Wow! After reading a little on the thorium reactors, it looks like a simple easy solid choice for future power needs. A comepletely safe reactor that can destroy plutonium? That sounds too good to be true. You can build it in any country with no fear of proliferation? Am I missing something? (other than the billions of special interest groups that will keep this from being a reality in the U.S.)
Thanks for the heads up on this technology. I had never heard of it.
Can your solar cells supply enough electricity to heat your home on a cold day, to give you hot water and a hot stove? Say, on a cloudy day in the autumn? If you couple solar or wind with Geothermal, definitely. Then the whole thing is a function of a very small amount of electricity.
Take your scaremongering about nuclear energy back to the 80s where it belongs. It's by far the greenest option IMHO. It is definitely ONE of the greener options. The only problem with nuclear as I see it is scale. Once there is breeder waste traveling all over the place, now we have to protect it from the bad guys. Also, "carbon" and "fossil fuel" depletion are World Wide Problems. To scale it world wide, We will have to get off our proliferation "high horses." I personally like my pony.
It doesn't scale well, that's why I would like to see massive amounts of money put into solar, wind, geothermal, tide turbines, etc.
It may come down to economics, but the economics of resource use and waste is flawed. It's been proven over and over that resources are finite and we will always have to deal with the "tragedy of the commons"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
So really it doesn't come down to economics, it comes down to special interests.
Well sure breeaders are better in theory. However, France's SuperPhoenix sat idle for 10 years because of coolant problems and other "maintenace." It was actually consuming more power because of the problems than it was putting out before it was shut down. I am not trying to say "reprocessing" is wrong, just that breeders might be a little too "first generation."
If a bunch of people who sat there and watched it didn't protest, why is your youtube take on the issue somehow more compelling? Did you ever see that video of the Colorado Buffaloes getting five downs at the one yard line agaisnt the Missouri Tigers? It was ovbiously incorrect. It gave the Colorado Buffalo's a National Championship. There were five referees watching it. There were 48,000 Tiger fans watching it. Notice the crowd didn't jump up in protest there either, but everyone did when we saw the video. Video tape isn't bad.
On a side note: I'll bet, if Meyers would have had last years Sear's Trophy over his head ready to throw, then we would have seen a crowd reaction.
I can understand giving kids a discount for good grades... but refusing to sell? That's just bad business. I think his point was not to reward good students but instead to refrain from rewarding bad students. I think his premise is that students could get better grades if they spent more time studying and less time playing Halo2.
But you bring up a good question? What trumps "bad business?" Anything?
He causes problems and does things to get attention. More people should cause problems and do things to get attention. Instead of listening to "bought and paid for" politicians or the mainstream media, we should be listening to each other.
No doubt, he had an agenda.
No doubt, he resisted the cops.
No doubt, he is looking for attention.
The police are allowed to "set us up" to behave wrongly. That is the definition of a "sting." Why shouldn't we get behind someone who "sets them up" and they behave wrongly.
In an analogous way, the concept of telepathy is pure fiction and could not work, because no two people have the same native internal base dictionary, and if you pick up 'radiation' from someone's brain, you still are stuck with not knowing the internal-to-external mapping.
Take your head out of the sand.
This is exactly what computers do. They take data, apply rules to the data, spit out easier to read data. Just because we don't know the rules yet, doesn't mean we won't in 30 years. All it takes is enough data to view and a fast enough computer to proccess it.
They call it an "application" for a reason. There are a multitude of reasons for having wires which I wont go into. However, I would agree that the move in the future toward "Endpoint Nuetral" security suggests that the applications for wires will continue to drop.
The new wireless technologies have the ability to "bundle" . ..well . . EVERYTHING. They will have the bandwidth at 6 to 10 miles to beam all communication media to you. Your phone, cell phone, internet, and television would be available over this technology. That's why they are against it.
Interference concerns are always "interference of trade" not signal.
You, sir, are missing the point.
"Users" don't care. They will not even know that the dns zone has been mucked with. The only people who will care are "Power" users. The "Power" user can get around this easier than you can find a way to put "whilst" in a sentence. If I have learned anything in my time as an Admin, its that "users" could care less what kind bailing wire and duct tape you use to protect them. I envision an army of glazed eyes if I tried to explain this one to them.
This is a great way to put the ball back in the court of the zombie lords.
The only legitimate users who would cry their eyes out on this one are people with the ability to use an upstream dns server anyway.
This is a nonissue.
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Wow! After reading a little on the thorium reactors, it looks like a simple easy solid choice for future power needs. A comepletely safe reactor that can destroy plutonium? That sounds too good to be true. You can build it in any country with no fear of proliferation? Am I missing something? (other than the billions of special interest groups that will keep this from being a reality in the U.S.) Thanks for the heads up on this technology. I had never heard of it.
It may come down to economics, but the economics of resource use and waste is flawed. It's been proven over and over that resources are finite and we will always have to deal with the "tragedy of the commons" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons So really it doesn't come down to economics, it comes down to special interests.
Well sure breeaders are better in theory. However, France's SuperPhoenix sat idle for 10 years because of coolant problems and other "maintenace." It was actually consuming more power because of the problems than it was putting out before it was shut down. I am not trying to say "reprocessing" is wrong, just that breeders might be a little too "first generation."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297203,00.html The police aren't so sure thier behavior was right or they wouldn't be trying to scare him away with felony charges.
They call it an "application" for a reason. There are a multitude of reasons for having wires which I wont go into. However, I would agree that the move in the future toward "Endpoint Nuetral" security suggests that the applications for wires will continue to drop.
The new wireless technologies have the ability to "bundle" . . .well . . EVERYTHING. They will have the bandwidth at 6 to 10 miles to beam all communication media to you. Your phone, cell phone, internet, and television would be available over this technology. That's why they are against it.
Interference concerns are always "interference of trade" not signal.
I guess experts-exchange.com took SAAD off. I haven't been able to use the site all day.
You, sir, are missing the point. "Users" don't care. They will not even know that the dns zone has been mucked with. The only people who will care are "Power" users. The "Power" user can get around this easier than you can find a way to put "whilst" in a sentence. If I have learned anything in my time as an Admin, its that "users" could care less what kind bailing wire and duct tape you use to protect them. I envision an army of glazed eyes if I tried to explain this one to them. This is a great way to put the ball back in the court of the zombie lords.
The only legitimate users who would cry their eyes out on this one are people with the ability to use an upstream dns server anyway. This is a nonissue.
Strange that he would come back in robot form and his mom would come back in shark form. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/07 0524-shark-virgin.html
That product exists. It is called Morphvoxpro. http://www.screamingbee.com/