I checked a couple of sites close to an area I know - not very good! 1. The "Aliso Canyon" gas storage field has been relocated to the Ventura Oil/Gas fields. And we know Aliso Canyon is closer to Sun Valley in Los Angeles county. 2. The Ventura Oil/Gas fields have been moved into the mountains NE of Simi Valley. There aren't any oil fields there! With this quality of data curation, I'm surprised anybody believes anything from this site despite it good intentions!

So if the issue is accountability for government actions, how about the corridor conversation between Sen X (R) and Sen Y(D) exchanging commitments for votes. Shouldn't that be part of the public record; shouldn't that be available under the FOIA? The fact that they're not using technology does not change the issue, they're still doing things that should be exposed under the rule of "transparent government". I'd like to all representives of the people to wear permanently on body camps and that the video from those is part of the "government record" and thus exposable. Maybe we'd see a rise in honesty? I doubt it!

FWIW, Red Yeast Rice is not a homeopathic cure. It appears to be a naturally occurring statin, though I don't know of any clinical trials for it. My doctor (regular certified GP) recommended to try it. He said if it worked, keep doing it. Cholesterol measures before and after 30 days revealed about a 5% drop in LDL levels in my case, so I keep taking it. My Cholesterol rises each year I'm tested: it's clearly a genetic problem in my family. Red yeast rice bought me an extra couple of years before moving onto the stronger pharmaceutical stuff (Lipitor, etc.). That said, taking up rowing and getting fit again reduced the levels by about 10% a couple of years later. Exercise worked better for me! But don't confuse homeopathy with "natural" or "herbal" remedies.

interesting paper about the economics of unbundling show that there is no gain for consumers and that the wholesale market for channels would be badly disrupted http://astro.temple.edu/~dbyza.... One caveat, though: the paper does not consider the effects of the streaming delivery of the content - it was written in 2010, before Netflix Hulu et al had reached any reasonable size.

38 M gals approx = 114 acre.ft 1 acre-ft will supply 2 average households for a year So this is water to support ~228 households for a year. Frankly this is not such a lot of water! The smallish lake that supplies my town's water is 245,000 acre-ft capacity (currently at 60% with the drought) and this handles ~65k households

I remember a boast from the Thames Water Board a number of years agao that "every drop of the Thames has been drunk 7 times by the time is gets to the sea". Makes most Americans I know cringe at the thought. Maybe advertising hyperbole, but we do drink recycled water all the time

It's called burning it. If we do it efficiently, oil becomes water and CO2. but... oh dear, there seems ot be a problem with CO2... ahh well, nevermind!

And also there are standing wave issues over long transmission lines. At 50Hz the free-space wavelength is ~3750 miles. So a half wave dipole needs a mere 1875 miles and you suddenly lose lots of power into the ether. Using DC eliminates this problem.

Apparently the same sort of people that go into acting. I mean, why would you start a career in a profession with 10% employment rate? Maybe you do it because you love it, you can't image living without it. and then the world impinges its nasty need for money on you...

Instead of ranking them as "high', "med" and "low", try force ranking them from 1 to however-many-you-have. Than a cutoff becomes more realistic. This is essentially the same approach taken in an 'agile' project with the backlog of user stories. To make this works requires the right group of stakeholders and empowering that group to make decisions that stick. Not easy!

Don't you remember how to compute averages? Total water consumed in America per year/ population of America = ~90,000 cu ft/yr Gotta remember that this includes all the agricultural, industrial and commercial uses that you benefit from (often indirectly); it's not just your water bill

And the real cost of manufacturing is not from the genetic adaption of the cells and their growth, but is in the purification. After the cell has replicated and grown all the protein (Mol wgt 3,000 - 15,000) you want, you have to extract it from the chemical soup that exists in the cell. The cells are ground up and then filtered physically and chemically to separate out the one protein you're interested in. With antibodies the situation is often more complex because of there extreme uniqueness (which is what makes them such good drugs) and their size. Also adding to the cost is the level of hygene required in the manufacturing plant. The slightest infestation of mold or a failed test for bacteria in the factory can shut the manufacturing down for 3 -9 mths to clean up and sterilize the working environment. So biosimilars get cheaper because there are fewer clinical trials (usually just for safety issues) but the manufacturing is still way expensive compared to small molecule (mol wgt 300 - 500) chemicals

I thought the Shuttle landed as a glider (no fuel used), so the delay in exiting is probably just the checking that's necessary, rather than waiting for hydrazine residues to disperse.

But it's a damn good clue

I *do* teach this in managment classes - specifically Project Management 101. The aim is three-fold - get students to better understand risk/return, to get them to understand that presentation matters and finally that risks are often complex and you need to encourage sometimes reticent people to talk and then pay attention to them. The real wow! that the students generally get is the sheer size of engineering. Lay out a 1/4" diam. piece of rope in a 12' diameter circle to show what the O ring really looked like. The diagrams don't convey it.