Tag: georgia

June 12, 2013 0

Oxidation of CO

By News Desk

First part of an occasional series Oxidation of carbon monoxide (CO) to carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is a vital last step in combustion and the atmospheric degradation of just about any hydrocarbon.  It is slow, taking about two months in the troposphere, but the lifetime is not really slow, like methane (5-10 years) or like forever in the troposphere like the chloroflorocarbons.

May 30, 2013 0

Portland fluoride vote makes sense given limited information and time

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Tweet Voters in Portland have for the umpteenth time stopped fluoridation of their water , not long after my water district voted to fund it here in Santa Clara County. I used to live in Portland and still visit regularly. The city relies on a famous-to-Portland protected watershed for its water supply, the Bull Run watershed near Mount Hood.

May 28, 2013 0

Tol erasion

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Richard Tol is quite busy trying out for his new career as a web based comedian over at twitter.  If there is one thing that Cook et al. are to be thanked for it is the meltdowns that they have set off at Lucia’s and Tol’s.  Eli has been having a bit of fun here and there, but he needs to share the glory with Tom Curtis at Brisbane’s Waters and our friend Willard in the comments at Rabett Run , Dana and many others. To be honest, and Eli is an honest Rabett, Tol has dug this one so deep that he has called out the Chewbacca team .

May 25, 2013 0

Unsolicited and sadly unpaid game endorsement: Geoguessr

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 Posted by Brian Rabett Run Subscribe Rabett Run Posts Posts Comments Comments Contributors Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves

May 24, 2013 0

Memorial Day Puzzler

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So Eli and Ms. Eli are bundling up for the end of May holiday here in the US and Ethon thought he would take a whack or a peck as the case may be.  This one starts with the set to between Richard Tol (boo, hiss) and Dana Nuccetelli (yea) covered at places which are dangerous but it really is about reading carefully.  You can see their tweets at Twitter , but Eli’s friend @Ethon Raptor wants to point to two of them Richard Tol ‏ @ RichardTol Cook survey included 10 of my 122 eligible papers. 5/10 were rated incorrectly.