Saturday, October 08, 2011

D-day -146 (-30)

The hover text at the original location ac xkcd read: "A technology that is '20 years away' will be 20 years away indefinitely." Guess what time perspective I'm looking at for large-scale biomass gasification...?

Suddenly, this Thesis thing feels so... unnecessary....

Today’s Achievements
Status: worked all Saturday, refound Ze Flow, mainly Beaverising
Detailed progress: past and present biomass gasification projects, rerun all results for Paper VI, wrote on what I'm considering to include as Paper VII...
Hours in Luft-Schloss: 10
Words written: 579 (all-time low word/h; 58...)
Pieces of cold, flat fläskpannkaka eaten: 3

Overall Quest Stats 
Hours in Schloss+Luftschloss: 109
Words written: 13413 (123 words/h)
Figures included: 8
Tables included: 4
Equations included: 2
Overall accomplishment level:  45%
Quest level: 7 - Beaver Guardian

Status - detailed report
Below the estimated progress in % is given for each of the main chapters. Details of parts accomplished are given day by day in the Today's Achievements section. No weighting is done for consideration of different lengths of sections. Today's updates in green.

Abstract0
Sammanfattning0
List of Papers100
Thesis outline100
1. Introduction70
2. Related studies0
3. Background45
4. Biomass gasification84
5. Studied systems95
6. Methodology90
7. Results and analysis0
8. Concluding discussion0
Acknowledgements0

8 comments:

Annika said...

Please, please, please... skynda lite med er forskning och få folk att betala för att skynda på den ännu mer. Blir galen...!:
http://svt.se/2.149969/1.2536535/gasland
(Dokumentären finns i sin helhet på Svt play om du kan se det där nere...)

Anonymous said...

Hah! ...but there's one important row missing from the xkcd table:

If a researcher says a cool new technology should: "initiate an inevitable 54 year cycle of technological change"

What they mean is: "Hello, I'm Cesare Marchetti!"

Elisabeth said...

Dear Mr Ironic Anonymous,

Just so you know, the Energy Island is about thiiiis close to happening. Could be any day now. Really. Not joking here.

Anonymous said...

Certainly. I do not have the slightest doubt about it, especially if the nuclear plants are complemented with some large-scale biomass gasification plants.

But anyway, isn't it a bit prejudiced to presume that I am a man?

Elisabeth said...

It certainly is, which I realized when I'd already shut down the computer. Hoped to get online again in time to change it before anyone noticed, but alas, I didn't.

Isn't it a bit rude to comment anonymously btw?

Aapo said...

Not really... it just shows that I'm technologically challenged. :) When I posted my first comment I didn't figure out how to give my name without having a profile (I didn't read the menu carefully enough). Then I started quite enjoying my status as "Mr. Ironic Anonymous"...

Anyway, good luck with the thesis project!

Elisabeth said...

I could call you Ms if you'd prefer that ;-)
...and thanks... how are you progressing?

Aapo said...

Progressing little by little, I guess. Perhaps "thesis is what happens to you while your busy making other plans"... :)

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