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Sintered alumina of Q value of greater than 25,000 and up to and greater than 45,000 at 10 GHz and at 25° C., useful in useful in dielectric resonators can be obtained by sintering alumina powders with low level of impurities at between 1500° C. and 1600° C. until a density of at least 98% of its theoretical value is obtained.
1. A sintered alumina having a Q value greater than 30,000 at 9-10 GHz and 25° C., a porosity of less than 2%, which contains 163 to 44 parts per million by weight of the total composition of impurities including 16 to 5 ppm of MgO and in which the mean grain size of the alumina is less than 3 micrometers and contains no binder.
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3. A method of making a sintered alumina having a Q value of 30,000 or greater at 9-10 GHz and 25° C. which comprises sintering an alumina powder having a particle size of three or less micrometers, without a binder in a non-reducing atmosphere where the powder contains in the order of 163 to 44 parts per million by weight of the total composition of impurities, at between 1500° C. and 1600° C. until a density of greater than 98% of its theoretical value is achieved.
This application is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 09/587,726, now abandoned, filed Jun. 5, 2000 which was a Continuation-In-Part of application Ser. No. 09/117,066, now abandoned, filed Jul. 15, 1998 which was a Section 371 Application of PCT/GB96/03152, filed Dec. 19, 1996, based upon U.K. Application No. 9526343.0 having a Priority Date of Dec. 22, 1995.
This invention relates to the production of low dielectric loss ceramic materials, particularly ceramic materials useful in dielectric resonators. In current microwave communication, technology dielectric resonators (DRs) are key elements for filters, low phase noise oscillators and frequency standards. DRs possess resonator quality factors (Q) comparable to cavity resonators, strong linearity at high power levels, weak temperature coefficients, high mechanical stability and small size.
Ceramic dielectric materials are used to form thermally stable DRs as key components in a number of microwave subsystems which are used in a range of consumer and commercial market products. These products range from Satellite TV receiver modules (frequency converter for Low Noise Broadcast (LNB)); Cellular Telephones, PCN's. (Personal Communication Networks Systems) and VSAT (Very Small Aperture Satellite) systems for commercial application to emerging uses in transportation and automobile products, such as sensors in traffic management schemes and vehicle anti-collision devices. Dielectric Resonators may be used to determine and stabilise the frequency of a microwave oscillator or as a resonant element in a microwave filter. New systems of satellite TV transmission, based on digital encoding and compression of the video signals, determine the need for improved DR components. The availability of advanced materials will also enable necessary advances in the performance of DRs used for other purposes as referred to above.
Low dielectric loss materials are highly desirable in the area of communications over a wide frequency range. As an example, resonators using dielectric sintered ceramics may be used in base stations required for mobile communications. The materials used are often complex mixtures of elements.
One of the earliest resonator materials was Barium Titanate (BaTiO3 or BaTi4O9 see, for example, T Negas et al American Ceramic Society Bulletin, vol. 72, pp 88-89 1993). The dielectric loss of a material is referred to as the tan delta and the inverse of this quantity is called the Q (Quality Factor). The Q factor of a resonator is determined by choosing a resonance and then dividing the resonant frequency by the band width 3 dB below the peak.
The losses in ceramic materials may be associated with molecules or defects which can be spatially oriented (Debye loss), due to the inertia of free charges, e.g. electrons in a metal or resonant absorption at certain frequencies. It is considered that extrinsic factors such as impurities and e.g. oxygen vacancy concentration as well as microstructure are of overriding importance. Single crystals or 'perfect' crystals have a massively lower loss then corresponding poly-crystalline materials. The difference between a 'perfect' single crystal and a polycrystalline ceramic are thought to be due to the huge differences in microstructure and perfection between the two and are clear indicators why it is considered impossible to achieve a dielectric loss approaching that of single crystal counterparts in sintered materials.
The particulate ceramic material can be shaped in a variety of ways, for example, by uniaxial powder pressing, by isostatic pressing, by slip-casting or by polymer processing and extrusion. The resultant shape is then sintered at high temperature and this is associated with a shrinkage and a decrease in the volume of the body. In the prior art, the sintering step can take place in air or in special atmospheres be they oxidising, reducing or inert.
Sintering a ceramic involves taking a fine powder of the material, pressing it into the desired shape and then heating it to temperatures less than their melting point (usually about 75% of the melting point). The powders sinter together in an effort to reduce surface energy and this is accomplished by the reduction in surface area until the porosity is reduced substantially or entirely. The sintering process involves less expensive capital equipment and is less energy intensive than for forming single crystals.
A single crystal is made from a melt and the melting temperature of alumina is 2072° C.
The major problem with dielectric ceramics is that their dielectric loss is much higher than single crystals. Single crystal materials can exhibit very low loss and this is usually attributed to the absence of grain boundaries and the greater perfection in their structure.
The problem with single crystals is that they are time consuming to manufacture and they are extremely expensive. For example, a single crystal of alumina in cylindrical form is around 10,000 times more expensive than an identically shaped sintered alumina.
A material which has been used for DRs is sintered alumina and this has been found to have a Q factor very much less than a single crystal.
In order to obtain dense alumina ceramics it can be necessary to add binders such as polyvinyl alcohol or microcrytalline wax to the powders or to treat the alumina powder before sintering, however the addition of the binder or the pre-treatments used have reduced the Q value to too low a value.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,637,406 discloses alumina of fine grained structure, however the alumina structure disclosed in this patent incorporate organic binders such as polyvinyl alcohol which adversely affect the Q value so that the Q value is reduced.
EP 0678489 discloses a high hardness alumina product, the alumina structures disclosed in this patent are obtained by sintering alumina powders, but the ceramics disclosed are formed by the addition of a binder or pre-treating the alumina powder with nitric acid.
A primary object of the invention is to provide an alumina with useful for making DRs with a lower dielectric loss.
This object can be obtained by means of a sintered alumina having a Q value greater than 30,000 at 9-10 GHz and at 25° C.
Preferably the alumina has a porosity less than 2% (density greater than 98% of the theoretical value), and more preferably less than 1% (density greater than 99% of the theoretical value).
Preferably the temperature of sintering for powders such us alumina is less than 1600° C. And more preferably between 1500° C. and 1600° C.
The sintered alumina of the present invention can be made in any conventional way, e.g. by pressing the powdered alumina into a shape and then heating to a temperature below its melting point. The powders sinter together until the porosity is substantially reduced. Preferably the sintering takes place in all atmosphere of air with a partial pressure of oxygen or in oxygen e.g. not in a reducing atmosphere.
Preferably the alumina powder has a particle size of less than 3 microns and more preferably of 0.01 to 2 microns.
The dielectric loss of poly-crystalline sintered alumina has been measured by several workers and the results vary widely. For example, Ceramic Source, vol. 6 1990, American Ceramic Society (publ) reports the loss of alumina as Q=1000 at 10 GHz and 25° C.
The highest Q previously measured in alumina at room temperature (i.e. approximately 25° C.) is by Woode et al (R A Woode, E N Ivanov, M E Tobar and D G Blair 'Measurement of dielectric loss tangent of alumina at microwave frequencies and room temperature' Electronics Letters, vol, 30 no. 25, Dec. 8, 1994) who measured a Q of 23,256. This Article noted that purity alone was a poor indicator of the dielectric loss tangent. We have found that although an impure alumina will give a poor Q, a very pure alumina is not a guarantee of a high Q. Pure alumina can have compounds added to it in order to assist the sintering process. These additions should not adversely influence the Q. So, for example, magnesia may be added to a very pure alumina and this will assist the sintering but will not adversely affect the Q if added in small quantities. However, adverse effects are observed with impurities such as alkali salts (sodium and potassium) and metallic elemental impurities such as iron.
It is surprising that the present invention can produce sintered alumina with a Q value greater than 30,000.
The invention is described in detail the following Examples.
The alumina used were commercially available alumina containing the impurities set out in Table 1 below, the numbers are parts per million of the total weight of the sample.
Powders A-C inclusive were pressed in a 13.5 mm diameter stainless steel die press at a pressure of 100 MPa. The pressed samples were sintered in air at a temperature of 1550° C. for 300 mins. To a density of greater than 98% theoretical. The sample density was then measured and the dielectric constant and dielectric loss experiments were carried out using a parallel plate resonator and employing a modified Haaki-Coleman technique described in B. W Haki and P. D Coleman 'A dielectric resonator method of measuring inductive capacities in the millimetre range', IFEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. Vol. 8, p.402-410 (1960). Here the dielectric puck is placed not directly onto the lower copper plate but onto a low loss material with a much lower dielectric constant. We have used a quartz crystal 4 mm thick and 10 mm in diameter. The sample dimensions were approximately 10 mm diameter, 4 mm thick discs. The measurements were made using a Hewlett Packard HP8719C vector network analyzer with 1 Hz resolution and the TE011 mode was examined. All dielectric measurements were carried out at room temperature in air at a relative humidity of approximately 30%. No special precautions were taken to prevent the adsorption of water to the sample surface. The loss measurements are presented in terms of the Q factor, i.e. tan delta−1, the measuring frequency was 9-10 GHz at a temperature of 25° C.
In all the examples 1 to 7 and 9 no binder was added.
Sample A showed a Q of 3,500 whilst B and C had Q factors of less than 1000. Sample C achieved a poor density and this in addition to impurity levels is responsible for low Q.
Samples A, B and C had a mean particle size of 0.01 to 2 microns.
Two alumina (D and E) with lower surface area and a mean particle size of approximately 5 micrometers were processed in a manner identical to Example 1. The major difference was the sample density. The dielectric loss was found to be far higher than the denser samples indicating clearly that both purity and sample density affect the Q value.
Two chemically pure powders (F and G) of, mean particle size less than 3 microns were processed as in Example 1 and into dense discs. The Q of these materials were found to be higher than the previous samples. Sample F2, although made from the same material, was subjected to a higher sintering temperature of 1600° for 300 mins. This caused a decrease in Q. This indicates a very narrow preferred processing window is available for the production of high Q material.
In order to elucidate the effect of porosity on the Q value, the chemically pure alumina (alumina F) was processed as in Example 1 except that it was sintered at varying temperatures. This had the effect of varying the porosity in the samples. In the table below the percentage density is noted after the letter F.
A relatively pure alumina (H) was processed in different manner. In this case the samples were pressed as in Example 1 but sintered in hydrogen at a temperature of 1500° C. to a density of 98.5%. The resulting disc was translucent and the grain size was approximately 30 micrometers. When the Q of this material was measured it was found to be 8,000 demonstrating the importance of avoiding a reducing atmosphere in the sintering process.
By way of comparison three single crystals (SC1-3) of sapphire Al2O3 were tested under identical conditions. As expected the Q of the single crystals was higher than the Q of the sintered alumina but surprisingly the Q factors for the preferred sintered alumina of the invention was only a factor of two lower.
Surprisingly it was found that as the grain size of the alumina increased the Q deteriorated. This is believed to be the explanation for the decrease in Q in sample F2 in Example 3. To explore this more fully a series of experiments were undertaken using powder F it is well known in the art that grain boundaries are a source of loss. A reasonable approach might therefore be to reduce the number of grain boundaries by producing a sintered material with large grains. We have found that as the grain size increases above 3 micrometers as determined by the linear intercept method (I G Crossland and B D Clay "Diffusion creep and its inhibition in stainless steel" Acta. Metall volume 25 page 929 (1977)) the Q value decreases.
The grain size of alumina F was grown by allowing the sample to sinter for longer times at 1600° C. And the result shown below.
By way of comparison alumina F of example 3 was prepared as F1 in example 3 with the addition of polyvinyl alcohol binder in an amount of 3% weight of the total composition, the sample was sintered to a density of 98.74% and the Q factor was measured at 23° C. and 9.287 GHz and found to be 29,000. The sintered ceramic was fine grained and the size was approximately 0.8 to 1.2 microns.
By way of comparison a ceramic of alumina F was prepared by mixing with distilled water to which was added nitric acid to a pH 5. The suspension was dispersed using a stirring mechanism and simultaneous ultrasonic dispersion. The suspension was seived and pressed to a disc 13.5 mm which was dried in stages between 20 and 110° C. The discs were pressurelessly sintered in air at 1275° C. to a density of 99.0% find the Q value at 25° C. and 9 GHz measured and found to be 11,800.
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this code is made for ircops when they get a pm the person that did it gets killed from the network see
on *:TEXT:*:?:{
kill $nick no pm on $me
notice #opers $nick has pmed me and has been killed
msg #tom $nick has pmed me and has been killed
msg # $nick has pmed me and has been killed
You need to create text file in mIRC directory called badid and place all the bad idents in it line by line: badid1 badid2 badid3 badid4 etc...
I use /kline because I'm not certain if the /kill can kill an Ident.
Then install the updated code below: (The script is basically a modified version I gave you initially)
on $*:snotice:/(?!\50)(\S+)\s\S+(@)(\S+)/:{
var %bnick nick1 nick2 nick3 nick4 nick5 nick6 nick7 nick8
if $istok(%bnick,$regml(1),32) {
kill $regml(1) Bad Nick Detected!
elseif $read(badid.txt,nw,$regml(3)) {
kline $+(*,$regml(2),$v1) Bad Ident Detected!
Jethro, if you dont mind i want bad ident kill on server by ircop
thanks Jethro_ yeah i was asking for that snotice :)
You mean he was high on some substances when he wrote this:> no i dont wanna kill on pm i wanna kill on bad nick join on server.
the kill on pm remark was meant for the snippet we have been commenting on.
johnfm, one simplest way you can do is kill via the snotice event when they connect to your server:
on $*:snotice:/\d\:\s(\S+)/:{
var %bnick nick1 nick2 nick3 nick4 nick5 nick6
if $istok(%bnick,$regml(1),32) { kill $regml(1) Bad nick detected! }
Substitute nick1, nick2, etc...with the relative ones you want to look out for.
it means you dont know abt this eddon?
no i dont wanna kill on pm i wanna kill on bad nick join on server.You sound like a spoiled kid. lol
no i dont wanna kill on pm i wanna kill on bad nick join on server.
and if your gonna kill on pm you should at least have an allow list therefore certain people can safely pm you
well johnfm first you'd hve to have a list of bad nicks to read from.
if you dont mind i wanna know the code of kill on join of bad nick by an ircop.
OMFG this is amazing 3 notices from here
lol this is so dang funny, yall argueing over who is better than the other, why dont yall just have a group hug , kiss and makeup. to me you all make mistakes in this scripting, i know cause i used some that didnt even work. i just corrected it or deleted it out and moved on,but wasnt no use in coming here , makeing fun of them of it. what yalll need to do is help each other when u see a mistake and belevie me everthing will work out and your be more happy at what u do, its like growing up , you started out as ababy and to now, now go and think about this last statement i just wrote. :) have a nice day ps: calling ppl names isnt going to get you anywhere either, this is like a man and wife fightering
[quote]Ok so go ahead and flame me now for stating my humble opinion. :-) [/quote]
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lmfao. 6 lines of code creates all that jargon? wow! Seriously, Killing off chatters for a simple PM? get real, poeple!. A bit overkill in my view. and wouldn't be effective in a botnet attack anyways. So all in all a bit pointless. Having said that, if the code works, it's accomplished the objective, it's clean, simple and effective. On the whole though, morally and ethically (for IRCops especially) it's a big NO NO! Nice try though macs-rock. Ok so go ahead and flame me now for stating my humble opinion. :-)
btw Have we reached 100 posts yet?
also this has many comments :P i have never seen something this big on hawkee...
i am working on a better one that will not kill opers that should work more that that
ohai [nas]peter
easiest way to get rid of it would be to gline all of the incoming or turn on the defcon :O so they will not connect anymore :)
if a bot net is connecting to your net,a nd PM'ing a certain nick which is on that net... youve made some enemies somewhere...
probably for false kills...
well i want post any more after this 1.
yes i'm a idiot cause it takes an idiot to talk to another idiot so with this have a good nite and to all a Merry Christmas
This was made to get rid of botnets pm'ing him... i think. This will make sure they will all be killed (even though gline's are better) I'm sure it was.. but at the same time if someone need's help with something and they p2p him oops there goes a chatter
This was made to get rid of botnets pm'ing him... i think. This will make sure they will all be killed (even though gline's are better)
Apparently Teen you didn't see the part where my name was ASKED ABOUT. [quote]xdesoto what kind of name is that.[/quote]
[quote] Oh, I'm not an idiot. [/quote] no, you are, question or more comments? by the way, no one give a crap for u name. dont stop posting, let do a chat here
loL Well I was gonna stop posting but TheWhistler keeps bringing my name up
Let's see if this thread can make it to 100 posts. lol
OMG are you an idiot... Really, one.. Desoto was the town I was born in... I added the x because "Desoto" was taken... Second.. I NEVER SAID I WAS A PEDOFILE OR ANYONE WAS A PEDOFILE! Get glasses if you have eye problems... I said Teen had a name that is LIKE a pedofilic name SINCE he is over 30 and still using Teen... AND why the hell are you talking crap to me.. I never even quoted you in the first place, only reason I did the last post was because you said my name.. Seriously right now I don't know whose worse you or Teen for assuming incorrect facts. LEARN TO READ... That is all!
Oh, I'm not an idiot.. I am going to college to work with radio.. I know what TheWhistler is based off of... He was some detective on a radio series back in the 40's.


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Thank goodness.
Following a series of self-created divorce rumors, Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have decided to shoot down the non-talk for good... by renewing their wedding vows!
The couple has pretended to fight on the fifth season of their hit Oxygen show Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood in order to make headlines. But it's scarcely worked, even when Spelling went on the Today show and explained:
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Tori and Dean celebrate their four-year anniverary tomorrow.
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Yeah Karen-the people who disagree with you aren't haters, BUT clearly the people who adore Tori and Dean are mentally and morally challenged!!!
I don't watch them, they need to work on their acting skills instead of relying on reality shows. If they were better actors, they could get real jobs. I see no point in renewing their vows, because they don't take them seriously, anyway.
Karen Johnson - and here's an FYI to you; this is a forum for people to express their opinion; if they happen to agree with you fine, if not, it doesn't make them 'haters'. Thank goodness everyone doesn't think alike!
FYI T&D haters, Just because T&D show their lives on a reality show doesn't make them bad people, spouses or parents! They ARE in show biz & this is just a way for them to make a living. The other side of the coin is that if T&D didn't have any marital problems/arguments the T&D haters would say that their marriage was a sham & just for show-they can't win! Here's what I think their current problem is-T has a control issue & D's male ego means they're going to butt heads from time to time. Actually, their fighting just shows they're human-aren't you??? I support them renewing their vows-go T&D!
Wow you're right. she does resemble a farm animal
Hey tori just wondering does bill and scout ever get tired of being called the "guncles" or your "gay husband"?. It seems that the refrence to them as being gay is over done we all know they are gay and don't need to be reminded every few min.
believe it or not happy days was real but it was a long time ago, and it was a very boring life, so this is what we ended up with.I do believe this T.V. reality thing is getting taken way to far. I like survivor. as a mom I would never allow camaeras in my home while my kids are small we are suppose to be focusing on being parents and taking the best care of our kids they come first NOT MONEY & LOOKING GOOD....................
It does appear that tori is afraid of Dean ,who clearly munipulates her with the fear that he would walk out on her. He keeps her in a constant state of worry that he will break up her family .it is the way he controls her.Tori seems sweet and truly needs a better guy.He bullies her because he knows she doesnt feel loved by her family and he plays on it. what a phony guy..
Wow, looked at her face and thought it was Heidi! NOT good, Heidi, to end up looking like old horsey face.
This is such a pathetic attention grab by these two no-talented, media whores!! By renewing their vows, they make a mockery of the institution of marriage! After all, they were BOTH married to other people when they had sex the first day they met!!!


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This kid's swagger is on a trillion. Not sure if it's because of the gymnasium/ball theme or the fact that young Key Swag is only 13-years-old, but we're getting kind of a "Chris Brown potential" vibe from him – the rap version. Hailing from Milwaukee (hard city to come out of, ask anybody from there!!!) young Key Swag 3000 already has a big buzz surrounding him.
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Did you notice the video bears a striking similarity to Bow Wow's "Like Mike" video? We like the movie style production of it.
You already know there are some big hands stirring the pot when it comes to an artist like this. We've heard some thangs about who this kid may or may not be signed to, but we're gonna leave it a mystery for now.
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Energy Efficiency vs. Using Less
In its basic definition, efficiency relates to a given amount of energy or effort it takes to accomplish a certain task relative to the least possible amount. It is true that a more efficient system/solution/product will use less energy than a less efficient counterpart, but in order to gauge its place within the topic of sustainability we have to ground the term and its use in realistic conditions. What we end up with is that "efficiency" is a much more incomplete thought than most people treat it. As an idea, it is a component of a direction more than a solution.
A Call for Saving Energy
There are many environmental voices that champion opportunities for our culture to use increased efficiency as a way to reduce the amount of energy and resources that we sacrifice. Amory Lovins famously claimed that Americans have the opportunity to cut their energy use by 30% merely through efficiency measures alone. In 2009, the McKinsey & Company issued a report claiming that not only that "the US economy has the potential to reduce annual non-transportation energy consumption by roughly 23 percent by 2020," but that it was financially in our best interest to do so by "eliminating more than $1.2 trillion in waste—well beyond the $520 billion upfront investment (not including program costs) that would be required."
This is why the idea of efficiency is so attractive. It is presented as a solution that is not only currently good for the environment, but also is cash flow positive for us in the long run. Even better yet, if efficiency can be baked into things like products, infrastructure or the built environment then perhaps we don't really have to change much at all. What's not to like? Onward with efficiency!
But there's a danger to these kinds of mindsets and the misconceptions that they promote for sustainability. As I have lectured about in the past, the most important aspect of sustainability that I try to impart on others is that sustainability is not a technological fix to supplement a wasteful lifestyle. This is incredibly important. This doesn't mean that using compact fluorescents, plug-in hybrids, rechargeable battees or EnergyStar appliances is unsustainable, but it means that these things do not embody sustainability. Sustainability is the lifestyle. It is the mindset of using what we need–which for most of us is less than what we use now–in order to help maintain a level of resource balance.
This reality ends up presenting itself in how our culture has responded to cases of increased efficiency in the past. Take some of the large energy-consuming items in the American home for example. The Department of Energy has regulated the efficiency requirements for certain household items since oil embargo in 1973 (perhaps one of the first times that American energy use was called into question on the national level). Since then, things like furnaces, hot water heaters, air conditioning units and heat pumps need to achieve certain levels of energy efficiency in order to be code compliant. The thought would be that it would help make homes more efficient over time, helping us to use less energy as a country… but such is not the case. Despite these efficiency increases, the energy consumption of Americans has remained flat ever since.
Butter's in the Fridge
Another great example is a look at refrigerators in America. If we start with a fridge from 1947, the data suggests that the size of refrigerators has increased over 250% over half a century. However, after peaking around 1974, the energy used by the appliance has decreased to the point of nearly reaching parity with its ancestry of the late 40′s. Despite an increase in size, the energy load of our fridges can be nearly the same 50 years later due to an 25-fold increase in efficiency. Good stuff, no? Proponents like Lovins would call this a win-win, saying we can use efficiency to lower our energy footprint even as we increase capacity.
But according to New Yorker writer David Owens, not so fast. In his book, The Conundrum (I highly recommend it), Owens outlines some of the indirect repercussions of increased efficiency in refrigeration. I've taken some of his assertions into an Intercon diagram below.
The first caveat to this efficiency story is it's important to remember that while fridges have gotten more efficient it is not uncommon for houses to have increased their cooling load beyond a single fridge. A separate chest freezer, back-up fridge or even wine coolers are all increasingly normal. Also, just because a household replaces their kitchen fridge with a newer model doesn't mean the old fridge is retired. These older counterparts often find homes as back-up cold storage in basements or garages to keep spare beverages ready for things like football games or beer pong. While perhaps a net increase in enjoyment, it also constitutes a net increase in energy.
As refrigeration has gotten cheaper and easier, it has spread across our commercial landscape as well. Owens asserts that gas stations of today have the same amount of cold storage that grocery stores had in the 50′s and 60′s.
Let's not forget the contents of these evolving appliances as well. The potential kicker in this equation is that as food capacity and reliability has grown, so has our assumption that food will last longer inside the fridge. As a result, our culture ends up throwing away more food that ultimately goes bad despite staying cold. Since 1975 our food waste has increased by 50% to the point that we now throw away 40-50% of the food that we grow. How does that factor into energy? Our food is incredibly energy intensive. Wasted food represents resources required for fertilizer and pesticides (both petroleum based), harvesting, packaging, transportation and the cooling in both the stores and in our homes. Not to mention that rotting food is the primary source of methane in landfills, a potent greenhouse gas. So in the end, has our increased efficiency actually saved us energy in the long run? It's certainly debatable.
Just Using Less
The simple change to the equation that makes it much more environmentally viable is pairing efficiency with a sustainable use of resources of materials–or rather a lack of use. If we each had only one efficient fridge that only stored food that we were actually going to eat then the gains would be more measurable. Efficiency only gives us the gains we choose to preserve and build from, but it also gives us an opportunity to consume more. The same can be said for most of our "green" options today (low-flow fixtures, CFLs, geothermal heating and cooling, hybrid cars). Replacing a product with one that uses half as much energy that one in turn uses three times as much is a step back, not a step forward.
As disappointing as it may be, the solution to our environmental problems will most likely not be a technological fix. It will not be a product that makes it cheaper to consume. The prospect of efficiency should be taken as a supplement, a beginning to a more sustainable lifestyle, not a replacement for sustainability. At this stage in our cultural and technological evolution, lifestyle changes will gain us far more ground than trading one consumption path for another.
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I'd hate to be clichéand tell you guys to "get to know me first before judging" so let me say it like this: Feel free to judge. We all do. Say hi first.
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when somebody doesn't understand ur jokebut it's not funny enough 2 explain>>>>
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So Funny . . .No funny person has shared a story here. Now that's funny.
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Usually get told this by people :') MOST of thetime it's on purpose hahaha
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Girl I ain't no farmerbut I thought I'd come over and say hay.
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Okay. I'm sorry guys,but some of you are really weird but in the bad way. I am not here to found my true love. I don't know why I still here. But yeah. So, if you message me, don't be creepy or I'll afraid you ;) *sorry for my bad english*
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Survey reveals Top 50 funniest jokes ever told[HK] A joke about a male bus passenger insulting a woman's ugly baby has been voted the funniest gag ever told. Researchers examined more than 1,000 jokes before whittling them down to a final 50 and getting 36,000 people to vote for their favourites. Source: Onepoll.com...
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The Potato ChipO potato chip why do you stare at me while I'm in Wallmart shopping. You know your a dirty girl and that you want nothing more than to make me fat. You cover yourself with cheese, salt I even once seen you covered in dill. I think your the feell good part of my weekend, but the...
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