The system is already setup in such a way that the poor are disadvantaged. It is also designed to hide this fact. Your chances to get on a recipient list for a donated organ are dictated by several factors: age, likelihood of surviving, if it is not your first then compliance (taking your medicine and going to all your scheduled doctor's appointments), and very important is your level of insurance. If you have no insurance or Medicaid you are not likely to get that transplant to save your life, but if you have great insurance you will be moved to the front of the list.
No, they don't have it handled at this point. The steam system is still the most dangerous system on a ship other than the obvious high explosives in missiles/torpedoes. Pipes weaken over time, and valves wear out. There is a constant threat of a steam leak. Also, the steam invading the compartment is not the only danger from a steam leak. An uncontrolled steam leak can cause serious reactor damage up to and including meltdown. Minimizing the amount of steam piping is important for reactor safety.
We are talking about a system that has almost zero moving parts compared to one that has thousands. Unless the design is absolutely terrible the electric system will be leagues ahead of the steam system in terms of reliability.
There will always be a gearbox, however by using an electric motor instead of direct steam turbine drive you can significantly reduce the size of gearbox needed.
You will not ever repair steam piping at sea, period. That is only done in a shipyard. There is not a single person on board the ship who is certified to work on that piping.
Hydraulics and pneumatics = slow, very slow
There would not be a single high voltage line exposed in such a design. To think it would be means that you know nothing about the idea they are implementing or are just stupid.
First off, you have no idea what you are talking about.
They do not use seawater in the steam system or the reactor system. They use distilled and deionized water respectively.
The electronic system is not going to be more complicated, we are talking about what is essentially a rail gun. The control part is fairly complicated, but not the parts which do the heavy lifting.
You will get a smoother acceleration because you lose pressure in the steam system throughout the evolution. This means that the farther it goes the less power it has.
Yes I would rather pull of the electrical grid than directly off the steam system. You can store large amounts of energy in capacitor banks to use for this system so that there is not a sudden massive draw on the steam system. Due to the sudden massive draw you can only power the catapult off of that particular steam system at that time. Otherwise it causes all sorts of chaos with electrical systems and propulsion. Also the massive steam demand causes a massive drop in reactor temperature, which causes a massive spike in reactor power. There is a reason aircraft carriers have at least two reactor plants, the catapult is the primary one.
The people on an aircraft carrier work far more than your standard 40 hours a week. The surplus comes from the fact that they can be made to work much more than that without getting any additional compensation whatsoever.
Nope, that is because the mechanical portion of the electric style windows is far more complex and prone to failure than the crank version. In other words it was a shitty design.
It is extremely dangerous. A steam leak can cause all sorts of disaster to include mass injuries and deaths in the area the leak occurred and it can cause a reactor meltdown if not immediately contained.
The use of a steam catapult uses an extremely large amount of steam in a very short period of time. This makes it a problem to use steam produced by a reactor which is powering anything else. Your electrical generators will lose speed causing untold havoc with sensitive navigation and fire-control instruments. You will lose power to your propulsion causing the ship to slow down while you are trying to launch aircraft. Due to these problems the catapult has to be operated from a dedicated reactor plant.
A system like this you can use large capacitor banks to store large amounts of energy which can be discharged very quickly without causing a massive draw on the system all at once. It also will minimize the amount of steam piping that you have minimizing the chances of having a steam leak. Also, there is the issue of reliability. This system would be mostly solid state, so very few moving parts to break.
These are not trivial advantages.
I have thought about the same idea before. I honestly have no idea if it would work. There is the very real problem of who controls the random selection. Also, what do we do if the person who is chosen is incompetent? I would also say what about convicted criminals getting power to protect themselves, but I think the short stay in any one position would prevent that power from being accumulated in the first place.
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Department store workers are already under heavy surveillance. At this point they are lucky if there are not video cameras in the bathroom stalls.
Exactly what I was thinking.
So is having an opinion which is not properly approved.
Maybe that has something to do with the fact that they don't want to be in those fields. Men and women are equal, that does not mean we are the same.
And it is glorious.
The system is already setup in such a way that the poor are disadvantaged. It is also designed to hide this fact. Your chances to get on a recipient list for a donated organ are dictated by several factors: age, likelihood of surviving, if it is not your first then compliance (taking your medicine and going to all your scheduled doctor's appointments), and very important is your level of insurance. If you have no insurance or Medicaid you are not likely to get that transplant to save your life, but if you have great insurance you will be moved to the front of the list.
Will it blend, I mean launch!?!
Yay, someone who isn't completely clueless! The stupid and ignorance in this thread has been driving me crazy.
The coolant on a reactor in the US navy is water, under a lot of pressure.
No, they don't have it handled at this point. The steam system is still the most dangerous system on a ship other than the obvious high explosives in missiles/torpedoes. Pipes weaken over time, and valves wear out. There is a constant threat of a steam leak. Also, the steam invading the compartment is not the only danger from a steam leak. An uncontrolled steam leak can cause serious reactor damage up to and including meltdown. Minimizing the amount of steam piping is important for reactor safety.
We are talking about a system that has almost zero moving parts compared to one that has thousands. Unless the design is absolutely terrible the electric system will be leagues ahead of the steam system in terms of reliability.
There will always be a gearbox, however by using an electric motor instead of direct steam turbine drive you can significantly reduce the size of gearbox needed.
They will still have steam turbines. The difference will be that the turbines will turn more and larger generators instead of the shaft directly.
You will not ever repair steam piping at sea, period. That is only done in a shipyard. There is not a single person on board the ship who is certified to work on that piping.
Hydraulics and pneumatics = slow, very slow
There would not be a single high voltage line exposed in such a design. To think it would be means that you know nothing about the idea they are implementing or are just stupid.
The water in the primary system should never be steam, it should be s superheated liquid.
First off, you have no idea what you are talking about.
They do not use seawater in the steam system or the reactor system. They use distilled and deionized water respectively.
The electronic system is not going to be more complicated, we are talking about what is essentially a rail gun. The control part is fairly complicated, but not the parts which do the heavy lifting.
You will get a smoother acceleration because you lose pressure in the steam system throughout the evolution. This means that the farther it goes the less power it has.
Yes I would rather pull of the electrical grid than directly off the steam system. You can store large amounts of energy in capacitor banks to use for this system so that there is not a sudden massive draw on the steam system. Due to the sudden massive draw you can only power the catapult off of that particular steam system at that time. Otherwise it causes all sorts of chaos with electrical systems and propulsion. Also the massive steam demand causes a massive drop in reactor temperature, which causes a massive spike in reactor power. There is a reason aircraft carriers have at least two reactor plants, the catapult is the primary one.
You fail to understand the situation.
The people on an aircraft carrier work far more than your standard 40 hours a week. The surplus comes from the fact that they can be made to work much more than that without getting any additional compensation whatsoever.
Nope, that is because the mechanical portion of the electric style windows is far more complex and prone to failure than the crank version. In other words it was a shitty design.
There are major drawbacks to using steam.
It is extremely dangerous. A steam leak can cause all sorts of disaster to include mass injuries and deaths in the area the leak occurred and it can cause a reactor meltdown if not immediately contained.
The use of a steam catapult uses an extremely large amount of steam in a very short period of time. This makes it a problem to use steam produced by a reactor which is powering anything else. Your electrical generators will lose speed causing untold havoc with sensitive navigation and fire-control instruments. You will lose power to your propulsion causing the ship to slow down while you are trying to launch aircraft. Due to these problems the catapult has to be operated from a dedicated reactor plant.
A system like this you can use large capacitor banks to store large amounts of energy which can be discharged very quickly without causing a massive draw on the system all at once. It also will minimize the amount of steam piping that you have minimizing the chances of having a steam leak. Also, there is the issue of reliability. This system would be mostly solid state, so very few moving parts to break.
These are not trivial advantages.
Former nuke electrician from the US navy here.
All of our carriers are nuclear powered. The last diesel one was decommissioned in the early 2000's.
It's all about the revenue!
I have thought about the same idea before. I honestly have no idea if it would work. There is the very real problem of who controls the random selection. Also, what do we do if the person who is chosen is incompetent? I would also say what about convicted criminals getting power to protect themselves, but I think the short stay in any one position would prevent that power from being accumulated in the first place.
Thoughts?
The problem is that nobody else runs.
So, your saying you don't have a social life to affect?
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