The CO2 added by volcanoes is negligible, but it's the energy that the volcano adds to the ocean that affects the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. One kilogram of magma will heat up about 500 kg of water 1 degree Celsius. That adds up to a lot of energy very quickly when talking about a pumice flotilla of 400 km^2.
I'm not trying to say you're incorrect in what you were saying about the end products of cutting edge tech often coming from American companies, that's obvious because you've got the most money which also means you're the source for most of the R & D money on the private sector. I'm just pointing out that the innovations and research that are needed to make those products possible are the result of a global effort of a multitude of scientists The vast majority of major american breakthroughs rely on people and knowledge from around the world, so they're not purely 'American' innovations in that sense.
But that is the strength of America, there is a 'platform' in place where people with talent can acquire resources to develop widgets and allow the investors/inventors the opportunity to sell them and make money. To my knowledge, not many other countries have less interference than America for creating something new, and allowing the stakeholders to profit from it.
Maybe because all the heat of the magma raised the temperature of the ocean water and therefore lowered the pH. The ocean is alkaline because there are stronger bases (sodium, magnesium, calcium) than acids in the water, and that balance controls the carbonate content in the ocean and what is in the atmosphere.
These are all aqueous reactions for enhanced removal using an alkaline solution...a method that is well known and considering that you'd need millions of tons of these difficult to procure amines, irrelevant to sequestration.
I'm asking about a linear mass/molar attenuation coefficient that can be used to calculate the energy deposition into a CO2 molecule while in the atmosphere, i.e. a way to see how much heat is retained in the atmosphere by CO2 by absorbing IR energy. I've looked through ENDF, NIST, KAERI and other cross-section and attenuation sites, and I can't find it. It's a critical component of any heat retention calculation, otherwise one would have to assume you have 100% absorption of the energy in those particular wavelengths.
I've read through it, can you point out where the units of energy per mole are indicated? It's showing absorption bands related to frequency, and notes that the modes are vibrational or translational. But you can't calculate energy deposition with them, just that there will be absorption.
Can you add a link to the molar adsorptivity of CO2 for the IR spectrum where the water cross section doesn't overlap? The cross section is well-characterized, but I can't find out how much energy can be deposited into a mole of CO2 in that particular wavelength (5-8 micron) region.
Here's one theory. Changes in undersea volcanic activity (which is not characterized at all because there are an estimated 30,000 seamounts that have not been discovered) change the ocean temperature. This causes the excess release of carbon dioxide, as well as increased release of thermal energy to the environment. Don't dare tell me this has been rendered non-trivial, a constant compared to the 5% of the CO2 added to the environment by human industry, because it hasn't.
I'm wondering if the study started before or after the movie Inside Out was released. SPOILER: The main child character, Riley, was about to run away, but when her emotions (Joy and Sadness) allowed Sadness to express herself, then she cried and was able to express herself.
Very good movie, much better than "Herman's Head" was.
I have a Withings scale and it worked with my Fitbit app well, so I hadn't used HealthMate in a while. My Fitbit broke (another/. article for sure...) so I was looking for the app on the store and it wasn't there. Somehow I found HealthMate, installed it, and it's damn near useless.
Yes, critical safety systems are air-gapped. In theory some of the operating data could be acquired, and I expect other systems outside of the reactor could be compromised and perhaps force an outage.
Saw the other updates later, so he may not be a minor. But I still don't understand why a major media corporation is doxxing and brigading reddit users...there are bigger fish to fry.
o The creator of the gif, by some accounts, is 15 years old.
o They are noting that the CNN contributor KFile doxxed him and quietly gave it to CNN.
o By escalating this minor's profile to front page news viewed by millions of people, a CNN contributor effectively coerced a mea culpa under threat of public humiliation.
o Coercion, last time I checked, is illegal, especially with minors.
o By announcing this information, CNN, whether knowingly or not, told the world that anybody with moderate investigative talent will be able to find and expose the minor.
The easiest thing for CNN to do would have been to ignore it. Now a publicly traded company is threatening minors over a dumb meme. People will lose their jobs. Also, someone will find this kid and ruin is life, just because.
During a Marc Andreesen twitter thread, UBI came up. He noted that it would apply to the income levels of upper middle class and higher, and that would be wasted money as they don't need the extra UBI. For that reason against it. Someone had suggested a 'negative income tax,' which he retweeted, and this one made a bit more sense.
If you make less than, say 30K a year, your tax rate would be negative and you'd get money back instead of paying into it. This would help with people who are on minimum wage, and it couldn't be exploited by those who don't need it.
One way or the other, the government will pay for the poor, this way seems more regimented and fair than the others.
Any great project starts with a vision. The details of this one are extremely expensive and challenging, but I don't think they are physically/technically impossible. Although I will concede they are economically impossible at the moment.
It's not just our species, its all life (that we know of) that could not exist anymore. Yes, the universe existed for 10 billion years (or so) before this tiny pebble somehow had a remarkable series of events occur...I'm not religious but life is special and until we know it exists anywhere else on the universe, it seems like its our responsibility to ensure it continues. Otherwise the universe will be boring.
Taking the sun's-eye view of Life As We Know It, it can all go away with a massive asteroid (that we can't see), a freak solar storm (that we'd see for about 8 minutes), or other event that could take us all out.
After that, all the science, all the technology, all the things we've done to separate ourselves from the rocks we kill each other with are gone. All because we are on a semi-closed system (planet Earth can take new mass in, and ejects minimal amounts of hydrogen).
It seems prudent to me that we make the ark (Stephenson wasn't the first to name it) and get at least some life (some of it with the ability to sustain the rest) off of this planet. That gives us a non-zero probability of surviving if an extinction level event should happen. We have a budget of billions of dollars spent on items of less importance, sometimes I wonder how we get priorities like this.
I remember getting epolife on my mac somehow (it could have been me, but I suspect it was my mom). Three google searches, a couple of hidden directories, and a few browser settings, and it was gone.
Much easier than some virus experiences I had with my PC backintheday.
Re: 1. Correct, 'subsidized' is the wrong word. Manipulated is the correct word, though. Any metropolitan city of reasonable size has a limited number of cabs, and they all suck. Re: 2. The results speak for themselves. Uber was aggressive, but they connected passengers to drivers reliably, and fought the governments when needed. Re 4: That you don't know. The people I know that work there are smart, capable, and aggressive. But they are not crooks.
I don't know if he can change or not, we'll see. I hope he can, he had a vision and he executed it; that's something most people can't do.
Having seen what Google and Facebook are paying incoming executives/creative talent, I can tell you that the cap for the right person is much higher than most reasonable people would expect.
Every time I use Uber, I rate the driver, close the app, and go to Settings|Privacy|Location Services, scroll all the way down to Uber, turn off location services while wondering if they really think I believe them that they need the location on always.
I never bought their excuse and I'm glad it's being imposed again. I love the service of Uber, but I can't stand their crap data collection tactics. Same for Waze.
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The CO2 added by volcanoes is negligible, but it's the energy that the volcano adds to the ocean that affects the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. One kilogram of magma will heat up about 500 kg of water 1 degree Celsius. That adds up to a lot of energy very quickly when talking about a pumice flotilla of 400 km^2.
But that is the strength of America, there is a 'platform' in place where people with talent can acquire resources to develop widgets and allow the investors/inventors the opportunity to sell them and make money. To my knowledge, not many other countries have less interference than America for creating something new, and allowing the stakeholders to profit from it.
Maybe because all the heat of the magma raised the temperature of the ocean water and therefore lowered the pH. The ocean is alkaline because there are stronger bases (sodium, magnesium, calcium) than acids in the water, and that balance controls the carbonate content in the ocean and what is in the atmosphere.
These are all aqueous reactions for enhanced removal using an alkaline solution...a method that is well known and considering that you'd need millions of tons of these difficult to procure amines, irrelevant to sequestration.
I'm asking about a linear mass/molar attenuation coefficient that can be used to calculate the energy deposition into a CO2 molecule while in the atmosphere, i.e. a way to see how much heat is retained in the atmosphere by CO2 by absorbing IR energy. I've looked through ENDF, NIST, KAERI and other cross-section and attenuation sites, and I can't find it. It's a critical component of any heat retention calculation, otherwise one would have to assume you have 100% absorption of the energy in those particular wavelengths.
I've read through it, can you point out where the units of energy per mole are indicated? It's showing absorption bands related to frequency, and notes that the modes are vibrational or translational. But you can't calculate energy deposition with them, just that there will be absorption.
Can you add a link to the molar adsorptivity of CO2 for the IR spectrum where the water cross section doesn't overlap? The cross section is well-characterized, but I can't find out how much energy can be deposited into a mole of CO2 in that particular wavelength (5-8 micron) region.
Here's one theory. Changes in undersea volcanic activity (which is not characterized at all because there are an estimated 30,000 seamounts that have not been discovered) change the ocean temperature. This causes the excess release of carbon dioxide, as well as increased release of thermal energy to the environment. Don't dare tell me this has been rendered non-trivial, a constant compared to the 5% of the CO2 added to the environment by human industry, because it hasn't.
I'm wondering if the study started before or after the movie Inside Out was released. SPOILER: The main child character, Riley, was about to run away, but when her emotions (Joy and Sadness) allowed Sadness to express herself, then she cried and was able to express herself.
Very good movie, much better than "Herman's Head" was.
So as soon as they implement this, they'll have everyone's image who has a valid driver's license, and be able to reference them quickly.
Then they'll know the arrest record and everything else attached to your permanent record, which may be good or bad for you.
Cue Orwellian comments, some of which are justified.
I have a Withings scale and it worked with my Fitbit app well, so I hadn't used HealthMate in a while. My Fitbit broke (another /. article for sure...) so I was looking for the app on the store and it wasn't there. Somehow I found HealthMate, installed it, and it's damn near useless.
Now I feel great that I can blame Finland!
Yes, critical safety systems are air-gapped. In theory some of the operating data could be acquired, and I expect other systems outside of the reactor could be compromised and perhaps force an outage.
This is not only an American trait, the only place where I don't see it happening regularly is Japan..
Saw the other updates later, so he may not be a minor. But I still don't understand why a major media corporation is doxxing and brigading reddit users...there are bigger fish to fry.
Follow this (probably ill-conceived) logic:
The easiest thing for CNN to do would have been to ignore it. Now a publicly traded company is threatening minors over a dumb meme. People will lose their jobs. Also, someone will find this kid and ruin is life, just because.
During a Marc Andreesen twitter thread, UBI came up. He noted that it would apply to the income levels of upper middle class and higher, and that would be wasted money as they don't need the extra UBI. For that reason against it. Someone had suggested a 'negative income tax,' which he retweeted, and this one made a bit more sense.
If you make less than, say 30K a year, your tax rate would be negative and you'd get money back instead of paying into it. This would help with people who are on minimum wage, and it couldn't be exploited by those who don't need it.
One way or the other, the government will pay for the poor, this way seems more regimented and fair than the others.
Any great project starts with a vision. The details of this one are extremely expensive and challenging, but I don't think they are physically/technically impossible. Although I will concede they are economically impossible at the moment.
and before the grammar nazis get me, yes, I know I missed two apostrophes on the "it's". Someday Ill lurn to prrofreed.
It's not just our species, its all life (that we know of) that could not exist anymore. Yes, the universe existed for 10 billion years (or so) before this tiny pebble somehow had a remarkable series of events occur...I'm not religious but life is special and until we know it exists anywhere else on the universe, it seems like its our responsibility to ensure it continues. Otherwise the universe will be boring.
Taking the sun's-eye view of Life As We Know It, it can all go away with a massive asteroid (that we can't see), a freak solar storm (that we'd see for about 8 minutes), or other event that could take us all out.
After that, all the science, all the technology, all the things we've done to separate ourselves from the rocks we kill each other with are gone. All because we are on a semi-closed system (planet Earth can take new mass in, and ejects minimal amounts of hydrogen).
It seems prudent to me that we make the ark (Stephenson wasn't the first to name it) and get at least some life (some of it with the ability to sustain the rest) off of this planet. That gives us a non-zero probability of surviving if an extinction level event should happen. We have a budget of billions of dollars spent on items of less importance, sometimes I wonder how we get priorities like this.
Crap, you had me there for a minute.
I remember getting epolife on my mac somehow (it could have been me, but I suspect it was my mom). Three google searches, a couple of hidden directories, and a few browser settings, and it was gone.
Much easier than some virus experiences I had with my PC backintheday.
Re: 1. Correct, 'subsidized' is the wrong word. Manipulated is the correct word, though. Any metropolitan city of reasonable size has a limited number of cabs, and they all suck.
Re: 2. The results speak for themselves. Uber was aggressive, but they connected passengers to drivers reliably, and fought the governments when needed.
Re 4: That you don't know. The people I know that work there are smart, capable, and aggressive. But they are not crooks.
I don't know if he can change or not, we'll see. I hope he can, he had a vision and he executed it; that's something most people can't do.
Having seen what Google and Facebook are paying incoming executives/creative talent, I can tell you that the cap for the right person is much higher than most reasonable people would expect.
Every time I use Uber, I rate the driver, close the app, and go to Settings|Privacy|Location Services, scroll all the way down to Uber, turn off location services while wondering if they really think I believe them that they need the location on always.
I never bought their excuse and I'm glad it's being imposed again. I love the service of Uber, but I can't stand their crap data collection tactics. Same for Waze.
Finance or medicine?