Liquid Oxygen and Hydrogen were burned by the shuttle engines and can be recycled over and over again by introducing sunlight into the perpetual motion device.
No need for precious hydrocarbons to be wasted on space.
If flooding the market with a commodity lowers the price too much, then only bring enough to meet the annual industrial demand. Plus tell the Chinese to screw their monopoly on "Rare Earth" materials.
A lot of Gold, Silver and Platinum are sold for industrial users, silver goes into making solder and those hard plastic packages that are a pain to open.
Until recently the gold, silver and copper in electronics mostly went to landfill or was shipped to Africa where the heavy metals and chemicals in them are leaching into the water supply.
If I could mine all the asteroids and just park my inventory in LaGrange Point L1, then these become my reserves just as if I had them underground in a mine. Reserves are usually priced against the market value of the commodity, so my stock options become more valuable based on my reserves if I do not flood the market with more Platinum than industry can absorb.
Try re-asking your question what happens to Oil prices if they dump all their reserves on the market, and ask yourself why that doesn't happen.
This will be a net positive for the Solar industry if real industrial capacity moves into space.
The specially designed dome and template inside the dome let them take a picture of the reflection from your skyline and trees on the dome, their software analyzes the picture and tells you what your solar potential is.
I saw it on This New House and have no affiliation with the company.
I take my wife there periodically for brunch (Elevensies or Second Breakfast?).
I like their pasta Carbonarra, they also have a wine tasting bar, but I've never been in that side of the building.
The Menu has some little black and white line drawings of trees and such that remind you of the shire a bit, but aside from that, there is nothing Tolkein infringing going on there. Maybe one of the salads has has a Hobbit name.
On training the new guy when the old guy burns out. Ask your HR dept how much money is spent on employee churn, how much does it cost to look for a new employee, advertise, recruit how ever many names you have to interview just to get one person in the door.
Now name a program that costs about the same or less than that and keeps fully trained empoyees on the payroll.
I knew a guy named Ivan and he's pretty out there. I am told that Ivan taught his nephew a little something.
Every time he wanted a cookie he was to go up to his mother and say "Trust fund".
I am wondering just how elastic these learning mechanisms will be, or will they really be pre-programmed routines where it basically learns to recognize your voice, and you can set a few parameters for which room is the living room or kitchen, but not much else.
I live in the DC area, one of our local grocery chains has a service called Peapod, they use UPS style delivery trucks to deliver your order. The tractor trailer trucks that deliver from the warehouse to the store will not work for residential delivery.
Harris Teeter has a service where they pick your order and leave it in a refrigerator at the front of the store you park at the entrance and load up your groceries.
As an Amazon prime subscriber, I get 'free' shipping on almost everything from Amazon, however they have ONLY warehouses and no showrooms. Prime is $72 a year, I get 'free' shipping on almost everything, if I order 20 items a year its about break even, plus Prime subscribers get access to some of Amazon's Video on Demand catalog for 'free'. Where 'free' is $72 a year.
I have been trying to get my wife to try Peapod or the Harris Teeter service for a long time now. She is very picky about things like produce, I expect we can get those exclusively from our farmer's market, or she can just shop for the produce and have the rest delivered.
IF this model took off, look for a Trader Joes or Aldi sized store to sell 20% of the things that people don't want picked for them, and 80% of the things they need being delivered.
If such a service took off, people wouldn't need such big cars to transport their groceries in. In the DC area a lot of folks don't have cars anyhow and mostly get by with Public Transportation, not a lot by European standards, but a lot for a US city.
Oddly enough in a throwback to a bygone era, we started having Milk delivered about 2 months ago. The milk is from a dairy that shows up at our farmer's market, and they deliver once a week for a $3 delivery charge.
These options are out there, they might not be in your area, but they exist.
So you drop out of warp outside the Van Allen belts and everybody gets a nice light show.
Worst case you only use Warp Drive as far in system as Mars and use more conventional means from there to Earth.
Hell using Warp drive through the Oort cloud or Asteroid Belt might be troublesome if you just start picking up crap when passing through dense matter. You slow down and all of the asteroids and comets you picked up are on a colission course for Earth. I suggest some different approach vectors might be the first precaution.
Lets say I go to my family doctor, have my DNA sequenced in one of those fancy new cheap sequencers and added to my medical records. Then I agree to have my records, drugs I have taken and interactions, other conditions I have added to a database anonymously.
Then these open source drug companies can take a look at this database, combined with DNA from folks in clinical trials and do some data mining on possible chemistry avenues to explore.
You do the same thing with folks taken off drugs for bad reactions.
I think the data might be helpful, but I'm not a pharma chemist whatever.
The next step (not just combining stories I've seen this week) is to offer up cultured tissues from stem cells of the people with the conditions and see if the patient proxy responds to treatment, has an adverse reaction, etc. I know people are complex systems and so just some tissues might not help, but tissue, blood, white blood cells enough to create a microcosm of the person would be interesting. Having a person with a severe condition being able to participate by proxies in multiple clinical trials for different treatments at once might speed up the process. Then someone not me can decide if it is responsible/ethical to put that person in the dosing trial for the treatment their proxy responded best to.
If such a proxy were created, and proven clinically viable, not only could people with conditions be involved in many potentially life saving therapies, but people with really rare conditions might be able to make royalties off their proxies and not spend days in a clinical hospital playing lab rat.
I was in a dosing trial once, took 250ml of a new drug (monoclonal antibody) through an IV and spent 4 days in a hospital getting sampled to death. The effect of 1 injection lasted for 3 months. People in a similar trial for a different drug going on at the same time were taking half as much fluid, but injecting that doese twice a week and several folks died of infections because of compromised immune systems. I would have liked to have participated in both studies, and obviously you know, not died.
I would think you think you're being clever or well informed, but I regularly cook things in my Sous Vide machine at the FINAL temperature I want them to be. With this method you cannot overcook your food, it will hold at temperature and in most cases not degrade the texture of the dish if something comes up and you wait 30 minutes to pull it out of the water bath. Some high end restaurants use this method to keep popular foods just shy of done, when an order comes in they give them a quick sear in a pan and put them on a plate.
A lot of the 300-400 degree cooking methods are too-efficient transmission directly from the pan through the meat so when the center is 170 and safe to eat, the outside is 240+ and either beef jerky or charcoal. Likewise air is a poor heat conductor so it takes hours in an oven for the center of the meat to reach 160, see every Thankgiving turkey ever.
With Sous Vide you never overcook and the moisture in the food isn't driven out by the cooking process.
So I'll see your Newton's Law and raise you Fourier's Law
"Writing about sous vide led Myhrvold to think more deeply about how heat moves through different media (which is why Modernist Cuisine may well be the only cookbook ever published with a long disquisition on Fourierâ(TM)s law, the equation for calculating heat transfer)."
You know its funny that we regularly cook with 300-400 degree cooking surfaces, but none of our food needs to get much over 170 to be safe to eat. Certain chemical reactions like thickeners won't activate until they reach the boiling point of water, but very little of what we eat needs to go above the temperature of steam.
Everything in your food, pectin, collagen, etc that holds the food together begins to break down around 180 so that things get soft and mushy if left too long.
Maybe these folks need to combine a solar cooker for baseload with rocket stoves that use fuel efficiently and give off very little pollution. The stove could be used to carmelize vegetables, sear meats, toast breads and other applications that require really high heat.
Is it any coincidence that racecar drivers who professionally run million dollar cars around a track at hundreds of miles per hour with other professionals hate driving in traffic with amateurs. They really aren't the same skill sets at that point.
Think about your skill level in driving, now think about every driver you call a dumbass on the road when they do something stupid. It has to be 10 times worse for the pros.
That and left turns are a pain in the ass off the track.
So if I build a vertical greenhouse with soilless gardening techniques, provide the allowed nutrients in my drip irrigation from decomposed seaweed and other organic sources, am I still organic?
Using NEW controlled environment agriculture methods I can grow 100 times the product per square foot as a traditional farm or even a "modern agriculture" farm, my crops are always in season 365 days a year and I use no industrial chemicals in production.
Are you still going to bang the drum that Organic means intentionally flawed and inefficient farming?
Think of it this way, you're the Doctor, and you tell your patient's guardian that you would rather the patient with the 'compromised immune system' not return to his practice which is likely filled with other young disease 'carriers'.
If everybody else in the practice is immunized, the patient at the greatest risk of harm is the one with no immunization. Assuming all the sick kids aren't there for the same thing, the unvaccinated kid could pick up more than one problem in the waiting room. You know the unhygenic room where all the sick people sit next to each other, handle the same magazines, breathe the same germ filled air, touch all the same doorknobs.
Where does it say that something has to waste water to be organic?
There is no reason I can't feed my plants with a dripline, in a greenhouse and recover a lot of my water and still not use proscribed chemicals or pesticiedes.
Some greenhouses use predatory insects (spiders) instead of pesticides.
Literally, not one story about Tesla going out of business has come true, not one story about how the Model S would cost a Billion dollars to build, not one story about the lack of sales between the end of the Roadster (no more Lotus bodies) and the beginning of the Model S eating through their cash too quickly.
Try reading the stories about their technology, how even if their car sales tanked they'd have a profitable business on the battery pack and drivetrain alone. The runaway battery pack fire risk on the Chevy Volt, can't happen with a Tesla battery pack. Tesla fixed that problem on the Roadster back when GM was still saying it couldn't be done.
Tesla does have a $450 million loan from the DoE to build the manufacturing and come out with the Model S, that's probably kept them defying gravity longer than some folks would like. That and Musk running himself ragged, living with friends and putting all his cash into the business for a while.
Fermentation is a very passive process as far as the plant is concerned. Very little extra energy is introduced into the system. Once the energy is exttracted the leftovers can probably be used as a livestock feed like many distilleries do with their dried mash.
Plus were also looking at a source material feedstock if you will that comes from waste that already exists, not Corn and Sugar Cane that would otherwise be feeding people and keeping the prices of those goods at a reasonable level.
The Parent post everstates the case, a lot of imperfect produce becomes tomato sauce, potato flakes, strawberry puree, applesauce, carrot juice, etc.
There is a lot of agricultural waste, some scratch and dent from retail, and a LOT of uneaten or wasted food from restaurants.
I expect there are some enzyme or bacteria treatments that can cause this mash to release more starches or sugars before the fermentation phase begins.
A friend of a friend back in the day wouldn't watch Star Trek Next Gen because they can replicate matter, teleport, travel faster than the speed of light and still hadn't found a cure for baldness.
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Liquid Oxygen and Hydrogen were burned by the shuttle engines and can be recycled over and over again by introducing sunlight into the perpetual motion device.
No need for precious hydrocarbons to be wasted on space.
If flooding the market with a commodity lowers the price too much, then only bring enough to meet the annual industrial demand. Plus tell the Chinese to screw their monopoly on "Rare Earth" materials.
A lot of Gold, Silver and Platinum are sold for industrial users, silver goes into making solder and those hard plastic packages that are a pain to open.
Until recently the gold, silver and copper in electronics mostly went to landfill or was shipped to Africa where the heavy metals and chemicals in them are leaching into the water supply.
If I could mine all the asteroids and just park my inventory in LaGrange Point L1, then these become my reserves just as if I had them underground in a mine. Reserves are usually priced against the market value of the commodity, so my stock options become more valuable based on my reserves if I do not flood the market with more Platinum than industry can absorb.
Try re-asking your question what happens to Oil prices if they dump all their reserves on the market, and ask yourself why that doesn't happen.
This will be a net positive for the Solar industry if real industrial capacity moves into space.
Hopefully a few weeks isn't too long to forget their previous ruling.
Get an installer to bring out a Solar Pathfinder and get an estimate.
http://www.solarpathfinder.com/?id=mxhu3Rj5
The specially designed dome and template inside the dome let them take a picture of the reflection from your skyline and trees on the dome, their software analyzes the picture and tells you what your solar potential is.
I saw it on This New House and have no affiliation with the company.
I take my wife there periodically for brunch (Elevensies or Second Breakfast?).
I like their pasta Carbonarra, they also have a wine tasting bar, but I've never been in that side of the building.
The Menu has some little black and white line drawings of trees and such that remind you of the shire a bit, but aside from that, there is nothing Tolkein infringing going on there. Maybe one of the salads has has a Hobbit name.
On training the new guy when the old guy burns out. Ask your HR dept how much money is spent on employee churn, how much does it cost to look for a new employee, advertise, recruit how ever many names you have to interview just to get one person in the door.
Now name a program that costs about the same or less than that and keeps fully trained empoyees on the payroll.
I knew a guy named Ivan and he's pretty out there. I am told that Ivan taught his nephew a little something.
Every time he wanted a cookie he was to go up to his mother and say "Trust fund".
I am wondering just how elastic these learning mechanisms will be, or will they really be pre-programmed routines where it basically learns to recognize your voice, and you can set a few parameters for which room is the living room or kitchen, but not much else.
I live in the DC area, one of our local grocery chains has a service called Peapod, they use UPS style delivery trucks to deliver your order. The tractor trailer trucks that deliver from the warehouse to the store will not work for residential delivery.
Harris Teeter has a service where they pick your order and leave it in a refrigerator at the front of the store you park at the entrance and load up your groceries.
As an Amazon prime subscriber, I get 'free' shipping on almost everything from Amazon, however they have ONLY warehouses and no showrooms. Prime is $72 a year, I get 'free' shipping on almost everything, if I order 20 items a year its about break even, plus Prime subscribers get access to some of Amazon's Video on Demand catalog for 'free'. Where 'free' is $72 a year.
I have been trying to get my wife to try Peapod or the Harris Teeter service for a long time now. She is very picky about things like produce, I expect we can get those exclusively from our farmer's market, or she can just shop for the produce and have the rest delivered.
IF this model took off, look for a Trader Joes or Aldi sized store to sell 20% of the things that people don't want picked for them, and 80% of the things they need being delivered.
If such a service took off, people wouldn't need such big cars to transport their groceries in. In the DC area a lot of folks don't have cars anyhow and mostly get by with Public Transportation, not a lot by European standards, but a lot for a US city.
Oddly enough in a throwback to a bygone era, we started having Milk delivered about 2 months ago. The milk is from a dairy that shows up at our farmer's market, and they deliver once a week for a $3 delivery charge.
These options are out there, they might not be in your area, but they exist.
Actually using Mars as a dumping ground to add more Mass and Heat, that was in Red Mars right?
So you drop out of warp outside the Van Allen belts and everybody gets a nice light show.
Worst case you only use Warp Drive as far in system as Mars and use more conventional means from there to Earth.
Hell using Warp drive through the Oort cloud or Asteroid Belt might be troublesome if you just start picking up crap when passing through dense matter. You slow down and all of the asteroids and comets you picked up are on a colission course for Earth. I suggest some different approach vectors might be the first precaution.
Speaking of alternative methods.
Lets say I go to my family doctor, have my DNA sequenced in one of those fancy new cheap sequencers and added to my medical records. Then I agree to have my records, drugs I have taken and interactions, other conditions I have added to a database anonymously.
Then these open source drug companies can take a look at this database, combined with DNA from folks in clinical trials and do some data mining on possible chemistry avenues to explore.
You do the same thing with folks taken off drugs for bad reactions.
I think the data might be helpful, but I'm not a pharma chemist whatever.
The next step (not just combining stories I've seen this week) is to offer up cultured tissues from stem cells of the people with the conditions and see if the patient proxy responds to treatment, has an adverse reaction, etc. I know people are complex systems and so just some tissues might not help, but tissue, blood, white blood cells enough to create a microcosm of the person would be interesting. Having a person with a severe condition being able to participate by proxies in multiple clinical trials for different treatments at once might speed up the process. Then someone not me can decide if it is responsible/ethical to put that person in the dosing trial for the treatment their proxy responded best to.
If such a proxy were created, and proven clinically viable, not only could people with conditions be involved in many potentially life saving therapies, but people with really rare conditions might be able to make royalties off their proxies and not spend days in a clinical hospital playing lab rat.
I was in a dosing trial once, took 250ml of a new drug (monoclonal antibody) through an IV and spent 4 days in a hospital getting sampled to death. The effect of 1 injection lasted for 3 months. People in a similar trial for a different drug going on at the same time were taking half as much fluid, but injecting that doese twice a week and several folks died of infections because of compromised immune systems. I would have liked to have participated in both studies, and obviously you know, not died.
it wasn't as bad as you make it out to be.
I would think you think you're being clever or well informed, but I regularly cook things in my Sous Vide machine at the FINAL temperature I want them to be. With this method you cannot overcook your food, it will hold at temperature and in most cases not degrade the texture of the dish if something comes up and you wait 30 minutes to pull it out of the water bath. Some high end restaurants use this method to keep popular foods just shy of done, when an order comes in they give them a quick sear in a pan and put them on a plate.
A lot of the 300-400 degree cooking methods are too-efficient transmission directly from the pan through the meat so when the center is 170 and safe to eat, the outside is 240+ and either beef jerky or charcoal. Likewise air is a poor heat conductor so it takes hours in an oven for the center of the meat to reach 160, see every Thankgiving turkey ever.
With Sous Vide you never overcook and the moisture in the food isn't driven out by the cooking process.
So I'll see your Newton's Law and raise you Fourier's Law
"Writing about sous vide led Myhrvold to think more deeply about how heat moves through different media (which is why Modernist Cuisine may well be the only cookbook ever published with a long disquisition on Fourierâ(TM)s law, the equation for calculating heat transfer)."
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_myhrvold/all/1
You know its funny that we regularly cook with 300-400 degree cooking surfaces, but none of our food needs to get much over 170 to be safe to eat. Certain chemical reactions like thickeners won't activate until they reach the boiling point of water, but very little of what we eat needs to go above the temperature of steam.
Everything in your food, pectin, collagen, etc that holds the food together begins to break down around 180 so that things get soft and mushy if left too long.
Maybe these folks need to combine a solar cooker for baseload with rocket stoves that use fuel efficiently and give off very little pollution. The stove could be used to carmelize vegetables, sear meats, toast breads and other applications that require really high heat.
Is it any coincidence that racecar drivers who professionally run million dollar cars around a track at hundreds of miles per hour with other professionals hate driving in traffic with amateurs. They really aren't the same skill sets at that point.
Think about your skill level in driving, now think about every driver you call a dumbass on the road when they do something stupid. It has to be 10 times worse for the pros.
That and left turns are a pain in the ass off the track.
So if I build a vertical greenhouse with soilless gardening techniques, provide the allowed nutrients in my drip irrigation from decomposed seaweed and other organic sources, am I still organic?
Using NEW controlled environment agriculture methods I can grow 100 times the product per square foot as a traditional farm or even a "modern agriculture" farm, my crops are always in season 365 days a year and I use no industrial chemicals in production.
Are you still going to bang the drum that Organic means intentionally flawed and inefficient farming?
Think of it this way, you're the Doctor, and you tell your patient's guardian that you would rather the patient with the 'compromised immune system' not return to his practice which is likely filled with other young disease 'carriers'.
If everybody else in the practice is immunized, the patient at the greatest risk of harm is the one with no immunization. Assuming all the sick kids aren't there for the same thing, the unvaccinated kid could pick up more than one problem in the waiting room. You know the unhygenic room where all the sick people sit next to each other, handle the same magazines, breathe the same germ filled air, touch all the same doorknobs.
Where does it say that something has to waste water to be organic?
There is no reason I can't feed my plants with a dripline, in a greenhouse and recover a lot of my water and still not use proscribed chemicals or pesticiedes.
Some greenhouses use predatory insects (spiders) instead of pesticides.
I mean if it gives you broadband, voice and blocks GPS guided missiles, what more could you want?
It Better-B!
Literally, not one story about Tesla going out of business has come true, not one story about how the Model S would cost a Billion dollars to build, not one story about the lack of sales between the end of the Roadster (no more Lotus bodies) and the beginning of the Model S eating through their cash too quickly.
Try reading the stories about their technology, how even if their car sales tanked they'd have a profitable business on the battery pack and drivetrain alone. The runaway battery pack fire risk on the Chevy Volt, can't happen with a Tesla battery pack. Tesla fixed that problem on the Roadster back when GM was still saying it couldn't be done.
Tesla does have a $450 million loan from the DoE to build the manufacturing and come out with the Model S, that's probably kept them defying gravity longer than some folks would like. That and Musk running himself ragged, living with friends and putting all his cash into the business for a while.
Fermentation is a very passive process as far as the plant is concerned. Very little extra energy is introduced into the system. Once the energy is exttracted the leftovers can probably be used as a livestock feed like many distilleries do with their dried mash.
Plus were also looking at a source material feedstock if you will that comes from waste that already exists, not Corn and Sugar Cane that would otherwise be feeding people and keeping the prices of those goods at a reasonable level.
The Parent post everstates the case, a lot of imperfect produce becomes tomato sauce, potato flakes, strawberry puree, applesauce, carrot juice, etc.
There is a lot of agricultural waste, some scratch and dent from retail, and a LOT of uneaten or wasted food from restaurants.
I expect there are some enzyme or bacteria treatments that can cause this mash to release more starches or sugars before the fermentation phase begins.
Master Blaster
A friend of a friend back in the day wouldn't watch Star Trek Next Gen because they can replicate matter, teleport, travel faster than the speed of light and still hadn't found a cure for baldness.