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you might have to generate another for Peter Navarro
not sure if you meant “approved” to be “unapproved”. Farm workers w proper documentation were still entering the US as of 2 weeks ago. I can’t vouch for changes since but my family’s farm has foreign workers currently working and they arrived 2 weeks ago.
I suspect that farms that rely on central & South American workers w dicey documentation to do hand-picking are probably hurting. However, I see tons of strawberries in local stores and that’s one of the crops those folks tend to do.
yup. This goes back to a climate change discussion on this board not long ago. Most people don’t take societal threats seriously until they personally suffer. But that article touched upon another of my barometers in the “orgy of finger pointing” comment. The threat is still not at its zenith and people are still underestimating the threat when they mix their comments regarding the threat with the same petty political barbs that they used prior to the emergence of the threat.
what do you mean by “make room” for VZ and Iran? I don’t see anything but misery in their near future.
I’d bet the Michigan outbreak is snowbirds and spring-breakers returning from FL. Again, spreading infection along the connecting interstate routes.
I don’t see how this situation can’t result in a very large number of wells being shut in but onto another question
at the beginning of this some producers were thinking they’d b ok for at least 6 months because they had hedges in place. Do hedges require purchase or do they say “IF purchased, then it costs $x”. I don’t see people on the high $ side being able to fulfill obligations.
Brain fart correction. I screwed up max temperatures for hyperthermophiles. People obviously live at 55 degC. I think max T observed for sustained life is ~120 degC (obviously not in water at atmospheric pressure).
looks like you were given the dangerously dumbed down version. Bottom line is that whatever breaks down or alters the virus structure, destroys it. Heat doesn’t melt the lipid layer; it can cause a variety of disruptions but melting isn’t one of them. Likewise, various solvents don’t dissolve the lipid or proteins - at least while the virus is intact. If broken down stuff dissolves, that matters less than the breaking up. Some of the solvents u mentioned change the chemistry of the virus in such a way that it may lose structural integrity. I’d bet that 40% alcohol would deactivate the virus but it might take longer than 80% alcohol. Folks tend to conflate variable effects. I suspect the alcohol changes the water activity outside the range at which the virus is stable. If that’s true, then anything that can cause that change in water activity could deactivate the virus, eg a sufficiently concentrated salt solution might do the trick (don’t take that as fact). Lastly, the virus is not 1 protein but several and they serve different purposes and some are combined to form larger structures. Break up or change any part of that, then the job is done. I don’t know where vinmantoo got his 55 degC number. I suspect it corresponds to the highest temperature at which organisms have been observed. Creatures don’t tend to exist at higher temps because the protein structures degrade. A virus isn’t an organism and I don’t know if viral proteins are generally more or less temperature sensitive. Lower temperatures might do the trick but I doubt there are any data specific to CV19. other environmental variables can affect the temp at which proteins unfold or the lipid layer breaks down. 25 degC is probably too low w/o other, more important, contributing factors. I suspect the porous materials stuff is bunk. Some viruses survive quite nicely in the porous material some folks call rock and sediment. I don’t know if CV19 can and I doubt anyone else can say w certainty.
fyi both ZnSO4 and Zn-acetate are both quite soluble in water
the left’s fixation w Trump, continuously linking him to the pandemic, is counterproductive and shows how such people are unserious in their grasp of the situation.
how long can their dealers survive? I’d bet that anybody w cash and a need/desire for a new car can get a really good deal now
I wouldn’t want to get in an airplane for at least 6 months after this is over. Airplanes r something that don’t store well.
KY and no dairies don’t shut down which is why I’m perplexed at the milk hoarding. I figure either people haven’t watched enough zombie apocalypse movies or we’re not really at a bad state yet. The local Sam’s Club was completely looted of perishables except grapes and raspberries but plenty of canned goods, rice, pasta, alcohol...
writing from the middle of a rapidly growing wheat field, I don’t see much slow down in ag activities yet. Folks that lease a lot of land here had batch of workers from S Africa arrive couple days ago. They’ll do a quarantine in local housing for 2 weeks. Also, local stores r limiting milk purchases even though dairies must continue to produce.
Why? Seemed true enough. Opposite rxns for opposite circumstances
and so much for the idea that shutting down the borders and international travel being good for the US hotel and vacation industry.
Some stellar thinking that was /s
no, just what I read on Wikipedia. Apparently, they are ‘active’ and seem to be somewhat mercurial.
sovereign wealth fund (Singapore)
I agree. I don’t think a lot of people comprehend the consequences. The black swans are more like T-rexs with typhus that r reproducing like bunnies
may still get hauled to export terminals. With all of the other disruptions around the globe, I wouldn’t be surprised if US coal exports increased.
I’m generally averse to such market controls but that’s not the way of the world so you may be right.
On side note, this may kill the gas export business which will help further diminish domestic coal utilization. I’m thinking this will also help refiners of light crudes who have pipeline/coastal access and chemicals companies like Dow (which is probably why it barely budged today)
production enhancement isn’t exactly a popular thing now as well.
These would b interesting times. Again.
I was talking to another former SLB person (previously owner of company bought by SLB). He was telling me about a presentation by somebody showing a graphic of fluid and rock analysis pricing over past 10 yrs or so. Last year was 25% of what was ~10 yrs ago. I suspect will worsen. Business has become commoditized but w/o the level of automation that go along w/ so that and oil price collapse is worst of all possible scenarios
I wouldn’t put that beneath him for a microsecond
there’s what they should do and what they will do. You know that neither place is run with the best interests of the populace in mind.
I don’t think Russian or SA leadership care much about the economic effects on general population and the leaderships r certainly in positions to hedge, use to their own advantage, or simply ignore and withstand. The kicker that may not be anticipated or controllable by them is response or consequences in Iran.
they may b spraying oil to knock the dust down. It’s getting cheap enough
yeah, coal plants would be the primary NOx generators. Part of my point was that I’m not sure NOx is what is actually being measured.
The 2nd part of my point was that if NOx is being measured, then it’s detection will be an immediate indicator that NOx generation has resumed. That would indicate resumption of high coal consumption. Since NOx doesn’t have a long atmospheric half-life so as long as it’s detected, it’s being generated. Stop generating it, then it gets cleared out quickly so it’s a very good indicator of coal-fired power generation.
based on my cursory look into this, I think the NOx ‘measurement’ is a secondary derivative of UV-Vis satellite detection of ozone. If that’s the case, then I wouldn’t be surprised if the apparent drop is due to a sharp decline in air traffic.
NOx is chemically reactive so it would need to be constantly generated in order to be maintained in the atmosphere. So if the measurements are an accurate measure, then the absence would indeed indicate that the source of the NOx is not operating. Re-emergence of a steady atmospheric NOx concentration would be a instantaneous indicator of source reactivation.
data thru 2017 on US garbage disposition
https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-and-recycling/plastics-material-specific-data
the US burns ~15% of its plastic garbage. Burning is probably the best thing to do. Americans suck at recycling.
while China wasnt intentionally importing raw garbage from the US, that's effectively what they were doing for a while. While there were supposed to be limits on 'contamination' China was ignoring those limits until ~2013. Then they started enforcing something like a 0.5% contamination limit and then stopped importing all together.
nice sordid tale here:
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2019-4-july-august/feature/us-recycling-system-garbage
the bit about Berkeley being so conscientious is crap. Berkeley's system is very efficient. Conscientious citizens put their recyclables at the curb, the bums come by in the wee hours and collect everything of value leaving only the worthless "recyclables" to be collected by the city. Consequently, the Berkeley recycling trucks drive around half empty cuz the glass and aluminum sections of the truck dont collect anything while the paper and plastics sectionz of the truck are full.
not the 1st time I’ve seen that recommendation. Sorting and reuse isn’t viable in US. I suspect the author isn’t so much a proponent of putting plastic bags in the trash as much as he’s against the common alternatives. Unfortunately, single use plastics are a more serious plague in less developed countries and rural areas in the US. When people dump their trash in the open, all the plastic bags blow until they hit trees, fences, cactus... and then they accumulate. I also don’t buy the carbon mitigation angle.
extraction of water from air involves compression of humid air. If the relative humidity of the air is near zero, then no water can be condensed or an enormous amount of air has to be compressed to extract a little water.
Places with humid air tend to have liquid in close proximity. Places with dry air don’t. Las Vegas is an exception to dry air and water proximity but it would be far ‘greener’ to pump water from the Colorado R than squeeze water from their dry air.
The most absurd circumstance would be to burn hydrocarbons to power such devices.
the choice is to either use the resource or die. The people doing the squawking won’t be those doing most of the dying but the effects of mass starvation in impoverished places tends to eventually migrate.
Of course, the squawkers will say people will die due to the consequences of hydrocarbon use. Maybe but I’d bet that adapting to longer term climate change effects will b easier/less painful than politically imposed curtailments of petroleum/petrochemicals production.
In any case, such a scenario is wishful thinking. Western Europeans and North Americans might be able to cause political impositions on petroleum/NG production, refining, petrochemicals production but that would just displace that production to states that can’t afford alternatives. Western Europe and North America would quickly discover they can’t afford it either.
Most squawkers don’t realize how much of their comfort and health depends on petrochemicals.
I missed it but I think your premise is wrong. The world will b consuming hydrocarbons for chemicals production for centuries to come. Plastics inherently require carbon or more expensive, less plentiful elements. The remaining quantity of hydrocarbons in the ground is enormous. Folks that think we’re rapidly exhausting ‘fossil’ hydrocarbon resources have no clue. If that were to happen, alternative sources would become dramatically more expensive then the current cost disparity and people wouldn’t like the consequences (ie food shortages)
I don’t understand the point of such devices. Where water is plentiful, there r cheaper, less power hungry means of delivering water (ie this is not ‘green’). In places where water is not plentiful, the device won’t work .
makes export uneconomic
I’d bet that VZ is in arrears for at least $10B to service, equipment and materials suppliers. I know I’d b hesitant to do further business w them prior to having debts paid off.
One more thing: same sort of situations that can defeat shaped charges in combat can also defeat them in a well. If different charges along the cylinder are different distances from the tube wall or if the tubes are not perfectly concentric, then I’d expect heterogeneities in hole sizes and penetration. Things like bends in tubing can create problems. I’d bet there are many others. Tool technology that minimizes those effects is useful and the sort of thing that would b useful to know whether it is part of their technology.
they probably get it at my generalized level of description but making it all work properly is extremely complex. I’d bet that when oil prices are high, DOD has a very difficult time retaining shaped charge experts. I only sat in on couple talks by those guys but was really interesting for anybody that likes stuff that goes boom.