"Flammable objects are not part of a pre-flight checklist."
Fuel? Fuel Lines? Ensuring no leaks on any fuel-holding/pumping equipment?
Have you ever flown a plane? I have, multiple times. Direct from Huntsville, AL (direct from NASA's airport, where I was getting my flight training started thanks to NASA's 'You Can Fly'/Aviation Challenge program) to Macon, NC.
Please. You're lacking the prerequisite knowledge for this conversation.
I say that as a real researcher (and research director.) The amount of work this man has done is PATHETIC. Even his supposed year-long lab experiment to get his "D.Msc (which didn't exist at the time,) has the shittiest documentation ever.
The sun is highly inefficient. Photosynthesis with sunlight is around 9% efficiency. With LED, we get about 15% efficiency. Do you know why? Very likely not, because you don't know a thing about photo-biological energy systems.
The sun causes tons more waste outdoors. Evaporation, undesirable wavelengths interfering with optimal growth rates, UV Tissue damage/mutations and much more are inherent problems with the sun.
In the meantime, the whole indoor system costs about 400 grand to build and outfit, that's solar, batteries, atmospherics, hydroponics channels, nutrient control, the works.
Payback time is in about one year.
Yields per space jump 800%, time to produce per crop drops almost 40%, water usage/waste reduction on the order from 50-99% (CROP-DEPENDENT) and nutrient usage dropped by 40-60%.
It's cheaper, and FASTER, to do it indoors versus outdoors. That's including the cost of GOOD panels and a battery backup system. In fact, not only is it cheaper, it pays more, is faster, and requires less overall work.
"There will be almost no electric light gardening anywhere in 20 years"
Your ignorance of the pace of optoelectronic horticulture proves you are not qualified to be participating in this discussion, sir. Also, your ignorance of densely-populated areas further compounds this. You think you're going to find agricultural land in an area filled with high-rise apartments? That's cute.
"Like I said. You've got yourself a perpetual motion machine. "
Show me where I'm outputting more power than original input. Oh, you can't, because it's not a PPM. Are you ignorant or are you just mad someone has better qualifications than you in an industry YOU certainly know nothing about?
"Growing under lights was a kludge to avoid prison."
I know people from about ten different University-level Master Gardener programs that would put you and your BS strawman arguments into your proper place - the recycling bin.
"Blathering about pedophilia, fascism, and interrogations just makes your objections sound like paranoid ravings"
Except they're true, having experienced them myself en-route to the UK. And it took me showing them I could kill the USA's agricultural industry with my new technology getting sold to another country, if they pissed me off, to get them to let me go.
Your lack of action (and disbelief) is the real disservice, citi^W^Wslave.
As a Californian transplant, I say you should get the fuck out. You haven't done a fucking thing with this place in decades. Make way for those of us that will, you lazy asshole.
Sure, the resolution is rather limited by today's standards, but you have the option of bringing many individual things into focus, or put everything but one thing in focus, or vice-versa. It's a new tech, but it's awesome to not have to worry about focus ever again.
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"Flammable objects are not part of a pre-flight checklist."
Fuel? Fuel Lines? Ensuring no leaks on any fuel-holding/pumping equipment?
Have you ever flown a plane? I have, multiple times. Direct from Huntsville, AL (direct from NASA's airport, where I was getting my flight training started thanks to NASA's 'You Can Fly'/Aviation Challenge program) to Macon, NC.
Please. You're lacking the prerequisite knowledge for this conversation.
The device was 'red hot'
Thermal run-away is already happening and out of control.
The proper response is a Graphite-based extinguisher, which was made for fighting magnesium fires (magnesium burns way hotter than lithium.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_extinguisher#Class_D
The FAA doesn't know shit.
His documentary has already been watched and ripped a new one.
Had he possessed an actual cure, he'd have multiple Nobel Prizes in Medicine.
This is pure bullshit.
Piss-doctor. That's his new name.
http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/burzynski1.html
Pretty open and shut.
Burzynski is a fraud.
I say that as a real researcher (and research director.) The amount of work this man has done is PATHETIC. Even his supposed year-long lab experiment to get his "D.Msc (which didn't exist at the time,) has the shittiest documentation ever.
forkfail just pulled a trademark fail.
Back to school for you.
*sigh* Wrong.
There's a reason why flammable objects are part of a pre-flight checklist.
That includes power storage.
"A phone / laptop battery catching fire is not a significant risk to the plane"
My 10 hours solo flight time remaining 'till private pilot's license issuing says you're dead wrong.
That's one of the pre-flight check items - flammable objects.
"In battery-powered systems this is usually not a concern and water is a fine medium to put it out with ;)"
Not by any means are you correct. Battery fires are classified as metal fires, and require a class-d extinguisher.
You try putting out a lithium fire by throwing water on it - I dare you.
M.A.N.T.I.S. had so much potential....
I should say the same thing to you, UTAH. But you'd deserve the shit we'd bring after your meddling in Prop 8.
The sun is highly inefficient. Photosynthesis with sunlight is around 9% efficiency. With LED, we get about 15% efficiency. Do you know why? Very likely not, because you don't know a thing about photo-biological energy systems.
The sun causes tons more waste outdoors. Evaporation, undesirable wavelengths interfering with optimal growth rates, UV Tissue damage/mutations and much more are inherent problems with the sun.
In the meantime, the whole indoor system costs about 400 grand to build and outfit, that's solar, batteries, atmospherics, hydroponics channels, nutrient control, the works.
Payback time is in about one year.
Yields per space jump 800%, time to produce per crop drops almost 40%, water usage/waste reduction on the order from 50-99% (CROP-DEPENDENT) and nutrient usage dropped by 40-60%.
It's cheaper, and FASTER, to do it indoors versus outdoors. That's including the cost of GOOD panels and a battery backup system. In fact, not only is it cheaper, it pays more, is faster, and requires less overall work.
"There will be almost no electric light gardening anywhere in 20 years"
Your ignorance of the pace of optoelectronic horticulture proves you are not qualified to be participating in this discussion, sir. Also, your ignorance of densely-populated areas further compounds this. You think you're going to find agricultural land in an area filled with high-rise apartments? That's cute.
"Like I said. You've got yourself a perpetual motion machine. "
Show me where I'm outputting more power than original input. Oh, you can't, because it's not a PPM. Are you ignorant or are you just mad someone has better qualifications than you in an industry YOU certainly know nothing about?
"Growing under lights was a kludge to avoid prison."
I know people from about ten different University-level Master Gardener programs that would put you and your BS strawman arguments into your proper place - the recycling bin.
At which point you go "National Security. If you had the security clearance, you'd have the glasses to see past the security layer. Good day, sir."
Show me your photobiology expertise.
I can guarantee you I'm beating the sun. I'm producing in 1/8th of an acre, indoors, what you'd need a full acre outdoors to produce.
And it's totally solar-powered.
With power left-over to feed the grid.
Sorry, you're the one smoking crack. Or lacing your pot with something. One or the other.
See you guys on the BBC's 'Countryfile' in short order!
Threatening to sell my game-changing technology to someone else and drop the USA's economy is *NOT* a threat of war.
No wonder our country is fucked. People like you are totally clueless.
You aren't loaded with a metal skeleton.
You are apparently not educated enough on the matter to be speaking.
"Blathering about pedophilia, fascism, and interrogations just makes your objections sound like paranoid ravings"
Except they're true, having experienced them myself en-route to the UK. And it took me showing them I could kill the USA's agricultural industry with my new technology getting sold to another country, if they pissed me off, to get them to let me go.
Your lack of action (and disbelief) is the real disservice, citi^W^Wslave.
As a Californian transplant, I say you should get the fuck out. You haven't done a fucking thing with this place in decades. Make way for those of us that will, you lazy asshole.
Having lived in California, you must not know much about the fault lines.
See, the majority of the fault lines aren't capable of causing much damage. They're too fractured.
The only problems are directly around SF and LA.
Sure, the resolution is rather limited by today's standards, but you have the option of bringing many individual things into focus, or put everything but one thing in focus, or vice-versa. It's a new tech, but it's awesome to not have to worry about focus ever again.
https://www.lytro.com/camera
https://www.lytro.com/science_inside
I have one and it is quite a fun thing to behold. It has limitations, however. But those aren't so bad, really.
The AMD GPU is far better at bitcoin mining than you suspect. A low-end 6XXX series MOBILITY Radeon hits around 80MHash/sec, ALONE.
Go see the biggest meteorite out near Barstow.
Then go meteroite hunting out in the Lucerne Dry Lake Bed.
This makes them an easy target for a MASSIVE class-action suit. California has some strict consumer protection and privacy laws.
Start moving some of that crap to the GPU side of Bulldozer. There are a few things that the GPU could be dedicated to with OpenCL and such.
In a server, it's essentially wasted silicon unless fully utilized.
Then Amazon's little reader has a SEVERE design flaw.
Time to hire competent electronics people.
Glad you can't to that to my equipment.
"Is this a good move by Microsoft, or a leveraging of their monopoly as bad as bundling Internet Explorer?"
Security of your software should be *THE* #1 concern for any software company.
To call this anti-competitive or anti-trust is simply trolling, shit-mitter.
Bet you work for the AV companies too, you fucking virus writers.