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By Ed_Reid on August 27, 2013 at 8:49 am
Well done. The only thing missing is a cartoon graphic showing a power shovel labeled ASIA down in a hole digging, surrounded by multiple people labeled as EU, US, etc. throwing dirt back into the hole with teaspoons.
By Woolsey on August 30, 2013 at 4:24 am
Very good Ed! Also, we've outsourced out CO2 generation to these very same asians…
By Ed_Reid on August 30, 2013 at 7:23 am
…and, they are thrilled we did.
Great post Robert.
"Even if the US could drop emissions all the way to zero, it won't solve
the problem as the world is adding the equivalent of a new US worth of
emissions every few years." I see this as one of the major reasons that is used to justify our slow transition to renewable energy.
In my mind though a bigger problem now is the venting of methane, mostly from the arctic permafrost and ocean hydrates but some from fracking too. If unaddressed it threatens to send warming non-linear with unpredictable results for our climate.
I had hoped that humanity might find a way to mitigate this looming catastrophe but it appears that if (or when) they do, it will be too little too late.
I'm curious as to what you are working on to sequester CO2? I'm working on a solar unit to make bio-char for my garden. Not a big deal but a step forward.
Best regards,
By Joe Clarkson on August 27, 2013 at 7:27 pm
The best way of sequestering CO2 is to build up soil organic material and create long lived hunks of solid carbonaceous material above ground. In other words…plant trees (preferably nitrogen fixers). I'm pretty sure that this is RR's strategy.
Very well written Robert. Enough information to wake us up to some very harsh realities but not enough to scare us.
You are a very talented author.
"..we either have to develop low-cost, convenient, and scalable sources of
power so developing countries can continue to develop (otherwise they
will continue to develop with coal), or we have to find a way to start
sucking a trillion metric tons of carbon out of the atmosphere.."
There is no credible, proven technology that will economically achieve these goals, over the next several generations, other than war in Asia. If CO2 is a real danger to mankind, billions are doomed. Only carbon combustion and fission can supply base loaded energy at costs which are sustainable. No green energy is cheap enough. This, not disappearing islands, is the problem.
I also hope the doubters are right.
By Tom G. on August 27, 2013 at 2:04 pm
Like you I also hope the majority of climate scientists are wrong. But from my perspective as a Quality Engineer, it is common place for us to look at all of the contributing factors to a proposed problem statement before we state some conclusion. Do I think CO2 is important? Yes, of course it is. Do I believe it is the only contributing factor nope; I sure don't.
As far as developing countries are concerned, we could try sending them 100,000 solar panels manufactured in the U.S. as a start instead selling them F-16 fighter jets. Or we could teach them how to drill geothermal wells for baseload enhanced geothermal power plants instead of sending them foreign aid that gets siphoned off to buy more AK-47′s. We have the knowledge, the skill and the ability to change the world. It is unfortunate that we choose NOT to.
Have a great day.
By rlhailssrpe on August 27, 2013 at 3:32 pm
I have a one note song. Energy engineering. I spent my life studying it.
I have no expertise in foreign policy, or tax policy, or energy oligopolies. They are a corrupt mess, I agree, but I stay focused, like a laser.
Geothermal plants are filthy, they reek of poisonous gases which corrode everything. Fortunately they are so few, they are irrelevant to our national needs. (All energy technologies will have niche markets, but again, I focus on our bedrock needs.) Solar panels are simply too expensive to support our basic needs, and will remain so indefinitely. Ditto wind energy. Hence my judgment: America can not sustain our standard of life without carbon combustion. No nation can. The primary reactant of carbon combustion is CO2, and its global control is beyond our power, any nation's power. Ergo, if CO2 is bad, there is no peaceful means to stop climate change.
So what do we do? Intense voluntary conservation? Yes. A central dictatorship? No.
"There are some strategies for sequestering carbon (and I am personally working on one of them), but so far none that can significantly impact the problem."
That's debatable. See e.g. http://www.biobamboo.org. Of course it would involve transfer payments from the developed to the developing world, along the lines of REDD, which may have been the best use of those funds (even if anyone had lived up to their commitments). I think the politics is a much bigger impediment than the lack of available technologies.
"But carbon emissions in the US are on the decline, falling by 217
million metric tons (MMT) in 2012 to lead all countries. Over the past
five years carbon dioxide emissions in the US have fallen by 738 MMT, a
decline of 11% from 2007 levels. The primary reason for the decline was
utilities switching from coal to natural gas…"
That, and a really poor non-FIRE economy.
It's all very well to mention the decline in US emissions but that only counts the emissions from within the borders of the US. It doesn't count emissions due to the lifestyles of US citizens (sorry, consumers). Any discussion of emission reductions needs to take into account that we now live in a global society where the emissions due to human behaviour need not occur solely within the country that that behaviour takes place.
I've seen many comments elsewhere that likes to tout US emissions drops (probably 18% below where they would have been if the trend up to 2005 had continued) without considering how they have occurred (about 4.5% due to the switch to natural gas, the rest due to a declining real economy and outsourcing production, with maybe a little due to conscious lifestyle decisions). Also, US coal exports are rising, as power stations switch to natural gas, and emissions from these aren't counted.
Yes, the pipeline a colossal distraction to important discussion. Also, the desire to limit discussion to solar and wind is a distraction. We need to get real and defer to the sciences, engineering, and statistical community. Meaning to much chatter out there with political and environmental motivations. For example some are using global warming to empower federal control of economy. Some exploit per desire for urbanizing and mass transit or to limit standard of living conditions or population growth. Not good to fantasize of old time social solutions of utopia. We need international change in power generation and it must be cost effective. Might it have been a huge mistake to not continue with nuclear? Would we, currently, be having this discussion if the industry were empowered to develop. It appears to me this technology the only practical solution. Also, the science community believes the future does belong to this technology. Problem is the regulation industry has been active gutting the potential per politics.
By Russ Finley on August 29, 2013 at 7:54 pm
Well put. The problem is that we don't have enough renewable, non-environmentally destructive, affordable, low carbon sources of energy. To take nuclear out of the equation just makes matters worse.
Well, Mr. Rapier, you certainly have rained on the parade, again! Why must you inconvenience us with these pesky little things called details? It really is dispiriting to hear that the faster we run the more we stand still–or, worse yet, lose ground.
Why, it nearly leaves one feeling a bit hopeless in that whatever we might do, we find our efforts futile against the backdrop of rising (and understandably so) energy consumption among the LDCs. Little wonder the Limits to Growth crowd remain very much on their high horses with the specter of lower growth, and concomitant standards of living, as their default position in this zero-sum game.
We might do well, however, to look beyond the current season and begin to appreciate that there are forces at work (albeit fledgling movements against a tidal wave of momentum built into modernity's status quo of how we power global economic output) beginning to reshape the energy landscape. Much of these changes bear directly on social changes on how we organize our lives–and livelihoods. Like it or not, we are inching into a Brave New World of the Digital Age that promises to alter so many traditional socioeconomic arrangements that a new generation of workers/consumers we will hardly recognize what most of us take for granted here in the early days of a new century.
Will the 21st Century be a second "American Century" full of opportunity and promise? Perhaps. If it is, we can fully expect that it won't be policy out of Washington that leads the way. Rather, it will be, as ever, the guy tinkering in his garage or the young lady burning the midnight fuel (of whatever source) aiming to build a better mousetrap for all of us to enjoy for the benefit of our individual and collective well-being. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against the government. I'm just a little too rational to expect much from a group that has clearly become more of a captive of special/petty interests that place the welfare of the commonweal a distant second behind those of narrow, self-interest. Until we bell that cat, well, we can expect the average American to take a view not very different from that of a parent dealing with an increasingly unruly child–take away his allowance and see what adjustments might possibly result.
Thanks for the data and the analysis. Once again you've left me acknowledging the annoying inconvenience of truth.
fighting flies in the Allagash
O.K. so lets talk about CO2 or nuclear power if
that's o. k. Of course that means we should also consider; high oil
prices, carbon sequestration, solar, wind, king coal, distributed
generation, fission, concentrated solar, fusion, hydro power,
electric vehicles, energy efficiency, natural gas, battery storage,
$4.50 gasoline, sustainability, heating oil and lots of others I
haven't even listed.
I have a belief that most of us on this site have a
pretty good understanding of energy. If you did nothing more than
just read the postings on this site you would be in a knowledge group
way above the average individual someone like J. Leno interviews in
his Man on the Street segments. Most of them can't even identify who
the Vice President is after being shown his picture. Anyway I enjoy
posting on this site. This time it is going to be about my latest
views when it comes to new nuclear power reactor designs. A company
called General Atomic [GA] has created a new reactor design they
claim has the potential to reduce energy costs by up to 40%. I
became aware of this new reactor design by reading an article on the
MIT Technology Review website. The article was entitled "A Nuclear
Reactor Competitive With Natural Gas", By Kevin Bullis, August 19,
This High Temperature Gas cooled Reactor [HTGR]
design is what I would call an evolutionary improvement. From a
historical perspective GA was one of the lead engineering firms for
the HTGR reactor facility located in Colorado called Fort St. Vrain.
During the design, construction and operation of the facility they
learned a great deal about how these facilities function as
documented in the following Wikipedia link.
GA is a company with lots of nuclear experience and
you don't have to go very far to find a lot of their technology in
our fleet of nuclear powered submarines. I even visited their San
Diego faculty at one point in time to evaluate some X-Ray film for
a reactor core load for a fast attack nuclear powered submarine
project I was assigned to earlier in my career.
I spent the last 20+ years of my career
working at a PWR facility in California that basically ran flawlessly
for all of those years. However, it was recently decided that this
facility would be decommissioned in 2013 before the expiration of its
two authorized licenses to operate. The REASON for this planned
decommissioning has a lot to do with my current thinking about the
future of nuclear power in America.
The plant I helped build and operate was NOT shut
down due to some failure of some nuclear technology; but rather it
had become too expensive to operate. To replace that two unit
facility today would most likely cost between $5-$12 billion if it
could even be built in its current location. It seems to me that
money is becoming another nuclear power Achilles heel. Based on my
historical perspective, it seems to me that regardless of the type of
reactors involved, nuclear power is becoming obsolete. It is being
forced into obsolescence by MONEY.
So what do you think. Are there other things beside
money holding back a nuclear resurgence in America? Well other than
the costs shown above it all depends on the what, when, where and how
you build that nuclear facility. It will also most likely take
anywhere from 5-12 years to create the plant design, obtain the
regulatory approvals, find and have approved a site, select and
qualify nuclear manufacturers and suppliers and then actually build
the plant. And all of this must be done BEFORE even one kWh of
electricity can be produced to pay back the billions and billions of
dollars of loans and/or loan guarantees.
I am beginning to believe that it really doesn't seem
to make much difference what type of reactors we design. Small
Modular Reactors [SMR], Boiling Water Reactors, [BWR], Thorium, PWR,
Traveling Wave, Breeders, Molten Salt or HTGR. And right about now,
I suspect that some of you are beginning to think; do we really need
more nuclear power plants? Don't we need more nuclear power for
business and industry and to maintain our way of life? I will leave
that decision up to you after you have read the information contained
in the below link.
Much has changed since we built 100+ nuclear power
plants back in the 1980′s. Today we have many more choices when it
comes to the type of generation facilities we can use to provide our
electrical power. We have even more choices being studies in our
national labs and research departments of our colleges and
universities. Choice is good right? So I decided to put together a
short list of just 10 little things I believe we would need to
address before we can think about having some type of nuclear power
resurgence in America. The list is of course not all encompassing or
even in any priority order; its just a bunch of my random thoughts
that came to mind as I wrote this posting.
1. Solar efficiency has improved about 50% in the
last 10 years while costs have decreased by the same amount in just
the last 3.
2. Wind power has become cheaper and easier to site
and build than even a natural gas plant in many parts of America.
3. Enhanced geothermal, hydro, biomass, storage and
other technologies of various types can provide 24/7 power without
emitting CO2.
4. Utilities are learning that it is much easier to
manage the grid with lots of renewable energy than they once thought
5. The crown once worn by King Coal is becoming increasingly tarnished. The public is slowly acknowledging that itscontinued use is not a very wise choice.
6. When money is tight, it is much easier to obtain
short term capital and regulatory approvals to build non-nuclear 300
MW facilities instead of a $5 billion dollar nuclear plant requiring
long term capital investment.
7. Energy efficiency and conservation are starting to
take their toll on the need for new generating plants regardless of
their type. If you reviewed the above link you now know the U.S.
wastes 61-86% of the energy we create.
8. Our public utilities are learning that distributed
generation, energy efficiency and strategies like demand response are
far easier to implement than they thought. This is especially true
when the public supports the energy systems involved.
9. Financially viable grid storage appears to be just
around the corner. When renewable energy systems become 30% – 40%
efficient and storage becomes cost competitive; there will be little
need to burn fossil fuels or build more nuclear plants with their
associated health and financial risks, and;
10. Did I mention that our government which funds
most nuclear power research and development is BROKE!
Thank for reading this very long posting.
Hey, Tom
"The plant I helped build and operate was NOT shut down due to some failure of some nuclear technology; but rather it had become too expensive to operate … . It is being forced into obsolescence by
MONEY(my edit) competition from a cheaper fossil fuel."
Too expensive to operate = not as cheap as natural gas (a fossil fuel that produces 30 times more GHG than nuclear). Certainly, wind and solar are not any cheaper than Nuclear. The last estimate I got said it would cost close to $70 grand to replace my electric use with solar panels on my roof.
A recent study by The National Renewable Energy Laboratory that is purported to be "the most comprehensive analysis of high-penetration renewable electricity of the continental United State,." estimated that by the year 2050, a massive expansion of all renewable energy sources (solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, and hydro) may, in theory, be able to provide only 32 of the 98 Quads of the total energy consumed annually in the United States (80 percent of electricity generation).
Where are you going to get the low carbon energy without help from nuclear or do you think the NREL is out to lunch? ; )
Some more things to consider, Tom, on the subject of nuclear energy
To replace that two unit facility today would most likely cost between $5-$12 billion if it could even be built in its current location. It seems to me that money is becoming another nuclear power Achilles heel.
If cost is the Achilles heel of nuclear, it is also the Achilles heel of wind and solar. From Elias Hinckley's recent article about the tax credit for wind:
"An investor simply could not have certainty that it could earn the necessary return (or in most cases any return) without realizing value from the credit, so no investments were made."
From "Cost of German Solar Is Four Times Finnish Nuclear:
So it came as a shock to many and an offense to some to learn that new nuclear plants still cost substantially less than solar.
$5-12 billion sounds like a lot of money but the only metric that matters is profitability over time. A nuclear power plant that cost $12 billion to build, if it produces enough power for half of a century, in the face of escalating fossil fuel prices, could be a very wise investment. We've been producing gargantuan amounts of electricity with nuclear energy for over half of a century. It isn't a hypothesis that it can compete with other energy sources.
Certainly, thanks to temporarily cheap natural gas, the large up-front investment in nuclear is more financially risky than a cheap natural gas plant. The price of natural gas will eventually go back up. It's only a matter of time.
It will also most likely take anywhere from 5-12 years to create the plant design, obtain the regulatory approvals, find and have approved a site, select and qualify nuclear manufacturers and suppliers and then actually build the plant
That would all go away with standardized designs, like France did, which
…has the lowest carbon dioxide production per unit of GDP in the industrialized world. As of 2012 France's electricity price to household customers is the 7th cheapest amongst the 27 member European Union and the 7th cheapest to Industrial consumers, behind other nations which produce the majority of their electricity from Hydroelectric and nuclear power plants such as Bulgaria, but substantially cheaper than Germany.
Hi Russ: I would have been totally disappointed had you not commented. Very good points one and all.
I guess if someone pressured me into selecting a reactor type to standardize; it would most likely be a High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor. I do not believe liquid metal or sodium reactors are the answer. Molten Salt maybe. Anyway how do we get B&W, GA, Mitsubish. GE, Westinghouse and others to come to the table and standardize on ONE design? I am getting really tired; and older by the way; waiting for the nuclear resurgence. I would love to go back to work for about another 5 years.
One of your other statements was interesting. You said: "The last estimate I got said it would cost close to $70 grand to replace my electric use with solar panels on my roof".
Please go to the below link to look at current pricing in my area for a roof mounted grid tied solar PV system. For ground mounting add about another $1000. Then calculate about 3 men, for 2 or 3 days and maybe another $1,500 – $2,000 for racking and misc stuff. In some parts of the country you can even do much of the work yourself if you don't mind getting your hands dirty. Almost every system today is pretty much plug and play. However if you do decide to do some of the work yourself, you can not turn the system on until it is inspected by the city and the local utility.
The link takes you to a 8640 watt DC system which should zero out [$0] your electric service if you are using about 12,000 kWh's per year. That of course depends on where you live. As shown, system cost is $13,500+/- and about $2,000 for misc. stuff. Puts you right at about $16,000.
Have a great day Russ.
By Russ Finley on August 31, 2013 at 11:54 pm
I've always been a big fan of solar. Go here and put in 12,000 kWh in Seattle. The cost is about $65K, assuming your roof slopes to the south (mine doesn't). All of the solar installation cost estimator websites give similar results.
I may yet go for it but I once stood on top of my roof which is about 40 feet above street level …and has a 45 degree slope, …terrifying experience ; )
Very few people are going to install their own solar. And again, It was the NREL which estimated that only about 5% of our energy by 2050 might consist of roof top solar.
This isn't a battle between renewables and nuclear. It is a battle with nuclear and renewables pitted against cheap fossil fuels.
By Tom G. on September 1, 2013 at 1:57 am
Calculator reveals a significant difference between our two locations. My calculator system results were 40% less than yours of course my rate is $.11/kWh. Of course with your bill being only $88/month, it doesn't seem to make you a very good candidate. And of course a roof mounted system in your case would most likely be inappropriate given your homes orientation. Certainly a ground mount system in your case would seem to makes more sense.
As far as the 5% solar in 2050 goes, unfortunately I won't be around by that date to see who is right My gut feeling would be to apply a higher range something on the order of 7-10%. But to make that happen we would need to be very aggressive and there are so many variables.
Have a great day Russ. .
By Russ Finley on September 1, 2013 at 11:57 am
Good discussion
I might go for solar one day, not so much to save money, but to eliminate another monthly utility bill …put a chunk of cash down to not have to bother with another bill. Not real rational, I suppose. I would not want to have to make payments on a system instead of pay an electric bill.
If I had high electric bills from air conditioning in a very sunny place, solar would make a lot more sense, especially if I did it myself. Seattle is best suited for hydro, which, because the weather is driven by the sun, is also solar powered.
The problem isn't so much the higher costs of wind, solar, and nuclear …it is the low cost of fossil fuels (we get to choose our perspectives ; )). On the positive side, natural gas is also giving coal a run for its money, so maybe it will give us some breathing room allowing nuclear and renewables to gain ground. Coal needs to be obsoleted by something better, the way it obsoleted the burning of trees …which ironically is being pushed as an option again.
By Tom G. on September 1, 2013 at 12:35 pm
I find absolutely nothing to disagree with in your posting Russ especially the part about coal. I don't care what you do to coal either before, during or after combustion – ITS DIRTY.
But CO2 isn't a pollutant. It certainly doesn't come out of a car exhaust.


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Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher could recover from his brain injuries within one-to-three years according to his doctor.
The German suffered severe head injuries after a skiing accident late last year and in the 10 months since has made a start to what will be a long road to recovery.
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Dr Jean-Francois Payen, giving his first public comments since treating Schumacher, confirmed he is now out of a coma while reiterating it will take time before any kind of return to normality can occur.
"I have seen some progress but I would say give him time. It's like other patients, we are in a timescale that ranges from one year to three years, so it takes patience," he was quoted by the Telegraph newspaper.
"Life after a brain injury is littered with stages."
"It must progress, we hope, but we must give him time."
Back home
Schumacher returned to his home in Switzerland earlier this year after receiving his initial treatment at Grenoble University Hospital, where Dr Payen is the head of the Anaesthesiology, to continue his recovery in a room speciality fitted with all the necessary equipment.
Speaking about Schumacher's initial recovery, Dr Payen said the care he received upon arrival was crucial to his survival as the seven-time F1 champion was in critical condition and also described his respect for Michael's wife Corinna and the rest of the family during those first months.
"Immediately she understood the seriousness of the situation and the long journey that lay before them," he said. "She sees things very clearly and will do anything and give everything to improve the condition of her husband."
He also revealed what he described as "extraordinary willpower" from Mrs. Schumacher when dealing with the gravity of what had occurred.
Media pitfalls
Finally Dr Payen spoke about his own experience dealing with a patient with an international following as Michael Schumacher has and the pitfalls that came with it.
"Nobody is willing to undergo such a flood of media [attention]," he told Le Parisien.
"We quickly got organised by creating a sort of 'medical bubble' to protect us from the outside world, from the media pressure, in order to work properly."
Indeed during those initial months several incidents were reported as a journalist was believed to have impersonated a priest and was able to get to Schumacher's bedside while some of the 46-year-old's medical files were also later stolen.
Dr Payen described how he and the rest of the medical staff had to use an enclosed car park to get in and out of the facility and were not allowed mobile phones.
Schumacher the great
Of course the kind of attention from the world's media was to be expected, after all we are talking one about one of the most decorated sportsmen in history.
With seven world titles and 91 wins to his name, Schumacher stands above as one of the great racing drivers of all time.
While he may have had a few controversies during his career, he also remained one of only a handful of sportsmen not to have been weighed down by scandal or off-track mishaps.
He was a true sportsman who did whatever he had to to succeed and in today's world it is that ruthlessness that is often lacking with many drivers.
Bianchi hope
The news from Dr Payen about Schumacher possibly making a near full recovery in the next few years offers hope too as the motor sport world continues to pray for Jules Bianchi.
He remains in a critical but stable condition in a hospital in Suzuka after he suffered a diffuse axonal brain injury when his Marussia hit the back of a recovery tractor at the Japanese Grand Prix nearly three weeks ago.
It has been described as a miracle that the Frenchman has survived what some have measured as a 90G impact in Japan and given Bianchi was many people's tip to go and become the next big star since Schumacher at Ferrari, lets hope that both men can be seen in an F1 paddock sometime in the future.


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Aston in Bloom….from feeding the family to feeding the soul!
Spring has come to Aston! And Aston Township Historical Society welcomes the extremely popular historian, Nancy Webster, to their May 14Th meeting to speak on "Aston in Bloom….from feeding the family to feeding the soul!"
Ms. Webster will speak about Colonial gardens "for meat and medicine" to early-mid 19th century ornamental gardens on the farm, plus touching on arbortea efforts. She will also regal us on the differences between Colonial and Colonial Revival interpretations of the past. As always, there will be time for questions and answers following Ms. Webster's talk.
The doors open at 6:30pm and the event begins at 7pm at the Aston Township Municipal Building, rear entrance. The building is located just south of 5 Points, next to TD Bank in Aston on Pennell Road aka Route 452.
This event is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome. ATHS offers many engaging volunteer opportunities.
Aston Township Historical Society can also provide a home for your unwanted artifacts and old pictures. Copies of old pictures are much appreciated, too!
As a courtesy reminder, it is ATHS membership renewal time.
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Until now, web addresses have, for the most part, ended in such familiar gTLD extensions as .com, .net, and .org. There are currently 22 such extensions. There are also 280 country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs). In January 2012, ICANN launched a new program that allows public and private entities to establish gTLDs of their choosing using any letter and number combination (including non-ASCII characters used in foreign languages). Businesses can turn their own brand names into gTLDs, such as .microsoft, or form generic extensions based on product groups or geographic locations, such as .toys or .boston. The program significantly expands the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) since there are now, theoretically, a virtually unlimited number of available gTLDs.
Unfortunately, this innovation comes at a high price: There is a serious potential for increased cybersquatting and other trademark-based concerns. Accordingly, brand owners in every industry need to understand the mechanisms available to protect their trademarks against infringement by the new gTLDs and, especially, by newly registered domain names within each of the new gTLDs. For the future, brand owners should also consider whether applying for their own ".brand" or some other gTLD makes sense for their business, whether for affirmative strategic commercial purposes or for defensive purposes. The window for the first round of new gTLD applications closed on May 30, but ICANN expects to open a second window for applications within the next couple of years.
Many major brand owners applied for gTLDs in the first application round, including Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, JP Morgan Chase, Macy's, and Wal-Mart. Current registrars, various associations, and even religious groups also participated. The June 13 posting identifying the proposed new gTLDs triggered a sixty-day public comment period (ending on August 12, 2012), during which time anyone can submit feedback on active gTLD applications through a forum on ICANN's website.2 During this time period, governments may issue an early warning objection to proposed gTLDs. For the next seven months, third parties will also be able to file formal objections to any application, using pre-established dispute resolution procedures, some of which are explained below.
Importantly, trademark owners will be able to file their marks with a centralized database, known as the Trademark Clearinghouse, to help protect them from infringement by new second-level domain names that are sought to be registered within the new gTLDs and from abusive conduct by gTLD operators. ICANN currently intends to open the Trademark Clearinghouse in October 2012.
Between July 2012 and January 2013, evaluation panels appointed by ICANN will conduct an initial review of the applications. A proposed gTLD that passes the initial evaluation and faces no formal objections could go into effect as early as 2013. ICANN has stated that in no given year will it allocate more than 1,000 new gTLDs.
ICANN's existing trademark dispute resolution mechanism, the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), will be available to trademark owners to challenge second-level domain names registered under any new gTLD. ICANN has developed several additional IP rights protection mechanisms to protect brand owners against proposed gTLDs and second-level domain names registered within new gTLDs that infringe trademarks.
Legal Rights Objections to Proposed gTLDs
ICANN will not notify individual brand owners if a proposed top-level domain name matches their trademark. Instead, it is ICANN's position that, by publishing the applications on its website, it has provided trademark holders the opportunity to review every new gTLD. Third parties can file a "Legal Rights Objection" against any proposed gTLD that infringes their registered or common law trademark.3 Objections must be filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the provider contracted by ICANN to adjudicate legal rights objections.
Third-party objectors will be required to pay a filing fee of $2,000 and a panel fee of $8,000 for review by a single-expert panel, or a filing fee of $3,000 and a panel fee of $20,000 for review by a three-member panel. There will also be legal fees associated with preparing and prosecuting the objection. The legal rights objection filing period will last until approximately mid-January, 2013.
Trademark Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedure (for gTLD-based and domain name-based disputes)
ICANN has also published a Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedure for the filing of complaints by trademark owners against new gTLD operators (Trademark PDDRP). This procedure is not operational until after a registry operator begins selling domain names. It is intended to address situations of trademark abuse by a registry operator, both in the operation of the gTLD registry itself (e.g., a gTLD that is identical to a trademark and being held out by the operator as affiliated with the trademark owner), and at the second level (e.g., a pattern of bad faith by the operator in knowingly selling domain names that infringe a trademark). The trademark owner would need to show, by clear and convincing evidence, that the operator's conduct infringes the trademark owner's rights in the top-level or second-level domain name space. Updated rules for the Trademark PDDRP were announced on June 4, 2012.4
Trademark Clearinghouse (for gTLD-based and domain name-based disputes)
Brand owners will be able to register their marks with a Trademark Clearinghouse, an independent centralized database that will offer authentication and validation services for trademark information. ICANN will require new gTLD operators to use the Clearinghouse to support two programs designed to help protect trademark owners during the early stages of the launch of a new gTLD, a Trademark Claims Service and a Sunrise Registration Service. The Clearinghouse will also support the Trademark PDDRP, discussed above. Deloitte and IBM have contracted with ICANN to be the service providers for the Trademark Clearinghouse.
Trademark Claims Service
Under the Trademark Claims service, during at least the first 60 days of the general registration period for domain names in a new gTLD, the registry operator or the registrar will notify an applicant if its proposed domain name could impact the rights of a pre-existing trademark owner, based on information in the Trademark Clearinghouse. If the domain name is ultimately issued, the registrar will notify the trademark owner so that it can take action against the registrant if it so desires.
Sunrise Service
The Trademark Clearinghouse will also support the obligation of registry operators to provide trademark owners with a "Sunrise" period, during which they can register second-level domain names under the new gTLDs before applicants at-large may apply. Registry operators must provide the Sunrise period for at least thirty days during their pre-launch phase. Data in the Clearinghouse will be used to verify claims of trademark ownership by applicants for domain names during the Sunrise period. If someone other than the trademark owner, as verified by the Clearinghouse, applies for a domain name during the sunrise period, both parties will be notified, and the dispute will be handled according to a Sunrise Dispute Resolution Policy (SDRP). The Clearinghouse will maintain Sunrise eligibility requirements and hear challenges to Sunrise registrations.
Criteria for Inclusion in the Clearinghouse
Trademarks eligible for inclusion in the Clearinghouse include: (1) nationally or regionally registered word marks from all jurisdictions; (2) any word mark that has been validated through a judicial proceeding; (3) any word mark protected by a statute or treaty; and (4) other marks that constitute intellectual property.
Applicants to the Clearinghouse must submit a copy of the registration certificate for their mark or other proof of ownership rights in their mark and a sworn statement that the mark is currently in use and has not been supplied for an improper purpose. In order to remain in the Clearinghouse, each trademark holder will need to periodically renew its registration information. The fee for initial authentication and validation services by the Clearinghouse is expected to be less than $150 per submission; however, complex applications that require additional services will be subject to a higher rate.
Uniform Rapid Suspension System
The Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) is to provide an expedited, inexpensive procedure for trademark owners to halt clearly infringing and potentially harmful domain name activity.
A URS complainant must assert and prove, by clear and convincing evidence, that a registered domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a word mark owned by the complainant. The URS is available for registered marks, marks that have been validated through court proceedings, and marks that are specifically protected by a statute or treaty.
The URS provider has yet to be contracted by ICANN. The proposal currently provides that the provider will charge fees to the complainant of about $300, but the final amount is to be set by the provider. It is unclear how and when URS will be implemented. As of this writing, ICANN has encountered difficulty in locating a provider that can implement the program under the low fee structure set by ICANN.
Considerations in Applying for a gTLD
Although ICANN has not issued a timetable for additional gTLD application periods, and it is likely to be a couple of years before a new application round commences, brand owners interested in the program should consider the potential benefits and drawbacks of gTLD ownership.
Ownership of a gTLD provides certain benefits for businesses. gTLD operators have the authority to decide which entities or individuals should receive second-level domain name registrations under certain types of gTLDs, e.g., .brand, making them as inclusive or exclusive as they wish. By having full control over a gTLD, a business may gain better brand control, customer loyalty and trust, and a platform to demonstrate its command of emerging Internet technology. There are also defensive reasons for seeking to obtain a particular gTLD, i.e., to prevent others from doing so. For example, in the first round, Apple Inc. but not Apple Records applied for .apple, and 13 different applicants (but not Apple Inc.) applied for .app.
That being said, the decision to apply for a gTLD calls for careful deliberation. Operating a gTLD entails significant responsibilities and requires a substantial investment. Unlike applicants for a second-level domain name, the owner of a gTLD will operate as a registry. The owner must therefore have the technical, legal, financial, and marketing capacity to support the Internet's domain name infrastructure and to satisfy ICANN's ongoing requirements for registry operators. Applicants will endure an evaluation process that will last for months to ensure that they meet these standards.
In addition, the application process is complex and expensive. The application form poses rigorous technical, financial, and operational questions. ICANN charged every applicant in the first round an application fee of $185,000 for each proposed gTLD, including a $5,000 nonrefundable deposit. ICANN will also assess registry fees of at least $25,000 per year. In addition, owners will incur costs for operating the registry and for defending against any third-party infringement claims.
Given the changing Internet landscape, brand owners need to be prepared to defend their trademarks against potential infringers in the new gTLDs. At a minimum, they should review the published list of proposed new gTLDs and consider whether a comment or formal objection is warranted. They should also, in most cases, register their important trademarks with the Trademark Clearinghouse when it is activated. Once certain of the new gTLD registries are activated, they should be added to the gTLDs and ccTLDs that a brand owner is currently monitoring for possible claims against domain name registrants or registry operators via the UDRP, URS, or PDDRP processes. Finally, those brand owners (and entrepreneurs) who elected to sit out the first round of the new gTLD application process but are considering applying in the future should gauge the experiences of the first round applicants as they contemplate whether to participate in round two.
1 See http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results
2 See http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-comments
3 According to ICANN's Applicant Guidebook, a formal objection may be filed on four possible grounds: (1) string confusion objection, i.e., two proposed gTLD strings are confusingly similar; (2) legal rights objection, i.e., a proposed GTLD string infringes the existing legal rights of the objector; (3) limited public interest objection, i.e., a proposed gTLD string conflicts with generally accepted norms recognized under international law; and (4) community objection, i.e., opposition from the community to which a proposed gTLD string is targeted. Here, we consider the functions of the legal rights objection only.
4 See http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb, Module 5
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The photosynthetically active radiation
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This light sensor developed by SDEC France is designed to measure the photosynthetically active radiation (also called P.A.R. sensor). It effectively measures radiation between 400 and 700 nm.
The sensor has an output proportional to the number of photon recieved regardless of their energy levels (photon flux density : µmol.m-2.s-1).
Since the energy level of each photon depends on its wavelength, the spectral response of a P.A.R. sensor using the photovoltaic effect must be higher in the far red part of the spectrum (around 700 nm) than in the blue wavelengths (around 400 nm).
The spectral response of the gallium arsenide photodiode built in the unit is close to the theoritical curve (see dart curve below). Its sensitivity is a bit low for blue radiation. With an additionnal blue filter (glass filter, tinted in the block, "SCHOTT" type), the spectral response is well balanced.
An acrylic diffuser tightly fitted into the sensor cuts off at 400 nm. It is opaque below 400 nm and has a constant transmission (around 50%) after 420 nm.
Although the red cut-off occurs at 685 nm instead of 700 nm (which is a property of the gallium arsenic photodiode), the sensor doesn't need extra expensive filters. This isn't the case when using silicon photocells.
Moreover, with this total unsensitivity above 685 nm, the JYP 1000 sensor (GaAsp photodiode) is well adapted for canopy transmittance measurements. For these measurements, 700 nm is a threshold value so an early cut-off is preferable to a late one.
In order to have a voltage output (millivolts), the unit has a built in precision resistor (metallic film /15 ppm/0,1%). It can be connected to any millivoltmeter with a high impedance :- Numerical multimeter.- Graphical recorder- data logger.
The sensor has a linear response until 5000µmol.m-2s-1.Its cosine response is nicely corrected up to an 80° zenithal beam angle.
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Heather talked about all the upcoming activities for swaps, bees and the workshop. Looking forward to seeing everyone's creativity in creating their name tags for future meetings. Member who wear their name tags will have their name entered into a draw for a prize...
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Samsung has for the past few years launched its Android based smartphones with its very own Touch Wiz UI/ Nature UX interface. The trend might be changing a little it seems as Samsung in America launched the new Galaxy Discover.
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I had my line activated more than 10 days ago. The downstream and upstream speeds is almost definitely capped at 4096 and 800 kbps respectively, even though my line attenuation and average SNR margin allow more than that, as reported by my modem.
This is what my Billion 7800DXL is reporting reports with SNR margin set to "auto" -- note the attainable rates:
Downstream Upstream
Rate (Kbps) 4094 799
Line Coding (Trellis) On On
SNR Margin (dB) 5.5 12.7
Attenuation (dB) 57.5 36.1
Output Power (dBm) 16.6 12.4
Attainable Rate (Kbps) 4872 980
On this router I can tweak the SNR margin. Here's what it reports when I set the SNR margin to 4 dB -- connection is stable, and the 7800DXL constantly reports attainable speeds above 5500 kbps, even though it fluectuates slightly in the last 2 digits:
Downstream Upstream
Rate (Kbps) 4093 799
Line Coding (Trellis) On On
SNR Margin (dB) 4.3 12.5
Attenuation (dB) 57.5 36.1
Output Power (dBm) 16.8 12.4
Attainable Rate (Kbps) 5637 980
That's 1.6 Mbps difference, which would make a big difference to me right now ...
So ...
- Can do anything about this?
- I read some older posts about asking Sky Customer Support to switch me to a gaming profile. Does that still apply and does that only affect ping times?
- Can I ask Sky CS to remove any DL/UL caps? (I am almost certain my connection is capped)