At the current accident rate, in sixty years there will be enough area in permanent exclusion zones that all world nuclear power could be replaced using solar power on that area alone. Seems like a better use of land would be to avoid the future accidents and replace nuclear power now. It would be cheaper. http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/E09-01_NuclearPowerClimateFixOrFolly
Greens want to move to more modern technology. Nuke nuts want to stick with a very inefficient method to boil water. The solid state tech in solar panels is much newer and much more elegant that trying to hold a bunch of poisonous fuel right on the edge of disaster, fuel that is so fragile that the temperature has to be kept low to avoid damage and the thermodynamic efficiency is much lower than for coal or gas plants. No, it is the nuke nuts who want to impede progress.
All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much MUCH thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is the theory that I have and which is mine, and what it is too. --Ann Elk, An expert
Everything I did was low impact. I did do a little real running in a sprint triathalon on the weekend, but with a brace. The brace was for a 32 year old injury that I got messing around on a moped during a summer job. Things wear out. But, I think low impact helps with carrying forward.
Interesting point. In 2007 recovery started September 25 but did not really get steep until late October. My point was that the decline is still steep now and there may need to be enough deceleration time that the final minimum is pushed into October (six days or more later than the case in 2007). But perhaps there is an impenetrable barrier on September 30 that requires a bounce. We'll know sooner or later though watch out for the wiggles such as the false recovery starting September 17, 2007. http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/plot.csv
The waste stored underground at the closed Humbodlt Bay reactor is ready to be inundated by sea level rise. The court is obviously right that the NRC has its head up a lower orifice granting new licenses or renewing old ones.
From the paper: "Winter trends in units of standard deviations are
comparable to those in summer but tend to be smaller. Another
factor making it difficult for the public to recognize global
warming in winter, in addition to the large natural variability in
winter (Fig. 2), is a tendency of the public to equate heavy snow-
fall with harsh winter conditions, even if temperatures are not
extremely low. Observations (14, 15) confirm expectations that a
warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor, and thus warming
may cause snowfall to increase in places that remain cool en-
ough for snow."
While it is true that heavier snow may be a consequence consequence of warming, the more noticeable thing is that the snow does not linger. Mountain now pack, for example, is melting early.
Hmm.... That is not really what this paper is about. It is an empirical paper about temperature. Some of Hansen's earlier work covers what interests you.
It is the success of rigor in mathematics that has pushed for rigor to be part of other subjects. Historians are held to a higher standard than just repeating gossip because of the example set by algebra. Biology advances because of the confidence in inference we gain from understanding algebra. If all we knew is that one and one is two, we'd merely reproduce, and the world would be less wonderful.
We were without power for three days. What has struck me most is that the damage happened in 15 minutes while a hurricane blows for six or eight hours. Also, there was very little rain with this storm system. At the stables is was hard to water the horses with the well pump out. The stream was also dry. Lucky we'd filled all the buckets in the barn a week before.
My priest mentioned this a couple of weeks ago. My thought was that if the unexamined life is not worth living, then perhaps unconsidered knowledge is not worth knowing. Direct feed data may be a waste of time.
Doesn't hurt relations to be a country that can keep its word rather than breaking it. The opposite is usually the case. There is no reason to trust the US on non-proliferation now.
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At the current accident rate, in sixty years there will be enough area in permanent exclusion zones that all world nuclear power could be replaced using solar power on that area alone. Seems like a better use of land would be to avoid the future accidents and replace nuclear power now. It would be cheaper. http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/E09-01_NuclearPowerClimateFixOrFolly
Greens want to move to more modern technology. Nuke nuts want to stick with a very inefficient method to boil water. The solid state tech in solar panels is much newer and much more elegant that trying to hold a bunch of poisonous fuel right on the edge of disaster, fuel that is so fragile that the temperature has to be kept low to avoid damage and the thermodynamic efficiency is much lower than for coal or gas plants. No, it is the nuke nuts who want to impede progress.
All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much MUCH thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is the theory that I have and which is mine, and what it is too. --Ann Elk, An expert
If that thing hadn't gone extinct, we might have identified the gene for being radiant by comparison. Wilbur remains a mystery.
Actually, loss of power was the proximate cause. Read the timeline.
The Thresher went down owing to a reactor shut down in 1963. All hands lost. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593)
Three plants have had some effect from the storm. Oyster Creek in NJ which was shut down already for refueling may have had the closet call. http://status.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/sandy-shuts-down-nuclear-plants/
Nope. Ken Cuccinelli was the prosecutor.
Warning! Don't go to Italy!
Everything I did was low impact. I did do a little real running in a sprint triathalon on the weekend, but with a brace. The brace was for a 32 year old injury that I got messing around on a moped during a summer job. Things wear out. But, I think low impact helps with carrying forward.
Today I swam a mile and a half, biked 16 miles and ran three quarters on an elliptical. Hope I'm still doing that in thirty years.
No it just goes through a series of tubes. No, wait, that sounds wrong....
It looks as though sea ice volume was recovering before sea ice extent in 2007 http://psc.apl.washington.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/schweiger/ice_volume/BPIOMASIceVolumeAnomalyCurrentV2_CY.png?%3C?php%20echo%20time()? so your argument may apply more clearly to that parameter.
Unless you live in North Carolina where sea level rise is prohibited http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/31/1759206/nc-planners-may-be-barred-from-using-speculative-sea-level-rise-predictions There it is a patriotic duty to buy at sea level.
Interesting point. In 2007 recovery started September 25 but did not really get steep until late October. My point was that the decline is still steep now and there may need to be enough deceleration time that the final minimum is pushed into October (six days or more later than the case in 2007). But perhaps there is an impenetrable barrier on September 30 that requires a bounce. We'll know sooner or later though watch out for the wiggles such as the false recovery starting September 17, 2007. http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/plot.csv
The waste stored underground at the closed Humbodlt Bay reactor is ready to be inundated by sea level rise. The court is obviously right that the NRC has its head up a lower orifice granting new licenses or renewing old ones.
Climatologists do get to work with some pretty precisely determined average temperatures owing to the central limit theorem.
From the paper: "Winter trends in units of standard deviations are comparable to those in summer but tend to be smaller. Another factor making it difficult for the public to recognize global warming in winter, in addition to the large natural variability in winter (Fig. 2), is a tendency of the public to equate heavy snow- fall with harsh winter conditions, even if temperatures are not extremely low. Observations (14, 15) confirm expectations that a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor, and thus warming may cause snowfall to increase in places that remain cool en- ough for snow."
While it is true that heavier snow may be a consequence consequence of warming, the more noticeable thing is that the snow does not linger. Mountain now pack, for example, is melting early.
Taking a thirty year period is standard.
Hmm.... That is not really what this paper is about. It is an empirical paper about temperature. Some of Hansen's earlier work covers what interests you.
It is the success of rigor in mathematics that has pushed for rigor to be part of other subjects. Historians are held to a higher standard than just repeating gossip because of the example set by algebra. Biology advances because of the confidence in inference we gain from understanding algebra. If all we knew is that one and one is two, we'd merely reproduce, and the world would be less wonderful.
We were without power for three days. What has struck me most is that the damage happened in 15 minutes while a hurricane blows for six or eight hours. Also, there was very little rain with this storm system. At the stables is was hard to water the horses with the well pump out. The stream was also dry. Lucky we'd filled all the buckets in the barn a week before.
My priest mentioned this a couple of weeks ago. My thought was that if the unexamined life is not worth living, then perhaps unconsidered knowledge is not worth knowing. Direct feed data may be a waste of time.
Doesn't hurt relations to be a country that can keep its word rather than breaking it. The opposite is usually the case. There is no reason to trust the US on non-proliferation now.
The goal of the NPT is to eliminate nuclear weapons. That makes abrogating it a problem.