Electric "pales in comparison to" gas, but not in comparison to oil.
Even electric can be competitive with gas where heat pumps can be used, depending on climate and local electricity vs gas prices.
There are hundreds of years of fossil fuels left at our current rate of consumption.
The post you were replying to was about Norway's oil, not the world's fossil fuels.
Oil production in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) peaked at 2.9 million barrels per day (Mb/d) in 1999, while the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) peaked at 3.4 Mb/d in 2001.
The problem is that heat pump systems eventually become no more than . . . than resistive heat below certain temperatures.
You could go ground-source coupled heat pumps to avoid most of that, though more expensive to install, it could be worth it. Norway apparently has low electricity prices, though, so I don't think it would be worth it in most cases.
(I left of the "and sometimes worse" because if the heat pump doesn't switch to pure resistive heat when the heat pump + defrost cycle would use more energy, then it wasn't designed for the climate it's installed in.)
A right is protection against government oppression.
You are never talking about rights, you are talking about entitlements . . .
You do not know what either of those mean.
The USA government was founded on enlightenment principals of unalienable natural rights. Though the Declaration of Independence invokes rights and the Bill of Rights prohibits the USA government from infringing on them, the rights themselves are not protections against government oppression, they are unalienable natural rights
Entitlements is an overused, politically charged word that sounds like the privileges of the nobility, but when it comes to government budgets, it only refers to the "Title" or section of the law that requires the government to do something, whether separately budgeted or not.
I'm not familiar with the exact math used (codes tabulate the requirements rather than present the calculations), but the basic premise is to figure out the minimum number of accessible spaces so that there is very little chance that there will ever be a disabled person that can't park in one. Therefore, if you ever see them all occupied, there aren't enough of them (or, more likely, they've been taken up by people that didn't really need them).
Anyway, when driving my father around, there have been plenty of times when all the accessible parking was taken. (Which wasn't a problem for me as long as I wasn't alone with him, but meant getting him out of the car before parking, which backed up traffic behind me, and left him unattended while I parked if I was alone.)
How is a curb cut any problem to you? It costs almost nothing if you do it when putting in a new curb or making major street repairs.
Most accessibility requirements are actually minor conveniences for non-disabled people, like automatic faucets, automatic doors, lever handles instead of knobs, elevators, etc. Most of the codes only require creating accessibility during new construction or major remodeling. (YYMV, depending on how important the facility is to the public) The only improvements that cost serious money even in new construction are elevators.
If you are running a public accommodation, you are required to accommodate the public, not just those people you want to. Also, don't forget, you are very likely to become disabled yourself, especially if you live long enough.
My first house, built about a hundred years ago, did have lumber about 1/4"± greater in dimensions than current standards. It also had continuous single board floor joists a little over 22 feet long and exterior wall studs over 14 feet high. The nominal sizes were smaller than modern code would have required, but, in addition to the slightly bigger actual dimensions, the wood was denser with fewer flaws & straight grain, so I think it may have actually been stronger than what is constructed in a modern house.
Saw kerf (not curf) was not the only thing that made the lumber smaller than nominal. It was often dried after cutting, which shrank it some more. Nowadays, dressed lumber is planed down after drying to get it to the standard size. The kerf of modern saws is narrower than the old mills had, which is one reason you can set the blades closer than nominal size and still get the standard actual dimensions while getting more boards out of a tree.
Also, not every mill was scrupulous above giving you the right size, they often cheated a little. That is one of the reasons the standards were set, and they were set to dimensional minimums that most mills were already meeting in order to get everyone to agree.
As I recall the runways are dug something like 30 feet into the dirt and filled with concrete.
Digging 5 feet into the dirt and pouring 30 inches of reinforced concrete on top of compacted/consolidated gravel, etc., is more like it. Unless you're building an airport on a garbage dump or a in a swamp.
The least arbitrary scale would probably be Kelvin, which at least defines a non-arbitrary zero. Find a second non-arbitrary point and divide the space in between them in a sensible way and you're set.
This has already been done: The triple point of water, which defines the Kelvin scale by putting it at 273.16 K. It also defines degrees C, by using the same scale as Kelvin, but translating it 273.15 degrees down.
For historical reasons, though, this doesn't use your arbitrary divide by tens scheme. The way it was done provided some necessary backward compatibility.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men . . .
And yet Trump touts that his travel ban IS a ban on muslims. That greatly increases his chances of losing in court, which, I think he realizes, would be helpful to him with his base, since he could then claim loudly and repeatedly how the unfair, "liberal" courts are preventing him from keeping America safe.
But with our first-past-the-post, winner takes all, electoral college system, you wouldn't have to alter very many individual precinct or county vote tallies to help sway a close election, if you chose the right ones.
And what's the economic cost of all the Obama regulations [forbes.com] that Trump has promised to eliminate?
Most 'Obama' regulations, like net neutrality, conservation measures, 'obamacare', etc.were intended to have net positive impacts on the economy in the long run. And most of them would. Unfortunately, it's impossible to do a double-blind study on the effects of legislation and regulation on the economy, so no one will ever be convinced of the viewpoint other than their own.
Worse, what impact do you think it will have on business travel?
It's even worse if other countries start imposing reciprocal restrictions on travelers from the USA. What do you think will happen to global businesses that need to be able to send people around the world, if/when it becomes a nightmare to travel to and from the U.S.?
You're right! It's all a plot to make Skype more valuable!
No need to exaggerate.
The OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit for CO2 is 5,000 ppm average over an 8-hour period (about 12 times what it is outdoors today, or 0.5%). OSHA's 15-minute STEL is 30,000 ppm (about 75 times ambient outdoor conditions, or 3%)
According to CDC-NIOSH "...electrolyte imbalances and other metabolic changes have been associated with prolonged exposures to 10,000 to 20,000 ppm CO(2) (Schulte 1964/Ex. 1-366; Gray 1950, as cited in ACGIH 1986/Ex. 1-3, p. 102)". (about 25 to 50 time what is outdoors today, or 1% to 2%) So many people would have health problems at much less than 6% CO2 in the atmosphere.
Of course, the beer industry wants OSHA to set much more lenient standards.
After a few years doing engineering in a small firm headed by a Professional Engineer, I came to the conclusion that a PE license is basically a license to hire other, smarter people to do the actual work. Over the years I've worked with some pretty good engineers and some pretty bad ones, and a lot of mediocre ones, both licensed and not.
In my state (IL) even if you are not licensed you are allowed to call yourself an engineer (but not a PE) if you do engineering work for a legitimate engineering firm. But you would get in trouble if you went out on your own and called yourself an engineer.
Technically, (at least in most US states) a lawyer is is anyone who graduated law school. It is an attorney-at-law that is licensed to provide legal representation and appear in court on behalf of a client. That said, you can still get yourself in trouble calling yourself a lawyer in any context in which it seems you might be acting as an attorney.
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Electric "pales in comparison to" gas, but not in comparison to oil.
Even electric can be competitive with gas where heat pumps can be used, depending on climate and local electricity vs gas prices.
The post you were replying to was about Norway's oil, not the world's fossil fuels.
Oil production in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) peaked at 2.9 million barrels per day (Mb/d) in 1999, while the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) peaked at 3.4 Mb/d in 2001.
Norwegian spending on exploration and field development in 1H 2015 fell 18% from 1H 2014, while spending on shutdown and removal rose 70% over the same period
Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg has reportedly told Sveriges Television (SVT), the Swedish national public TV broadcaster, that Norway only has 80 years of oil supply left.
You could go ground-source coupled heat pumps to avoid most of that, though more expensive to install, it could be worth it. Norway apparently has low electricity prices, though, so I don't think it would be worth it in most cases.
(I left of the "and sometimes worse" because if the heat pump doesn't switch to pure resistive heat when the heat pump + defrost cycle would use more energy, then it wasn't designed for the climate it's installed in.)
At the point the Wet Bulb temperature approaches 98.6F.
bullshit
You do not know what either of those mean.
The USA government was founded on enlightenment principals of unalienable natural rights. Though the Declaration of Independence invokes rights and the Bill of Rights prohibits the USA government from infringing on them, the rights themselves are not protections against government oppression, they are unalienable natural rights
Entitlements is an overused, politically charged word that sounds like the privileges of the nobility, but when it comes to government budgets, it only refers to the "Title" or section of the law that requires the government to do something, whether separately budgeted or not.
I'm not familiar with the exact math used (codes tabulate the requirements rather than present the calculations), but the basic premise is to figure out the minimum number of accessible spaces so that there is very little chance that there will ever be a disabled person that can't park in one. Therefore, if you ever see them all occupied, there aren't enough of them (or, more likely, they've been taken up by people that didn't really need them).
Anyway, when driving my father around, there have been plenty of times when all the accessible parking was taken. (Which wasn't a problem for me as long as I wasn't alone with him, but meant getting him out of the car before parking, which backed up traffic behind me, and left him unattended while I parked if I was alone.)
How is a curb cut any problem to you? It costs almost nothing if you do it when putting in a new curb or making major street repairs.
Most accessibility requirements are actually minor conveniences for non-disabled people, like automatic faucets, automatic doors, lever handles instead of knobs, elevators, etc. Most of the codes only require creating accessibility during new construction or major remodeling. (YYMV, depending on how important the facility is to the public) The only improvements that cost serious money even in new construction are elevators.
If you are running a public accommodation, you are required to accommodate the public, not just those people you want to. Also, don't forget, you are very likely to become disabled yourself, especially if you live long enough.
So, by that logic, a restaurant shouldn't have to have accessible facilities because there's plenty of McDonald's out there?
My first house, built about a hundred years ago, did have lumber about 1/4"± greater in dimensions than current standards. It also had continuous single board floor joists a little over 22 feet long and exterior wall studs over 14 feet high. The nominal sizes were smaller than modern code would have required, but, in addition to the slightly bigger actual dimensions, the wood was denser with fewer flaws & straight grain, so I think it may have actually been stronger than what is constructed in a modern house.
Saw kerf (not curf) was not the only thing that made the lumber smaller than nominal. It was often dried after cutting, which shrank it some more. Nowadays, dressed lumber is planed down after drying to get it to the standard size. The kerf of modern saws is narrower than the old mills had, which is one reason you can set the blades closer than nominal size and still get the standard actual dimensions while getting more boards out of a tree.
Also, not every mill was scrupulous above giving you the right size, they often cheated a little. That is one of the reasons the standards were set, and they were set to dimensional minimums that most mills were already meeting in order to get everyone to agree.
Digging 5 feet into the dirt and pouring 30 inches of reinforced concrete on top of compacted/consolidated gravel, etc., is more like it. Unless you're building an airport on a garbage dump or a in a swamp.
This has already been done: The triple point of water, which defines the Kelvin scale by putting it at 273.16 K. It also defines degrees C, by using the same scale as Kelvin, but translating it 273.15 degrees down.
For historical reasons, though, this doesn't use your arbitrary divide by tens scheme. The way it was done provided some necessary backward compatibility.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men . . .
And yet Trump touts that his travel ban IS a ban on muslims. That greatly increases his chances of losing in court, which, I think he realizes, would be helpful to him with his base, since he could then claim loudly and repeatedly how the unfair, "liberal" courts are preventing him from keeping America safe.
But with our first-past-the-post, winner takes all, electoral college system, you wouldn't have to alter very many individual precinct or county vote tallies to help sway a close election, if you chose the right ones.
The willful ignorance is strong in Trump apologists.
You obviously don't know what a liberal arts education is.
You've got that backwards. Trump has had it out for the WaPa ever since they started to run true stories critical of him and his campaign.
An e-mail account is not 'social media' in any commonly accepted definition of terms.
Most 'Obama' regulations, like net neutrality, conservation measures, 'obamacare', etc.were intended to have net positive impacts on the economy in the long run. And most of them would. Unfortunately, it's impossible to do a double-blind study on the effects of legislation and regulation on the economy, so no one will ever be convinced of the viewpoint other than their own.
You're right! It's all a plot to make Skype more valuable!
No need to exaggerate.
The OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit for CO2 is 5,000 ppm average over an 8-hour period (about 12 times what it is outdoors today, or 0.5%). OSHA's 15-minute STEL is 30,000 ppm (about 75 times ambient outdoor conditions, or 3%)
According to CDC-NIOSH "...electrolyte imbalances and other metabolic changes have been associated with prolonged exposures to 10,000 to 20,000 ppm CO(2) (Schulte 1964/Ex. 1-366; Gray 1950, as cited in ACGIH 1986/Ex. 1-3, p. 102)". (about 25 to 50 time what is outdoors today, or 1% to 2%) So many people would have health problems at much less than 6% CO2 in the atmosphere.
Of course, the beer industry wants OSHA to set much more lenient standards.
After a few years doing engineering in a small firm headed by a Professional Engineer, I came to the conclusion that a PE license is basically a license to hire other, smarter people to do the actual work. Over the years I've worked with some pretty good engineers and some pretty bad ones, and a lot of mediocre ones, both licensed and not.
In my state (IL) even if you are not licensed you are allowed to call yourself an engineer (but not a PE) if you do engineering work for a legitimate engineering firm. But you would get in trouble if you went out on your own and called yourself an engineer.
Technically, (at least in most US states) a lawyer is is anyone who graduated law school. It is an attorney-at-law that is licensed to provide legal representation and appear in court on behalf of a client. That said, you can still get yourself in trouble calling yourself a lawyer in any context in which it seems you might be acting as an attorney.