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Comment Re:Fracking [Re:can't work, won't work] (Score 1) 165

ND has plenty of partially depleted shale oil fields. The CO2 from the lignite can be compressed into a supercritical fluid and injected into existing wellheads. The CO2 displaces the remaining oil and forces it upward where it can be recovered. The recovered oil can pay for the cost of CCS.

Just so that we all are using the same vocabulary, what you are proposing here is to do fracking, using CO2.

(Not necessarily a bad idea.)

No. This is enhanced oil recovery and was done for years/maybe decades until fracking came to Permian basin.

Comment Looking at the big picture (Score 0) 174

For the last 5 year the cost of natural gas has been $2-3 per MMBTU. Now, it is $5 per MMBTU so the present administration is adding $34-51 Billion dollars to the cost of the energy. ERCOT screwed up in lots of ways and some of the stupidity is really sad but the bottom line of the current policy is much worse and avoidable.

Comment Major loopholes (Score 1) 61

Actually, if he donates the stock to a charity then he pays 0 tax on the increase in value but gets to deduct it up to 50% of his income. So, as an example, if the stock was worth $1 when he started, worth $1 million when he donates it (can be a charity that he controls) he gets to deduct it all - I.e. net his tax rate in real savings with a limit of 50% of his reported income. This loop hole should be closed.

Comment Re:HIPAA issues and what about the laws (Score 2) 68

HIPAA does not apply to users - they can share any medical info about themselves that they want. HIPAA does not apply to entities that do not accept payment from the feds unless they are business partners with a health care entity. I do not think I would participate but there are no legal issues that I see.

Comment Re:Less than four doublings left to go ... (Score 0) 263

Except that the above is completely not true. Early on in NYC it was thought that there were 10 cases for every diagnosed case. Baylor recently estimated 4 cases in Houston for every diagnosed case. And of course, places like the Dakotas show the rate falling dramatically after they hit 7-8% or so.

It appears “flu season” is also COVID season. The problem this summer will be to get folks to take the vaccine when the threat appears to be mostly gone before next years “flu-COVID” season.

Comment Re: Oxford? (Score 1) 42

I sent my medical assistant on Tuesday to a local place on Bellaire for instant testing. She was back on the job in about one hour. You do need to know where there is immediate testing available in your area. An Israeli- Indian cooperative claim they are a month away from a blow test that works in under a minute so we will see. Once we have an EUA for a monoclonal or two - rapid testing will become more important.

Comment Re:1700 people working on a website = clusterfuck (Score 1) 83

Its international so there is a lot of language translation work. There is a local mapping of testing location so I suspect that is being farmed out to the mapping team that takes care of local landmarks. Probably a ton of folks doing relatively little work and a small core doing the "heavy lifting" Pretty sure he got the number from google themselves but we will find out soon enough.

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