It rather obviously won't. However, they could be used as a source of fuel -- if it does not take too much energy to separate the bacteria from the water.
This is a bad idea. Carbon monoxide is extremely poisonous, and to purposely make it means you are burning carbon inefficiently. In that case, you could burn carbon you save in steam to get hydrogen, a common method of hydrogen production.
I think that in some cases it might be a legitimate waste product (making charcoal, I think). I can't see why you couldn't also burn CO in steam, 2(CO) + H2O = H2 + 2(CO2) + energy. This should be exothermic otherwise the bacteria couldn't do it as an energy source.
Plants get their hydrogen from water -- so I can see getting hydrogen from GM plants as being useful, especially since they are cheap solar cells.
A current method of getting hydrogen is by passing steam over coal -- basically burning coal in water. I can't imagine it being much different to burn carbon monoxide in water to get steam, but maybe these bacteria do it more efficiently than we can?
You are not going to get energy from CO2. At least not without burning something else, like magnesium. If you want to end the usage of fossil fuels, go nuclear (or solar).
OK, I guess that is cool than. I wonder if they can coexist with with the algae they were considering for making biodiesel from?
Also, you are *speculating* that the bacteria are carbon-based? I'm pretty sure that all life on earth is carbon based. Isn't that the current theory of evolution as well?
There are studies based on identical twins who grew up separately, that quite conclusively show that a good portion of intelligence is genetic. Why is it suddenly a problem to even think that someone who's genes come from a a country that has been "intellectual" for a few hundred years be more "intellectual" than someone from, say, Africa? Is it also flamebait to say black people play hide-and-seek in the dark better?
Although I do think that the poster is wrong about weight not affecting intelligence. The brain consumes a lot of resources, and being physically fit does affect your intelligence to some extent.
Please do not argue for control based on having invented the damn thing. Or perhaps you should stop using the inventions of other countries?
What happenned is that as well as inventing it, we *built* the internet. Not all of it, but most of it. The others want to play with our internet and agree to play by our rules -- more or less. You can bulid your own internet (that's called an intranet, but it's the same thing). If they get pissed off they're perfectly free to get their own root servers.
I would like to think of this as the first step toward variable speed limits. Since you can basically have your car tell you what the speed limit is, by GPS, it would be very easy to adjust the speed limit based on driving conditions etc.
for a given increase in speed, the inertia increases geometrically, meaning you crash much harder when you go just a little faster.
Physics correction: Inertia is mass*velocity and increases linearly with velocity at non-relativistic speeds. Likewise, energy is (1/2)*mass*velocity^2 and increases as the square of velocity. Neither increaseses exponentially. However, cars are designed to crumple, absorbing a certain amount of this energy (because an inelastic collision has less change in momentum than an elastic one), but are optimized for certain speeds. Also, the human body can take stress nonlinearly (that is, small forces cause no damage at all, damaging forces quickly reach the level where they will kill you).
In all of my driving experience I can not once think of a situation where my method of getting out of trouble would have involved speeding up.
Ever try passing on a two-way road with one lane each? If you are passing a truck and see a car coming, you either speed up, or slow down, depending on your position. Presumably during said maneuver you would be driving a bit above the speed limit, as well.
1. You have separate user accounts, right? Use them. 2. If you are afraid they will wipe their own directory, make a copy (eg in your directory), doesn't need to be a serious backup. 3. Not sure if your system has this, but I can create a new login, without logging out. Applications --> System Tools --> New Login, on my Debian system. It will lock your screen and create a new login. You can switch between them with ctrl-alt-F7 and higher. If your kid does this, that's what the locked screen is for. 4. Your kid will not *randomly* type `rm -rf *`, though it is very likely they would hear about said command and try it. It'll be a good lesson. That's where the backup comes in.
Interestingly, the Wikipedia article was deleted: 22:14, 13 October 2005 DragonflySixtyseven deleted "Boeing Everett plant" (content was: '{{deletebecause|Content pilfered wholesale from [http://www.boeing.com/commercial/facilities/].}}' )
Nice to see that someone is standing up against plagiarism, no?
So what? If you put a 1000 lb dumbell and a straw on a camel, and it breaks its back, or you put a straw and a 1000 lb dumbell, does this mean that the straw broke the camel's back in the first case and the dumbell in the second?
You forget that bloggers are people. Random people. And that they often live or work in the exact place that they are reporting on -- they have inside information that journalists couldn't even dream of finding on their own. Then they get pissed or whatnot and put it on the web. That said, it's still quite a job to collect and report this information once it is online, which is why I'm reading slashdot and not your personal blog.
ID supporters say that there is a gap between *species A* and *species B*. But once a species between A and B is found, ID supporters say now there are 2 gaps
from the NewScientist article: Mayr told New Scientist that there are no unique traits shared by archaeopteryx and other early bird-like fossils that are not present in dinosaurs. This would either mean that archaeopteryx cannot be classed within the same evolutionary group as birds or that this group needs to be redefined.
And that's a scientist speaking. Not too surprising, though -- the idea of class is quite artificial and was not designed in such a way that you could classify something as being between two classes.
I don't understand why people make such a big deal about the death penalty. It is never used due to the autamatic appeal, and it is simply cheaper to sentence them to "death by old age", which does not have the appeal or quite the burden of proof.
I don't get it. Why doesn't Ellison just pay a higher amount, since he would only get a quarter of that back and the rest would go to the shareholders. So he pays 4/3 times the damages, and gets 25% of that back. Is the settlement stupid or should I read the article?
IANAMeteorologist, but I think the deal with greenhouse effect is that it traps heat, not that it provides a heat source. Then it would make sense that convection currents loose power as the temperature diferential would decrease.
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The article mentions that oxygens need to be removed from the water; How much energy does this require?
Not much, if any significant portion of the water is converted to hydrogen.
In what quantities is the hydrogen produced; What quantities is needed to power a fuel cell?
One molecule of hydrogen for each molecule of carbon monoxite. How much wattage does your fuel cell output?
How efficient is this process compared to electrolysis.
Probably more so; however, how efficient is it compared to making hydrogen by burning coal in steam?
2(CO) + H2O = H2 + 2(CO2)
That should be CO + H2O = H2 + CO2
It rather obviously won't. However, they could be used as a source of fuel -- if it does not take too much energy to separate the bacteria from the water.
This is a bad idea. Carbon monoxide is extremely poisonous, and to purposely make it means you are burning carbon inefficiently. In that case, you could burn carbon you save in steam to get hydrogen, a common method of hydrogen production.
I think that in some cases it might be a legitimate waste product (making charcoal, I think). I can't see why you couldn't also burn CO in steam, 2(CO) + H2O = H2 + 2(CO2) + energy. This should be exothermic otherwise the bacteria couldn't do it as an energy source.
Plants get their hydrogen from water -- so I can see getting hydrogen from GM plants as being useful, especially since they are cheap solar cells.
A current method of getting hydrogen is by passing steam over coal -- basically burning coal in water. I can't imagine it being much different to burn carbon monoxide in water to get steam, but maybe these bacteria do it more efficiently than we can?
You are not going to get energy from CO2. At least not without burning something else, like magnesium. If you want to end the usage of fossil fuels, go nuclear (or solar).
OK, I guess that is cool than. I wonder if they can coexist with with the algae they were considering for making biodiesel from?
Also, you are *speculating* that the bacteria are carbon-based? I'm pretty sure that all life on earth is carbon based. Isn't that the current theory of evolution as well?
Where does the carbon monoxide come from?
There are studies based on identical twins who grew up separately, that quite conclusively show that a good portion of intelligence is genetic. Why is it suddenly a problem to even think that someone who's genes come from a a country that has been "intellectual" for a few hundred years be more "intellectual" than someone from, say, Africa? Is it also flamebait to say black people play hide-and-seek in the dark better?
Although I do think that the poster is wrong about weight not affecting intelligence. The brain consumes a lot of resources, and being physically fit does affect your intelligence to some extent.
Maybe because we invented the damn thing!
Please do not argue for control based on having invented the damn thing. Or perhaps you should stop using the inventions of other countries?
What happenned is that as well as inventing it, we *built* the internet. Not all of it, but most of it. The others want to play with our internet and agree to play by our rules -- more or less. You can bulid your own internet (that's called an intranet, but it's the same thing). If they get pissed off they're perfectly free to get their own root servers.
Since when is Britain making Bush look bad, bad PR?
I would like to think of this as the first step toward variable speed limits. Since you can basically have your car tell you what the speed limit is, by GPS, it would be very easy to adjust the speed limit based on driving conditions etc.
for a given increase in speed, the inertia increases geometrically, meaning you crash much harder when you go just a little faster.
Physics correction: Inertia is mass*velocity and increases linearly with velocity at non-relativistic speeds. Likewise, energy is (1/2)*mass*velocity^2 and increases as the square of velocity. Neither increaseses exponentially. However, cars are designed to crumple, absorbing a certain amount of this energy (because an inelastic collision has less change in momentum than an elastic one), but are optimized for certain speeds. Also, the human body can take stress nonlinearly (that is, small forces cause no damage at all, damaging forces quickly reach the level where they will kill you).
In all of my driving experience I can not once think of a situation where my method of getting out of trouble would have involved speeding up.
Ever try passing on a two-way road with one lane each? If you are passing a truck and see a car coming, you either speed up, or slow down, depending on your position. Presumably during said maneuver you would be driving a bit above the speed limit, as well.
1. You have separate user accounts, right? Use them.
2. If you are afraid they will wipe their own directory, make a copy (eg in your directory), doesn't need to be a serious backup.
3. Not sure if your system has this, but I can create a new login, without logging out. Applications --> System Tools --> New Login, on my Debian system. It will lock your screen and create a new login. You can switch between them with ctrl-alt-F7 and higher. If your kid does this, that's what the locked screen is for.
4. Your kid will not *randomly* type `rm -rf *`, though it is very likely they would hear about said command and try it. It'll be a good lesson. That's where the backup comes in.
Interestingly, the Wikipedia article was deleted:' )
22:14, 13 October 2005 DragonflySixtyseven deleted "Boeing Everett plant" (content was: '{{deletebecause|Content pilfered wholesale from [http://www.boeing.com/commercial/facilities/].}}
Nice to see that someone is standing up against plagiarism, no?
What with the load we put on some servers...
So what? If you put a 1000 lb dumbell and a straw on a camel, and it breaks its back, or you put a straw and a 1000 lb dumbell, does this mean that the straw broke the camel's back in the first case and the dumbell in the second?
You forget that bloggers are people. Random people. And that they often live or work in the exact place that they are reporting on -- they have inside information that journalists couldn't even dream of finding on their own. Then they get pissed or whatnot and put it on the web. That said, it's still quite a job to collect and report this information once it is online, which is why I'm reading slashdot and not your personal blog.
I have yet to read a blog rather than stumbling upon one by mistake, I just don't find diary's that interesting I suppose.
What about this one?
Also, -50 points for use of the phrase 'paradigm shift.'
Perhaps we need a paradigm shift in our usage of marketspeek?
ID supporters say that there is a gap between *species A* and *species B*. But once a species between A and B is found, ID supporters say now there are 2 gaps
from the NewScientist article:
Mayr told New Scientist that there are no unique traits shared by archaeopteryx and other early bird-like fossils that are not present in dinosaurs. This would either mean that archaeopteryx cannot be classed within the same evolutionary group as birds or that this group needs to be redefined.
And that's a scientist speaking. Not too surprising, though -- the idea of class is quite artificial and was not designed in such a way that you could classify something as being between two classes.
I don't understand why people make such a big deal about the death penalty. It is never used due to the autamatic appeal, and it is simply cheaper to sentence them to "death by old age", which does not have the appeal or quite the burden of proof.
I don't get it. Why doesn't Ellison just pay a higher amount, since he would only get a quarter of that back and the rest would go to the shareholders. So he pays 4/3 times the damages, and gets 25% of that back. Is the settlement stupid or should I read the article?
IANAMeteorologist, but I think the deal with greenhouse effect is that it traps heat, not that it provides a heat source. Then it would make sense that convection currents loose power as the temperature diferential would decrease.