Yes I am. They are off the shelf GPS navigation units that are very popular in Europe and they are not required, ie they are the taxis drivers personal GPS nav unit. They receive *only*. Thats how GPS works. Fleet tracking GPS must transmit the GPS coordinates back to "head office". This means its posable to hack the transmission unit and tell head office a bogus location.
The same people could just as easily mandate that your car be outfitted with a GPS tracker too. Oh I'm sure that this is a stepping stone to just that. Mind you GPS nav units that are common in the cabs here (Austria) are great, and don't invade anyones privacy.
The total environmental cost of PV is far lower than almost anything else, and thats based on a 20 year lifetime which easily exceeded. Its pure fallacy that they are a net polluter. Problem is you need to wait 10+ years to get that net gain. Oh and consider that the energy to make the PV cell came from PV cells? Then what......
Having said that. I'm not a fan of the thin film PV that contain Cd (I don't use NiCd rechargeable's either). I know its not much, but its really nasty stuff.
I hope they can do better than NASA. They produce the most unsafe, expensive and unreliable transport system ever conceived by man. And I'm being polite.
Run the numbers, and don't be a idiot. The Sun give the surface of this planet the equivalent of a 40 MT nuke every second of every day. Humans pathetic contribution does not even show up. GW is caused buy *trapping* heat from the sun.
Oh and if you really don't want to warm anything up, perhaps you should avoid all things that output heat. Like the computer that you used to read./ .
well in NZ its a little bit better with the lawyers and all. If you are poor you can get pretty decent lawyers. In fact some folk have complained because the penny less get better defense lawyers than the rest. I got a great lawyer when i was a student, all provided to me by the Government at no charge. Got me off the hook too.
You are right. We should not rely on selective enforcement of laws. In this case, I suspect that it will get "struck down" or whatever later via some back bencher looking for a cause.
As a NZ'er I can assure you that the media at large will completely ignore this rule. Most of the papers have a regular comic making fun of the parliament (Its easy to do, since they are all twits), they won't drop that. Police and Judges will not want to waste there time with it either. It will be unenforceable because everyone who does the enforcing enjoys a good laugh too. Especially at the current government.
Unless you happen to be completely wrong. Note: the arctic region has been thawing out a lot faster than anyone predicted. And if you are completely wrong (I have all the other climate scientist on my side by the way)? Oh so we should put a big mirror in space and "fix" things? And when things happen differently to what we predict and end up with a ice cube instead of a northern hemisphere?
Perhaps folks who have no idea what they are talking about shouldn't make critical decisions, or assume that they can.
You are making the assumption that our models are good enough to predict what would happen if we do X. Show me the data of predictive accuracy over centuries (Or even decades for that matter). You can't because we don't have any. Furthermore, even the worst IPCC predictions are vastly overblown by the media. This planet is not dying. We are not doomed, everybody is not going to die. Things may change..a little, and even then its going to take 100's of years. Sure cut CO2 emissions, its a great idea with a lot more going for it than just climate change and I do my part with energy bulbs and taking trains instead of planes when i can, run my heating cooler in the winter.
But for the love of science (or GOD if you prefer) don't add another perturbation to a nonlinear system, especially such a big perturbation...
The fact remains that a piece of metal is really easy to do compared to any type of microwave solution. 1GW of microwave sources is going to cost many millons to billions and you don't have a tower or receiver yet. Oh and you don't want DC at the other end either, so there is another 1GW of power electronics etc.... While a 1GW power line is reasonably cheap in comparison and more importantly simple.
You are dead right. Hell even plain PV cells on every roof would be cheaper and probably work better. Give folks true "energy" independence. The energy storage problem is not far away from solved either (on the scale of a household anyway).
Power for industry might be a bit harder to solve however... But probably cheaper than a massive structure we can't even launch.
Because Hight tension lines are cheap. Also recteners aren't small, there size is measured in hectares, so propping one up to accept a horizontal beam isn't going to work. The added problem that the world is not flat is yet another inconvenience.
Well both clean and safe is somewhat debatable. If we don't reprocess the fuel we get lots of waste and theres a fuel shortage (long term). If we do reprocess the fuel we get less waste and *heaps* more fuel but the waste is much harder to deal with and there are proliferation problems.
Critical reactors just don't do it for me. They are hard to turn off. But sub critical reactors sound like the ticket. Need to do some R&D to get the accelerators up to spec. But then they can even burn nuclear waste. You can use Th instead of U as a fuel, and cut the power and the thing turns off like a light bulb. Off really is off. There waste is safe after a century or so rather than 1,000's of years.
The Earth has a radius of ~6,400km. The energy from the sun at the top of the atmosphere is about 1.3 Kw/m^2. Thats ~1.7x10^17 Watts. Its about the same as a 40 Megaton of TNT every second of every day. The amount of energy we use, either from space or from oil or from anywhere is a drop in the bucket and will be for a long time.
The idea of blocking the sun to maintain the status quo on a climatic system we really don't understand yet, is stupid.
Working in Austria with a group that is 90% German (ie not Austrians). Everything is done in English, I'm even teaching stage I & III papers in English. Its hard to learn German because, well you don't get the practice.
I don't think they can sue. The standard contains no patented "technology" IIRC. You can't "copyright" a format, you can copyright the specification however of the format. But you are still free to read the specification and implement readers and writers of that format. As is done with the pdf format. Adobe have made the specification public. So its "propiroty" as in a company has specified the format, but its open in the sense that the format is strictly defined and its easy to get that definition and create readers/writers. Compare to M$ doc format.
While I don't think its a bad thing, words like kindness and corporations don't belong together either. It pays to remember that the "evil" corporation in the 70's was IBM. So in 20+ years I have high hopes for M$.
Or the Spanish flu. 3% fatality rate IIRC. Plague was spread by hygiene issues as much as anything. The same this could not really happen now. I don't mean they can't be bad. But we have survived. Also we are a lot better at medicine now days. So really big plagues are not likely, and +90% bioweapons are probably imposable.
Are you expecting to open a panel to find two neatly stripped ends of wire laying about ready for you to touch them and override the ignition system? In some older cars. Yep. I kept losing my keys. I was always surprised by how easy it was. Also I think that you missed the point. The poster is hardly going to give a 3 point attack plan for cars without immobilizer. The point is that is much *harder* with one installed.
Imaging Ebola that spreads like a flu. It can't, it kills the host to quickly. Turns out there are a lot of limits on these sorts of things. If its real deadly, it won't spread very well because everyone who got sick is dead. If it not that deadly the immune system gets time to adapt. Similar arguments apply to mosquito's.
But I am not sure we are ready for it at the moment. So when will we be ready? Maybe this is as good as it gets.
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Yes I am. They are off the shelf GPS navigation units that are very popular in Europe and they are not required, ie they are the taxis drivers personal GPS nav unit. They receive *only*. Thats how GPS works. Fleet tracking GPS must transmit the GPS coordinates back to "head office". This means its posable to hack the transmission unit and tell head office a bogus location.
The total environmental cost of PV is far lower than almost anything else, and thats based on a 20 year lifetime which easily exceeded. Its pure fallacy that they are a net polluter. Problem is you need to wait 10+ years to get that net gain. Oh and consider that the energy to make the PV cell came from PV cells? Then what......
Having said that. I'm not a fan of the thin film PV that contain Cd (I don't use NiCd rechargeable's either). I know its not much, but its really nasty stuff.
I hope they can do better than NASA. They produce the most unsafe, expensive and unreliable transport system ever conceived by man. And I'm being polite.
Run the numbers, and don't be a idiot. The Sun give the surface of this planet the equivalent of a 40 MT nuke every second of every day. Humans pathetic contribution does not even show up. GW is caused buy *trapping* heat from the sun.
./ .
Oh and if you really don't want to warm anything up, perhaps you should avoid all things that output heat. Like the computer that you used to read
well in NZ its a little bit better with the lawyers and all. If you are poor you can get pretty decent lawyers. In fact some folk have complained because the penny less get better defense lawyers than the rest. I got a great lawyer when i was a student, all provided to me by the Government at no charge. Got me off the hook too.
You are right. We should not rely on selective enforcement of laws. In this case, I suspect that it will get "struck down" or whatever later via some back bencher looking for a cause.
As a NZ'er I can assure you that the media at large will completely ignore this rule. Most of the papers have a regular comic making fun of the parliament (Its easy to do, since they are all twits), they won't drop that. Police and Judges will not want to waste there time with it either. It will be unenforceable because everyone who does the enforcing enjoys a good laugh too. Especially at the current government.
Perhaps folks who have no idea what they are talking about shouldn't make critical decisions, or assume that they can.
You are making the assumption that our models are good enough to predict what would happen if we do X. Show me the data of predictive accuracy over centuries (Or even decades for that matter). You can't because we don't have any. Furthermore, even the worst IPCC predictions are vastly overblown by the media. This planet is not dying. We are not doomed, everybody is not going to die. Things may change..a little, and even then its going to take 100's of years. Sure cut CO2 emissions, its a great idea with a lot more going for it than just climate change and I do my part with energy bulbs and taking trains instead of planes when i can, run my heating cooler in the winter.
But for the love of science (or GOD if you prefer) don't add another perturbation to a nonlinear system, especially such a big perturbation...
The fact remains that a piece of metal is really easy to do compared to any type of microwave solution. 1GW of microwave sources is going to cost many millons to billions and you don't have a tower or receiver yet. Oh and you don't want DC at the other end either, so there is another 1GW of power electronics etc.... While a 1GW power line is reasonably cheap in comparison and more importantly simple.
You are dead right. Hell even plain PV cells on every roof would be cheaper and probably work better. Give folks true "energy" independence. The energy storage problem is not far away from solved either (on the scale of a household anyway).
Power for industry might be a bit harder to solve however... But probably cheaper than a massive structure we can't even launch.
Because Hight tension lines are cheap. Also recteners aren't small, there size is measured in hectares, so propping one up to accept a horizontal beam isn't going to work. The added problem that the world is not flat is yet another inconvenience.
How many of you at the meeting have cell phones?
Well both clean and safe is somewhat debatable. If we don't reprocess the fuel we get lots of waste and theres a fuel shortage (long term). If we do reprocess the fuel we get less waste and *heaps* more fuel but the waste is much harder to deal with and there are proliferation problems.
Critical reactors just don't do it for me. They are hard to turn off. But sub critical reactors sound like the ticket. Need to do some R&D to get the accelerators up to spec. But then they can even burn nuclear waste. You can use Th instead of U as a fuel, and cut the power and the thing turns off like a light bulb. Off really is off. There waste is safe after a century or so rather than 1,000's of years.
The Earth has a radius of ~6,400km. The energy from the sun at the top of the atmosphere is about 1.3 Kw/m^2. Thats ~1.7x10^17 Watts. Its about the same as a 40 Megaton of TNT every second of every day. The amount of energy we use, either from space or from oil or from anywhere is a drop in the bucket and will be for a long time.
The idea of blocking the sun to maintain the status quo on a climatic system we really don't understand yet, is stupid.
Working in Austria with a group that is 90% German (ie not Austrians). Everything is done in English, I'm even teaching stage I & III papers in English. Its hard to learn German because, well you don't get the practice.
I don't think they can sue. The standard contains no patented "technology" IIRC. You can't "copyright" a format, you can copyright the specification however of the format. But you are still free to read the specification and implement readers and writers of that format. As is done with the pdf format. Adobe have made the specification public. So its "propiroty" as in a company has specified the format, but its open in the sense that the format is strictly defined and its easy to get that definition and create readers/writers. Compare to M$ doc format.
While I don't think its a bad thing, words like kindness and corporations don't belong together either. It pays to remember that the "evil" corporation in the 70's was IBM. So in 20+ years I have high hopes for M$.
Won't they just sign up for a new account with a big C on it?
Or the Spanish flu. 3% fatality rate IIRC. Plague was spread by hygiene issues as much as anything. The same this could not really happen now. I don't mean they can't be bad. But we have survived. Also we are a lot better at medicine now days. So really big plagues are not likely, and +90% bioweapons are probably imposable.
Well put. These religious comments spouted by these people are about leading/inspiring/controlling the sheeple.
The only good thing from Martix II & III was a answer to a question:
Q)Neo:"What does he want?"
A)Oracle: "What all men with power want. More Power."
This is what happened. We advertise that we want a 150 000 dollar cluster. The vendors submit offeres. We pick the best. All offers were x86 cpu's.
They have over cpus's on there website, great. But they didn't offer us anything but x86. Sun didn't put in a offer.