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Run Your Laptop On Nuclear Energy
Reader zymano points to this news.com artcle on innovations in portable power sources. Would you feel comfortable with a radioactive power source inside your laptop or cellphone?
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The Sun is Exploding Again!
These are not safe. Most types of energy based on nuclear processes have harmful waste products (like gamma particles and alpha rays). Are you going to trust that your laptop has the proper radiation shielding? Keep in mind that it is most often over your crotch. Considering the already poor odds of any geek reproducing, the effects of radiating their crotches could be disastrous.
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Riiight.. we all know Taco goes through and hand-picks the people he thinks would make great mods, right?
There are two ways to express opinions on a post. Moderate, and comment. I chose the later, expressing my opinion, and stating what I would do if I had the option of the former.
And at least I have the balls to put my karma on the line for my replies. If you really believed what you were talking about, and weren't just trolling, then maybe you would too.
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
Remik wrote:
;)
> Nuclear power is feared in this country, for many
> stupid reasons.
It is also feared for good reason.
In the early days of our species, fire was discovered. The event was reviled in many a cultural mythos as a theft. Fire warmed our homes, cooked our food, and destroyed us utterly if we were the least bit unattentive.
In the forties, a new fire was stolen, this time from the heart of the atom. It was more deadly than the first, even its ashes and smoke killed. We didn't know but what it might destroy everything, but the first atom bomb was used anyway. Testing of the first H-bomb in the Marshal Islands caused a peaceful Japanese fishing boat to be irradiated in an event the Japanese called the Second Atomic Bombing of Humanity. From outrage and fear a new god was born, new stories told (and with the application of a bit of latex, a successful movie career started). This god was capricious and cruel, killing all in his path.
When atomic power plants and nuclear medicine came into being, this god took on a friendly face (though he still enjoyed a good power plant stomping). However friendly he became, his touch was still deadly, and he was never tame. New words of horror were spoken in fear: Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Tokai.
Accidents can and will happen, especially if the people running the plants cut corners like they did in Tokai. The technology is too new to trust, not when after millennia we still haven't tamed fire. The fear is real, and in this case, it is healthy. For my part, I will loose my fear of atomic power and fully embrace it when we have gained total control of it and fire, and have completely removed the capacity for greed and stupidity from the gene pool.
> Evidenced here [pbs.org]...the potential for
> solving world energy demand was canned by
> Clinton because of the American aversion to
> nuclear power.
That's dumb, because that sounds like such a better solution than Yucca Mountain. What he said about coal certainly explains Godzilla's recent stand against both fossil and nuclear energy. Go forth and find some real "Clean Energy" if you want the big guy happy.
"Our people.. stricken with disease.
You.. you played with the fires of the gods.
And you dare to come here and ask us for help!
You betrayed us! You expect us to trust you after what you have done?"
Infant Island Chief, "Godzilla vs. Mothra" (US Version), 1964