The problem with sails is labour. If they have to add crew to handle the sails, then they dont save anything. A 15m mast with a kite is not much different from flying a spinaker and simpler sail systems can be furled automatically, so there is room for improvement and automation.
They should add a blimp to that, to keep the sail aloft on bad days.
Germany never was a great sailing nation. So if the Dutch, Spanish, English or French dont want to bite, then there must be a problem with the technology.
You are making the same old dumb mistake. European gallons are much larger than US gallons, so their figures always sound better, but are actually no different from the US.
Note that US gallons are much smaller than the measure of the same name used in the UK. So you got to multiply US figures by about 1.3 when comparing to anywhere else. Of course, no journalists ever do that and always complain about the 'bad mileage' of US cars which really are no different.
It is not a maintenance requirement. It is a modification request to a plant that has been in operation for many years already. The mod will be done eventually, but they have been ordered to do it with minimal disruption.
Anyhoo, they don't really produce a large fraction of the world's supply of isotopes, simply because transporting the stuff all over the place would be extremely wasteful due to the short life thereof - that is pure media hyperbole. It would be true in an Ontario sort of way, where Ontario is regarded as 'the whole world'.
Every major city with a cancer treatment centre has to produce their own isotopes, since even if you would transport the stuff in a military jet it won't get there in time.
Sure, no problem for a gear head
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All you would need is a propeller hat add-on for the gear head...
Fortunately not everybody in the world are wussies, only the US media seems to be overly concerned with safety. As for the real men, there are still lots of Evil Knievels out there.
Why don't they just add a six foot piece of surgical string to all surgical tools? A patient with long strings dangling out after an op will be fairly obvious.
Unfortunately, most hunger relief programs are simply tax reduction scams. People donate millions of dollars to these 'aid' agencies, who spend 99% on salaries and other fancy stuff, and then deliver a few thousand tons of maize to some harbour in Africa, where it gets dumped on the dock to rot and get eaten by rats.
To deliver real aid, you not only have to deliver 10 Thousand tons of food to a harbour - you have to deliver 10 Million tons of food, plus the trains, trucks, drivers, guards, repair and resupply facilities, tents, generators, building materials, pesticides, drugs, bandages, beds, surgical equipment, doctors, nurses and more, if you wish the relief to be at all effective.
Lots of structures are anchored to the sea floor. Think of harbours, jetties, oil rigs, bridges and the like. This has been done for thousands of years, so the know how is there.
The problem is synchronizing the generated energy with the grid. Power electronics have now advanced to the point where it is possible to generate power any which way and then convert it electronically to suit the grid. This was not possible before. Consequently the new designs for wave power generation can be much simpler than they would have needed to be in order to maintain synchronization mechanically. For example, these tethered buoys will generate AC at the same frequency as the waves, which is a very low frequency and also somewhat erratic. The only way to hook that to the grid, is through expensive electronic conversion, but irrespective of the cost, this simply wasn't possible until about 20 years ago.
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The problem with sails is labour. If they have to add crew to handle the sails, then they dont save anything. A 15m mast with a kite is not much different from flying a spinaker and simpler sail systems can be furled automatically, so there is room for improvement and automation.
They should add a blimp to that, to keep the sail aloft on bad days.
Germany never was a great sailing nation. So if the Dutch, Spanish, English or French dont want to bite, then there must be a problem with the technology.
Vista would be fine if MS was selling it for $10 a pop.
'they smashed the thing' is why the new ones will be 7 stories up.
You are making the same old dumb mistake. European gallons are much larger than US gallons, so their figures always sound better, but are actually no different from the US.
Note that US gallons are much smaller than the measure of the same name used in the UK. So you got to multiply US figures by about 1.3 when comparing to anywhere else. Of course, no journalists ever do that and always complain about the 'bad mileage' of US cars which really are no different.
Good news, though I would think that even KDE4 will run better with IceWM as memory manager.
is put into a whole new context.
Hmm, the Golgafrincham A Ark has never been found, so it may have caused the later impact...
It is not a maintenance requirement. It is a modification request to a plant that has been in operation for many years already. The mod will be done eventually, but they have been ordered to do it with minimal disruption.
Anyhoo, they don't really produce a large fraction of the world's supply of isotopes, simply because transporting the stuff all over the place would be extremely wasteful due to the short life thereof - that is pure media hyperbole. It would be true in an Ontario sort of way, where Ontario is regarded as 'the whole world'.
Every major city with a cancer treatment centre has to produce their own isotopes, since even if you would transport the stuff in a military jet it won't get there in time.
All you would need is a propeller hat add-on for the gear head...
Well, these rovers have been on Mars so long that they have aquired Green cards and Citizenship and can now drive around with real drivers licenses...
Most wireless towers use wireless backbones - all they need is backup power. The POTS has backup power already.
Well duh, how many US cities are built under sea level?
New Orleans should be used as a land fill, till it is sufficiently raised to be viable again.
it costs less and it can play Ogg Vorbis too...
Fortunately not everybody in the world are wussies, only the US media seems to be overly concerned with safety. As for the real men, there are still lots of Evil Knievels out there.
not Humpty Dumpty. Your pre-school graduation certificate has been revoked.
Signed, Miss Grundy.
Here you go:
find . -name \*.ogg -print -exec sox {} {}.mp3 \;
Why don't they just add a six foot piece of surgical string to all surgical tools? A patient with long strings dangling out after an op will be fairly obvious.
Actually I'd love a chocolate teapot - yummmm...
Damn, now I'll have to go and buy some chocolate reindeer.
'crippled keyboard' is a pretty accurate description... ;)
Unfortunately, most hunger relief programs are simply tax reduction scams. People donate millions of dollars to these 'aid' agencies, who spend 99% on salaries and other fancy stuff, and then deliver a few thousand tons of maize to some harbour in Africa, where it gets dumped on the dock to rot and get eaten by rats.
To deliver real aid, you not only have to deliver 10 Thousand tons of food to a harbour - you have to deliver 10 Million tons of food, plus the trains, trucks, drivers, guards, repair and resupply facilities, tents, generators, building materials, pesticides, drugs, bandages, beds, surgical equipment, doctors, nurses and more, if you wish the relief to be at all effective.
Lots of structures are anchored to the sea floor. Think of harbours, jetties, oil rigs, bridges and the like. This has been done for thousands of years, so the know how is there.
The problem is synchronizing the generated energy with the grid. Power electronics have now advanced to the point where it is possible to generate power any which way and then convert it electronically to suit the grid. This was not possible before. Consequently the new designs for wave power generation can be much simpler than they would have needed to be in order to maintain synchronization mechanically. For example, these tethered buoys will generate AC at the same frequency as the waves, which is a very low frequency and also somewhat erratic. The only way to hook that to the grid, is through expensive electronic conversion, but irrespective of the cost, this simply wasn't possible until about 20 years ago.
That is the question...