Nuclear is not necessarily constant. Its a lot easier and cheaper to run it constant. Some plants (not in the US) will do a daily load follow operation. They'll step the control rods in half way at night and run it at 50% power.
Its entirely possible to run a nuclear plant with active load follow though. The core power output will respond pretty quickly to control rod movement. Thing is nuclear power plants only get 1/3 efficiency or there about so getting a few extra percent savings at the generation side vs running a constant power and dumping the energy elsewhere in the system isn't usually worth it. Also running active load follow really wears parts out pretty quickly.
Musicians have thrived for thousands of years, but its only been a little over a hundred that any type of recordings were widely available.
Less so for widely broadcast radio music.
And really its only been a few decades since people were able to start copying and sharing music. (Gotta love mixed tapes)
When did Napster and the internet become relevant? 2000 ish?
Previous to 1950 special DRM wasn't needed, people weren't stamping their own LPs. Previous to 1900, if you wanted to hear music, you were listening to live human beings.
Sure I'll leave facebook or gmail open, but there's limited damage that can happen from someone hacking them.
Also for some reason i usually have two windows open, one for "serious business" where gmail is the first tab, facebook is the second tab, then what ever else i happen to be looking at in the other tabs. Then in a whole other window there's the random youtube, flash games and stumble upon results. Always keeping facebook and gmail in the same tabs limits the chances of me being tricked by this by anything i regularly log into. WTF is gmail doing all the way over here!?
In order for China to learn that we will no do business with them if they have human rights issues, it would have to be true. Fact is we do plenty of business with them while they have major human rights problems. Maybe its time WE learn not to do business with them until they improve.
Maybe we should stop pretending that China is a "developing nation" while turning a blind eye to the fact that it has the third largest GDP in the world. GDP by nation (no the EU isn't a nation).
Maybe we should stop trading with them until they let their currency reach the actual market value instead of what the Chinese Govn't pegs it as. RMB (now pegged against a basket of other currencies instead of just the $)
Problem is they own our debt.... Maybe we should tighten our belts instead of borrowing more and more money from China?
You say there is a bigger chance to be hit by an asteroid than to win a lottery. Somebody wins the lottery almost every week. So far I've only heard of one person getting hit by an asteroid.
After the use of reprocessing plants you get two different kinds of nuclear waste, when separated. One kind is highly radioactive and gives off a ton of heat, but has a pretty short half-life (the "dangerous" stuff). The other kind is only mildly radio active, but has a very long half life (not so dangerous). You could take the "dangerous" stuff and break it down into manageable lots, and use them to run these batteries.
Actually cleaning up low level radiation like this isn't that hard. Plus you can tell when your done or not with a geiger counter.
There's already radioactive material in many electronics such as fire alarms. A link Not the most technical link, but it think it captures the spirit of the problem. And it contains a fun quote "If your smoke alarm is on fire you have bigger things to worry about"
Do government car-maker loans work the same way as student loans? For a student loan, you have to pay it back with interest regardless of what happens. Can't get out of a student loan going bankrupt or anything?
I went to school up in Potsdam, just down the road from Messina.
If you stick to your definition of upstate, then yes upstate is a horrible place to find IT work. And every winter there will be a month where it doesn't get above 0 F. (Not to be confused with 0 C mind you.)
I know its not really an MMO, but sometimes I think of it as a Mini-MMO (MMMO or MO?)
Anyway Call of Duty 4 and Call of Duty World at War both have great online play. Its a FPS but as you get kills you gain XP and you level up an unlock perks and new weapons.
Also its cool because you don't have to have a huge time investment at any given time. You can sign in, kill stuff, get some XP and be on your merry way.
Biking is impractical. I have a 30 mile ride to work. I'd like to move closer but my fiancee has a 30 mile ride in the opposite direction.
People growing 50% of their food? It takes roughly an acre of good fertile ground to grow enough food for one person... so you're suggesting a half acre per person. With a 4 person family unit, 2 acres per family. How many people do you know with 2 acres of farmable ground? What about the fact that we still have to have regular jobs, tilling, weeding, fertilizing 2 acres of land doesn't happen on a weekend or two, that's practically a full time job unto itself.
Ironically many of the European cars which are more fuel efficient, don't meet the American Emissions Standards, so we can't just switch it over. (Need to review the regulation at least)
Nuclear waste isn't as large of a problem as people imagine. If you were to take all the nuclear waste from the entire history of all nuclear plants in the US and stacked them on a football field, you wouldn't even have a stack 10m high. Moving forward with reprocessing plants and such, the amount of waste is very low.
As for the price of a nuclear plant. It is a bit pricy to build a plant, but once its up and running it practially prints money. A fuel cycle lasts almost 2 years. You put in your uranium and fire it up and all you do for the next two years is make electricity and keep a couple guys around to regulate the plant. No need for tons of coal or oil.
A new plant has a "fixed" life of 60 years, but often after an inspection the NRC will issue a an extension for 20 or more years. Whats the life time of a coal or oil plant?
Also my dad was telling me about how when he worked in a radar stating in the airforce. If you pointed the range finder antenna downtown you could light up the arc sodium lamps.
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Can the FCC buy a share of the company and then demand the information, or would they need controlling interest?
Vote for whom?
Plantman vs. Zombies?
Nuclear is not necessarily constant. Its a lot easier and cheaper to run it constant. Some plants (not in the US) will do a daily load follow operation. They'll step the control rods in half way at night and run it at 50% power.
Its entirely possible to run a nuclear plant with active load follow though. The core power output will respond pretty quickly to control rod movement. Thing is nuclear power plants only get 1/3 efficiency or there about so getting a few extra percent savings at the generation side vs running a constant power and dumping the energy elsewhere in the system isn't usually worth it. Also running active load follow really wears parts out pretty quickly.
Musicians have thrived for thousands of years, but its only been a little over a hundred that any type of recordings were widely available.
Less so for widely broadcast radio music.
And really its only been a few decades since people were able to start copying and sharing music. (Gotta love mixed tapes)
When did Napster and the internet become relevant? 2000 ish?
Previous to 1950 special DRM wasn't needed, people weren't stamping their own LPs. Previous to 1900, if you wanted to hear music, you were listening to live human beings.
.. leave your bank tab open and walk away.
Sure I'll leave facebook or gmail open, but there's limited damage that can happen from someone hacking them.
Also for some reason i usually have two windows open, one for "serious business" where gmail is the first tab, facebook is the second tab, then what ever else i happen to be looking at in the other tabs. Then in a whole other window there's the random youtube, flash games and stumble upon results. Always keeping facebook and gmail in the same tabs limits the chances of me being tricked by this by anything i regularly log into. WTF is gmail doing all the way over here!?
Didn't say it was directly responsible for job loss in the US. Its just an example of us letting them get away with sketchy practices.
The cause of the manufacturing job loss is our own fault. The point is we should be taking more responsibility for our situation.
In order for China to learn that we will no do business with them if they have human rights issues, it would have to be true. Fact is we do plenty of business with them while they have major human rights problems. Maybe its time WE learn not to do business with them until they improve.
Maybe we should stop pretending that China is a "developing nation" while turning a blind eye to the fact that it has the third largest GDP in the world. GDP by nation (no the EU isn't a nation).
Maybe we should stop trading with them until they let their currency reach the actual market value instead of what the Chinese Govn't pegs it as. RMB (now pegged against a basket of other currencies instead of just the $)
Problem is they own our debt.... Maybe we should tighten our belts instead of borrowing more and more money from China?
You say there is a bigger chance to be hit by an asteroid than to win a lottery. Somebody wins the lottery almost every week. So far I've only heard of one person getting hit by an asteroid.
Passwords keep honest people honest.
And the govn't isn't honest.
After the use of reprocessing plants you get two different kinds of nuclear waste, when separated. One kind is highly radioactive and gives off a ton of heat, but has a pretty short half-life (the "dangerous" stuff). The other kind is only mildly radio active, but has a very long half life (not so dangerous). You could take the "dangerous" stuff and break it down into manageable lots, and use them to run these batteries.
There would definatly be more material in a power source, but unless you are like this guy He's a boyscout you'll be fine.
Actually cleaning up low level radiation like this isn't that hard. Plus you can tell when your done or not with a geiger counter.
There's already radioactive material in many electronics such as fire alarms. A link Not the most technical link, but it think it captures the spirit of the problem. And it contains a fun quote "If your smoke alarm is on fire you have bigger things to worry about"
Hey, that's an insult to muffins!
Do government car-maker loans work the same way as student loans? For a student loan, you have to pay it back with interest regardless of what happens. Can't get out of a student loan going bankrupt or anything?
I went to school up in Potsdam, just down the road from Messina.
If you stick to your definition of upstate, then yes upstate is a horrible place to find IT work. And every winter there will be a month where it doesn't get above 0 F. (Not to be confused with 0 C mind you.)
But hey, the skiing was good.
I got FiOS. I downloaded the season finale of Heroes in 10 minutes flat.
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My brother in law retro-fit a wood burning furnace on to his 100 year old house's existing hot-water radiator heat.
I know its not really an MMO, but sometimes I think of it as a Mini-MMO (MMMO or MO?)
Anyway Call of Duty 4 and Call of Duty World at War both have great online play. Its a FPS but as you get kills you gain XP and you level up an unlock perks and new weapons.
Also its cool because you don't have to have a huge time investment at any given time. You can sign in, kill stuff, get some XP and be on your merry way.
Anybody want a peanut?
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Biking is impractical. I have a 30 mile ride to work. I'd like to move closer but my fiancee has a 30 mile ride in the opposite direction.
People growing 50% of their food? It takes roughly an acre of good fertile ground to grow enough food for one person... so you're suggesting a half acre per person. With a 4 person family unit, 2 acres per family. How many people do you know with 2 acres of farmable ground? What about the fact that we still have to have regular jobs, tilling, weeding, fertilizing 2 acres of land doesn't happen on a weekend or two, that's practically a full time job unto itself.
How much do _you_ farm?
Ironically many of the European cars which are more fuel efficient, don't meet the American Emissions Standards, so we can't just switch it over. (Need to review the regulation at least)
Nuclear waste isn't as large of a problem as people imagine. If you were to take all the nuclear waste from the entire history of all nuclear plants in the US and stacked them on a football field, you wouldn't even have a stack 10m high. Moving forward with reprocessing plants and such, the amount of waste is very low.
As for the price of a nuclear plant. It is a bit pricy to build a plant, but once its up and running it practially prints money. A fuel cycle lasts almost 2 years. You put in your uranium and fire it up and all you do for the next two years is make electricity and keep a couple guys around to regulate the plant. No need for tons of coal or oil.
A new plant has a "fixed" life of 60 years, but often after an inspection the NRC will issue a an extension for 20 or more years. Whats the life time of a coal or oil plant?
How about this guy. It looks like a little more power than it takes to run a watch.
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=14259
Also my dad was telling me about how when he worked in a radar stating in the airforce. If you pointed the range finder antenna downtown you could light up the arc sodium lamps.