No, this actually reduces it. This material would otherwise decompose into methane, a decidedly more potent greenhouse gas. This lets you shift that to CO2 and also reduces the need for some other source of fuel.
landfills take a lot of land, and the garbage has to be shipped there.
Hence this plant, which, in combination with composting and recycling programs, reduces the amount of stuff that goes into the landfill.
Perhaps more stringent controls on packaging, plastics, etc might be better for reducing trash in the first place, but that takes political will, and real social change. Everything that we make should be recyclable. This is the only way that it will work in the long run.
A good idea, but that has nothing to do with this. This process is for stuff that it is impractical to compost or recycle, such as wood or fabrics.
You're not burning the stuff, you're gassifying it, which is an entirely different thing. The latter uses a low-oxygen environment and no combustion.
From that gasification, you get hydrogen and carbon monoxide ("synthesis gas"), which you feed into a Fisher-Tropsch process, with the end result being diesel fuel you can pour into the city buses or sell or whatever.
nor are they "ground zero" in more than symbolic ways.
Yes it is. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial in the park is almost directly under where the bomb went off, which is why the building was still (partially) standing afterwards.
in the other, add a dozen orders of magnitude and it *may* be safe to return.
Actually, the sites of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are inhabitable today, or would be. Both sites are public parks (the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the Nagasaki Peace Park), which were opened in the 1950s.
The Republican bill that would remove ISPs from FCC regulation would allow states to regulate. It would make rent seeking a lot more difficult for ISPs.
Highway mileage? Hybrids are don't do anything for highway. The battery and motor may as well be ballast for highway driving, so you'll get identical highway mileage, at best (more probably, slightly worse) compared to an otherwise identical conventional vehicle.
If you're doing mostly highway, a hybrid has no benefit for you.
Hybrids only do anything for stop-and-go city driving, where they shine pretty nicely, largely due to not idling.
With the coming $4.50+/gallon gas coming this summer due to the combination of Ukrain and Iraq (plus screw you, we're big oil) I think you'll see sales jump up again.
Yeah, but new conventional vehicles are awfully close to hybrids in terms of fuel economy, without the extra cost. And then fuck-everything-we're-doing-full-electric is eating into the hybrid's market share from the other side.
Wow, OK. So if you don't think giving donors the run around will increase donations then you are the bigoted, homophobic... etc.
Run around? "Test everyone for everything" is the standard up here and there's no "run around". They just take a half dozen vials of blood in addition to the unit, all through the same needle.
They first fill a little bag with blood (it's all integrated into the donation pack), then they clamp off that line and direct the blood to the main collection bag and fill the vials from the first bag while you fill the big one. It adds maybe a minute to the collection. The actual testing is all done after donation. If the testing shows something important, you get a letter in the mail.
HIV testing isn't cheap and forcing it on everyone would shrink the donor pool dramatically not increase it.
Sure it is. Canadian Blood Services tests every single blood donation for HIV (also Hep C, West Nile, and others). The testing is done after the fact, so there's no waiting or anything. They just take a half dozen vials of blood in addition to the unit.
He says "Our technology" and "All our patent", so presumably they're meaning every single one of the 169 patents they currently hold, except maybe the 8 design patents.
then give the clean ones a certification with expiry. Re-test as required to continue donating.
Certification shmertication. Test every single damn time. That's what they do up here in Canada. When you donate blood, they take a half-dozen additional vials of blood specifically for testing along with the unit itself.
Is there a half-life on Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?
CJD has an insanely long incubation period. It can be over 50 years between infection and the onset of symptoms and they could be infectious for a significant portion of that.
An example: Saskatoon(pop ~260k) has a murder rate than NYC(pop ~8.4m).
You seem to be missing a word from this sentence. Might it perhaps be "lower"? Because it's the only one that would be factual.
In 2013, according to the Saskatoon Police Service's crime map, Saskatoon had a total of 4 homicides (Which occurred on January 1, July 11, August 20, and August 30). That's a rate of 1.80/100k (city population is 222k. 260k is the census metropolitan area, which includes bedroom communities, which aren't part of Saskatoon's crime stats)
In 2013, NYC had 333 homicides. That's a rate of 3.96/100k.
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This will add to greenhouse gasses . . .
No, this actually reduces it. This material would otherwise decompose into methane, a decidedly more potent greenhouse gas. This lets you shift that to CO2 and also reduces the need for some other source of fuel.
landfills take a lot of land, and the garbage has to be shipped there.
Hence this plant, which, in combination with composting and recycling programs, reduces the amount of stuff that goes into the landfill.
Perhaps more stringent controls on packaging, plastics, etc might be better for reducing trash in the first place, but that takes political will, and real social change. Everything that we make should be recyclable. This is the only way that it will work in the long run.
A good idea, but that has nothing to do with this. This process is for stuff that it is impractical to compost or recycle, such as wood or fabrics.
There's no smoke here, nor is there burning.
You're not burning the stuff, you're gassifying it, which is an entirely different thing. The latter uses a low-oxygen environment and no combustion.
From that gasification, you get hydrogen and carbon monoxide ("synthesis gas"), which you feed into a Fisher-Tropsch process, with the end result being diesel fuel you can pour into the city buses or sell or whatever.
nor are they "ground zero" in more than symbolic ways.
Yes it is. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial in the park is almost directly under where the bomb went off, which is why the building was still (partially) standing afterwards.
in the other, add a dozen orders of magnitude and it *may* be safe to return.
Actually, the sites of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are inhabitable today, or would be. Both sites are public parks (the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the Nagasaki Peace Park), which were opened in the 1950s.
The Republican bill that would remove ISPs from FCC regulation would allow states to regulate. It would make rent seeking a lot more difficult for ISPs.
Not bloody likely. States are already busy shutting down competition for the incumbent ISPs.
Failures were correlated with the amount of time the disk was spun up, so you should idle a drive not in active use.
That makes no logical sense unless the statement is missing a "not" somewhere, or unless you WANT failures.
You're reading the sentence wrong. You're reading it as "Times the disk was spun up".
What they mean is the total amount of time the disk has spent spinning over its lifetime.
Highway mileage? Hybrids are don't do anything for highway. The battery and motor may as well be ballast for highway driving, so you'll get identical highway mileage, at best (more probably, slightly worse) compared to an otherwise identical conventional vehicle.
If you're doing mostly highway, a hybrid has no benefit for you.
Hybrids only do anything for stop-and-go city driving, where they shine pretty nicely, largely due to not idling.
With the coming $4.50+/gallon gas coming this summer due to the combination of Ukrain and Iraq (plus screw you, we're big oil) I think you'll see sales jump up again.
Yeah, but new conventional vehicles are awfully close to hybrids in terms of fuel economy, without the extra cost. And then fuck-everything-we're-doing-full-electric is eating into the hybrid's market share from the other side.
Yes, but the question is whether having to take insulin is better or worse than having to take anti-rejection drugs.
I believe the insulin is generally considered the better option unless you're needing the anti-rejection drugs for something else anyway.
you have silly ideas about screening, a newly infected HIV case won't register on test for weeks.
Actually, it's not even weeks anymore. The window period for the nucleic acid amplification test Canadian Blood Services uses is 13 days.
1. I'm not the guy you replied to. I was just giving an example of how such testing regimes work where they are done.
2. They should know about it. It's in the pamphlet you're supposed to read.
Wow, OK. So if you don't think giving donors the run around will increase donations then you are the bigoted, homophobic ... etc.
Run around? "Test everyone for everything" is the standard up here and there's no "run around". They just take a half dozen vials of blood in addition to the unit, all through the same needle.
They first fill a little bag with blood (it's all integrated into the donation pack), then they clamp off that line and direct the blood to the main collection bag and fill the vials from the first bag while you fill the big one. It adds maybe a minute to the collection. The actual testing is all done after donation. If the testing shows something important, you get a letter in the mail.
HIV testing isn't cheap and forcing it on everyone would shrink the donor pool dramatically not increase it.
Sure it is. Canadian Blood Services tests every single blood donation for HIV (also Hep C, West Nile, and others). The testing is done after the fact, so there's no waiting or anything. They just take a half dozen vials of blood in addition to the unit.
Right, so law enforcement can twist that to any meaning they want.
At which point the judge crumples up their illegitimately obtained evidence and tosses it out, along with their case.
He says "Our technology" and "All our patent", so presumably they're meaning every single one of the 169 patents they currently hold, except maybe the 8 design patents.
then give the clean ones a certification with expiry. Re-test as required to continue donating.
Certification shmertication. Test every single damn time. That's what they do up here in Canada. When you donate blood, they take a half-dozen additional vials of blood specifically for testing along with the unit itself.
Is there a half-life on Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?
CJD has an insanely long incubation period. It can be over 50 years between infection and the onset of symptoms and they could be infectious for a significant portion of that.
No, this was a different poll than Cantor's funded one.
The funny/sad (depends on your perspective I guess) thing is he probably didn't see it coming until the first returns started coming in.
Granted, no one else saw it coming either. A week ago, the polls showed he had a 13 point lead over this guy.
Pray tell. How would you?
The Space Launch System, which expected to be ready to fly in 2017.
Granted, using that to put people on the ISS is absurd overkill. It would be like commuting in an 18-wheeler.
An example: Saskatoon(pop ~260k) has a murder rate than NYC(pop ~8.4m).
You seem to be missing a word from this sentence. Might it perhaps be "lower"? Because it's the only one that would be factual.
In 2013, according to the Saskatoon Police Service's crime map, Saskatoon had a total of 4 homicides (Which occurred on January 1, July 11, August 20, and August 30). That's a rate of 1.80/100k (city population is 222k. 260k is the census metropolitan area, which includes bedroom communities, which aren't part of Saskatoon's crime stats)
In 2013, NYC had 333 homicides. That's a rate of 3.96/100k.
I'm fairly sure that 1.8<3.96
The executives at Manpower must have done some reading and figured they wanted to be more like Manpower of Mesa.
According to the site, the commercial licence is $495. Not all that huge.
What more to expect from the NRA?
Vigorous lobbying to restrict 3D printing. If every Joe can print an M1911, they won't need the gun manufacturers, which the NRA is actually run by.
turn right around and mock the 'War on Drugs" because it doesn't fucking work?
Last time I checked, you can't make a gun just by planting some seeds and watering them.