The company can and has used carbon dioxide extracted from air to make petrol, but it is also using industrial sources of carbon dioxide until it is able to improve the performance of "carbon capture".
So? Carbon capture is an important part of greenhouse gas mitigation. At this time, the options for dealing with this sequestered CO2 include pumping it into the ground. If some process can make use of this gas at or near its point of origin, it changes the economics of dealing with it from being a cost to a (minor) revenue generator. In other words, if we've got to capture the stuff anyway, why not use it?
One of the major roadblocks to a 'hydrogen economy' is that the gas is difficult to store and transport. Combine H with C and you have a hydrocarbon. We are already pretty good at storing, moving and burning hydrocarbons of various types.
While such a process doesn't actually remove and sequester carbon, it is carbon neutral (aside from the overreaching hydrogen economy question of: Where did the energy come from?). It offsets the 'new' carbon one would have to dig or pump up and add to the ecosystem. carbon ends up being a hydrogen 'carrier' and is recycled.
The State of Minnesota will do the following for people who have Coursera degrees:
What's a Coursera degree? The last time I checked, they only offer individual courses on line. Now if Stanford, MIT or other universities accept Coursera transcripts for credit towards their degrees, I don't think Minnesota will have a lot to say about it.
Many universities will allow credit from local community colleges to fullfill certain basic requirements. I don't think questions about where one took each course ever came up during a job interview.
I'm not certain this is true. While Anon did go beyond the (accepted) practice of an informant providing information to the authorities, (s)he did not carry out any punishment or retribution.
The man himself has now been threatened online by others vowing to carry out vigilante justice, a development that worries Vancouver defence lawyer Eric Gottardi.
Yeah, right. A defense lawyer. What would you expect from the, "My client is innocent" crowd. Perhaps the suspect needs to turn himself over to the police, tell them his story and let them either charge him or possibly clear his name (mistakes do happen). No acts of vigilantism have been carried out. Yet. But now there's political pressure for the police to do something about it, one way or the other.
Apple is like a supermodel. It (she) may be flawed, but nerds will always come back for more.
Microsoft is like the eldest daughter. The king has to pay some schmuck to marry her (so the knight in shining armor can sweep the hot younger sister away).
Enough already with the nanny state. I can die in my '79 Toyota. I don't care. Just put a label listing the safety exceptions on the windshield at the dealer and let the market (including my insurance company) decide.
One of them being that Johns are actually more wiling to seek out illegal prostitutes as they get used to the idea of prostitution being "okay".
[citation needed]
For example Germany with legal prostitution has many illegal underage eastern girls working the streets illegally.
How do you know that one has anything to do with the other? We have underage prostitutes in many US cities where prostitution is illegal. Some perverts just like kids. And some kids run away and have no means of support other than hooking.
"I don't pay them for sex. I pay them to leave."
-- Charlie Sheen
However, most vice squads are still focused on female/male and male/male prostitutes
Not so much the latter. The Seattle police have no problems recruiting officers to take a few thousand in city funds and go down to the local strip clubs. They buy lap dances until one of the women fondles something they shouldn't. Then the cops bust them. But they seem to have quite a bit of trouble getting volunteers to go into gay male establishments and try to buy blow jobs. I wonder why.
You've got it backwards. Prostitution is illegal because it is usually exploitative.
You've got it backwards. Prostitution is exploitative because its illegal. Just try 'exploiting' a prostitute in Amsterdam, for example. They'll call the cops without hesitation. In the eyes of the law, they aren't doing anything illegal. So they have no fear.
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The company can and has used carbon dioxide extracted from air to make petrol, but it is also using industrial sources of carbon dioxide until it is able to improve the performance of "carbon capture".
So? Carbon capture is an important part of greenhouse gas mitigation. At this time, the options for dealing with this sequestered CO2 include pumping it into the ground. If some process can make use of this gas at or near its point of origin, it changes the economics of dealing with it from being a cost to a (minor) revenue generator. In other words, if we've got to capture the stuff anyway, why not use it?
One of the major roadblocks to a 'hydrogen economy' is that the gas is difficult to store and transport. Combine H with C and you have a hydrocarbon. We are already pretty good at storing, moving and burning hydrocarbons of various types.
While such a process doesn't actually remove and sequester carbon, it is carbon neutral (aside from the overreaching hydrogen economy question of: Where did the energy come from?). It offsets the 'new' carbon one would have to dig or pump up and add to the ecosystem. carbon ends up being a hydrogen 'carrier' and is recycled.
The State of Minnesota will do the following for people who have Coursera degrees:
What's a Coursera degree? The last time I checked, they only offer individual courses on line. Now if Stanford, MIT or other universities accept Coursera transcripts for credit towards their degrees, I don't think Minnesota will have a lot to say about it.
Many universities will allow credit from local community colleges to fullfill certain basic requirements. I don't think questions about where one took each course ever came up during a job interview.
"Where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."
Because we hold the average down.
Uhuh. So... what?
16 times Full HD sounds like 16 channels on TV.
Maybe if the broadcasters get enough extra channels, they'll re-run 'My Mother the Car' on one of them. I can't wait!
Y'all let me know when I kin stop smackin' the TV whenever the vertical hold gets wonky.
Are they sure it isn't a Land Rover?
Well, that's what he declared on his income tax return.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the solvents and reagents of organic chemistry,
Or to take algebra against a sea of troubles....
2B v ~2B, that is the question.
So they'll have more time to hang around the mosque instead of sitting home, watching Baywatch reruns.
Anonymous acted as a vigilante.
I'm not certain this is true. While Anon did go beyond the (accepted) practice of an informant providing information to the authorities, (s)he did not carry out any punishment or retribution.
The man himself has now been threatened online by others vowing to carry out vigilante justice, a development that worries Vancouver defence lawyer Eric Gottardi.
Yeah, right. A defense lawyer. What would you expect from the, "My client is innocent" crowd. Perhaps the suspect needs to turn himself over to the police, tell them his story and let them either charge him or possibly clear his name (mistakes do happen). No acts of vigilantism have been carried out. Yet. But now there's political pressure for the police to do something about it, one way or the other.
Apple is like a supermodel. It (she) may be flawed, but nerds will always come back for more.
Microsoft is like the eldest daughter. The king has to pay some schmuck to marry her (so the knight in shining armor can sweep the hot younger sister away).
And thus, the next Mitt Romney was born.
No more than CAFE standards ended the auto industry.
Everyone switched to pickup trucks and SUVs.
Welcome to the world of unintended consequences.
Protip: Always maintain eye contact.
or it won't be street legal.
And yet, I can still go out and buy a motorcycle.
Enough already with the nanny state. I can die in my '79 Toyota. I don't care. Just put a label listing the safety exceptions on the windshield at the dealer and let the market (including my insurance company) decide.
On campus? Our health department would shut it down.
The general public isn't even allowed into our city watershed.
One of them being that Johns are actually more wiling to seek out illegal prostitutes as they get used to the idea of prostitution being "okay".
[citation needed]
For example Germany with legal prostitution has many illegal underage eastern girls working the streets illegally.
How do you know that one has anything to do with the other? We have underage prostitutes in many US cities where prostitution is illegal. Some perverts just like kids. And some kids run away and have no means of support other than hooking.
That doesn't seem to be a problem for Jules Jordan, who stars in a lot of the stuff he produces.
Not everyone is attractive enough to get sex.
"I don't pay them for sex. I pay them to leave." -- Charlie Sheen
However, most vice squads are still focused on female/male and male/male prostitutes
Not so much the latter. The Seattle police have no problems recruiting officers to take a few thousand in city funds and go down to the local strip clubs. They buy lap dances until one of the women fondles something they shouldn't. Then the cops bust them. But they seem to have quite a bit of trouble getting volunteers to go into gay male establishments and try to buy blow jobs. I wonder why.
You've got it backwards. Prostitution is illegal because it is usually exploitative.
You've got it backwards. Prostitution is exploitative because its illegal. Just try 'exploiting' a prostitute in Amsterdam, for example. They'll call the cops without hesitation. In the eyes of the law, they aren't doing anything illegal. So they have no fear.
What a weird situation! Prostitution is illegal in the USA?
No, not in the USA in general. Just in some (most) local jurisdictions.
We're getting a report about a balloon-launched capsule coming down on some guy's front lawn.