I know this is/., and I know this is the 21st century, but do you absolutely, positively, incontrovertibly have to have the dreck that comes to your TV these days? Can't you do without? Just as another possible option.
As you no doubt know, the banking system in this country is under extreme strains at this moment in time. As an unemployed Moderator, I find myself in the embarrassing position of being totally without the funds I need to take advantage of your kind generosity. The stupid bankers will not even consider lending money to such as I, even with my sterling credit record.
However, I can still be of some help to you if only you can provide me with somewhat with which to barter. Nothing extravagant, maybe just a couple of carats of diamonds, perhaps some rubies, or do you have a spare nuclear warhead or two?
Wait... I know. You are a Network Administrator. You must know the password to the San Francisco Municipal network. Send me that and all will be well.
Perhaps you might believe so. Perhaps I might believe so. If the judge doesn't believe so, you're going to jail.
It's for precisely this reason that I would do my best to securely dispose of the fingers, and would never mention finding them to anyone - not my wife, not my priest, and certainly not the police.
OK. I want details. How fine does the aluminum powder have to be? Is it available commercially, or do I need to get out a grinder and a piece of bar stock? Do you need to powder your water ice to mix them together, or can you mix them while the water's liquid and then cool them while mixing, maybe in something like an ice cream maker? I guess the first question should have been, how stable is the stuff at room temperature? If it is stable at room temperature, what does it take to set it off - I mean, ignite it?
I don't exactly see anything to bust, but Adam and Jamie definitely should have a go with this stuff.
While reading comprehension would be nice, I'd like to point out that in my (admittedly limited) experience the term "oil-filled" is used alternatively with the term "dry" to specify whether the transformer in question uses a liquid or a gas as an insulator and coolant. The term "wet" would have such unfortunate implications that I'm sure you can see why it's not normally used.
I believe that in this context "oil" refers to any liquid with suitable insulating and heat-carrying properties. Hell, in a superconducting transformer, liquid helium might even qualify as an "oil."
I hope I'm not intruding on BadAnalogyGuy's turf, but PCBs are like the synthetic oil you can use in your car. Not precisely oil, but called oil anyway.
Fraunhofer's batteries use zinc anodes and manganese cathodes, which react with one another to produce electricity.
My copy of the CRC Handbook does not list zinc and manganese as organic compounds. Do I need to upgrade my library?
While I agree that these elements do not currently have the bad press enjoyed, probably quite deservedly, by lead and mercury, I'm reminded of the calomel taken as the primary medical treatment by the Lewis and Clark expedition. Scientific thought 200 years ago pointed to mercury as a cure for almost anything that ailed you. Times do change.
Make no mistake, I think that having printable batteries using zinc and manganese is a wonderful thing. I just want to point out that those of you in the environmental movement can be counted on to find something wrong with this technology too, if it becomes popular.
I saw that, but since I'm talking out of the wrong orifice, I have to admit that I don't know what happens to lead or lithium when they absorb neutrons. I just "ass-ume" that they become radioactive isotopes and that this instability will get transferred to whatever is close to them.
Would someone who knows tell me what happens to lead when you keep pumping it full of fast neutrons? As I recall, lead is pretty close to the bottom of the fusion reaction ladder, so any transmutation involving it winds up losing energy, but I have to believe it still transmutes, given enough provocation. Do I have the general idea sort of right?
Perhaps if the D-T reactor does really well they can redesign it to handle a fuel composed of hydrogen ions (protons, in other words) and Boron-11 ions. The products of this reaction are helium-4 ions, which are not radioactive and do not induce radioactivity in their containment vessel if they are captured electrically. Electrical capture also avoids the losses associated with converting heat to electricity.
I really hope General Fusion gets this to work, but if I had any money, my money would be on EMC2 Corp, which is working on inertial electrostatic fusion. This or this should get you started on a search for more information.
I absolutely agree that what he said is not only true but very well stated. What I meant was he's crazy if he thinks he's going to educate all/. readers with anything short of an infinite series of posts
Ugh. I get tired of having to explain this. You'd think it'd stick the first dozen times or so, and I wouldn't have to keep repeating myself.
They say the definition of insanity is repeating the same action and expecting a different result. Your comment might say more about yourself than about your readership.:-D
TFA seems to me almost to have been written by an illiterate, except of course that by definition illiterates can't write.
First of all, the first sentence sounds like complete bullshit, unless of course it's followed by a second sentence something like: "Bulls and steers and grandparents are responsible for the rest," which would make it clear that we're talking about some restricted subset of all methane generated and/or released throughout the world.
Also, I have compelling reason to believe that none of the methane on Titan was generated by cows.
Something about the way that line scans reminds me of Ogden Nash's little ditty about a purple cow. I'd quote it, but am afraid of overloading my irony meter by getting sued for copyright infringement.
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Well, OK. I got off my lazy butt and Googled it. Maybe it wasn't Ogden Nash after all. Maybe it was this guy.
It was kinda obvious to me that this was a scam when they told me my warranty for the car was due to expire soon.
I don't have a car.
That's fun.
It was obvious to me for the exact opposite reason. I had five cars. And the youngest of them had been out of warranty for at least 5 years. When I gave them the VIN for the '56 Ford (after thoroughly harassing them for not knowing the VIN on the warranty they were calling about) they wouldn't accept it - not enough characters. They hung up when I said it was a '56. On the next call, they hung up when I gave them a motorcycle VIN. Then they flooded my line with calls - well, 3-5/day - and hung up whenever I tried to connect with a person. Then I started screening calls, and they finally went away.
I understand that this is an over-reaction, but if they were sentenced to death and I were an executioner I think I would cheerfully pull the switch to fry their brains.
The walls of the Columbia Gorge consist of multiple 50 ft. thick lava layers - just saying. IANAG
As do the walls of the Deschutes River Gorge. But never fear. Those layers came from shield volcanoes near the Idaho border, not the Cascade mountain range. Of course, the basaltic lava flowed like water to cover most of Oregon and large parts of Washington, so it was really a cascade, or rather a series of them.
I like to think that a similar event occurring in my lifetime would get someone's attention, even if it didn't have all the dramatic explosions of a more traditional volcano.
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That just doesn't seem like it will build much of a "facility"
Well, the picture in TFA doesn't look like much of a facility. But why, oh why would anyone put an industrial facility of any kind in DC?
Wait, could this be more PR than process?
I know this is /., and I know this is the 21st century, but do you absolutely, positively, incontrovertibly have to have the dreck that comes to your TV these days? Can't you do without? Just as another possible option.
Wouldn't your tinfoil hat work? I think mine would. Might need a whole tinfoil suit though.
This speech is 35 years old. When are people going to start paying attention to it?
I think I'm going with "never."
Dear Friend Dingo:
Thank you immensely for your kind offer.
As you no doubt know, the banking system in this country is under extreme strains at this moment in time. As an unemployed Moderator, I find myself in the embarrassing position of being totally without the funds I need to take advantage of your kind generosity. The stupid bankers will not even consider lending money to such as I, even with my sterling credit record.
However, I can still be of some help to you if only you can provide me with somewhat with which to barter. Nothing extravagant, maybe just a couple of carats of diamonds, perhaps some rubies, or do you have a spare nuclear warhead or two?
Wait... I know. You are a Network Administrator. You must know the password to the San Francisco Municipal network. Send me that and all will be well.
I await your reply with eagerness.
Your good and faithful friend,
pitterpatter
I'd mod him up if he wasn't posting AC
Oh, and if I wasn't posting
And if I had mod points
Perhaps you might believe so. Perhaps I might believe so. If the judge doesn't believe so, you're going to jail.
It's for precisely this reason that I would do my best to securely dispose of the fingers, and would never mention finding them to anyone - not my wife, not my priest, and certainly not the police.
Not that I would do such a thing to begin with.
who would mix them up?
Yes, it's a clever acronym, and yes it's already taken, but context is everything here.
OK. I want details. How fine does the aluminum powder have to be? Is it available commercially, or do I need to get out a grinder and a piece of bar stock? Do you need to powder your water ice to mix them together, or can you mix them while the water's liquid and then cool them while mixing, maybe in something like an ice cream maker? I guess the first question should have been, how stable is the stuff at room temperature? If it is stable at room temperature, what does it take to set it off - I mean, ignite it?
I don't exactly see anything to bust, but Adam and Jamie definitely should have a go with this stuff.
I know! I know!
Pour oil on it to limit the evaporation. Yeah, that'll do it.
While reading comprehension would be nice, I'd like to point out that in my (admittedly limited) experience the term "oil-filled" is used alternatively with the term "dry" to specify whether the transformer in question uses a liquid or a gas as an insulator and coolant. The term "wet" would have such unfortunate implications that I'm sure you can see why it's not normally used.
I believe that in this context "oil" refers to any liquid with suitable insulating and heat-carrying properties. Hell, in a superconducting transformer, liquid helium might even qualify as an "oil."
I hope I'm not intruding on BadAnalogyGuy's turf, but PCBs are like the synthetic oil you can use in your car. Not precisely oil, but called oil anyway.
Having made your post, if you now shoot a Verizon technician it would probably be interpreted as premeditated.
Comcast technicians, of course, remain fair game.
Oh come on. You can't even send a man grocery shopping.
Yeah. Couldn't you come up with a car analogy?
From TFA:
Fraunhofer's batteries use zinc anodes and manganese cathodes, which react with one another to produce electricity.
My copy of the CRC Handbook does not list zinc and manganese as organic compounds. Do I need to upgrade my library?
While I agree that these elements do not currently have the bad press enjoyed, probably quite deservedly, by lead and mercury, I'm reminded of the calomel taken as the primary medical treatment by the Lewis and Clark expedition. Scientific thought 200 years ago pointed to mercury as a cure for almost anything that ailed you. Times do change.
Make no mistake, I think that having printable batteries using zinc and manganese is a wonderful thing. I just want to point out that those of you in the environmental movement can be counted on to find something wrong with this technology too, if it becomes popular.
I saw that, but since I'm talking out of the wrong orifice, I have to admit that I don't know what happens to lead or lithium when they absorb neutrons. I just "ass-ume" that they become radioactive isotopes and that this instability will get transferred to whatever is close to them.
Would someone who knows tell me what happens to lead when you keep pumping it full of fast neutrons? As I recall, lead is pretty close to the bottom of the fusion reaction ladder, so any transmutation involving it winds up losing energy, but I have to believe it still transmutes, given enough provocation. Do I have the general idea sort of right?
Perhaps this is a better link for Polywell Fusion.
Perhaps if the D-T reactor does really well they can redesign it to handle a fuel composed of hydrogen ions (protons, in other words) and Boron-11 ions. The products of this reaction are helium-4 ions, which are not radioactive and do not induce radioactivity in their containment vessel if they are captured electrically. Electrical capture also avoids the losses associated with converting heat to electricity.
I really hope General Fusion gets this to work, but if I had any money, my money would be on EMC2 Corp, which is working on inertial electrostatic fusion. This or this should get you started on a search for more information.
I absolutely agree that what he said is not only true but very well stated. What I meant was he's crazy if he thinks he's going to educate all /. readers with anything short of an infinite series of posts
Ugh. I get tired of having to explain this. You'd think it'd stick the first dozen times or so, and I wouldn't have to keep repeating myself.
They say the definition of insanity is repeating the same action and expecting a different result. Your comment might say more about yourself than about your readership. :-D
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
TFA seems to me almost to have been written by an illiterate, except of course that by definition illiterates can't write.
First of all, the first sentence sounds like complete bullshit, unless of course it's followed by a second sentence something like: "Bulls and steers and grandparents are responsible for the rest," which would make it clear that we're talking about some restricted subset of all methane generated and/or released throughout the world.
Also, I have compelling reason to believe that none of the methane on Titan was generated by cows.
I call FUD on the whole article.
IANAL. I don't even want to be one.
Ha Ha.
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Something about the way that line scans reminds me of Ogden Nash's little ditty about a purple cow. I'd quote it, but am afraid of overloading my irony meter by getting sued for copyright infringement.
.
Well, OK. I got off my lazy butt and Googled it. Maybe it wasn't Ogden Nash after all. Maybe it was this guy.
It was kinda obvious to me that this was a scam when they told me my warranty for the car was due to expire soon. I don't have a car.
That's fun.
It was obvious to me for the exact opposite reason. I had five cars. And the youngest of them had been out of warranty for at least 5 years. When I gave them the VIN for the '56 Ford (after thoroughly harassing them for not knowing the VIN on the warranty they were calling about) they wouldn't accept it - not enough characters. They hung up when I said it was a '56. On the next call, they hung up when I gave them a motorcycle VIN. Then they flooded my line with calls - well, 3-5/day - and hung up whenever I tried to connect with a person. Then I started screening calls, and they finally went away.
I understand that this is an over-reaction, but if they were sentenced to death and I were an executioner I think I would cheerfully pull the switch to fry their brains.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch.
The walls of the Columbia Gorge consist of multiple 50 ft. thick lava layers - just saying. IANAG
As do the walls of the Deschutes River Gorge. But never fear. Those layers came from shield volcanoes near the Idaho border, not the Cascade mountain range. Of course, the basaltic lava flowed like water to cover most of Oregon and large parts of Washington, so it was really a cascade, or rather a series of them.
I like to think that a similar event occurring in my lifetime would get someone's attention, even if it didn't have all the dramatic explosions of a more traditional volcano.