$ per Megawatt hour is the measure of efficiency. Ideally you would want a world where you had unlimited energy that required no money (ie jobs). This is a measure of inefficiency and it shows that Solar is the worst.
Anyone that claims a project is great because it creates jobs is an idiot. The goal is to have stuff not jobs.
Batist wrote that all people act as a both a producer and a consumer. In their job they are a producer and in the rest of their life they are a consumer.What do they as a producer want? They want the good or service they producer to be scarce and expensive. What do they as a consumer want? They want the good or service they buy to be abundant and cheap.
What type of society do you want to live in, one where things are cheap and abundant or scarce and expensive? Any law that favors producers does so by making goods scarce and expensive. Unfortunately like the people that wrote this article it is easy to show how a certain law that favors a producer helps those people. It takes a bit more thinking to explain that the only way to help that producer is by hurting all consumers.
Here is the essence of the problem. We only have ourselves to blame. We have given up on the idea of liberty and we ask the state to impose morality on citizens by force. Laws against adults doing consensual things be they gambling, drugs, sex, ect are naturally unjust. Their enforcement cannot be conducted without causing resentment and abuse of power. So until we eliminate all vice crimes we will live in a police state. If we eliminate them then you can go back to being peace officers
That reminds me of a good to protect and serve story. I was at college and I was in the labs until about 3am on a weekday. I was driving back to my apartment on an lonely little dark road on campus where I could see the whole road. I took a few turns aggressively blowing off some steam, there were no cars in sight. Except for the cop car parked in the dark. These two guys pulled me over and I unfortunately didn't know my rights so when they asked to search my car I said ok. They pulled everything out that wasn't attached to the car there it on the side of the road and when they didn't find anything just drove off. I spent a good 15 minutes trying to find all my books and stuff in the dark on the side of the road at 3 am. I lost all respect for cops that day.
I worked for a government contract that was up for bid every 5 years. It was a small disadvantage business set aside. So basically ever 5 years I worked for a new company working at the same job, same desk, and with the same government people. Only the owners of the shell company that ran the contract changed.
That number for gravity on Vesta looks suspect. The mass is about 1/4 of Ceres and it's radius is about 10% bigger. The law of gravitation shows acceleration at a distance from center of mass is G*m/r^2. The gravitational acceleration on Vesta should be around.06 m/s^2.
Both parents have to work in order to pay their taxes for things like schools. Eliminate schools and their taxes will make it more affordable for a parent tomstay home.
I have been saying this for years. A well produced video on a subject would save lots of money by replacing lectures. So try taking this to it's logical conclusion. The school model for teaching is going to go away. If parents have access to educational material on any subject than what good does a traditional teacher serve? You could replace this with a video lecture and private mentor/tutor model. The vast majority of the work of education would be done by video and you can just pay for individual access to a tutor. I have a mechanical engineering degree I got 15 years ago using a standard classroom lecture mode. I recently took some online masters classes. I watched the lectures and then they had videos of the professor setting up and solving problems. It was great because I could keep repeating the video where I was confused. I then could email him when I was truly stuck and he could clarify.
Khan academy has taken this further. Since they are producing these videos instead of just recording a lecture they can refine them using feedback. If something is unclear or wrong someone will give them feedback and they can easily edit the video to correct or clarify. In this ay they are producing a product and keep refining it.
This will be great. We can eliminate schools and their associated costs and replace it with experts working from home where they can concentrate on solving students roadblocks and not wasting time repeating what they already have done. Imagine the savings.
The big flaw is that raw intelligence is only a very small part of being successful. Hard work, thriftiness, ability to see what products are marketable, ect all lead to success. The reason the USA is so successful is our liberty. People are allowed to try lots of things and fail and try other things until they find their niche. Failure is one of the most important success factors in an economy and biology. Evolution isn't what creates new traits. They are being created all of the time by genetic randomness. It is the real world that tests those traits to see if they are advantageous to survival.
The last A in NASA stands for administration. NASA is not supposed to design rockets or capsules. It is supposed to take the science and exploration goals that Congress clearly defines and make it happen. In the 60s the technology to meet the goal of flying to the moon and returning safely to earth did not exist. So NASA identified what needed to be learned and administered those tasks to many different companies. NASA employees were only a small part of the overall workforce.
Today is different. We have no goal for exploration. So there is nothing to administer. A clear goal would be to create a permanently manned self sufficient moon base at the lunar south pole. Or to create the capability to send people on 2 year exploration missions to the moon, mars, moons of mars and asteroids on a 5 Billion dollar a year budget. These goals you can plan for. In fact it's even easier than going to the moon in the 60s because now it is just an engineering problem no new technology is required. Then NASA can take those goals and design a strategy for meeting those goals. Using that strategy you can contract companies to do the work. The key right now is to define the goal.
The goal for an earth landing is to not use a parachute at all. You would use thrusters to deorbit and then atmospheric breaking to get you to terminal velocity and then thrusters for the final landing.
I don't know about Mars. Gravity is less but the atmosphere is way less. So you may need a parachute as a part of the final decent because I don't know if aerobraking on the capsule itself would be enough.
You seem to think that nuclear reactor byproducts were ever going to be stored there. This was always a jobs product. Tax electricity to pay to dig a big hole in the desert. It was never any more than that. You realize if the storage was allowed to open then more reactors would be built and electricity would get cheaper. That would make our lives better and help the economy. That is not what the politicians want. They want us miserable so they can gather power.
You are right. The problem is people operating outside of their area of expertise. I am a mechanical engineer. The best project managers I have worked with are the ones that were just familiar enough with engineering to know not to do it. They have kept us out of the BS and let us focus on our jobs. The worst ones are the ones that love requirements creep and promising things that are impossible to do within the required constraints. Those projects always fail. So it's not letting engineers run things it is letting engineers do their jobs.
I think part of the problem is that from the outside mechanical engineering looks fun and easy. You just think of a device and model it on cad right? The thing people don't think of is that there are forces, masses, friction, stresses, deflections, material compatibility, tolerances, and fabrication to all worry about. And every single piece of information on every dimension has to be created from nothing and their consequences investigated.
I haven't been able to find information yet but this is a very mountainous area. The mountains force the wet air up and that cools it off producing rain.. The deserts are there not because of cold but because there are big mountains in the way of the prevailing wind. This snow fall is most likely due to a temporary change in the prevailing wind which brought moist air into the region.
I live in Florida and hurricane landfalls depend on jet streams. We had a few years when those winds seemed to steer every other hurricane our way. Now those winds are back to normal and the storms go either out into the Atlantic or into the Gulf of Mexico.
I'm a mechanical engineer but we have design reviews. The most important question is why have the review? We have project reviews but those are for project management as far as schedules and budgets. We have peer design reviews where we get other engineers, machinists, and welders to take a half hour to look over a design a few times during the design process. These are set up for the designers benefit. They are in charge and it is up to them to take any comments or advice. I find these reviews very productive because it never turns into criticism where you ask why didn't you do this or that.
The S curve apply well to individual technologies. The question is when does the s curve start? What causes it? My belief is that the nessasary condition is freedom. The more free a society the more likely that sparks that starts the next s curve starts. This is where china fails and the US is starting to fail.
To steal a line from "From the Earth to the Moon". Budgets and schedules are based on what has been done before. That works great for paving a highway or building a building. Not as good when you are building a new aircraft or satellite. It is almost entirely useless when building something that has never been tried before like a 6.5 m diameter 7 segment folding infrared space telescope.
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$ per Megawatt hour is the measure of efficiency. Ideally you would want a world where you had unlimited energy that required no money (ie jobs). This is a measure of inefficiency and it shows that Solar is the worst.
Anyone that claims a project is great because it creates jobs is an idiot. The goal is to have stuff not jobs.
Batist wrote that all people act as a both a producer and a consumer. In their job they are a producer and in the rest of their life they are a consumer.What do they as a producer want? They want the good or service they producer to be scarce and expensive. What do they as a consumer want? They want the good or service they buy to be abundant and cheap.
What type of society do you want to live in, one where things are cheap and abundant or scarce and expensive? Any law that favors producers does so by making goods scarce and expensive. Unfortunately like the people that wrote this article it is easy to show how a certain law that favors a producer helps those people. It takes a bit more thinking to explain that the only way to help that producer is by hurting all consumers.
You have to be stupid to believe either of the following:
NewsCorp did nothing wrong.
NewsCorp is the only company that does this.
Here is the essence of the problem. We only have ourselves to blame. We have given up on the idea of liberty and we ask the state to impose morality on citizens by force. Laws against adults doing consensual things be they gambling, drugs, sex, ect are naturally unjust. Their enforcement cannot be conducted without causing resentment and abuse of power. So until we eliminate all vice crimes we will live in a police state. If we eliminate them then you can go back to being peace officers
That reminds me of a good to protect and serve story. I was at college and I was in the labs until about 3am on a weekday. I was driving back to my apartment on an lonely little dark road on campus where I could see the whole road. I took a few turns aggressively blowing off some steam, there were no cars in sight. Except for the cop car parked in the dark. These two guys pulled me over and I unfortunately didn't know my rights so when they asked to search my car I said ok. They pulled everything out that wasn't attached to the car there it on the side of the road and when they didn't find anything just drove off. I spent a good 15 minutes trying to find all my books and stuff in the dark on the side of the road at 3 am. I lost all respect for cops that day.
If it weren't for public libraries where would homeless perverts go to watch porn and jerk off?
Why have copyrights at all? The authors can still sell the manuscript to a publisher or sell it online these days for a buck or two.
In Florida we usually throw small white gravel on the roof while the tar is still hot.
I worked for a government contract that was up for bid every 5 years. It was a small disadvantage business set aside. So basically ever 5 years I worked for a new company working at the same job, same desk, and with the same government people. Only the owners of the shell company that ran the contract changed.
Good catch there.
I guess the greater mass of Ceres compacted the material tighter hence the smaller radius,
That number for gravity on Vesta looks suspect. The mass is about 1/4 of Ceres and it's radius is about 10% bigger. The law of gravitation shows acceleration at a distance from center of mass is G*m/r^2. The gravitational acceleration on Vesta should be around .06 m/s^2.
Both parents have to work in order to pay their taxes for things like schools. Eliminate schools and their taxes will make it more affordable for a parent tomstay home.
I have been saying this for years. A well produced video on a subject would save lots of money by replacing lectures. So try taking this to it's logical conclusion. The school model for teaching is going to go away. If parents have access to educational material on any subject than what good does a traditional teacher serve? You could replace this with a video lecture and private mentor/tutor model. The vast majority of the work of education would be done by video and you can just pay for individual access to a tutor. I have a mechanical engineering degree I got 15 years ago using a standard classroom lecture mode. I recently took some online masters classes. I watched the lectures and then they had videos of the professor setting up and solving problems. It was great because I could keep repeating the video where I was confused. I then could email him when I was truly stuck and he could clarify.
Khan academy has taken this further. Since they are producing these videos instead of just recording a lecture they can refine them using feedback. If something is unclear or wrong someone will give them feedback and they can easily edit the video to correct or clarify. In this ay they are producing a product and keep refining it.
This will be great. We can eliminate schools and their associated costs and replace it with experts working from home where they can concentrate on solving students roadblocks and not wasting time repeating what they already have done. Imagine the savings.
The big flaw is that raw intelligence is only a very small part of being successful. Hard work, thriftiness, ability to see what products are marketable, ect all lead to success. The reason the USA is so successful is our liberty. People are allowed to try lots of things and fail and try other things until they find their niche. Failure is one of the most important success factors in an economy and biology. Evolution isn't what creates new traits. They are being created all of the time by genetic randomness. It is the real world that tests those traits to see if they are advantageous to survival.
The last A in NASA stands for administration. NASA is not supposed to design rockets or capsules. It is supposed to take the science and exploration goals that Congress clearly defines and make it happen. In the 60s the technology to meet the goal of flying to the moon and returning safely to earth did not exist. So NASA identified what needed to be learned and administered those tasks to many different companies. NASA employees were only a small part of the overall workforce.
Today is different. We have no goal for exploration. So there is nothing to administer. A clear goal would be to create a permanently manned self sufficient moon base at the lunar south pole. Or to create the capability to send people on 2 year exploration missions to the moon, mars, moons of mars and asteroids on a 5 Billion dollar a year budget. These goals you can plan for. In fact it's even easier than going to the moon in the 60s because now it is just an engineering problem no new technology is required. Then NASA can take those goals and design a strategy for meeting those goals. Using that strategy you can contract companies to do the work. The key right now is to define the goal.
Here is how I understand it.
The goal for an earth landing is to not use a parachute at all. You would use thrusters to deorbit and then atmospheric breaking to get you to terminal velocity and then thrusters for the final landing.
I don't know about Mars. Gravity is less but the atmosphere is way less. So you may need a parachute as a part of the final decent because I don't know if aerobraking on the capsule itself would be enough.
I was about to write exactly what you did. This is insanity.
Different situation that proves my point. WIPP stores DOD waste. This comes from weapons that enrich their power so it's good.
You seem to think that nuclear reactor byproducts were ever going to be stored there. This was always a jobs product. Tax electricity to pay to dig a big hole in the desert. It was never any more than that. You realize if the storage was allowed to open then more reactors would be built and electricity would get cheaper. That would make our lives better and help the economy. That is not what the politicians want. They want us miserable so they can gather power.
You are right. The problem is people operating outside of their area of expertise. I am a mechanical engineer. The best project managers I have worked with are the ones that were just familiar enough with engineering to know not to do it. They have kept us out of the BS and let us focus on our jobs. The worst ones are the ones that love requirements creep and promising things that are impossible to do within the required constraints. Those projects always fail. So it's not letting engineers run things it is letting engineers do their jobs.
I think part of the problem is that from the outside mechanical engineering looks fun and easy. You just think of a device and model it on cad right? The thing people don't think of is that there are forces, masses, friction, stresses, deflections, material compatibility, tolerances, and fabrication to all worry about. And every single piece of information on every dimension has to be created from nothing and their consequences investigated.
I haven't been able to find information yet but this is a very mountainous area. The mountains force the wet air up and that cools it off producing rain.. The deserts are there not because of cold but because there are big mountains in the way of the prevailing wind. This snow fall is most likely due to a temporary change in the prevailing wind which brought moist air into the region.
I live in Florida and hurricane landfalls depend on jet streams. We had a few years when those winds seemed to steer every other hurricane our way. Now those winds are back to normal and the storms go either out into the Atlantic or into the Gulf of Mexico.
I'm a mechanical engineer but we have design reviews. The most important question is why have the review? We have project reviews but those are for project management as far as schedules and budgets. We have peer design reviews where we get other engineers, machinists, and welders to take a half hour to look over a design a few times during the design process. These are set up for the designers benefit. They are in charge and it is up to them to take any comments or advice. I find these reviews very productive because it never turns into criticism where you ask why didn't you do this or that.
The S curve apply well to individual technologies. The question is when does the s curve start? What causes it? My belief is that the nessasary condition is freedom. The more free a society the more likely that sparks that starts the next s curve starts. This is where china fails and the US is starting to fail.
What NASA is missing is a goal and the political will to stock with it for more than one election cycle.
To steal a line from "From the Earth to the Moon". Budgets and schedules are based on what has been done before. That works great for paving a highway or building a building. Not as good when you are building a new aircraft or satellite. It is almost entirely useless when building something that has never been tried before like a 6.5 m diameter 7 segment folding infrared space telescope.
You don't need patents to show the design to a company just get them to sign a Non Disclosure Statement.