Several universities across the country have many of these plants - the University of Washington has several, such that there's a bloom at least every year or two.
I'm not interested in building new dams, or raising the ones we've got. I'm interested in the capital investment that increases efficiency of the generators - note that Grand Coulee is up to 1.1 gigawatts, and *most* of the dams in WA haven't gotten anything like the new generators it has. So, no, you're very much incorrect about full exploitation. Some of the dams in WA can get twice as much power as they are now out of the same amount of water.
On urban planning, I suggest you have a look at "A Pattern Language", by Christopher Alexander et al. I *do* actually take into account weather and climate, age distribution, and suburbanization - suburbs will disappear as the car becomes less used due to oil prices.
People only "like" what they're told to like. The more trains you put on a line, the more people will use them - look at all the successful urban subway systems and train networks. Check out the Japanese or European city cores - they're sure not decaying.
And no, they weren't heavy, slow or expensive. They were cost-effective, had better acceleration, and were becoming affordable before big oil finds. Here's an example from Seattle:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/imlsmohai/image/ 1998.jpg
Remember, the Ford automobile was first sold to the upper class as a replacement for a horse drawn coach.:) Neither that nor this had the same range and speed.
No, really, he's right on with hydrogen.
We're going to have to do a few things. One, move almost all shipping back to rails - they use FAR less fuel per ton of goods, sometimes as much as an order of magnitude. Rails can be electrified again (many used to be), and that electricity can come from renewable sources.
We reduce our energy consumption - hell, our consumption in general - a la Ecology of Commerce (Paul Hawken) et al, and produce the energy we need with a combination of wind farms, wave farms, dams, solar panels, stirling engines if necessary. We fix our urban planning so that we walk short distances, cycle if we're going a mile, take different kinds of trains to go many miles. Cars based on electric power will stay - not this hydrogen nonsense. Since the early 1900s we've had cars that work off of lead-acid batteries. We can build better batteries, and hydrogen isn't a bad battery, but it's not cost competitive with existing battery technology.
Oil will be used for emergency backup systems in hospitals, and last mile delivery of goods. That's really about it. Grain output can go WAY up - I live in Washington state, and the only reason we aren't producing more grain is because the state DOT is rehabilitating abandoned rail lines to ship all of it. We can make tons more, and use it for oils and plastics.
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On your second point, I have to disagree. I've spent quite a bit of time in Japan - I'm white, and I have a fro, to boot. If anything, I get more attention, more people talking to me on the train, have more fun in clubs, because I'm non-asian. You wouldn't believe how many Japanese women are interested in talking to you because you *don't talk down to them*.
How about a maybe-elected President with nuclear bombs (washington)?
The thing is, Bush has actually said we'd use "bunker buster" nukes. As far as I know, neither North Korea nor Iran have threatened to use nukes.
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There will be a 60" 1920x1200 display next year. That's 16x10, so you get a non-distorted 1920x1080 16x9 image.
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I doubt it.
Many HDTVs are running at 848x480 or similar.
The expensive ones tend to be 1280x720.
I have 1600x1200 now, and I'll be moving to 1920x1200 fairly soon. The computer market will always drive resolution faster and higher than the consumer video market.
Seer, many of us have Keyhole subscriptions, but haven't heard from Google about this.
I've been told that there's a "Google Earth Board" I need to log in to, but I haven't been able to find it at the Keyhole BBS or anywhere on the Keyhole site.
If you can help me out, e-mail me at bensch@gmail.com - I think I just need to be pointed in the right direction.
Right now, it's the current administration that's doing it. I could care less if other administrations have done it in the past - what's going on now needs to STOP.
By the way, mod parent up. This is an excellent point - there are so many who don't put their money where their mouth is.
It's like peak oil - it's easy to complain about how we're going to see oil prices skyrocket because we don't reduce our use, but still drive a car around. It doesn't help anything. It's easy to complain about wasting energy without using CF bulbs where you can. Talk is cheap.
What's really amazing is how many Slashdot posters (including myself) are running on Windows. I really look forward to when I can get a really intuitive OS to run on my PC - I'd like a Mac, but I don't want to buy another system.
Excuse me - I'm a Seattlite liberal type who hung out at burning man and protested the WTO - and I quit working at Microsoft recently because of everything - HB 1515, this mess, mismanagement, etc. Now I work on educational software for grade schoolers. I got another of my friends at work to come with me.
So don't despair - there is some impact. Microsoft is feeling the heat from its employees over all these issues. And I'm no millionaire, either - I live off my income.
That's ridiculous.
There aren't more boys born after a war, proportionate to the number of girls born.
In fact, math backs me up - there are currently more girls than boys, specifically because boys tend to get killed more often (e.g., in wars).
Be careful! You'll come up with another reason for Lucas to release a re-re-re-re-re-remastered edition!
br>Honestly, the books and movies are really inconsistent, and the movies are inconsistent with themselves anyway - I see no reason to base a judgment about what's likely and unlikely about some piddly little part of the movies on what actors they could get ahold of at the time.
Episodes one through three were mostly in the core worlds - Coruscant was a city planet, at the core of the Republic.
In 4, 5 and 6 we were in the outer rim, primarily - away from the core influence of the Republic and then the Empire. Technology would be different, and it's also possible that the clone troopers *were* stormtroopers.
Well, gosh, in order to remain competitive, perhaps the film industry should consider that movies like Primer have a hundredfold in percentage profit on them.
I don't go see movies in the theater because that money isn't spent on content. You don't need to pay an actor millions of dollars for me to be interested in their acting.
Considering film distribution has decreased ridiculously in cost, it seems reasonable that the one thing dependent on it - ticket price - should also go down.
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Several universities across the country have many of these plants - the University of Washington has several, such that there's a bloom at least every year or two.
I'm not interested in building new dams, or raising the ones we've got. I'm interested in the capital investment that increases efficiency of the generators - note that Grand Coulee is up to 1.1 gigawatts, and *most* of the dams in WA haven't gotten anything like the new generators it has. So, no, you're very much incorrect about full exploitation. Some of the dams in WA can get twice as much power as they are now out of the same amount of water. On urban planning, I suggest you have a look at "A Pattern Language", by Christopher Alexander et al. I *do* actually take into account weather and climate, age distribution, and suburbanization - suburbs will disappear as the car becomes less used due to oil prices. People only "like" what they're told to like. The more trains you put on a line, the more people will use them - look at all the successful urban subway systems and train networks. Check out the Japanese or European city cores - they're sure not decaying. And no, they weren't heavy, slow or expensive. They were cost-effective, had better acceleration, and were becoming affordable before big oil finds. Here's an example from Seattle: http://content.lib.washington.edu/imlsmohai/image/ 1998.jpg
Remember, the Ford automobile was first sold to the upper class as a replacement for a horse drawn coach. :) Neither that nor this had the same range and speed.
You're right that we can't go by today's costs - and you have a great point in that the way we do it now might not be the best way. :)
No, really, he's right on with hydrogen. We're going to have to do a few things. One, move almost all shipping back to rails - they use FAR less fuel per ton of goods, sometimes as much as an order of magnitude. Rails can be electrified again (many used to be), and that electricity can come from renewable sources. We reduce our energy consumption - hell, our consumption in general - a la Ecology of Commerce (Paul Hawken) et al, and produce the energy we need with a combination of wind farms, wave farms, dams, solar panels, stirling engines if necessary. We fix our urban planning so that we walk short distances, cycle if we're going a mile, take different kinds of trains to go many miles. Cars based on electric power will stay - not this hydrogen nonsense. Since the early 1900s we've had cars that work off of lead-acid batteries. We can build better batteries, and hydrogen isn't a bad battery, but it's not cost competitive with existing battery technology. Oil will be used for emergency backup systems in hospitals, and last mile delivery of goods. That's really about it. Grain output can go WAY up - I live in Washington state, and the only reason we aren't producing more grain is because the state DOT is rehabilitating abandoned rail lines to ship all of it. We can make tons more, and use it for oils and plastics.
On your second point, I have to disagree. I've spent quite a bit of time in Japan - I'm white, and I have a fro, to boot. If anything, I get more attention, more people talking to me on the train, have more fun in clubs, because I'm non-asian. You wouldn't believe how many Japanese women are interested in talking to you because you *don't talk down to them*.
Um? High-end machines will still be PPC. Read the article.
There's lots of water on Mars, in the ice caps. While it's likely that it's mostly frozen, I'm not sure that'd be an issue for some bacteria.
I'm more afraid of the oligarchs who want to see their countries develop by forcing developing countries to starve to death.
How about a maybe-elected President with nuclear bombs (washington)? The thing is, Bush has actually said we'd use "bunker buster" nukes. As far as I know, neither North Korea nor Iran have threatened to use nukes.
There will be a 60" 1920x1200 display next year. That's 16x10, so you get a non-distorted 1920x1080 16x9 image.
I doubt it. Many HDTVs are running at 848x480 or similar. The expensive ones tend to be 1280x720. I have 1600x1200 now, and I'll be moving to 1920x1200 fairly soon. The computer market will always drive resolution faster and higher than the consumer video market.
You're making the same argument about LaserDisc versus DVD. Why switch to DVD? It doesn't do the job as well. But it's smaller.
Seer, many of us have Keyhole subscriptions, but haven't heard from Google about this. I've been told that there's a "Google Earth Board" I need to log in to, but I haven't been able to find it at the Keyhole BBS or anywhere on the Keyhole site. If you can help me out, e-mail me at bensch@gmail.com - I think I just need to be pointed in the right direction.
Right now, it's the current administration that's doing it. I could care less if other administrations have done it in the past - what's going on now needs to STOP.
51% of voters. Assuming those numbers aren't manipulated. We'd never know.
By the way, mod parent up. This is an excellent point - there are so many who don't put their money where their mouth is.
It's like peak oil - it's easy to complain about how we're going to see oil prices skyrocket because we don't reduce our use, but still drive a car around. It doesn't help anything. It's easy to complain about wasting energy without using CF bulbs where you can. Talk is cheap.
What's really amazing is how many Slashdot posters (including myself) are running on Windows. I really look forward to when I can get a really intuitive OS to run on my PC - I'd like a Mac, but I don't want to buy another system.
Excuse me - I'm a Seattlite liberal type who hung out at burning man and protested the WTO - and I quit working at Microsoft recently because of everything - HB 1515, this mess, mismanagement, etc. Now I work on educational software for grade schoolers. I got another of my friends at work to come with me.
So don't despair - there is some impact. Microsoft is feeling the heat from its employees over all these issues. And I'm no millionaire, either - I live off my income.
That's ridiculous. There aren't more boys born after a war, proportionate to the number of girls born. In fact, math backs me up - there are currently more girls than boys, specifically because boys tend to get killed more often (e.g., in wars).
I think you (and the OP) have it backward. Those likely to have more boys are more likely to become engineers.
Be careful! You'll come up with another reason for Lucas to release a re-re-re-re-re-remastered edition!
br>Honestly, the books and movies are really inconsistent, and the movies are inconsistent with themselves anyway - I see no reason to base a judgment about what's likely and unlikely about some piddly little part of the movies on what actors they could get ahold of at the time.
Actually, here's a question with an answer. :)
Episodes one through three were mostly in the core worlds - Coruscant was a city planet, at the core of the Republic.
In 4, 5 and 6 we were in the outer rim, primarily - away from the core influence of the Republic and then the Empire. Technology would be different, and it's also possible that the clone troopers *were* stormtroopers.
Well, gosh, in order to remain competitive, perhaps the film industry should consider that movies like Primer have a hundredfold in percentage profit on them. I don't go see movies in the theater because that money isn't spent on content. You don't need to pay an actor millions of dollars for me to be interested in their acting.
Considering film distribution has decreased ridiculously in cost, it seems reasonable that the one thing dependent on it - ticket price - should also go down.
You're not taking anything. The only rape reference I can come up with here is that you're stealing an embryo and cloning it.
when we had the HardOCP article last year.