I've maintained for years that China, Mexico, and similar countries going though industrial booms are simply in early stages of industrial revolution. Next we shall see environmental, wage, and health reforms, as these countries realize the need for sustainable management of their labor base.
Actually, they are in the LATE stages of the industrial revolution (as any casual use of Google Earth would reveal). They are entering that state where increased disposable income and increased levels of education cause individual citizens making purchasing choices that drive the economy in a direction of more open-ness, more freedom, and more environmental responsibility. These people enter government and start working toward taking care of the environment.
Progress is slow, but this is exactly the predicted pattern that has been seen all over the world as prosperity and education increase, people start taking better care of their environment, investments, and themselves. Much of the west went thru this in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. You rarely hear of smog alerts in the US any more. They used to be common and long lasting in the past. You actually see clear skylines over most cities these days. Hell, even the Hudson river is recovering.
Epub is largely just packaged html. You can download free word processors (Atlantis) that will take what ever format you write in directly to Epub. I'm sure there are far more sophisticated tools as well.
And you really don't have to format for each device. It's the device's job to handle standard formats, and most of them do it rather well. Don't kid yourself into thinking they test on a wide variety of devices. Doesn't happen.
The truth is, once the book is through editing it can get to ebook format ready to ship much much quicker than it can be printed. Sometimes from editor to ebook in less than an hour.
I hope you're joking. $15 for any fiction ebook is not a sound business model. I'd buy a good ebook for $5, but not $15.
I can only accept prices like that for certain kinds of non-fiction works where the market is smaller and the production/compilation effort is way higher.
Paying $15 is paying to have it NOW.
If you wait to read it in a couple years, it will be much cheaper. Given the huge amount of written material available since the invention of the printing press, there is no real reason to read any fiction NOW, when reading it later will be just as entertaining.
Waiting a couple years or three e-books start costing closer to the amount of the author's royalties (if he was smart). I'm fine with paying a few bucks to the author. Maybe a few cents to the distribution chain.
Generally 3 to 4 bucks is what I like to pay. But Free is a good price a well.
Sequestering CO2 is not simple, and is currently done mostly by pumping it into used oil fields. It's not certain whether these costs were factored in.
Sequestering it is a lot simpler if you can simply draw if off the top of the CLOSED chamber rather than trying to scrub it out of the stack. You've got half the battle won already.
What to do with it long term is another problem. But its a problem you would have anyway, so having the CO2 handed to you all contained is better than where we are today.
Besides coal ash, it appears CO2 is the only by-produce that is not recycled back into the feed-stock.
But, hey, Clean Coal stories have to be knocked down immediately. We can't have it prove even partially successful under any circumstance./rollseyes.
Sounds nice, except for the 'combusted in a sealed chamber' bit. How is this going to scale up so they can feed 100 tons/hr through the plant cycle? That is the question.
The key to the technology is the use of tiny metal beads to carry oxygen to the fuel to spur the chemical reaction. For CDCL, the fuel is coal that’s been ground into a powder, and the metal beads are made of iron oxide composites. The coal particles are about 100 micrometers across—about the diameter of a human hair—and the iron beads are larger, about 1.5-2 millimeters across. Chung likened the two different sizes to talcum powder and ice cream sprinkles, though the mix is not nearly so colorful.
The coal and iron oxide are heated to high temperatures, where the materials react with each other. Carbon from the coal binds with the oxygen from the iron oxide and creates carbon dioxide, which rises into a chamber where it is captured.
They ran this for 9 days straight. They only stopped because they were tired. Scaling it up probably is not that much of a problem. The bigger problem might be obtaining both the fuel and the oxidizers in quantity economically.
Coal powered that finely would be rather dangerous, because it has so much surface area. Exposure to air, any spark could set it off. Handling it would require special care never to let it flow around or accumulate around the crushers. They might have to make it in a slurry just for safety, then waste more heat drying it before use.
TFA shows them handling bottles of it, and even then they are wearing masks.
A better word might have been "oxidized" but the good professor probably was trying not to confuse the journalism major who wrote the story with words too big for their tiny world view.
Lots of CO2 is produced, but it is retained in the chamber and captured, and oxygen and coal are fed in continuously. They operated it for 9 days straight.
There's no debt until after a sale. A business can refuse to make a cash sale in the first place, and that's legal.
But no business would turn down the sale because you wanted to pay in cash. They would have someone drive it to the bank immediately, but they sure as hell aren't going to turn it down. Oddly enough, businesses that sell $90K cars aren't afraid of money.
In some parts of the Deep South, it is still the tradition to pay off a house with CASH money. You go to the bank, negotiate your loan, and you pick up your cash money in a brief case. Usually the bank will supply you with an armed security guard, who will accompany you to the seller, you exchange money for deed, and signatures all around, and the Security Guard accompanies the seller to his bank (if he wishes).
Its not unusual to carry around huge sums in this country.
But with a trunk full of weed and a bag full of wads, you are going to have a tough time convincing even your mom that the two have nothing to do with each other.
One credit hour usually means one hour a week for an academic semester, and a semester is usually around 12 to 15 weeks, so that means 15 hours expended to earn one credit hour. Two days. So a 40 credit hour course could be completed in 80 days. Still too much? How bout 20 credit hours?
The point is, we've already proven what can happen when we elect idiots, maybe we should error firmly on the other side.
Maybe one day we should propose the following amendment to the Illinois Constitution:
SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE COMPOSITION...
(c) To be eligible to serve as a member of the General Assembly, a person must be a United States citizen, at least 21 years old, and for the two years preceding his election or appointment a resident of the district which he is to represent....
Addition: No person may be elected or appointed to the Assembly unless that person submits proof of attendance at and successfully completing no less than 80 Credit hours (or equivalent) in a course of study covering Constitutional Rights of citizens, the protections of freedoms of citizens under the Constitution of Illinois and the Constitution of the United States. Such course must be offered at all Illinois Colleges and Universities.
Hardly. Unless your servers are located in Illinois the bill is meaningless.
EVEN if the servers are located in Illinois this law would be unconstitutional. Its unconstitutional even under the State Constitution. It goes nowhere, and if it succeeds in getting passed, it gets bitchslapped by the courts.
Standard practice is to buy the phones under a multi-year contract, heavily discounted. Still, in most countries, the buyer can unlock the phone when he wants for a fee that (at least in some of those countries) decays as the phone ages.
Your definition of the word "Discounted" seems a little confused.
Gfi won't interfere with EOP, but going through a transformer will. Typically entire buildings are on the same transformer.
If you are on the other 120 leg of 240 entrance in the US, the Garage may not have continuity to the house. No clue how it might work Belgium which I presume is higher voltage.
So SWAT him is your answer? That might not end well. When they find nothing to hold him on you can bet he will spend his waking hours finding ways to get back at you.
His comment was that 2.4 doesn't travel very far, and 5ghz doesn't go as far as 2.4. I challenged that by posting over a 150+ mile link. What did you miss here?.
And what you said didn't matter, because if that extreme example were repeated with 2.4Ghz devices it would be even more successful than the 5Ghz devices. So it was a complete non sequitur. (The test was also run in an environment where nothing else existed on 5Ghz. Those days are long gone.
This presumes you can actually get those chipsets to make use of these additional frequencies with firmware. In the best of cases, firmware fixes for routers may be possible, (unless the chip designers built filters in silicone so that software would be powerless to do anything).
And it also presumes you can get firmware for all the chips in your devices, laptops, phones, tablets, etc. That seems less likely. You essentially have to wait 5 years for for the product development cycle, all the way from software radio chipsets, up through smartphones before there will be a market for these bandwidths. Look how long it took 802.11N to catch on.
Wait, you challenge his 2.4ghz range assertion with a 5ghz range example?
What can be done in clear air with line of sight means nothing. The fact that 5ghz has very little building penetration is well known. Its great for single rooms (like restaurants or in the cubical-sphere of an office, but even around the house it can be problematic when trying to penetrate some walls.
This is great for apartment dwellers, because 5ghz means less interference from neighbors. But in a typical two story home it gets marginal.
What is needed is small cheap, low powered routers that you can put on each floor or maybe each room. 5Ghz might be just the ticket for that.
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I've maintained for years that China, Mexico, and similar countries going though industrial booms are simply in early stages of industrial revolution. Next we shall see environmental, wage, and health reforms, as these countries realize the need for sustainable management of their labor base.
Actually, they are in the LATE stages of the industrial revolution (as any casual use of Google Earth would reveal). They are entering that state where increased disposable income and increased levels of education cause individual citizens making purchasing choices that drive the economy in a direction of more open-ness, more freedom, and more environmental responsibility. These people enter government and start working toward taking care of the environment.
Progress is slow, but this is exactly the predicted pattern that has been seen all over the world as prosperity and education increase, people start taking better care of their environment, investments, and themselves. Much of the west went thru this in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. You rarely hear of smog alerts in the US any more. They used to be common and long lasting in the past. You actually see clear skylines over most cities these days. Hell, even the Hudson river is recovering.
And yet there are tool for this, no?
Epub is largely just packaged html. You can download free word processors (Atlantis) that will take what ever format you write in directly to Epub. I'm sure there are far more sophisticated tools as well.
And you really don't have to format for each device. It's the device's job to handle standard formats, and most of them do it rather well. Don't kid yourself into thinking they test on a wide variety of devices. Doesn't happen.
The truth is, once the book is through editing it can get to ebook format ready to ship much much quicker than it can be printed. Sometimes from editor to ebook in less than an hour.
the question is power output.
the article didnt even touch on that little datum.
25 thermal kilowatts continuously for 9 days straight.
This out of a twenty foot tall cylinder about as big around as a home water heater.
Left unsaid was the amount fuel used or any efficiency figures.
I hope you're joking. $15 for any fiction ebook is not a sound business model. I'd buy a good ebook for $5, but not $15.
I can only accept prices like that for certain kinds of non-fiction works where the market is smaller and the production/compilation effort is way higher.
Paying $15 is paying to have it NOW.
If you wait to read it in a couple years, it will be much cheaper. Given the huge amount of written material available since the invention of the printing press, there is no real reason to read any fiction NOW, when reading it later will be just as entertaining.
Waiting a couple years or three e-books start costing closer to the amount of the author's royalties (if he was smart). I'm fine with paying a few bucks to the author. Maybe a few cents to the distribution chain.
Generally 3 to 4 bucks is what I like to pay. But Free is a good price a well.
Sequestering CO2 is not simple, and is currently done mostly by pumping it into used oil fields. It's not certain whether these costs were factored in.
Sequestering it is a lot simpler if you can simply draw if off the top of the CLOSED chamber rather than trying to scrub it out of the stack.
You've got half the battle won already.
What to do with it long term is another problem. But its a problem you would have anyway, so having the CO2 handed to you all
contained is better than where we are today.
Besides coal ash, it appears CO2 is the only by-produce that is not recycled back into the feed-stock.
But, hey, Clean Coal stories have to be knocked down immediately. We can't have it prove even partially successful under any /rollseyes.
circumstance.
Yeah, the writer, Pam Frost Gorder, is no dummy, but she knows who she is writing for.
Sounds nice, except for the 'combusted in a sealed chamber' bit. How is this going to scale up so they can feed 100 tons/hr through the plant cycle? That is the question.
The key to the technology is the use of tiny metal beads to carry oxygen to the fuel to spur the chemical reaction. For CDCL, the fuel is coal that’s been ground into a powder, and the metal beads are made of iron oxide composites. The coal particles are about 100 micrometers across—about the diameter of a human hair—and the iron beads are larger, about 1.5-2 millimeters across. Chung likened the two different sizes to talcum powder and ice cream sprinkles, though the mix is not nearly so colorful.
The coal and iron oxide are heated to high temperatures, where the materials react with each other. Carbon from the coal binds with the oxygen from the iron oxide and creates carbon dioxide, which rises into a chamber where it is captured.
They ran this for 9 days straight. They only stopped because they were tired. Scaling it up probably is not that much of a problem.
The bigger problem might be obtaining both the fuel and the oxidizers in quantity economically.
Coal powered that finely would be rather dangerous, because it has so much surface area. Exposure to air, any spark could set it
off. Handling it would require special care never to let it flow around or accumulate around the crushers. They might have to
make it in a slurry just for safety, then waste more heat drying it before use.
TFA shows them handling bottles of it, and even then they are wearing masks.
A better word might have been "oxidized" but the good professor probably was trying not to confuse the journalism major
who wrote the story with words too big for their tiny world view.
Lots of CO2 is produced, but it is retained in the chamber and captured, and oxygen and coal are fed in continuously.
They operated it for 9 days straight.
There's no debt until after a sale. A business can refuse to make a cash sale in the first place, and that's legal.
But no business would turn down the sale because you wanted to pay in cash. They would have someone drive it to the bank immediately, but they sure as hell aren't going to turn it down. Oddly enough, businesses that sell $90K cars aren't afraid of money.
In some parts of the Deep South, it is still the tradition to pay off a house with CASH money.
You go to the bank, negotiate your loan, and you pick up your cash money in a brief case.
Usually the bank will supply you with an armed security guard, who will accompany you to the seller, you exchange money for deed, and signatures all around, and the Security Guard accompanies the seller to his bank (if he wishes).
Its not unusual to carry around huge sums in this country.
But with a trunk full of weed and a bag full of wads, you are going to have a tough time convincing even your mom that the two have nothing to do with each other.
Well, maybe 80 would be too much.
Maybe 40, sounds better?
One credit hour usually means one hour a week for an academic semester, and a semester is usually around 12 to 15 weeks,
so that means 15 hours expended to earn one credit hour. Two days.
So a 40 credit hour course could be completed in 80 days.
Still too much?
How bout 20 credit hours?
The point is, we've already proven what can happen when we elect idiots, maybe we should error firmly on the other side.
Even if it doesn't get slapped down, websites with anonymous posting can just use geolocation and block Illinois.
Why would they bother? Websites not located in Illinois need not concern themselves with Illinois law.
Maybe one day we should propose the following amendment to the Illinois Constitution:
SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE COMPOSITION ...
(c) To be eligible to serve as a member of the General
Assembly, a person must be a United States citizen, at least
21 years old, and for the two years preceding his election or
appointment a resident of the district which he is to
represent....
Addition:
No person may be elected or appointed to the Assembly unless that
person submits proof of attendance at and successfully completing no less
than 80 Credit hours (or equivalent) in a course of study covering
Constitutional Rights of citizens, the protections of freedoms of citizens
under the Constitution of Illinois and the Constitution of the United States.
Such course must be offered at all Illinois Colleges and Universities.
Slashdot is not hosted in Illinois.
Hardly. Unless your servers are located in Illinois the bill is meaningless.
EVEN if the servers are located in Illinois this law would be unconstitutional. Its unconstitutional even under the State Constitution.
It goes nowhere, and if it succeeds in getting passed, it gets bitchslapped by the courts.
Standard practice is to buy the phones under a multi-year contract, heavily discounted. Still, in most countries, the buyer can unlock the phone when he wants for a fee that (at least in some of those countries) decays as the phone ages.
Your definition of the word "Discounted" seems a little confused.
Burglarize is common in All of English speaking North America as well as India, so that puts you brits in the distinct minority.
Seems like all of these solutions are designed for people who don't wear eyeglasses.
According to the Vision Council of America, approximately 75% of adults use some sort of vision correction. About 64% of them wear eyeglasses. Source
Gfi won't interfere with EOP, but going through a transformer will. Typically entire buildings are on the same transformer.
If you are on the other 120 leg of 240 entrance in the US, the Garage may not have continuity to the house. No clue how it might work Belgium which I presume is higher voltage.
So SWAT him is your answer?
That might not end well.
When they find nothing to hold him on you can bet he will spend his waking hours finding ways to get back at you.
Here you go AC, but next time do your own homework. Or at least have Google do it for you,
http://netsecurity.about.com/od/secureyourwifinetwork/a/WPA2-Crack.htm
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=cracking_wpa
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/wireless-password-easily-cracked/
His definition of long range is far more apropos to the real world than some laboratory experiment.
Effective wifi range is less than 90 feet in the real world.
His comment was that 2.4 doesn't travel very far, and 5ghz doesn't go as far as 2.4. I challenged that by posting over a 150+ mile link. What did you miss here? .
I didn't miss anything. Its an established fact that 5Ghz has less range than 2.4Ghs. Range of 5Ghs is usually less than half the range of 2.4.
So what he said was true.
And what you said didn't matter, because if that extreme example were repeated with 2.4Ghz devices it would be even more successful than the 5Ghz devices. So it was a complete non sequitur. (The test was also run in an environment where nothing else existed on 5Ghz. Those days are long gone.
This presumes you can actually get those chipsets to make use of these additional frequencies with firmware. In the best of cases, firmware fixes for routers may be possible, (unless the chip designers built filters in silicone so that software would be powerless to do anything).
And it also presumes you can get firmware for all the chips in your devices, laptops, phones, tablets, etc. That seems less likely.
You essentially have to wait 5 years for for the product development cycle, all the way from software radio chipsets, up through smartphones before there will be a market for these bandwidths. Look how long it took 802.11N to catch on.
Wait, you challenge his 2.4ghz range assertion with a 5ghz range example?
What can be done in clear air with line of sight means nothing. The fact that 5ghz has very little building penetration is well known. Its great for single rooms (like restaurants or in the cubical-sphere of an office, but even around the house it can be problematic when trying to penetrate some walls.
This is great for apartment dwellers, because 5ghz means less interference from neighbors. But in a typical two story home it gets marginal.
What is needed is small cheap, low powered routers that you can put on each floor or maybe each room. 5Ghz might be just the ticket for that.