I agree there is "something" out there that does have mass and therefore also has gravitational fields.
Since we can't currently *see it* I'll also agree that because it is currently not directly observable it is therefore "Dark" and made of "Matter".
My point is; that it to call it "Dark Matter" and to be done with it leaves things rather vague. Science rarely is so succinct and simple.
Black Hole material is also "Dark Matter" as it too cannot be directly observed.
Enough effects and gravity of the Black Holes' "Dark Matter" exists on the non-dark observable matter nearby to their hypothesized locations to convince scientists that Black Holes do exist (in addition to the math working out decently). Stephen Hawking is THE MAN.
For all we know, the mysterious "Dark Matter" could really be just a very dense repository of all of the discarded fruitcakes from around the universe. We don't know.
Scientists have an idea about what "Dark Matter" might be, and likely SOME of that will be correct, but chances are that a majority of it will be wrong.
It will actually turn out to be something more complicated than 'matter we just can't observe' so it is now therefore decreed to be henceforth called "Dark Matter".
I believe that atoms once were the smallest particles known, that changed. So will this. It may turn out to just be star ash, but Maybe not.
It could be thousands of things or types of matter, likely even stuff that is NOT dark.
If we can make a B2 bomber into "Dark Matter" from the POV of a man by using it's stealth features and electromagnetic radiation adsorbing coverings, maybe there's just plain ordinary matter out there that is rather cold and covered with some cosmic stealth paint.
The math says it exists and there is enough circumstantial evidence that "something" is there. I doubt it has some mystical properties that make it invisible. There are other dimensions in the universe that mathematics has proven exist, maybe being close or intersecting in some way with matter in those other dimensions is actually causing the "Dark Matter" effect.
I hope to live long enough to see "Dark Matter" become as archaic a term as the body's 4 humors are now from my original analogy.
I am no theoretical astrophysicist, but me thinks "Dark Matter" is the name of the current fad stop-gap physics widget which is necessary to balance out equations in their current hypotheses and models.
Doctors once thought that wellness and illness within the human body were caused by the balance between the body's four humors: Yellow Bile, Black Bile, Phlegm, and Blood.
Obviously, there is MUCH more to it than that. It is no different with this.
The actual answers to the universe and its mass-energy balances, origins, and "dark matter", etc.. are VERY likely to also NOT be so simple.
Does "Dark Matter" cease to be dark if you shine a light on it?
I was assuming that PC Decrapifyer cleaned the plethora of extraneous Sony-specific applications, the list does not list one Sony item:
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/apps
Still, is it is a very FREE and very Useful tool for new PCs.
Yes! This is what I am talking about.
It appears that the 10GBASE-CX4 802.3ak would be the best choice of the 10GigE options, but the hardware for either end of the UTP cables is a bit steep for any affordable SOHO device.
I sometimes back up entire PC's using a *nix boot disk to external storage. Anything that transfers all the drive(s) data much faster would reduce the need to open the box to plug in an IDE or SATA cable to my backup drive(s). The fact that inexpensive commodity Gigabit Ethernet devices can outperform USB 2.0 transfer rates really dates the USB 2.0 technology.
sSATA may be the better solution if USB 3.0 is not cheaper to implement. Time will tell.
Well.... that is until someone's underage teenage son and his underage girlfriend decide to shed all their clothes and have brazen sex in front of the cable box... The legal details of that scenario would be very interesting...
-What does legally happen when some adult's Comacast 1984-style bidirectional TV box "inadvertently" observes illegal underage nudity and sex. I am sure if this data was in any way streamed over their network there would be numerous state and federal laws violated (or if it were retained in any way), not to mention grounds for a very hefty lawsuit.
It would make for some interesting legal reading in any case.
Thanks. I should have said the word "Fluorescent".
Here is a link about Mercury contained in FLUORESCENT lights: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp#Environmental_issues
When anyone must rely on the comparison between the "benefits" of a particular "better" lighting source over the Toxic Heavy Metals (Mercury) it releases into the environment and to further claim that it is "better" because a coal-fired electric-power plant's Mercury exhaust releases over the bulb's lifetime are "less".
Hell, there is an alert on eating Mercury contaminated fish in my state: http://www.deq.state.ok.us/factsheets/land/fishmerc.pdf (PDF Warning)
Gimme a break. I need to put on some taller boots...
LEDs are the ONLY environmental alternative and they blow away incandescent and fluorescent lighting all of the environmental issues. (Plus they last MUCH longer than any other single current lighting technology). Please read on: http://www.creelighting.com/products.htm
NOTE: CO2 is reabsorbed into the environment and therefore it is *removed* by nature, Mercury is in the water and food and soil nearly forever (on human time scales) and can only be *diluted*.
Mercury is NEVER EVER Nontoxic.
It cannot be made nontoxic (despite what the amalgum "alchemists" of dentistry will tell you.)
The ADA will lie to their graves about Mercury's toxicities in the body from the mouth and lungs the lungs. HCL acid, AKA "stomach acid", does a great job of dissolving swallowed Mercury fillings and their residues readily dispersing the Mercury into the bloodstream.
Definitions of harmless vary.
Mercury vapor is heavier than air, it will not just float away.
CH4 is methane. It does not like to be compressed and in order to create high pressure compression/liquefaction of it necessitates refrigeration.
SiH4 is silane. (AKA Silicon hydride, Silicon tetrahydride, or Monosilane) It is an extremely flammable gas that will require high compression (and refrigeration if compression is to be made easier). Not to mention that its Autoignition temperature in the presence of Oxygen is less than 85C (185F).
It appears that this method (as described) is really about compressing partially stabilized Hydrogen to create a type of superconductor. (Recall that Hydrogen is just one proton and one electron in the simplest orbital configuration.) Four Hydrogens are stabilized by being bound to a semiconductor central atom (Silicon). Others know far more about the Physical Chemistry than I, but compressing the SiH4 molecules likely introduces some serious steric hindering which changes the shapes of the electron pathways and other properties of the electrons' orbitals giving them higher-temperature (at very high pressure) superconducting properties.
This is not very applicable in the layman's real world because of the extreme flammability and toxicity of SiH4. (Not to mention the fiery explosions caused by loss of pressure when superconducting line are carrying high current) Possible favorable locations for the application of this technology might be in Space or in the Deep Ocean. SiH4 probably does not burn very easily underwater or in a near vacuum.
"Instead of super-cooling the material, as is necessary for conventional superconductors, the new material is instead super-compressed. The researchers claim that the new material could sidestep the cooling requirement, thereby enabling superconducting wires that work at room temperature."
It was the model to have (with the correct firmware revision) with its famous "Engineering Menu" which allowed the "Macrovision" encoding to be *disabled* and you could change it to *any* region code as many times as you desired.
DRM sucks. This Apex model *Proved* that fact to me with its 'usefulness' back in 2000 (when I took off work early to go buy one from Circuit City). It's now 8 Years old and still kicking! Good Times.
I am not an admin, but I recall working at a tech company whose admin operated a very realistic Honeypot setup complete with changing scripts that generated bogus logfiles and scripted users that logged in and out of several "windows boxes" running in VMs off an otherwise unused server (with no real data and not on the same network as the real servers).
He said it served as a canary in the coal mine, but it was certainly not the first or last line of defense.
The Pentagon is only the single largest office building on the planet with a workforce of tens of thousands of civilian and military personnel.
It is highly probable that any classified data is NOT on PC's connected to the same network that has access to the Internet.
But, I could see some non-classified windows boxes with Internet access such as the ones our favorite stereotypical secretaries (who competitively install every kind of of smiley and intellimail app they can find) as being the ones the email the malicious code to each other.
-Still, I wonder what was "taken"?
What would really concern me is if they penetrated Ft. Meade or somewhere more important. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ft._Meade
Please do not be too quick to judge nor to summarily dismiss differing hypotheses to the Global Warming Hypothesis
-We do not have enough long-term and statistically significant data to irrefutably prove the emerging Theory of (AKA still a 'Hypothesis') of "Global Warming".
I agree there has been some warming of at least short-term, however, looking at ice cores and other scientifically determined climatic evidence from the fossil records, it has been quite a bit warmer than it is today. (And mankind was *nowhere around* to "liberate" captured CO2 to cause that 'Global Warming".)
I agree CO2 can become a problem involving surface temperatures, but the average global surface temperatures are the results of much larger cycles with time huge time frames (and sometime small timeframes in the cases of massive Volcanoes and large Meteorites, etc..) These time frames humans are only now beginning to understand.
NOTE: CO2 is actually rather insignificant compared to the sunspot cycle and the resulting diminishing/increasing amounts of sunlight (radiant energy) reaching the earth's surfaces.
I think this is what the "Cavity Searches" are intended to foil? (That is, unless you mean terrorism by threat of force via the poo-flinging-monkey method...)
This is the coolest thing on the list: *Cellulolytic Enzymes*
This "technology" basically involves feeding bacteria or protozoa on plant materials (AKA "Biomass") which are primarily composed of cellulose (which is really just chains of varying lengths of beta-glycosidic bonded glucose sugar molecules).
(NOTE: We call the Alpha-glycosidic bonded glucose sugar molecules STARCH, and we can eat those, but NOT the Beta-bonded variety.)
The 'Cellulolytic' Enzymes are from genetically-engineered Bacterium or Protozoans which are utilized to cleave the glycosidic linkage in the Cellulose and are additionally modified and/or chemically engineered into Butanol, Ethanol, Methanol, and other biofuel 'alcohols'.
Think of the process like a big container full of termite guts that basically partially digest (break the beta-glycosidic bonds of) the cellulose from your yard waste, grass trimmings, leaves, logs, switchgrass, tree bark, recycled paper, etc.. into their base glucose sugars which can then be easily modified into alcohols by the same (or different) single-celled critters.
This process will truly reveal the hyped artificial market (largely tax-subsidy supported) of the Corn Ethanol "market". POOF! it will go away and foodstuffs will be affordable again (and the price of beer will drop from farmers planing more cereals again!).
Jimmy Carter did this with the Peanut in the 1970's... Take away the artificial market, Poof! Farmers plant what is in actual demand, not what is only profitable due to tax subsidies. (And yes, there is a $0.50 per gallon tax subsidy for ethanol production.) Cellulolytic Enzyme tech can produce alcohols without the need for those subsidies. (oh, but you can bet they will still be there... that is, unless the ADM, et al "Corn Lobby" does not set a caveat in the law subsidizing only ethanol produced from corn (you call it maize)! )
-Sort of reminds me of Zymergy (AKA Zymurgy)... but then again, that is the (yeast) anaerobic fermentation of sugars/starches, a similar yet very different process.
Anyone else see the Monty Python potential from this?
I keep thinking there is some way to honor the classic Michael Palin and John Cleese 'Dead Parrot Sketch' out of this.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTSAFcLXqYY
At least they did not try to call it the "Trinity"... But wait, that is taken too... Then again, Play.com is now out of business (Remember the Snappy?)... hmmmm?
(I can't be the *only* nerd (in the late 90's) who thought the "Play.com co-founder and evangelist Kiki Stockhammer" was one HOT redhead! -I wonder whatever happened to her?)
-I am sure the Chinese will "kindly suggest" to Google.cn that they "voluntarily redirect" all search request traffic on these topics to the friendly 'Golden Shield Great Firewall of China'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project
(Imperfect as the US might be, I truly love having a Bill of Rights!)
I love my cell phone, but every time it powers on I has the startup phrase: "Cancer Machine ON".
So what? Chocolate makes you fat, Tobacco gives you cancer, Death and Taxes are inevitable. Until humans live forever and are tax-exempt, at least they DO have a choice on the others.
You make a very good point, Thank You. I do not disagree, I should have re-read the post before submitting
Hydrogen Fuel Cells are not as efficient as what I would consider to be "Efficient" either. BUT, they are more efficient than the burning any Carbon-containing fuel in order to spin a generator or to spin a drive shaft. I was thinking of Hydrogen fuel cells as being more efficient than the mechanical "heat engines", but you are absolutely right. (plus fuel cells have to have ultra-purified fuel stock and the membranes breakdown and become even less efficient, etc...
I am hopeful that the new Lithium-Silicon-Nanowire Batteries as discussed here recently will make the rechargeable storage-battery to electric motor-powered passenger vehicles efficient and practical: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/16/027236
A Toyota Prius with one of these new batteries (about the same size/weight as the existing Toyota Lithium Ion battery module) would have a range of over 300 miles per recharge (about the range of a standard fuel tank's worth of gasoline and farther still if one pulled out the gas engine and added more battery capacity under the hood too).
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I agree there is "something" out there that does have mass and therefore also has gravitational fields.
Since we can't currently *see it* I'll also agree that because it is currently not directly observable it is therefore "Dark" and made of "Matter".
My point is; that it to call it "Dark Matter" and to be done with it leaves things rather vague. Science rarely is so succinct and simple.
Black Hole material is also "Dark Matter" as it too cannot be directly observed.
Enough effects and gravity of the Black Holes' "Dark Matter" exists on the non-dark observable matter nearby to their hypothesized locations to convince scientists that Black Holes do exist (in addition to the math working out decently).
Stephen Hawking is THE MAN.
For all we know, the mysterious "Dark Matter" could really be just a very dense repository of all of the discarded fruitcakes from around the universe. We don't know.
Scientists have an idea about what "Dark Matter" might be, and likely SOME of that will be correct, but chances are that a majority of it will be wrong. It will actually turn out to be something more complicated than 'matter we just can't observe' so it is now therefore decreed to be henceforth called "Dark Matter".
I believe that atoms once were the smallest particles known, that changed. So will this. It may turn out to just be star ash, but Maybe not.
It could be thousands of things or types of matter, likely even stuff that is NOT dark.
If we can make a B2 bomber into "Dark Matter" from the POV of a man by using it's stealth features and electromagnetic radiation adsorbing coverings, maybe there's just plain ordinary matter out there that is rather cold and covered with some cosmic stealth paint.
The math says it exists and there is enough circumstantial evidence that "something" is there. I doubt it has some mystical properties that make it invisible. There are other dimensions in the universe that mathematics has proven exist, maybe being close or intersecting in some way with matter in those other dimensions is actually causing the "Dark Matter" effect.
I hope to live long enough to see "Dark Matter" become as archaic a term as the body's 4 humors are now from my original analogy.
I am no theoretical astrophysicist, but me thinks "Dark Matter" is the name of the current fad stop-gap physics widget which is necessary to balance out equations in their current hypotheses and models.
Doctors once thought that wellness and illness within the human body were caused by the balance between the body's four humors: Yellow Bile, Black Bile, Phlegm, and Blood.
Obviously, there is MUCH more to it than that. It is no different with this.
The actual answers to the universe and its mass-energy balances, origins, and "dark matter", etc.. are VERY likely to also NOT be so simple.
Does "Dark Matter" cease to be dark if you shine a light on it?
I was assuming that PC Decrapifyer cleaned the plethora of extraneous Sony-specific applications, the list does not list one Sony item: http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/apps
Still, is it is a very FREE and very Useful tool for new PCs.
Another link OTFA:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/sony-hates-you-offers-50-fresh-start-option-to-build-your-la/
Yes! This is what I am talking about.
It appears that the 10GBASE-CX4 802.3ak would be the best choice of the 10GigE options, but the hardware for either end of the UTP cables is a bit steep for any affordable SOHO device.
I sometimes back up entire PC's using a *nix boot disk to external storage. Anything that transfers all the drive(s) data much faster would reduce the need to open the box to plug in an IDE or SATA cable to my backup drive(s). The fact that inexpensive commodity Gigabit Ethernet devices can outperform USB 2.0 transfer rates really dates the USB 2.0 technology.
sSATA may be the better solution if USB 3.0 is not cheaper to implement. Time will tell.
USB 3.0 or *something faster* will be required for devices this large in portable storage capacity.. USB 2.0 is ~480Mbps (theoretical max) and it would take forever to transfer a terabyte over USB 2.0.
http://www.usb.org/usb30
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201807389
Well.... that is until someone's underage teenage son and his underage girlfriend decide to shed all their clothes and have brazen sex in front of the cable box... The legal details of that scenario would be very interesting...
-What does legally happen when some adult's Comacast 1984-style bidirectional TV box "inadvertently" observes illegal underage nudity and sex. I am sure if this data was in any way streamed over their network there would be numerous state and federal laws violated (or if it were retained in any way), not to mention grounds for a very hefty lawsuit.
It would make for some interesting legal reading in any case.
Thanks. I should have said the word "Fluorescent".
Here is a link about Mercury contained in FLUORESCENT lights: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp#Environmental_issues
When anyone must rely on the comparison between the "benefits" of a particular "better" lighting source over the Toxic Heavy Metals (Mercury) it releases into the environment and to further claim that it is "better" because a coal-fired electric-power plant's Mercury exhaust releases over the bulb's lifetime are "less".
Hell, there is an alert on eating Mercury contaminated fish in my state: http://www.deq.state.ok.us/factsheets/land/fishmerc.pdf (PDF Warning)
Gimme a break. I need to put on some taller boots...
LEDs are the ONLY environmental alternative and they blow away incandescent and fluorescent lighting all of the environmental issues. (Plus they last MUCH longer than any other single current lighting technology). Please read on: http://www.creelighting.com/products.htm
NOTE: CO2 is reabsorbed into the environment and therefore it is *removed* by nature, Mercury is in the water and food and soil nearly forever (on human time scales) and can only be *diluted*.
Mercury is NEVER EVER Nontoxic.
It cannot be made nontoxic (despite what the amalgum "alchemists" of dentistry will tell you.)
The ADA will lie to their graves about Mercury's toxicities in the body from the mouth and lungs the lungs. HCL acid, AKA "stomach acid", does a great job of dissolving swallowed Mercury fillings and their residues readily dispersing the Mercury into the bloodstream.
Definitions of harmless vary.
Mercury vapor is heavier than air, it will not just float away.
Please read the MSDS for Mercury..., any questions?: http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/M1599.htm
Gallium OTOH is a much more expensive and LESS toxic alternative in some devices, but not all.
...Do they turn GREEN and get BIGGER?
CH4 is methane. It does not like to be compressed and in order to create high pressure compression/liquefaction of it necessitates refrigeration.
SiH4 is silane. (AKA Silicon hydride, Silicon tetrahydride, or Monosilane) It is an extremely flammable gas that will require high compression (and refrigeration if compression is to be made easier). Not to mention that its Autoignition temperature in the presence of Oxygen is less than 85C (185F).
It appears that this method (as described) is really about compressing partially stabilized Hydrogen to create a type of superconductor. (Recall that Hydrogen is just one proton and one electron in the simplest orbital configuration.) Four Hydrogens are stabilized by being bound to a semiconductor central atom (Silicon). Others know far more about the Physical Chemistry than I, but compressing the SiH4 molecules likely introduces some serious steric hindering which changes the shapes of the electron pathways and other properties of the electrons' orbitals giving them higher-temperature (at very high pressure) superconducting properties.
This is not very applicable in the layman's real world because of the extreme flammability and toxicity of SiH4. (Not to mention the fiery explosions caused by loss of pressure when superconducting line are carrying high current) Possible favorable locations for the application of this technology might be in Space or in the Deep Ocean. SiH4 probably does not burn very easily underwater or in a near vacuum.
It could then be marketed to gamers and called: "Silent, But Deadly!"
NOPE. Do not pass Go Do not collect $200.
"Instead of super-cooling the material, as is necessary for conventional superconductors, the new material is instead super-compressed. The researchers claim that the new material could sidestep the cooling requirement, thereby enabling superconducting wires that work at room temperature."
Don't Forget about the famed Apex AD-600a! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/21/1233235
http://www.nerd-out.com/darrenk/600/history.htm
It was the model to have (with the correct firmware revision) with its famous "Engineering Menu" which allowed the "Macrovision" encoding to be *disabled* and you could change it to *any* region code as many times as you desired.
DRM sucks. This Apex model *Proved* that fact to me with its 'usefulness' back in 2000 (when I took off work early to go buy one from Circuit City). It's now 8 Years old and still kicking! Good Times.
...*MORE SHADES OF BLACK*??!!
MEGA-MAID?
Could the "compromised" data have actually been Honeypot data? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing)
I am not an admin, but I recall working at a tech company whose admin operated a very realistic Honeypot setup complete with changing scripts that generated bogus logfiles and scripted users that logged in and out of several "windows boxes" running in VMs off an otherwise unused server (with no real data and not on the same network as the real servers).
He said it served as a canary in the coal mine, but it was certainly not the first or last line of defense.
The Pentagon is only the single largest office building on the planet with a workforce of tens of thousands of civilian and military personnel.
It is highly probable that any classified data is NOT on PC's connected to the same network that has access to the Internet.
But, I could see some non-classified windows boxes with Internet access such as the ones our favorite stereotypical secretaries (who competitively install every kind of of smiley and intellimail app they can find) as being the ones the email the malicious code to each other.
-Still, I wonder what was "taken"?
What would really concern me is if they penetrated Ft. Meade or somewhere more important. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ft._Meade
Please do not be too quick to judge nor to summarily dismiss differing hypotheses to the Global Warming Hypothesis
-We do not have enough long-term and statistically significant data to irrefutably prove the emerging Theory of (AKA still a 'Hypothesis') of "Global Warming".
I agree there has been some warming of at least short-term, however, looking at ice cores and other scientifically determined climatic evidence from the fossil records, it has been quite a bit warmer than it is today. (And mankind was *nowhere around* to "liberate" captured CO2 to cause that 'Global Warming".)
I agree CO2 can become a problem involving surface temperatures, but the average global surface temperatures are the results of much larger cycles with time huge time frames (and sometime small timeframes in the cases of massive Volcanoes and large Meteorites, etc..) These time frames humans are only now beginning to understand.
NOTE: CO2 is actually rather insignificant compared to the sunspot cycle and the resulting diminishing/increasing amounts of sunlight (radiant energy) reaching the earth's surfaces.
Some could argue it the other way too:
http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080227/D8V2CFRO0.html
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6157497&maindocimg=6154941&service=6
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1203343699258&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289
I think this is what the "Cavity Searches" are intended to foil? (That is, unless you mean terrorism by threat of force via the poo-flinging-monkey method...)
This is the coolest thing on the list: *Cellulolytic Enzymes*
This "technology" basically involves feeding bacteria or protozoa on plant materials (AKA "Biomass") which are primarily composed of cellulose (which is really just chains of varying lengths of beta-glycosidic bonded glucose sugar molecules).
(NOTE: We call the Alpha-glycosidic bonded glucose sugar molecules STARCH, and we can eat those, but NOT the Beta-bonded variety.)
The 'Cellulolytic' Enzymes are from genetically-engineered Bacterium or Protozoans which are utilized to cleave the glycosidic linkage in the Cellulose and are additionally modified and/or chemically engineered into Butanol, Ethanol, Methanol, and other biofuel 'alcohols'.
Think of the process like a big container full of termite guts that basically partially digest (break the beta-glycosidic bonds of) the cellulose from your yard waste, grass trimmings, leaves, logs, switchgrass, tree bark, recycled paper, etc.. into their base glucose sugars which can then be easily modified into alcohols by the same (or different) single-celled critters.
This process will truly reveal the hyped artificial market (largely tax-subsidy supported) of the Corn Ethanol "market". POOF! it will go away and foodstuffs will be affordable again (and the price of beer will drop from farmers planing more cereals again!). Jimmy Carter did this with the Peanut in the 1970's... Take away the artificial market, Poof! Farmers plant what is in actual demand, not what is only profitable due to tax subsidies. (And yes, there is a $0.50 per gallon tax subsidy for ethanol production.) Cellulolytic Enzyme tech can produce alcohols without the need for those subsidies. (oh, but you can bet they will still be there... that is, unless the ADM, et al "Corn Lobby" does not set a caveat in the law subsidizing only ethanol produced from corn (you call it maize)! ) -Sort of reminds me of Zymergy (AKA Zymurgy)... but then again, that is the (yeast) anaerobic fermentation of sugars/starches, a similar yet very different process.
Thank You. Ah yes, I wanted room 12A, Just along the corridor...
Anyone else see the Monty Python potential from this?
I keep thinking there is some way to honor the classic Michael Palin and John Cleese 'Dead Parrot Sketch' out of this.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTSAFcLXqYY
At least they did not try to call it the "Trinity"... But wait, that is taken too... Then again, Play.com is now out of business (Remember the Snappy?)... hmmmm?
(I can't be the *only* nerd (in the late 90's) who thought the "Play.com co-founder and evangelist Kiki Stockhammer" was one HOT redhead! -I wonder whatever happened to her?)
Searching for "Horror" on http://www.google.cn/ still works... (But I am inside the United States):
http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&ie=GB2312&q=Horror
http://images.google.cn/images?hl=zh-CN&ie=UTF-8&q=Horror
-I am sure the Chinese will "kindly suggest" to Google.cn that they "voluntarily redirect" all search request traffic on these topics to the friendly 'Golden Shield Great Firewall of China'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project
(Imperfect as the US might be, I truly love having a Bill of Rights!)
I love my cell phone, but every time it powers on I has the startup phrase: "Cancer Machine ON".
So what? Chocolate makes you fat, Tobacco gives you cancer, Death and Taxes are inevitable. Until humans live forever and are tax-exempt, at least they DO have a choice on the others.
You make a very good point, Thank You. I do not disagree, I should have re-read the post before submitting
Hydrogen Fuel Cells are not as efficient as what I would consider to be "Efficient" either. BUT, they are more efficient than the burning any Carbon-containing fuel in order to spin a generator or to spin a drive shaft. I was thinking of Hydrogen fuel cells as being more efficient than the mechanical "heat engines", but you are absolutely right. (plus fuel cells have to have ultra-purified fuel stock and the membranes breakdown and become even less efficient, etc...
I am hopeful that the new Lithium-Silicon-Nanowire Batteries as discussed here recently will make the rechargeable storage-battery to electric motor-powered passenger vehicles efficient and practical: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/16/027236
A Toyota Prius with one of these new batteries (about the same size/weight as the existing Toyota Lithium Ion battery module) would have a range of over 300 miles per recharge (about the range of a standard fuel tank's worth of gasoline and farther still if one pulled out the gas engine and added more battery capacity under the hood too).