TDP cheats, the energy used to remove the water is actually the same energy used to break down the organic molecules. TDP requires water. The water is heated for pressure to break down the organics, it is then quickly depressurised causing it to boil off rapidly. Instant dry!:-)
It is laughable to say that the body has pulled out most of the caloric value, the body cant process any fiber, and is no where near 100% efficient in using the energy inside sugars, fats, and protiens. Also the sewage wouldn't produce "net" oil. But it does.
Also on the trash front, yes it is possible to put a bound on the ammount of oil produceable by TDP. It is directly proportional to the world's output of garbage, sewage, and other waste products. I'll give a rough estimate below.
And yes TDP will if nothing else be a better way to take care of waste reclamation problems. however I think you grossly misunderestimate the amount of waste the world produces.
"Your first question on the average number of pounds of trash produced by Illinois residents has a rather shocking answer. My sources say that we produce about five pounds of trash per person per day. While this may not seem too extreme, consider that the people of India produce only 1/2 pound of trash per person per day, 10 times less"
and here
http://www.metro-region.org/article.cfm?articleid= 5579/ "Each individual generates about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year - about 4.5 pounds per person, per day. If we continue this pattern, we will have each created 90,000 pounds of trash in our lifetimes. Environmental Protection Agency, "Resource Conservation Challenge: Reducing Waste and Recovering Energy," EPA 530-F-02-033, 2002"
So lets assume the world average is 1 lb per person per day. assuming America is the highest and india is on the lowend. (and we will not consider the industrial waste products which are actually many many times more massive than the indvidual waste so this is a VERY lowball estimate)
6 billion people * 1 lb * 365 day / year = 2,190,000,000,000 ~ 2.1 billion lbs of waste per year (i dont believe this even includes sewage)
Assuming we used TDP to convert it all to oil at the sewage rate of 26% we get 569,400,000,000 ~ 500 billion lbs of oil per year.
can you make bio diesel out of raw sewage? and garbage. most of which is just random hydro carbons not necessarily petroleum derived. food, animal, plant waste plus plastics, paper etc.
GAIM was a rather large recipient in the summer of code stuff google did this summer.
I already use gaim on windows, because I was fed up with having aim, yahoo, and MSN, Just to talk to a few people on each. They all baloon to 20+ MB of ram each while running. Gaim never reaches 20 while providing me with the same functionality.
The only problem is the file transfer and A/V chat features. When I want to use those I fire up the official client.
Here is hoping that google just throws some programmers at gaim and then rebrands it.
I think Adaware still marks cookies in its scan, so whenver I clean someone's computer with so much spyware, I just hit select all and then delete. I imagine most people dont go picking through it to save the cookies.
Games are currently made by white guys. More black guys play games (or play them longer) than white guys.
Sounds like the minorities have spoken, they like the current games!
Atleast with the whole women gamer thing you can possibly corrolate lack of game players to lack of developers, but this minority argument is actually the opposite.
Not exactly offensive but I was not expecting it. Children can stumble onto things. Of course when you say all minors are children I think you do yourself and them a disservice.
Not that I'm in the ID crowd, but If an alien came down and showed me how to create life, that would be proof.... I know just playing devil's advocate.
lol wow, IM just a college student and my highest interest rate card is 9.9 % of course I dont use that because I just jump from various 0% interest cards, thats purchase and balance transfer and no fees. Not to mention I get 5% cash back on gas,groceries, and drug stores. 1% on everything else.
well the data rate has more to do with avg upload ability and seed to peer ratio. 100,000 dialup seeders vs a tracker with 1000 cable users, and the cable tracker will end up with better transfer rates.
Also there is over head on each connection. so its always better to have a few fast people seeding you than a lot of slow people.
Coming up with the protocol and sharing algorithms that have been made so far is really amazing, they are general enough that in all of the situation I listed above, while one may be better than the others, they all work out pretty well in bittorrent.
Back when suprnova was around and matrix 3 was released, there were almost 100,000 on the download lists for some torrents.
At this point the trackers became so slow. With DHT and what not though I'm willing to bet that the same thing would be much faster now.
Also, the slashdot crowd tends to leave their torrents open longer. I go with a minimum of 1:1 If I really like the content or the cause (both in this case) I will seed indefinetly until I need bandwidth.
I am not normally one to complain about the stories here, but this got me hyped up over nothing.
I can't believe I just downloaded a video (from a seemingly registration required tracker, forced to use the DHT) in which 2 people bought a boxed set of legos with instructions on exactly how to build an ISD with the exact right peices straight from LEGO.
I completely expected a home brew type lego creation. And instead I got a packaged deal.
Next on slashdot, 2 guys build a complete FORD Truck!!! (webcam inside Ford factory showing 2 workers managing the robots building a truck)
Slashdot Mirror
TDP cheats, the energy used to remove the water is actually the same energy used to break down the organic molecules. TDP requires water. The water is heated for pressure to break down the organics, it is then quickly depressurised causing it to boil off rapidly. Instant dry! :-)
/ environ/ENV005.HTM/
= 5579/
... / 42 gallons per barrel = ~ 1.6 billion barrels of oil per year
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It is laughable to say that the body has pulled out most of the caloric value, the body cant process any fiber, and is no where near 100% efficient in using the energy inside sugars, fats, and protiens. Also the sewage wouldn't produce "net" oil. But it does.
Also on the trash front, yes it is possible to put a bound on the ammount of oil produceable by TDP. It is directly proportional to the world's output of garbage, sewage, and other waste products. I'll give a rough estimate below.
And yes TDP will if nothing else be a better way to take care of waste reclamation problems. however I think you grossly misunderestimate the amount of waste the world produces.
a quick google produces
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/newton/askasci/1993
"Your first question on the average number of pounds of trash produced by Illinois residents has a rather shocking answer. My sources say that we produce about five pounds of trash per person per day. While this may not seem too extreme, consider that the people of India produce only 1/2 pound of trash per person per day, 10 times less"
and here
http://www.metro-region.org/article.cfm?articleid
"Each individual generates about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year - about 4.5 pounds per person, per day. If we continue this pattern, we will have each created 90,000 pounds of trash in our lifetimes.
Environmental Protection Agency, "Resource Conservation Challenge: Reducing Waste and Recovering Energy," EPA 530-F-02-033, 2002"
So lets assume the world average is 1 lb per person per day. assuming America is the highest and india is on the lowend. (and we will not consider the industrial waste products which are actually many many times more massive than the indvidual waste so this is a VERY lowball estimate)
6 billion people * 1 lb * 365 day / year = 2,190,000,000,000 ~ 2.1 billion lbs of waste per year (i dont believe this even includes sewage)
Assuming we used TDP to convert it all to oil at the sewage rate of 26% we get 569,400,000,000 ~ 500 billion lbs of oil per year.
http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_materials.htm/
Oil, petroleum (881 kg) / (cubic meters)
google calculator...
(881 kg) / (cubic meters) = 7.35230135 pound / US gallon
500 billion / (7.35230135 pound / US gallon) = 68 Billion gallons per year
1.6 billion / 365 = ~ 4,383,561 barrels of oil per day
The world pumps ~ 30 - 40 million barrels of oil per day. (OPEC is at 25ish so I estimated)
TDP can provide 10% of the World oil production. And as we get onto the other side of the Hubbert peak, that percentage will grow higher and higher.
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Does this solve the complete energy problem? No.
Is it a big step? Yes.
Will purposefully created fuels(biodiesel) be part of the equation also? Yes, but rememebr with TDP we can reclaim some of the waste at each cycle.
Will TDP provide better, more sustainable ways to clean sewage & provide drinking water, dispose of trash, and keep more energy in the loop? YES
Man that took way too long....
can you make bio diesel out of raw sewage? and garbage. most of which is just random hydro carbons not necessarily petroleum derived. food, animal, plant waste plus plastics, paper etc.
Man made oil, its almost economical just has to ge to $80 a barrel for oil. We arent far from that.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymeriza
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/31/154 6252&tid=172&tid=109
you are aware that the Zotob worm only succesfully attacks win 2k boxes right?
it works...sometimes. this is probably due to NAT issues as you say.
GAIM was a rather large recipient in the summer of code stuff google did this summer.
I already use gaim on windows, because I was fed up with having aim, yahoo, and MSN, Just to talk to a few people on each. They all baloon to 20+ MB of ram each while running. Gaim never reaches 20 while providing me with the same functionality.
The only problem is the file transfer and A/V chat features. When I want to use those I fire up the official client.
Here is hoping that google just throws some programmers at gaim and then rebrands it.
I think Adaware still marks cookies in its scan, so whenver I clean someone's computer with so much spyware, I just hit select all and then delete. I imagine most people dont go picking through it to save the cookies.
Whats the conversion rate for craptons of code to slashdot standard LOCs?
You guys rock!
Go into the options and disable hardware acceleration, You can screen cap any video then.
Hmm lets see....
Games are currently made by white guys.
More black guys play games (or play them longer) than white guys.
Sounds like the minorities have spoken, they like the current games!
Atleast with the whole women gamer thing you can possibly corrolate lack of game players to lack of developers, but this minority argument is actually the opposite.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/10/ 1619200&tid=10
Not exactly offensive but I was not expecting it. Children can stumble onto things. Of course when you say all minors are children I think you do yourself and them a disservice.
Not that I'm in the ID crowd, but If an alien came down and showed me how to create life, that would be proof.... I know just playing devil's advocate.
lol wow, IM just a college student and my highest interest rate card is 9.9 % of course I dont use that because I just jump from various 0% interest cards, thats purchase and balance transfer and no fees. Not to mention I get 5% cash back on gas,groceries, and drug stores. 1% on everything else.
OMG!!! I LOVE THIS!!!
Here the coverage Tom's Hardware has. Some nice pictures, now I at least know what the guy looks like.
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http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article131
Not working for me :-(
wow, I bet that would work.
I have been reading Secrets and Lies by Bruce Scheier. Most depressing book ever to anyone who is involved with computers.
Th eidea that religions wouldnt be allowed onto the fiber network doesn't hold water.
The gov cant impede religion either, so as long as they pay for their use of the network just like anyone else, then the gov. couldnt block them.
However you also can't expect the gov. to pay for the costs of broadcasting religious shows either.
well the data rate has more to do with avg upload ability and seed to peer ratio. 100,000 dialup seeders vs a tracker with 1000 cable users, and the cable tracker will end up with better transfer rates.
Also there is over head on each connection. so its always better to have a few fast people seeding you than a lot of slow people.
Coming up with the protocol and sharing algorithms that have been made so far is really amazing, they are general enough that in all of the situation I listed above, while one may be better than the others, they all work out pretty well in bittorrent.
Back when suprnova was around and matrix 3 was released, there were almost 100,000 on the download lists for some torrents.
At this point the trackers became so slow. With DHT and what not though I'm willing to bet that the same thing would be much faster now.
Also, the slashdot crowd tends to leave their torrents open longer. I go with a minimum of 1:1 If I really like the content or the cause (both in this case) I will seed indefinetly until I need bandwidth.
LOL I didnt know about this.
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hilaryduff+h
Ms. Duff a foot pound is a unit of torque I would assume, and newton is force, I think you meant they mixed up pounds and newtons.
I am not normally one to complain about the stories here, but this got me hyped up over nothing.
I can't believe I just downloaded a video (from a seemingly registration required tracker, forced to use the DHT) in which 2 people bought a boxed set of legos with instructions on exactly how to build an ISD with the exact right peices straight from LEGO.
I completely expected a home brew type lego creation. And instead I got a packaged deal.
Next on slashdot, 2 guys build a complete FORD Truck!!! (webcam inside Ford factory showing 2 workers managing the robots building a truck)
Was I the only one that saw that weird movie with the strange rabit?.... freaky!