And when your code output does not match theirs, its a bug in your code... because you know, we know its not a bug in our code. Trust me! To replicate the results code should be available. Its is a requirement to provide the source in many journals already.
Science does not require trust. It requires transparency. Closed source is not transparent.
Many of us are trying to favor open access journals so that it is free to access. Its not easy however, since they don't get the bean counter points that you get from nature/science.
Your not the F***** pope. You don't get to tell people they are not worthy enough to look at your/code data. You don't like it, don't do science. But this attitude of only cooperating with a "vetoed" group of people is causing far more problems than you think you are solving by doing it. You are not as smart as you think you are.
Want to make a claim/suggestion that has very real economic and political ramifications for everyone, you provide the data/models for everyone. Otherwise, have a nice hot cup of shut the frak up.
That is not our Job. What they are not entertained enough to attend? Want us to hold your hand in the big university? Its the students life, they are free to F*** it up any way they see fit. Including not turning up to things they find boring, then then reap the consequences.
University is not about the book. It about going beyond the book in many cases. Some of the courses I teach there is no book, only the notes we provide and the notes you take and last years exams.
My notes would be the derivation outline... you know the steps that are needed and any "tricks" that are used. There is often one theorem or fact thats not really common knowledge in many proofs/derivations, thats the stuff to have in notes.
But how can his/her children inherent the photographers legacy! Are you trying to tell me that long term copyrights doesn't look after the artist to the fifth generation. Lies is must be lies I tell you.
All those effects are from the UV from the welding arc. Its well known and you don't here much cus the idiot welder decided all the safety gear is only for girls with pink skirts, not a real welder. RF welding is also much lower frequency than a cell phone.
If you are from then US you are paying for it. The US has provided the LHC with a substantial mount of funding.
Having said that, its a >20km super fluid helium (about 1.4K IIRC) superconducting collider with voltage and magnetic fields at the very limit of what we are capable of. The miss management part of the project was miss managing expectations. There is no way we should expect this to run as a typical engineering project with only one or two delays and cost over runs (typical in most large engineering projects).
To give you an idea of just how far from typical engineering this is, take super fluid helium as an example. It can leak fast out of holes not much bigger than an atom. Also in the super fluid phase the thermal conductivity is insane, but one little spot thats just hot enough to get a small area just above the critical temperature (~2K) then... that area is effective thermal insulator compared to the super fluid and then you can't keep your magnets cold cus you cant get rid of parasitic thermal loads quick enough. Now lets make a connector for this stuff, and put a 10kA cable inside... We need 10 000 of em.
We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
Thats gets you a criminal record here. A permanent one if you are 14 or older. Violence at schools isn't tolerated everywhere you know. You can't punch someone in the face when you are an adult, why the hell is it permitted at school?
Case in point flu vaccines are *marginal* at best, and you even get arguments among professionals about if its worth it (yes i work with these people). There are a lot of vaccines that are worth it, and are for intents very very safe (1 in million kinda odds). However there are a lot of "fringe" vaccines that are pretty well untested, or have limited effectiveness (ie non within statistical limits). Just because its called a vaccine does not mean it works, or is safe (tho they generally are).
H1N1 was a total joke and always was. What little credibility the WHO had after bird flu and SARS was blown away after that. The prevalence was based on the fact that this kind of logic. Doctor says, "its all H1N1, so there is no need to test. You have the flu, its swine flu". Yes i was told this by a doctor. They are still trying to get my to go to the dam H1N1 summit thing whatever, since there are a lot professionals who just are not interested in attending.
Well, rather than spend huge amounts of money on a rocket delivery system. I will just put it in a ship and detonate the second it gets to port. Yes getting a nuke onto a US bound ship would be pretty easy, there is a *lot* of shipping. Doesn't even really need to be a nuke either, 20tons of high explosive at a port is going to have economic impacts.
Alternatively i will just find a dumb ass thats prepared to set his underwear or shoes on fire. Saves on getting a nuke too, or even working explosives.
there is more than 5000 years worth of U if we reprocess. And thats leaving out ocean sources. Way to use Greenpeace and Fox news as your primary source of data.
The Sellafield dumps it into the ocean. The UK is probably the worst nation in the western world when it comes to environment care. Last time i was there you couldn't even recycle plastics if you wanted to.
They are also 40x more expensive. They are only as good as nuclear if you assume that the totally random output is what you need right now, and don't require over capacity, and magically get free maintenance. I Live in Vienna and there are few wind farms around. Even when its windy about 1/3 or more are not working. They build them for the government subsidies, not to generate electricity. You can make money out of these things here just by building them.
Many of the German plants use *dry* cooling towers. More efficient 4th generation plants will need less cooling that the current crop of 60s rubbish as well, making dry cooling more economically attractive. Finally 8000 wind turbines is going to be eyesore in anyones view surly. current wind farms are and order of magnatute smaller. but >1000s is what you need to realistically replace coal/nuclear.
Wind energy scales to the 3rd power of wind speed. Also from wind patterns you end up in the very low end of the generators capacity for most of its life, that is a 1MW generator spends most of its time generating ~100kW or so. Even in very favorable sites its not very good. Then you don't get the power when you need it so you must have a huge amount of over capacity. In fact far more capitol investment than a nuclear plant. The kind of numbers of generators required would stretch copper to it limit, even well beyond by some estimates.
Add it all up, and *every* study I have read shows that wind is and will be very expensive compared to almost anything else (solar panels can compete for the most expensive, but not solar thermal). Most wind farms around the world make money from subsidies by existing, not by making commercial sense.
Compare to nuclear, the generators can run at capacity 90% of the time, and can load follow (yes they can address peek power), and are also "free" to fuel. Free to fuel here is from the fact that a nuclear power plant sees less than 5% of its amortized cost in fuel. Even big price hikes in U costs don't effect nuclear energy prices much at all. There is over 5000 years worth of U if we reprocess. Far more if we use the oceans U. Then there is Th!
However decommissioning costs are not clear cut yet. We just haven't decommissioned enough reactors. But we could instead reuse the containment builds for new nuclear plants. Since the containment buildings are one of the biggest capitol costs, this could make a big difference, as well as reduce decommissioning costs of current plants.
Now no one seems to want to be next to a nuclear plant. But they are pretty small compared to a 1GW wind farm (which can't give 1GW for the vast majority of of its lifetime). And these days no one wants to be next to wind farms either.
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And when your code output does not match theirs, its a bug in your code... because you know, we know its not a bug in our code. Trust me! To replicate the results code should be available. Its is a requirement to provide the source in many journals already.
Science does not require trust. It requires transparency. Closed source is not transparent.
Many of us are trying to favor open access journals so that it is free to access. Its not easy however, since they don't get the bean counter points that you get from nature/science.
Your not the F***** pope. You don't get to tell people they are not worthy enough to look at your/code data. You don't like it, don't do science. But this attitude of only cooperating with a "vetoed" group of people is causing far more problems than you think you are solving by doing it. You are not as smart as you think you are.
Want to make a claim/suggestion that has very real economic and political ramifications for everyone, you provide the data/models for everyone. Otherwise, have a nice hot cup of shut the frak up.
Yes i am. Don't tell me what i teach or don't teach. I am in a better position to know than you are (I should hope).
That is not our Job. What they are not entertained enough to attend? Want us to hold your hand in the big university? Its the students life, they are free to F*** it up any way they see fit. Including not turning up to things they find boring, then then reap the consequences.
University is not about the book. It about going beyond the book in many cases. Some of the courses I teach there is no book, only the notes we provide and the notes you take and last years exams.
My notes would be the derivation outline... you know the steps that are needed and any "tricks" that are used. There is often one theorem or fact thats not really common knowledge in many proofs/derivations, thats the stuff to have in notes.
Many of us teach stuff thats not in any book yet. It takes about 2 years to get a book out. Thats pretty out of date in many fields.
But how can his/her children inherent the photographers legacy! Are you trying to tell me that long term copyrights doesn't look after the artist to the fifth generation. Lies is must be lies I tell you.
All those effects are from the UV from the welding arc. Its well known and you don't here much cus the idiot welder decided all the safety gear is only for girls with pink skirts, not a real welder. RF welding is also much lower frequency than a cell phone.
How do you RF weld plastic?
Relax, overfishing will/has beaten acidification by a long shot.
If you are from then US you are paying for it. The US has provided the LHC with a substantial mount of funding.
Having said that, its a >20km super fluid helium (about 1.4K IIRC) superconducting collider with voltage and magnetic fields at the very limit of what we are capable of. The miss management part of the project was miss managing expectations. There is no way we should expect this to run as a typical engineering project with only one or two delays and cost over runs (typical in most large engineering projects).
To give you an idea of just how far from typical engineering this is, take super fluid helium as an example. It can leak fast out of holes not much bigger than an atom. Also in the super fluid phase the thermal conductivity is insane, but one little spot thats just hot enough to get a small area just above the critical temperature (~2K) then... that area is effective thermal insulator compared to the super fluid and then you can't keep your magnets cold cus you cant get rid of parasitic thermal loads quick enough. Now lets make a connector for this stuff, and put a 10kA cable inside... We need 10 000 of em.
We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
Ok well mainly because its bloody interesting.
In biology this is unfortunately not generally the case. Since i came from physics this took just a little getting use too.
Try that in a lot of EU countries, and both of you end up with a criminal record. Have a nice day.
Thats gets you a criminal record here. A permanent one if you are 14 or older. Violence at schools isn't tolerated everywhere you know. You can't punch someone in the face when you are an adult, why the hell is it permitted at school?
Case in point flu vaccines are *marginal* at best, and you even get arguments among professionals about if its worth it (yes i work with these people). There are a lot of vaccines that are worth it, and are for intents very very safe (1 in million kinda odds). However there are a lot of "fringe" vaccines that are pretty well untested, or have limited effectiveness (ie non within statistical limits). Just because its called a vaccine does not mean it works, or is safe (tho they generally are).
H1N1 was a total joke and always was. What little credibility the WHO had after bird flu and SARS was blown away after that. The prevalence was based on the fact that this kind of logic. Doctor says, "its all H1N1, so there is no need to test. You have the flu, its swine flu". Yes i was told this by a doctor. They are still trying to get my to go to the dam H1N1 summit thing whatever, since there are a lot professionals who just are not interested in attending.
Well, rather than spend huge amounts of money on a rocket delivery system. I will just put it in a ship and detonate the second it gets to port. Yes getting a nuke onto a US bound ship would be pretty easy, there is a *lot* of shipping. Doesn't even really need to be a nuke either, 20tons of high explosive at a port is going to have economic impacts.
Alternatively i will just find a dumb ass thats prepared to set his underwear or shoes on fire. Saves on getting a nuke too, or even working explosives.
Yes! I am a lawyer and i can bill for travel time :D
Wind is the #1 green power.
Citation needed.
there is more than 5000 years worth of U if we reprocess. And thats leaving out ocean sources. Way to use Greenpeace and Fox news as your primary source of data.
Yes they were(44sec). Ballistic trajectories for long range are basically vertical at the surface.
The Sellafield dumps it into the ocean. The UK is probably the worst nation in the western world when it comes to environment care. Last time i was there you couldn't even recycle plastics if you wanted to.
They are also 40x more expensive. They are only as good as nuclear if you assume that the totally random output is what you need right now, and don't require over capacity, and magically get free maintenance. I Live in Vienna and there are few wind farms around. Even when its windy about 1/3 or more are not working. They build them for the government subsidies, not to generate electricity. You can make money out of these things here just by building them.
Many of the German plants use *dry* cooling towers. More efficient 4th generation plants will need less cooling that the current crop of 60s rubbish as well, making dry cooling more economically attractive. Finally 8000 wind turbines is going to be eyesore in anyones view surly. current wind farms are and order of magnatute smaller. but >1000s is what you need to realistically replace coal/nuclear.
Wind energy scales to the 3rd power of wind speed. Also from wind patterns you end up in the very low end of the generators capacity for most of its life, that is a 1MW generator spends most of its time generating ~100kW or so. Even in very favorable sites its not very good. Then you don't get the power when you need it so you must have a huge amount of over capacity. In fact far more capitol investment than a nuclear plant. The kind of numbers of generators required would stretch copper to it limit, even well beyond by some estimates.
Add it all up, and *every* study I have read shows that wind is and will be very expensive compared to almost anything else (solar panels can compete for the most expensive, but not solar thermal). Most wind farms around the world make money from subsidies by existing, not by making commercial sense.
Compare to nuclear, the generators can run at capacity 90% of the time, and can load follow (yes they can address peek power), and are also "free" to fuel. Free to fuel here is from the fact that a nuclear power plant sees less than 5% of its amortized cost in fuel. Even big price hikes in U costs don't effect nuclear energy prices much at all. There is over 5000 years worth of U if we reprocess. Far more if we use the oceans U. Then there is Th!
However decommissioning costs are not clear cut yet. We just haven't decommissioned enough reactors. But we could instead reuse the containment builds for new nuclear plants. Since the containment buildings are one of the biggest capitol costs, this could make a big difference, as well as reduce decommissioning costs of current plants.
Now no one seems to want to be next to a nuclear plant. But they are pretty small compared to a 1GW wind farm (which can't give 1GW for the vast majority of of its lifetime). And these days no one wants to be next to wind farms either.