Seriously, I am confused. I first heard about Bio Diesel while watching the West Wing. I have tried to research it but seem to only be able to find positive articles about it. I can find no good answer as to why it isn't being used. I can find no reasons why it seems to be a secret. Why isn't it being forced down the throat of at least large ground based transportation companies.
Hydrogen Fuel cells are cool and all but everyone leaves out the fact that Fossil Fuels are the best source of Hydrogen. They are the easiest way to extract the quantities we would need. So how does that stop anything but the Global Warming myths? Which by comparison to the fights over Oil is a small concern. Not to mention that Hydrogen is expensive to produce compared to other fossil fuels.
It's the same problem which the author of this article points out about Bio ethanol. So how are either of these really going to impact our use of Mid east oil?
Bio Diesel is Soy Based, normally though it doesn't have to be. That means it's cheap and easy to grow. It burns every bit as clean as Ethanol. It appears to me to cost as little as normal diesel to produce. The by-product's of production are the primary ingredients of Soap. The Bio Diesel, unlike real diesel, is completely environmentally safe. It's really just vegetable oil. We know how to make that. We pay way to many farmers in the US not to grow stuff so that prices do not fall to low. These are all hard working people who want to work. So let's let them. I think the US would be hard pressed to produce enough Soy for this but I don't think we can't figure that out.
The best thing about it is that it runs in any Diesel vehicle, generator, or other device without any modification. I know that Diesel cars get a bad rap but go drive any of the VW diesel vehicles. They have none of the problems of Diesel cars in the past.
My real question is why is it left out? What is it that I am missing? Where can I get more information telling me why i am wrong. I am not trying to start a flame war I really do want to know.
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So let's see we are now going to have yet another processor consuming waste of resources that helps maybe 10% of the population figure out how to use the damn search function. I am sure this will not affect performance, security or stability because SQL Server is the premier Database engine in the world. * Cough **Puke*
If, and it's a really big IF, MS can manage to get this to work in more than their test environment who really wants it? I don't hear people screaming about not being able to find files or data on their own machines.(On the internet is a whole different story) I hear people almost every day screaming about the damn number of patches they had to download when they reinstalled. Then there is the multi annual DDOS Virus issues. This more of the wonderful MS misdirection..... Don't look over here at the real problems we will yet again leave unaddressed here is this new feature you just have to have. You won't be able to live with out it. And like the crack dealers they are they will leave us all wanting it but never invest the time to make it work right. We will get to add it to the list of useless apps in Windows that everyone should turn off. This is yet another Micro$oft BOB Application. Does anyone remember MS BOB. That wonderful little App that didn't last a year that was supposed to make computers even easier to use. Anyone who did use it removed it in less than 6 months because they realized it was causing a whole host of problems and never did help them to use the computer. It merely masked all the really difficult to use things like control panels and the Start menu.
MS needs to get over themselves and fix what needs to be fixed. I don't care about new features right now I want a reliable stable OS. I would use Linux or Mac OS X full time if I didn't have a job in IT. This is just gonna cause still more pain. Just another reason to start recommending that Companies at least switch to Mac OS X if they can't stomach Linux.
Let's say I am on vacation for two weeks. On the first day of the first week of my vacation a major worm virus event happens. Since I am not at home to update my machines I get infected. Becuase of the virus my machine cannot automaticly update it's virus definitions or my Antivirus software crashes in the process or part of the virus disables the autoupdate feature of my Antivirus and OS automatic updates fail also. Since I am on vacation I do not check my computers. I have no idea that any problems exist. For argument sake we will say I am Hiking somewhere remote or visiting the outback region of a foreign country. Assuming that we say the reasonable time the "Identification Athority" or my ISP has set is one week then I get fined starting some time in the second week. You have just fined me for something I could not predict, prevent or respond to.
These fines might work against corporations and small businesses but I can never see them being set against the public at large.
I think that you are giving the ISP's way to much credit. Most ISP's are understaffed and the bulk of the staff they do have is grossly under trained for their jobs. My ISP at home is Time Warner Cable. I once spent 3 hours talking to them and trying to convince them that the Web Browser I was using had nothing to do with why I couldn't ping my default route they were assigning via DHCP. I can only imagine how long it would take me to convince them that I was a false positive and get the charge reversed. Worse yet trying to convince them that my IP Address had switched between the time they detected the offense and they decided to bill me.
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Seriously, I am confused. I first heard about Bio Diesel while watching the West Wing. I have tried to research it but seem to only be able to find positive articles about it. I can find no good answer as to why it isn't being used. I can find no reasons why it seems to be a secret. Why isn't it being forced down the throat of at least large ground based transportation companies.
Hydrogen Fuel cells are cool and all but everyone leaves out the fact that Fossil Fuels are the best source of Hydrogen. They are the easiest way to extract the quantities we would need. So how does that stop anything but the Global Warming myths? Which by comparison to the fights over Oil is a small concern. Not to mention that Hydrogen is expensive to produce compared to other fossil fuels.
It's the same problem which the author of this article points out about Bio ethanol. So how are either of these really going to impact our use of Mid east oil?
Bio Diesel is Soy Based, normally though it doesn't have to be. That means it's cheap and easy to grow. It burns every bit as clean as Ethanol. It appears to me to cost as little as normal diesel to produce. The by-product's of production are the primary ingredients of Soap. The Bio Diesel, unlike real diesel, is completely environmentally safe. It's really just vegetable oil. We know how to make that. We pay way to many farmers in the US not to grow stuff so that prices do not fall to low. These are all hard working people who want to work. So let's let them. I think the US would be hard pressed to produce enough Soy for this but I don't think we can't figure that out.
The best thing about it is that it runs in any Diesel vehicle, generator, or other device without any modification. I know that Diesel cars get a bad rap but go drive any of the VW diesel vehicles. They have none of the problems of Diesel cars in the past.
My real question is why is it left out? What is it that I am missing? Where can I get more information telling me why i am wrong. I am not trying to start a flame war I really do want to know.
So let's see we are now going to have yet another processor consuming waste of resources that helps maybe 10% of the population figure out how to use the damn search function. I am sure this will not affect performance, security or stability because SQL Server is the premier Database engine in the world. * Cough **Puke* If, and it's a really big IF, MS can manage to get this to work in more than their test environment who really wants it? I don't hear people screaming about not being able to find files or data on their own machines.(On the internet is a whole different story) I hear people almost every day screaming about the damn number of patches they had to download when they reinstalled. Then there is the multi annual DDOS Virus issues. This more of the wonderful MS misdirection..... Don't look over here at the real problems we will yet again leave unaddressed here is this new feature you just have to have. You won't be able to live with out it. And like the crack dealers they are they will leave us all wanting it but never invest the time to make it work right. We will get to add it to the list of useless apps in Windows that everyone should turn off. This is yet another Micro$oft BOB Application. Does anyone remember MS BOB. That wonderful little App that didn't last a year that was supposed to make computers even easier to use. Anyone who did use it removed it in less than 6 months because they realized it was causing a whole host of problems and never did help them to use the computer. It merely masked all the really difficult to use things like control panels and the Start menu. MS needs to get over themselves and fix what needs to be fixed. I don't care about new features right now I want a reliable stable OS. I would use Linux or Mac OS X full time if I didn't have a job in IT. This is just gonna cause still more pain. Just another reason to start recommending that Companies at least switch to Mac OS X if they can't stomach Linux.
Let's say I am on vacation for two weeks. On the first day of the first week of my vacation a major worm virus event happens. Since I am not at home to update my machines I get infected. Becuase of the virus my machine cannot automaticly update it's virus definitions or my Antivirus software crashes in the process or part of the virus disables the autoupdate feature of my Antivirus and OS automatic updates fail also. Since I am on vacation I do not check my computers. I have no idea that any problems exist. For argument sake we will say I am Hiking somewhere remote or visiting the outback region of a foreign country. Assuming that we say the reasonable time the "Identification Athority" or my ISP has set is one week then I get fined starting some time in the second week. You have just fined me for something I could not predict, prevent or respond to.
These fines might work against corporations and small businesses but I can never see them being set against the public at large.
I think that you are giving the ISP's way to much credit. Most ISP's are understaffed and the bulk of the staff they do have is grossly under trained for their jobs. My ISP at home is Time Warner Cable. I once spent 3 hours talking to them and trying to convince them that the Web Browser I was using had nothing to do with why I couldn't ping my default route they were assigning via DHCP. I can only imagine how long it would take me to convince them that I was a false positive and get the charge reversed. Worse yet trying to convince them that my IP Address had switched between the time they detected the offense and they decided to bill me.