Step 1: Grass grows, absorbs x tons of CO2 and thru breathing already emits some CO2
Step 2: Grass is harvested, energy usage reulting in y tons of CO2
Step 3: Grass is burned in a furnace, most often incompletely, releasing (x-z) tons of CO2 back into the atmosphere, and producing m*z tons of ash.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit!
Biological-based ash is used experimentally in the production of cement - most of the cement produced in the world is made of blast furnace slag, fly ash, volcanic ash, sources that already produce high quantities of ash. I really know very little about cement, but I know that are many industries today that already produce all the ash needed. So it's a solution looking for a problem.
really, if burning weeds was really a clean energy process, don't you figure someone smarter than us would be rich and famous by now?
so we agree, after all. the whole point is the ratio between CO2 emited and the energy output. but we botrh agree that the ratio between the grass growth and the CO2 emited is NOT 1:1.
i'm pretty damn sure I was talking about the whole process. unless you are a highschooler who still oversees air resistance in your physics classes, you should too.
Popular with the industry or not, the fact is that you have to adress to this points:
first: there is no time - education doesn't pay the bills, jobs do. most of us need to work in order to survive; I can't spend a semester learning about something I could use but probably won't.
second: innovation is, as oddly as it may seem, speeding up; anyone trying to stay updated about machining and tooling like me should know this by now (I don't program for a living, i'm an engineer - a brazilian one, so don't mind the poor english) and I guess this is happening everywhere, with most technologies.
third: finally, it's the alumn obligation to look up for extentions and new toolsets if one feels that his/hers education was driven towards something not so useful or is becoming obsolete. Education for education is great, but as long as you live in your parents basement or have a large trustfund. I say this because i've seen people strive in narrow classes flying solo and looking for alternatives outside the range of the course, simply because was interesting or useful in a certain enviroment (usually a job-driven interest, outside the university).
I understand that with the new ground-level knowledge available, one would require at least 10 years studying solo just to get a larger glimpse of how things got to where they are. That's why, i reckon, universities are changing. Solving academical problems is neat, necessary for the development of new/innovative technologies, but to expect that every gradute will become a scientist/academic/professor/researcher is counter-productive.
you think something that took 30 years of work should only be exclusive for 7 years? (for windows to come from MS-DOS to windows 7) It's just an example of how people with no money and not willing to work want to play around with other people's toys and ideas and work and strategy and marketing costs and etc etc etc.
If someone should want everybody's work to be their own, they should pay full price, not just the marginal cost.
the problem looks so much bigger in these fanboi comments; "care about linux"? what are you, linux's father or guardian of some sort? grow up dude, sony makes consoles, not linux-friendly computers so the fanbois can run their own cell clusters. I was as bummed as anyone here about it, but I understand that it was a fairly misguided option from sony when they first enabled it. Their goal is to make more money so you can buy ps4 some 4-5 years from now. everything else is just rubbish. don't like the way they are trying to earn money from their work? open up a hw company, brand it up and make your own god damn linux friendly fanboi console.
how much was spent researching, designing, testing and building the first nuclear power station? they are paying the R&D. americans forgot how to do that?
Maybe it should have been "explosions cause brain damage and the helmet is not very efficient against those" or "don't wear a military helmet and use TNT"
I tought helmets were designed to protect from debri and flying objects caused by explosions, not the shockwave from 2 pounds of C-4 lying around.
lol. You are so wrong it even hurts. You should come to Brazil or go to Europe at least once. Then you will see a melting pot of genes and culture. I live in a german-heritage city in brazil, where most of the people are light-skin blue eyes. Just came from Salvador, most black/brown. Could go to Belem or Manaus, indigenous - portuguese, or to instate sao paulo for americans and canadians, or to sao paulo city where we have the biggest japonese populace of the world outside japan. down rio grande do sul for argentinians and spanish or to rio, to see all the tourists of the world. floripa for assorians and brasilia for dirty, dirty politicians (that's a joke - they are not people).
systems auditing is VERY different from accountability auditing. An auditor is not, and I repeat: NOT, a detective. It's not their job to find out what you are doing wrong. Auditing is more about hearing you and then communicating to the parties interested. You can't invite all your investors to look upon every single aspect of your company, that's why there is an auditor. from the latin : TO HEAR. wheter is shady accounting or not, it's up to the AV officers to determine, through inspection of the books and reports.
but in this case, the spammers usually are spammers. No reputable company would send e-mails with well-tought typos and promisses of penis enlargement or cialis for half price.
In this case though, you are right, he got screwed over lack of knowledge. That's the "do it right" part of the comment. Doesn't make him a jackass, anyway, since the law do not always tag along with justice.
I guess there is nothing wrong in trying to do the right thing + making money in the process. How/.s are defending spammers indirectly, thats just fucking nonsense. My father always said to me: If you are doing something, do it right. No half-measures will sufice.
you consider a lack of highway prejudice against a certain village with one hundred people just because this ONE guy wants to drive his ferrari at top speed?
Potatoes don't have to be cooked - thay are just better when cooked. My mother used to make me eat raw potatoes whenever I had stomach problems - it levels the acidity.
I'm pretty sure your math is wrong, since fat can't be broken fast enough so it can be useful while doing exercises; your body will most likely start to ferment latic acid (check my english - i'm brazilian) rather than digesting that 600g hamburguer you just ate.
So damn dramatic. I figure you lost millions paying royalties for the song. Thousands? Hundreds? Nothing whatsoever? ah, sigh.
Anyway, it's not a privacy concern; you can still get a guitar, write down bad lyrics and post yourself beeing a jackass on videotube. It's more about you shoplifting a cd without ever going in a cd store.
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LAN parties? really? are those still around?
what about the sugar necessary? does it have it?
Step 1: Grass grows, absorbs x tons of CO2 and thru breathing already emits some CO2
Step 2: Grass is harvested, energy usage reulting in y tons of CO2
Step 3: Grass is burned in a furnace, most often incompletely, releasing (x-z) tons of CO2 back into the atmosphere, and producing m*z tons of ash.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit!
Biological-based ash is used experimentally in the production of cement - most of the cement produced in the world is made of blast furnace slag, fly ash, volcanic ash, sources that already produce high quantities of ash. I really know very little about cement, but I know that are many industries today that already produce all the ash needed. So it's a solution looking for a problem.
really, if burning weeds was really a clean energy process, don't you figure someone smarter than us would be rich and famous by now?
so we agree, after all. the whole point is the ratio between CO2 emited and the energy output. but we botrh agree that the ratio between the grass growth and the CO2 emited is NOT 1:1.
your are... absolutelly correct.
I ended up just making it more "4chan" (as if that was a good thing)
i'm pretty damn sure I was talking about the whole process. unless you are a highschooler who still oversees air resistance in your physics classes, you should too.
of course all the energy is there, but how much do we obtain and how much do we waste? that's the question.
the equation is not 1=1 now is it?
or pr0ngrass?
first: there is no time - education doesn't pay the bills, jobs do. most of us need to work in order to survive; I can't spend a semester learning about something I could use but probably won't.
second: innovation is, as oddly as it may seem, speeding up; anyone trying to stay updated about machining and tooling like me should know this by now (I don't program for a living, i'm an engineer - a brazilian one, so don't mind the poor english) and I guess this is happening everywhere, with most technologies.
third: finally, it's the alumn obligation to look up for extentions and new toolsets if one feels that his/hers education was driven towards something not so useful or is becoming obsolete. Education for education is great, but as long as you live in your parents basement or have a large trustfund. I say this because i've seen people strive in narrow classes flying solo and looking for alternatives outside the range of the course, simply because was interesting or useful in a certain enviroment (usually a job-driven interest, outside the university).
I understand that with the new ground-level knowledge available, one would require at least 10 years studying solo just to get a larger glimpse of how things got to where they are. That's why, i reckon, universities are changing. Solving academical problems is neat, necessary for the development of new/innovative technologies, but to expect that every gradute will become a scientist/academic/professor/researcher is counter-productive.
release you into the real world to make it your vocation.
I would feel like a fucking dove if I understood universities like you do.
If someone should want everybody's work to be their own, they should pay full price, not just the marginal cost.
the problem looks so much bigger in these fanboi comments; "care about linux"? what are you, linux's father or guardian of some sort? grow up dude, sony makes consoles, not linux-friendly computers so the fanbois can run their own cell clusters. I was as bummed as anyone here about it, but I understand that it was a fairly misguided option from sony when they first enabled it. Their goal is to make more money so you can buy ps4 some 4-5 years from now. everything else is just rubbish. don't like the way they are trying to earn money from their work? open up a hw company, brand it up and make your own god damn linux friendly fanboi console.
how much was spent researching, designing, testing and building the first nuclear power station? they are paying the R&D. americans forgot how to do that?
I tought helmets were designed to protect from debri and flying objects caused by explosions, not the shockwave from 2 pounds of C-4 lying around.
lol. You are so wrong it even hurts. You should come to Brazil or go to Europe at least once. Then you will see a melting pot of genes and culture. I live in a german-heritage city in brazil, where most of the people are light-skin blue eyes. Just came from Salvador, most black/brown. Could go to Belem or Manaus, indigenous - portuguese, or to instate sao paulo for americans and canadians, or to sao paulo city where we have the biggest japonese populace of the world outside japan. down rio grande do sul for argentinians and spanish or to rio, to see all the tourists of the world. floripa for assorians and brasilia for dirty, dirty politicians (that's a joke - they are not people).
I, for one, welcome our new auditors overlords.
mod parent + please. Someone knows that auditing is not investigating or trying to find flaws in one's accountability.
systems auditing is VERY different from accountability auditing. An auditor is not, and I repeat: NOT, a detective. It's not their job to find out what you are doing wrong. Auditing is more about hearing you and then communicating to the parties interested. You can't invite all your investors to look upon every single aspect of your company, that's why there is an auditor. from the latin : TO HEAR. wheter is shady accounting or not, it's up to the AV officers to determine, through inspection of the books and reports.
In this case though, you are right, he got screwed over lack of knowledge. That's the "do it right" part of the comment. Doesn't make him a jackass, anyway, since the law do not always tag along with justice.
I guess there is nothing wrong in trying to do the right thing + making money in the process. How /.s are defending spammers indirectly, thats just fucking nonsense. My father always said to me: If you are doing something, do it right. No half-measures will sufice.
you consider a lack of highway prejudice against a certain village with one hundred people just because this ONE guy wants to drive his ferrari at top speed?
is it optimus prime?
Potatoes don't have to be cooked - thay are just better when cooked. My mother used to make me eat raw potatoes whenever I had stomach problems - it levels the acidity.
I'm pretty sure your math is wrong, since fat can't be broken fast enough so it can be useful while doing exercises; your body will most likely start to ferment latic acid (check my english - i'm brazilian) rather than digesting that 600g hamburguer you just ate.
Anyway, it's not a privacy concern; you can still get a guitar, write down bad lyrics and post yourself beeing a jackass on videotube. It's more about you shoplifting a cd without ever going in a cd store.