University of Minnesota hospitals have developed a method of doing Fecal Transplant using freeze dried pill that can be taken orally. I'm looking for someone to make a sample high in prevetella stecoria that has benefits for prostate cancer patients.
According to Wikipedia, California has 5-7 billion barrels of oil in untapped fields in their coastal waters. Some can be tapped using existing wells offshore or onshore wells using directional drilling. This is 10x what is in a full US petroleum reserve. Maybe tapping these would go a long way to lowering prices?
That would make logical sense; instead we will tax oil company profits and disincentivize increasing refining capacity. It's pretty amazing our governor didn't care about this issue until it was an election year. Now all of a sudden he is sick and tired of this price gouging.
The environmentalists killed a zinc mine in my state due to pollution concerns.
Of course every pound of zinc not mined meant more steel without zinc protection, and hence more rust and more mining of iron ore. Arguments like this were completely lost on them.
You can greatly reduce pollution associated with mining by taking various precautions, but they all have one thing in common: they're expensive to implement. For example, ore-hauling trucks in Alaska could use covered trailers to transport ore to reduce lead/cadmium dust, which gets into local food chains, for example in Alaska:
> "A 2001 National Park Service report documented elevated levels of lead, cadmium, and zinc in vegetation along the road, as well as near the storage area by the port. Concentrations of lead and cadmium, the National Park Service report stated, exceed levels found in “many of the most polluted countries in Central and Eastern Europe and all areas of western Russia.”
Usually mining companies respond by saying that requiring them to implement such solutions ('regulation') is anti-free-market and makes them uncompetitive, as they then have to sell their ore on global markets at higher prices or accept much lower profit margins.
I've never actually seen an industrial pollution problem that didn't have a technical (if sometimes expensive) solution. Making those solutions the norm (kind of like requiring all homes to have toilets, etc.) is the reason why regulation is a good idea, it flattens the markets so noone can undersell using dirty methods.
It's the environmental version of the trolley car problem, except you have an unknown number of people on each part of the train tracks.
Is it a 1:10 offset, where (holistically speaking) the zinc mine will cause 10x environmental damage as it prevents? Then maybe it shouldn't happen anywhere.
Is it 1:1 offset and we're merely insisting that the environmental damage should happen in a poorer country instead of our own?
Is it 10:1 or 100:1 where every kilogram of zinc means that's 10kg or 100kg of steel that won't prematurely rust and need to be replaced, with another 10kg of 100kg of iron ore being mined elsewhere and transported at great environmental cost to replace it? Then from an environmental standpoint it's a huge win and we should probably do it.
Is it that the argument was lost on them, or that there are better ways to mine for zinc and better locations to mine for zinc than the one in question?
Environmentalists are often short sighted and more interested in scoring political points than saving the environment. In a large part, they are responsible for global warming by killing off the nuclear sector.
How much is pushed vs pulled?Many resource extraction projects are cancelled because they wouldn't be economical with all the added costs to ameliorate pollution. Perhaps if the developing world had higher standards and better enforcement, it would cost more and thus not undercut local production.
Sounds like a race to the bottom. If a poor community upheld its dignity and required additional costs to keep the environment from harm, it would get outbid by a more exploitative seller.
How much will they weigh compared to a Diesel bus? Road damage is to the fourth power of axle weight. Any cost savings may be just shifted to the road department for fixing pot holes. I think the VW EV is almost twice the weight of a same size ICE car. 16x the road damage.
Plus, how much damage when this EV bus slides on the ice and hits something? Twice the damage if twice the weight.
The battery doesn’t necessarily need to be that large, since the range can be small (<25 miles for most school districts assuming that they can charge during the day). Probably a school bus could get away with an battery the same size as one in a Tesla, so the weight of the rest of the bus probably dominates. Probably the weight of the students alone is a lot more when fully loaded.
I worked for Cray Research in the 1980s. A lot of the CAD software for the Cray 2 ran on a Z80 based CPM machine called the Intertec Suberbrain. Then we got a bunch of PCs from ATT called the ATT 6300 (Actually made by Olivetti). We figured out that if we replaced the 8086 in the ATT 6300 with a NEC V20, we could run all the Z80 software on the ATT 6300 by putting the V20 into Z80 compatibility mode. Saved a lot of work and time for us.
I used a Superbrain way back when and it was wonderful for its time.
Laptops didn't exist. Most other computers had separate boxes (screen, CPU, keyboard, floppies) that needed to be connected together. This thing was a practical, relatively nice looking all-in-one.
