Isn't that a bit over the top? The Chernobyl deaths are estimate in the range 4000-9000 conservatively http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident#Th e_Chernobyl_Forum_report and now we are uncertain
how many accidents have been covered up and what their effect has been. This vastly exceeds deaths from
dam collapses. Your economic argument does no account for nuclear waste disposal, nor can it since there is
no accepted method to dispose of the waste.
What makes you consider coal to be a renewable resource?
You seem not to understand that the safety record of the nuclear power industry is very poor. As it turns out, contrary to what
we have been led to beleive, there is no full opportunity for the industry to learn from its mistakes because accidents are
covered up. This particular accident has no record or analysis so it may well be repeated with worse consequences.
As you point out, different technology is called for. However, it is not at all clear that pebble bed reactors can be run safely
on a commercial scale. Further, it is no longer clear that problems with such new technology will be reported or addressed.
I agree with you that biofuels based on rooted plants have limited capacity as you will see here: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/photosynthesis .html. But, wind and solar are not limited in this way so you seem to be
selecting you example rather poorly.
This study http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/technical -articles/transmission/cigre/present-limits-of-ver y-long-distance-transmission-systems/index.shtml suggests that 7000 km transmission legs might be economically feasible. On the other hand, keeping Bagdad supplied with electricity is proving more difficult than keeping it supplied with generator fuel since trucks provide a work around for attacks against oil pipelines. It seems to me
that what is really going on is that the sunk costs for current power generation provide inertia against which your plan has to push. What is
needed is to make renewables cheaper than fossil fuel costs so that fossil fuel (and nuclear) plants have to operate at a loss to compete.
This may mean placing renewable power generation closer to where it is consumed for the present.
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The one with fatalities is listed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nucl ear_accidents here. This raises a very
serious issue. How complete is the list of accidents? The one in 2006 in Sweden suggests that modern plants can't be operated safely
but that the risk of a very large accident is one in forty years at the present level of reliance on nuclear power. If the list
is very incomplete, as this cover up might urge us to consider, then the risk of large accidents could be much higher than one in
forty years at the present level of reliance on nuclear power. In that case, increasing our reliance on nuclear power seems foolhardy
and decommisioning existing plants on an accelerated schedule would be a good policy to adopt. --
Fusion power today: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
This is why controlled experiments are performed. The problem here is that apparently fraudulant methods
were used in the original analysis and then data were held confidential for a long period to keep those
fraudulant methods from being exposed.
Monsanto has been involved in criminal activities http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr19023. htm in the
past so it is not so suprising that they would do this sort of thing. The report in question is what they used
to get approval in these countries so the relevant data you have there is that they lied to the regulators to gain
approval. Maybe they thought it would be cheaper than bribery in this case.
In any case, you do not know how many people have become sick or how many have been killed because of what they
have done. Cases of illness similar to those seen in the rats have to now be examined to see if it is corn that
is causing the illness. The lack of labeling is going to make the task more difficult. But, if labeling of
GM foods does get going, the one for this variety will need to be the skull and crossbones.
As I read it this just means that the data were put back into electronic form. This happens very often in science since many studies
exist as hardcopy only after some passage of time. You have to enter data tables either by hand or with OCR and figures have to be
measured with a ruler or with data ripoff software. NASA's ADS provides DEXTER for this purpose: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/help_pages/dexte r.html. --
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RTFA: There is only one study. The issue is: did Monsanto fudge the analysis? The answer apparently is yes. It was very difficult to
get the original data. This is counter to scientific method and a rather big issues. Better journals will no longer publish papers
based on proprietary data and regulatory agencies should adopt similar standards. If a study is submitted in support of regulatory
approval, it must provide full access to data. The confidentiality invoked by the regulators is clearly out of line with their mission.
The original had three piles, provable, might be provable and unprovable, but it is an error to put God's existance
in pile three. This is because God's existance is provable by God though not by man. So, for this particular question you want pile 4. Now there is scripture, read
recently in church, that talks about not testing God, but you don't even have to look that far. When we are doing physics,
we are working with the reproducible. We are, as Einstein put, trying to read the mind of God. We are not trying to
change God's mind. To physics, an action of God's that turns up in an experiment is an anomaly. It does not repeat
and you have to disregard the data.
While it is not OK to test God, it is OK to bargin with God as Abraham did, and this is especially so when you are trying
to help out other people, at least this seems to be when God comes into the stories in a give and take kind of way. But, once
you are at the bargining table (trying to change God's mind) your questions about God's existance are pretty much answered.
Moses found the expereince so overwhelming that he started wearing a veil.
People have every reason not to beleive in God and every reason to believe in God. The trouble is not God but reason. It is
not equiped for the miraculous so it is just not terribly useful when dealing with Someone who only acts through miracles.
So, as you experiment, you can find out things like wow, random really can be random, how odd, didn't think God would throw dice.
But, your set up has to throw out any evidence of God's intervention in the experiment.
It strikes me that running this lean would really boost the NOX production and it seems a waste to throw that away on the
catalytic converter. How about a follow on diesel cylinder that runs on the exhaust? Too much extra weight? -- Run on the Sun: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
I was siting home alone one night in LA
Watching old Cronkite on the seven o'clock news
It seems there was an earthquake that
Left nothing but a Panama hat
And a pair of old Greek shoes
Didn't seem like much was happening
So I turned it off and went to grab another beer
Seems like every time you turn around
There's another hard-luck story that you're gonna hear
And there's really nothing anyone can say
And I never did plan to go anyway
To Black Diamond Bay. --Bob Dylan
Halliburton is incorporated in Delaware and its stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Reuters reported that Mr. Lesar said Halliburton would like to list its shares on an exchange in the Middle East, which it could do while maintaining its listing in New York.
And I would think that as trade in oil shifts to euros, getting onto a euro based exchange might make sense. Getting paid in dollars, even with no strings attached, may be looking less attractive. Remember what Bush said about the national debt being just a bunch of IOUs? --
Oil is so old world. Go solar: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
Thanks, this clears things up. This is a guy who is paid to hold a certain opinion, not to formulate an opinion. Looks to me
as though the article is basically a vehicle to get the word "alarmism" out there some more. Presumably the emails are hoaxes
created to get a hook for the article to be printed. --
Solar: the clean power source. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
Your Honor, the prosecution keeps saying I killed this man for money but I have no recollection of this nor any recollection of agreeing
to do this so I can not possibly plead guilty which is my legal right. Thus I can't get a fair trial. I move to dismiss. --
Innocent power: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
This one actually worked I think. I'm coaching soccer again this spring and I notice that I'm not going to have to adjust
the practice schedule, which starts this week, this time to account for DST coming part way into the season. I don't like DST
because when I'm really busy I often don't hear about it or remember it and end up being late to church, or early as I was
last fall. But the adjustment in the start time works for me for soccer practice. --
"Let the Sun shine" http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
It's about right, the Milky Way may have formed as a disk more recently. One way to think about it is that the Sun has been around
about 15 times since it formed for a motion of 200 km/s. A way to think about the morphologies of galaxies is to consider that stars
form in response to the global potential. This is a hand wave, but you can see how it would not require a lot of mixing to get a fairly
smooth distribution of stars. Bars may well be large-scale dynamical instabilities so that their shape, in a manner of speaking, happens of itself. -- Have your roof watch the Sun: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-users -selling-solar.html
I used to do this but I had redo it each time there was a kernel update and that was with RHE. With fedora the kernel
seems to change every week or so. Thanks again for the tip about the HWCursor. Now I can power-save the monitor instead
of using the button all the time.
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Conservatively 4000 to 9000 deaths. Most likely the 5000 deaths of newborns is a solid number and you may scale this report as you like http://www.ippnw-students.org/chernobyl/research.h tml but clearly the large number of birth defects is not
and illusion. The UN figures are given here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident#Th e_Chernobyl_Forum_report.
Isn't that a bit over the top? The Chernobyl deaths are estimate in the range 4000-9000 conservatively http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident#Th e_Chernobyl_Forum_report and now we are uncertain
how many accidents have been covered up and what their effect has been. This vastly exceeds deaths from
dam collapses. Your economic argument does no account for nuclear waste disposal, nor can it since there is
no accepted method to dispose of the waste.
What makes you consider coal to be a renewable resource?
You seem not to understand that the safety record of the nuclear power industry is very poor. As it turns out, contrary to what we have been led to beleive, there is no full opportunity for the industry to learn from its mistakes because accidents are covered up. This particular accident has no record or analysis so it may well be repeated with worse consequences.
s .html. But, wind and solar are not limited in this way so you seem to be
selecting you example rather poorly.
As you point out, different technology is called for. However, it is not at all clear that pebble bed reactors can be run safely on a commercial scale. Further, it is no longer clear that problems with such new technology will be reported or addressed.
I agree with you that biofuels based on rooted plants have limited capacity as you will see here: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/02/photosynthesi
I did not find any listing for this plant in the index. Was this accident reported there?
You seem to be saying that nuclear power is better than coal power, a dubious claim, but also a logical fallacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma. The real choice is between depletable resources and renewable resources. In terms of safety, reliability, prudence and, now, price the renewable resources win.s -selling-solar.html
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This study http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/technical -articles/transmission/cigre/present-limits-of-ver y-long-distance-transmission-systems/index.shtml suggests that 7000 km transmission legs might be economically feasible. On the other hand, keeping Bagdad supplied with electricity is proving more difficult than keeping it supplied with generator fuel since trucks provide a work around for attacks against oil pipelines. It seems to me
that what is really going on is that the sunk costs for current power generation provide inertia against which your plan has to push. What is
needed is to make renewables cheaper than fossil fuel costs so that fossil fuel (and nuclear) plants have to operate at a loss to compete.
This may mean placing renewable power generation closer to where it is consumed for the present.
s -selling-solar.html
--
Generate clean power at home: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
The one with fatalities is listed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nucl ear_accidents here. This raises a very
serious issue. How complete is the list of accidents? The one in 2006 in Sweden suggests that modern plants can't be operated safely
but that the risk of a very large accident is one in forty years at the present level of reliance on nuclear power. If the list
is very incomplete, as this cover up might urge us to consider, then the risk of large accidents could be much higher than one in
forty years at the present level of reliance on nuclear power. In that case, increasing our reliance on nuclear power seems foolhardy
and decommisioning existing plants on an accelerated schedule would be a good policy to adopt.s -selling-solar.html
--
Fusion power today: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
Hum, Listening to Tony Blair might drive anyone to drink, but how do you know that these guys are right http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?ne wsid=35849 when they blame booze alone for an increase
in liver disease deaths?
. htm in the
past so it is not so suprising that they would do this sort of thing. The report in question is what they used
to get approval in these countries so the relevant data you have there is that they lied to the regulators to gain
approval. Maybe they thought it would be cheaper than bribery in this case.
This is why controlled experiments are performed. The problem here is that apparently fraudulant methods were used in the original analysis and then data were held confidential for a long period to keep those fraudulant methods from being exposed.
Monsanto has been involved in criminal activities http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr19023
In any case, you do not know how many people have become sick or how many have been killed because of what they have done. Cases of illness similar to those seen in the rats have to now be examined to see if it is corn that is causing the illness. The lack of labeling is going to make the task more difficult. But, if labeling of GM foods does get going, the one for this variety will need to be the skull and crossbones.
As I read it this just means that the data were put back into electronic form. This happens very often in science since many studies exist as hardcopy only after some passage of time. You have to enter data tables either by hand or with OCR and figures have to be measured with a ruler or with data ripoff software. NASA's ADS provides DEXTER for this purpose: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/help_pages/dexte r.html.s -selling-solar.html
--
Measure the Sun with daily reports in electronic format: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
RTFA: There is only one study. The issue is: did Monsanto fudge the analysis? The answer apparently is yes. It was very difficult to get the original data. This is counter to scientific method and a rather big issues. Better journals will no longer publish papers based on proprietary data and regulatory agencies should adopt similar standards. If a study is submitted in support of regulatory approval, it must provide full access to data. The confidentiality invoked by the regulators is clearly out of line with their mission.
I happen to like this Greenpeace sponsered study: http://archive.greenpeace.org/climate/renewables/r eports/kpmg8.pdf which is
currently transforming the solar power industry. s -selling-solar.html
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The original had three piles, provable, might be provable and unprovable, but it is an error to put God's existance in pile three. This is because God's existance is provable by God though not by man. So, for this particular question you want pile 4. Now there is scripture, read recently in church, that talks about not testing God, but you don't even have to look that far. When we are doing physics, we are working with the reproducible. We are, as Einstein put, trying to read the mind of God. We are not trying to change God's mind. To physics, an action of God's that turns up in an experiment is an anomaly. It does not repeat and you have to disregard the data.
While it is not OK to test God, it is OK to bargin with God as Abraham did, and this is especially so when you are trying to help out other people, at least this seems to be when God comes into the stories in a give and take kind of way. But, once you are at the bargining table (trying to change God's mind) your questions about God's existance are pretty much answered. Moses found the expereince so overwhelming that he started wearing a veil.
People have every reason not to beleive in God and every reason to believe in God. The trouble is not God but reason. It is not equiped for the miraculous so it is just not terribly useful when dealing with Someone who only acts through miracles.
So, as you experiment, you can find out things like wow, random really can be random, how odd, didn't think God would throw dice. But, your set up has to throw out any evidence of God's intervention in the experiment.
It strikes me that running this lean would really boost the NOX production and it seems a waste to throw that away on the catalytic converter. How about a follow on diesel cylinder that runs on the exhaust? Too much extra weight?s -selling-solar.html
--
Run on the Sun: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
I was siting home alone one night in LA
Watching old Cronkite on the seven o'clock news
It seems there was an earthquake that
Left nothing but a Panama hat
And a pair of old Greek shoes
Didn't seem like much was happening
So I turned it off and went to grab another beer
Seems like every time you turn around
There's another hard-luck story that you're gonna hear
And there's really nothing anyone can say
And I never did plan to go anyway
To Black Diamond Bay. --Bob Dylan
--
Oil is so old world. Go solar: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
Considering the extra surface area, I wonder if solar power could help out this ship: http://www.aeroscraft.com/Index.html.s -selling-solar.html
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Thanks, this clears things up. This is a guy who is paid to hold a certain opinion, not to formulate an opinion. Looks to me as though the article is basically a vehicle to get the word "alarmism" out there some more. Presumably the emails are hoaxes created to get a hook for the article to be printed.s -selling-solar.html
--
Solar: the clean power source. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
Your Honor, the prosecution keeps saying I killed this man for money but I have no recollection of this nor any recollection of agreeing to do this so I can not possibly plead guilty which is my legal right. Thus I can't get a fair trial. I move to dismiss.s -selling-solar.html
--
Innocent power: http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
This one actually worked I think. I'm coaching soccer again this spring and I notice that I'm not going to have to adjust the practice schedule, which starts this week, this time to account for DST coming part way into the season. I don't like DST because when I'm really busy I often don't hear about it or remember it and end up being late to church, or early as I was last fall. But the adjustment in the start time works for me for soccer practice.s -selling-solar.html
--
"Let the Sun shine" http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2007/01/slashdot-user
Republocrats!
Losses are about 7% on the grid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transm ission#Losses. While this is significant
it is not huge. The real problem is stringing out lines to remote locations which is expensive.s -selling-solar.html
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It's about right, the Milky Way may have formed as a disk more recently. One way to think about it is that the Sun has been around about 15 times since it formed for a motion of 200 km/s. A way to think about the morphologies of galaxies is to consider that stars form in response to the global potential. This is a hand wave, but you can see how it would not require a lot of mixing to get a fairly smooth distribution of stars. Bars may well be large-scale dynamical instabilities so that their shape, in a manner of speaking, happens of itself.s -selling-solar.html
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I know Josh Barnes has produced some vidio of spirals rotating but I have not found it. Here are some more exciting merger simulation: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~barnes/pressrel/mice/vi d301_04.mpg and http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~barnes/pressrel/mice/v0 211d3.mpg
found at http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~barnes/research/interac tion_models/mice/index.html#modeling. Models which concentrate on just
rotation tend to be just two dimensional to save on computing. The are used to study secular evolution which could also lead from the
Tully-Fisher to the
Faber-Jackson relation.s -selling-solar.html
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I used to do this but I had redo it each time there was a kernel update and that was with RHE. With fedora the kernel seems to change every week or so. Thanks again for the tip about the HWCursor. Now I can power-save the monitor instead of using the button all the time.
I'm using Gnome. In gimp I'm getting single pixel tracks, not continuous. It's just on the screen, not in the file.