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And what’s not being said is that demand for CO2 & erosion reductions from agricultural waste lead to shallow or no till corn cultivation which results in more nitrous oxide being released to the atmosphere rather than reabsorbed by the soil thus contributing to fertilization (especially in clay soils), ...

A big circle jerk... ethanol demand —> corn demand —> increase N2O emissions —> ozone depletion —> regulations requiring new alternatives —> increased ethanol demand —> ...

from http://www.greencar.com/articles/chevy-volt-electric-car-10-facts.php

6. Your Mileage Will Vary As a plug-in, fuel economy will depend on how long the gasoline range extender engine is operating to provide electricity. In the worst case, when the battery is down to 30 percent charge and the gasoline engine needs to run for extended periods, the Volt should offer 50 mpg or better. If your trip starts with a full charge and is shorter, say 60 miles before plugging back in, then it will involve 40 miles of electric operation and 20 miles with the gasoline engine running. In this case overall fuel economy will be in the neighborhood of 150 mpg.

from: http://gm-volt.com/chevy-volt-faqs/

Q: How many miles per gallon will the Chevy Volt get? A: A bit of a trick question. For the first 40 miles it will get infinite mpg, because no gas will be burned. When the generator starts, the car will get an equivalent of 50 mpg thereafter. One can calculate the average mpg per for any length drive starting with a full battery: Total MPG = 50xM/(M-40)

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Q: How long will it take to recharge the Volt? A: 6.5 hours using a 110 volt (standard home) outlet, and about 3 hours if you have a 220 volt supply

from: http://www.chevyvolt.us/

The Volt currently uses a $10,000 16 kWh battery pack for a 40-mile range, using 0.4kWh per mile of electricity. But other plug-in electric cars do get better mileage. The Triac for example uses about 0.23 kWh per mile. The weight of the Volt’s battery makes it more costly to buy and maintain. The ideal rate of power consumption is about 0.27 kWh per mile; this would mean a battery capacity of 11 kWh instead of 16 kWh.

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There's no indication of what driving style consumes 0.4 KWh. There's no indication of the AC current draw during charging at 110V.

Just as a mental exercise:

40 miles at 55 mph with a 50 KW powerplant requires 36.4 KWh. That's consumed electrical power, which has to be replaced with charging. The charging process is not 100% efficient.

Upper end charging efficiencies seem to be around 60%. (see http://www.efficientproducts.org/reports/bchargers/1270_BatteryChargerTechincalPrimer_FINAL_29Sep2006.pdf)

So 36 KWh could require 60 KWh of AC charging. If you charge with a low rate of $.10/KWh, then $6.00 would be required to recharge and thus travel 40 miles. With fuel at $2.50/gal, that translates to an equivalent of 2.4 gallons of gasoline. 40 miles per 2.4 gals = 16.7 mpg

Of course with actual specs of the motor and charging system, better numbers could be obtained. But from the looks of that car it's not meant to be driven conservatively.

But the swastika was originally a sign of ‘hope’!!!

Which is precisely why things are actually getting worse!

“Most of the weapons come from El Salvador - - the homeland of most of the gang members - - where a hand grenade sells for $10; an M-16 rifle for $200; and an AK-47 for $1,500”

This is precisely why anyone pointing fingers at exports of semi-automatic M-16s and mod’d AK’s from the US is all wet.

...”and 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles between 2005 and 2007. “

Am I the only one who noticed that when we buy a Kalashnikov it’s a machine gun, but when a commie does, it’s just a rifle...

Yes! Couldn’t have happened to a better guy.

The Lord works in mysterious ways. The Way does nothing, yet nothing is left undone.

The snake literally coils up and bites its own rear without realizing it...

With the nationalization of health insurance finding increasing resistance. With minorities aledgedly suffering the most from perceived inequities in the current system... What better way to stir up the victims than a bit of race-baiting.

Some might see this as creating a distraction from the failing push for Obamacare. Some might see this as a revelation regarding his attendance at past Sunday services. Some might see this as an opportunity to promote guilt. But to me it all has to interconnect, otherwise there’s no purpose for the puppet masters and puppet to go out on a limb.

I see it as a quasi-veiled threat. That if things don’t go His way, then he’s more than ready to stir up minorities and malcontents.

Or at least in theory.

What wasn’t planned was the bit of synchronicity that placed Crowley at the scene. Odds were astronomical that it would’ve been some poor schmuck in a uniform (no disrespect intended). Then the plan would’ve probably worked.
But oops, come to find out he’s more like a true Blue angel.

So now it’s spin control time. But the cat is out of the bag and my hope is that many more people have or will be opting for the red pill.

Racism is hate, whether it’s reverse racism or not.

And University ID’s don’t usually have your residential address on them...

Why didn’t he show his driver’s license. Seems to me there was quite a bit of baiting going on.

If not in coastal areas, most nuke plants use natural draft cooling towers which only return water vapor to the environment.

But you’re right, the waste heat could be used for such things as district heating, powering absorption refrigeration systems, desalination units...

I guess they figure we can’t read...

‘‘(2) A covered EGU that is initially permitted after
January 1, 2009, and before January 1, 2020, shall, by
the applicable compliance date established under this
paragraph, achieve an emission limit that is a 50 percent
reduction in emissions of the carbon dioxide produced by
the unit, as measured on an annual basis. “

So new units will have to sequester half of the CO2 emissions. With unproven technology and unknown costs...

So who’s gonna build these plants?

As governor she was under the thumb of the feds as well... Governors bought off with stimulus monies effectively became fed cronies/accomplices. At least in my opinion they did.

She sacrificed her Governor ambitions for the sake of the State and because wrenches had been deliberately placed in her governing gears. Seems pretty selfless to me, regardless of whether all politicians are viewed as being power hungry. But it’s a logical stratagem as well.

She’s now free of the shackles, conflicts of interest, restrictions on travel, restrictions on disclosure, etc. Let’s see what happens next.

At low speeds, a plasma forming around the object would reduce its drag coefficient. Simple fluid mechanics don't apply anymore.

But:

H. Julian Allen and A. J. Eggers, Jr. of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) made the counterintuitive discovery in 1951 that a blunt shape (high drag) made the most effective heat shield. From simple engineering principles, Allen and Eggers showed that the heat load experienced by an entry vehicle was inversely proportional to the drag coefficient, i.e. the greater the drag, the less the heat load. Through making the reentry vehicle blunt, air can't "get out of the way" quickly enough, and acts as an air cushion to push the shock wave and heated shock layer forward (away from the vehicle). Since most of the hot gases are no longer in direct contact with the vehicle, the heat energy would stay in the shocked gas and simply move around the vehicle to later dissipate into the atmosphere.

An initial velocity of 67,000 m/s generates about the same temperature in Kelvin, 67,000K. But this is a peak shock layer temperature. That's on the leading side. If the object is tumbling or not, then the alee side is subjected to very low pressures which effectively freeze chemical reactions. Thus cooling the object...

Given the initial impact from the nuclear soup emerging from the shaft, the disk would probably be deformed into a conical/dome shape...

In 1 or 2 seconds there wouldn't be enough time for anything to happen, other than slamming into Leary's orbiting head. But then again it wasn't up there at the time - lol

Interesting stuff to think about.

There's a lot of symbology that can be played on here.

Notre Dame in name alone has relevance. In Christianity she's, as we all know, the Mother of Jesus.

Additionally, Islam venerates Miriam the mother of Jesus (no relation to Miriam, sister of Moses). But on the other hand we're quite aware of their subjugation of women. By their abuses, these men commit an implicit affront in denying the sanctity of the Holy Mary.

The issue of abortion in this context could be viewed as an affront to the Holy Mary as abortion would've prevented Jesus' birth. Kinda parallels the infanticide of Herod the Great.

Seems to me that the recent activities at ND are also a similar affront, and on public display for all to see and for some to be pleased with.

A Black Stone comes to mind, along with its Five Pillars...

So sad the exploitation of symbolism. To use someone’s death and remains as a means to further one’s agenda. Every time I see this I think of how the parents of the departed would react and feel. Such fuels the suffering.

I pray for their souls.

ummm... what about South Africa (Sasol) ??

True art is an expression of the Soul. Political correctness represses that expression. Hence those forces that wield the PC banner are both destroyers and corruptors of the Soul. Unless said expression pushes their agenda and matches their world view, all the while corrupting compliant souls...

At least that's how simply I see things.

If they weren’t planning on legal recourse, then why use attorneys to point out the (so called) truth?

Something is really starting to smell here. I am beginning to sense that the timing of this “crisis” was no accident.

Of course! This is so outrageous that it borders on the unbelievable. How to buy massive numbers of votes at a grassroots level, right before an election...

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