they could do that:)
As far as wind power goes, I'm all for it. Northern Iowa bristles with some very good sized wind farms that do a good job producing energy for about 10 months out of the year (our problem is "august" - the wind just doesn't blow in august)
Interestingly, the last time I drove through KS to CO, everyone slowed down when crossing the border, even though the speed limit went up! I think it had something to do with the sign that said "Speed limits are enforced."
As opposed to South Dakota - I believe that they're speed limit signs say "Speed limits are ignored"
Users can also sign up to help pay for wind generation by paying a bit more for electricity.
Apoligies in advance since I'm not sure how it works in Canada, but...
You sign up to pay extra for wind turbine electricity to the power company who is getting subsidized to build and use the wind turbines in the first place? Sounds like the power company is laughing all the way to the bank with that.
Although I did a poor job of it, I was relating that we had a similar situation to the 64bit Itanium/32 bit WinXP situation with the 386 family of CPUs (32bit CPU/16 bit or 8 bit OS).
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Look through the - it does seem that distillers grain is a better feed than ground corn!
http://www.distillersgrains.org/
I don't know how much you'd need to reduce beef production? From my understanding, distillers grain has more of the stuff (or at least a more concentrated form of it) that cattle need to grow quickly than corn straight from the field.
Unfortunately (for farmers), the cost of inputs has little to do with what they can get when selling their crop. Neither does the value of ethanol. Corn (and beans) are commodities and their prices are driven by the commodities markets worldwide.
What ethanol does is it reduces what is called the "basis" - the cost of transporting corn from the farm to where it will be used - because many ethanol plants are near where the corn is grown.
Nitrogen is easy - fix it with a rotation of soybeans or use manure.
I think that the Potassium is somewhat more difficult without commercial fertilizers.
Yes it can - it's just much harder to do so at the scales that we've grown accostomed to.
A byrpoduct of eating steaks (what we in the midwest like to call "manure") can make are pretty darn good fertilizer.
Ethanol production leaves a nice byproduct called distillers grain that makes for good cattle feed.
Cattle make good steaks...
If you take into account the food and other material value of the crop and assign the input energy used accordingly, then you've got a net gain.
I just got GTA: San Andreas and was poking around it a little bit. Got out of Los Santos and was driving down a freeway - next to a tractor.
The biggest reality problem that I had with that is that Rockstar decided to paint the tractor blue! There's what, 2 or 3 Ford tractors in existance in the states, and they used one of those for a model on what tractors should look like?
Sheesh, indeed!
A lot of ethanol plants are being built around the country (especially in Iowa) and have actually had an effect on the price of ethanol ([URL: http://www.ohiocorn.org/ethanolgaspoints.html ]
One of the interesting things that I've read is that the price of ethanol, which has historically followed the price of gasoline, has actually dropped 30% since January because production capacity in the US has gon up by 500 million gallons per year.
I'm more worried that they're a nice front for the ALF domestic terrorist group.
Both tornados and dust devils happen when the air close to the ground is warmer than the air up a bit higher. In tornados, there is a lot more power generated over a larger area (and has the potential to do more damage) than a dust devil would.
Because of the thin martian air, the dust devils have little destructive power so they aren't called tornados.
How can you get anything done (or screw anything up) in that short amount of time?
Does the competency of the CIO correlate to the pay?
Smoothwall Express (the free version) seems to work decently as a real firewall on older hardware.
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USB is nice, but it's quicker to use the bandwidth of the hard drive controller.
Very solid construction and not too expensive.
Like I said, in Iowa power prices are regulated and (in my case) Alliant Energy must go begging to the utility commission to raise rates (of course, they've never been turned down on that either) - but rates don't fluctuate based upon the spot cost of fuel.
Like, for instance, heat in the wintertime :)
That's kind of a big stumbling block for solar (or any electric) vehicles in areas north of the Mason-Dixon line. I had a vehicle where the heater fan wouldn't function below about 35F. That really sucked in the middle of winter.
We've got a similar program where I live in Iowa with Alliant Energy, but I'm not taking part. The wind turbines are going up all over the place with or without my acceptance of higher rates. I'm not convinced that this is anything more than a marketing ploy that gives the utility the ability to bill a higher rate to the consumer. Heck, most businesses wish they could do that :)
As far as wind power goes, I'm all for it. Northern Iowa bristles with some very good sized wind farms that do a good job producing energy for about 10 months out of the year (our problem is "august" - the wind just doesn't blow in august)
As opposed to South Dakota - I believe that they're speed limit signs say "Speed limits are ignored"
Apoligies in advance since I'm not sure how it works in Canada, but...
You sign up to pay extra for wind turbine electricity to the power company who is getting subsidized to build and use the wind turbines in the first place? Sounds like the power company is laughing all the way to the bank with that.
I really wasn't trying to joke :)
The intel 386 cpu was a 32 bit platform.
The joke was derived from this...
The intel 386 cpu was a 32 bit platform.
The joke was derived from this...