It does a very effective job of redistributing wealth. Those who work hard, and especially those who innovate, get wealth; while those who don't work get to starve.
He is arguing that, because it is more profitable; 1) land currently used to grow corn will be re-purposed by building these biofuel plants and 2) that there is plenty of land available to build them on.
They don't use corn in this biofuel process. He is arguing that it will be more lucrative to build one of these biofuel plants on land that is currently used to grow corn than to continue growing corn.
Look, we have a couple of thousand years of fissionable fuel available. You need to add a zero to your apocalypse time frame, and then multiply by a factor of 3-5. If the greens would get out of the way of nuclear power and fuel recycling we would have plenty of time to figure this stuff out.
There is always a trade off in capabilities. A microbe engineered to be very efficient at producing hydrocarbons will not be in danger of contaminating the biosphere. There is a reason that naturally occurring microbes max out at a certain efficiency level. The trade off beyond that point make them unable to compete. The people trying to make this stuff are going to have a hard time keeping natural microbes from contaminating their reactors and killing off the special made ones.
Oil is a very high capital, very long lead time business. Remember all those arguments about ANWR? How it would take 8-10 years to become productive? That's 8-10 years of paying very high salaries to get people to live in the Artic, buying and shipping(Ice Road truckers anyone?) very large, heavy, and expensive equipment, and fighting a bunch of environmental lawsuits. There are a lot of businesses that only look at the next quarter. I'm not sure there is much an oil company can do that would only take one quarter.
I admit it is finite, but the lifetime estimates of currently known deposits, if recycling is used, is somewhere around 5k-10k years of fuel. Looking at the progress we've made in the last 1,000 years I am quite optimistic that fusion will become viable within that time frame.
Granted, the electrical grid needs some improvement in order for everyone to switch to it for ALL our energy needs
You sir, are a master of understatement. It would take dramatic increases in both electrical production and distribution to move everything to electrical power. Without using nuclear power it won't happen.
Then there are U.S. Government certificate authorities, too many of them. Try, for example, USMC Doctrine Division. The CA is "DOD CA-13".
DoD alone has root CAs "CA-5", through "CA-18", and not all browsers know all of them.
For some reason, installing the DOD certificates package will only remove the waring from about half the sites. Additionally, DOD sites routinely do not update certificates when they expire. Drives me nuts.
So I guess those giant tree farms in Alabama with Georgia Pacific signs on the fences have nothing at all to do with the Georgia Pacific paper plants right next to the tree farms?
I want to be a linguist. Should I become fluent in Latin or Japanese? Why does this accredited linguistics department insist on me taking all sorts of philosophy and linguistics classes, when I should be learning a language?
Just to nitpick, any effective linguist must be fluent, and will study primarily, a single language. Other languages are many times picked up after the first, but any college linguist will get a BA in a particular language.
Public intoxication varies in different areas, in Monterey CA it is at the discretion of the officer. If you know your under.08 your better off driving than walking, in Monterey anyway.
But then again I never got a DUI waiting for a late night bus...
Do they not have public intoxication charges in Toronto? A common trap for US military, in the US anyway, is for the police to wait between the bars and base. Anybody drives, DUI; anybody walks, public intoxication. This also works waiting between bars and public transportation stations/stops.
The Manhattan Project wasn't kept secret. One of the personnel working on it sold the information to the Russians. The project was compromised before we dropped the first bomb.
It is not necessarily classified. He got popped for export restrictions. What he was working on fell under the "un-classified but sensitive" category. The technology had possible military applications and thus was banned from export from the United States. He was warned by the export control officer of the university not to take the information out of the US.
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You could always hang them. Rope is cheap and ensures that they never commit another crime. Workhouses are also a possibility.
It does a very effective job of redistributing wealth. Those who work hard, and especially those who innovate, get wealth; while those who don't work get to starve.
If they were more evolved then they would be experimenting on us.
It was very impressive when the satellites were new. The photos are being declassified now because 1m isn't that impressive any more.
He is arguing that, because it is more profitable; 1) land currently used to grow corn will be re-purposed by building these biofuel plants and 2) that there is plenty of land available to build them on.
They don't use corn in this biofuel process. He is arguing that it will be more lucrative to build one of these biofuel plants on land that is currently used to grow corn than to continue growing corn.
Look, we have a couple of thousand years of fissionable fuel available. You need to add a zero to your apocalypse time frame, and then multiply by a factor of 3-5. If the greens would get out of the way of nuclear power and fuel recycling we would have plenty of time to figure this stuff out.
There is always a trade off in capabilities. A microbe engineered to be very efficient at producing hydrocarbons will not be in danger of contaminating the biosphere. There is a reason that naturally occurring microbes max out at a certain efficiency level. The trade off beyond that point make them unable to compete. The people trying to make this stuff are going to have a hard time keeping natural microbes from contaminating their reactors and killing off the special made ones.
If they are the most profitable businesses in the world then they aren't dinosaurs. GM is a business dinosaur.
Oil is a very high capital, very long lead time business. Remember all those arguments about ANWR? How it would take 8-10 years to become productive? That's 8-10 years of paying very high salaries to get people to live in the Artic, buying and shipping(Ice Road truckers anyone?) very large, heavy, and expensive equipment, and fighting a bunch of environmental lawsuits. There are a lot of businesses that only look at the next quarter. I'm not sure there is much an oil company can do that would only take one quarter.
I admit it is finite, but the lifetime estimates of currently known deposits, if recycling is used, is somewhere around 5k-10k years of fuel. Looking at the progress we've made in the last 1,000 years I am quite optimistic that fusion will become viable within that time frame.
Granted, the electrical grid needs some improvement in order for everyone to switch to it for ALL our energy needs
You sir, are a master of understatement. It would take dramatic increases in both electrical production and distribution to move everything to electrical power. Without using nuclear power it won't happen.
Do a google search for DOD root certificates. If you follow the directions you'll have about a 50% chance of making that error go away.
Then there are U.S. Government certificate authorities, too many of them. Try, for example, USMC Doctrine Division. The CA is "DOD CA-13". DoD alone has root CAs "CA-5", through "CA-18", and not all browsers know all of them.
For some reason, installing the DOD certificates package will only remove the waring from about half the sites. Additionally, DOD sites routinely do not update certificates when they expire. Drives me nuts.
I would like to see your solution to Global Climate Change. Has there ever been a point where the Global Climate wasn't changing?
So I guess those giant tree farms in Alabama with Georgia Pacific signs on the fences have nothing at all to do with the Georgia Pacific paper plants right next to the tree farms?
I want to be a linguist. Should I become fluent in Latin or Japanese? Why does this accredited linguistics department insist on me taking all sorts of philosophy and linguistics classes, when I should be learning a language?
Just to nitpick, any effective linguist must be fluent, and will study primarily, a single language. Other languages are many times picked up after the first, but any college linguist will get a BA in a particular language.
I think that's his point.
International Ground isn't UK ground. Anytime your in no-mans land then your in every-mans reach.
Public intoxication varies in different areas, in Monterey CA it is at the discretion of the officer. If you know your under .08 your better off driving than walking, in Monterey anyway.
But then again I never got a DUI waiting for a late night bus...
Do they not have public intoxication charges in Toronto? A common trap for US military, in the US anyway, is for the police to wait between the bars and base. Anybody drives, DUI; anybody walks, public intoxication. This also works waiting between bars and public transportation stations/stops.
500nm would put them around blue-cyan as full wavelength antennas as well.
There is no gun registration in Georgia. You are required to maintain a firearm in your home, but there is no registration or inspection regimen.
The Manhattan Project wasn't kept secret. One of the personnel working on it sold the information to the Russians. The project was compromised before we dropped the first bomb.
It is not necessarily classified. He got popped for export restrictions. What he was working on fell under the "un-classified but sensitive" category. The technology had possible military applications and thus was banned from export from the United States. He was warned by the export control officer of the university not to take the information out of the US.