If you want to look at it in percentages, we get 95% out our spent energy from our energy bank, and our energy income (renewables) represents our energy income with is a paltry 5% of our daily spent energy.
Most credible estimates place oil at nearly 50% depleted, natural gas and coal somewhat less than that. Add in increasing demand every year and it's evident that we face a looming disaster.
This once again shows that currently we have no viable large scale renewable energy sources! Over 95% of our energy production is nonrenewable!
First we have the hydrocarbons, all of which are finite:
Petroleum (nearly halfway depleted)
Natural Gas
Coal
Then our other major source is nuclear, which requires uranium. Uranium is an element, which means it is mined and finite! We can't just build a million nuclear plants, there wouldn't be enough uranium.
When are people going to realize that all this talk about ethanol and hydrogen is a smoke screen. Neither of them is an energy SOURCE.
We're facing an impending energy disaster as our primary energy sources (petroleum and natural gas) begin peaking and becoming scarcer and scarcer. We're holding onto this idea that fusion will come along and save us.
Crude oil is stored energy from millions of years ago. Humans get more energy out than WE put in, therefore oil (and refined gasoline) is an energy source for us.
The problem with ethanol is that other forms of stored energy (natural gas power plant usually) have to be transfered to ethanol and that causes a loss of energy (as there always is when energy changes forms).
Soon someone will come out with a site that displays your location (taken from your cell phone) in real time. Then they can pull this up with real time crime and solve crimes in real time without invetigating.
Last time I was in China, I visited one of their top universities (SJTU) and they were selling versions of Windows that did not appear to be legal in stores on campus. So this probably won't affect them very much since they don't buy software anyway.
To all those people who say Intel's chip is not "dual core" because of how it is built. Come on! Who cares, whether it's dual core or dual cpu or however you want to play word games just get over it.
Intel still has the dual-core laptop chip (Yonah) coming out in the first half of 2006. This is the chip I am interested in. This chip is based on their Pentium M "Dothan" chip that I currently am running. The Dothan chip is quite impressive, I can run it at 1.8 GHz with only 1.068 V and 600 MHz at only 0.700 V. So a dual core chip based on this architecture might not be a heat monster at all. Wait and see on this one.
As for one or the other "winning" the dual-core war, that's pretty lame an assesment considering neither company has even shipped more than a handful of these chips.
As far as I can tell, the AMD chips perform a bit better but you pay more. If I had to buy one, I'd probably go with the Intel 2.8 GHz chip because its less than half the price of AMD's cheapest dual.
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If you want to look at it in percentages, we get 95% out our spent energy from our energy bank, and our energy income (renewables) represents our energy income with is a paltry 5% of our daily spent energy. Most credible estimates place oil at nearly 50% depleted, natural gas and coal somewhat less than that. Add in increasing demand every year and it's evident that we face a looming disaster.
This once again shows that currently we have no viable large scale renewable energy sources! Over 95% of our energy production is nonrenewable! First we have the hydrocarbons, all of which are finite: Petroleum (nearly halfway depleted) Natural Gas Coal Then our other major source is nuclear, which requires uranium. Uranium is an element, which means it is mined and finite! We can't just build a million nuclear plants, there wouldn't be enough uranium. When are people going to realize that all this talk about ethanol and hydrogen is a smoke screen. Neither of them is an energy SOURCE. We're facing an impending energy disaster as our primary energy sources (petroleum and natural gas) begin peaking and becoming scarcer and scarcer. We're holding onto this idea that fusion will come along and save us.
Crude oil is stored energy from millions of years ago. Humans get more energy out than WE put in, therefore oil (and refined gasoline) is an energy source for us. The problem with ethanol is that other forms of stored energy (natural gas power plant usually) have to be transfered to ethanol and that causes a loss of energy (as there always is when energy changes forms).
Then what happens when Coral gets slashdotted? What if they don't want to pay for all the extra bandwidth?
Soon someone will come out with a site that displays your location (taken from your cell phone) in real time. Then they can pull this up with real time crime and solve crimes in real time without invetigating.
Last time I was in China, I visited one of their top universities (SJTU) and they were selling versions of Windows that did not appear to be legal in stores on campus. So this probably won't affect them very much since they don't buy software anyway.
Well what if I physically rearrange the keys on my keyboard? Will that work?
To all those people who say Intel's chip is not "dual core" because of how it is built. Come on! Who cares, whether it's dual core or dual cpu or however you want to play word games just get over it.
Intel still has the dual-core laptop chip (Yonah) coming out in the first half of 2006. This is the chip I am interested in. This chip is based on their Pentium M "Dothan" chip that I currently am running. The Dothan chip is quite impressive, I can run it at 1.8 GHz with only 1.068 V and 600 MHz at only 0.700 V. So a dual core chip based on this architecture might not be a heat monster at all. Wait and see on this one. As for one or the other "winning" the dual-core war, that's pretty lame an assesment considering neither company has even shipped more than a handful of these chips. As far as I can tell, the AMD chips perform a bit better but you pay more. If I had to buy one, I'd probably go with the Intel 2.8 GHz chip because its less than half the price of AMD's cheapest dual.