Depends on how easily amused you are. I mean, a smoking and sparking battery is nice and all, but it's not a pox on the ass of a good lithium/water fire.
If 30 tons of Lithium batteries burst open on the high seas?
Lithium batteries currently in production aren't rechargeable, so I doubt they would use them. Lithium-ion batteries don't contain metallic lithium (unless they are malfunctioning), so breaching them shouldn't be particularly interesting.
1) Two bugs on a flower. 2) A high five. 3) Two butlers tugging on a babies cradle. 4) Monster leap-frogging a fence post. 5) Bat. 6) Sheep's skin. 7) Two pregnant women. 8) Two chameleons climbing a bird feeder. 9) Two sea horses. 10) Two men with helmet touching, holding crabs in their far hands.
Probably much less than 1%. The upper altitude wind energy is highly concentrated in the jet streams, so you would get most of your energy from there. The harvesting is greatly complicated by the jet streams wandering around, though.
Have you considered a LED bulb for those purposes?
I've never actually seen one for sale. Not that I've specifically looked for them, but I do browse through the lighting section. I assume they are too expensive to be paid for from the electricity I'd save.
Look around. We distribute liquid fuels all over the place today.
Do you really think that we'd be distributing liquid hydrogen? To cars? It's both expensive and dangerous (you have to let some evaporate, so any enclosed space could develop an explosive hydrogen oxygen mixture).
You failed to understand the first sentence in your link: "1998 no longer the hottest year on record in USA". If you'll check, 1938 was not close to the recent global temperatures.
And you wonder why we have no respect for those like you who ignore the science.
Stars that massive lose mass rapidly. If this star was as old as theory said it should be it couldn't be as massive as the explosion showed it to be. Oops!
It also has fascinating geology. As it's already a national park, I think it's a poor example of unused land ripe for being covered in solar collectors.
There are vast areas where much less will be lost by converting them to solar farms, but there will always be a loss. Every way to generate energy has its downsides, some more than others. While I think nuclear probably has the least long term negative environmental effect, wind, solar and geothermal also look acceptable. I'll be happy with whatever ends up being cheapest.
In the end the stick didn't work, precisely because the political system couldn't stand up to the intense lobbying the mandate engendered. You can say the political system failed, but it is what it is. There are plenty of carrots now to motivate GM to build the Volt, if only they can stay solvent.
How much do the Prius batteries hold? Googling give me answers of 1.3 or 1.5 kWh depending on the year. And when you get home they will probably be only about half empty because of the way it operates. Being able to plug it in would be nice but I don't think its lack is a huge loss.
I blame CARB not for crumbling, but for issuing a mandate in the first place. GM had voluntarily started to experiment with electric cars, and in their eyes they got punished for their good intentions. It's no wonder that they turned around and fought back hard against CARB, and did what they could to banish the distasteful memory once they'd won.
A carrot was needed to encourage cars like the EV1, and CARB used a stick. The stick was probably all they had, but it was still the wrong approach. The EV1 was probably too early to really be successful, but without CARB's pressure they would have been more likely to keep trying.
Why silver, about as abundant as gold, but significantly less expensive and in much wider supply?
The fact that in reality silver is twenty times as abundant as gold accounts for much of the difference in price.
There don't seem to be any commercially exploitable ore bodies of tellurium, and this is not unconnected with its rarity. Tellurium is produced as a byproduct of refining other metals. This puts something of a ceiling on how much can be produced each year.
None of the elements being discussed are rare earth elements (which are indeed all metals). Cadmium and tellurium are not, and neither are copper, indium, gallium or selenium. This is too bad actually, since despite their name none of the rare earths, except of course for promethium, is very rare.
And the reality is... of all the atoms in the universe (and "more or less" on earth) you have the following relation, for every ton of gold in existence (on earth), there's about 100 grams of Tellurium available.
Tellurium is fairly common for an element of its atomic weight in the Universe. On Earth it is quite rare, but instead of 1/10,000 as common as gold as you would have it, tellurium has about one fourth the abundance of gold in the Earth's crust. See this abundance table.
Of course you don't want plants overgrowing your solar power plant anyway.
Which is why in actual practice the land under the solar collectors is made as sterile as they can afford to make it. We need to accept that getting most of our energy from desert solar will probably require destroying the ecology of several percent of the deserts of the southwest. I think that's an acceptable trade off, but for those who insist on a "greener" solution I suggest they push for nuclear power.
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Depends on how easily amused you are. I mean, a smoking and sparking battery is nice and all, but it's not a pox on the ass of a good lithium/water fire.
Lithium batteries currently in production aren't rechargeable, so I doubt they would use them. Lithium-ion batteries don't contain metallic lithium (unless they are malfunctioning), so breaching them shouldn't be particularly interesting.
1) Two bugs on a flower.
2) A high five.
3) Two butlers tugging on a babies cradle.
4) Monster leap-frogging a fence post.
5) Bat.
6) Sheep's skin.
7) Two pregnant women.
8) Two chameleons climbing a bird feeder.
9) Two sea horses.
10) Two men with helmet touching, holding crabs in their far hands.
Did I win?
Probably much less than 1%. The upper altitude wind energy is highly concentrated in the jet streams, so you would get most of your energy from there. The harvesting is greatly complicated by the jet streams wandering around, though.
I've never actually seen one for sale. Not that I've specifically looked for them, but I do browse through the lighting section. I assume they are too expensive to be paid for from the electricity I'd save.
That's a relief. I haven't yet found a CFL that's bright enough for some uses, and they don't seem to be progressing on that front.
Do you really think that we'd be distributing liquid hydrogen? To cars? It's both expensive and dangerous (you have to let some evaporate, so any enclosed space could develop an explosive hydrogen oxygen mixture).
I think that's everyone.
If it were true to the book, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress would have plenty of nudity. As I recall they hardly ever wore any clothes on the moon.
You failed to understand the first sentence in your link: "1998 no longer the hottest year on record in USA". If you'll check, 1938 was not close to the recent global temperatures.
And you wonder why we have no respect for those like you who ignore the science.
The sell at a loss but make it up in volume idea is pretty old. I think it was in an old vaudeville routine, but I couldn't say if it was new then.
Stars that massive lose mass rapidly. If this star was as old as theory said it should be it couldn't be as massive as the explosion showed it to be. Oops!
Or something like that, I think.
Thermal inertia would help to even out the day and night temperatures, which should reduce energy use. It's probably a trivial effect, though.
Not so much. It seems the only reasonable explanation for all known life having a similar genetic code.
To make the joke funny.
It also has fascinating geology. As it's already a national park, I think it's a poor example of unused land ripe for being covered in solar collectors.
There are vast areas where much less will be lost by converting them to solar farms, but there will always be a loss. Every way to generate energy has its downsides, some more than others. While I think nuclear probably has the least long term negative environmental effect, wind, solar and geothermal also look acceptable. I'll be happy with whatever ends up being cheapest.
If we're going to debate, I want you to take the 'Diebold is not a villain' side.
In the end the stick didn't work, precisely because the political system couldn't stand up to the intense lobbying the mandate engendered. You can say the political system failed, but it is what it is. There are plenty of carrots now to motivate GM to build the Volt, if only they can stay solvent.
How much do the Prius batteries hold? Googling give me answers of 1.3 or 1.5 kWh depending on the year. And when you get home they will probably be only about half empty because of the way it operates. Being able to plug it in would be nice but I don't think its lack is a huge loss.
I blame CARB not for crumbling, but for issuing a mandate in the first place. GM had voluntarily started to experiment with electric cars, and in their eyes they got punished for their good intentions. It's no wonder that they turned around and fought back hard against CARB, and did what they could to banish the distasteful memory once they'd won.
A carrot was needed to encourage cars like the EV1, and CARB used a stick. The stick was probably all they had, but it was still the wrong approach. The EV1 was probably too early to really be successful, but without CARB's pressure they would have been more likely to keep trying.
The fact that in reality silver is twenty times as abundant as gold accounts for much of the difference in price.
There don't seem to be any commercially exploitable ore bodies of tellurium, and this is not unconnected with its rarity. Tellurium is produced as a byproduct of refining other metals. This puts something of a ceiling on how much can be produced each year.
None of the elements being discussed are rare earth elements (which are indeed all metals). Cadmium and tellurium are not, and neither are copper, indium, gallium or selenium. This is too bad actually, since despite their name none of the rare earths, except of course for promethium, is very rare.
Tellurium is fairly common for an element of its atomic weight in the Universe. On Earth it is quite rare, but instead of 1/10,000 as common as gold as you would have it, tellurium has about one fourth the abundance of gold in the Earth's crust. See this abundance table.
Duck Dodgers? Did he ever collect space garbage? I think who we really need is Quark.
Which is why in actual practice the land under the solar collectors is made as sterile as they can afford to make it. We need to accept that getting most of our energy from desert solar will probably require destroying the ecology of several percent of the deserts of the southwest. I think that's an acceptable trade off, but for those who insist on a "greener" solution I suggest they push for nuclear power.
and the surface area is equal to 4*pi*r squared...
Spherical quarters? Neat, but how many can you fit in your pocket?
I did exactly the same, and with the same attitude. We are too few, though, and I am in despair of ever seeing any improvement.