Because they are professional killers* and need the best tools available. Unless they plan on remaining professional killers after returning to civilian life, they should surrender their weapon.
*I am a military brat and have the highest respect and admiration for those who serve. This does not change the fact that a soldier's role is to "make some poor bastard die for his [country]". And, frankly, I do not wish it otherwise.
Unfortunately in the ultra competitive ecology that is Mote Prime, a very high birth rate is an almost overwhelming advantage. Like the warrior caste, any rational leader caste would be foolish to voluntarily limit their reproduction. They would be quickly crowded out by their competition.
The proper way to do it is to skip the whole cellulose bit. Go straight from sunlight, water, and carbon to cetane. Or iso-octane. Or whatever. Though, I don't think that is what this article is about.
Because, more than anything else, the military is a bureaucracy. Getting any one branch's personnel to routinely operate under the command of another branch is extremely difficult. Nevermind the budgeting nightmare.
First you have to separate the bloom from the water, then you have to separate the algae from all the other gunk skimmed with it, then you have to separate the triglyceride bits from the non triglyceride bits. Then you hope that the oil fractions of the particular species are high enough to make it worth your while.
All of these things can be done, but often they require more energy than is in the oil.
While China and India are both formidable world powers, they lack the sort of elaborate treaty and alliance structures that drug everyone into WWI and WWII.
The CCXR may develop more power on E85, but it does it with a lower fuel economy (15mpg vs 17mpg of the CCX) thus undercutting your argument that the ethanol is more efficient.
I will grant that this is a high level sports car and the engine is tuned accordingly. I would like to see someone build a flex fuel engine than focuses on fuel economy rather than peak horsepower.
90% of my search needs are met by typing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/[thing i want to know about] in the address bar. For the rest, google does nicely. I am not a hard core reference geek, so... i dunno.
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Not as much as you would think.... Windows help system is based on iexplore.exe
Help in windows is pretty useless, but help in some of my applications is occasionally required. Stupid, pointless, anti-trust integration.
Negative.
I have a new(ish) 64bit IBM IntelliStation Pro that has never had anything but XP-64 on it. It still has the above mentioned files.
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Because they are professional killers* and need the best tools available. Unless they plan on remaining professional killers after returning to civilian life, they should surrender their weapon.
*I am a military brat and have the highest respect and admiration for those who serve. This does not change the fact that a soldier's role is to "make some poor bastard die for his [country]". And, frankly, I do not wish it otherwise.
Unfortunately in the ultra competitive ecology that is Mote Prime, a very high birth rate is an almost overwhelming advantage. Like the warrior caste, any rational leader caste would be foolish to voluntarily limit their reproduction. They would be quickly crowded out by their competition.
Wow. Racism, sexism, class warfare, and teen parenthood. All in two and a half paragraphs.
You are some kind of trolling GOD.
The proper way to do it is to skip the whole cellulose bit. Go straight from sunlight, water, and carbon to cetane. Or iso-octane. Or whatever. Though, I don't think that is what this article is about.
They LAUGHED at me at the Academy. LAUGHED.
MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That's why I get my videos on Google.
If you don't talk to your children about KNOWLEDGE, who will?
you can't find a watch that doesn't have a chip in it.
I refute you thus.
Not obligatory, MANDATORY!
2. But will it run on toast?
I'm pretty sure there is a netBSD port out there somewhere for toast....
Because, more than anything else, the military is a bureaucracy. Getting any one branch's personnel to routinely operate under the command of another branch is extremely difficult. Nevermind the budgeting nightmare.
...if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
Will there be a "Bossanova" explosion?
Retrieving the backups can be problematic.
First you have to separate the bloom from the water, then you have to separate the algae from all the other gunk skimmed with it, then you have to separate the triglyceride bits from the non triglyceride bits. Then you hope that the oil fractions of the particular species are high enough to make it worth your while.
All of these things can be done, but often they require more energy than is in the oil.
Harvesting is one of the principle limitations to the commercial adoption of algal biodiesel.
Have you read Scientific American lately? It's gone downhill over the past decade. Barely a half step above Popular Mechanics these days (IMHO).
Truecrypt + portable Firefox = pr0n hidden
If you need a main tank in the starting zone, you are doing it wrong.
While China and India are both formidable world powers, they lack the sort of elaborate treaty and alliance structures that drug everyone into WWI and WWII.
The CCXR may develop more power on E85, but it does it with a lower fuel economy (15mpg vs 17mpg of the CCX) thus undercutting your argument that the ethanol is more efficient.
I will grant that this is a high level sports car and the engine is tuned accordingly. I would like to see someone build a flex fuel engine than focuses on fuel economy rather than peak horsepower.
I, for one, am 100% behind any sport that has anything called a "zugzwang rule".
90% of my search needs are met by typing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/[thing i want to know about] in the address bar. For the rest, google does nicely. I am not a hard core reference geek, so... i dunno.