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Title: Japan's Nissan develops bio-ethanol powered system for vehicles
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URL Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-06/14/c_135436987.htm
Published: Jun 15, 2016
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Post Date: 2016-06-15 06:06:19 by Tatarewicz
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TOKYO, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Japan's major automaker Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. announced on Tuesday that it is developing a fuel cell system for vehicles to run on bio-ethanol electric power, the first time for the fuel to be used in motor vehicles. The company's "e-Bio Fuel-Cell" generates electricity through the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) power generator using bio-ethanol stored in the vehicle, said Nissan in a release. Hydrogen is produced from 100 percent ethanol or ethanol-blended water in the fuel tank of vehicle, then mixed with oxygen in atmosphere to produce electricity. "Bio-ethanol fuels, including those sourced from sugarcane and corn, are widely available in countries in North and South America, and Asia," said the Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer. "The e-Bio Fuel-Cell, using bio-ethanol, can offer eco-friendly transportation and create opportunities in regional energy production, while supporting existing infrastructure." As for the carbon dioxide emitted in the course of power generation, Nissan said the emissions will be neutralized as bio-fuel, such as sugarcane, absorbs carbon dioxide in their growing process. A "Carbon-Neutral Cycle" is formed with nearly no carbon dioxide increase, said the automaker. Unlike conventional systems, "e-Bio Fuel-Cell" can afford greater power efficiency to give the vehicle cruising ranges similar to gasoline-powered cars at more than 600 km. "Ethanol-blended water is easier and safer to handle than most other fuels. As this will remove limits on creating a totally new infrastructure, it has great potential for market growth," said Nissan. Under the new system, running costs will be "remarkably low" on par with today's electric vehicles, said the company. The "e-Bio Fuel-Cell" is "an ideal fit for wider customer needs because of the short refueling time and ample power supply that can support a range of services such as refrigerated delivery," it said. Aiming to commercialize the new technology by 2020 when Tokyo hosts the Olympics and Paralympics, Nissan is expected to launch a prototype vehicle soon, probably this summer, a Nissan official was quoted as saying by local media. Editor: Mu Xuequan
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If I were a total pessimist, I'd condemn the use of food as fuel and ask how many million "solid oxide fuel cell" will now be produced, and where they go to die. Thank God I'm not :-3 (Extremely grim episodes of Twilight Zone etc. ruined my childhood, but I enjoy watching 'em now that I'm ruined.)
Not to worry about food being in short supply. Currently 40% of production is thrown out, never makes it to anyone's stomach; that's with fewer and fewer people tending to backyard gardens.
I think that's not the only drawback.
Well, more rapid depletion of soil minerals; more pesticide use and fertilizers contaminating water supplies. But then no crude oil spills or fewer.
Yeah, minor stuff like that. We're already up to 323 million people, which exacerbates all problems. It wasn't even 15 years ago that we passed 300! Brazil R Us.....
Don't know why you're concerned about a pidley 300+million. Jim Marrs says Texas alone could accommodate the earth's 7+billion. To find out how, phone into C2C next time he's on.
I seriously doubt that, but it proves nothing. It's like saying we'll always have enuff clean water as long as it keeps raining. The more population, the greater the strain on resources and the environment.
Strain can be negligible if resources wisely managed: recycle, avoid building in obsolescence, make machines readily repairable so don't throw out whole thing when one part breaks down, more sharing like Uber's ride share system. Generally, the more people if adequately educated, organized and motivated the greater the progress in health and survivability on the planet.
Anything wisely managed in this country? To quote the immortal Richard Kevin Harrison, ain't gonna happen! Not since our permanent Jueing began in the 1890s. We are a permanently stupid, insane country and getting more so purely by the replacement demographics if nothing else. Edjewcation helps, and "this appears to be a phenomenon that is happening all over the planet" www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-25/dumb-dumber-scientific-proof-people-are-getting-stupider "Be skeptical" -- Rivero. "Be pessimistic" -- NN. (The ladies seem to fit chairs fine in their hoops at Confederate balls :-)
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Specialization and reliance on bureaucracy to solve/avoid problems work against acquisition of intelligence by individuals. Gone the days when you had to devise some tool or procedure to accomplish a task. A problem with a landlord, you now go to the second raters in government to solve instead of finding alternative accommodation. More on stupidity epidemic from Zerohedgers: Slomotrainwreck max2205 Stupider is not a word. Doltish is more appropriate Peter Pan Of course people are getting stupider. Once upon a time the smartest, strongest, fastest would survive but with the advent of the welfare state and big government you are guaranteed a living regardless of how stupid you are and regardless of how many mouthes you bring into the world while those with decent IQ's are too busy making money to have more than one kid if any. Matters are made worse by the fact that specialzation robs the brain of producing new neural paths and networks and hence lateral thinking is thwarted. css1971... Seat belts laws. Safety at work laws. Foreign food aid. Medecine. Lawsuits about how hot coffee is. Yes on average the human race is becoming dumber. Nature and wars used to cull the dumb ones. Now we save them all, and there are a lot of them. It brings the average down. Gregor Samsa ... People are dumb today because they lack CRITICAL THINKING. In other words, they lack the ability to sort out the realities of the world for themselves, instead latching onto whatever idea / book / news story / tweet that catches their attention and offers them a quick, comforting, easy answer to life's complex problems. There are many factors that are leading to this decline: a sick culture, a corrupted media, technology that makes us lazy, terrible education, a decline in reading and literature, and a terrible diet. These things all reinforce each other - the terrible education makes people ignorant of nutrution and the dangers of artifical chemicals in food, so they eat bad food and get fat, dumb, and sick. The TV tells them that they are fat, dumb, and sick beacause they don't adhere to . The popular culture tells them that it's OK be to fat, dumb, and sick, and that everyone is a unique special snowflake. The media says: don't worry about being fat, dumb, and sick, here, watch this 10 hour marathon of American Gladiators instead. The movie "Idiocracy" got it right, unfortunately. I don't think things will change until the current power structure collapses and other, better cultures rise from the ashes. honestann... Several reasons human are less intelligent than every before are quite obvious. I'll list a few below. But first, recognize that any sensible meaning for "intelligence" does not mean (or even include) memorization of what authorities have told us. While a good memory certainly is a valuable asset (one I don't have), memory and intelligence are different. In fact, arguably having a great memory tends to temp one to get ahead by memorizing whatever the current "authorities" claim, rather than turn on those mental abilities that are intelligence, and those processes we employ to investigate and understand reality. I didn't make an effort to order the following reasons that humans have been getting less intelligent. Also, the following all interact and tend to reinforce each other. Evolution: When less intelligent human beings produce more children that live to reproductive age, then evolution favors less intelligence going forward. When humans can just sit around, collect welfare, unemployment and other "benefits", the less intelligent tend to take more advantage of these systems, produce more (also less intelligent) kids. This also tends to propagate into subsequent generations more than might be expected, because kids tend to mimic their parents when they get older. Experience: What makes a human being intelligent? While it is likely that some humans are born with "better" (potentially more intelligent) brains, that potential is not realized under all circumstances. A kid that grows up solving real world problems (out of necessity due to their environment, or out of passionate interests or goals), develops a vastly more of their potential intelligence into real intelligence than a "good kid" who simply obeys "authority", memorizes what "authorities" say or teach, and regurgitates when "appropriate". Of course a "bad kid" who simply disobeys "authority" and rejects everything "authorities" say or teach may also fail to develop intelligence too. However, the scrutiny and punishment directed at "bad kids" does give them incentive to develop certain narrow kinds of intelligence to evade the authoritarians. Often, however, they do not develop forms of intelligence required for efficient productive action (like long term thinking and planning). Environment: High fructose corn syrup [often laced with mercury and other heavy metals] and other poisons in most foods the past decade or three definitely degrate mental processes. Simply lack of appropriate nutrition due to modern industrial farming techniques also impact brain development and nutrition. Individualism: Only individualists can develop intelligence. One might immediately object and say collectivists can be brilliant too (albeit in crafty and diabolical ways). One must look at this issue carefully before one comes to such oversimplified conclusions. First of all, most high-level advocates of collectivism are craven, diabolical individualists. What I mean is, they are highly skilled scam artists. Just because the fraudulent medicine they advocate and sell is "collectivism" doesn't mean they believe in collectivism themselves (and certainly not for themselves). Just look at all the political millionaires (Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, etc) who are individually rich and powerful, and make no effort to actually live anything like the life of collectivism. All these people care about is themselves, which makes them an individualist (certainly in any mental or practical sense of the term). Yes, they are EVIL individualists. But they are individualists. To be an individualist is important, but not enough (need to add honesty, ethics, productivity and benevolence to be a good individualist). When it comes to intelligence, being an individualist is important because it makes you constantly look at reality (sometimes including other humans), identify the interrelationships, and decide what actions are best to take to get desired outcomes. This exercises those mental processes that are intelligence. I could go on and on. As I write this, I keep seeing more and more topics and angles I could address. The real key to intelligence is to actively [and passionately] look at reality, struggle to identify as many aspects as possible of nature of reality, how they [can] relate and interconnect, and experiment with reality to test your abilities and develop new ones. But today, humans are more and more like little cogs in a big machine that they don't even understand. They do what they're told, because part of the machine (or "matrix"), and for practical purposes know very little about the nature of reality, the nature of organisms and mankind and the nature of consciousness. And so they tend to just "buy things off the shelf at the store", never substantially investigate or understand anything, and not produce anything but some trivial widget in the massive corporate and cultural machines they are an tiny component of. Most humans today take so little responsibility for themselves and their own actions, they never practice the processes necessary to develop intelligence. Which is why humans are screwed at this point in history... they've let the predators decide everything for them, and accept with nary and objection. PS: That test may be more difficult than current ones, but it contains a great many defective aspects (including a very substantial emphasis on memorization of "facts" declared by the current "authorities"). The mind-numbing influence of religious authoritarianism 100 years ago has been largely replaced by the mind-numbing influence of political authoritarianism today. The consequences are a bit different, but both are very bad. I take a lot of heat when I say something like "we cannot learn about reality via language (by reading or hearing language), we must learn by first-hand observation, first-hand thinking, first-hand reflection, drawing provisional inferences by means of our own rigorously honest and careful mental processes, and by keeping our provisional inferences "honest" by continually checking and updating them when confronted with new observations, experiences, thought and reflection. Almost nobody wants to hear that... they want to regurgitate what their favored "authority" jammed into their brain (usually whatever makes them feel better). Well, I was originally an "Asian girl", until I left Taiwan/China in my early 20s, and nobody since has ever called me submissive, subservient and obedient. In fact, I suspect that's about diametrically opposite how people see me. However, clearly I'm an extreme outlier in a great many ways, and not much like a typical Chinese (or typical human for that matter). Fortunately I don't have a husband to abuse... hahaha. Lucky [nonexistent] him. I get along great with honest, ethical, productive, benevolent people of all shapes, sizes, sexes, ages and other characteristics, which means... somewhere around 0.1% of the population. Lucky me! Since the predators-DBA-government and predators-DBA-corporations pretty much control the mainstream media everywhere, pretty much everyone on the planet has a grossly erroneous idea of what their own fictional "nation" is like, as well as every other fictional "nation" on the planet. Yup, books are not the place to learn. They sometimes contain hints worth considering and following (especially on very narrow [technical] topics), but like you said, overall 99.9% of their contents are false or misleading, and they are also missing 99.9% of fundamentals and most important insights. Throughout most of human history (before "welfare"), humans who were too lazy or incompetent at operating their consciousness got selected out of existence. So being smart used to mean you survived, you had more kids (because you survived), and thus evolution favored increasing intelligence. This evolutionary force is now inverted in much of the world. That is an clear and obvious fact herohedge ... Hogwash. The tests are centered on 100 by design. If scores dropped a point, it needs recalibrating. IQ tests and SATs have never been presented as a timeless intelligence test good for all cultures across all millenia. The only intelligence we've ever been naturally selected for are in 3 categories: making money, getting women, and not getting killed. That's why we hate this cruel, dumb world. loregnum I do think people are dumber now than they were even twenty years ago but I am skeptical of people being that much dumber now than centuries ago given the stupid shit people believed in and did back in the day. edotabin Dixie Rect ... They should simply give everyone involved with Idiocracy an Oscar, declare it the smartest movie ever made and make it required viewing in all schools. www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-25/dumb-dumber-scientific-proof-people-are-getting-stupider?page=2
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The more population, the greater the strain on resources and the environment.
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