No. Boron first absorbs a proton (fusion) and becomes an unstable isotope of carbon, which then splits (fission) and gives off X-rays, gamma radiation, and alpha particles, and a few neutrons.
Most of our power generation in the US comes from coal . . .
Coal accounts for significantly less than half of current US electricity production - natural gas is a close second & closing.
Most of our natural gas comes from Canada. . .
Most of our natural gas comes from fracking in places like Texas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania.
The only thing we import in scads in oil, and I guarantee, those who control the oil aren't getting stolen from.
"Those who control the oil" being the operative words here. Historically, western powers have tried to control those in power in oil rich states. (right now, that's not working out so great in Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, etc.)
I know from personal experience that this area has (at least had in the 90s) poor reliability from the electrical utility companies. When they found out the building we were designing was going to have 3.2 megawatts of back-up power, they offered to give the Owner a reduced electrical rate if they agreed to an interruptible feed from the utility. The Owner thought about it, but found that it the deal would not only require increasing the capacity of the back-up generators, but also require red tape to deal with the EPA, so they decided against it.
I believe you are talking about the price of electricity to the customer, while GP was talking about the cost to produce at the plant, not including distribution, profit, etc.
Indeed, the question should probably have been whether they were observant enough to notice the difference
This, exactly.
I once put a Knoppix live CD in the family computer because of some potential virus issue. After my wife asked something like "Why does this look different" and I explained, she found Firefox, got on Facebook, and soon forgot all about not being in Windows.
Firefighters often use water in fire where they cannot directly put out the fire by dousing the burning material with water. This is because the water cools things down. This helps prevent adjacent materials from igniting, and can help to extinguish the fire by pulling heat out of it.
I consider that a disadvantage, as I don't want to see the title bar or whatever you call it, taking up space on my screen or, as it does on some sites, mess up the responsiveness of scrolling.
Considering it costs millions of dollars for the installation of an MRI in a hospital, and it produces tens of thousands of dollars a day in revenue for the hospital, and that before this agreement the price of liquid helium has jumped to $25-30 per litre from $8 last year., I doubt that it would significantly affect the cost or availability of MRIs.
My mom, around 80 years old at the time, broke her arm on a Saturday, went to the hosptial. They gave her some pain medicine, a sling, and told her to go to her primary car physician on Monday to get it set and cast. This is in the USA, and she had relatively good insurance (not just Medicare).
Incorrect. What they want is to increase profits to the maximum amounts, and pesticides and antibiotics ain't cheap.
True, but antibiotics have the effect of making the animals gain more weight. The farmer can make more than the cost of the antibiotics back by selling more product, and so has an incentive to use them whether or not the animal is sick.
hiding the cursor when it's over a text field that's being typed in
I do not want the cursor to disappear when typing. Sometimes Windows decides to do this, and it's extremely annoying. I want it to change from a mouse cursor to a keyboard cursor when I start typing, and back to a mouse cursor when I move the mouse.
65 million years ago we had a few things: Large macroscale life like Dinosaurs and giant mosquitos, a large supercontinent named pangea, no ice caps, and CO2 levels ten times as high as they are right now.
65million years ago we had oxygen levels around 35%.
250 million years ago, we had ocean acidification that helped wipe out 95% of the complex life forms in the ocean.-
None of that implies that the current trends are good for us.
. . . before a buyer and a seller can meet to make a trade they both need to signal that they have the intention to do so.
. . . There's no magic signal of intent to trade before an order is placed.
I believe you are wrong. For a seller to sell, they first have to offer stock for sale at a price; for a buyer to buy, they first have to offer to buy stock at a price (or at least one of those has to happen). If they don't agree on the price, there is no sale, but there is a signal of intent that "everyone" can see ("everyone" being those that are fast enough).
That is not always true - at least for some products in some states the lobbyists have had laws passed so that you can't label GMO or non-GMO. And for corn used in prepared foods, it's impossible to get anything that is demonstrably without round-up ready corn in it
The idea that learning Chinese would ever be anyone's idea of a smart thing for business or education in the 21st Century **baffled** me when I first read it (probably a Friedman article)...
I personally know English speakers who do business in China speaking Mandarin (and speaking Japanese for business in Japan) And I would say it's a smart thing for business and education to learn Chinese, or any other language of a country you may visit or do business in.
You can't reasonably expect the ocean to rock the boat at the resonant frequency of the internal water tanks. Therefore the ship's internal wave system is going be expending a considerable amount of energy.
You can if you tune the resonant frequency of the tanks to the general frequency of the waves and use the air valves TFA talks about to fine tune the resonance. I know, for example that tuned water tanks are sometimes used to dampen swaying of high-rise buildings.
34.8% of these papers endorsed AGW
64.6% took no position on AGW
0.4% rejected AGW
0.2% were uncertain on AGW
I take that to mean that 64% of the studies were not about AWG, therefore they don't have anything to do with a statistic about the papers' endorsement or rejection of AWG.
It makes sense that if all of the stars that formed the nebulae came from the same giant swirling cloud of gas, then the stars formed would tend to have angular momenta mostly aligned upon that same axis.
It's surprising because the bipolar axis observed is at right angles to the axis of angular momentum. It even says as much in TFS:
'Many of these ghostly butterflies appear to have their long axes aligned along the plane of our galaxy.'
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No. Boron first absorbs a proton (fusion) and becomes an unstable isotope of carbon, which then splits (fission) and gives off X-rays, gamma radiation, and alpha particles, and a few neutrons.
Coal accounts for significantly less than half of current US electricity production - natural gas is a close second & closing.
Most of our natural gas comes from fracking in places like Texas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania.
"Those who control the oil" being the operative words here. Historically, western powers have tried to control those in power in oil rich states. (right now, that's not working out so great in Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, etc.)
I know from personal experience that this area has (at least had in the 90s) poor reliability from the electrical utility companies. When they found out the building we were designing was going to have 3.2 megawatts of back-up power, they offered to give the Owner a reduced electrical rate if they agreed to an interruptible feed from the utility. The Owner thought about it, but found that it the deal would not only require increasing the capacity of the back-up generators, but also require red tape to deal with the EPA, so they decided against it.
I believe you are talking about the price of electricity to the customer, while GP was talking about the cost to produce at the plant, not including distribution, profit, etc.
This, exactly.
I once put a Knoppix live CD in the family computer because of some potential virus issue. After my wife asked something like "Why does this look different" and I explained, she found Firefox, got on Facebook, and soon forgot all about not being in Windows.
Firefighters often use water in fire where they cannot directly put out the fire by dousing the burning material with water. This is because the water cools things down. This helps prevent adjacent materials from igniting, and can help to extinguish the fire by pulling heat out of it.
I believe that has been contested in court already, successfully.
I consider that a disadvantage, as I don't want to see the title bar or whatever you call it, taking up space on my screen or, as it does on some sites, mess up the responsiveness of scrolling.
Considering it costs millions of dollars for the installation of an MRI in a hospital, and it produces tens of thousands of dollars a day in revenue for the hospital, and that before this agreement the price of liquid helium has jumped to $25-30 per litre from $8 last year., I doubt that it would significantly affect the cost or availability of MRIs.
My mom, around 80 years old at the time, broke her arm on a Saturday, went to the hosptial. They gave her some pain medicine, a sling, and told her to go to her primary car physician on Monday to get it set and cast. This is in the USA, and she had relatively good insurance (not just Medicare).
Yes, copper has some anti-microbial properties.
No, that is not why copper is used by plumbers.
True, but antibiotics have the effect of making the animals gain more weight. The farmer can make more than the cost of the antibiotics back by selling more product, and so has an incentive to use them whether or not the animal is sick.
I do not want the cursor to disappear when typing. Sometimes Windows decides to do this, and it's extremely annoying. I want it to change from a mouse cursor to a keyboard cursor when I start typing, and back to a mouse cursor when I move the mouse.
Taking newspapers out of trash cans and reading them is in no way cheating (doctrine of first sale).
65million years ago we had oxygen levels around 35%.
250 million years ago, we had ocean acidification that helped wipe out 95% of the complex life forms in the ocean.-
None of that implies that the current trends are good for us.
Thus the ability to tune the resonant frequency against the waves using the air valves.
. . . There's no magic signal of intent to trade before an order is placed.
I believe you are wrong. For a seller to sell, they first have to offer stock for sale at a price; for a buyer to buy, they first have to offer to buy stock at a price (or at least one of those has to happen). If they don't agree on the price, there is no sale, but there is a signal of intent that "everyone" can see ("everyone" being those that are fast enough).
The metallized tape is called duct tape.
The cloth-based tape used for repair of everything is called duck tape.
That is not always true - at least for some products in some states the lobbyists have had laws passed so that you can't label GMO or non-GMO. And for corn used in prepared foods, it's impossible to get anything that is demonstrably without round-up ready corn in it
And yet the graphs on the page you linked to show a clear trend of declining global sea ice extent.
I personally know English speakers who do business in China speaking Mandarin (and speaking Japanese for business in Japan) And I would say it's a smart thing for business and education to learn Chinese, or any other language of a country you may visit or do business in.
You can if you tune the resonant frequency of the tanks to the general frequency of the waves and use the air valves TFA talks about to fine tune the resonance. I know, for example that tuned water tanks are sometimes used to dampen swaying of high-rise buildings.
I take that to mean that 64% of the studies were not about AWG, therefore they don't have anything to do with a statistic about the papers' endorsement or rejection of AWG.
Massive depressions don't make dollars worthless, massive depressions make labor worthless.
It's surprising because the bipolar axis observed is at right angles to the axis of angular momentum. It even says as much in TFS:
'Many of these ghostly butterflies appear to have their long axes aligned along the plane of our galaxy.'