I have to disagree with you there. The Space Elevator is feasible, thanks to carbon nanotubes (make that, double walled carbon nanotubes, because the single wall variety pops when exposed to bright flashes of light).
Engineering marvels are always just around the corner.
Your right, it is horrible that we are still using this old power grid.
Of course, no one wants new power lines built in their back yard, it may lower their property values.
On top of that, 20 years ago we were going through the "EMF causes cancer!" scare. People were blaming power lines on cancer clusters.
*sigh* Welcome to the United States of Short-sightedness
Removing the elevated 93 highway and reducing the number of exits off of the highway should improve things greatly. 93 should now be an easy way to pass through the city and connect to the Mass Pike (and therefore the airport through the new airport tunnel.)
Reducing the number of exits on the highway should reduce traffic congestion on the highway, if the new exits actually connect to major surface roads.
Morpheus couldn't die. His role in the story was to find the saviour of humanity. It was Neo's role to die and end the cycle of Neo's.
As for rubber bullets and disablers, using those on humans plugged into the Matrix would only give Agents a chance of zapping in close to the action.
Does anyone find it scary that the DMCA has a section 1201? That means that there were at least 1200 more sections before the section that clears remanufacturers.
These things are pretty obvious when you use them. Most intersections which detect the infrared flash have a strobe above the traffic lights. When the emergency vehicle sensor is triggered, the strobe will start flashing.
Watch the traffic lights the next time you see an emergency vehicle trigger the sensor. You'll see what I mean.
That large blackout affected New York and parts of Connecticut and Vermont attached to the New York grid. It didn't affect the rest of New England which is under the control of the New England ISO.
Actually, California depended on excess power generated in other states, they didn't have enough capacity in state to handle all of their needs. Unfortunately, Arizona, New Mexico, et al. had, well, more people and more demand for power in the past few years. More demand in other states meant that California had a smaller amount of excess power to call on.
Throw in a drought which hindered hydroelectric power production and an extremely hot set of days, and you have rolling blackouts. It didn't help that there was some shenanigans going on with Enron and some other power companies manipulating the unsupervised power exchange system. (An exchange system that those power trading companies designed and the California Legislature passed into law. Also, an exchange system that was unlike any other deregulated system set up in the US and nowhere close to FERC's suggested market design.)
Maybe because people are don't understand physics.
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If you are interested in the deregulation here in the US, you can poke around this web site....
BTW, large portions of the United States deregulated without any problems. New England is mostly there and Texas has deregulated without any problems.
The main problem with the North American grid, as I understand it, is that it basically works by having twenty guys spread across the NA calling each other when something goes wrong in their part of the electric grid. It's the administration-by-Batphone system and the same low-tech solution they've used for 80 years. Like the US Air Traffic Control system, everyone is afraid to upgrade to computer control because they don't trust the electronics.
It's a social issue more than anything else. A majority of Americans aren't in the mood to be contacted anytime or anyplace. Personally, until I needed to carry one for work, I would never have thought of owning a cell phone.
Plus, it's another monthly fee you have to pay.
And, I don't think the US is hip to the pre-paid phone idea, which I believe is how the Italians own their cell phones.
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I have to disagree with you there. The Space Elevator is feasible, thanks to carbon nanotubes (make that, double walled carbon nanotubes, because the single wall variety pops when exposed to bright flashes of light). Engineering marvels are always just around the corner.
Your right, it is horrible that we are still using this old power grid. Of course, no one wants new power lines built in their back yard, it may lower their property values. On top of that, 20 years ago we were going through the "EMF causes cancer!" scare. People were blaming power lines on cancer clusters. *sigh* Welcome to the United States of Short-sightedness
Removing the elevated 93 highway and reducing the number of exits off of the highway should improve things greatly. 93 should now be an easy way to pass through the city and connect to the Mass Pike (and therefore the airport through the new airport tunnel.) Reducing the number of exits on the highway should reduce traffic congestion on the highway, if the new exits actually connect to major surface roads.
I wonder how he has been doing with all these solar flares...
Morpheus couldn't die. His role in the story was to find the saviour of humanity. It was Neo's role to die and end the cycle of Neo's. As for rubber bullets and disablers, using those on humans plugged into the Matrix would only give Agents a chance of zapping in close to the action.
Does anyone find it scary that the DMCA has a section 1201? That means that there were at least 1200 more sections before the section that clears remanufacturers.
You are assuming that crude oil comes from prehistoric plant matter. Some people believe differently...
These things are pretty obvious when you use them. Most intersections which detect the infrared flash have a strobe above the traffic lights. When the emergency vehicle sensor is triggered, the strobe will start flashing. Watch the traffic lights the next time you see an emergency vehicle trigger the sensor. You'll see what I mean.
That large blackout affected New York and parts of Connecticut and Vermont attached to the New York grid. It didn't affect the rest of New England which is under the control of the New England ISO.
Actually, California depended on excess power generated in other states, they didn't have enough capacity in state to handle all of their needs. Unfortunately, Arizona, New Mexico, et al. had, well, more people and more demand for power in the past few years. More demand in other states meant that California had a smaller amount of excess power to call on.
Throw in a drought which hindered hydroelectric power production and an extremely hot set of days, and you have rolling blackouts. It didn't help that there was some shenanigans going on with Enron and some other power companies manipulating the unsupervised power exchange system. (An exchange system that those power trading companies designed and the California Legislature passed into law. Also, an exchange system that was unlike any other deregulated system set up in the US and nowhere close to FERC's suggested market design.)
If you want to look at the "success" of heavy regulation, take a look at what happened in Italy shortly after the US blackout. Almost all of Italy, 58 million people total, lost power.
:)
If you are interested in the deregulation here in the US, you can poke around this web site....
BTW, large portions of the United States deregulated without any problems. New England is mostly there and Texas has deregulated without any problems.
The main problem with the North American grid, as I understand it, is that it basically works by having twenty guys spread across the NA calling each other when something goes wrong in their part of the electric grid. It's the administration-by-Batphone system and the same low-tech solution they've used for 80 years. Like the US Air Traffic Control system, everyone is afraid to upgrade to computer control because they don't trust the electronics.
It's a social issue more than anything else. A majority of Americans aren't in the mood to be contacted anytime or anyplace. Personally, until I needed to carry one for work, I would never have thought of owning a cell phone. Plus, it's another monthly fee you have to pay. And, I don't think the US is hip to the pre-paid phone idea, which I believe is how the Italians own their cell phones.