The public roads of NYC have limited total area. Every one from transit buses to private cars and taxis should pay a rent proportional to the amount of time and area they occupy. Similarly they should pay for the right to emit pollution. Same price per pollution, be it a bus, be it a car.
The public transit will spread the cost around its ridership. Taxis and cars will spread it among its users. If this fair system of rent is collected, then we can let free market decide the cost and the transit systems will become profitable.
Transit companies cannot raise prices to become profitable because the private cars and taxis are taking the roads for free, emitting more pollution per passenger for free. Make them ALL play by the same rule, then we can depend on free markets.
Britain was shipping its prisoners to Australia back in 18th century.
The conditions on the prison ships were horrible, and half prisoners perished on the journey. The government was giving the ship company a fixed amount per prisoner.
One bureaucrat made one simple rule change. Instead of paying for each prisoner boarding the ship, they paid for each prisoner delivered in Sydney. No other change. Suddenly the casualty rate dropped from 50% to 0% in two months.
If FCC pays it for actual high speed connections made to the customers, instead of promises to improve the speed, this program might work.
Well then allow me to correct you; they aren't acronyms. NASA, Scuba, and Laser are acronyms, while DVD, FBI, and KFC are initialisms.
Wrong. I am not sure there is a word called initialism. When letters are spelled out they are called abbreviations. If they are enunciated as a word, they are acronyms.
Richard Feynman describes an anecdote. He found that the solid rocket boosters have some 196 bolts around the rim and the bolt and the bolt holes at 12 o' clock and 6o' clock positions were marked. The workers count the holes to 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock positions to align the heavy booster segment hanging from a crane on a cable to assemble it. He casually added a note saying, they should mark the 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock bolts and holes to make the assembly easier without bumping and damaging the segments during the assembly.
Three years later he got a stack of about four ring binders from the committee that followed up on his casual note. Skipping to the punch line, they concluded, "they can not mark them because updating the assembly and verification documentation would be too expensive".
Is there any wonder, SpaceX runs circles around NASA when it comes to efficiency?
Remember every dollar "wasted" by the government is a dollar earned by someone who did not deserve it. We know NASA wastes tons and tons of money. The defense contractors are getting it. That cash flow is getting threatened. They will retaliate like this.
They hire astronauts who wear adult diapers so that they can drive from Houston to Florida without taking bathroom breaks to attack a fellow astronaut who is cheating on her with another astronaut.
Converting fleets to electric vehicles directly impact both of these as fleet operators are able to utilize lower cost electricity to power their vehicles, thus eliminating both the overhead expense of diesel and the demand on the ventilation system.
It started in the South. The state of Tamil Nadu. Two parties battling in elections have promised to give free table fans, laptops, bicycles, TVs, mixer-grinders. (mixer -grinders is an essential kitchen appliance, indispensable to make idli, dosa, chutney).
The goodies bought with the government funds will be liberally slapped with the pictures of the politician.
Thanks for the clarification. I seem to have misunderstood the technology. I thought the TBM itself was diesel powered. Looks like the tiling removing trucks/trains are diesel powered. Thanks.
The Solar City acquisition was almost two years ago. The shorts had hoped to make a killing on Solar City and were hugely upset by Tesla bailing it out. They thought solar city will bring down Tesla too and piled on the band wagon. Tesla nearly went under in 2108 Q1. Survived Q2. All the predicted dates of Tesla's demise have come and gone.
Right now all the rumours and bravado is to keep the dumb shorts in the game while the big boys tip toe to the exit. Next week is the last chance for any FUD related to solar city, let us see if they crank out anything.
Spent a week this September in Iceland. Conducted tour. Say hi to Gisli, our tour guide, if you know him. Very knowledgeable and had very wide knowledge of Iceland, history, geology, glaciers, fishing, sociology...
Rest of the machine is the same. Swap out diesel engine, transmission, air hose in, exhaust hose out, compressors to feed the engine, fanst to pull the exhaust out, and put in battery and electric motors.
Citation will not be provided. I have no obligation to convince you. If you are curious, you do the research. If you disagree with me, I dont give a rats tail.
Rei, glad you are back. You seemed to be missing for a while, vacation perhaps?
Anyway, please do some reading up on the reports about battery pack + electric motors replacing the diesel engines in the boring head. Saves on fuel costs, and ventilation costs. Also tiling being carried away in self driving autonomous tubs, saving conveyor belt costs.
People are thinking of the skates and fast urban commuting over several miles. But If the cost savings come through tunnels become competitive to over pass building, so we might see a few stacks of the over passes buried underground.
The standard tunnel boring machine uses diesel engines. The boring company is using electric motors and battery packs to power the drill head. That is where the innovation and technology comes in. Tesla cars have the same four wheels and the body and the steering. Is it same as an gasoline car?
The diesel engine in confined space will asphyxiate the workers. Supplying air and taking away the exhaust is a very complex operation, adding to the costs. Especially on long tunnels.
Having said that, competition will catch up quickly. They can house the diesel engines at the entrance or tap into the grid and send power by cables to the drill head. Not sure how feasible it would be though. Also looks like the boring company is planning on autonomous self driving tubs to take the tilings away and to bring fresh batteries. This too could reduce the cost of tunneling. Again, other can easily copy.
Tunneling has changed for ever. Whether The Boring Company will get a big slice of the market and windfall, I am not sure. But 20 years from now, all tunnel boring ops will be like what the boring company is doing now.
Most standard TBMs are diesel powered. They need oxygen to run. Supplying oxygen to the machine and ventilation fans is a major cost of the standard tunnel boring operations. If you are planning to dig tunnels several miles long, this is a very serious issue. The boring company is using electric motors and batteries. Savings come from: 1 much smaller ventilation system. 2. diesel is four times more expensive than batteries. [*]
Second innovation comes with autonomous caddies taking away the tilings and bringing replacement batteries to the boring machine. Avoids expensive conveyers and tracks,
For all that talk about Tesla being prodigal air lifting manufacturing machines, and burning the cash, and spending prodigally housing workers in motels to meet production crunches, this boring company seems to be thought up purely by bean counting accountants who calculated the savings on paper.
Such concepts are quite old, you can't go though old issues of Popular Mechanics or Popular Science without seeing such ideas. But, finally, there is an engineer who can get the accountants to do the calculation and persuade a bunch of investors.
[*] Tesla model 3, 75 kWh battery, 300 miles, 4 miles/kWh, electricity 12 cents/kWh (min 30 cents, median around 14 cents), electric miles = 3 cents/mile. Gas miles, 3.00$/gallon, 25 mpg, is 12 cents/mile. Electric boring machines, cars and trucks will be four times cheaper in fuel costs.
Blackberry still has 1.4 billion dollars left in it?
Come on, by this time Criminal XYZ Officers should have looted the coffers completely. It goes without saying they were incompetent in managing the company. Comes as a surprise they were incompetent in looting the company and lining their own pockets.
The Dutch government Report was written in MS-Office build 20283 (registered to -name redacted-) and was collaboratively edited by instals 02383-48485-4857-ab (registered to ---)....
Of all the installs that created the document only the version used by the second assistant junior sub flunkie is actually verified and authorized install. We have located at least 22 unauthorized windows installations and 42 unauthorized Ms Office installation. We will be suing the government under anti-piracy laws for compensation of 3.3 billion euros
Also Microsoft Windows 10 does not collect any data, telemetry or otherwise. We challenge the government to prove that we collect data instead of engaging in idle speculation.
These calls originate from outside America and the number is spoofed.
If FBI sets up honey pots, take the bait, follow up, go up the chain and fine the people who hire these robo callers, then it might have some effect. Otherwise you can even call for death penalty, it wont have any effect.
"That is how most rich people think" != "That is how all rich people think".
If you listen and pay attention, you will understand, you will not find the world hostile, and you might find you dont need to be anonymous, nor cowardly.
The hunk of platinum called le Grand K that defined the kilogram is not the standard anymore.
A Kibble balance, that will define the kilogram will built using platinum, iridium and other exotic metals. It will be housed in the double walled basement of SI building. This le Grand K(ibble) will be the standard Kibble balance against which all othe Kibble balances will be measured and tested against.
Already existing design on shore windturbine without any subsidies competes with coal. Off shore design breakthroughs are just a matter of time. These off shore installations and their concrete caissons might actually be the seed that creates something the equivalent of the Great Barrier Reef!
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The public transit will spread the cost around its ridership. Taxis and cars will spread it among its users. If this fair system of rent is collected, then we can let free market decide the cost and the transit systems will become profitable.
Transit companies cannot raise prices to become profitable because the private cars and taxis are taking the roads for free, emitting more pollution per passenger for free. Make them ALL play by the same rule, then we can depend on free markets.
The conditions on the prison ships were horrible, and half prisoners perished on the journey. The government was giving the ship company a fixed amount per prisoner.
One bureaucrat made one simple rule change. Instead of paying for each prisoner boarding the ship, they paid for each prisoner delivered in Sydney. No other change. Suddenly the casualty rate dropped from 50% to 0% in two months.
If FCC pays it for actual high speed connections made to the customers, instead of promises to improve the speed, this program might work.
https://data.grammarbook.com/b...
Well then allow me to correct you; they aren't acronyms. NASA, Scuba, and Laser are acronyms, while DVD, FBI, and KFC are initialisms.
Wrong. I am not sure there is a word called initialism. When letters are spelled out they are called abbreviations. If they are enunciated as a word, they are acronyms.
Three years later he got a stack of about four ring binders from the committee that followed up on his casual note. Skipping to the punch line, they concluded, "they can not mark them because updating the assembly and verification documentation would be too expensive".
Is there any wonder, SpaceX runs circles around NASA when it comes to efficiency?
Remember every dollar "wasted" by the government is a dollar earned by someone who did not deserve it. We know NASA wastes tons and tons of money. The defense contractors are getting it. That cash flow is getting threatened. They will retaliate like this.
They hire astronauts who wear adult diapers so that they can drive from Houston to Florida without taking bathroom breaks to attack a fellow astronaut who is cheating on her with another astronaut.
Converting fleets to electric vehicles directly impact both of these as fleet operators are able to utilize lower cost electricity to power their vehicles, thus eliminating both the overhead expense of diesel and the demand on the ventilation system.
https://cleantechnica.com/2018...
The goodies bought with the government funds will be liberally slapped with the pictures of the politician.
Thanks for the clarification. I seem to have misunderstood the technology. I thought the TBM itself was diesel powered. Looks like the tiling removing trucks/trains are diesel powered. Thanks.
Right now all the rumours and bravado is to keep the dumb shorts in the game while the big boys tip toe to the exit. Next week is the last chance for any FUD related to solar city, let us see if they crank out anything.
Spent a week this September in Iceland. Conducted tour. Say hi to Gisli, our tour guide, if you know him. Very knowledgeable and had very wide knowledge of Iceland, history, geology, glaciers, fishing, sociology ...
Citation will not be provided. I have no obligation to convince you. If you are curious, you do the research. If you disagree with me, I dont give a rats tail.
Anyway, please do some reading up on the reports about battery pack + electric motors replacing the diesel engines in the boring head. Saves on fuel costs, and ventilation costs. Also tiling being carried away in self driving autonomous tubs, saving conveyor belt costs.
People are thinking of the skates and fast urban commuting over several miles. But If the cost savings come through tunnels become competitive to over pass building, so we might see a few stacks of the over passes buried underground.
The Penguin comes pre installed with los of tools like awk, grep, sed, emacs, vi, gcc, vim, git ...
The diesel engine in confined space will asphyxiate the workers. Supplying air and taking away the exhaust is a very complex operation, adding to the costs. Especially on long tunnels.
Having said that, competition will catch up quickly. They can house the diesel engines at the entrance or tap into the grid and send power by cables to the drill head. Not sure how feasible it would be though. Also looks like the boring company is planning on autonomous self driving tubs to take the tilings away and to bring fresh batteries. This too could reduce the cost of tunneling. Again, other can easily copy.
Tunneling has changed for ever. Whether The Boring Company will get a big slice of the market and windfall, I am not sure. But 20 years from now, all tunnel boring ops will be like what the boring company is doing now.
Most standard TBMs are diesel powered. They need oxygen to run. Supplying oxygen to the machine and ventilation fans is a major cost of the standard tunnel boring operations. If you are planning to dig tunnels several miles long, this is a very serious issue. The boring company is using electric motors and batteries. Savings come from: 1 much smaller ventilation system. 2. diesel is four times more expensive than batteries. [*]
Second innovation comes with autonomous caddies taking away the tilings and bringing replacement batteries to the boring machine. Avoids expensive conveyers and tracks,
For all that talk about Tesla being prodigal air lifting manufacturing machines, and burning the cash, and spending prodigally housing workers in motels to meet production crunches, this boring company seems to be thought up purely by bean counting accountants who calculated the savings on paper.
Such concepts are quite old, you can't go though old issues of Popular Mechanics or Popular Science without seeing such ideas. But, finally, there is an engineer who can get the accountants to do the calculation and persuade a bunch of investors. [*] Tesla model 3, 75 kWh battery, 300 miles, 4 miles/kWh, electricity 12 cents/kWh (min 30 cents, median around 14 cents), electric miles = 3 cents/mile. Gas miles, 3.00$/gallon, 25 mpg, is 12 cents/mile. Electric boring machines, cars and trucks will be four times cheaper in fuel costs.
Come on, by this time Criminal XYZ Officers should have looted the coffers completely. It goes without saying they were incompetent in managing the company. Comes as a surprise they were incompetent in looting the company and lining their own pockets.
Of all the installs that created the document only the version used by the second assistant junior sub flunkie is actually verified and authorized install. We have located at least 22 unauthorized windows installations and 42 unauthorized Ms Office installation. We will be suing the government under anti-piracy laws for compensation of 3.3 billion euros
Also Microsoft Windows 10 does not collect any data, telemetry or otherwise. We challenge the government to prove that we collect data instead of engaging in idle speculation.
If FBI sets up honey pots, take the bait, follow up, go up the chain and fine the people who hire these robo callers, then it might have some effect. Otherwise you can even call for death penalty, it wont have any effect.
Enough people use it to make it a viable advertisement platform?
Come on, is it April 1?
If you listen and pay attention, you will understand, you will not find the world hostile, and you might find you dont need to be anonymous, nor cowardly.
A Kibble balance, that will define the kilogram will built using platinum, iridium and other exotic metals. It will be housed in the double walled basement of SI building. This le Grand K(ibble) will be the standard Kibble balance against which all othe Kibble balances will be measured and tested against.
Already existing design on shore windturbine without any subsidies competes with coal. Off shore design breakthroughs are just a matter of time. These off shore installations and their concrete caissons might actually be the seed that creates something the equivalent of the Great Barrier Reef!
Three, it would be be more expensive per MW than current designs just based on its shape.
That is the metric it will live and die by. If its installation cost per MW is too much it will die, without any arguments.