Then why not do the actual calculations using a more suitable wooden structure like a house?
Again, if you read my original post, I stated explicitly that I'm not endorsing the article, just that using a chair as a benchmark to debunk it is really stupid.
The point being that although the prints may not show up to the eye in the photo, processing it to enhance the size and contrast may make the prints stand out.
Exactly - the investigators on the CSI tv series have been able to do this for years so I don't know why this is news.. All they have to do to read a person's drivers license from a 640x480 security camera image taken from 200 meters away in poor light is to ask the image processing dude to "enhance image".
A certain volume of forest will bind a certain amount of carbon. If you want to bind more you need more forest.
Not necessarily. A forest can be harvested, converted into building materials and then replanted.
Why geological timescales? Seems like that is setting the bar higher than any solution can meet.
Isn't algae susceptible to mass die offs?
Chairs tend to have very small mass to volume (density) structures. One 16 foot 2x4 piece of lumber (dried) weighs 20 lbs by itself.
I'm not saying that I agree with the premise of the article, I'm just pointing out that you chose a really poor example. You'd do much better calculating how many average sized homes would need to be built.
How does your observation have anything to do with the post you were replying to?
Isn't the $337 million figure an accounting artifact of rolling up all of the R&D and initial production costs into the first batch of planes?
I'm not saying the this plane will ever be a good value for the cost, but if it ever gets produced in large numbers, the per-unit cost should come down significantly.
I can't be held responsible for you not understanding your own arguments.
You will need to define what you mean by "big money" as it seems like you're already engaged in moving the goalposts.
To be clear, a billionaire that gives two thousand dollars doesn't count as big money.
If the place was treated as something other than a captive market they wouldn't be screaming about the threat to their bottom line from solar and probably would have imported some geothermal technology from NZ, Iceland or wherever a couple of decades ago.
Hawaii electric utilities already use geothermal, so this pretty much invalidates your assertions.
Nuclear power not of much use?
You do know that he was referring to the construction phase and not the operation phase, right?
Obviously the study didn't include cops.
If this were an American probe, would the commentor also have dismissed this landing as easily?
On MSNBC, yes. It would have also been declared waste of money that should have gone toward wage-inequality.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
