Unethical to send people on a lonely, hazardous journey? That may be, but to send a solitary craft with a small number of explorers borders on simply bad planning. It is a plan which does not include redundancy. Sending a small flotilla, with multiple crews, capacity to transfer personnel between ships, and capacity for each ship to carry the whole expedition human crew, would provide redundancy in the event of a ship or ships becoming unserviceable. It would mitigate the boredom/loneliness problem, and increase the probability of the whole crew being able to return safely. Space is dangerous and things go wrong. The Apollo series demonstrated that. Early explorers learned to take several ships to increase their chances of survival.
So PV more expensive to maintain than thermal or hydro power stations? Point me to your facts. when a thermal station goes down, that's a whole lot of adjustment the whole grid has to make. A PV cell or panel? Give me a break...
Water pumping is slow. Hydrogen is fast, esp when it is being used dynamically at the receiving end. I would suggest that hydrogen does not need to be stored at the receiver the way water is currently for potential energy. And it is potential energy that we are talking about. The problem becomes a much more dynamic one.
rethink your costs. you do not need to store water and pump it uphill. You store hydrogen close to the coast where it is made, and pump it uphill at much lower cost than pumping water, to the existing power stations and their existing power distribution grid feed points. Then use fuel cells/gas turbines to generate, 24 hours per day. Countries like Denmark with low sunlight flux can import bulk hydrogen from countries closer to equator with low cloud cover fraction.
What is the evidence that the process which produces the neutrino flux is contemporaneous with the process which produces the light burst in a collapsing star?
Indeed sadness comes with the passing of a courageous writer. Courageous because he attempted the difficult feat of overtly connecting the strange erotic and violent internal world of unconcious (and not so unconscious) fantasy with patterns in and products of human civilisation. His more surreal and difficult work sometimes proposed that the human condition, if not genetics, were somehow pre-ordinately composed with information which could be expressed biologically, in not always adaptive ways, to socially or environmentally bizarre changes and crises. His melding of the more basic human urges with technological sophistication drew a range of extreme responses amongst avid readers and critics, which perhaps suppressed a wider appreciation of some of his predictive ability and linguistic adeptness.
It could be argued that a proportion of his surreal writing was a product of the horrors he witnessed in concentration camps as a child, but if so, he took a long time to tell his story in direct terms - in 'The Empire of the Sun'. But even if so, we have been enriched by his foretelling of perspectives on humanity in allegory which few others have attempted.
Vale, to a generous story-teller.
"Edison's Pearl River Power Station started up its generator on September 4, 1882, in New York City. About 85 customers in lower Manhattan received enough power to light 5,000 lamps. His customers paid a lot for their electricity. In today's dollars, the electricity cost $5 per kilowatt-hour!"
...but not as a result of natural selection... the parsimony inherent is that no other genetic changes need to take place.
Anyway the only important natural selector ATM is global warming - may the smarter, more heat and aridity-adapted ethnic group win:-) - tongue-in-cheek of course, we know that man's capacity for altruism extends beyond race creed and colour - not. Pelvic outlet measurement won't matter a damn.
Intriguing. Do you have a net-based reference for this? One is tempted to hypothesise that the faulty genetic step may be a result of compromise in order to allow development of other steps - e.g. bipedal gait, bain size, or more likely, omnivorous diet - but I suspect it is more likely a deletion resulting from increased dietary availability.
Very simple and effective mechanism for ensuring brain size does not increase as a result of selection - unless of course - the hourglass figure becomes a more important signifier in selection than does the narrow-hippedness of chronic anorexia.
Pardon the pun. This article falls into the commentator category. It does not contain any information that cannot be readily deduced. What is required is articles which purport news analysis. For example, an economic analysis of whether it is actually a viable possibility for China to compete in space over time, especially given the reasons for the the collapse of the Soviet Union including over-wheening belief in its own economic ability without real economic underpinnings.
Just don't let Microsoft loose on re-engineering the human genome - it will bloat out to 50Mb and be even more susceptible to viruses, requiring plug-in service packs within 18 months
Ethanol? Add Prozac to fuel, post-combustion fuel-feed vapouriser, hey presto! Great plot to make/.ers using PDAs all over the world happy and less cynical despite themselves.
Large-scale photovoltaic farms supplying power to grid system, simultaneously electrolysing sea- and waste water for hydrogen storage. Hydrogen is used in fuel cells and gas turbines for nighttime power generation, and becomes mobile fuel of choice for gas turbine-powered trucks, trains, eventually personal transport. Large-scale hydrogen-burning plants condense exhaust reclaiming fresh water for reticulation. Provincial communities either pipe or ship in hydrogen for local power and water generation. Produces many new industries, high latitude countries import cheap hydrogen to supplement nuclear power.
OMG. Windows applications in 128M? What size H/D can you put in it? I cannot see it as a functional machine. One program will take all available space.
The responses on these pages is all part of the game of PR, and the level of analytical thinking demonstrated by responders is frightening. Any company with engineering skill can produce an orchestrated Gee whiz demo. Toyota would not be prepared to produce a robot to handle a tough AI project like getting it to drive a LandCruiser across 140 miles of desert steering it with its humanoid lips.
Surely the astonishing finding is that there would appear to be no on-board vibration (sound) sensor array networked to a computer which could accurately determine the source and probable nature of the disturbance. Or does that feature come with v2.0?
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Unethical to send people on a lonely, hazardous journey? That may be, but to send a solitary craft with a small number of explorers borders on simply bad planning. It is a plan which does not include redundancy. Sending a small flotilla, with multiple crews, capacity to transfer personnel between ships, and capacity for each ship to carry the whole expedition human crew, would provide redundancy in the event of a ship or ships becoming unserviceable. It would mitigate the boredom/loneliness problem, and increase the probability of the whole crew being able to return safely. Space is dangerous and things go wrong. The Apollo series demonstrated that. Early explorers learned to take several ships to increase their chances of survival.
So PV more expensive to maintain than thermal or hydro power stations? Point me to your facts. when a thermal station goes down, that's a whole lot of adjustment the whole grid has to make. A PV cell or panel? Give me a break...
Water pumping is slow. Hydrogen is fast, esp when it is being used dynamically at the receiving end. I would suggest that hydrogen does not need to be stored at the receiver the way water is currently for potential energy. And it is potential energy that we are talking about. The problem becomes a much more dynamic one.
rethink your costs. you do not need to store water and pump it uphill. You store hydrogen close to the coast where it is made, and pump it uphill at much lower cost than pumping water, to the existing power stations and their existing power distribution grid feed points. Then use fuel cells/gas turbines to generate, 24 hours per day. Countries like Denmark with low sunlight flux can import bulk hydrogen from countries closer to equator with low cloud cover fraction.
The last time I measured it, sunlight was $0 per. What are you talking about?
What is the evidence that the process which produces the neutrino flux is contemporaneous with the process which produces the light burst in a collapsing star?
lie with dogs, you get fleas
Indeed sadness comes with the passing of a courageous writer. Courageous because he attempted the difficult feat of overtly connecting the strange erotic and violent internal world of unconcious (and not so unconscious) fantasy with patterns in and products of human civilisation. His more surreal and difficult work sometimes proposed that the human condition, if not genetics, were somehow pre-ordinately composed with information which could be expressed biologically, in not always adaptive ways, to socially or environmentally bizarre changes and crises. His melding of the more basic human urges with technological sophistication drew a range of extreme responses amongst avid readers and critics, which perhaps suppressed a wider appreciation of some of his predictive ability and linguistic adeptness. It could be argued that a proportion of his surreal writing was a product of the horrors he witnessed in concentration camps as a child, but if so, he took a long time to tell his story in direct terms - in 'The Empire of the Sun'. But even if so, we have been enriched by his foretelling of perspectives on humanity in allegory which few others have attempted. Vale, to a generous story-teller.
Still 10 billion shipments behind ARM.
"Edison's Pearl River Power Station started up its generator on September 4, 1882, in New York City. About 85 customers in lower Manhattan received enough power to light 5,000 lamps. His customers paid a lot for their electricity. In today's dollars, the electricity cost $5 per kilowatt-hour!"
...but not as a result of natural selection... the parsimony inherent is that no other genetic changes need to take place. Anyway the only important natural selector ATM is global warming - may the smarter, more heat and aridity-adapted ethnic group win :-) - tongue-in-cheek of course, we know that man's capacity for altruism extends beyond race creed and colour - not. Pelvic outlet measurement won't matter a damn.
Simple... run Linux on an ARM-based machine - http://www.iyonix.com/
Intriguing. Do you have a net-based reference for this? One is tempted to hypothesise that the faulty genetic step may be a result of compromise in order to allow development of other steps - e.g. bipedal gait, bain size, or more likely, omnivorous diet - but I suspect it is more likely a deletion resulting from increased dietary availability.
Very simple and effective mechanism for ensuring brain size does not increase as a result of selection - unless of course - the hourglass figure becomes a more important signifier in selection than does the narrow-hippedness of chronic anorexia.
Another article which mentions capitalisation of a new technology, but for which the editor has not done any homework on the current state of trends in silicon development. See here http://www.csgsolar.com/pages/technology.php?lang= en and http://www.originenergy.com.au/environment/environ ment_subnav.php?pageid=1233 for announcements of factories already in production of variants of silicon technology.
This is how one person did it in UK: http://www.drobe.co.uk/features/artifact1467.html
Pardon the pun. This article falls into the commentator category. It does not contain any information that cannot be readily deduced. What is required is articles which purport news analysis. For example, an economic analysis of whether it is actually a viable possibility for China to compete in space over time, especially given the reasons for the the collapse of the Soviet Union including over-wheening belief in its own economic ability without real economic underpinnings.
Just don't let Microsoft loose on re-engineering the human genome - it will bloat out to 50Mb and be even more susceptible to viruses, requiring plug-in service packs within 18 months
Ethanol? Add Prozac to fuel, post-combustion fuel-feed vapouriser, hey presto! Great plot to make /.ers using PDAs all over the world happy and less cynical despite themselves.
Large-scale photovoltaic farms supplying power to grid system, simultaneously electrolysing sea- and waste water for hydrogen storage. Hydrogen is used in fuel cells and gas turbines for nighttime power generation, and becomes mobile fuel of choice for gas turbine-powered trucks, trains, eventually personal transport. Large-scale hydrogen-burning plants condense exhaust reclaiming fresh water for reticulation. Provincial communities either pipe or ship in hydrogen for local power and water generation. Produces many new industries, high latitude countries import cheap hydrogen to supplement nuclear power.
OMG. Windows applications in 128M? What size H/D can you put in it? I cannot see it as a functional machine. One program will take all available space.
The responses on these pages is all part of the game of PR, and the level of analytical thinking demonstrated by responders is frightening. Any company with engineering skill can produce an orchestrated Gee whiz demo. Toyota would not be prepared to produce a robot to handle a tough AI project like getting it to drive a LandCruiser across 140 miles of desert steering it with its humanoid lips.
Surely the astonishing finding is that there would appear to be no on-board vibration (sound) sensor array networked to a computer which could accurately determine the source and probable nature of the disturbance. Or does that feature come with v2.0?