Quick lesson: the greens hate anything once it gets serious and any bigger than will fit on your roof.
tidal? well in the UK they're working on a big tidal generator and the greens hate it because it screws with the estuary.
Solar? still a toy but prepare for a "save the deserts" campaign.
they hate modern industry most of all, it doesn't matter if a form of power generation is clean, they hate it because it allows people to not live in mud huts communing with nature.
Greenpeace even hate nuclear fusion (in advance) because it has the word "nuclear" in it.
don't just build them to spec, print them off a production line. swap in a new one every 5 years and take the old core to a production line designed to crack them open and handle the waste- no need to do it on site.
really? Currently the US gets something like 20% of it's power from nuclear.(most of them decades old plants with decades old tech of course). It's been that way for decades. In that time the US has had exactly zero Chernobyl type disasters.
Worldwide they provide about 15% of the worlds energy.
hell there are even quite a few awful reactors which have more in common with Chernobyl reactors than with anything in the US which somehow haven't exploded.
Given that coal kills vast numbers of people every year(directly through mine accidents and indirectly through health problems caused by smog, heavy metal poisoning and radioactive materials released when mining or burning coal) many lives could be saved by switching even if there was another Chernobyl every couple of decades which isn't going to happen anyway.
"heavy metals" also gets used a lot in a similar way. It can refer to both iron and mercury but I know which I'd be more worried about being exposed to in large quantities(unless sharpened in which case I'd be more afraid of the former).
"and the shutdown and waste treatment and storage are almost never included in the financial picture before construction starts."
this line gets repeated over and over and over and over and over and over and over on greeny websites and it has fuck all basis in fact.
that and "the cleanup costs are unknown"
It's fair to say that most reactors go over budget when they're being built(it's fair to say that about almost all large complex costly projects) but to imply that all the engineers, accountants and physicists have somehow forgotten to include waste disposal or decommissioning is absurd.
if my touchscreen cellphone can't keep synced to my wall clock (+/- 1 minute) I wouldn't bet much on something stuck into a cheap card managing it reliably.
I'm curious- from the sound of this it would be a great way for botnet herders to turn their victims electricity bills into cash(assuming I can swap my bitcoins for regular pay-my-taxes cash somehow). What measures are in place to prevent this?
In practice the quantity of gold/silver/etc available is not fixed.
Tomorrow someone builds better mining equipment and suddenly there's 5 times as much available.
A ship loaded with a significant quantity sinks over the mid atlantic trench? well in practice it has gone beyond where humans can practically access it and so might as well no longer exist.
Alternatively someone might build some kind of Von Neumann machine which can extract your precious metal from seawater or mine asteroids and suddenly the value of your precious metal would drop close to zero.
Whenever someone invents a cheaper way to mine gold you're going to experience price inflation as the gold in your safe becomes less valuable.
gold is only special to people who delude themselves that it's somehow special. Food, clean water, tools, feminine hygiene products, useful information. If you're convinced fiat currencies are going to collapse these are what you should be filling your underground bunker with, not some shiny metal which will only be worth anything if people believe it has any intrinsic value.
alternatively you just get a job as a journalist, pull some "facts" out of your arse every now and then and include them in what you write. Don't give any source. in theory the paper you're writing for is supposed to try to avoid bullshit for the sake of their reputation but unless it's going to get them sued they won't give a shit.
or read wikipedia, include whatever you read in your articles and as a bonus someone can now cite your article as a source.
Shitty journalism is a far far bigger problem than bullshit on wikipedia.
easy. After you've published a paper. Take all your data. Take all your research notes. Take all other relevant information and put it all up in a torrent.
Set an auto-reply for any emails that look like people asking for data directing them to grab the torrent.
Bloggers in my experience are a hell of a lot better than "journalists" who, most of the time, know nothing about the field they're writing about and mindlessly parrot press releases or utterly fail to grasp the material. Bloggers at least tend to be amateurs (in the sense that they study the subject they talk about for the love of it, rather than professionally).
also, don't ask me why, it apparently tends to be the anti-matter particle which gets pulled into the black hole which eliminates some of the black holes mass.... or something like that.
Email!..... over a body area network! Voip!.... over a body area network! Ftping an ebook.... over a body area network!
cause that's all that "invention" and "origional ideas" are aren't they? Pick a generic service, pick a network layer which hasn't caught on much yet and patent the combination of the 2.
like how people love to patent blindingly obvious old ideas with the words "on a computer" added.
man! this inventing thing is easy!
now just patent my inventions,sit back and wait for the money to roll in.
Ok I just finished a uni comp sci course and while I get that they intended it to be a computer science course rather than a technology course I wish we'd had a few modules with that kind of hands on stuff.
I'm guessing it may have been arranged something like-
Person P has a contract with company N for x% of the gross that company N earns from the film.
Company N sells everything to company M for 1 dollar making a total gross profit of 1 dollar.
Company M then goes on to release the film and make a pile of money big enough to swim around in but person P has no contract with company M so gets no cut of that.
P is paid almost nothing. M and N are owned by the same parent company.
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actually that's 70 MW thermal, 25 MW electric.
I'm kinda curious about their reactors- what systems do they have in place to prevent loss of containment if their ship gets blown to bits?
Quick lesson: the greens hate anything once it gets serious and any bigger than will fit on your roof.
tidal? well in the UK they're working on a big tidal generator and the greens hate it because it screws with the estuary.
Solar? still a toy but prepare for a "save the deserts" campaign.
they hate modern industry most of all, it doesn't matter if a form of power generation is clean, they hate it because it allows people to not live in mud huts communing with nature.
Greenpeace even hate nuclear fusion (in advance) because it has the word "nuclear" in it.
To take that even further:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Power_Generation
don't just build them to spec, print them off a production line.
swap in a new one every 5 years and take the old core to a production line designed to crack them open and handle the waste- no need to do it on site.
it's a fair term.
I prefer "hippies"
really?
Currently the US gets something like 20% of it's power from nuclear.(most of them decades old plants with decades old tech of course).
It's been that way for decades.
In that time the US has had exactly zero Chernobyl type disasters.
Worldwide they provide about 15% of the worlds energy.
hell there are even quite a few awful reactors which have more in common with Chernobyl reactors than with anything in the US which somehow haven't exploded.
Given that coal kills vast numbers of people every year(directly through mine accidents and indirectly through health problems caused by smog, heavy metal poisoning and radioactive materials released when mining or burning coal) many lives could be saved by switching even if there was another Chernobyl every couple of decades which isn't going to happen anyway.
get back to me in a few millennia when that becomes a problem.
(unless they insist on not using breeder reactors of course)
"heavy metals" also gets used a lot in a similar way.
It can refer to both iron and mercury but I know which I'd be more worried about being exposed to in large quantities(unless sharpened in which case I'd be more afraid of the former).
You make a fair point except for this bit.
"and the shutdown and waste treatment and storage are almost never included in the financial picture before construction starts."
this line gets repeated over and over and over and over and over and over and over on greeny websites and it has fuck all basis in fact.
that and "the cleanup costs are unknown"
It's fair to say that most reactors go over budget when they're being built(it's fair to say that about almost all large complex costly projects) but to imply that all the engineers, accountants and physicists have somehow forgotten to include waste disposal or decommissioning is absurd.
no, it's definitly my phone. it drifts by about 5 minutes a month vs my PC clock and the other clocks in the house.
slightly irritating.
but anyway.
I'd imagine that if my phone can't get it right a 50 cent card won't be able to.
if my touchscreen cellphone can't keep synced to my wall clock (+/- 1 minute) I wouldn't bet much on something stuck into a cheap card managing it reliably.
one time pad? better an RSA key
Of course then you have to build processing power into the card to use that key
Just remember you have to call wait(568024668000) before doing anything with your new Brazilian.
Food, clean water, tools, feminine hygiene products, useful information.
These things will only get more valuable the worse things get.
gold will get less valuable the worse things get and as such the less people want shiny baubles rather than food.
Anyway, platinum is where it's at. :-D
More valuable, more resilient and far more useful to a chemist.
I'm curious- from the sound of this it would be a great way for botnet herders to turn their victims electricity bills into cash(assuming I can swap my bitcoins for regular pay-my-taxes cash somehow). What measures are in place to prevent this?
In practice the quantity of gold/silver/etc available is not fixed.
Tomorrow someone builds better mining equipment and suddenly there's 5 times as much available.
A ship loaded with a significant quantity sinks over the mid atlantic trench?
well in practice it has gone beyond where humans can practically access it and so might as well no longer exist.
Alternatively someone might build some kind of Von Neumann machine which can extract your precious metal from seawater or mine asteroids and suddenly the value of your precious metal would drop close to zero.
Whenever someone invents a cheaper way to mine gold you're going to experience price inflation as the gold in your safe becomes less valuable.
gold is only special to people who delude themselves that it's somehow special.
Food, clean water, tools, feminine hygiene products, useful information.
If you're convinced fiat currencies are going to collapse these are what you should be filling your underground bunker with, not some shiny metal which will only be worth anything if people believe it has any intrinsic value.
alternatively you just get a job as a journalist, pull some "facts" out of your arse every now and then and include them in what you write.
Don't give any source.
in theory the paper you're writing for is supposed to try to avoid bullshit for the sake of their reputation but unless it's going to get them sued they won't give a shit.
or read wikipedia, include whatever you read in your articles and as a bonus someone can now cite your article as a source.
Shitty journalism is a far far bigger problem than bullshit on wikipedia.
since when has being female been a pre-requisite for attention whoredom?
If anything the GP's username sorta implies it's a male.
easy.
After you've published a paper.
Take all your data.
Take all your research notes.
Take all other relevant information and put it all up in a torrent.
Set an auto-reply for any emails that look like people asking for data directing them to grab the torrent.
Bloggers in my experience are a hell of a lot better than "journalists" who, most of the time, know nothing about the field they're writing about and mindlessly parrot press releases or utterly fail to grasp the material.
Bloggers at least tend to be amateurs (in the sense that they study the subject they talk about for the love of it, rather than professionally).
It should be. In certain situation with a time delay but eventually it should be.
also, don't ask me why, it apparently tends to be the anti-matter particle which gets pulled into the black hole which eliminates some of the black holes mass.... or something like that.
Hmmm... what could I combine ...
Email!..... over a body area network!
Voip!.... over a body area network!
Ftping an ebook.... over a body area network!
cause that's all that "invention" and "origional ideas" are aren't they?
Pick a generic service, pick a network layer which hasn't caught on much yet and patent the combination of the 2.
like how people love to patent blindingly obvious old ideas with the words "on a computer" added.
man! this inventing thing is easy!
now just patent my inventions ,sit back and wait for the money to roll in.
Ok I just finished a uni comp sci course and while I get that they intended it to be a computer science course rather than a technology course I wish we'd had a few modules with that kind of hands on stuff.
I'm guessing it may have been arranged something like-
Person P has a contract with company N for x% of the gross that company N earns from the film.
Company N sells everything to company M for 1 dollar making a total gross profit of 1 dollar.
Company M then goes on to release the film and make a pile of money big enough to swim around in but person P has no contract with company M so gets no cut of that.
P is paid almost nothing.
M and N are owned by the same parent company.
of course this is just my uneducated guess.
wow.
That disease mongering engine has to have come from the church of Scientology.