Wow. That'd be like mandatory Obamacare or mandatory car insurance, irregardless of price. All total fucking bullshit. I'd rather go to jail that pay for any of that crap.
There is enough iron, zinc, manganese dioxide, even nickel and copper, and energy density by weight does not matter much for stationary applications, energy density by volume yes.
There is a good reason for private schools, as public schools can be staffed by a lot of retarded teachers, but if private schools don't do a good job, you can go to another private school, while there is only one public school system, and if the corrupt teachers find a way in, once they are encroached, you can never get them out of there, as they are all better at backstabbing politics protecting their own jobs than teaching your kids. It's like a quality education is the right of every citizen's child, but a free public education system - a communist creation without private owners that care about their customers, and through that their own bottom line - may not give you that after all.
I can hold my breath for a long time. This is how I like to think, one long rambling stretch of thoughts without breaks. As I said, it's not mandatory to read my shit, if you don't like my style, just simply move along, there is nothing for you to see here. Quit whining like a baby about style.
Why is there ever war? Unfortunately, there is, it's a fact of life. Usually somebody else wants what you have, they want the resources for themselves, and it's easier for them to go to war with you over your stockpiles and territories than collect and stockpile similar resources themselves, or find similar territories.
Near a star, like our Sun, solar energy is cheaper to come by than matter, that you'd wastefully shoot around. And you could argue that distant starlight harvested might be cheaper to come by than matter even far from a star, so energy might be cheaper than matter. The problem with lasers is that they simply don't work on mirror surface - even the internals of a laser have mirrors. So all you have to do is make all your objects with a fine mirror finish on the surface, and you're immune to laser attacks. But x-rays or gamma rays that penetrate mirrors might be a different matter. True a lot might pass through the ship and its crew and be wasted, but the immune suppression and genetic damage a high dose can cause is an excellent weapon. And you can't even feel x-rays, all you know is that you're just weird sick, like a bad cold or AIDS or anything immune suppressant, unless there are detectors for it.
I know all that. I just like to write blocks of flowing text, and you don't have to read it. You are the kind of people with low tolerance to pedantic transgressions that I don't want my posts to be read by. Go stick a carrot up your asses.
That's the whole purpose of fucking up linux, to move everyone to BSD, so the innovative spirit of thousand of coders working for free can be tapped by companies like Microsoft. There is nothing Microsoft hates more in this world than the GPL which requires that if you use their sourcecode, you have to release your sourcecode too. With BSD you can take the sourcecode, put it into your thing, then sell the product without having to release your additional sourcecode. For instance Apple OS X is BSD based Unix. They could not base it on Linux, of course, else they'd have to release their sourcecode. I'm a big fan of public domain, but when it comes to Unix I've used mostly Linux simply because of the richness in applications and features, compared to the relatively application poor BSD. If anything I've become a collector of old computer from near 2000-2004, which are fast enough for my needs, and run Windows 2000 and Linux kernels 2.4 and 2.6 under 2.6.30 just fine, and eventually I'll be fully off line, off the Internet with most of my computing, but I might purchase a bleh, no fun, computing appliance, like a tablet, simply to check email, maybe Slashdot and Craigslist, unless these sites go megaheavy on the bloat and crap that bogs everything down and consumes major amount of electricity with that massive waste of a garbage vomit code getting thrown at it by today's "software geniuses."
I pay yahoo $19/year for email, that way my emails do not get lost and account deactivated - they used to deactivate a lot in the past, like 8 years ago, after like 90 days of inactivity. Also exchange of consideration, paying them, means they are sort of responsible not to lose my emails, which is complicated territory when you use their service for free. I used to have various email addresses that needed constant updating, at first from my college, then from various dialup isp's, but by the time I switched to cable broadband I've been permanently with a single yahoo email addy, so I don't have to keep changing it on my resume and other various places and accounts every time I move, or change ISP's. It does get spammed a bit, but some of the spam is actually nice, and I like to read it. I prefer yahoo to both Microsoft's Hotmail or Google's Gmail, because Yahoo is kind of an underdog, the power should not get to their heads that much compared to Microsoft and Google who are on top of the world and might think they can get away with any kind of abuse of their customers. Too much power corrupts. Plus I'd like yahoo to stay in business, but sometimes I see difficulty with that, when they blow billions of dollars on very questionable purchases that they later have to write off. I also use them as popmail through Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, so that lessens a bit their responsibility not to lose my emails, especially the old ones. I do have a free account with them too, that I rarely check, except when I have to fill out some bs online form to get an access password, and I know all they want my email for is spam, and that account has like 100,000 spam messages in it. They used to have a classic webmail interface that was awesome and fast, but their new one is absolute crap, it hogs the CPU with javascript, and is very limited on features. Like I can only move a couple emails at a time from a custom folder to the Inbox, so it gets popmail downloadable, which only gets stuff from Inbox. I used to not do popmail, just webmail, and then if you leave stuff in the Inbox it gets autodeleted after a year, while if you create a folder and move important messages there, you can come back to them for years, but that also means you get at least a couple thousand important messages in that folder, and if you want to move those temporarily back to the Inbox, you can only do like 20 at a time, and if you display a lot more per page then the javascript slows your computer to a crawl. It's really poor programming all over the web these days, including yahoo, facebook, twitter, youtube - why the hell do you need a supercomputer to list videos and their images on a youtube page? It's all pisspoor programming with a purpose, to force everyone off classical computers onto handheld smartphones, where they are locked into a very tight and very low feature world. I also have two gmail accounts, but I haven't paid google much yet, except through clicking ads and buying stuff that way, and one time I bought an organic chemistry ebook from books.google.com, that I had no idea it would be DRM'd, only readable with adobe crap running on top of dotnet. I simply refuse to run the megabloat of dotnet crap on my computers, so I'm kinda pissed at Google for pimping DRM. I hate DRM. It means the book is only readable as long as Adobe is around as a business, and as soon as they are out of business, or simply refuse to authenticate my new device, telling me to upgrade or pay them some money, more than I paid for the stupid DRM pdf ebook, I'm screwed with a DRM ebook. That's like Microsoft who might refuse to authenticate new installations of sealed retail copies of XP, telling people to upgrade. They probably haven't sunk that low yet, but it's coming. That's why Windows 2000 is the last windows and Office 2000 is the last Office to the general consumer without activation that will last even if Microsoft is ever gone out of business, except maybe some corporate versions of XP or hacked versions, maybe, if there is a workable hack. So many things that used to
Intelligent people's birthrate adapts to the available resources. In the countries he mentions the cost of living to income ratio must be too high to where people hold back on having kids. The talk he gives also sounds reminiscent of Hitler's propaganda against the wheelchair bound disabled on welfare. I wanna see this Bill Whittle guy not give money to an elderly to feed who reached 90 years old and ran out of retirement savings, because she did not expect to live that long. Extremes of any kind are bad, this includes extreme socialism and extreme capitalism. Balance is the key.
As far as utility price abuses go, the solution is simple: off grid as much as you can. For instance my gas company charges $25 basic fee even if I don't use any natural gas at all. That's a lot of money and it's bullshit. I'd rather live in a tent in the middle of the woods and heat with propane cylinders of firewood. Off grid off grid off grid when it comes to these utility natural monopoly extreme capitalist motherfuckers.
Which is why a few transistor 80286 for DOS is such a great idea for the military. It can do a lot on the peripheral systems, and the simpler the design, the less its capabilities, the less the security risks. Centrally or in secure locations you can run complex mainframes, that you can inspect and manage the heck out of, but low cost, discardability and security out in the field beg for simplicity in design.
It has everything to do with trusting the silicon. It is possible to embed covert hardware code into a chip, that activates at zero day, or from a satellite signal, or from a plane that flies by. For instance, in the US more and more of the CNC's and injection molding machines and the like, even for military supply chains, are increasingly manufactured in foreign countries like Germany or Japan, and it's not like we're ever gonna go to war with these countries, right? That'd be nice. But in case the shit hits the fan, how are you gonna trust your plastic spoon making equipment the military uses to feed on a daily basis? Or even the bullet making CNC's? First of all you cannot get the spare parts, 2nd you absolutely cannot trust what a chip does, unless you make that chip yourself, and even then you're vulnerable to a swap out. It's not possible to shave off the surface of a chip, then inspect the tracks and transistors with an electron microscope or even x-ray machine, and decipher what the fuck it is doing, because it's so mindbogglingly complex. I, as a human, had trouble figuring out a couple transistor garage opener, or even putting the schematics on paper, even a 50 element garage opener is too complex for an human, unless they are expert electronics designers. A computer could help of course coming up with the schematics, but when you're talking a billion transistors, so what if the computer can create the schematics. It cannot comprehend what a chip does, or could covertly do. All you know an injection molding machine could sense when it's getting worked on, and people standing between open molds hammering out plastic frozen pieces, to keep production going, it could close on them with thousands of lbs of force. You'd lose your best maintenance people in a war situation, and no, there is no time to do proper OSHA lockout tagout, because you can hammer the plastic piece out in 2 or 3 minutes, and keep things going, but dare you lose temperature control, it's an automatic 30 minute timeout. A lot of japanese injection molding machines are like that, you touch the temperature control button by accident for half a second, turn off the barrel heat, and it's an automatic 20 minute timeout. That's bullshit. It begs for no lockout-tagout, when expensive equipment like that has to produce the couple cent parts continuously, else it cannot pay for the financing. Time like 20 minutes down is a matter of staying in business, or shutting the doors as yet another company out of business in the US. All these headaches because of automation and chips, hardware, that you yourself did not make. It's imperative for every country on the planet to have their own chip hardware business, at least for their own military purposes, and by military, I mean simple things like plastic spoon manufacturing, that are light and easy to carry in a soldier's backpack.
Solar flat panels can be static and usually do not track. Anything paraboloid has a focus point and it must track accurately, it must be a dynamic, moving. Otherwise an expensive paraboloid reflector shape is worse than a cheaper flat panel shape.
The only reason why the US is not competitive in the global marketplace is not human ability, but the cost of living. Housing being the major cost above everything else, but it's difficult to reduce because people amassed so much of their wealth into it, sometimes by money falling from the sky into your lap appreciation, but they get very angry when they lose any bit of that appreciation. Like Dutch tulip mania tulip holders, they are very reluctant to see tulip prices drop when they amassed so many of their eggs into that basket. So minimum wage has to be high, to cover rent and mortgage prices, which means businesses simply shut down and move to where housing cost, or just general cost of living, is more competitive and allows for cheaper labor. I would have no problem working for 5 cents an hour in the US today, if my cost of living expenses were 0.1 cents an hour. Until quality of life improves around the world where the cost of living everywhere is high, such as China and India, the US is in a bad labor market situation. But even if China or India get expensive to live in, and have to pay high minimum wage, companies like Apple, Walmart, and the like will simply go to Africa, or maybe South America, that are still third world countries, or even if they are not on average, there are still a lot of people living in shanty-town tents, right outside metropolises like Rio de Janeiro, and are available for cheap labor.
You could inactivate all lifeforms in sewage by either massive amount of NaOH, sodium hydroxide lye, at a massive cost, or with formalin, formalin having the advantage of some of it that is unbound distilling back out. Some kind of heat treatment might work too, in an air-liquefaction counter current heat exchange way, where there is a hot zone, and the stuff on the way there gets heated by the stuff coming from there, saving some heat, but it's all very expensive compared to what's done today, such as biotreatment, letting nature take care of whatever it can take care of, by using bacteria to digest up the sewage. Blessed be the long gone days of yeoman farmer outhouses, where your poop stays put in one place, and composts there, as opposed to the sewer system where millions of poop get mixed together, then treated, but pathogens can still survive treatments, then sent to a river or lake from which people drink their tap water, that often simply gets filtered through green sand. Remember, always drink upstream from the herd, if you can afford to live upstream. There is something healthy about being a highlander, as opposed to coast megapolis resident. At least NYC gets its water from the mountains, not their nearby rivers, but I do drink lake water coming through my tap, downstream from a lot of megapolis sewage systems.
If people lived like the Amish, who recycle their own poop, grown your own food yeoman farmer style, with relatively little contact to all over the world, the spread of diseases would be more cut down. But with all the airline industry, and people vacationing abroad, and massive metropolises congested with human biomass, that is presently not possible. Perhaps there is a good side to the coming global energy crunch. It will stop people from moving all over the place so much, and stay put where they are, and then spread of slow incubation time diseases will be slower, when it knocks somebody out sick laying in bed, or even dead, on it's way to spreading it distance wise.
For instance there is a bee infection, or ant infection, I forget - and these creatures have been around a couple hundred million years longer than mammals like humans, so their diseases, especially for the highly social and congested kinds, have had time to become very sophisticated, so one of these infections does not manifest itself in the hive, except in the queen laying only sterile eggs and unable to produce a fertile offspring queen. Life goes on, like a walking dead, every day in the hive, but unbeknownst, the hive is doomed, because it cannot pass on the chain of life, because of the lurking and stealthy long incubation time disease. One wonders why such a parasite would arise in the first place, as the #1 rule of any long terms successful parasite, like a predator, is that you do not senselessly kill the host you're feeding off of, you do not drive your food supply to extinction. But life is blind when it comes to such things, and there are wide oscillations in population, predator- grazing prey-plantfood systems, as neither the predator, nor the grazing prey have an instinct not to overfeed, though they do get satiated with food per individual, but there is no limit on the amount of offsprings they all try to rear, and even if each individual gets satiated with food, when there are gazillions of them that often leads to a local eco-catastrophy.
The NSA, FBI and the CDC can have a collective branch or task force focused on this topic, and they probably already do. But the only true long term answer guarantee is to run away to the safety of self sufficient, sustainably livable, rotating cylinder artificial gravity space stations, at least for some people, and for whoever stays down here cross their fingers and hope for the best. And even then you have to limit physical contact to say once a generation, such as once every 100 years, between space stations, as it's hard to see a disease with an incubation time that long, that would not surface and be appearant under a 100 year time frame. Even syphilis manifests itself in 30 years or so, at max, as its stages of secondary, tertiary, etc. But long term biosafety for space stations doing physical contact with the outside world has one keyword: incubation time that lasts decades.
Chill out dude.. the solar irradiation, called isolation (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...) is nowhere near the amount they claim, if 12 kW power average over the day is what they claim, for the amount of surface area their thing covers. I guess they mean 12kWh, not kW, kilowatt-hour, not kilowatt, which are two different beasts. Even that, at 5 cents a kWh, 12 kWh comes to 60 cents of electric power a day. Their contraption looks like a couple ten thousand dollar thing, and the economics are simply not there. Let alone the maintenance cost of a moving thing, that has to track the Sun accurately across the sky, it could be miscalibrated, or motor breaks down. The cheapest thing with solar is massive massive land area at like 8-15% efficiency, with a flat nonmoving panel, that might cost a couple ten bucks a square meter, long term. 80% collection efficiency might be great on a space station or satellite that needs to get lifted off this planet with expensive rocket fuel, but it does not make sense down here if it costs $10,000 for a few square meters, the price needs to drop to like $10-$40 per square meter, and these guys, like Mc Hammer says, just can't touch that. The maximum amount of solar irradiation hitting the planet is 1kW/square meter, and 12kW would be 3x4 meters, at 100% efficiency, a human being being around 6ft=6*12 inches=72 inches=72*2.54cm/in=182.88 cm, or 1.83 meters tall, in comparison. Looking at the guy next to some of their devices, it's not 3x4 meters area, though others look big enough, but who cares if it breaks the bank simply on pouring the cement foundation for it, let alone the tracking system, compared to some slanted panel you toss out there, without a concrete foundation, and you don't care if it breaks down because it can be thrown away and replaced cheaply. Solar power is all about economics, and that means not much fancy stuff. Nuclear has the energy density plus it does require the fanciest of fancy things you can throw at it, but solar is simply too thin energy wise to invest a lot of money into a small collection surface area, because even if you get every last bit of it, it's still not that much. Massive land area, like cheap real estate available in deserts, is what's needed by solar. Wind can allow farming side by side, and real estate land area requirements are not that big. If anything, semitransparent thin film covered glass solar is the future in nondesert places, that allows a greenhouse to still make it in its semi-shade, plus all the glass covered buildings and nonglass rooftops, though cleaning them can be an issue on roofs.
All you gotta do is store the electric temporarily in Edison nickel-iron tote batteries of 300 gals (1200L) each, then use that to run an electrolysis making iron(abundant) dust, or zinc blocks(not so abundant), things you can later recombust either for heat in the wintertime, or in a metal-air battery. Zinc stores nicely in stacks outside in the weather, but iron needs protection, such as the dust mixed up with an oil, that can be later washed off with pentane(or similar low boiler cyclic hydrocarbons for instance), or even hot water soap, but with pentane you can drop the clean iron out after like 3 washes, then distill the pentane out at low temperature to recover both it and the oil, and also dry the metal in a pot to recover the pentane. It gets a little complex compared to zinc, but iron is abundant everywhere in the world, plus it may be easier to electrowin, with less gassing. On the Wikipedia energy density page http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi... you can see that both solid iron dust and zinc slabs have good volumetric energy storage capacities, though they are very heavy. Magnesium, aluminum and silicon are better, but no low temperature straightforward process is available for their extraction as metal, unlike zinc(with plating bath additives/pickling gas suppressors) and iron have easy aqueous electrolyte processing. In particular, unlike sodium in the Castner-Kellner process, or even calcium in the Humphry Davy amalgam process, magnesium does not form a good, strongly binding amalgam with a high hydrogen overpotential, but gasses out immediately, and it's not possible to low temperature electrowin into mercury, (or safer gallium/ldead/antimony/indium/tin/etc-like molten alloys), from which then it could be stripped in a lithium ion battery solvent aprotic electrolyte, electrolyzed directly into metal form, at room temperature. However calcium is possible, sodium and potassium too, which then can be thermite reacted with magnesium things, of course losing some energy in the process, but magnesium is both light to stack, and it has good atmospheric corrosion properties, better than iron. (Sodium, calcium or potassium are not possible to store well in a stack in open weather, unless complicated coated, like in a tote, but now it becomes expensive on the totes. And they are very dangerous for children to play with by accident.) Of course aluminum forms an amalgam with mercury too, but once it's bound to oxygen in any form, including any aqueous solution, it's near impossible to reduce, maybe unless you can form a conductive hydroxide precipitate layer on the surface of mercury, chromium electrolysis style, but I don't know if that also does not gas out with hydrogen fast, like magnesium does. And thermiting calcium with aluminum oxide gives an even greater energy loss than with magnesium. In any case, long term stacked outside in a pile ways of chemical energy storage methods should be happy with 50% efficiency of input energy recoverable, unlike with pumped hydro, which has limited capacity worldwide, but can do 90+% storage efficiency.
I don't know how they can make the plants not normally associated with those bacteria interact with those bacteria. The truth is that nitrogen fixating bacteria do so at a tremendous expense of energy, usually supplied by root nodules of a plant. If there were such associations with barley and these bacteria, in the past, you can bet your pants on it that it would be already standard practice, and also a sort of darwinist survival of the fittest natural existence. The fact is, unless genetically engineered, barley must not provide these root nodules, unlike alfalfa or beans. However, rice is grown in puddles that have cyanobacteria or similar critters that do fix nitrogen, which, ultimately, end up in the local nitrogen cycle on cycle on critter death. So with rice, with two independent organisms, one living on its own and doing nitrogen fixation, side by side with rice, the situation is similar to growing alfalfa and barley, on the same plot of land, at the same time, independently of each other, side by side, and then somehow picking only the barley, and leaving the alfalfa to rot. Unlike with rice where the picking the rice only and leaving the cyanobacteria in the puddle is easy, with barley and alfalfa (or beans or peas) independent harvesting is so costly, that instead a monoculture of each is grown, in a yearly crop rotation way.
Another way to put nitrogen into the soil locally, is to run a windmill, into an indestructible nickel-iron tote battery temporarily, from which doing lithium hydroxide electrolysis, then extruding lithium wires to age in the atmosphere, them getting coated with an oxide layer first, then under that Li3N, lithium nitride, which when contacted with water gives back the lithium hydroxide and ammonia, your nitrogen source. With carbon dioxide from a cylinder or even from carefully regulated and cooled (such as using a suction pump from the stack and a bubbler through an aqueous ammonia solution) chimney exhaust gas from natural gas or propane (which are soot free), ammonia can be turned into ammonium carbonate and bicarbonate, baking powder, which is a great fertilizer salt, volatile, but not as volatile as liquid ammonia itself. By the way there is a patent on corroding metallic lithium pieces in air, whereby a thin surface oxide coating forms at first, and then the corrosion under that continues as the pure nitride, at room temperature, from around 1970, give or take. Google and the USPTO are so great at hiding it right now, which is why I assume this post was made, because that's such an important patent to hillbilly farmers, that expired, and the powers that be, such as those present at Google or the USPTO, would love to repatent the whole thing and sue the shit out of every poor "kulak" over it. Oh well. So anyway, true it's a slow process and wastes some of the lithium as oxide, but it does not require pure oxygen free nitrogen, expensive reaction vessels to heat lithium metal in, or even high temperatures, unlike the other processes that rely on heating lithium with pure nitrogen. All you really need to invest in is the lithium hydroxide to lithium metal electrolysis, the lithium recycled, and the process using excess electric power coming from a windmill or a solar panel array. The Edison nickel iron battery is indestructible, it can be drained to zero and kept there forever, has no memory, unlike nicad with memory or lead acid that self drains and self destructs if allowed to stay at 0 charge for a long time, and other type batteries with their issues, however, while it is hillbilly friendly, it too has issues, it is not very efficient at energy storage because of hydrogen gassing, and also it quickly self depletes on charge completely within about a month, so it won't hold charge for a long time, and you gotta convert the energy in it into some other, more permanent storage, either as fuel or fixed nitrogen fertilizer.
That's an irrelevant point. The point is whether Canadian authorities have a right to regulate anyone who does business within their borders, and in my mind, they not only do, but in fact all intellectual property (which ultimately enters public domain in each country based on their rules of copyright or patent expiration), like land property, is locally owned everywhere, and sort of a fee simple license is the maximum that can be obtained by any individual, partnership or corporation. By principles of local rule, things instilled into law in countries halfway across the globe (e.g. on some whacky semi-deserted islands for instance), do not apply in your local domain, unless you agree to them through treaties with those distant countries, but like a marriage, you have the right to divorce from the treaty and assert independence, local rule, true at a grave cost. But the true fact is that even the content distributed by Netflix itself is not owned by Netflix within the borders of Canada, but the ultimate sovereign is the Canadian people in case of a democracy, or the Canadian monarch, in case of a monarchy, who, however, tend to play along, except when push comes to shove.
The only way China can cut global warming emissions is by abstaining from coal and natural gas as a fuel and switching to nuclear while building up a solar and wind mega-infrastructure.
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Wow. That'd be like mandatory Obamacare or mandatory car insurance, irregardless of price. All total fucking bullshit. I'd rather go to jail that pay for any of that crap.
There is enough iron, zinc, manganese dioxide, even nickel and copper, and energy density by weight does not matter much for stationary applications, energy density by volume yes.
There is a good reason for private schools, as public schools can be staffed by a lot of retarded teachers, but if private schools don't do a good job, you can go to another private school, while there is only one public school system, and if the corrupt teachers find a way in, once they are encroached, you can never get them out of there, as they are all better at backstabbing politics protecting their own jobs than teaching your kids. It's like a quality education is the right of every citizen's child, but a free public education system - a communist creation without private owners that care about their customers, and through that their own bottom line - may not give you that after all.
I can hold my breath for a long time. This is how I like to think, one long rambling stretch of thoughts without breaks. As I said, it's not mandatory to read my shit, if you don't like my style, just simply move along, there is nothing for you to see here. Quit whining like a baby about style.
Why is there ever war? Unfortunately, there is, it's a fact of life. Usually somebody else wants what you have, they want the resources for themselves, and it's easier for them to go to war with you over your stockpiles and territories than collect and stockpile similar resources themselves, or find similar territories.
Near a star, like our Sun, solar energy is cheaper to come by than matter, that you'd wastefully shoot around. And you could argue that distant starlight harvested might be cheaper to come by than matter even far from a star, so energy might be cheaper than matter. The problem with lasers is that they simply don't work on mirror surface - even the internals of a laser have mirrors. So all you have to do is make all your objects with a fine mirror finish on the surface, and you're immune to laser attacks. But x-rays or gamma rays that penetrate mirrors might be a different matter. True a lot might pass through the ship and its crew and be wasted, but the immune suppression and genetic damage a high dose can cause is an excellent weapon. And you can't even feel x-rays, all you know is that you're just weird sick, like a bad cold or AIDS or anything immune suppressant, unless there are detectors for it.
I know all that. I just like to write blocks of flowing text, and you don't have to read it. You are the kind of people with low tolerance to pedantic transgressions that I don't want my posts to be read by. Go stick a carrot up your asses.
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Harbor Freight wants $200 for that 45 watt solar panel, which is presently at a discount from $300. At $0.7/Watt it should cost $31.5 instead of $200.
That's the whole purpose of fucking up linux, to move everyone to BSD, so the innovative spirit of thousand of coders working for free can be tapped by companies like Microsoft. There is nothing Microsoft hates more in this world than the GPL which requires that if you use their sourcecode, you have to release your sourcecode too. With BSD you can take the sourcecode, put it into your thing, then sell the product without having to release your additional sourcecode. For instance Apple OS X is BSD based Unix. They could not base it on Linux, of course, else they'd have to release their sourcecode. I'm a big fan of public domain, but when it comes to Unix I've used mostly Linux simply because of the richness in applications and features, compared to the relatively application poor BSD. If anything I've become a collector of old computer from near 2000-2004, which are fast enough for my needs, and run Windows 2000 and Linux kernels 2.4 and 2.6 under 2.6.30 just fine, and eventually I'll be fully off line, off the Internet with most of my computing, but I might purchase a bleh, no fun, computing appliance, like a tablet, simply to check email, maybe Slashdot and Craigslist, unless these sites go megaheavy on the bloat and crap that bogs everything down and consumes major amount of electricity with that massive waste of a garbage vomit code getting thrown at it by today's "software geniuses."
I pay yahoo $19/year for email, that way my emails do not get lost and account deactivated - they used to deactivate a lot in the past, like 8 years ago, after like 90 days of inactivity. Also exchange of consideration, paying them, means they are sort of responsible not to lose my emails, which is complicated territory when you use their service for free. I used to have various email addresses that needed constant updating, at first from my college, then from various dialup isp's, but by the time I switched to cable broadband I've been permanently with a single yahoo email addy, so I don't have to keep changing it on my resume and other various places and accounts every time I move, or change ISP's. It does get spammed a bit, but some of the spam is actually nice, and I like to read it. I prefer yahoo to both Microsoft's Hotmail or Google's Gmail, because Yahoo is kind of an underdog, the power should not get to their heads that much compared to Microsoft and Google who are on top of the world and might think they can get away with any kind of abuse of their customers. Too much power corrupts. Plus I'd like yahoo to stay in business, but sometimes I see difficulty with that, when they blow billions of dollars on very questionable purchases that they later have to write off. I also use them as popmail through Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, so that lessens a bit their responsibility not to lose my emails, especially the old ones. I do have a free account with them too, that I rarely check, except when I have to fill out some bs online form to get an access password, and I know all they want my email for is spam, and that account has like 100,000 spam messages in it. They used to have a classic webmail interface that was awesome and fast, but their new one is absolute crap, it hogs the CPU with javascript, and is very limited on features. Like I can only move a couple emails at a time from a custom folder to the Inbox, so it gets popmail downloadable, which only gets stuff from Inbox. I used to not do popmail, just webmail, and then if you leave stuff in the Inbox it gets autodeleted after a year, while if you create a folder and move important messages there, you can come back to them for years, but that also means you get at least a couple thousand important messages in that folder, and if you want to move those temporarily back to the Inbox, you can only do like 20 at a time, and if you display a lot more per page then the javascript slows your computer to a crawl. It's really poor programming all over the web these days, including yahoo, facebook, twitter, youtube - why the hell do you need a supercomputer to list videos and their images on a youtube page? It's all pisspoor programming with a purpose, to force everyone off classical computers onto handheld smartphones, where they are locked into a very tight and very low feature world. I also have two gmail accounts, but I haven't paid google much yet, except through clicking ads and buying stuff that way, and one time I bought an organic chemistry ebook from books.google.com, that I had no idea it would be DRM'd, only readable with adobe crap running on top of dotnet. I simply refuse to run the megabloat of dotnet crap on my computers, so I'm kinda pissed at Google for pimping DRM. I hate DRM. It means the book is only readable as long as Adobe is around as a business, and as soon as they are out of business, or simply refuse to authenticate my new device, telling me to upgrade or pay them some money, more than I paid for the stupid DRM pdf ebook, I'm screwed with a DRM ebook. That's like Microsoft who might refuse to authenticate new installations of sealed retail copies of XP, telling people to upgrade. They probably haven't sunk that low yet, but it's coming. That's why Windows 2000 is the last windows and Office 2000 is the last Office to the general consumer without activation that will last even if Microsoft is ever gone out of business, except maybe some corporate versions of XP or hacked versions, maybe, if there is a workable hack. So many things that used to
Intelligent people's birthrate adapts to the available resources. In the countries he mentions the cost of living to income ratio must be too high to where people hold back on having kids. The talk he gives also sounds reminiscent of Hitler's propaganda against the wheelchair bound disabled on welfare. I wanna see this Bill Whittle guy not give money to an elderly to feed who reached 90 years old and ran out of retirement savings, because she did not expect to live that long. Extremes of any kind are bad, this includes extreme socialism and extreme capitalism. Balance is the key.
As far as utility price abuses go, the solution is simple: off grid as much as you can. For instance my gas company charges $25 basic fee even if I don't use any natural gas at all. That's a lot of money and it's bullshit. I'd rather live in a tent in the middle of the woods and heat with propane cylinders of firewood. Off grid off grid off grid when it comes to these utility natural monopoly extreme capitalist motherfuckers.
Which is why a few transistor 80286 for DOS is such a great idea for the military. It can do a lot on the peripheral systems, and the simpler the design, the less its capabilities, the less the security risks. Centrally or in secure locations you can run complex mainframes, that you can inspect and manage the heck out of, but low cost, discardability and security out in the field beg for simplicity in design.
It has everything to do with trusting the silicon. It is possible to embed covert hardware code into a chip, that activates at zero day, or from a satellite signal, or from a plane that flies by. For instance, in the US more and more of the CNC's and injection molding machines and the like, even for military supply chains, are increasingly manufactured in foreign countries like Germany or Japan, and it's not like we're ever gonna go to war with these countries, right? That'd be nice. But in case the shit hits the fan, how are you gonna trust your plastic spoon making equipment the military uses to feed on a daily basis? Or even the bullet making CNC's? First of all you cannot get the spare parts, 2nd you absolutely cannot trust what a chip does, unless you make that chip yourself, and even then you're vulnerable to a swap out. It's not possible to shave off the surface of a chip, then inspect the tracks and transistors with an electron microscope or even x-ray machine, and decipher what the fuck it is doing, because it's so mindbogglingly complex. I, as a human, had trouble figuring out a couple transistor garage opener, or even putting the schematics on paper, even a 50 element garage opener is too complex for an human, unless they are expert electronics designers. A computer could help of course coming up with the schematics, but when you're talking a billion transistors, so what if the computer can create the schematics. It cannot comprehend what a chip does, or could covertly do. All you know an injection molding machine could sense when it's getting worked on, and people standing between open molds hammering out plastic frozen pieces, to keep production going, it could close on them with thousands of lbs of force. You'd lose your best maintenance people in a war situation, and no, there is no time to do proper OSHA lockout tagout, because you can hammer the plastic piece out in 2 or 3 minutes, and keep things going, but dare you lose temperature control, it's an automatic 30 minute timeout. A lot of japanese injection molding machines are like that, you touch the temperature control button by accident for half a second, turn off the barrel heat, and it's an automatic 20 minute timeout. That's bullshit. It begs for no lockout-tagout, when expensive equipment like that has to produce the couple cent parts continuously, else it cannot pay for the financing. Time like 20 minutes down is a matter of staying in business, or shutting the doors as yet another company out of business in the US. All these headaches because of automation and chips, hardware, that you yourself did not make. It's imperative for every country on the planet to have their own chip hardware business, at least for their own military purposes, and by military, I mean simple things like plastic spoon manufacturing, that are light and easy to carry in a soldier's backpack.
Solar flat panels can be static and usually do not track. Anything paraboloid has a focus point and it must track accurately, it must be a dynamic, moving. Otherwise an expensive paraboloid reflector shape is worse than a cheaper flat panel shape.
The only reason why the US is not competitive in the global marketplace is not human ability, but the cost of living. Housing being the major cost above everything else, but it's difficult to reduce because people amassed so much of their wealth into it, sometimes by money falling from the sky into your lap appreciation, but they get very angry when they lose any bit of that appreciation. Like Dutch tulip mania tulip holders, they are very reluctant to see tulip prices drop when they amassed so many of their eggs into that basket. So minimum wage has to be high, to cover rent and mortgage prices, which means businesses simply shut down and move to where housing cost, or just general cost of living, is more competitive and allows for cheaper labor. I would have no problem working for 5 cents an hour in the US today, if my cost of living expenses were 0.1 cents an hour. Until quality of life improves around the world where the cost of living everywhere is high, such as China and India, the US is in a bad labor market situation. But even if China or India get expensive to live in, and have to pay high minimum wage, companies like Apple, Walmart, and the like will simply go to Africa, or maybe South America, that are still third world countries, or even if they are not on average, there are still a lot of people living in shanty-town tents, right outside metropolises like Rio de Janeiro, and are available for cheap labor.
You could inactivate all lifeforms in sewage by either massive amount of NaOH, sodium hydroxide lye, at a massive cost, or with formalin, formalin having the advantage of some of it that is unbound distilling back out. Some kind of heat treatment might work too, in an air-liquefaction counter current heat exchange way, where there is a hot zone, and the stuff on the way there gets heated by the stuff coming from there, saving some heat, but it's all very expensive compared to what's done today, such as biotreatment, letting nature take care of whatever it can take care of, by using bacteria to digest up the sewage. Blessed be the long gone days of yeoman farmer outhouses, where your poop stays put in one place, and composts there, as opposed to the sewer system where millions of poop get mixed together, then treated, but pathogens can still survive treatments, then sent to a river or lake from which people drink their tap water, that often simply gets filtered through green sand. Remember, always drink upstream from the herd, if you can afford to live upstream. There is something healthy about being a highlander, as opposed to coast megapolis resident. At least NYC gets its water from the mountains, not their nearby rivers, but I do drink lake water coming through my tap, downstream from a lot of megapolis sewage systems.
If people lived like the Amish, who recycle their own poop, grown your own food yeoman farmer style, with relatively little contact to all over the world, the spread of diseases would be more cut down. But with all the airline industry, and people vacationing abroad, and massive metropolises congested with human biomass, that is presently not possible. Perhaps there is a good side to the coming global energy crunch. It will stop people from moving all over the place so much, and stay put where they are, and then spread of slow incubation time diseases will be slower, when it knocks somebody out sick laying in bed, or even dead, on it's way to spreading it distance wise.
For instance there is a bee infection, or ant infection, I forget - and these creatures have been around a couple hundred million years longer than mammals like humans, so their diseases, especially for the highly social and congested kinds, have had time to become very sophisticated, so one of these infections does not manifest itself in the hive, except in the queen laying only sterile eggs and unable to produce a fertile offspring queen. Life goes on, like a walking dead, every day in the hive, but unbeknownst, the hive is doomed, because it cannot pass on the chain of life, because of the lurking and stealthy long incubation time disease. One wonders why such a parasite would arise in the first place, as the #1 rule of any long terms successful parasite, like a predator, is that you do not senselessly kill the host you're feeding off of, you do not drive your food supply to extinction. But life is blind when it comes to such things, and there are wide oscillations in population, predator- grazing prey-plantfood systems, as neither the predator, nor the grazing prey have an instinct not to overfeed, though they do get satiated with food per individual, but there is no limit on the amount of offsprings they all try to rear, and even if each individual gets satiated with food, when there are gazillions of them that often leads to a local eco-catastrophy.
The NSA, FBI and the CDC can have a collective branch or task force focused on this topic, and they probably already do. But the only true long term answer guarantee is to run away to the safety of self sufficient, sustainably livable, rotating cylinder artificial gravity space stations, at least for some people, and for whoever stays down here cross their fingers and hope for the best. And even then you have to limit physical contact to say once a generation, such as once every 100 years, between space stations, as it's hard to see a disease with an incubation time that long, that would not surface and be appearant under a 100 year time frame. Even syphilis manifests itself in 30 years or so, at max, as its stages of secondary, tertiary, etc. But long term biosafety for space stations doing physical contact with the outside world has one keyword: incubation time that lasts decades.
Chill out dude.. the solar irradiation, called isolation (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...) is nowhere near the amount they claim, if 12 kW power average over the day is what they claim, for the amount of surface area their thing covers. I guess they mean 12kWh, not kW, kilowatt-hour, not kilowatt, which are two different beasts. Even that, at 5 cents a kWh, 12 kWh comes to 60 cents of electric power a day. Their contraption looks like a couple ten thousand dollar thing, and the economics are simply not there. Let alone the maintenance cost of a moving thing, that has to track the Sun accurately across the sky, it could be miscalibrated, or motor breaks down. The cheapest thing with solar is massive massive land area at like 8-15% efficiency, with a flat nonmoving panel, that might cost a couple ten bucks a square meter, long term. 80% collection efficiency might be great on a space station or satellite that needs to get lifted off this planet with expensive rocket fuel, but it does not make sense down here if it costs $10,000 for a few square meters, the price needs to drop to like $10-$40 per square meter, and these guys, like Mc Hammer says, just can't touch that. The maximum amount of solar irradiation hitting the planet is 1kW/square meter, and 12kW would be 3x4 meters, at 100% efficiency, a human being being around 6ft=6*12 inches=72 inches=72*2.54cm/in=182.88 cm, or 1.83 meters tall, in comparison. Looking at the guy next to some of their devices, it's not 3x4 meters area, though others look big enough, but who cares if it breaks the bank simply on pouring the cement foundation for it, let alone the tracking system, compared to some slanted panel you toss out there, without a concrete foundation, and you don't care if it breaks down because it can be thrown away and replaced cheaply. Solar power is all about economics, and that means not much fancy stuff. Nuclear has the energy density plus it does require the fanciest of fancy things you can throw at it, but solar is simply too thin energy wise to invest a lot of money into a small collection surface area, because even if you get every last bit of it, it's still not that much. Massive land area, like cheap real estate available in deserts, is what's needed by solar. Wind can allow farming side by side, and real estate land area requirements are not that big. If anything, semitransparent thin film covered glass solar is the future in nondesert places, that allows a greenhouse to still make it in its semi-shade, plus all the glass covered buildings and nonglass rooftops, though cleaning them can be an issue on roofs.
All you gotta do is store the electric temporarily in Edison nickel-iron tote batteries of 300 gals (1200L) each, then use that to run an electrolysis making iron(abundant) dust, or zinc blocks(not so abundant), things you can later recombust either for heat in the wintertime, or in a metal-air battery. Zinc stores nicely in stacks outside in the weather, but iron needs protection, such as the dust mixed up with an oil, that can be later washed off with pentane(or similar low boiler cyclic hydrocarbons for instance), or even hot water soap, but with pentane you can drop the clean iron out after like 3 washes, then distill the pentane out at low temperature to recover both it and the oil, and also dry the metal in a pot to recover the pentane. It gets a little complex compared to zinc, but iron is abundant everywhere in the world, plus it may be easier to electrowin, with less gassing. On the Wikipedia energy density page http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi... you can see that both solid iron dust and zinc slabs have good volumetric energy storage capacities, though they are very heavy. Magnesium, aluminum and silicon are better, but no low temperature straightforward process is available for their extraction as metal, unlike zinc(with plating bath additives/pickling gas suppressors) and iron have easy aqueous electrolyte processing. In particular, unlike sodium in the Castner-Kellner process, or even calcium in the Humphry Davy amalgam process, magnesium does not form a good, strongly binding amalgam with a high hydrogen overpotential, but gasses out immediately, and it's not possible to low temperature electrowin into mercury, (or safer gallium/ldead/antimony/indium/tin/etc-like molten alloys), from which then it could be stripped in a lithium ion battery solvent aprotic electrolyte, electrolyzed directly into metal form, at room temperature. However calcium is possible, sodium and potassium too, which then can be thermite reacted with magnesium things, of course losing some energy in the process, but magnesium is both light to stack, and it has good atmospheric corrosion properties, better than iron. (Sodium, calcium or potassium are not possible to store well in a stack in open weather, unless complicated coated, like in a tote, but now it becomes expensive on the totes. And they are very dangerous for children to play with by accident.) Of course aluminum forms an amalgam with mercury too, but once it's bound to oxygen in any form, including any aqueous solution, it's near impossible to reduce, maybe unless you can form a conductive hydroxide precipitate layer on the surface of mercury, chromium electrolysis style, but I don't know if that also does not gas out with hydrogen fast, like magnesium does. And thermiting calcium with aluminum oxide gives an even greater energy loss than with magnesium. In any case, long term stacked outside in a pile ways of chemical energy storage methods should be happy with 50% efficiency of input energy recoverable, unlike with pumped hydro, which has limited capacity worldwide, but can do 90+% storage efficiency.
That is amazing news!
I don't know how they can make the plants not normally associated with those bacteria interact with those bacteria. The truth is that nitrogen fixating bacteria do so at a tremendous expense of energy, usually supplied by root nodules of a plant. If there were such associations with barley and these bacteria, in the past, you can bet your pants on it that it would be already standard practice, and also a sort of darwinist survival of the fittest natural existence. The fact is, unless genetically engineered, barley must not provide these root nodules, unlike alfalfa or beans. However, rice is grown in puddles that have cyanobacteria or similar critters that do fix nitrogen, which, ultimately, end up in the local nitrogen cycle on cycle on critter death. So with rice, with two independent organisms, one living on its own and doing nitrogen fixation, side by side with rice, the situation is similar to growing alfalfa and barley, on the same plot of land, at the same time, independently of each other, side by side, and then somehow picking only the barley, and leaving the alfalfa to rot. Unlike with rice where the picking the rice only and leaving the cyanobacteria in the puddle is easy, with barley and alfalfa (or beans or peas) independent harvesting is so costly, that instead a monoculture of each is grown, in a yearly crop rotation way.
Another way to put nitrogen into the soil locally, is to run a windmill, into an indestructible nickel-iron tote battery temporarily, from which doing lithium hydroxide electrolysis, then extruding lithium wires to age in the atmosphere, them getting coated with an oxide layer first, then under that Li3N, lithium nitride, which when contacted with water gives back the lithium hydroxide and ammonia, your nitrogen source. With carbon dioxide from a cylinder or even from carefully regulated and cooled (such as using a suction pump from the stack and a bubbler through an aqueous ammonia solution) chimney exhaust gas from natural gas or propane (which are soot free), ammonia can be turned into ammonium carbonate and bicarbonate, baking powder, which is a great fertilizer salt, volatile, but not as volatile as liquid ammonia itself.
By the way there is a patent on corroding metallic lithium pieces in air, whereby a thin surface oxide coating forms at first, and then the corrosion under that continues as the pure nitride, at room temperature, from around 1970, give or take. Google and the USPTO are so great at hiding it right now, which is why I assume this post was made, because that's such an important patent to hillbilly farmers, that expired, and the powers that be, such as those present at Google or the USPTO, would love to repatent the whole thing and sue the shit out of every poor "kulak" over it. Oh well. So anyway, true it's a slow process and wastes some of the lithium as oxide, but it does not require pure oxygen free nitrogen, expensive reaction vessels to heat lithium metal in, or even high temperatures, unlike the other processes that rely on heating lithium with pure nitrogen. All you really need to invest in is the lithium hydroxide to lithium metal electrolysis, the lithium recycled, and the process using excess electric power coming from a windmill or a solar panel array. The Edison nickel iron battery is indestructible, it can be drained to zero and kept there forever, has no memory, unlike nicad with memory or lead acid that self drains and self destructs if allowed to stay at 0 charge for a long time, and other type batteries with their issues, however, while it is hillbilly friendly, it too has issues, it is not very efficient at energy storage because of hydrogen gassing, and also it quickly self depletes on charge completely within about a month, so it won't hold charge for a long time, and you gotta convert the energy in it into some other, more permanent storage, either as fuel or fixed nitrogen fertilizer.
That's an irrelevant point. The point is whether Canadian authorities have a right to regulate anyone who does business within their borders, and in my mind, they not only do, but in fact all intellectual property (which ultimately enters public domain in each country based on their rules of copyright or patent expiration), like land property, is locally owned everywhere, and sort of a fee simple license is the maximum that can be obtained by any individual, partnership or corporation. By principles of local rule, things instilled into law in countries halfway across the globe (e.g. on some whacky semi-deserted islands for instance), do not apply in your local domain, unless you agree to them through treaties with those distant countries, but like a marriage, you have the right to divorce from the treaty and assert independence, local rule, true at a grave cost. But the true fact is that even the content distributed by Netflix itself is not owned by Netflix within the borders of Canada, but the ultimate sovereign is the Canadian people in case of a democracy, or the Canadian monarch, in case of a monarchy, who, however, tend to play along, except when push comes to shove.
The only way China can cut global warming emissions is by abstaining from coal and natural gas as a fuel and switching to nuclear while building up a solar and wind mega-infrastructure.