Twice, I think (Cray Laboratories and Cray Computer Corporation) though the name has been passed around a bit.
The current Cray (Which was formerly known as the Tera Computer Company) bought up the remnants of Cray Research from Silicon Graphics in 2000, who had bought them up in 1996, and appropriated the name.
I don't think they're expecting to even break even off this particular unit.
It's basically a full scale prototype for the capture tech to see if the tech actually works at a reasonable operating cost. If it does, they'll roll it out to the other coal plants, at lower cost now that they know what they're doing with it.
If it doesn't pan out, they're going to have to find something else to provide power, as the coal plants will have to be shut down when they hit the 50 year mark, as there's no way for them to fit under the CO2 emissions regulations* without the capture tech. And that 50 year mark isn't all that far away.
In the latter case, unit 4 at Boundary Dam will shut down in 2020, followed by unit 5 in 2023, unit 6 in 2028, then Poplar River's units in 2031 and 2033. That's nearly 1/3rd of their generation capacity and most of their base load.
*Existing power plants are grandfathered in. The CO2 regs don't apply to them until 50 years after their commissioning date.
It mentions that there is a plant under construction in Kemper County, Mississippi, that should capture more than half of its CO2 emissions and redirect them to an oil field.
One of the units at Saskpower's Boundary Dam plant up here just finished being converted to carbon capture and is operating now. It supposedly captures 90% of CO2 emissions.
This wouldn't be a one-off cure for type 1. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease. Any replacement pancreas would get trashed same as the originals did. You'd either need to keep replacing them or take immunosupressants for the rest of your life.
Not necessarily. It depends on which part of the 5-way alliance that forms current American conservatism we're talking about.
You've got the business conservatives who seek low taxes and low regulation, the foreign policy hawks who seek a strong defense budget, the social conservatives who fear moral anarchy, the racists and nativists worried about immigration and affirmative action, and the elderly retirees who rely on Social Security and Medicare.
They are doing some funny math to claim 80% efficiency, as that is almost double the current best efficiency achieved in a lab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And I'm pretty sure 80% efficiency is above the theoretical maximum too . . ..
Nothing funny about it. This thing is combined heat and power system. You get electricity directly from the cells, and in keeping the cells cool, you get hot water suitable for running an absorption chiller and desalinating.
1.3KW per square metre is at the top of the atmosphere.
It's significantly less at ground level. You get about 1050W peak at high noon on a cloudless day at the equator and less as you go north or south from there.
its just a simple idea I have always considered; loading electrical energy into physical potential energy by way of working against gravity. Maybe, instead, just run a big heavy chunk of metal up a notched pole? Then release it to spin a worm gear, to a large cog, then big generator as it slowly drops?
You'd still have the exact same issue with the amount of mass and/or height needed. Mass x height x 9.8m/s^2. For a kilowatt-hour of storage, mass x height needs to equal about 600,000. Gravity-based energy storage simply requires a lot of both for any worthwhile amount of energy.
Banks of batteries are expensive and take up a lot of space. You'd need to provide several megawatts for several hours. That would require hundreds of 85kWh car battery packs.
And they'll be producing several hundred thousand such packs annually once the factory is operational.
Also, it's going to be a 10 million square-foot facility, with a few hundred more empty acres around it. I don't think they'll be pressed for space.
Problem is that requires a lot of water, a lot of height, or both. Assuming 80% efficiency on your pump and generator, you'd need something on the order of 600,000 metre-litres of water per kilowatt hour of storage.
That's very much incorrect. It's treated as a deduction
Read the site.
If you paid or accrued foreign taxes to a foreign country on foreign source income and are subject to U.S. tax on the same income, you may be able to take either a credit or an itemized deduction for those taxes.
You're assuming it is always option 2 (acts as a deduction), and ignoring option 1 (acts as a credit).
Had, yes. The USA had an arms embargo and miscellaneous other sanctions against Turkey from 1974 to 1980-ish, as a result of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
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Competition? What competition?
No need to be that complicated. Just use an absorption chiller.
They did learn. These things aren't clipped together. They're held together with electropermanent magnets.
Twice, I think (Cray Laboratories and Cray Computer Corporation) though the name has been passed around a bit.
The current Cray (Which was formerly known as the Tera Computer Company) bought up the remnants of Cray Research from Silicon Graphics in 2000, who had bought them up in 1996, and appropriated the name.
No, this law has been in progress since March of this year.
They're just using this incident as an excuse to try to fast-track it through Parliament without any further debate.
1. It's both actually. His cousin was charged earlier this month with funnelling corporate money to his campaign, using employees as straw donors.
2. Yes, he was charged last year, though I haven't heard anything since the charges were laid.
That being said, Canada's current ruling party has violated campaign financing rules in the past (see: In and Out scandal.)
See also : Del Mastro, though he's actually getting charged, 5 years after the fact.
Not likely. They'll be going with another bolt action rifle, almost certainly chambered in 7.62x51mm.
The Rangers have no need for automatic fire and bolt action is more reliable when dealing with arctic conditions.
I don't think they're expecting to even break even off this particular unit.
It's basically a full scale prototype for the capture tech to see if the tech actually works at a reasonable operating cost. If it does, they'll roll it out to the other coal plants, at lower cost now that they know what they're doing with it.
If it doesn't pan out, they're going to have to find something else to provide power, as the coal plants will have to be shut down when they hit the 50 year mark, as there's no way for them to fit under the CO2 emissions regulations* without the capture tech. And that 50 year mark isn't all that far away.
In the latter case, unit 4 at Boundary Dam will shut down in 2020, followed by unit 5 in 2023, unit 6 in 2028, then Poplar River's units in 2031 and 2033. That's nearly 1/3rd of their generation capacity and most of their base load.
*Existing power plants are grandfathered in. The CO2 regs don't apply to them until 50 years after their commissioning date.
It mentions that there is a plant under construction in Kemper County, Mississippi, that should capture more than half of its CO2 emissions and redirect them to an oil field.
One of the units at Saskpower's Boundary Dam plant up here just finished being converted to carbon capture and is operating now. It supposedly captures 90% of CO2 emissions.
Is animal-sourced insulin even used anymore? I was under the impression that it was cheaper to produce it using modified bacteria.
This wouldn't be a one-off cure for type 1. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease. Any replacement pancreas would get trashed same as the originals did. You'd either need to keep replacing them or take immunosupressants for the rest of your life.
Not necessarily. It depends on which part of the 5-way alliance that forms current American conservatism we're talking about.
You've got the business conservatives who seek low taxes and low regulation, the foreign policy hawks who seek a strong defense budget, the social conservatives who fear moral anarchy, the racists and nativists worried about immigration and affirmative action, and the elderly retirees who rely on Social Security and Medicare.
Yes, but it's only supposed to be unfair in their favour. Anything else is "Against God's Will" or "Against the will of the Market".
Mirrors are a whole lot cheaper than PVs.
Flat mirrors, maybe
Which is what this thing uses.
They are doing some funny math to claim 80% efficiency, as that is almost double the current best efficiency achieved in a lab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And I'm pretty sure 80% efficiency is above the theoretical maximum too . . . .
Nothing funny about it. This thing is combined heat and power system. You get electricity directly from the cells, and in keeping the cells cool, you get hot water suitable for running an absorption chiller and desalinating.
1.3KW per square metre is at the top of the atmosphere.
It's significantly less at ground level. You get about 1050W peak at high noon on a cloudless day at the equator and less as you go north or south from there.
its just a simple idea I have always considered; loading electrical energy into physical potential energy by way of working against gravity. Maybe, instead, just run a big heavy chunk of metal up a notched pole? Then release it to spin a worm gear, to a large cog, then big generator as it slowly drops?
You'd still have the exact same issue with the amount of mass and/or height needed. Mass x height x 9.8m/s^2. For a kilowatt-hour of storage, mass x height needs to equal about 600,000. Gravity-based energy storage simply requires a lot of both for any worthwhile amount of energy.
Banks of batteries are expensive and take up a lot of space. You'd need to provide several megawatts for several hours. That would require hundreds of 85kWh car battery packs.
And they'll be producing several hundred thousand such packs annually once the factory is operational.
Also, it's going to be a 10 million square-foot facility, with a few hundred more empty acres around it. I don't think they'll be pressed for space.
Problem is that requires a lot of water, a lot of height, or both. Assuming 80% efficiency on your pump and generator, you'd need something on the order of 600,000 metre-litres of water per kilowatt hour of storage.
There are many encrypted ham standards, PSK31 WSPR, WSJT, MAP65, Hellscriber, etc, etc.
Umm, unless I am managing to completely misunderstand something, those are not encryption, those are simply digital signals rather than analog.
No-class-action clauses have held up, all the way to the Supreme Court. See AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion.
Doesn't Comcast have a "You're not allowed to file a class action suit against us. Hahahaha." clause in their contracts?
That's very much incorrect. It's treated as a deduction
Read the site.
If you paid or accrued foreign taxes to a foreign country on foreign source income and are subject to U.S. tax on the same income, you may be able to take either a credit or an itemized deduction for those taxes.
You're assuming it is always option 2 (acts as a deduction), and ignoring option 1 (acts as a credit).
Are you sure the US has sanctions on Turkey?
Had, yes. The USA had an arms embargo and miscellaneous other sanctions against Turkey from 1974 to 1980-ish, as a result of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.