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The labor force across Missouri dropped by nearly 40,000 workers during the first quarter of this year, yet almost 30,000 jobs were created.
The state released the latest unemployment report earlier this week, showing non-farm payrolls increased by 4,800 during March. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate held steady at 7.4 percent.
Unlike for the January and February data, the Missouri Department of Economic Development released the March numbers on the same day, revealing that the labor force dropped by 8,587.
To be considered unemployed in the government data, a person must be actively seeking a job.
Politicians will promote the total of 28,900 jobs created during the first quarter. But during the same period, 38,657 workers left the labor market in Missouri. Where did they all go?
A drop in the labor force combined with a fall in the unemployment rate and increasing payrolls is not out of the ordinary, according James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
The total number of people in the U.S. labor force has been on a downward trend since 2000, Bullard told a handful of reporters gathered at the bank last week.
"I would not expect labor participation to move very far off of that downward trend," Bullard said, following a question by Missouri Journal.
On the other side of the state, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City released research this week examining the decline in labor force participation nationally, noting the decline is likely to dampen the potential labor supply of the economy, since many workers have permanently left the labor force.
Nationally, labor force participation fell from 66 percent in 2007 to 64.1 percent in 2011, according to the report. The U.S. labor force dropped faster than in any preceding four-year period on record.
"As these workers return to the labor force, their re-entry willl put upward pressure on both the unemployment rate and the labor force participation rate," writes Willem Van Zandweghe, senior economist at the Kansas City Fed, noting some workers will return as the economy recovers.
Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of the global investment management firm PIMCO, said last week that the low workorce numbers are worrisome during a presentation held at the St. Louis Fed downtown.
"It suggests we are still in the middle of an economic crisis in this country," El-Erian said.
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9:02 pm on Saturday, April 21, 2012
With such an emphasis on high school seniors attending a 4 year university its no wonder the labor force is dwindling.
When politicians make it a talking point that every graduating senior deserved to and should go to college it makes the enrollment in the trades look and feel like a sub standard choice.
The federal government, through handouts is making it far too easy for anyone who want to to go to college. I have no problem with a college education but the demeaning of the skilled trades is often the result of pressuring everyone to enroll in a 4 year program.
Jason Charney
9:40 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
Has it occurred to you that many of the well paying jobs require a college education? You want to be a CPA? Go to college, study accounting. You want to become a doctor (not a nurse or a nursing assitant)? Go to college, study medicine. Laywer?
College, study law. Design new skyscrapers or cars? Study engineering at college.
This crap where people assume we're "elitist" or "feel entitled", is Right-Wing B.S. These are the same clowns who claim going to college is "liberal brainwashing" or a "debt trap".
I spent SIX years in college. I didn't goof off an extra two years. And I worked very hard to get my degree. The Federal government DID NOT give me a hand out, but I did take out a few STATE (Missouri) ISSUED LOANS like many college students. And a loan is NOT a "hand out". You have to pay it back.
Which brings me to the next issue. Folks who think college undergrads were looking for a pot of gold at the end of the college rainbow. Keep in mind, we still have debt. And one of the best ways to pay off crushing debt is a WELL-PAYING JOB. The whole point of college was so that when you were DONE with college, you didn't have to go back to working at McDonald's while you were working to make money while in high school and college.
We're NOT "entitled" but we have paid our dues. Now we just want to pay off our debt for an education that was worth diving the the red.
9:27 pm on Monday, April 23, 2012
You also have to factor in that the Boomers have been hitting retirement age. Also, those postponing retirement in recent years have seen their savings recover.
Not really surprising.
Brian R. Hook
3:25 pm on Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Corrections: The drop in labor force during the first quarter totals 29,232.
The increase in payrolls totals 28,200.
Sorry for the errors - BRH
Jason Charney
2:27 pm on Saturday, May 5, 2012
HEY! WE'RE HERE! YOU'RE JUST NOT HIRING US! Yesterday, I was on the phone with a recruiter who said a job lead would call me around 2PM that after noon. Instead, I got stood up, never mind that I waited for a call until 5PM when the phone was still silent.
EMPLOYERS AREN'T DOING THEIR JOB is the problem! It's hard to get a job as a computer programmer when every lead request 5+ years of professional experience, there are no entry-level positions, and no one wants to train new workers to use whatever system they have so that job seekers like me can use their companies computer system without feeling overwhelmed because their computer skills are slightly different.
So when my computer programming job plans being on hold because the HR at the IT firm doesn't call when he promises, I start looking for work elsewhere in non computer related positions. Again, I'm sitting on my hands waiting for someone to call me up for an interview.
I apply to job websites (Dice, Indeed, Simply Hired, but not Career Builder anymore. That site didn't send job offers. It sent education offer spam. (NO I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL TO BE A DENTAL HYGENSIST ASSITANT! I don't have the money to go back to school!)
When I submitted my resume I got leads from some local RECRUITING FIRMS. Because, you know, employers are too cheap to hire directly or train or take responsibility for their workers.)
William Braudis
1:31 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012
Take it from an old retiree, when you finish college you are of no value during this time of un-employment. Ask yourself, why would an establish organization take on the expense of training a newbee when there are qualified people looking for work and possibly at a reduced salary ? When things get back to normal under the Republican Party entry level jobs will open for the new graduates.
Jason Charney
2:39 pm on Saturday, May 5, 2012
Most of the recruiting leads keep coming from out of state. The guy on the phone from the various RFs couldn't speak English to save his life. It was almost always some guy named "Ahmed" who had a thick Middle-Eastern or South-Asian accent. (I bet if you had to call these guys and had to press "1" for English, you'd still get this guy telling you where to find work.)
So even thought I set the job search engines to find me work within a 25 mile radius of where I live in the St. Louis Area, Ahmed calls and says "I have a lead for you in New Jersey" or "I have a lead for you in Toledo, Ohio" or "I have a lead in Blue Ash, Missouri". (The problem is there is NO Blue Ash, Missouri.)
So while companies that hire Ahmed take the unemployed for a ride, I'm not getting any younger nor any richer. As I have no one in my neck of the woods to offer advice as to how to go freelance. (Which as it turns out freelancers have to pay their taxes quarterly, which is a load of crap consider Ahmed's employers likely don't submit their taxes annually.)
So while I'm getting nagged by my folks to take jobs wouldn't take in the first place but applied for anyway because that's what's open but they never follow through and more than likely use employment websites to just collect personal information from the desperately unemployed and reject them anyway, I'm asking myself what I did wrong to not get hired even with a clean record and no criminal history.
Jason Charney
2:55 pm on Saturday, May 5, 2012
The workers are here. The employers aren't listening!
As for our state legislators who blame the federal government or Mexicans or even their own mother, maybe they should stop playing golf with the guys who wanted the China Hub paid for with the money that North County residents needed after their homes got hit by the tornado last year.
Instead, of admitting that outsourcing the domestic workforce (b/c Globalization is one big scam for businesses not to pay taxes or employ domestic workers struggling to find work), they'll blame illegal immigrants for the jobs drought. Last time I checked, the guy who answered the phone did not have a Mexican accent. So pull another excuse!
The workers are here. We've just been DUMPED so that some big company doesn't have to pay taxes or be accountable for their actions.
And given that this state has at-will employment, you can probably bet that statements like the ones I have just written that are the honest to God's truth about why employers don't hire, aren't going to get me hired by anyone when the look me up online.
Jason Charney
2:55 pm on Saturday, May 5, 2012
But you know what, if they don't want to hire me because I'm too opinionated or too liberal and then they want to run for congress/president (despite have no background in law or constitutional law) and lie to everyone about how they create jobs when they've SOLD OUT their own workforce or the workers of another company to make themselves obscenely rich, perhaps they'll remember who voted against them in the election.
7:33 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
Where did the workers go? First of all over half of them went into permanent retirement. The reason was quite simple. No one would hire them and the jobs weren't there. This cuts down on the jobless rate and labor force by half. Second of all when the President and Congress keep pushing college on High School kids and tell them "Hey look at me I got a job and made huge bucks" they think college is the way to go. Never mind that it takes years to get there but hey they think the money is out there right after college. Third of all most of the remaining labor force is getting ready to retire as they have hit retirement age. You can create all the figures you want but the facts are that people get old and want to become couch potatoes after years of doing the job. Finally kids today only want money. They think they have the "Right" to make massive amounts of money each paycheck and they want it now.
Each generation makes their own mistakes. Pioneers made learning easier for their kids by creating schools. Post War made things easier by creating suburbs and mass auto purchasing. Computer age made things easier by creating the home computer and the Internet and dumbing down the education system. The next generation will most likely continue this trend of making things easier.
Jason Charney
10:00 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
"First of all over half of them went into permanent retirement. The reason was quite simple. No one would hire them and the jobs weren't there. This cuts down on the jobless rate and labor force by half."
And the other half? The issue isn't about those who went into retirement or who were forced into retirement. The issue has more to do with the DISCOURAGED Workers, the one's who've given up on looking for work because not even McDonald's wants them.
"Second of all when the President and Congress keep pushing college on High School kids and tell them "Hey look at me I got a job and made huge bucks" they think college is the way to go. Never mind that it takes years to get there but hey they think the money is out there right after college."
Well, yeah. If you want to become president these days, either of a country or a Fortune 500 company, you have to go to college. As for the assertion that college undergrads think they are "entitled" to immediate results, is a load of neo-conservative nonsense. We didn't expect to be the boss when we got out. Only a fool would believe that. And colleges don't let fools walk across the stage.
Jason Charney
10:23 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
" Third of all most of the remaining labor force is getting ready to retire as they have hit retirement age....people get old and want to become couch potatoes after years of doing the job."
So old people are "entitled" to "become couch potatoes" but college undergrads are becoming couch potatoes after sending out resumes and going to job fairs and posting their resumes on job sites and waiting for the few times the barely-English-speaking guy (some Indian guy named "Ahmed") who can't elocute clearly the questions in English on the phone conducts phone interview for a recruiting firm that doesn't have to courage to conduct in-person-interviews that would encourage the greenhorn job seeker to leave the house and get some exercise.
Jason Charney
10:29 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
"Finally kids today only want money. They think they have the "Right" to make massive amounts of money each paycheck and they want it now."
So very wrong and selfish. While it would be great to get paid for our work, and paid hansomely, most of us aren't dummies and accept that the real world is too cheap pay more than $10/hour for a job that our non-college-educated parents got paid twice as much for. We know we won't get everything we want immediate, but when you don't have a source of income that is good enough to pay back your loans and the creditors are breathing down your neck, that feeling for a nice job isn't "entitlement" but DESPERATION, even more so when the job you want won't take you because you "don't have the experience" and the job you are willing to take that is below your skills and abilites that you've earned won't take you because you "are over-educated to work for this job" or "you haven't worked in a while". THESE ARE THINGS WE ARE TRYING TO RESOLVE WITH A CRAPPY JOB! We weren't expecting to "become part of the upper-management immediately", we just want something--ANYTHING--to keep us from moving back in with our parents, selling our cars so that we can go to work, or DEFAULTING on our debts.
But you know, we're "too entitled" to work to get our heads above water.
Jason Charney
10:46 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
"Each generation makes their own mistakes. Pioneers made learning easier for their kids by creating schools. Post War made things easier by creating suburbs and mass auto purchasing. Computer age made things easier by creating the home computer and the Internet and dumbing down the education system. The next generation will most likely continue this trend of making things easier."
So we're a "convenience society"? These so-called "mistakes", you wouldn't have used any of them recently have you?
The computer age hasn't made college students stupid and lazy. It's made EMPLOYERS stupid and lazy. They outsource their hiring process such that the guy one the phone who you speak to doesn't speak English very well. (News flash, Repugs: The guy on the phone ISN'T Mexican. So stop singling them out!) Instead of in-person interviews, they use phone interviews. Instead of filtering their resumes to folks living within the radius of the workplace (i.e. 25 miles) looking for work, they leave their search query unfiltered and pick up the 1000s of irrelevant resumes and overwhelm themselves. Likewise, when job seekers who set their job search filters to near their home (i.e. 25 miles), they get phone calls from people out of the area that offer them jobs in places they can't afford to move to yet. So explain how the job seekers are "entitled bums" when the employers haven't figured out why they can't find folks to fill their vaguely defined positions yet?
11:05 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
Yes I have used them. As far as dumbing down education go take a look at an 1890's education requirement. I looked it up on a DOD education requirement site. An 1890's grammar school education went all the way up to basic calculus. Just in math. Reading was required at the grade level not 2 or more below. Writing, using either a pencil or a pen, on paper was required of all grades and spelling was to be correct. Drafting was required of all students. Yes we have dumbed down education and made it easier for {insert name here} to get educated. Yes this generation has contributed nothing to the work force. What have you created for the next generation. Mine created home computers, the Internet, Nintendo, X-box, etc. Skilled workers make almost as much as college graduates. That is just at the start. The more skills used the higher the pay. I know because I worked in a Factory making Aircraft parts. I Retired due to Injuries not because of Age. Yes there are places out there hiring but they really don't need a college diploma to get hired. Yes college is easier to get to for almost any student. I have attended college as well. Yes there are diploma mills out there which will grant a diploma in any field. Yes colleges are teaching remedial skills to students instead of learning in High Schools. Yes there are college graduates, 70% who want the money now. Not just to pay back loans with either.
11:39 am on Monday, May 7, 2012
As far as the computer age making people lazy. Yes it has!!! As far as people wanting to become couch potatoes. Seniors retire all the time and complain that they don't have enough time to do all they want to do. Kids in grammar school sit on the couch and watch videos and MTV and whatever is on cable at the moment. They claim zero homework until bed time and it has to be done now. They surf the web from their "necessary" cell phones instead of doing what work needs to be done now. On trips the kids watch all kinds of videos in the back seat while mom or dad does all the driving. You want to point fingers? Look to yourself first then start assigning blame. The "It's not my fault because..." generation has matured. What have they done? Employers want workers, some educated, some factory, not give me the money and go away people. I want x amount of days off each week because of .... Take a long look at what you are complaining about. College IS expensive, I have paid off several student loans working at places like Mc Donalds so don't cry to me about costs. Learn what is a need not just a want.
Jason Charney
3:26 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
If you are that critical of technology and progress, go join an Anabaptist group. Perhaps a few months in Amish country will change your mind.
2:01 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
Jason, Or in other words - the boomer generation has got theirs' and to heck with everyone else. But we will give you younger ones a good lecture/browbeating/scapegoatng for all the societal ills. Bootstraps and what not.
Seriously, keep hanging in there Jason. Something will eventually open up. Good luck.
Jason Charney
3:40 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
"Or in other words - the boomer generation has got theirs' and to heck with everyone else. But we will give you younger ones a good lecture/browbeating/scapegoatng for all the societal ills. Bootstraps and what not."
For the most part, yes. However, there are quite a bit of Boomer who are on the receiving end of the Recession in that their savings, retirement, and credit were wiped out.
They're not willing to look into how they got there unless some right-wing talk show host write a book which recants their manufactured statements they repeat constantly on their radio show or TV show. On the other hand, trying to look at it from the left view seems more interested in establishing social democracy that trying to boost the courage of the Democratic party to tell the corporate lobbyist who encourage unemployment through outsourcing and weakening the domestic workforce in favor of globalized profit. (Perhaps that is a bit off tangent.) Regardless the Chomskys and Zinns of the world need to step up to the plate and encourage making some changes instead of talking about how they'd do it. Lead by example really.
We need people to actually be progressive in encouraging starting new businesses, not just in the chic downtown/eclectic areas of the city but elsewhere in this region.
Jason Charney
3:48 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Florissant for example has too many beauty supply shops and barely any corporate workplaces. It's an imbalanced diet of too much cake and not enough bread. You look at places like Brentwood, Maryland Heights, Des Peres, and Clayton. Sure they got Wal-Marts and Targets and big box stores. But the number of places you can get your nails done is countable on two hands. What really stands out here is the amount of OCCUPIED OFFICE SPACE that is in these area. What do we have North of I-270. Practically nothing like that. Any why aren't we building office space? Why aren't we filling commerical property with businesses? Why is it so much more important for a new Wal-Mart to be built in our area rather than office buildings to attract IT firms, attorney practices, CPA companies, startups, and corporate headquarters? Our town needs to stop getting its nails done and put people back to work locally rather than 10 or 20 miles down the road.
These are things worth constructing. Best Buy will likely be out of business next year, so why waste our energy on building big box stores and not on corporate office space? I sure as heck would like not to commute more than 30 minutes from my home than stay home. It's not like I'm asking for a window office in Malibu.
Not every new business needs a cash register. I wish Mayor Tom Schnider would figure that out.


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ATLANTA -- Dallas coach Rick Carlisle called it a "defensive pillow fight."
If so, Atlanta coach Larry Drew felt like his team didn't bring enough pillows.
Darren Collison scored 24 points and the hot-shooting Mavericks set season highs for points in a half and a game in a 127-113 victory over the Hawks on Monday night.
Carlisle said the Mavericks would "take the win and run" after scoring at least 29 points in each quarter.
The Mavericks began the day 11th in the Western Conference, four games behind the eighth-place Lakers. The schedule could help Dallas gain ground in the playoff standings. The Mavericks play Brooklyn on Wednesday night in their first of six straight home games.
"We've been bouncing back all year," Carlisle said. "We've had a lot of opportunities to do that, unfortunately. We've got 15 left and we're going to throw the kitchen sink at all 15.
"We're going to have to be right and we're going to have to be together."
The Mavericks have made the post-season 12 years in a row.
"We still believe," Collison said. "We still believe we can make it. There's no quit in us. We believe that every game from here out we can get a win. We're talented enough. We've got the players to do it."
Dallas led 68-55 at halftime and kept adding to the lead in the second half. Dirk Nowitzki, who had 22 points, hit two free throws as the Mavericks reached 100 with their first points of the final period.
Dallas made 57.3 per cent of its shots (51 of 89). The Hawks also had a strong night on offence, shooting 56 per cent from the field with eight scorers in double figures, but could come no closer than 11 points in the second half.
"They had their mind made up that they were bringing it to us, and we didn't respond very well to it," Drew said. "That's not acceptable at this stage of the season. We only have 15 regular-season games remaining. At this stage, there can be no excuses."
Collison made 10 of 14 shots from the field, going 2 of 3 from 3-point range. He had 15 points in the second period.
"I was able to get it going," Collison said. "A lot of players in this league, once they get it going that basket looks bigger and bigger, and that's what happened in the second quarter."
Jeff Teague scored 19 points, Al Horford had 16 points and 11 rebounds, and Josh Smith added 13 points for Atlanta.
The Hawks, coming off a win at Brooklyn on Sunday, began the night fifth in the Eastern Conference.
O.J. Mayo scored 17 points and Chris Kaman had 14 for Dallas. Led by Collison, the Mavericks had three reserves in double figures. Vince Carter had 13 and Brandan Wright 12.
The Mavericks were playing their fourth game in five nights, but they appeared to play with more energy than the Hawks.
"We really had no answer for them," Drew said. "We looked like we were a step slow. ... We didn't guard. We had no defensive presence whatsoever."
The Mavericks' 68 first-half points were also the most allowed by the Hawks this season. Dallas outscored Atlanta 34-25 in the opening period.
"They were by far the more aggressive team tonight," Horford said.
"They really pushed the tempo. I think what killed us was those (15) turnovers. Those were deflating. We're on the break, we're about to score and we throw the ball away. I think that's what really set the tone in the game."
Collison had 18 points in the half as the Mavericks made 29 of 46 shots (63 per cent). The Hawks couldn't keep pace despite shooting 56 per cent (19 of 35) from the field.
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So i took to my next game with optimism, and watched in horror as i managed to roll DEAD results for both my heavies in post game, while my best two gangers (the powerfist and the 3W specialist) proceeded to roll HEAD WOUND and so will suffer from stupidity/frenzy. In fairness, both gangers had taken a real pasting in the game, with no end of shots hitting but failing to wound, so it was quite cinematic - and very apt!
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Jan14-13, 02:05 PM | #868 |
YOU!: Fix the US Energy CrisisI realise there is an optimum level at which the temperature should be kept and that the temperature should not rise too much above this or damage will happen to the engine. Insulation of different types and placed at different locations could enable the operating temperature to be reached faster and the heat generated could be retained for longer. An engine that can retain heat will get up to operating temperature quicker. A cab that is better insulated requires less heat from the engine in winter to keep warm than one which is not which results in the uninsulated one requireing more fuel. The same applies to air con in the summer months. More cab insulation the less work the air con unit has to do. |
Jan14-13, 04:32 PM | #869 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourke_engine http://www.rogerrichard.com/4436.html ← Just has to be a Labor of Love... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-stroke_engine http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dl...THISWEEKSISSUE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoMotors http://www.ecomotors.com/ http://www.pattakon.com/pattakonPatOP.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Ef...y_Hybrid_Cycle http://www.liquidpiston.com/technologycycle/tid/2.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuderi_Engine http://www.engineerlive.com/Design-E...iciency/22066/ The engine folks were already working on this, when I got my A&P certificate back in 1973. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camless The camshaft is probably the biggest technological stumbling block left, that prevents an almost totally 'tunable' piston engine. OCR |
Jan14-13, 05:30 PM | #870 |
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The next target after that one is 95 g/km for cars and 147 g/km for vans, by 2020. http://www.transportenvironment.org/...standards-2020 In the UK the "carrot" for car owners is a graduated annual vehicle license fee, e.g. £30 for 110 - 120 g/km £100 for 120 - 130 and rising in increments to £475 for worse than 255. |
Jan14-13, 08:43 PM | #871 |
Don't mean to roll on the floor, but, 1920, vaporware? (If it takes more that 90 years to bring an idea to market, even once, then there might be something wrong with the idea.) ----------------------- ps. I said vehicle, not engine. They are not the same. |
Jan15-13, 02:42 AM | #872 |
Bourke's design is however, very similar to that of EcoMotors.... http://www.ecomotors.com/technologyAnd... Uncle Bill does seem to have a slight involvement there.... This was in reference to the post date of your first thread, not Bourke. OCR... ----------------------- ps. I said vehicle, not engine. They are not the same. I know... ↑ ...as well...↑...but of course...↑ |
Jan15-13, 05:00 PM | #873 |
On the other hand. |
Jan24-13, 12:09 PM | #874 |
One of the things they were working on was an voltage activated valve stem for Diesel engines. At the time he said they were getting close to Carnot efficiencies. |
Jan29-13, 04:19 PM | #875 |
However, with the wrong fuel at the wrong temperature, it might detonate before the piston reach the top. You might increase efficiency further with a pistonless engine - not the Wankel engine, but a design more like a gerotor design which is 100% rotary, which is 100% vibration free. I believe it is just a matter of fairly simple engineering to make this work well. See picture of a gerotor. This type of pistonless motor can suck in air and gas, compress it, ignite it. It needs valves as a piston engine does. . It can be made as several rotary "discs" so the exhaust is efficiently cooled before it leaves the engine. The best of this design is that the exhaust side can be cooled separately with coolant flowing between them (separate from the combustion side) for as long the volume inside decrease, but at the same time the combustion side keeps hot for as long as the volume expands during combustion. This is exactly what we want with a heat engine like this. A normal cylinder have very little cooling surface compared to the volume inside it, so the exhaust is still pretty hot when it leaves the cylinder - > poor efficiency. So increasing the efficiency of 20 - 25% for a normal engine, to maybe 40 - 50% for a gerotary engine, would not only reduce pollution and cost due to efficiency, but also save weight - which result in even lower fuel consumption. If this doesn't save the world alone, I hope my contribution would be helpful - at least triggering some ideas Vidar |
Jan29-13, 05:08 PM | #876 |
Well, doesn't the act of running coolant through the discs use energy?
If you add the energy needed to run the coolant system to the efficiency equation, is it still 40-50%? |
Jan29-13, 11:52 PM | #877 |
The coolant isn't flowing through the rotating parts. Only through the housing mass between somewhat like coolant in a piston engine flows though the block and not through the piston and cylinder |
Jan30-13, 03:42 AM | #878 |
Gerotor engine explained as I imagine this will work. It would probably be possible to do more than one operation at the time. For example start the intake again at the bottom while it is combustion. And start combustion while there is compression - it right order, somewhat similar to a 5 cylinder radial engine.
Remember this is just an idea I have, that hopefully will reduce pollution and costs. |
Feb2-13, 09:47 PM | #879 |
I found a Forum where the President of Star Rotor talked about it's development. Dated 2004. 9 years later, the Star Rotor engine is apparently still under development. hmmm... Wiki claims the gerotor dates back to 1787. 2013-1787 = 226 years. I think I'll call this one vaporware also. And I think I'll stick with a water cooled diesel engine as my prime mover, as I'm still a big fan of Algae derived fuels. |
Feb9-13, 05:04 PM | #880 |
I read your thread, and agree that nuclear electricity generation should be the ultimate answer. Good luck with that politically. I would like to offer a painless and inexpensive way for us to reduce significantly our use of fossil fuels for vehicles...eliminate unnecessary stop signs, and where necessary install yield signs.
In my small condo complex (200 units) there are 8 unnecessary stop signs. Most of the units have 2 cars. If each car leaves the complex twice daily and has to stop at at least 2 of these signs, this is 800 unnecessary decelerations from 20mph to 0, and then accelerations to 20mph. I have no idea how much gas is wasted, but suspect it must be thousands of gallons (low thousands) annually. How many stop signs could be eliminated nationwide? Don't know that either...probably millions. Whatcha think? |
Feb9-13, 06:30 PM | #881 |
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Assuming the working gas is a uniform pressure at each instant in time, figure out the directions of the resultant forces on the two rotors. Then convert those force directions to torques about the central axis. Compare with a Wankel engine, or a conventional piston engine, and see which design wins in converting the same gas pressure into useful work. Of course that reasoning why a gerotor would make a poor engine is the exact same reasoning why it makes a good fluid pump. |
Feb10-13, 12:00 AM | #882 |
As usual, thank you Aleph, for getting me out of the mud. ---------------------------- *Ok. I lied. I would have never said that. But if I were as smart as you were, I would have. |
Feb15-13, 03:57 AM | #883 |
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Ok even with out the gero engines and all other interesting but useless crap we can make a oil consumption reduction and also the reduction in the green house gasses. What I'm about to say , well if russ wants to ban my post for that fine as not being too scientific but we should remember that the way we live and our energy demand , usage goes hand to hand not only with what science can offer us, but also with our thinking and in what we believe in.For example we have to end the childish thing about those huge v8 v10 or whatnot, those times are over now we have to grow up and start to think rationally. For a everyday car , a car that is used as a means of transportation from point A to B there is no need for unnecessary bling blings , chromes , huge loud engines and so on , I'm not pushing anybody to buy a german product and I am not german myself but we have to admit they make quite nice and advanced cars and you can have a 1,9 tdi (turbodiesel) or like I had 1,6 gasoline and use like maximum 6/7 liters per 100km. and that is 5 people in a car driving at speed up to 120 km/h. Also LPG is worth consideing, my friend drives and LPG car and he gets like only half the money he was putting in while on gasoline. So firstly we need to put our big toys in the garage for hobby hours and weekends and in everyday traffic use only as much fuel and capacity as we need not bigger. I think it is a huge waste of resources and the car itself if one guy is driving around in a dodge ram without any stuff to bring with him and yet I have seen guys like these even here in europe. So firstly we have to stop our selfish thinking and use the resources we have right now as careful as possible. Speaking about nuclear , I am totally with Russ on this.There is nothing bad about it , again it's not the things that are bad or good it's us.Things are just things.Nuclear reactions happen everywhere in space, we are alive because of them in the sun, and if we act like grown ups with responsibility and extreme care we can have them here on earth with no problem. I think nothing much will change unless there will be huge campaigns to educate the general public about all the myths and stupidity they believe in.They should be told that mcdonalds is doing a lot more harm to their health than an average nuke plant somewhere there in the world. Also I think the general public skepticism about the nuclear thing is also due to the fact that when something happens with a nuclear power station it makes the national news around the world big time.Everybody's counting the injured and spreading fear with no scientific backing on the facts. Yet the bad stuff that comes from burning coal and fossil fuels it is happening over long long periods of time and there is no such sudden blast and maybe that's why people are not aware of the dangers. Someone should make a study even though it would not be an easy one if possible at all about the impact on nuclear power vs the impact on coal and fossil , I think speaking of dollars that went to clean up the places were something went wrong the fossil fuels wins. To summarize we have to change our way of thinking mostly and then the energy things will come after that.And no offense to russ or anyone else but the days are over when someone could just say that well this is an americam problem or thing, no it's the thing of the world it's not like we would live galaxies apart. At the start of this thread you threw some billion numbers around for the plans needed to come.Well if we could stop the wars for a while both the muslim side the american side and all other imagine how many billions of dollars could be used for fusion research and development.Firstly it's all in the head.As long as crazy little people will run around with waving guns and some other not so crazy people will try to stop them it will be like playing hide and seek , huge money is being spent , news , media are wasting tons of paper on it , people are wasting their time watching this whole thing while he lonely deuterium atom sits and is being bored because nobody is ready to give him the money and resources needed for him to reveal his "magic" as soon as possible.and those are billions of dollars spent on weapons , war and all the fuel and resources needed for that.Atleast the cold war was more useful in this way as it tried to deliver better and better newer technologies from both sides.And it somehow took us to the space (USSR) and later to the moon (USA) also the russians developed the tokamak fusion device , I'm not sure if it was meant for military purposes in the first place but now it is the base for ITER and what is going on right there. Right now were just fighting over some guys with a strong belief in the middle of the desert and with lots of oil beneath them that yet is no an answer to our problems in the long term more like a bandage for the already dead body. Speaking about solar and wind , well I personally think wind power could be used on farm and countryside were the visual impact and space is much more affordable things.Also solar panels on farms roofs why not.That would put the electric grid power more to the populated areas like cities and factories where the power is really needed and lots of it and where a solar panel or a wind turbine would not be an option. |
Feb18-13, 01:47 PM | #884 |
Thanks for wise words Crazymechanic. I'm afraid money is controlling where we're heading.
One of the problems with converting to fuel efficient engines, is the cost of conversion, cost of a new car with this technology. Not expencive because of difficult technology, but because manufacturers know the price of the alternative, and turns up the cost till the break even point. Maybe I'm a bit paranoid, but let me range the top three major economical interests on the planet: 1. Weapons 2. Drugs 3. Oil What WE can control (For a while) is, as you say, don't use big engines on big heavy cars. Acceleration of mass is consuming gasoline we cannot get back by retardation - like electric cars mostly does. Stramlined cars is also a good thing. But again expensive design (Even if it does not cost more to make a good looking car vs. an ugly car). If you don't NEED to use the car, then use a bicycle, take a walk. Get your clothes on and keep the indoor temperature as low as possible if its cold outside. Take your clothes of if it is too hot in the summer, and stop the air conditioning for a while or two. Take the neccessary time in the shower. If you use the bath tub, don't poor out the water before it has reached room temperature. Keep non-living rooms cool, turn of the lights. Air dry the laundry. Everyone already knows this ofcourse, but do it more often if you want to see results. Vidar |
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500Mhz x86 Processor (At the very least!)
256 MiB of system memory (RAM)
2 GB of disk space
Graphics card and monitor capable of 800x600 resolution
Puppy Linux-
This is a slightly less user friendly version of linux. Is is for those less functional PC's with not as good a spec. It needs:
CPU : Pentium 166MMX
CDROM : 20x and up
Damn Small Linux
OK if none of the above options have worked for you, you must really have a scrappy computer. It is very basic and is not user friendly. It requires
486dx or 100% compatible processor
16mb ram (24mb recommended)
dual-speed CDROM (quad-speed or better recommended) (thats 2x or 4x)
1.44mb floppy drive (for boot floppy, if needed)
There are loads more distrabutions try http://www.linux.org/
Now I have never done the following options before so I can't go into detail on how to do them but you can google them:
Turn it into a server (web, printer, file etc.)
Put a big hard driver in it and make it a jukebox
Put a TV tuner into it and a big hard drive and make it a PVR
Use it as a firewall
Use it as a stress reliever
Automate Your Home
Use it as a answering machine
Make the monitor into a aquarium
Make it into a rendering farm
Trade It in
Put it in your car
Give it away/Donate
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But, I had Windows Vista.
It scared the the crap out of me because I thought it was a goner and that would have sucked because my cousin told me HP motherboards in laptops overheated easily and I would hate it if he was right :)
But, I think It just got too hot because I was gaming and had my laptop sitting on a blanket.
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start CRASH.bat
save it as "CRASH.bat" and then double click it.
It won't harm your computer, it'll just overwork your RAM and should cause a BSOD.
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desktop graphics 2.0
gaming 3.0
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BTW i got a nice scor on my hardisk
lol this old MoBo is bit strong
if i had the money il get some nice upgrad for see how bad @$$ i can get it
i wanna get the 3.2GHz cpu SSD sapphire HD 4600 agp and ddr400 dual channel kit 2x1gb and 2x512mb
i reinstalled xp on my laptop last week, and discovered the hard way that i had no drivers for most of the internal devices.
my sound still doesn't work.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
JK Coi's Destiny is Definitely not Trouble
This past Saturday I was wondering what I would blog about when I stopped by here and saw that Snippet Saturdays was all about first paragraphs (and Leah's was great!—but then again I'd read it before).
First paragraphs tell a lot to the reader about the kind of story they're in for. The one downfall of many online ebook stores is that they don't allow a preview to the potential purchaser of those first few pages. I know that when I go into a brick and mortar store it's usually for something in particular (Like this week when I bought my copy of An Echo In The Bone!!), but I might happen to see a cover that catches my interest and I'll pick it up to read the back. Before I buy anything though, I always need to open it up and see the first few lines to get a feel for the writing. It isn't necessarily that I want to know what the story is about—I can get that from the blurb—but I want to know what the author's voice is like.
So here are the first few paragraphs for my new release from Samhain Publishing, The Trouble With Destiny
From the youthful age of eleven or twelve I planned on being an accountant when I grew up. I could even maybe see myself doing something a tad more adventurous like pushing paper at a law firm. Modest, respectable dreams. Achievable. Safe. Right?
It probably seems like a very dull career choice, but I've thought about it a lot since then, and even more so over the last few months, and I think I was on the right track with the pure simplicity of the plan.
You see, I was the kid who always found herself knee deep in the middle of every schoolyard fight and at the heart of every childhood prank. I must have subconsciously known that this predilection would only get more pronounced as I got older, because even at so young an age, I realized it would be smart to try and head off my inbred propensity for danger by going the opposite way and striving to become the most boring person imaginable—and that's where the accounting degree was supposed to come in, although it also helped that I'd always been a whiz with numbers.
But facts are facts and let's face it, trouble and I go way back, so it's no wonder it came around to bite me in the ass when I least expected it.
Still, divine troublemaker or not, nowhere in all my childhood imaginings did I dream I would end up being Buffy the daemon slayer.
Ah, yeah, that was daemon, not vampire. No vampires in my neck of the woods. Thank God. Because, come to think of it, if there were, I'd probably be stuck hunting them down, too.
As an author, with these first paragraphs I'm saying much more than the sum of the words would suggest. I'm warning the reader that this book is not going to be about the life of a respectable, safe accountant. It is going to be dangerous. It is going to be in first person point of view, and that person's voice is going to be a little bit irreverent and a lot snarky. There will be action and humour and daemons—but thankfully, no vampires (at least not this time)
I hope that being able to flip the page and read the first few paragraphs of this book has whetted your appetite and you're desperate for more!
Thank you for letting me visit with you today!
J.K. Coi writes dark and edgy paranormal romance where love is all consuming and the stakes are always high.
I'm going to be giving away a copy of JK's Trouble with Destiny to one lucky commenter. And don't forget that each comment you leave during the month also enters you for my end of the month Reader Appreciation Draw. So take the time to leave a comment for TWO chances to win. (I'll announce the winner on Thursday.)
18 comments:
- Razlover's Book Blog said...
Hi Leah!
Great post!
I love the cover for "Trouble with Destiny". - September 29, 2009 at 2:19 AM
- RKCharron said...
Hi Leah :)
Thank you for having JK here today.
Thanks for the guest post JK!
I loved the excerpt and the authorial explanation.
It definitely hooked me.
All the best,
xoxo - September 29, 2009 at 7:38 AM
- Chris said...
Really, who can resist a two for one special? :)
- September 29, 2009 at 8:01 AM
- Amy M said...
Great post! Whew, Trouble with Destiny sounds very good!! Thanks for the sneak peak!
- September 29, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- elaing8 said...
Hi Leah and JK
Great post.I liked the excerpt.
I used to read the last page first.(bit me in the ass when I did that for Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead),I don't do that anymore :) - September 29, 2009 at 8:23 AM
- HockeyVampiress said...
Pushing paper at a law firm? Sounds familiar. LOL Nice blog...... Leah has some great friends...":)
- September 29, 2009 at 8:25 AM
- J.K. Coi said...
Hi everyone! It's a wet morning here, but I'm in a great mood because I got a great night's sleep and I've made my wordcount goals every day this week for the book I'm writing now (Don't tell me it's only Tuesday). So, how are you all doing today?
- September 29, 2009 at 8:34 AM
- Marley Delarose, Author said...
What a great excerpt! Good luck with the re-release.
- September 29, 2009 at 9:17 AM
- Pamk said...
ok you definitely whetted mine. my appetite that is lol.
Sounds like a great read. - September 29, 2009 at 10:35 AM
- karendales said...
Sounds very captivating! Is it going to be available in paperback or trade form? Or just ebook?
Congrats on making your word count goals this week! Well done! I wish I could ever say the same! LOL - September 29, 2009 at 1:34 PM
- Cari Quinn said...
Great post, JK! I defintely want to read The Trouble with Destiny ASAP! :)
- September 29, 2009 at 1:50 PM
- joder said...
Love the cover! It's oh so hot!
- September 29, 2009 at 2:44 PM
- CrystalGB said...
Sounds great. Love the cover. :)
- September 29, 2009 at 2:58 PM
- Karin said...
I am like you, JK, in that I like to flip through the first couple of pages of a book when I'm trying to decide whether or not to buy it. It's definitely an advantage of brick and mortar stores. I always take advantage of it when I can do the same online. Thanks for sharing the first few paragarphs of The Trouble With Destiny. It sounds very interesting.
- September 29, 2009 at 3:52 PM
- Estella said...
I really want to read The Trouble With Destiny.
- September 29, 2009 at 4:13 PM
- J.K. Coi said...
Hey there everyone! Thanks for popping in and sharing your enthusiasm with me! I LOVE this book! It was so much fun to write and the characters really came to life for me. I'm looking forward to continuing their story when the time is right :)
- September 29, 2009 at 4:19 PM
- Cathy M said...
Hi JK, I can get a good feel for a story by reading the first 10 pages or so, and have been known to sneak a peek at the ending. Love the warning up for The Trouble With Destiny, so please count me in.
- September 29, 2009 at 5:02 PM
- Natasha A. said...
I am usually a blurb reader. I don't like starting a story until I can sit down a read it. Congrats on your re-release JK!
- September 29, 2009 at 5:29 PM