Tee hee. "Reeked" havoc. Do yourself a favor and don't use words you don't understand while talking shit about other people.

You think you're being edgy and clever but all you are is way fucking behind. That's always been true!

What we know about CIA-implanted brain bugs and thought-controlling water additives is that this government would not hesitate to use either one if it were available to them.

You can already manipulate people's mental states with water additives, and implanted "brain bugs" are only a matter of time — we're making more and more progress along those lines all the time. We don't have long to get this government under control...

Nobody said otherwise.

We'll find out soon enough just how much CO2 lingers. It's heavier than air, you know.

Not only is that wrong, but the goal is to map "urban air quality", not just "outdoor air quality". RTFA, HTH, HAND.

P.S. If you had anything worthwhile to say, you'd have logged in.

Yes, I can see that.

Unless you want anyone with a brain to care what you think.

Oh, so we only need one data point to make any decision ever?

I prefer data to what you're willing to bet on. Luckily, someone is going to go forth and gather it regardless of what you think, and we'll find out whether you're right or not.

Getting just five used cables this way will save enough to pay for breakfast for two in a nice restaurant in Mendocino. You don't get to do fun stuff by throwing away money. I've saved hundreds of dollars just by hauling crates of cables around with me through my various moves, many of which came from thrift stores, yard sale, and flea markets.

If I need a cable right away, I don't look to see which flea market occurs next. I just buy it. But mostly I don't have to, because crates. Sorry you haven't got a place to store crates yet.

You really think nobody would pay him more than the BBC? Seriously?

It's the post-bean-counter phase of design. Engineers find a site which will work, bean counters fuck it all up, just like I said.

Every great fortune is based on a great crime.

In this case, it probably would have done the job; emergency power would have been available to keep things running.

You know the site was actually lowered substantially to make construction cheaper, right?

But increased levels of CO2 actually found in (some relatively extreme) workplaces in the USA do have significant negative health effects! Occupational CO2 exposure limits have been set in the United States at 0.5% (5000 ppm) for an 8-hour period.[88] At this level of CO2, International Space Station crew experienced headaches, lethargy, mental slowness, emotional irritation, and sleep disruption.[89] Studies in animals at 0.5% CO2 have demonstrated kidney calcification and bone loss after 8 weeks of exposure.[90] Another study of humans exposed in 2.5 hour sessions demonstrated significant effects on cognitive abilities at concentrations as low as 0.1% (1000ppm) CO2 likely due to CO2 induced increases in cerebral blood flow.[91] [...] Higher CO2 concentrations are associated with occupant health, comfort and performance degradation. ASHRAE Standard 62.1â"2007 ventilation rates may result in indoor levels up to 2,100 ppm above ambient outdoor conditions. Thus if the outdoor ambient is 400 ppm, indoor concentrations may reach 2,500 ppm with ventilation rates that meet this industry consensus standard. Concentrations in poorly ventilated spaces can be found even higher than this (range of 3,000 or 4,000). Keep in mind that levels under 5,000 ppm can cause negative health effects; that's just the level at which our government says you have to do something about it.

It is highly relevant what CO2 levels are like in our cities, and the things you said are completely irrelevant to that fact.

I'm quite sure that they fail right when turned on more in this house, but I've got almost all of them replaced with Cree lights now that they are dirt cheap at the home despot. Except I've got a $1 CFL over the stove, where the most lights died, and it's been a peach.

No, you need to design for that. Install a power conditioner, or a UPS (not SPS). You can fix this problem.

Yeah, now go research what area residents thought about putting generators on pylons, where they would have had to be in order to be useful in this incident. They didn't want them there. Wonder how they feel now?

The truth is that engineers will always say "this is what we need to do" and then bean counters or executives or lawyers get involved and say "well this is what we're doing so work it out" and then you can either feed your family or quit and maintain your principles and oh by the way, about that recommendation...