They should subsidize the coffee-biodiesel and put fossil-derived fuel on the market with no breaks, in fact jack the price up higher. You wont see weaning then, you'll see a full cold turkey switch.
I'm sorry, but the weaning argument is BS, look at hybrid sales. Hybrid sales didn't jump up due to environmental issues they jumped up due to the price of gas. 6 months ago you couldn't find a hybrid here in "green" Seattle. Now they're sitting fallow on the lot because the price of gas has dropped, and yes Toyota will give you a loan if you want one.
The only way that people will change fuel types is if you make it easier to get than gas (plug-in hybrids) at the same cost or cheaper or the price of alternative based fuel is significantly below the price of gas.
Note: Here that I work in a company that's looking at hydrogen as a fuel, and they realize that they're not going to be successful until a decent delivery system to the forecourt is developed; that's going to require the use of existing infrastructure. Forget cryo, pressurized or metal hydrides etc. The closet thing we've seen to something useful are these guys Asemblon, assuming that they can do it with a decent energy balance.
Oh, I agree with you. The problem lies in hiring talented staff. This is why I started saying that "I'm not convinced yet..." The concept of not paying the license fees is very attractive. However, albeit in my limited exposure, I have yet to see an OSS staff that is not distracted by the daily updates of products and one who can understand that BETA is not satisfactory for business operations. This is the hurdle that needs to be removed for me to accept OSS as a viable solution.
Interestingly, it's the same problem I have come across in science staff - good, relevant experienced management is hard to come by - nearly all are excellently qualified granular-focused folk who unfortunately don't understand the bigger business picture. Doesn't mean they can't do a job, just not a management job.
I'm not convinced yet that money is saved for small to medium businesses. We are supposedly an open source shop and productivity is severely hampered by the constant maintenance required. We have twice the IT staff for half the people that were being served in my previous job, which was MS based.
In addition, the open source IT staff seem to just want to constantly be changing everything when something newer and flashier comes out (read that as closer to functionality to a purchased project). In one year we have had 3 different email servers, with the associated problems of swapping over. Or the IT recommended web casting software works on MAC and windows but doesn't have full functionality on the Linux boxes. I was hoping that would change when we change the IT staff lead, but the new guys seem the same.
I also find it amusing that the anti-MS IT staff bitch about things like MS Outlook, but then celebrate when Thunderbird adds a function bringing it closer to MS Outlook.
Over half the company just use their own personal laptops due to the hassle, which ironically, defeats the crippling obsession with security that the IT guys have.
The issue here is not production of H2 rather storage and transport. You can make H2 for ~$1.40/Kg from steam methane reforming, but it jumps to ~$10/Kg by the time it gets to the pump. The key to the whole H2 situation is driving down the economics of storage and transport. Moving away from compression and gaseous/liquid H2 transport. Cheaper electrolyzers etc. will just move us from centralized H2 production to distributed H2 production, which will help costs, but likely not produce the mass of H2 we need. That likely will come from SMR of biomethane, wind power, thermal power, nuclear power etc. all centralized H2 sources and I mean all of them not just one style. We solve the distribution issue the energy balance will be tighten to something useful. We need to stop thinking of one solution or ignoring a potential solution, it's going to take a lot more than one persons pet concept to solve the mess we're in.
No snark-fueled, what's the energy balance on that? Nope, I was just pointing out that everything fuel based takes fuel to develop it, so it was a redundant statement. I'm I'm modded down with you, I'm fine with that. If I'm modded up, I would hope that someone corrects it during metamodding. My email had nothing inspiring or whitty.
Um, let me correct this so it can be modded redundant:
Massive amounts of energy are used to extract oil from anything, make renewable energy equipment or produce biofuels. The power carrier is then refined into something which inevitably ends up powering the production machinery.
You see an alternative energy solution, the first thing to ask for is the energy balance. You'll surprised at the filtering ability of that question.
I think the issue is more driving style and what suits the car, than engine. I have a Maxima (v6) my wife has a Camry Hybrid. Open freeway driving to work appears to give me around 50% better mileage than stop and start around town. I assume that its due to v6 working better on a freeway than in town. In my wife's hybrid I get around 33-35 mpg, she routinely gets 38-40 mpg (according to the little on-board computer). I drive the thing like it's my Maxima, well try to, she drives like a granny.
Feel good, you're asking a question that is already annoying and confounding plenty of people and governments (State and Fed). Have a look here Who will pay for the smart grid?.
While the idea of power distribution for something like plug-in hybrids sounds good, I have to say that I'm skeptical as to the real cost and research that would need to go into this type of system a reality.
Personally, I think a more useful and trickier math question is 'You have $2.17 and the 6-pack of beer costs $7.99, how do you buy the beer?' That answer has to be worth a 1 million dollars, or at least $5.82.
Especially as your user name 'the donger' is a little trickier than that of Mr. C. R. Culver at christopherculver.com. I wonder how quickly they'll find him...
Quick call the McCain campaign...Palin needs a 3rd dimension, her lack of depth is starting to show. (Probably because she's finally answering a couple of, easy, questions).
Sorry - flamebait me, mod it down, but I just read more BS about how her kitchen window view and fact that she finally got a passport last year, makes her and expert on foreign policy. I needed to scream quietly somewhere, and you're the first reply on the top main story. How stupid can we, the America voting public, be?????
I'm going out on a limb here because I'm on this 'dark side' of this. First I should note that we're a small company 30+ people dealing in research science. Our data security is important as it pertains to our IP. However, we are currently in a heated discussion with our IT department (2 people) over the security that they have implemented and want to further strengthen. While I stated our data is important their draconian measures have severely limited the work progress. We have a linux based system (kiosk), only executive can have laptops and they are Macs, no thumb drives are allowed, no external laptops are allowed, no remote desktop is allowed, no windows (even thought certain government funding departments require IE) are allowed etc. The bottom line is that have a bunch of scientists who would normally work all hours from many locations and be happy to slave around the clock due are being curtailed to 9-5 work days and the creativity in the company has plummeted. So I suppose my position stands, in our situation, that security over progress, especially when one understands and accepts the risks, is not an option.
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"The real question is are we talking 24 hours of word processing, or 24 hours of actually using your computer."
What a completely moronic statement.
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But surely what we're seeing here is in essence a repeat of astronomical behavior. Don't read it as we are special, read it as not everything revolves around us and it's more likely that 'we' are alone.
I'm specifically thinking about the desired belief that the Earth was the center of the universe, then Copernicus draws up a simulation (albeit by pen and paper) suggesting that we actually orbit the sun. Now we want to believe that spectrum shifts indicate planets and those planets will have life. After all, they are in a solar system, we are in a solar system, we exist, thus other 'things' must exist as a life form we recognize, let alone just a life form.
This type of simulation just gives me a gut check that keeps my expectations real and firmly planted on the terra-firma.
Here in Seattle I have Comcast. It's never been down, costs me ~$50/month and tells me I'll have 12 mb up and 1.5 mb down. Since having the service I have always seen +22 mb up hardline / +17 mb wireless in house (g and n)and 1.5 mb down.
What's going to potentially screw me, and I still need to do the math, is that we don't have TV, we just rent or stream everything off of Netflix. If 250 GB is the cap, I'm going to figure out what the limit on Netflix and my wifes youtube addiction will consume.
Well it's classed as a research project, and I would think - just a guess mind you - that part of the problem may be to get around that issue. Whose to say the technique will look anything like the stuff we're using now.
Thanks, but I was inquiring about the actual account linked from the piece you CnP. Unfortunately, I can't post the link now because the site seems to have been/.ed
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But there's no Jobs to be found anywhere in this economy, so I'm not surprised the expo is also Jobs void.
I'm sorry, but the weaning argument is BS, look at hybrid sales. Hybrid sales didn't jump up due to environmental issues they jumped up due to the price of gas. 6 months ago you couldn't find a hybrid here in "green" Seattle. Now they're sitting fallow on the lot because the price of gas has dropped, and yes Toyota will give you a loan if you want one.
The only way that people will change fuel types is if you make it easier to get than gas (plug-in hybrids) at the same cost or cheaper or the price of alternative based fuel is significantly below the price of gas.
Note: Here that I work in a company that's looking at hydrogen as a fuel, and they realize that they're not going to be successful until a decent delivery system to the forecourt is developed; that's going to require the use of existing infrastructure. Forget cryo, pressurized or metal hydrides etc. The closet thing we've seen to something useful are these guys Asemblon, assuming that they can do it with a decent energy balance.
So what you're saying is
1) Release two virtually indentical products under different names for twice the development cost.
2) ???
3) Bailout!
How much longer until Sun gets a bailout?
4) Profit! (Is my cynicism showing here?)
Interestingly, it's the same problem I have come across in science staff - good, relevant experienced management is hard to come by - nearly all are excellently qualified granular-focused folk who unfortunately don't understand the bigger business picture. Doesn't mean they can't do a job, just not a management job.
In addition, the open source IT staff seem to just want to constantly be changing everything when something newer and flashier comes out (read that as closer to functionality to a purchased project). In one year we have had 3 different email servers, with the associated problems of swapping over. Or the IT recommended web casting software works on MAC and windows but doesn't have full functionality on the Linux boxes. I was hoping that would change when we change the IT staff lead, but the new guys seem the same.
I also find it amusing that the anti-MS IT staff bitch about things like MS Outlook, but then celebrate when Thunderbird adds a function bringing it closer to MS Outlook.
Over half the company just use their own personal laptops due to the hassle, which ironically, defeats the crippling obsession with security that the IT guys have.
The issue here is not production of H2 rather storage and transport. You can make H2 for ~$1.40/Kg from steam methane reforming, but it jumps to ~$10/Kg by the time it gets to the pump. The key to the whole H2 situation is driving down the economics of storage and transport. Moving away from compression and gaseous/liquid H2 transport. Cheaper electrolyzers etc. will just move us from centralized H2 production to distributed H2 production, which will help costs, but likely not produce the mass of H2 we need. That likely will come from SMR of biomethane, wind power, thermal power, nuclear power etc. all centralized H2 sources and I mean all of them not just one style. We solve the distribution issue the energy balance will be tighten to something useful. We need to stop thinking of one solution or ignoring a potential solution, it's going to take a lot more than one persons pet concept to solve the mess we're in.
No snark-fueled, what's the energy balance on that? Nope, I was just pointing out that everything fuel based takes fuel to develop it, so it was a redundant statement. I'm I'm modded down with you, I'm fine with that. If I'm modded up, I would hope that someone corrects it during metamodding. My email had nothing inspiring or whitty.
Massive amounts of energy are used to extract oil from anything, make renewable energy equipment or produce biofuels. The power carrier is then refined into something which inevitably ends up powering the production machinery.
You see an alternative energy solution, the first thing to ask for is the energy balance. You'll surprised at the filtering ability of that question.
Why is this modded Troll? I may, or may not, agree with the poster, but this is not a Troll.
I like the recessed keyboard. It'll act like a drain and funnel spilled liquids into the computer rather than letting them leak on my desk.
OP could always put one of these in and review the results.
Perhaps he patented it via its transparentiness. Little white dots for active.
While the idea of power distribution for something like plug-in hybrids sounds good, I have to say that I'm skeptical as to the real cost and research that would need to go into this type of system a reality.
Personally, I think a more useful and trickier math question is 'You have $2.17 and the 6-pack of beer costs $7.99, how do you buy the beer?' That answer has to be worth a 1 million dollars, or at least $5.82.
Especially as your user name 'the donger' is a little trickier than that of Mr. C. R. Culver at christopherculver.com. I wonder how quickly they'll find him...
Quick call the McCain campaign...Palin needs a 3rd dimension, her lack of depth is starting to show. (Probably because she's finally answering a couple of, easy, questions). Sorry - flamebait me, mod it down, but I just read more BS about how her kitchen window view and fact that she finally got a passport last year, makes her and expert on foreign policy. I needed to scream quietly somewhere, and you're the first reply on the top main story. How stupid can we, the America voting public, be?????
Best Buy, you want to buy my 67 cents and old, skid stained underwear for $1.21? You can wash and re-use the underwear. Fantastic!!
I'm going out on a limb here because I'm on this 'dark side' of this. First I should note that we're a small company 30+ people dealing in research science. Our data security is important as it pertains to our IP. However, we are currently in a heated discussion with our IT department (2 people) over the security that they have implemented and want to further strengthen. While I stated our data is important their draconian measures have severely limited the work progress. We have a linux based system (kiosk), only executive can have laptops and they are Macs, no thumb drives are allowed, no external laptops are allowed, no remote desktop is allowed, no windows (even thought certain government funding departments require IE) are allowed etc. The bottom line is that have a bunch of scientists who would normally work all hours from many locations and be happy to slave around the clock due are being curtailed to 9-5 work days and the creativity in the company has plummeted. So I suppose my position stands, in our situation, that security over progress, especially when one understands and accepts the risks, is not an option.
What a completely moronic statement.
It's the Soviet Russian port of slashdot
I'm specifically thinking about the desired belief that the Earth was the center of the universe, then Copernicus draws up a simulation (albeit by pen and paper) suggesting that we actually orbit the sun. Now we want to believe that spectrum shifts indicate planets and those planets will have life. After all, they are in a solar system, we are in a solar system, we exist, thus other 'things' must exist as a life form we recognize, let alone just a life form.
This type of simulation just gives me a gut check that keeps my expectations real and firmly planted on the terra-firma.
What's going to potentially screw me, and I still need to do the math, is that we don't have TV, we just rent or stream everything off of Netflix. If 250 GB is the cap, I'm going to figure out what the limit on Netflix and my wifes youtube addiction will consume.
Well it's classed as a research project, and I would think - just a guess mind you - that part of the problem may be to get around that issue. Whose to say the technique will look anything like the stuff we're using now.
Thanks, but I was inquiring about the actual account linked from the piece you CnP. Unfortunately, I can't post the link now because the site seems to have been /.ed
Perhaps his Czech is in the mail?