" Since unlimited plans haven't been available for years now," Not only are they still available (I have one from another carrier) Verizon still offers them and tried to get me to come back on an unlimited plan when I left them early this year. The problem was simple, they wanted more money than the other carriers offering unlimited plans, and after they ended my unlimited terms on my eight year old account, I no longer trusted Verizon.
"Verizon doesn't offer unlimited plans" Yes, they did offer those, and the contract terms were such that as long as you did not upgrade your phone, the terms were the same. They were only able to change those contracts by giving sufficient notice of a change in the terms. I know because I had one of the those contracts.
Verizon is just stupid. I had an unlimited plan that I had kept for over eight years.. Without notice they decided to raise my price. I considered that a breach of contract but they did not. That was enough to move me to another carrier with unlimited data. But the stupid part is, I rarely use a lot of data. Once in a while I am on a drilling rig location and have to transmit a lot of data over my phone, because our satellite connections tend to suck, so I will run my computer through my phone. So maybe once a year I use a lot of data, for a week or two. Then I rarely use any. But I can't afford to be throttled or to be limited when the time comes that I need the data, and I can't afford to be stuck renegotiating with a moron at customer service when I need to use it. I am sure I use less data overall than the average kid playing Pokemon Go, but Verizon only cares about being greedy. It has nothing to do with bandwidth. I will never go back to Verizon in my lifetime.
As a geologist I have actually prospected for helium. The only reason there even appears to be a shortage, is that the US Government is still manipulating the price, and using an artificially low price to restrict the market. Natural gas fields are the major source of helium today, and many natural gas fields contain anywhere from a fraction of 1% to several percent helium. As helium is generated in the Earth by radioactive decay it migrates upward, often to be trapped in the same geologic structures that natural gas is trapped within. Gas shale reservoirs may be the only major gas reservoirs that do not contain much helium. Due to US Government controls on the helium reserve and the market, the price, and the supply have both not been a function of a true market. Federal dumping of National Helium Reserve stock into the market depressed the price of helium so much that it was being used as a cheap substitute for argon and other gases that have a much less limited supply. Now we have auctions, with a limited supply being sold, but still enough to destroy the market for new sources. Once the US Helium reserve is sold off, natural gas processors are likely to start capturing the helium they presently waste due to the economics of removing it from natural gas. Other countries have huge reserves as well, including
Qatar 10.1 Billion cubic meters
Algeria 8.2 Bcm
Russia 6.8 Bcm
Canada 2.0 Bcm
China 1.1 Bcm
And any country that produces natural gas has a potential addition to the supply. Sorry, but we will not be running out any time soon. It is true that once released to the atmosphere, helium will leave the planet, but if the price goes up enough, that waste is less likely to occur.
Aren't those big gray boxes on utility poles with coax cables coming out of them kind of hard to miss? What do people think they are? Bird houses? In my neighborhood the roof rats would nest in them!
Trent, I think there are some good videos on YouTube that will explain to you what an IPO actually is. While you are at it, look for "Terms of Service" and read the section about "Digital Millennium Copyright Act."
Then why is it there is no current lithium recycling operation in the US? Currently only one company in the WORLD, in Belgium has a process for recycling lithium-ion batteries. http://www.altenergystocks.com...
Yet, the first internal combustion engine, built in 1806, used hydrogen as fuel. Electric cars did not come around for another century.
Commercial hydrogen today is not made with electrolysis, and neither was the hydrogen used in 1806. That hydrogen came from ammonia, and today's commercial hydrogen mostly comes from methane. Since methane has twice as much hydrogen in it as water, it can be converted more economically. Tarpenning is simply showing his bias, and some of his points are valid, but there have been amateur tinkerers running cars on hydrogen since the early 1970's when a college student used to drive his old station wagon around my town using hydrogen stored in rubber inner tubes in the back of the car. At the time I ran my VW van on propane using nothing more than a regulator and an extra nozzle in my carburetor that I installed myself. Neither one of us ever exploded.
"Professor Ranga Myneni from Boston University, told BBC News the extra tree growth would not compensate for global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers, ocean acidification, the loss of Arctic sea ice, and the prediction of more severe tropical storms."
He failed to mention the worst consequence of admitting that this might be a positive factor. It would not compensate for his loss of grant funding from NASA (he has three grants) that pays for his salary and graduate students.
I was flown at a company's expense from San Diego to Paris, France for a two day interview. My resume was US style, with no indication of my age, and when they met me they openly asked my age. I was simply told that they did not want someone as old as me, despite my extensive skills.
1. When I was shot by a methamphetamine addict in the California desert in Los Angeles County it took the LA County Sheriff SIX MONTHS to get around to taking my police report, even though I reported to a local substation and showed them my wound and my shot-out windows in my truck. Basically the police are useless outside of an urban or suburban area.
2. I was once charged by an angry bull and the sound of the gunshot by one of my companions was the only thing that kept the bull from killing me.
3. I have encountered both mountain lions and grizzly bears and don't find that reasoning or threat of calling the police works with either one of these.
4. When I lived in northern Africa every male over the age of ten carried an AK-47 or in some cases a M-16.
The real reason for this is that the United States is not all like San Francisco or New York, some of it is very rural, has NO cell phone coverage and never will, and is hours from the nearest police station. Guns are the only way to be prepared and to protect one's self in vast stretches of the western US and rural parts of the eastern US.
Nuclear is the only real alternative, unless natural gas and coal can find a way to capture carbon and start making it into methanol as proposed by George Olah. As a geologist I have some concerns about nuclear waste but I believe that technology can solve that problem. After all the only reason this planet is not a large ball of ice is that the planet is powered and heated by nuclear energy from radioactive decay inside the planet. We would not be here without nuclear decay and the energy it generates. Never mind that solar energy is just a form of nuclear radiation, and wind is the product of solar energy and the planets orbital rotation and its variants. .
...without electricity. Having experienced one-week blackouts in a major cities after hurricanes and ice-storms, I can tell you that without cash you are royally screwed. Even the recent 2 day blackout in San Diego, California was enough to leave some people very hungry who could not buy food without cash. I was eating steak and using my stored gasoline to drive anywhere I wanted to go on empty streets.
"Although in California we are almost coal free, at 0.5% of production."
The number you are citing is only for electricity produced inside California. Since California imports electricity made in Arizona, New Mexico, and even Wyoming that actual number, per the State Energy Commission is 6.4%.
To give it some perspective, the NATURAL methane seeps offshore Santa Barbara, California, which is only about 100 miles west of this location, leak this amount of methane into the air about every 5 years. Before the seep tents were installed over the biggest natural seeps there in the early 1980's by Mobil and Arco, the amount was much greater. This is hardly a major disaster. Coal mining releases methane because methane is formed within the coal, and just the US operators of coal mines release this much methane about every 6 days.
The 5 Bcf of methane released by this is equal to the amount of methane released by US coal mining operations every 6 days. Worldwide, this amount of methane is probably the daily release of coal mining operations. The benefits of methane over burning coal are still substantial enough that even with problems like this, which never should have happened if more diligent well surveys had been done by So Cal Gas, are still substantially better than the alternative of burning coal to make electricity, which California still does.
Why would I pay $1 per week, $52 per year, when I can get the print version delivered to my home (with only printed ads) for about $12 a year? Currently Wired is offering 6 issues for $5.
They already exist and they already have been found lacking. Just like 'runaway acceleration' for cars did not exist until digital technology was added to a car's drivetrain, replacing manual shifting mechanisms, and many deaths have resulted, adding digital controls to guns will produce unwanted effects, such as not firing when needed, or firing when not expected due to added complexity. I suspect common adaptation of smart guns will result in new and unexpected dangers that do not exist with a mechanical gun. Will a smart gun fire after being submerged in water? Will a smart gun fire when I have to use my left hand because a criminal is controlling my right hand or has just chopped it off? Will a smart gun work at 40F below zero? Or at 130 degrees F? Will a smart gun fail and fire more than once when I only expected it to fire once? I'll keep my mechanical trigger mechanism and mechanical safety mechanism, and mechanical safe for storing it (and my manual transmission), thank you.
As for the gun show loopholes, I already know that many of the few and rare private sellers that sell at gunshows do not expect this new regulation to affect them. They are already exempt, just as they are now. This is all just political theater, designed to pander to the left and villify the right. Otherwise, tears would not be needed during a press conference.
I've done some additional checking and found there are wells that were drilled in this field as far back as the 1940's (by Getty Oil coincidentally). However, many of the wells are much newer. This adds to my frustration with the reporting. Wells all have names. Reporters should be reporting the well name. Then at least someone could go access public permit records and see how the well bore in this well was constructed. I have yet to find a reporter in California who realizes that all of that information is publicly available. I have been very frustrated by AP doing FOIA requests for well information that I could find in five minutes online, that they spent months and thousands of my tax dollars trying to obtain, and then claimed they had "discovered" something.
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" Since unlimited plans haven't been available for years now," Not only are they still available (I have one from another carrier) Verizon still offers them and tried to get me to come back on an unlimited plan when I left them early this year. The problem was simple, they wanted more money than the other carriers offering unlimited plans, and after they ended my unlimited terms on my eight year old account, I no longer trusted Verizon.
"Verizon doesn't offer unlimited plans" Yes, they did offer those, and the contract terms were such that as long as you did not upgrade your phone, the terms were the same. They were only able to change those contracts by giving sufficient notice of a change in the terms. I know because I had one of the those contracts.
Verizon is just stupid. I had an unlimited plan that I had kept for over eight years.. Without notice they decided to raise my price. I considered that a breach of contract but they did not. That was enough to move me to another carrier with unlimited data. But the stupid part is, I rarely use a lot of data. Once in a while I am on a drilling rig location and have to transmit a lot of data over my phone, because our satellite connections tend to suck, so I will run my computer through my phone. So maybe once a year I use a lot of data, for a week or two. Then I rarely use any. But I can't afford to be throttled or to be limited when the time comes that I need the data, and I can't afford to be stuck renegotiating with a moron at customer service when I need to use it. I am sure I use less data overall than the average kid playing Pokemon Go, but Verizon only cares about being greedy. It has nothing to do with bandwidth. I will never go back to Verizon in my lifetime.
If the password in question was "password" is it still a crime?
As a geologist I have actually prospected for helium. The only reason there even appears to be a shortage, is that the US Government is still manipulating the price, and using an artificially low price to restrict the market. Natural gas fields are the major source of helium today, and many natural gas fields contain anywhere from a fraction of 1% to several percent helium. As helium is generated in the Earth by radioactive decay it migrates upward, often to be trapped in the same geologic structures that natural gas is trapped within. Gas shale reservoirs may be the only major gas reservoirs that do not contain much helium. Due to US Government controls on the helium reserve and the market, the price, and the supply have both not been a function of a true market. Federal dumping of National Helium Reserve stock into the market depressed the price of helium so much that it was being used as a cheap substitute for argon and other gases that have a much less limited supply. Now we have auctions, with a limited supply being sold, but still enough to destroy the market for new sources. Once the US Helium reserve is sold off, natural gas processors are likely to start capturing the helium they presently waste due to the economics of removing it from natural gas. Other countries have huge reserves as well, including Qatar 10.1 Billion cubic meters Algeria 8.2 Bcm Russia 6.8 Bcm Canada 2.0 Bcm China 1.1 Bcm And any country that produces natural gas has a potential addition to the supply. Sorry, but we will not be running out any time soon. It is true that once released to the atmosphere, helium will leave the planet, but if the price goes up enough, that waste is less likely to occur.
Every time I post "I HATE FACEBOOK" on my Facebook account they close another account.
Just spoof your location on your phone. They be recommending good gin joints in Casablanca in no time.
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Aren't those big gray boxes on utility poles with coax cables coming out of them kind of hard to miss? What do people think they are? Bird houses? In my neighborhood the roof rats would nest in them!
Trent, I think there are some good videos on YouTube that will explain to you what an IPO actually is. While you are at it, look for "Terms of Service" and read the section about "Digital Millennium Copyright Act."
Then why is it there is no current lithium recycling operation in the US? Currently only one company in the WORLD, in Belgium has a process for recycling lithium-ion batteries. http://www.altenergystocks.com...
Commercial hydrogen today is not made with electrolysis, and neither was the hydrogen used in 1806. That hydrogen came from ammonia, and today's commercial hydrogen mostly comes from methane. Since methane has twice as much hydrogen in it as water, it can be converted more economically. Tarpenning is simply showing his bias, and some of his points are valid, but there have been amateur tinkerers running cars on hydrogen since the early 1970's when a college student used to drive his old station wagon around my town using hydrogen stored in rubber inner tubes in the back of the car. At the time I ran my VW van on propane using nothing more than a regulator and an extra nozzle in my carburetor that I installed myself. Neither one of us ever exploded.
The article is from a peer-reviewed scientific journal titled "Atmospheric Science,' published by Elsevier. Maybe you need to read the article.
He failed to mention the worst consequence of admitting that this might be a positive factor. It would not compensate for his loss of grant funding from NASA (he has three grants) that pays for his salary and graduate students.
I was flown at a company's expense from San Diego to Paris, France for a two day interview. My resume was US style, with no indication of my age, and when they met me they openly asked my age. I was simply told that they did not want someone as old as me, despite my extensive skills.
Climate has been changing on this planet since the planet formed. What is his point?
1. When I was shot by a methamphetamine addict in the California desert in Los Angeles County it took the LA County Sheriff SIX MONTHS to get around to taking my police report, even though I reported to a local substation and showed them my wound and my shot-out windows in my truck. Basically the police are useless outside of an urban or suburban area.
2. I was once charged by an angry bull and the sound of the gunshot by one of my companions was the only thing that kept the bull from killing me.
3. I have encountered both mountain lions and grizzly bears and don't find that reasoning or threat of calling the police works with either one of these.
4. When I lived in northern Africa every male over the age of ten carried an AK-47 or in some cases a M-16.
The real reason for this is that the United States is not all like San Francisco or New York, some of it is very rural, has NO cell phone coverage and never will, and is hours from the nearest police station. Guns are the only way to be prepared and to protect one's self in vast stretches of the western US and rural parts of the eastern US.
Nuclear is the only real alternative, unless natural gas and coal can find a way to capture carbon and start making it into methanol as proposed by George Olah. As a geologist I have some concerns about nuclear waste but I believe that technology can solve that problem. After all the only reason this planet is not a large ball of ice is that the planet is powered and heated by nuclear energy from radioactive decay inside the planet. We would not be here without nuclear decay and the energy it generates. Never mind that solar energy is just a form of nuclear radiation, and wind is the product of solar energy and the planets orbital rotation and its variants. .
...without electricity. Having experienced one-week blackouts in a major cities after hurricanes and ice-storms, I can tell you that without cash you are royally screwed. Even the recent 2 day blackout in San Diego, California was enough to leave some people very hungry who could not buy food without cash. I was eating steak and using my stored gasoline to drive anywhere I wanted to go on empty streets.
The number you are citing is only for electricity produced inside California. Since California imports electricity made in Arizona, New Mexico, and even Wyoming that actual number, per the State Energy Commission is 6.4%.
FTFY
To give it some perspective, the NATURAL methane seeps offshore Santa Barbara, California, which is only about 100 miles west of this location, leak this amount of methane into the air about every 5 years. Before the seep tents were installed over the biggest natural seeps there in the early 1980's by Mobil and Arco, the amount was much greater. This is hardly a major disaster. Coal mining releases methane because methane is formed within the coal, and just the US operators of coal mines release this much methane about every 6 days.
The 5 Bcf of methane released by this is equal to the amount of methane released by US coal mining operations every 6 days. Worldwide, this amount of methane is probably the daily release of coal mining operations. The benefits of methane over burning coal are still substantial enough that even with problems like this, which never should have happened if more diligent well surveys had been done by So Cal Gas, are still substantially better than the alternative of burning coal to make electricity, which California still does.
Why would I pay $1 per week, $52 per year, when I can get the print version delivered to my home (with only printed ads) for about $12 a year? Currently Wired is offering 6 issues for $5.
They already exist and they already have been found lacking. Just like 'runaway acceleration' for cars did not exist until digital technology was added to a car's drivetrain, replacing manual shifting mechanisms, and many deaths have resulted, adding digital controls to guns will produce unwanted effects, such as not firing when needed, or firing when not expected due to added complexity. I suspect common adaptation of smart guns will result in new and unexpected dangers that do not exist with a mechanical gun. Will a smart gun fire after being submerged in water? Will a smart gun fire when I have to use my left hand because a criminal is controlling my right hand or has just chopped it off? Will a smart gun work at 40F below zero? Or at 130 degrees F? Will a smart gun fail and fire more than once when I only expected it to fire once? I'll keep my mechanical trigger mechanism and mechanical safety mechanism, and mechanical safe for storing it (and my manual transmission), thank you.
As for the gun show loopholes, I already know that many of the few and rare private sellers that sell at gunshows do not expect this new regulation to affect them. They are already exempt, just as they are now. This is all just political theater, designed to pander to the left and villify the right. Otherwise, tears would not be needed during a press conference.
I've done some additional checking and found there are wells that were drilled in this field as far back as the 1940's (by Getty Oil coincidentally). However, many of the wells are much newer. This adds to my frustration with the reporting. Wells all have names. Reporters should be reporting the well name. Then at least someone could go access public permit records and see how the well bore in this well was constructed. I have yet to find a reporter in California who realizes that all of that information is publicly available. I have been very frustrated by AP doing FOIA requests for well information that I could find in five minutes online, that they spent months and thousands of my tax dollars trying to obtain, and then claimed they had "discovered" something.