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If they can get the specific energy of batteries up enough so that a single charge can last for 250 miles or so, reliably in all reasonable weather, then batteries should be able to do it. It's then a matter of either developing fast enough recharge times or developing some cheap way to swap out battery packs. Probably for the former is more plausible.

Because the entire nation associates that ND logo with Notre Dame. It is what it is, don't be obtuse.

You may also consider that since UND was DII, Notre Dame didn't care. Now that UND is DI, they might care.

It's either that "standard" Nike template with the stripes or the dull solids look, like SDSU's Nike uniforms they've had for a couple seasons now. Unless you're a Nike "Elite" school, they aren't going to design a custom for you.

This is more or less the new standard Nike uniform style. A lot of teams have this now. Looking good! Fully agree on changing the logo away from the one Notre Dame uses.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2050831320090721 I wonder if that $9 billion is eventually going to trickle down to any of California's public school athletic departments? In particular, football is a very high cost sport due to travel at the FCS level. Would Poly, Davis and Sac State be affected or even forced to drop football? Although another angle might be to move up to FBS in order to reduce travel?

Here's an example of a 300m indoor track with an almost complete football field in the middle: http://ysusports.com/facilities/WATTS.htm

Unless you're in one of the top conferences of the division (like the Big 10 in DI or previously the NCC in DII), there will always be conference shuffling and opportunities to move somewhere else...eventually. In the next 5 years, the Summit is UND's only opportunity to get in an autobid conference. After that? Of course there will be chances elsewhere. It's just too hard to see. The prime movers usually come from the top. Something like a Big East split/expansion or an NCAA divisional re-classification would cause a fairly major shake-up that would ultimately filter down. For the life of me, though, I still can't believe that people don't realize that the Dakota 4 have an opportunity to make the Summit League something special and turn some heads in the rest of the country...show some people that yeah, they can play up there in the tundra. The Summit doesn't have to be like an Atlantic Sun or MEAC.

Enrollment has nothing to do with it. NDSU and UND get vastly more money from the state of ND than SCSU gets from MN. They both spend many times more on research and overall budgets, including athletic budget. The fact that they both lack not only adequate...but lack any indoor field space is pathetic.

My point is that why is SCSU able to get something done yet the flagship universities of the entire state of ND can't? Neither NDSU nor UND has an indoor practice fieldhouse that they own (some practice is done in the Fargodome and I would assume the Alerus). In this climate an indoor field is utterly a requirement. Take a look at the commitment made by schools like BYU to indoor field space.

Right. To me that looks like a 200m track and then the field space inside that, which is probably 1/3 to 1/2 of a regulation football field by area. Still a good investment until something larger can be built. What really gets me is that Saint Cloud State....yeah...SC freakin' state....has a bubble over their whole football field in the winter. A dinky little regional undergrad school has bested both flagship research universities of North Dakota on indoor practice facilities. Pretty sad.

No it would literally be floating entirely above and within the boundary of the field, if what you are describing were actually built. I think from what you describe obviously he meant to say that the area within a 200m standard indoor track would have fieldturf and could be used for practices. It's still a significant area to practice on, but probably 1/3 to 1/2 the sq. ft. of a regulation football field.

Kinda sucks for them because there are so few FCS football teams on the west coast. Everything is FBS. That's probably why they want to join the WAC. Academically they are mostly undergrad, about the same type of profile as San Jose and Fresno, but smaller and more rural. They could compete on the field certainly, they just need the money. Not sure if they could attract 15k to meet the minimum though. Otherwise, there is no point in leaving the Big West.

Something doesn't add up. Either he got the size of the track wrong or the size of the field wrong...but I know for a fact you can not fit a regulation football field inside a 200m track. You can almost fit one inside a 300m track, I know Akron did this for their fieldhouse and the track just nips off the corners of the endzones. And obviously a full size 400m track you can fit a football field plus more inside, but I don't know any indoor tracks that are full size. Almost all are 200m (some fancy ones at big schools have banked turns) and a couple are 300m.

Some companies will have to upgrade their process to be compliant or face going out of business. Other companies will already be compliant be will be rewarded for being green early. Net result is that jobs will be created and consumers will be the winners with better products produced at a cheaper price.

You're comparing apples to oranges. Those companies that are already using processes that don't emit carbon will not see price increases.

But that's the point of the analogy, some companies won't be as affected as others because they're already more compliant than others. Thus their costs won't go up as much or at all versus other companies that will have great cost increases. The point is to reward those companies that took the initiative to invest in those processes and methods that don't emit carbon into out atmosphere and punish those companies who did not.

I would be tickled pink if UND went down the Lubbock and shocked the world, ala ASU at Michigan. I don't know if they have enough firepower to keep up with Tech, but I know all of North Dakota will be rooting for them, including fellow NDSU fans as well!

Companies can't just pass those costs on when their competitors aren't raising their costs. For example, Wendy's can't just jack the price of their burgers up a $1 each if Burger King isn't raising their prices. But to your point they can't just pay these huge fees and stay in business. Hmm, what to do? I guess they'll be forced to upgrade their processes to be compliant! That will create new jobs and consumers will be the big winners.

Now that Franken is officially in, the democrats in the senate can't be stopped from passing this important legislation. It's all over for big carbon emitters. Either fix your process or pay the price, consumers win either way.

Then medical was simply a bad basis for the example, NOT that the logic of the example was flawed.

And here is where our current two-part system is a pathetic failure. More money is spent on this bulls**t psuedo-war between Democrats and Republicans than it is actually helping the people of this country. Political parties should be banned. Politicians should have to fall back on their own ideologies and not just pick up the party line.

Typical bait-n-switch garbage politics. It has nothing to do with global warming. It's always been about capping/curbing carbon emissions.

Here's the true analogy: doctor 1 is slapped with a new fee because his methods are not compliant with the new standard. He attempts to pass that cost to his customers by increasing his costs. The customers then leave doctor 1 and go to doctor 2 who did not increase his costs since he did not get the new fee because his methods are compliant. Doctor 1 is forced to upgrade his methods to become compliant so that he can return to being cost-competitive with doctor 2.

That's because the WSJ is a direct to print *attempt* at high-brow journalism by the GOP. Whatever they want to see is what gets printed. It's really no more than a trumped up version of Fox News, just like Acura is to Honda.