I think the basic difference lies in immediate the availability of food. Since the experiment was conducted in controlled conditions there was probably a tray of food with known caloric value ready.
And you don't have that kind of accident at Fukushima, its not a release accident! The reactor had a cooling accident, not a loss of containment accident. Sheesh.
Wait, he didn't just say what I think he did, did he?
Do you actually read/watch the news? Or are you from outer space? Because by the looks of it your data comes straight from Uranus.
There is no fly ash anymore in a modern plant since 15 - 20 years
Surprise, surprise, there are no nuclear plants operating commercially that were designed within the last 15 to 20 years.
The crucial difference being there was no need to rebuild the whole coal plants - just upgrade them to scrub the exhaust &c. Some of the coal plants were made to produce carbon-sequestering cement. Can you do the same easily with a nuclear reactor?
As to the subsidies - nuclear is still subsidized and was even more when it was entering the energy market, so why shouldn't renewables have the same chance?
wind of course only works if there is wind, and there isnt enough of either to meet the power needs of the world
without releasing anything at all into the athmosphere
Two words: waste heat.
Also, nuclear power has its own carbon footprint, at least as large as wind or solar, requires huge amounts of water in mining, toxic/exotic substances (hafnium, beryllium) to work, spent fuel storage (we are talking about technology currently in use, not hypothetical magical reactors), up to 12 years of construction time plus 20 years of decommissioning.
[...] China, a communist state where conformity is law [...]
- Dan.
Ahem... Also, the pollution you mentioned is just one of many side effects of capitalist MO (limiting costs). And - conformity is the desired behavior in representative democracy, which is just a vestibule to fascism./rant
I don't regard myself as genius but I have just had the following "adventure."
I got involved in a one-project (web app) company that has recently gained an edge over competition and has been significantly invested in. The investor demanded some new functionality developed soon (until April), so the owner decided to hire new blood, more than doubling the current number of devs. That is two, by the way, only one of which knows the whole codebase.
The codebase which is FUBAR in my opinion, because it's been created by an ex employee when he was just learning PHP, and so it seems, although smart, he was also new to programming. The code isn't commented, hell, it's unreadable. It has no identifiable architecture or design pattern. About the database - it's a mess as well. The tables not normalized, indexes just for the sake of being there, ad-hoc travesty of sharding that only obscures the logic and the better performance gain would have been made by indexing one single field, "the list goes on." Suffice to say I'm afraid of touching anything in this house of cards.
This is three or four years after the original developer left. The boss didn't demand that documentation be made, he graciously gave the team 3-4 weeks to slap-up some javadoc and a few paragraphs of logic description. This goes to the new devs, or rather, the new devs are walking into Mordor.
If I wasn't desperate because of the job market, I'd have jumped ship right away and with a mad scientist laughter.
Now when I told the boss he was deluding himself and that the new kids on the block will halt all development if they are forced to work with this code, I was treated as an unethusiastic, negative misfit. Mind that I provided a way out of this mess but is was not even looked into properly. In the meantime everyone who's not a dev is full of glee and "can't wait to see the new stuff improvements working." Oh, the roadmap is in done Excel by the way.
The two other times I'd done this kind of thing it turned out I was right, so I think the Heretic is sometimes right. I think I'm in for an extinction level event here. Can't wait to see that.
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I think the basic difference lies in immediate the availability of food. Since the experiment was conducted in controlled conditions there was probably a tray of food with known caloric value ready.
It's also amusing how much of a religion opposing Apple seems to be. I have to wonder if the grand irony is lost on you haters.
...kind of how Atheism is as much of a religion as religion itself?
Yeah, and not collecting stamps is a hobby.
I do hope that reason and sanity can prevail
Read 1984, especially the last chapters.
No, you have frost and snow in summer in Australia.
IIRC wind blows at night as well. Incidentally Japan chose wind. Offshore.
not much good for peak or periodic power
What you can anticipate, you can accomodate.
Actually, Japan decided to use offshore wind. I expect they might conside the addition of building-integrated photovoltaics.
That, and whatever happened to gift economy?
nuclear experts
Not that I disagree with Gundersen, but one person does not a group make.
And you don't have that kind of accident at Fukushima, its not a release accident! The reactor had a cooling accident, not a loss of containment accident. Sheesh.
Wait, he didn't just say what I think he did, did he?
Do you actually read/watch the news? Or are you from outer space? Because by the looks of it your data comes straight from Uranus.
There is no fly ash anymore in a modern plant since 15 - 20 years Surprise, surprise, there are no nuclear plants operating commercially that were designed within the last 15 to 20 years.
The crucial difference being there was no need to rebuild the whole coal plants - just upgrade them to scrub the exhaust &c. Some of the coal plants were made to produce carbon-sequestering cement. Can you do the same easily with a nuclear reactor?
Wind is not cheap, nor is solar.
Try this and this older one to see how prices progress.
As to the subsidies - nuclear is still subsidized and was even more when it was entering the energy market, so why shouldn't renewables have the same chance?
wind of course only works if there is wind, and there isnt enough of either to meet the power needs of the world
Wrong again. Solar?
without releasing anything at all into the athmosphere
Two words: waste heat.
Also, nuclear power has its own carbon footprint, at least as large as wind or solar, requires huge amounts of water in mining, toxic/exotic substances (hafnium, beryllium) to work, spent fuel storage (we are talking about technology currently in use, not hypothetical magical reactors), up to 12 years of construction time plus 20 years of decommissioning.
Or a completely new console.
And operating a coal plant is akin to all the moles poked out of their holes and looking at you while you shrug and say "working as intended."
And of course boiling water with nuclear and fossil fuels are the only two possible ways to produce electricity.
Try "Sabre Dance."
Fired out of a canon?
Into the sun.
With rotation tidally fixed to the sun, [...] Mercury
Eh?
[...] China, a communist state where conformity is law [...] - Dan.
Ahem ... Also, the pollution you mentioned is just one of many side effects of capitalist MO (limiting costs). And - conformity is the desired behavior in representative democracy, which is just a vestibule to fascism. /rant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y
I could care less whose feelings I hurt along the way....
I maintain that everyone is responsible for their own emotions.
Or, sticks and stones &c...
Sorry for not reviewing the post, "stuff improvements", "in done Excel" and somesuch...
I don't regard myself as genius but I have just had the following "adventure."
I got involved in a one-project (web app) company that has recently gained an edge over competition and has been significantly invested in. The investor demanded some new functionality developed soon (until April), so the owner decided to hire new blood, more than doubling the current number of devs. That is two, by the way, only one of which knows the whole codebase.
The codebase which is FUBAR in my opinion, because it's been created by an ex employee when he was just learning PHP, and so it seems, although smart, he was also new to programming. The code isn't commented, hell, it's unreadable. It has no identifiable architecture or design pattern. About the database - it's a mess as well. The tables not normalized, indexes just for the sake of being there, ad-hoc travesty of sharding that only obscures the logic and the better performance gain would have been made by indexing one single field, "the list goes on." Suffice to say I'm afraid of touching anything in this house of cards.
This is three or four years after the original developer left. The boss didn't demand that documentation be made, he graciously gave the team 3-4 weeks to slap-up some javadoc and a few paragraphs of logic description. This goes to the new devs, or rather, the new devs are walking into Mordor.
If I wasn't desperate because of the job market, I'd have jumped ship right away and with a mad scientist laughter.
Now when I told the boss he was deluding himself and that the new kids on the block will halt all development if they are forced to work with this code, I was treated as an unethusiastic, negative misfit. Mind that I provided a way out of this mess but is was not even looked into properly. In the meantime everyone who's not a dev is full of glee and "can't wait to see the new stuff improvements working." Oh, the roadmap is in done Excel by the way.
The two other times I'd done this kind of thing it turned out I was right, so I think the Heretic is sometimes right. I think I'm in for an extinction level event here. Can't wait to see that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5E5TjkDvU0
The real cyber-crime is this level of security in this kind of institution.