Delta faces 'very high risk' of bankruptcy

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Our country will continue to be hostage to oil, and the middle east countries it comes from as long as people like our current president are still in office. Parading around in their big F350s.

[/ QUOTE ]they're not the only ones parading in F350's!! look at the folks who buy hummer's or even SUV's.. heck, i have an SUV myself and with the gas i'm dishing out on a bi-weekly basis, i'm ready to get an alternative fuel type car...esp since my bimmer's been in the shop ever 2/3 months (with only 54K miles on it)..i think my dealership is messing with me service wise!

but besides that point...if people stopped driving/buying the big honkin cars & started riding more transit or buying better efficiency cars, they'd probably notice the big dip in the gas profit pocket!

I don't think the pres can change anything about the oil prices.. but i betcha the VP could do something since he's affiliated (or used to be?) with the oil guys...

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Not to become a politics debate, but the entire Bush family has/is related to Oil. Its been a part of their family for a long time. My only point is dont expect someone like that to do anything about helping the environment and end our dependance on foreign oil. It would be like electing me to be president and expect me to end airline flying in favor of trains.
 
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Hydrogen is as much of an in-flux energy as nuclear is.. if it blows up, it blows in a big way

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Well, if hydrogen blows up, it doesn't contaminate the surrounding area for 5,000 years, making it uninhabitable.

I saw a show a few years ago on PBS called "Secrets of the Dead" which featured a special on the Hindenburg <Link> which theorized that it was the chemicals in the paint, and not the hydrogen, which led to the disaster.

It was a pretty interesting theory, and one which they seemed to prove on the show.

I'm all for using nuclear power to produce hydrogen to fuel our cars and planes (and even rockets!). Unfortunately, I'm probably in the minority.

BTW, normally I screw around at JC from work, but I actually have a lot of work to do all of a sudden...
 
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I don't think the pres can change anything about the oil prices.. but i betcha the VP could do something since he's affiliated (or used to be?) with the oil guys...

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You guys know I am no fan of the current administration.

Having said that, no President can repeal the law of supply and demand. We've got more than two billion more people demanding oil with China and India starting to use oil more. We've got a finite supply of oil. Increase the demand, and the price will go up.

This is the same reason, by the way, that I say airlines should jack up their fares. You've got record loads, so you can increase the fares.
 
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All I hear is engineers bitching about their jobs. After taking these high school math classes I'm taking I don't know if I'm ready to do ridiculously harder math classes in college for a degree I won't use or be satisfied with if I do use it. I'm taking Physics and it's pretty cool, but math just in't my cup of tea.
 
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I don't think you'll find any one person out there working that doesn't bitch about their jobs! engineering is no different that way than any other pencil pushing job...It's just so darn political now a days that even if you think your doing a good job, doing the job the *right* way, someone out there doesn't and wants to steal your profit.

but you're going to have to crank up that math to get thru calculus & diffyQ (differential equations)...you'll be dealing with some serious math in each engineering class (esp the last two years)...there is no engineer out there that doesn't do some type of math on a daily basis...so start getting used to it now & start learning "how to study effectively" or pick another field. the weed out ratio in engineering is quite high the first year of college and those professors know just how to push your buttons to see if "you got it or you dont" IYKWIM.

altho i have to admin that i haven't done any calculus or diffyQ since college! some do however...
 
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altho i have to admin that i haven't done any calculus or diffyQ since college! some do however...

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Oh, for DiffyQ!!! Actually we review Calc for alot of the controls we do. Calculations of Tire Dia in motion...some cool stuff (when it works!!)
 
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but you're going to have to crank up that math to get thru calculus & diffyQ (differential equations)...

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It's all fun and games until you hit Laplace and Fourier transforms and enter a different reality to do math...

And I almost didn't make it through diffyQ until a professor explained to me how it had more in common with biology than math, and once that happened, it all clicked into place.

And how much math do you have to do as an engineer? Enough to get me a free Math minor with my EE major!

Yeah, I didn't use the higher math until some guy found out I was an EE and wanted me to help solve a radar gain problem. It was the first time in a LONG time I had to start using those log functions on the calculator...

Oh, and in college one of our air science roommates was trying to figure out how to do derivatives the "hard way" for one of his math classes, and my friend Neil and I just taught him the shortcut rules that the engineers used. He got the right answers, but didn't show how to do the work, so he ended up failing that part of the test. Unfortunately for him, once I learned the "shortcut", I promptly forgot how to do it the hard way, so we were no help to him.

If you want to be engineer, you'll need to love math and you will learn how to use a RPN calculator. (Although in this day and age of laptop computers, RPN calculators might have gone the way of the slide rule, which, I might add, I also had to learn how to use in order to graduate although I now use it to kill flies on my desk...)
 
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Alternative Energy Resources are researched, but the research is underfunded, I wonder if that could be anything to do with the people in control of the money get to push the issue under the carpet thanks to money (bribes/support) from oil companies.

And here is the problem, we could cover the landscape with wind farm and solar arrays to supply about 75% of US and/or and other western country - but you still need a few nuclear and coal (for US read oil) fired power stations for when the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow!!!

But the biggest reduction in oil usage would come from every one switiching to cars that run on electricity, instead of petrol (gas) tanks, they re-chargeable batteries and instead of gas stations you have electricity re-charging points.
 
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I was a software "engineer" and never loved math. I struggled through it in high school and college. For calculus I recommend a book called "Calculus the Easy Way" that uses jokes and cartoons to teach you. Perfect for us pilots.
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Yeah, I can say I hate math. I'm taking Algebra II now and it sucks. Very hard to stay awake in the class. Physics is a lot of math and I'm enjoying it so far. No clue why.

BTW, JROTC is the easiest class to stay awake in. Push-ups gets the blood flowing.
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And here is the problem, we could cover the landscape with wind farm and solar arrays to supply about 75% of US and/or and other western country - but you still need a few nuclear and coal (for US read oil) fired power stations for when the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow!!!


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Solution: use any excess energy gained during collection to charge batteries. The major problem with solar is that so much energy is wasted in collection. The current collection technology just isn't there to make it viable right now. So much energy is either not collected or lost in the translation that it's almost useless right now. Once again, well funded research would probably fix this problem, but good luck getting that tacked onto an energy bill. Right now I don't see many private companies or individuals stepping up to the plate to fund the research, but it sure would be nice. Heck, I'd even buy the new Windows version if it would get Micro$oft to get behind some alternative energy funding......
 
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physics is more of a science than math.. which by right makes it more interesting! you can see physics happening in the real world all the time whereas you really don't see math in the real world.

that's probably why...
 
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