Gordon Walker (@ 115): August 5th, 2011 at 6:36 pm BobC:
I did a back of the envelope calculation yesterday and got similar results to yours.
BobC:
I did a back of the envelope calculation yesterday and got similar results to yours.
Not exact matches
Musk acknowledged that these are
back -
of - the -
envelope calculations, but he finished this with saying «I'm not saying they're true or that they will occur, but I bet that they
do occur.»
I
did some
back -
of - the -
envelope calculation to figure out your yield.
Green Party U.S. co-founder Howie Hawkins has been
doing back -
of - the -
envelope calculations that conclude if 1
of every 5 Sanders supporters votes Green in November, the party will get there.
Ridgwell told New Scientist he had
done «
back -
of - the -
envelope»
calculations that show that given the current price
of carbon on the European carbon market, these credits could be worth $ 50 billion a year over 100 years.
«He
did this
back -
of - the -
envelope calculation to make this wild prediction — and it's dead - on, as far as we can tell,» Gladstone says.
In an idle moment David Korasick, a graduate fellow in the Strader and Jez labs and first author on the PNAS article,
did a
back -
of - the -
envelope calculation to put a number on the complexity
of the system they were trying to understand.
Districts wouldn't even have to foot the bill; I
did some
back -
of - the -
envelope calculations based on the 2011 Annual Report and found that with the savings picked up by the decreased recruitment pool and corps size (going with Wendy Kopp's «applicant pool fell in half» and your 3000 number, respectively), TFA could afford to pay each first - year CM a ~ $ 23,000 stipend (modulo one - time costs related to changing the structure
of the organization so dramatically).
Let's
do a little
back -
of - the -
envelope calculation: Assuming that the heating unit has an efficiency close to 1.0 and that automotive diesel has an energy density
of ~ 39 MJ / l which translates to ~ 10kWh / l.
I
did a few
back -
of - the -
envelope calculations a couple
of years ago, and came up with the conclusion that the market for good books is so far from saturation that you could regard it as wide open and untapped — the competition is not from other writers, but from things like TV and video games.
«In one case I
did a
back -
of - the -
envelope calculation... and realized that if I used bank Z instead
of bank X, I could have gotten $ 400 or $ 500 more dollars,» says Malkin.
I
did some
back -
of - the -
envelope calculations and to me, it was worth paying about 0.5 % extra in fees.
I know you
do not want to be stock - specific but it would be great if you could provide examples
of some
back -
of - the -
envelope calculations using fictional companies.
My next step was to
do a couple
of back -
of - the -
envelope calculations as to what might be worst case scenarios.
Indeed, her survey
of Maine residents who feed outdoor cats leads her to conclude that this population may be no more than 10 — 15 percent
of the pet cat population — which, if one
does a
back -
of - the -
envelope calculation using survey data from the American Pet Products Association and census data for the number
of households in Maine, would mean something like 18,700 — 28,000 unowned cats.
Now just sort
of doing some
of back of the
envelope calculations based on the midpoint
of your net bookings guidance you're looking about $ 136 million
of revenue.
A simple
calculation for the 19th and 18th centuries is quickly and easily
done using results from their table 1 and figures 1 - 2: A
back -
of - the
envelope calculation based on the 19th and 18th centuries suggests that the transfer functions now would yield an increase
of almost 1K for the period 1900 - 2000, most
of which should have been realized by 1980!
Understanding the feedbacks is
of course useful and should also be
done (and it is underway), but a simple
back of the
envelope calculation demonstrates clearly they can not have had a significant effect over the 20th C compared to the rise due to industrial emissions.
I finally got around to
doing a
back -
of -
envelope calculation on the direct UHI impact — what we know «for sure» about the impact
of urbanization — for the 6000 - acre suburban - U.S. community into which I and 75000 other people have moved during the past 45 years.
My quick,
back -
of - the -
envelope calculation suggests that it would take longer than the age
of the universe, but I might not have
done that carefully enough.
Sorry it doesn't pass the
back of the
envelope calculations especially when Dr Spencer's global average temperature at near surface have recently fallen to 2008 levels.
He
did not explain this
back -
of - the -
envelope calculation.
Here are the key assumptions and data to
do your own
back -
of - the -
envelope calculations: 1.
ummm so we can
do a kind
of back of the
envelope kind
of calculation of how much that might be skewing our perspective here.
This
done by commissioning someone with the appropriate letters after their name to
do back -
of - an -
envelope calculations using the figures which have already been «established» by other players in the game.
Several months ago, I
did a quick and dirty,
back of the
envelope type
calculation of globally averaged specific humidity trends using the NCEP / NCAR reanalysis data available on the web for the period 1964 to 2007.
During my long career as a nuclear engineer, I got into the habit
of doing a «
back of the
envelope»
calculation of my own as a «sanity check» on other's results.
I've
done some «
back of the
envelope»
calculations.
Instead
of doing a detailed analysis
of how fossil generators were compensated during the cold snap, or which plants may have been cheaper to run, NETL offers a deeply misleading
back -
of - the -
envelope calculation: it multiplies the increase in the daily cost
of electricity above an arbitrary baseline (see next section) by the number
of days in the cold snap.
Yates is having a researcher study the proposal's impact on the real estate community, but in the meantime she's
done her own
back -
of - the -
envelope calculation and the results are significant.