The Norse hydropower is the battery which makes the whole system work in case you did not get it. They are using pumped storage. Otherwise they would either have rolling blackouts or less percentage of wind power in the system.
If your building does not have them already get double-glazed windows and insulate the roof. Use centralized heating. Either heat-pump based or a propane or diesel boiler. I say propane or diesel because it is denser and easier to transport and most of it in Europe comes from petrofuels of the Middle East rather than Russian natural gas reserves. Burning wood or coal is nice if you live in the middle of nowhere but if everyone started doing this in cities atmospheric pollution would get worse just like it was in the XIXth century. Check where your electricity comes from if it is natural gas or coal. You might not actually have a problem at all. Get an UPS for your PC and surge protection for every major appliance because I think it is more likely you will have rolling blackouts than actual total grid failure.
Prevented my ass. It can be delayed at best. I have several people with Type-2 in my family and most of them never were fat to begin with and did a lot of physical exercise. Also it is possible to get diabetic from viral, bacterial, fungal, or parasitic induced diseases which cause pancreatitis.
H2O and CO2. Which is the same output as a perfect combustion engine. Of course in practice such a thing as a perfect combustion engine does not exist. You use air instead of O2 in the oxidizer and you get NOx. Even if you used only pure O2 as the oxidizer you would probably still get CO, benzene and crap like that in the exhaust. So you remove the CO, benzene and other crap with a platinum catalyst to turn that crap into CO2 and H2O. Which is what we use right now.
Sure it is interesting. But there are truckloads of interesting fundamental research results that turn out to not have any useful application in practice because they are either not efficient enough, or cheap enough, or practical enough. I can think of lots of questions like: are the enzymes expended with the fuel, how much does it cost to produce the enzymes per gallon of fuel burned, and how efficient the whole scheme is. If it is not efficient enough it would at best only be useful for stationary applications at horrendous $/kWh.
AFAIK the Orthodox also include the apocrypha. Blame Martin Luter for including it in a separate part of this translation of the Bible (probably couldn't be assed to translate the entire thing in one volume) and maybe the Jews because it actually isn't in their Ancient Testament (whoops). Allegedly the earliest copies are in Greek.
Supposedly the angels, also created by God, are immortal too. Calling them gods is extreme. They are supposedly supremely powerful but still servants of God. Although since they possess free will they can rebel. As that other dude you talked about.
What I find a lot more fascinating is the story about angels from the sky killing a Dragon. Since this matches more or less Japanese myth as well. For the story to spread that far it must be pretty old.
Well the Ark of Noah episode is actually a rather blatant ripoff of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Well perhaps ripoff is too strong a word since the Jewish people allegedly also migrated from Mesopotamia and the story was probably transmitted orally along the ages. It's in Summerian and Akkadian myth.
I thought that architecture from Tera had been cancelled long enough. Never heard about much sales from it. It was interesting but if you read the description of what it does and think about how a modern GPU works you will see you are probably much better off buying COTS GPUs.
It is correct that is was hard for the Soviet Union to support a theocratic state like Iran for ideological reasons. But despite intermittent reports I have heard of no major weapons sales to Iran.
The Soviet Union at one point supplied Egypt, Syria and Iraq in their fight against Israel. While Israel, which used to be supplied by the French and British, later lost that support and got US support instead. Egypt eventually dropped out of the Soviet sphere after the Camp David accords so now they are an US weapons consumer since they basically get them for free. Iraq was more of a mixed bag as they buy all kinds of hardware since Saddam fell. Syria is the one still only having Russia as a weapons supplier. There are reports of the rebels having access to Chinese small weapons bought with Saudi and Qatari money but if the Chinese actually support the Syrian opposition it makes little sense as they have current oil interests in Iraq and would be better served by a stable government there. It is probably just the usual problem of the Chubese selling too many weapons to too many people.
You don't get it. Iran was never a major weapons client of the Russians. In the time of the Shah their major supplier was the US/UK and ever since they have dealt with a motley collection of rotting equipment. Iraq was the state being supplied by the Soviet Union back during the Iran/Iraq war while the Iranians used previous stock, weapons dropped by Iraqi soldiers, or whatever. The major weapons clients of Russia have been India, Venezuela and China to a degree.
Syria is a strategic matter of having some degree of control over that area of the Mediterranean they are not a particularly large or rich country so they will never be a major weapons client.
Motorola and IBM were screwed by Apple more than they screwed Apple. Back when Apple opened up the Mac clones market a lot of competitors showed up which increased the demand for PowerPC chips. As a result it was profitable to sell PowerPC to the desktop back then. Once Apple killed the Mac clone business the demand for PowerPC chips fell off a cliff. Did you ever think one vendor with less than 10% of the market could sustain two chip vendors like IBM and Motorola? I would not be surprised if they sold a lot more PS3s than Macs. Let alone the XBox360s and Wiis.
Once they lost the console deals the justification to run the fact decreased. But I still think they were fools for doing it. Their mainframe division makes them a lot of money and the only reason they are not killed there by mainframe emulation software running on commodity server is because the hardware they produce is faster at some tasks. If they stop developing the hardware for a long time the emulators will catch up and their cash cow will end.
Then again I did not hear what are their plans for their chip design division.
What is wrong with having dealings with Syria? The regime is dictatorial and is a de facto monarchy but I never heard of them treating their citizens like North Korea does or having an enforced state religion like in Iran. In fact I cannot think much bad I can say about Iran that does not happen even worse in Saudi Arabia.
India has been and is the major client of Russian weapons in the world. At one point, after the Sino-Soviet split, the Russians did not sell any weapons to the Chinese and today they still give preferential access to India. Like the aircraft carrier, the nuclear submarine, T-90 tanks, etc.
India is considered by the Russians a strategic partner and counterweight against other forces in the region namely China and Pakistan. Iraq also used to be a strategic partner at one point. Syria still is.
That does not include either the dynamo or the electric motor, two of the most important devices in the history of mankind, both developed by Faraday in the XIXth century BEFORE Maxwell wrote EM theory. Nor a lot of other things. Just because XXth century physics was that way it does not mean it is always that way. Another example is steam engines. People had working examples of steam engines a long time before Thermodynamics were developed to explain how they worked.
You would still need to explain how the energy was generated.
Some of the people doing LENR have even used neutron detectors in their devices which showed the generation of neutrons inside the devices. The transmutation is not a new thing either. Some people have problem making the effect reproducible due to quality control of unknown factors. But allegedly others can reproduce it easily with processes they usually do not often divulge. To the point where you can use their fuel in whatever device you want according to spec and it works. There are all sorts of theories of why these devices work like they do.
Regardless the usual problem is it generates low grade heat over a really long time. Ask any person who knows a thing about thermodynamics what's the efficiency of recovery of electricity from low grade heat and you will understand why there aren't a lot of people working on this thing.
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Ask the Norwegians what happened to their electric prices ever since their wondrous green scheme came about.
The Norse hydropower is the battery which makes the whole system work in case you did not get it. They are using pumped storage. Otherwise they would either have rolling blackouts or less percentage of wind power in the system.
If your building does not have them already get double-glazed windows and insulate the roof. Use centralized heating. Either heat-pump based or a propane or diesel boiler. I say propane or diesel because it is denser and easier to transport and most of it in Europe comes from petrofuels of the Middle East rather than Russian natural gas reserves. Burning wood or coal is nice if you live in the middle of nowhere but if everyone started doing this in cities atmospheric pollution would get worse just like it was in the XIXth century. Check where your electricity comes from if it is natural gas or coal. You might not actually have a problem at all. Get an UPS for your PC and surge protection for every major appliance because I think it is more likely you will have rolling blackouts than actual total grid failure.
Prevented my ass. It can be delayed at best. I have several people with Type-2 in my family and most of them never were fat to begin with and did a lot of physical exercise. Also it is possible to get diabetic from viral, bacterial, fungal, or parasitic induced diseases which cause pancreatitis.
H2O and CO2. Which is the same output as a perfect combustion engine. Of course in practice such a thing as a perfect combustion engine does not exist. You use air instead of O2 in the oxidizer and you get NOx. Even if you used only pure O2 as the oxidizer you would probably still get CO, benzene and crap like that in the exhaust. So you remove the CO, benzene and other crap with a platinum catalyst to turn that crap into CO2 and H2O. Which is what we use right now.
Sure it is interesting. But there are truckloads of interesting fundamental research results that turn out to not have any useful application in practice because they are either not efficient enough, or cheap enough, or practical enough. I can think of lots of questions like: are the enzymes expended with the fuel, how much does it cost to produce the enzymes per gallon of fuel burned, and how efficient the whole scheme is. If it is not efficient enough it would at best only be useful for stationary applications at horrendous $/kWh.
Sodomy means any sexual act not designed to conceive a child. So it even includes coitus interruptus.
In monkeys homosexual acts increase in rate when there are few females around. I wouldn't be surprised if its the same with humans.
AFAIK the Orthodox also include the apocrypha. Blame Martin Luter for including it in a separate part of this translation of the Bible (probably couldn't be assed to translate the entire thing in one volume) and maybe the Jews because it actually isn't in their Ancient Testament (whoops). Allegedly the earliest copies are in Greek.
Heck I dunno.
Supposedly the angels, also created by God, are immortal too. Calling them gods is extreme. They are supposedly supremely powerful but still servants of God. Although since they possess free will they can rebel. As that other dude you talked about.
What I find a lot more fascinating is the story about angels from the sky killing a Dragon. Since this matches more or less Japanese myth as well. For the story to spread that far it must be pretty old.
Well the Ark of Noah episode is actually a rather blatant ripoff of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Well perhaps ripoff is too strong a word since the Jewish people allegedly also migrated from Mesopotamia and the story was probably transmitted orally along the ages. It's in Summerian and Akkadian myth.
It is called a retcon. God does it all the time. Stan Lee at Marvel did it all the time.
I thought that architecture from Tera had been cancelled long enough. Never heard about much sales from it. It was interesting but if you read the description of what it does and think about how a modern GPU works you will see you are probably much better off buying COTS GPUs.
The current Cray probably only keeps the logo of the original Cray. There was an additional purchase besides Tera that is not listed there.
Nothing a large enough database cannot fix.
It is correct that is was hard for the Soviet Union to support a theocratic state like Iran for ideological reasons. But despite intermittent reports I have heard of no major weapons sales to Iran.
The Soviet Union at one point supplied Egypt, Syria and Iraq in their fight against Israel. While Israel, which used to be supplied by the French and British, later lost that support and got US support instead. Egypt eventually dropped out of the Soviet sphere after the Camp David accords so now they are an US weapons consumer since they basically get them for free. Iraq was more of a mixed bag as they buy all kinds of hardware since Saddam fell. Syria is the one still only having Russia as a weapons supplier. There are reports of the rebels having access to Chinese small weapons bought with Saudi and Qatari money but if the Chinese actually support the Syrian opposition it makes little sense as they have current oil interests in Iraq and would be better served by a stable government there. It is probably just the usual problem of the Chubese selling too many weapons to too many people.
You don't get it. Iran was never a major weapons client of the Russians. In the time of the Shah their major supplier was the US/UK and ever since they have dealt with a motley collection of rotting equipment. Iraq was the state being supplied by the Soviet Union back during the Iran/Iraq war while the Iranians used previous stock, weapons dropped by Iraqi soldiers, or whatever. The major weapons clients of Russia have been India, Venezuela and China to a degree.
Syria is a strategic matter of having some degree of control over that area of the Mediterranean they are not a particularly large or rich country so they will never be a major weapons client.
In other words their future is being a patent troll. As usual.
Motorola and IBM were screwed by Apple more than they screwed Apple. Back when Apple opened up the Mac clones market a lot of competitors showed up which increased the demand for PowerPC chips. As a result it was profitable to sell PowerPC to the desktop back then. Once Apple killed the Mac clone business the demand for PowerPC chips fell off a cliff. Did you ever think one vendor with less than 10% of the market could sustain two chip vendors like IBM and Motorola? I would not be surprised if they sold a lot more PS3s than Macs. Let alone the XBox360s and Wiis.
Once they lost the console deals the justification to run the fact decreased. But I still think they were fools for doing it. Their mainframe division makes them a lot of money and the only reason they are not killed there by mainframe emulation software running on commodity server is because the hardware they produce is faster at some tasks. If they stop developing the hardware for a long time the emulators will catch up and their cash cow will end.
Then again I did not hear what are their plans for their chip design division.
What is wrong with having dealings with Syria? The regime is dictatorial and is a de facto monarchy but I never heard of them treating their citizens like North Korea does or having an enforced state religion like in Iran. In fact I cannot think much bad I can say about Iran that does not happen even worse in Saudi Arabia.
Or concrete for that matter. They even "lost" the way to manufacture it to reinvent it centuries later.
India has been and is the major client of Russian weapons in the world. At one point, after the Sino-Soviet split, the Russians did not sell any weapons to the Chinese and today they still give preferential access to India. Like the aircraft carrier, the nuclear submarine, T-90 tanks, etc.
India is considered by the Russians a strategic partner and counterweight against other forces in the region namely China and Pakistan. Iraq also used to be a strategic partner at one point. Syria still is.
I remember people using Glide -> DirectX/OpenGL translation layers on Windows several years back to run UltraHLE and things like that.
So I doubt it is that hard.
That does not include either the dynamo or the electric motor, two of the most important devices in the history of mankind, both developed by Faraday in the XIXth century BEFORE Maxwell wrote EM theory. Nor a lot of other things. Just because XXth century physics was that way it does not mean it is always that way. Another example is steam engines. People had working examples of steam engines a long time before Thermodynamics were developed to explain how they worked.
You would still need to explain how the energy was generated.
Some of the people doing LENR have even used neutron detectors in their devices which showed the generation of neutrons inside the devices. The transmutation is not a new thing either. Some people have problem making the effect reproducible due to quality control of unknown factors. But allegedly others can reproduce it easily with processes they usually do not often divulge. To the point where you can use their fuel in whatever device you want according to spec and it works. There are all sorts of theories of why these devices work like they do.
Regardless the usual problem is it generates low grade heat over a really long time. Ask any person who knows a thing about thermodynamics what's the efficiency of recovery of electricity from low grade heat and you will understand why there aren't a lot of people working on this thing.