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  1. Re:Fusion? by AJWM · · Score: 1 · on Should Google Go Nuclear?

    Anecdote related to heavy water and its cost:
    1000 tons of heavy water. [...]. The water has a value of $300 million

    Thats about $333/L, Not a bad price, especially if that's Canadian dollars. Helps to buy in bulk.

    UnitedNuclear will sell you 5 litres at US$400/L, but the price goes up to over $1111/L in small quantities (ie $10 for a 10 gram vial, about a third of the way down this page.).

  2. Re:Magnet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Cheap Bulk Eraser for Hard Disks?

    Yeah but only if you use these kinds of magnets.

    Oh yeah and its a little hard to get the hard drive unstuck from the magnet afterwards :)

  3. Mean while back in America by The+Ape+With+No+Name · · Score: 1 · on Iranian Heavy Water Nuke Plant Goes Online Today

    You can order deuterium from chemical supply companies.

    http://unitednuclear.com/hw.htm

  4. Re:I've got a near-flawless erasure method. by Khyber · · Score: 1 · on A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives

    Apparently you're not well-versed in magnets.

    http://www.unitednuclear.com/magnets.htm

    See what it says under the "Supermagnets" section? Here, Lemme copy/paste to save you your time.

    "Beware - you must think ahead when moving these magnets.
    If carrying one into another room, carefully plan the route you will be taking. Computers & monitors will be affected in an entire room. Loose metallic objects and other magnets may become airborne and fly considerable distances - and at great speed - to attach themselves to this magnet. If you get caught in between the two, you can get injured.
    Two of these magnets close together can create an almost unbelievable magnetic field that can be very dangerous. Of all the unique items we offer for sale, we consider these items the most dangerous of all. Our normal packing & shipping personnel refuse to package these magnets - our engineers have to do it. This is no joke and we cannot stress it strongly enough - that you must be extremely careful - and know what you're doing with these magnets.
    Take Note: Two Super magnets can very easily get out of control and break fingers and even your arm if opposing poles fly at each other. If working with multiple Supermagnets, always handle one magnet at a time, secure it, then proceed to the next magnet."

    Oh, and most parts of a plane are light-weight aluminum. Non-magnetic. No donut and coffee for you.

  5. Goodbye Finger by Suddenly_Dead · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Implants for Sensing Magnetic Fields

    So, what happens when you get too close to another rare earth magnet? I would expect bad things.

  6. Re:The all powerful ISPs by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 1 · on U.S. Government Demands ISP Data Retention
    Of course, log files can be manipulated and faked. ISPs will have the power to exonerate or destroy people (maybe a new revenue stream for the ISPs???).

    Maybe I should go to work for an ISP?

    user time web site
    santorum 10:45am http://www.hotandyoung.com/
    dubya 10:48am http://www.cutextianteens.net/
    agonzale 10:52am http://www.underagelatina.com/
    hayden 10:58am http://www.amateurexplosives.com/
    feinstei 11:20am http://www.unitednuclear.com/

    And so on,
    -b.

  7. Re:good morning ! by jthill · · Score: 1 · on Home Chemistry An Endangered Hobby in U.S.
    There's a lethal dose of water. A frat initiation reached it this year, and a kid died.

    You're not using reason, you're using scare words and the hope of ignorance.

    Here's their site. Sure they're having fun with the word. You can find more dangerous things in the cleaning supplies aisle at Safeway.

  8. Left hand doesn't know about the right hand. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on "H-Prize" Announced

    fark.com listed these guys a few days ago.

    http://www.switch2hydrogen.com/
    http://www.unitednuclear.com/legalaction.htm

    Seems that some of the feds are worried that someone could make a bomb with the same fine metal particles that are needed to store hydrogen with any practicality.

    Compressed hydrogen, liquid hydrogen, and hydrogen slush are just not going to cut it for a practical street vehicle.

  9. Re:This is not news. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Powell Aide Says Case for War a 'Hoax'

    You may appreciate this. (Or maybe you won't. I don't know.) It's the material data safety sheet OSHA issues on Depleted Uranium. You'll note that it compares the dangers of DU with that of Lead. Not the greatest stuff on Earth, but far from the worst. And it's definitely far less toxic than the Uranium in coal.

    Not only is the Uranium in coal more active, but we aerosolize it (the worst possible case) every time we burn coal. Since coal is burned in first world all the way through third world countries, it is the most dangerous pollutant we seed our environment with. To get anywhere near the dangers of posed by coal plants, we'd have to fight a war with Depleted Uranium every day, non-stop.

    War causes ecological damage. On this I do not disagree. What I do disagree with is the supposition that DU is somehow worse than all the other weapons we deploy. If you want to find the true source of the Gulf Syndrome, I suggest you look closer at the Mustard Gas, other contaminates, and generally poor living conditions that our friend Saddam shoved on his own people.

  10. Re:Back Yard science by GigsVT · · Score: 1 · on Alaskan Cyclotron - Not in My Backyard!

    I sense a business opportunity for lead lined garden housing

    You are too slow.

  11. Hydrogen Embrittlement by Subgenius · · Score: 1 · on Honda Fuel Cell Concept with Home H2 Refueling

    For some interesting reading on Hydrogen storage using a similar method to the Honda version (but w/o propane...) check out the Hydrogen fuel pages at United Nuclear (http://www.unitednuclear.com./ These folks seem to have been doing it for the last 10 years.....

    Of course, they have also found some problems with long-term engine life for CONVERTED engines...

    http://www.switch2hydrogen.com/h2.htm

    -arg

  12. Static is easy (so are hoaxes) by jd · · Score: 5, Informative · on Statically Charged Man Ignites Office
    You can rapidly build up charges of a few tens of thousands of volts at very close to zero current. It's not that hard to build a few million volts, provided the current is low enough and the surroundings are insulating enough. The key, as you've pointed out, is power - and you don't have a whole lot without current.


    A Van De Graaf generator is basically a band of insulating material being rotated in a tower with some means of transferring a charge to it. There are relatively cheap desktop and home models that'll produce nearly half a million volts. Schools use such devices all the time, so if the fireman hasn't seem a voltage that high, he skipped classes.


    Having said that, early atom-smashers used Van De Graaf generators only capable of producing five million or so volts. It seems reasonable to suspect something will burn before it is blasted out of existence. So, somewhere between 400,000 volts and 5,000,000 volts, you might be able to ignite something.


    However, here we get a problem. You can't just carry around half a million volts and not notice it. Your hair tends to stand on end, for a start. ANYTHING metal - even a doorknob - will cause a discharge to occur. Getting into his car certainly would have - even if the car were carbin-fiber, the key would be metal and the distance short enough for an arc to occur.


    There's also the problem of where you lodge a charge that great. A capacitor is basically two electrostatic devices with an insulator between them. In this case, the insulator would be the shoes, and the electrostatic device the person. I'll assume there are enough nails holding the carpet down to act as the other electrostatic device.


    But what is the capacitance of a person? The figure I've been able to get with a Google search is an average of 204 pF with a typical range of 95 to 398 pF. (It varies according to height and weight, so a seven-foot sumo wrestler might have a higher capacitance than this range shows.)


    In other words, not really what you'd need to carry half a million volts around. The jacket would have carried more, but unless it was made of Tantallum or some other material with very high capacitance, I doubt you'd be able to store enough charge to start setting things on fire.


    In other words, there is nothing credible about the story. The voltages are abnormally low for a static device and way too low to actually do any fire damage, there's nowhere a higher charge could have been stored and there would have been too many points at which positively violent arcing would have occurred if it had been stored.

  13. Re:Hydrogen? by MoonBuggy · · Score: 1 · on Hybrid Vehicle Conversion Services?

    Don't worry, their mind rays can't get to you through a RadMax hat.

  14. Hydrogen? by MoonBuggy · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Hybrid Vehicle Conversion Services?

    This is moving slightly off on a tangent from the question, but it seems worth saying: United Nuclear are currently working on a hydrogen conversion kit for various cars, and have apparently clocked 50,000 successful miles on their prototypes. Probably the kind of thing to take with a pinch of salt, and the estimated cost is $7-10k, but it will come with a solar powered hydrogen generator, so might be worthwhile.

  15. Re:Efficiency is not the point ! by eskoperkele · · Score: 1 · on Ethanol More Trouble Than It's Worth?

    Hydrogen is compatible with current vehicles.

    This link was recently here on /. http://unitednuclear.com/h2new.htm

    Those clever guys even seem to be solving the storage problem.

  16. Re:Wow. by ErikTheRed · · Score: 5, Interesting · on New Way to Make Hydrogen
    You might want to check out http://unitednuclear.com/h2.htm, which is their R & D page
    You might want to check out BMW, who has built some 7-series dual-fuel (hydrogen / gasoline) cars on a production line, albeit in very small quantities (I believe a dozen or two). They have two tanks, and can switch between hydrogen and gasoline seamlessly while the car is running / being driven.

    They are also using solar power to create the hydrogen - they have an experimental plant in the Mojave desert, here in California.

    The cool thing is that this is a functional, buildable product created by a major car manufacturer. As soon as the hydrogent fuel supply infrastructure exists, they could start cranking these out more or less immediately. If a driver gets stuck in an area where no H2 fueling stations exist, it runs just fine on old-fashioned gasoline. For more information, see their website.
  17. Wow. by Daxster · · Score: 3, Interesting · on New Way to Make Hydrogen

    This is a very signifigant step up to using hydrogen as a fuel source, although we're still a ways away from using fuel cells as TFA states.

    Hydrogen is expensive to make and difficult to store.
    You might want to check out http://unitednuclear.com/h2.htm, which is their R & D page. They have been working on hydrogen powered vehicles in a much more sensible method for the short-term: just convert gasoline engines to run on hydrogen. They use a solar-powered electrolysis station (though they do say their current models are too slow) to get hydrogen from water. It's then transfered into metal-hydride tanks in your vehicle, which is a brilliant way to store it. Heating elements inside the tank release the hydrogen, and very little modification needs to be done to the engine. If the tank is cut and burned, the hydrogen is still released slowly enough to just smolder.
    This is a neat method, since most people think of hydrogen powered cars as electric vehicles that run off of fuel cells.
    Sadly, it isn't available for diesel vehicles due to the lack of a spark plug.

  18. this year - if you have $ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Liquid Hydrogen UAV

    go see http://www.unitednuclear.com/h2.htm

    You can get a conversion system for your SUV for 10K

  19. Convert your car.. by Daxster · · Score: 3, Informative · on California Drivers Can Tank Up WIth Hydrogen

    It's been done for only a few grand - http://unitednuclear.com/h2.htm Make your own solar powered hydrolysis machine in your backyard :)

  20. Re:Random number machines predicting the future eh by barfomar · · Score: 1 · on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future

    You're probably talking about a spinthariscope. See: http://www.unitednuclear.com/spinthariscope.htm if you want one. They've got other cool nuclear stuff too.

  21. The future isn't now, but it's soon. by Shikatsu · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Is the Future of Silicon Valley Solar?
    An effective alternative fuel/energy source may be closer than you think. United Nuclear currently has in development what appears to be a practical and safe hydrogen fuel adaptor for a standard internal combustion engine.

    When this is released, they'll also be distributing hydrogen generators, enabling the average consumer to extract the gas from water at virtually no expense by using the electricity provided by such devices as wind turbines and solar panels.
    Such an event would provide silicon valley with a much wider niche in the industry, should they elect to go that route.

    This one's for real, folks! United Nuclear is a fairly high-profile company involved in everything from rocket science to personal defense systems.

  22. United Nuclear has a powder by mrmeval · · Score: 1 · on Flexiglow UV Reactive Neon Paint

    http://www.unitednuclear.com/

    http://www.unitednuclear.com/glow.htm

    Blurb:

    We now stock the new generation of Phosphorescent (Glow in the Dark) material in pure powder form. This is not the old Zinc Sulfide based material that's commonly found in the typical glow in the dark items. As you know, that cheap stuff only glows for about an hour after being exposed to light. This new Phosphorescent powder is doped with the element Europium, along with other rare earth elements that give it an astonishing glow time of over 12 hours!

  23. United Nuclear has a powder by mrmeval · · Score: 1 · on Flexiglow UV Reactive Neon Paint

    http://www.unitednuclear.com/

    http://www.unitednuclear.com/glow.htm

    Blurb:

    We now stock the new generation of Phosphorescent (Glow in the Dark) material in pure powder form. This is not the old Zinc Sulfide based material that's commonly found in the typical glow in the dark items. As you know, that cheap stuff only glows for about an hour after being exposed to light. This new Phosphorescent powder is doped with the element Europium, along with other rare earth elements that give it an astonishing glow time of over 12 hours!

  24. Re:Yikes!!! by demi · · Score: 1 · on PSP Pricing, Battery Life Announced
    You may only have paid $20 for your phone, but that's not what it's worth. If you lose it they'll charge you full whack for the replacement (more like $200-$400)

    Not necessarily. I broke my phone and T-mobile sent me a new free phone (actually better than what it replaced, which I paid money for) for extending my contract another two months.

    Rolexes cost tens of thousands of dollars (and are, IMHO, butt-ugly!). The majority of decent (non digital) watches cost over $100, $200 is actually quite low end (as it happens, mine cost I think $199). Again, I expect it to last for years.

    I think there are some Rolexes in the $2000-$3000 range, but if I'm spending a bunch of money on a watch, I want it to do something useful.

    But then, you aren't typically taking your watch off and leaving it places; unlike my sunglasses, which I'm in the habit of losing.

  25. Sold out by mrmeval · · Score: 1 · on Nuclear Batteries

    Traser

  26. Re:Screw Hybrid electric, go hybrid hydrogen by SteakandcheeseUm · · Score: 1 · on Build Your Own Hybrid-Electric Car?

    You must mean http://www.unitednuclear.com/h2.htm

  27. Screw Hybrid electric, go hybrid hydrogen by derf23 · · Score: 1 · on Build Your Own Hybrid-Electric Car?

    I have been watching and waiting on this package for a few months now. doesn't attempt to run off of electricity, use hydrogen to directly power your engine. Looks good so far, with problems being spelled out as to can be expeacted.

    http://www.unitednuclear.com/h2.htm/

    Fred

  28. View photons at home, $25 by morcheeba · · Score: 2, Informative · on Can You Spare A Few Trillion Cycles?

    You can view individual photons with a Spinthariscope - that web page has a good description, and it's $25.

  29. Re:Cool! by vlm · · Score: 2, Interesting · on The Ubiquitous LED Becomes More Ubiquitous

    you can buy a similar tritiated light from www.unitednuclear.com and they are in the USA.

    It uses the same traser trademark.

    I have a green one, it's encapsulated into a teardropped shaped lump of plastic. It's on my keyring and it's about as bright as my clock radio at night.

    I have no relation to www.unitednuclear.com other than being a happy customer.

  30. Re:Partly true... by Rorschach1 · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Uranium Pebbles May Light the Way
    For what it's worth, you can get your piece of reactor-grade uranium at United Nuclear. The interesting part is that it's slightly LESS radioactive than the natural chunk of uranium ore I've got in my bedroom. That's about 30,000 counts/minute on my Geiger counter in direct contact, but three feet away it's almost undetectable against the background radiation. I keep it in a small tin that blocks a large portion of the radiation, and helps keep it from getting lost in the clutter of my desk.


    I don't think I'd want to carry it around as a good luck charm, though.

  31. Re:Screw Lava by coryboehne · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Build Your Own Lava Lamp

    I want a full on Volcano Lamp..

    Well, given that you are using flammable (possibly could even use somewhat explosive) substances to do this I'm sure with the proper mistakes you very well could have just that...

    Has anyone though about using the phosphorescent powder's available from United Nuclear? I'm sure you could create quite the lava lamp in this fashion..

  32. My Apologies for UnitedNuclear.Com being down by LostboyTNT · · Score: 1 · on United Nuclear

    I'm the one to blame for UnitedNuclear being down, (Kind of) I was under the assumption that A (supposively) reputable upstream provider wouldn't have any trouble providing bandwidth to a web site of that size, but apparently, they consider themselves to be 'god over all and sea' and even though I hadn't even used 1/2 of the 'alloted' bandwidth for the month yet, shut down the site, with absolutely no notice to me, because it was too much for their piddley server to handle..
    Who am I? I'm the Web hosting provider for UnitedNuclear.Com.. Welp, No fear! The UnitedNuclear site is back online, and fully functional, at a new location, where I KNOW that reliablility is not going to be an issue.. Sorry for any inconvience this may have caused you..

    Just a Reminder.. if your site gets slashdotted, make sure you know your host will be able to handle it.. I know mine will now.. 50Bux.Com

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1421 25 3&tid=

  33. My Apologies for UnitedNuclear.Com being down by LostboyTNT · · Score: 1 · on United Nuclear

    I'm the one to blame for UnitedNuclear being down, (Kind of) I was under the assumption that A (supposively) reputable upstream provider wouldn't have any trouble providing bandwidth to a web site of that size, but apparently, they consider themselves to be 'god over all and sea' and even though I hadn't even used 1/2 of the 'alloted' bandwidth for the month yet, shut down the site, with absolutely no notice to me, because it was too much for their piddley server to handle..
    Who am I? I'm the Web hosting provider for UnitedNuclear.Com.. Welp, No fear! The UnitedNuclear site is back online, and fully functional, at a new location, where I KNOW that reliablility is not going to be an issue.. Sorry for any inconvience this may have caused you..

    Just a Reminder.. if your site gets slashdotted, make sure you know your host will be able to handle it.. I know mine will now.. 50Bux.Com

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1421 25 3&tid=

  34. Area 51 Scientist? by metlin · · Score: 1 · on United Nuclear


    From their site -

    "Radiation and Uranium", a hands-on laboratory class personally instructed by the well-known "Area 51" scientist, Bob Lazar.

    Right! Pass me the tinfoil hat, please. Thank you.

  35. I nearly peed my pants when I saw this! by DrMorpheus · · Score: 1 · on United Nuclear

    They have a propane jet powered bicycle, a Schwinn with the infamous stick-shift shifter! Note the dweeb who designed it is riding this monstrosity that can reach 60 mph without helmet or any other protective gear! I surprised he didn't qualify for a Darwin award!

  36. This Account Has Been Suspended by floydman · · Score: 1 · on United Nuclear

    www.unitednuclear.com/

    Too much radioactivity killed the system admins...

  37. Anti-gravity rocket by jemenake · · Score: 1 · on United Nuclear

    Holly smokes! Am I the only one who thinks that the dude on the bike on the rocket pack page looks like a teen-aged Bob Lazar, the guy who claims to have worked at Area 51?!?!? Propane my eye... I'll bet that thing runs on antimatter for sure!

    On a side note, check out the lame-ass shifter and the headlight mounted on the bike. All I can say is that I sure hope the rocket worked, or that dude must have gotten beat up a lot.

  38. Re:Oh great... by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 2, Interesting · on United Nuclear
    They claim not

    Privacy Policy
    We do not share any information we get from you with anyone... Period.

    Source. Of course, customers are expected to affirm that

    3. The undersigned will not use the chemicals and/or supplies in violation of any local, state, or federal law.

    Please confine your counter-revolutionary activities to non-federal states.
  39. Just wait till they put a big red 'R' on it! by teamhasnoi · · Score: 3, Funny · on United Nuclear
    Woo Woo!

    I think I heard the sound of a million ricer jaws dropping.

  40. Oooh by Vokbain · · Score: 1 · on United Nuclear

    Wicked!

  41. Re:Some of the radioactives are readily available. by GigsVT · · Score: 3, Informative · on Slashback: Periodicity, Vacuum, Strength

    These guys are pretty good for buying small uranium ore samples to test geiger counters with. They also stock uranium doped glass marbles that really light up under black light. Pretty cool radioactive toys.