The largest hydroelectric power plant reservoir in the world is actually a natural lake, lake Victoria in Uganda. This lake serves the reservoir for the Nalubaale (formerly Owens Falls) dam.
The large total volume of water and the fact that it's located at the equator makes it the reservoir with most influence on the earth's rotation rate.
My reading: older, better known reactor designs are safer.
My reading: reactors built by capitalist corporations who face massive financial loss when something goes wrong are safer than reactors built by communist dictatorships to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.
comparing a homemade wasteland for decades with a heatwave is just retarded.
It's not a heatwave, it's a heat *ocean*. It will take thousands, if not millions, of years for all that carbon to be reabsorbed by natural processes. That is, thousands of years after mankind has become extinct, of course, because humans show no sign of even trying to limit their production of CO2.
"Homemade wasteland", indeed, that's what global warming is all about.
There are some indications of radioactive cesium and iodine.
Yeah, great. "Some indications" is evidence enough to make them want to shutdown nuclear power entirely, while overwhelming evidence for catastrophic global warming is disputed as "unconfirmed" or something like that.
If the same criteria were used for CO2 generation as is used for nuclear power, burning fossil fuels would have been outlawed long ago.
Thousands died from the quake, and all they are writing about is what's happening in those reactors.
Every summer more people die of heat stroke than have died from ALL NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS COMBINED since the nuclear industry began.
With all this melodrama, priorities will be shifted in the public's minds. They will believe that reducing the, so far inexistent, deaths from the Fukushima reactors is more important than reducing the emission of greenhouse effect gases.
Theft is not commonly defined to mean "taking such that the owner is left with nothing". It simply means taking what is not yours. In the past, this necessarily meant that leaving nothing behind was a corollary
And that means all the difference in the world. There was a time when cutting someone with a knife was a serious crime, punished with death, today people pay for a surgeon to do it. Everything is in the consequences.
Theft is a crime because it leaves the victim with nothing, an act that does not take something away from a victim should not be a crime.
But a law saying an agent from a foreign hostile power can't come to your country to stir unrest, build a covert communication network, and corrupt people to oppose the government, well, it's not that an "unjust" law, and similar laws exist everywhere in the world
The main organized crime where I live in Brazil is called the "Red Command". That name means "red" as in communist, that organization started when common criminals where trained in jail by agents sent from Cuba to overthrow the Brazilian government.
Of course, USAID and the CIA have been trying to foment revolution in Cuba for a long time, and the US government has supported the terrorist groups that have been bombing hotels in Cuba
Isn't it ironic that people who claim about US agents are trying to overthrow the Cuban government are the same people who idolize a Cuba government agent that was killed while conducting terrorist actions to overthrow other countries governments?
Can you imagine what would've happened if someone funded by the Soviet Union tried to set up communications networks in the US that the Government couldn't monitor?
I know Cuba is a backwards country, but I didn't suspect the situation was so bad that the government couldn't monitor the internet.
Remember that the US has a history of attempting assassination attempts against Fidel Castro and has organized (badly) at least one attempt to violently overthrow the government
Considering how easily the US invaded two different countries at the same time at the other side of the world, they could take over Cuba in a weekend if they wanted to. The Bay of Pigs rebellion was performed by Cuban citizens, with some support from the CIA but no direct military intervention from the USA.
This is very different from the Cuban invasion of Angola. The Bay of Pigs affair is more similar to the many different interventions that Cuba has performed all over Latin America. Cuba tried for decades to overthrow the governments of almost all countries in Central and South America, so when they complain about CIA actions in Cuba that's the pot calling the kettle black.
- and they're not exactly doing it out of a desire to spread freedom and democracy
I see. So Cuba has oil?
remember that the previous US-supported dictator was pretty horrid and screwed over basically the entire Cuban population in favour of the US interests that owned most of Cuba.
Batista was a corrupt dictator that got money from the US organized crime. To call that "US interests" is quite an exaggeration. it was the Italian mafia operating from the USA that paid Batista to launder their money. That was no more "US interests" than when the Colombian drug cartels used Noriega in Panama to launder their money.
The fact is that the Cuban dictatorship uses the USA as a convenient excuse for keeping their country under their military rule. And the irony of it is that from financing and training agents to overthrow foreign governments to direct military invasion, Cuba has done in many other countries exactly what they accuse the USA of doing.
What if someone out there knows your home address, and published it in a newspaper. Could you sue them or the paper for publishing it?
What if someone saw you leaving the office of an attorney who is well known for defending people accused of pedophilia? Can they set up a site named pedophile_lwsimon.org and publish all the time you spend at that attorney there?
No, being on the internet doesn't make it special, but it makes it googleable. It's like everything you say becomes instantly available to anyone. Not just like anyone who sees you at random on the street, but anyone who might have some special interest about you. like someone who holds a grudge against you, who is an adversary party at a lawsuit.
The problem is in the sheer number of cells needed. With hundreds of millions of cells, even assuming zero cost for a replacement cell, the cost of finding and replacing the failed cells would be significative. Thermal cycling would be a factor causing degradation of a solar thermal plant, sure, but it would also affect PV.
If I had to choose a solar plant design, I would go for a linear alternator powered by a free piston Stirling engine. Stirling engines are more expensive than other thermal engines, but that's mostly because they are made in smaller numbers. There is at least one prototype system based on this principle in Arizona.
Here in Belgium, excess energy is fed back into the electrical system: your counter will run backwards - so will your bill - and you have no need for ugly and big battery systems... + the nature and stuff:)
That might be good for you as an individual, but last time I looked, Belgium is a country so small that It's totally in the dark at certain times.
A solar thermal system would need a lot of maintenance while PV cells just sit there and push electrons around
As someone who has worked with electronics for over 30 years, I beg to disagree. Imagine the number of bad joints in the billions of cells that would be needed to replace one large electric power plant.
Assuming a size of 10cm x 10cm for each cell, that's a hundred cells per square meter, a hundred million cells per square kilometer, at least two hundred million soldered joints. All that to generate no more than 1000 MW at noon on a sunny day.
With wind slightly bending and moving each panel, dust, dew condensation, oxidation, temperature variations, and all other factors that are always causing electrical contacts to fail, my guess is that PV cells are not scalable to the dimensions needed to replace a significant part of our society's electric consumption.
Seems like they don't know anything about Tartessos. That would be a real explanation for the ruins found.
They certainly know about it, and that's probably the explanation for the city they found. Problem is, few people ever heard of Tartessos. It's a question of marketing, claim it's Atlantis to get press coverage, then announce it's Tartessos to get scientific recognition.
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I wonder what he has actually been charged with?
Bringing Goatse candy to the party.
Slow news day, uh?
I bet SHE is quite busy today!
What if they are treating retinal detachment with laser photocoagulation?
1.8 microseconds (1.8 millionths of a second)
Second? I don't care for a second, the second is the first loser!
What I want to know is who is on first.
The largest hydroelectric power plant reservoir in the world is actually a natural lake, lake Victoria in Uganda. This lake serves the reservoir for the Nalubaale (formerly Owens Falls) dam.
The large total volume of water and the fact that it's located at the equator makes it the reservoir with most influence on the earth's rotation rate.
My reading: older, better known reactor designs are safer.
My reading: reactors built by capitalist corporations who face massive financial loss when something goes wrong are safer than reactors built by communist dictatorships to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.
comparing a homemade wasteland for decades with a heatwave is just retarded.
It's not a heatwave, it's a heat *ocean*. It will take thousands, if not millions, of years for all that carbon to be reabsorbed by natural processes. That is, thousands of years after mankind has become extinct, of course, because humans show no sign of even trying to limit their production of CO2.
"Homemade wasteland", indeed, that's what global warming is all about.
There are some indications of radioactive cesium and iodine.
Yeah, great. "Some indications" is evidence enough to make them want to shutdown nuclear power entirely, while overwhelming evidence for catastrophic global warming is disputed as "unconfirmed" or something like that.
If the same criteria were used for CO2 generation as is used for nuclear power, burning fossil fuels would have been outlawed long ago.
Thousands died from the quake, and all they are writing about is what's happening in those reactors.
Every summer more people die of heat stroke than have died from ALL NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS COMBINED since the nuclear industry began.
With all this melodrama, priorities will be shifted in the public's minds. They will believe that reducing the, so far inexistent, deaths from the Fukushima reactors is more important than reducing the emission of greenhouse effect gases.
I'm pretty sure I bring an ID to the polling place every time I vote.
I'm pretty sure I send my IP address to 4chan every time I post.
The value of Anonymity of course depends on the value of what you're doing with it.
Most people who use it do so to commit crimes, from trolling to murder.
Most people vote in democratic elections anonymously. Do you think voting is a crime, or do you consider it trolling?
Theft is not commonly defined to mean "taking such that the owner is left with nothing". It simply means taking what is not yours. In the past, this necessarily meant that leaving nothing behind was a corollary
And that means all the difference in the world. There was a time when cutting someone with a knife was a serious crime, punished with death, today people pay for a surgeon to do it. Everything is in the consequences.
Theft is a crime because it leaves the victim with nothing, an act that does not take something away from a victim should not be a crime.
But a law saying an agent from a foreign hostile power can't come to your country to stir unrest, build a covert communication network, and corrupt people to oppose the government, well, it's not that an "unjust" law, and similar laws exist everywhere in the world
The main organized crime where I live in Brazil is called the "Red Command" . That name means "red" as in communist, that organization started when common criminals where trained in jail by agents sent from Cuba to overthrow the Brazilian government.
Of course, USAID and the CIA have been trying to foment revolution in Cuba for a long time, and the US government has supported the terrorist groups that have been bombing hotels in Cuba
Isn't it ironic that people who claim about US agents are trying to overthrow the Cuban government are the same people who idolize a Cuba government agent that was killed while conducting terrorist actions to overthrow other countries governments?
Can you imagine what would've happened if someone funded by the Soviet Union tried to set up communications networks in the US that the Government couldn't monitor?
I know Cuba is a backwards country, but I didn't suspect the situation was so bad that the government couldn't monitor the internet.
Remember that the US has a history of attempting assassination attempts against Fidel Castro and has organized (badly) at least one attempt to violently overthrow the government
Considering how easily the US invaded two different countries at the same time at the other side of the world, they could take over Cuba in a weekend if they wanted to. The Bay of Pigs rebellion was performed by Cuban citizens, with some support from the CIA but no direct military intervention from the USA.
This is very different from the Cuban invasion of Angola. The Bay of Pigs affair is more similar to the many different interventions that Cuba has performed all over Latin America. Cuba tried for decades to overthrow the governments of almost all countries in Central and South America, so when they complain about CIA actions in Cuba that's the pot calling the kettle black.
- and they're not exactly doing it out of a desire to spread freedom and democracy
I see. So Cuba has oil?
remember that the previous US-supported dictator was pretty horrid and screwed over basically the entire Cuban population in favour of the US interests that owned most of Cuba.
Batista was a corrupt dictator that got money from the US organized crime. To call that "US interests" is quite an exaggeration. it was the Italian mafia operating from the USA that paid Batista to launder their money. That was no more "US interests" than when the Colombian drug cartels used Noriega in Panama to launder their money.
The fact is that the Cuban dictatorship uses the USA as a convenient excuse for keeping their country under their military rule. And the irony of it is that from financing and training agents to overthrow foreign governments to direct military invasion, Cuba has done in many other countries exactly what they accuse the USA of doing.
Do you know the difference between a golfer and a skydiver?
The golfer:
WHACK!
-"Oh, shit!"
The skydiver:
-"Oh, shit!"
WHACK!
What if someone out there knows your home address, and published it in a newspaper. Could you sue them or the paper for publishing it?
What if someone saw you leaving the office of an attorney who is well known for defending people accused of pedophilia? Can they set up a site named pedophile_lwsimon.org and publish all the time you spend at that attorney there?
No, being on the internet doesn't make it special, but it makes it googleable. It's like everything you say becomes instantly available to anyone. Not just like anyone who sees you at random on the street, but anyone who might have some special interest about you. like someone who holds a grudge against you, who is an adversary party at a lawsuit.
Some (or a lot of them) may fail, but they eventually need to be replaced, or the power output will eventually be zero.
i used to look up pron actresses on wikipedia all the time, then at some point a few years ago, they just stop showing up
If you want samples of their work, rather than boring biographic data, you should check http://pinkpornstars.com/
3/14 is the third day in the fourteenth month.
Oh, I see, they are using middle-endian notation.
The problem is in the sheer number of cells needed. With hundreds of millions of cells, even assuming zero cost for a replacement cell, the cost of finding and replacing the failed cells would be significative. Thermal cycling would be a factor causing degradation of a solar thermal plant, sure, but it would also affect PV.
If I had to choose a solar plant design, I would go for a linear alternator powered by a free piston Stirling engine. Stirling engines are more expensive than other thermal engines, but that's mostly because they are made in smaller numbers. There is at least one prototype system based on this principle in Arizona.
Hm, I might need to get some bigger pockets to be able to fit the 25+ mm of lead shielding needed for safe operation.
No need for shielding. Just don't put the device in your front pant pockets if you plan to have children in the future.
Here in Belgium, excess energy is fed back into the electrical system: your counter will run backwards - so will your bill - and you have no need for ugly and big battery systems... + the nature and stuff :)
That might be good for you as an individual, but last time I looked, Belgium is a country so small that It's totally in the dark at certain times.
A solar thermal system would need a lot of maintenance while PV cells just sit there and push electrons around
As someone who has worked with electronics for over 30 years, I beg to disagree. Imagine the number of bad joints in the billions of cells that would be needed to replace one large electric power plant.
Assuming a size of 10cm x 10cm for each cell, that's a hundred cells per square meter, a hundred million cells per square kilometer, at least two hundred million soldered joints. All that to generate no more than 1000 MW at noon on a sunny day.
With wind slightly bending and moving each panel, dust, dew condensation, oxidation, temperature variations, and all other factors that are always causing electrical contacts to fail, my guess is that PV cells are not scalable to the dimensions needed to replace a significant part of our society's electric consumption.
Seems like they don't know anything about Tartessos. That would be a real explanation for the ruins found.
They certainly know about it, and that's probably the explanation for the city they found. Problem is, few people ever heard of Tartessos. It's a question of marketing, claim it's Atlantis to get press coverage, then announce it's Tartessos to get scientific recognition.