ktizo

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811.
by ktizo 14y ago
Was thinking of it more as an urban/industrial thing. Makes sense if you have to do power storage with this technology to do a lot of it at the street level if you can, rather than on the power generation site, as it gives you multiple redu
812.
by ktizo 14y ago
0. you must play the game 1. you can never win 2. you can only break even on a very cold day 3. it never gets that cold
813.
by ktizo 14y ago
Fair point. Although the exact energy per volume is a less important measure, given that we know the ballpark, than the energy stored per energy invested, and the maximum storage available when considered as a commodity in the market and re
814.
by ktizo 14y ago
Why not exactly? Is basically decent heat storage and transfer with fairly low losses and minimal decay. Silos of these seem perfect for solar. Admittedly the big question, if you were going to rely on it, is whether there is enough zeolite
815.
by ktizo 14y ago
links to some relevant Fraunhofer pages; http://www.igb.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2... http://www.igb.fraunhofer.de/en/competences/physical-process...
816.
by ktizo 14y ago
So, assuming it is cheap and available, that's storage for solar power solved.
817.
by ktizo 14y ago
Is a weird thing with authors, that even though you never knew them other than through marks on paper, when they die it can actually feel like the death of a friend. Bye Ray.
818.
by ktizo 14y ago
You say you want to use fear to influence the society of which you are a part, because you think that it's general attitude towards security impinges too much upon your own personal freedom and you also don't trust anyone else to be able to
819.
by ktizo 14y ago
I'm not ruling out giant marauding space worms that get attracted to the CO2 enriched atmosphere and end up breaking down the entire crust into sterile lumps no bigger than a tortoise, before then leaving for fresh new planets to scour of a
820.
by ktizo 14y ago
the evidence against a vegetarian diet is overwhelming Someone better warn the Buddhist monks, they've been at it a while and if only they'd known they might have lived a bit longer.
821.
by ktizo 14y ago
Why, thank you. If I can manage to be ethnocentric and hubristic, while simultaneously putting forward the idea that we are unimportant on a long timescale and that giant intelligent spiders might eventually be the dominant form, then I mus
822.
by ktizo 14y ago
Just checking. (sorry, was just the first thought that entered my head and it made me giggle)
823.
by ktizo 14y ago
Yeah I am not associating myself with that. The piracy angle, or those particular programmes?
824.
by ktizo 14y ago
But your atmospheric concentration can vary. We could get back to the same atmospheric concentration of CO2 as it was when the oldest oil was laid down, but that doesn't mean we would like it. The earth itself would probably be fine though,
825.
by ktizo 14y ago
You speak like a tinpot Mussolini. [edit] So, and correct me if I'm wrong here, you are saying that after seeing the damage that fear has done to your culture (which I would say is far, far greater than the damage done to New York on 911),
826.
by ktizo 14y ago
Spreading more FUD on the internet is not likely to help a cause in the long run, it won't even make it stand out from the background noise. And you aren't really scaring the shit out of people by telling them that the government can read t
827.
by ktizo 14y ago
Hmmm. But I hadn't wanted a special tag. http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0186.ht... Maybe in the mildest sense imaginable, because he thought there was a better way of implementing it.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Yes yes yes. Normal people want to install an app and just have it work. Which is exactly what Tim is describing the technical requirements of in terms of web apps.
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by ktizo 14y ago
PPS: IP
830.
by ktizo 14y ago
Everything falls eventually, the only question is how long do they have in the sunshine.
831.
by ktizo 14y ago
I'm not so sure... The standardised tests don't actually weed out crap teachers as they can just teach to the test, and they do a lot to hurt the effectiveness of good teachers. Also a lot of the motivation of the teacher who was annoyed wi
832.
by ktizo 14y ago
[1] Brazil, Russia, India, China...
833.
by ktizo 14y ago
My dad had to explain to them how this wasn't really achievable, even should they want to, as he worked in libraries.
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by ktizo 14y ago
That quote belongs on a t-shirt, but I wouldn't like to wear it while going through an airport.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Reminds me of my primary school's request to my parents that they stop me from having access to books at home as it was making me difficult to teach.
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by ktizo 14y ago
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by ktizo 14y ago
If the main problem with the mobile browsers is the lack of a reload button, then you could just write a tiny little javascript reload button and have that as the first thing that loads on your page...
838.
by ktizo 14y ago
Atomic dielectric resonance scanning obsoletes nukes anyway. It also obsoletes most concepts of privacy and most existing biological, chemical and geological analysis technologies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_dielectric_resonance
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by ktizo 14y ago
You can rather easily, if it is written well and marketed properly.
840.
by ktizo 14y ago
One thing about cantennas is that they are linearly polarised, so you could go from half to full duplex on the same frequency by having four of them, two at either end, rotated 90 degrees apart.

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