I guess it also leaves the door open for Geico to sue the people using Google to search for Geico insurance. After all, they keyed in the trademark in a search window without permission!
California is nearly bankrupt as it is, large tax credits are probably not a good idea right now.
If roof top solar power is truly a net savings for the property owners, building codes might be changed to require them. That is what is done currently to force builders not to cheap out in construction were it will hurt the owner in the long run, such as with insulation standards.
Not that the CSM is worse than other newspapers, but the article does get some minor stuff wrong, like suggesting silicone carbide as a reactor material instead of silicon carbide.
Borax is a sodium borate, and it's cheap enough to throw away with the waste water when we wash clothes. While there is not a lot of borates in the world, there are several highly concentrated deposits that are easy to mine.
It's be obvious to experts for a long time that we may end up regretting using up so much of our borate deposits washing clothes, but given a free market economy and the time value of money, no one has found a way to stop it.
The people willing to spend 170,000 pounds on a sports car expect that kind of performance. Given the cost of Li batteries, the budget market is not feasible (it almost never is with major new tech), and the super luxury market won't put up with the limitations of any battery powered car that could be made today.
The sports car market might well be the best niche for a battery powered car today, though I wouldn't bet on his success with this car.
I and everyone else I've heard from thought Winamp 3 was much worse than Winamp 2. I tried 3 and quickly went back to 2.
Winamp 5 fixed most of the problems with Winamp 3. The stuff you have to pay for in Winamp 5 is strictly optional and for convenience, you could always use Lame and EAC to do at least as good a job with a little more work.
You (and others) are misusing the term "solar wind". The solar wind is composed of particles (mostly protons), and is mostly absorbed and not reflected. The proposals I've seen for using it for propulsion involve large magnetic bubbles. They are quite interesting but a long way from being ready to test in space, I believe. See
http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast04oct_1.htm for example.
The Cosmos craft is a solar sail, which uses the light from the sun, not the solar wind, to maneuver as you describe.
Sun synchronous orbits don't get a continous view of the Sun, they are polar orbits that pass over a point on the Earth at the same time each day.
This could be somewhat usefull for regular communication with the satellite from China, but I don't see why it would be worth the expense of a polar orbit for that.
Artic coast, or better yet one of the islands north of there, like Ellesmere. Looks like somewhere near Toloyoak, Nunavut, is where the eclipse can be seen on the continent.
Yes, only 3 of the 4 is used, because the 4rth one points in the wrong direction (outwards). The atomic geometry of Boron and Nitrogen is not suitable for making flat 2d structures.
All four of the bonding electrons in carbon are used. There are three sigma (spp) bonds and a delocalized pi (p) bond.
It is true that if you tried to make a planar material out of just boron or nitrogen, it wouldn't want to lie flat. Combined, thought, you get an electron structure very similar to pure carbon. Here are some links mentioning planar boron nitride: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111020 and http://www.uminokai.net/nanotube/index.htm
I sort of question calling this a fullerene. It's just a single layer of graphite; so if this is a fullerene, it would seem to imply that graphite is too. I thought fullerenes were supposed to be new: now it turns out we've been mining them for thousands of years?
Sure, public companies can keep some things secret, but as far as I know the books have to be open. If any money at all was involved here, like $92M maybe, I don't see how it could be kept off book. Then again, IANACPA.
Consider the TI micro-mirror display chips. They are mechanical and seem to last quite a while, and a single failure creates a noticeable display flaw.
The smaller switches considered here would probably be much more reliable.
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But unless they can make it much thinner, this WOULDN'T make a good solar sail.
At "a little thicker than photographic film", it is probably too heavy to be a good solar sail material.
(Yeah, I know you never said it would, but you do seem to be defending that position.)
I guess it also leaves the door open for Geico to sue the people using Google to search for Geico insurance. After all, they keyed in the trademark in a search window without permission!
California is nearly bankrupt as it is, large tax credits are probably not a good idea right now.
If roof top solar power is truly a net savings for the property owners, building codes might be changed to require them. That is what is done currently to force builders not to cheap out in construction were it will hurt the owner in the long run, such as with insulation standards.
It's happening a lot slower than I thought it would when silicon ribbons were first demonstrated thirty years ago.
"...focus light on a black pipe..."
The idea is sound and well known, but is not currently thought to be the cheapest.
Not that the CSM is worse than other newspapers, but the article does get some minor stuff wrong, like suggesting silicone carbide as a reactor material instead of silicon carbide.
Borax is a sodium borate, and it's cheap enough to throw away with the waste water when we wash clothes. While there is not a lot of borates in the world, there are several highly concentrated deposits that are easy to mine.
It's be obvious to experts for a long time that we may end up regretting using up so much of our borate deposits washing clothes, but given a free market economy and the time value of money, no one has found a way to stop it.
The people willing to spend 170,000 pounds on a sports car expect that kind of performance. Given the cost of Li batteries, the budget market is not feasible (it almost never is with major new tech), and the super luxury market won't put up with the limitations of any battery powered car that could be made today.
The sports car market might well be the best niche for a battery powered car today, though I wouldn't bet on his success with this car.
Natural gas is only 55% of the density of air.
You LIKED Winamp 3?
I and everyone else I've heard from thought Winamp 3 was much worse than Winamp 2. I tried 3 and quickly went back to 2.
Winamp 5 fixed most of the problems with Winamp 3. The stuff you have to pay for in Winamp 5 is strictly optional and for convenience, you could always use Lame and EAC to do at least as good a job with a little more work.
You (and others) are misusing the term "solar wind". The solar wind is composed of particles (mostly protons), and is mostly absorbed and not reflected. The proposals I've seen for using it for propulsion involve large magnetic bubbles. They are quite interesting but a long way from being ready to test in space, I believe. See http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast04oct_1 .htm for example.
The Cosmos craft is a solar sail, which uses the light from the sun, not the solar wind, to maneuver as you describe.
Sun synchronous orbits don't get a continous view of the Sun, they are polar orbits that pass over a point on the Earth at the same time each day.
This could be somewhat usefull for regular communication with the satellite from China, but I don't see why it would be worth the expense of a polar orbit for that.
"how far north...?"
Artic coast, or better yet one of the islands north of there, like Ellesmere. Looks like somewhere near Toloyoak, Nunavut, is where the eclipse can be seen on the continent.
Totality only in northern Canada for NA, though, in the Aug 2008 eclipse.
Yes, only 3 of the 4 is used, because the 4rth one points in the wrong direction (outwards). The atomic geometry of Boron and Nitrogen is not suitable for making flat 2d structures.
All four of the bonding electrons in carbon are used. There are three sigma (spp) bonds and a delocalized pi (p) bond.
It is true that if you tried to make a planar material out of just boron or nitrogen, it wouldn't want to lie flat. Combined, thought, you get an electron structure very similar to pure carbon. Here are some links mentioning planar boron nitride: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111020 and http://www.uminokai.net/nanotube/index.htm
I sort of question calling this a fullerene. It's just a single layer of graphite; so if this is a fullerene, it would seem to imply that graphite is too. I thought fullerenes were supposed to be new: now it turns out we've been mining them for thousands of years?
Carbon CAN bond to four other atoms, but in this case it's only three. So is this not a 2d material?
Boron and Nitrogen bond to three other atoms too, and there may be a form of planar boron-nitride with similar properties.
"Wouldn't a moon-based launch only be about 1/6th more doable?"
Surface gravity isn't the correct measure for the difficulty of leaving the Earth or its moon.
The escape velocity from here is 4.7 times that of Luna, and the energy required (one half mass times velocity squared) is 22 times as much.
Sure, public companies can keep some things secret, but as far as I know the books have to be open. If any money at all was involved here, like $92M maybe, I don't see how it could be kept off book. Then again, IANACPA.
As public companies, won't the settlement have to be disclosed when they submit their financials?
This could be quite usefull to the insurance industry. Now they know of places they should not insure against earthquakes.
Of course, this effect is probably of negative public utility.
Paul got $5M back, the other half went to Scaled (bonuses for ALL the employees, yea!).
I wonder if Paul has anything special in mind to do with the money.
Are these switches opening and closing a circuit? It's hard to tell from the article.
Consider the TI micro-mirror display chips. They are mechanical and seem to last quite a while, and a single failure creates a noticeable display flaw.
The smaller switches considered here would probably be much more reliable.
Felis domesticus is the common domestic cat. Felis catus is the European wild cat. At least, that's what I've always read in the past.