The issue is not so much transmission losses (although those are more than from say geosynch) But the problem is the moon still has a day night cycle. Worse than that the day night cycle is 28 days long. So your solar panels are useless for 14 days a month. If youre going through all the trouble to build these solar panels, you need to get 24 hour use out of them. Geosynchronous orbit is the only place for space solar panes from a feasibility and economic standpoint. Build em on the moon if you want but theyre useless for providing power to earth if you leave em there.
Whats even more interesting is if you read history and wonder if tolkien cribbed something from it. For example, there was a french principality of aragon. Did tolken know this? Did he take that name intentionally? Im sure if you looked into the linguistic backgrounds of all the names in the book, there would be a little nugget of interest behind them. Thats depth, more than just neo being an anagram for one. More like Bilbo being a word for ring bearer in anchient egyptian or something.
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needs. Feed it up a knock, speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height, down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population, common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning, blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle, light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh, this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.
It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mountains sit in a line. Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic, slam, but neck, right? Right.
It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...
Well, I know I wouldn't welcome a resume from a species that basically said: "no noteworthy accomplishments for the past eight centuries; too busy with politically correct infighting."
But didnt god create the entire universe for one specific people that inhabit one specific part of this planet that is one specific planet among quadrillions of stars in the universe? Oh and there arent any other people that was created by god, everyone else is evil.
Thats work out of the engine itself, there ar driveshaft losses, gearbox losses, friction losses in the bearings and tires etc. I stand by my 25% number
this still makes you think about how inefficient our cars are.
Its even better than that! Internal combustion engines are only about 25% efficient, so for every ten gallons of gas you put into your car, only 2.5 gallons are actually used to propel you forward, the rest is just used to heat up the engine and exhaust.
The point is, as a technology, cars are safer today thean they were 40 years ago. 40 years ago you could barely buy a car with front lap belts let alone side impact air bags and anti lock brakes. Sure there are still cars that are unsafe, but the option is always there to buy safety,. Same with nuclear reactors. Carbon shielded light water reacot plans still exist, and the technology exists to build them, but nobody would because of the safety concerns.
The only commonality between the reactor you mention and the one in the article is that they are both nuclear reactors. The toshiba reactor uses a subcritical mass of uranium, so that it is inherently stable. A neutron reflector is used to cause a sustaining reaction. The reflector is sized specifically to create the temperature that the reactor is designed for (plus a margin in case you need to run a little hot) it is specifically designed not to be able to go supercritical and create a self sustaining reaction. There are no control rods because none are needed. Technology has advance alot in the last 4 decades. I wouldnt want to drive a car from 1961 either because they were also designed inherently unsafely.
I disagree with your thoughts that this will be detrimental. The only way for humans to get into space is for the military to get involved. The technology that allowed columbus to cross the atlantic allowed spain to be the dominant sea power to 1588. The technology that propelled lindbergh across the atlantic was used in the planes of WWII. The technology in a saturn V was taken and used by the military in its ICBMs. If a technology has a potential military application, the military will use it for that application. On the flip side, there are many things that the military has funded, that wouldnt exist except for the military, that now have much more use for nonmilitary use than for military use. Hint: Youre using one now, ARPAnet was created by the US military. Frankly, if we send more people into space because the military needs to send people there, then more power too them. Because nonmilitary people will soon follow.
He was reputed to be the worst teacher ever. He often didn't even pretend to teach, and treated his job as a sinecure. On the occasions when he did pretend to give a lecture, it was generally to an empty hall, because no students would show up.
So youre saying that students having trouble with calculus and physics isnt new?
Interesting footnote: They decided to call it MRI instead of NMRI because nobody wanted to subject their body to anything with "Nuclear" in the name. People thoght that they would die of radiaton or come out with three heads.
Who says that guns are only useful for killing delicious or deadly animals and keeping the king of england out of your face. Theyre also a handy Measuring stick
nobody is going to be willing to commit multi-million dollar payloads and multi-million dollar launch campaigns to the less reliable bird.
The launch capacity of the Shittle stack is 100 tons of cargo to LEO. The launch capacity of the shuttle stack with the shuttle attached is 25 tons to LEO. In other words the vehicle that the astronauts are in takes up 3/4 of your cargo (roughly) So your cargo launch costs are 1/4 that for an unmanned launch compared to a manned launch simply because you dont need a vehicle for something thats going to stay in space. Even if launch failure rates are the same for manned an unmanned, delivered cargo to orbit is much much greater for an unmanned vehicle.
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The issue is not so much transmission losses (although those are more than from say geosynch) But the problem is the moon still has a day night cycle. Worse than that the day night cycle is 28 days long. So your solar panels are useless for 14 days a month. If youre going through all the trouble to build these solar panels, you need to get 24 hour use out of them. Geosynchronous orbit is the only place for space solar panes from a feasibility and economic standpoint. Build em on the moon if you want but theyre useless for providing power to earth if you leave em there.
why did I just write that?
Whats even more interesting is if you read history and wonder if tolkien cribbed something from it. For example, there was a french principality of aragon. Did tolken know this? Did he take that name intentionally? Im sure if you looked into the linguistic backgrounds of all the names in the book, there would be a little nugget of interest behind them. Thats depth, more than just neo being an anagram for one. More like Bilbo being a word for ring bearer in anchient egyptian or something.
The book probably sucks, everyone knows that movies made into books suck ;-)
Maybe they do, but that person just surfs the net looking at porn all day, which would explain why Microsoft always has such a serious cock-up
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,
return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,
light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mountains sit in a line.
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, but neck, right? Right.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...
-H. Simpson
"Watch out, Radioactive Man! The Sun is exploding again!"
So are you calling arabs a different species?
But didnt god create the entire universe for one specific people that inhabit one specific part of this planet that is one specific planet among quadrillions of stars in the universe? Oh and there arent any other people that was created by god, everyone else is evil.
Who needs the yeast? if the cockroaches die, chaces are theres WMD in whatever building youre searching.
Women will love it too! I can see the Ad copy now: Heidi Kluhm with a sexy voiceover " Who needs a man with my new cockrobot"
Worst Episode Ever!
Thats work out of the engine itself, there ar driveshaft losses, gearbox losses, friction losses in the bearings and tires etc. I stand by my 25% number
Its even better than that! Internal combustion engines are only about 25% efficient, so for every ten gallons of gas you put into your car, only 2.5 gallons are actually used to propel you forward, the rest is just used to heat up the engine and exhaust.
The point is, as a technology, cars are safer today thean they were 40 years ago. 40 years ago you could barely buy a car with front lap belts let alone side impact air bags and anti lock brakes. Sure there are still cars that are unsafe, but the option is always there to buy safety,. Same with nuclear reactors. Carbon shielded light water reacot plans still exist, and the technology exists to build them, but nobody would because of the safety concerns.
The only commonality between the reactor you mention and the one in the article is that they are both nuclear reactors. The toshiba reactor uses a subcritical mass of uranium, so that it is inherently stable. A neutron reflector is used to cause a sustaining reaction. The reflector is sized specifically to create the temperature that the reactor is designed for (plus a margin in case you need to run a little hot) it is specifically designed not to be able to go supercritical and create a self sustaining reaction. There are no control rods because none are needed. Technology has advance alot in the last 4 decades. I wouldnt want to drive a car from 1961 either because they were also designed inherently unsafely.
http://www.weasel.com
But weaseling out of things is what seperates us from the animals! ... Except for the weasel.
I disagree with your thoughts that this will be detrimental. The only way for humans to get into space is for the military to get involved. The technology that allowed columbus to cross the atlantic allowed spain to be the dominant sea power to 1588. The technology that propelled lindbergh across the atlantic was used in the planes of WWII. The technology in a saturn V was taken and used by the military in its ICBMs. If a technology has a potential military application, the military will use it for that application. On the flip side, there are many things that the military has funded, that wouldnt exist except for the military, that now have much more use for nonmilitary use than for military use. Hint: Youre using one now, ARPAnet was created by the US military. Frankly, if we send more people into space because the military needs to send people there, then more power too them. Because nonmilitary people will soon follow.
So youre saying that students having trouble with calculus and physics isnt new?
Interesting footnote: They decided to call it MRI instead of NMRI because nobody wanted to subject their body to anything with "Nuclear" in the name. People thoght that they would die of radiaton or come out with three heads.
Who says that guns are only useful for killing delicious or deadly animals and keeping the king of england out of your face. Theyre also a handy Measuring stick
YOu forgot one: United States Congress.
The launch capacity of the Shittle stack is 100 tons of cargo to LEO. The launch capacity of the shuttle stack with the shuttle attached is 25 tons to LEO. In other words the vehicle that the astronauts are in takes up 3/4 of your cargo (roughly) So your cargo launch costs are 1/4 that for an unmanned launch compared to a manned launch simply because you dont need a vehicle for something thats going to stay in space. Even if launch failure rates are the same for manned an unmanned, delivered cargo to orbit is much much greater for an unmanned vehicle.