Please, Netflix, extend your service to Europe! Yes, I know this is probably hard due to the policies of studios.. I really miss a service like that over here.
Audiophiles are people with more money than sense.
Depends on your priorities. Spending $1-2k on something that you get hundreds of hours of enjoyment out of is not lack of sense in my opinion. You don't have to spend all your money on audio gear to be an audiophile.
Yes, I am a bit of an audiophile. I have however gotten all my stuff by constantly being on the lookout for great deals on used quality gear. Does that mean I have more money than sense?
My guess is the point of developing synthetic, or whatever you want to call it (I know there is work being done in synthesized fuel) jet fuel is to remove the dependency on oil (in military vehicles) in the event of future wars in the middle east. But I'm just guessing.
The waste products aren't recyclable by any technology yet conceivable by man.
Actually, the technology has been conceived and already used in some places. While it is not yet applicable in a commercial scale, the technology does exist.
They never say "it's okay". They have even stated that depending on how this turns out they may have to rethink their stance on nuclear power. They simply try to inform the public of what is actually happening.
It is not Chernobyl, but still a level 7 disaster with 1/8 the amount of radiation leaked (very very large). Chernobyl is so radioactive that it can't be inhabited for at least a few centuries.
There is a difference between leaked radioactive materials. Iodine has a half-life of 8 days and is responsible for most of the radiation. There is also a difference between some material leaking into the ocean where it will be diluted to the point that it cannot be measured, and material being explosively deposited in the atmosphere.
If the core and its steal containment structure is melted with radioactive material with water leaking through cracked concrete from it, then indeed the situation is much more serious. Radiation is going up in the sea outside the plant right after a 5.9 aftershock. This was after it fell when the leak was plugged. This points to a crack through the foundation where this is leaking into the groundwater and sea.
The leak is most likely from the wetwell, not from the reactor vessel. Measurements so far indicate that the amount of fuel in the cores that have melted is way smaller than TMI. In TMI only a small fraction of the reactor vessel wall thickness was melted, not even close to melting through it.
This comment surprises me. Although I am not from the US. Over here in Sweden thorium and fast reactors are subject to a lot of research, and everyone in the nuclear industry wants to get to the point where those solutions are feasible. The real problem here is getting new types of reactors and processing plants approved by the government.
Personally I have never seen any nuclear "fanboys" speak against those kinds of new ideas in the field.
You always get church funerals, whether you're a member or not. I don't know about baptisms, but for weddings you are right that you need to be a member.
You mean like Spotify? It is almost exactly what you describe and has been around since 2006. It's not available outside of Europe yet though, guess there are some "legal" issues there.
However, the ad financed part of it (there are adfree premium subscriptions with higher quality) has had a hard time raking in enough money for artists to consider it worthwhile, and some have pulled their music from it. Metallica most notably.
I do think that the Spotify model in some form will become very widespread however.
Of course. But it is not necessarily the case that the extra work to do manned flights is wasted. I'm not saying "we" (I'm not in the US) should rush off to do this, all I'm saying is that it is possible that the benefits could outweigh the costs. The benefits are of course at this point unclear, long-term benefits and cannot be quantified for many years if the project should be started.
It does not make sense if you only consider the short-term and disregard the resulting development of new tech. It is possible that the new tech and brainpower would make it worthwhile.
Personally I use a Razer Abyssus, which is cheap and has no extra buttons. However, the resolution allows me to have very high sensitivity and still have great control (Sure, FPS guys swear by low sensitivity, but I play mostly RTS). This way I can reach everywhere on the screen while only using my wrist.
Another big difference for me was putting teflon feet on the mouse and using it on a hard plastic mouse mat. With good glide everything just feels so much easier to me. I also feel much less strain in my wrist. This really can't be described, you have to try it to really know what I mean.
All this combined feels like a big improvement when I'm working as well, having to use a mouse that at max pointer speed is still slow really annoys me now.
Of course it's different from person to person what you like, this setup is ideal for me.
12mSv/h is slightly more than one red square, no where near an orange one. This makes the highest level of radiation detected, in the cloud of vented gas from inside the containment vessel about 30,000 times less than those at chyernobyl, and only for a very very brief period involving very short half life elements.
The radiation level has since fallen back way down, especially since managing to resubmurge the spent fuel. The reaction has also slowed to about 1/2000th of it's original rates in the reactors, making a melt down extremely unlikely at this point.
Well to be fair, meltdowns have already occurred with very high certainty. Point is that no significant release of radioactive material has occurred, and as you say, at this point that is very unlikely to happen.
Not to mention that since these countries will be using fuel from an international pool, there is no reason why that fuel can't be used in Gen IV reactors located in other countries. Sweden for example has sent some "spent" fuel to France for use in the Phenix reactors (I forget which one of the two).
This creates a problem though. If they can turn the energy tools in to weapons, well then you can end up having nuclear arms in the hands of people who would use them out of spite, ignorance, etc
These countries will be subject to stringent control through the IAEA safeguards program. Which means this: any hint of an enrichment facility being constructed, and the country is completely cut off from any outside help, be it nuclear physics education or uranium trading etc.
An enrichment facility capable of producing anything remotely usable for weapons is a hell of a lot harder to build than a facility used for creating nuclear fuel. The whole point of this is to keep these countries from building enrichment facilities at all.
"Beta-rays" means electrons and positrons. These are light charged particles. Neutrons are heavy and neutral.
That being said, being in a high neutron flux for any length of time can be harmful to a human.
Of course this is handled with shielding. And I believe in any serious fusion reactor breeder blankets (not sure which material) are put in place, which absorb neutrons to generate lithium. Lithium is required for the D-T reaction.
Since I'm no expert in fusion I'm sure someone else can give a more precise answer.
I just want to make a semi-related comment on this topic. Because of the natural content of radioactive isotopes in coal, coal fired plants actually release significant amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere during normal operation. Not to mention the other nasty stuff that comes from them. Obviously with nuclear the dangerous stuff is kept contained and in solid form.
"These products emit low-level radiation. But because of regulatory differences, coal-fired power plants are allowed to release quantities of radioactive material that would provoke enormous public outcry if such amounts were released from nuclear facilities" - Radioactivity from burning coal - Brief Article
The sources talking about the relative amounts I have found seem to be biased either one way or the other, but this quote is certainly relevant. There is a fear of anything nuclear, but radiation from other sources seem to be accepted.
Just a few corrections. "Huge tokamak reactors" have been built before and are currently operated (see for example Joint European Torus).
Secondly, you say that as if both confinement techniques require tokamaks. This is not so. Inertial confinement makes use of lasers for the confinement, and requires no tokamak. I am not saying this is better, just that it has very different requirements.
I am probably not a master of social convention, but Kramer makes me LMAO every time. I dont think this "understanding" has to be a requirement to like Seinfeld. And tbh I never met anyone in software who didnt like seinfeld.
i can start my car in 3rd gear if i really want to, do you know of an AT that can do that?
My Volvo 960 can do that (in winter mode it only uses gears 3 and 4). Not that I disagree with you, I do like the control a manual transmission gives you. I just prefer the comfort of an automatic (been driving manuals for ~7 years, switched last year to automatic).
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Please, Netflix, extend your service to Europe! Yes, I know this is probably hard due to the policies of studios.. I really miss a service like that over here.
Allright, I see your point. But maybe those of us who do know the difference should stop using audiophile in a negative context :)
Audiophiles are people with more money than sense.
Depends on your priorities. Spending $1-2k on something that you get hundreds of hours of enjoyment out of is not lack of sense in my opinion. You don't have to spend all your money on audio gear to be an audiophile.
Yes, I am a bit of an audiophile. I have however gotten all my stuff by constantly being on the lookout for great deals on used quality gear. Does that mean I have more money than sense?
My guess is the point of developing synthetic, or whatever you want to call it (I know there is work being done in synthesized fuel) jet fuel is to remove the dependency on oil (in military vehicles) in the event of future wars in the middle east. But I'm just guessing.
The waste products aren't recyclable by any technology yet conceivable by man.
Actually, the technology has been conceived and already used in some places. While it is not yet applicable in a commercial scale, the technology does exist.
They never say "it's okay". They have even stated that depending on how this turns out they may have to rethink their stance on nuclear power. They simply try to inform the public of what is actually happening.
It is not Chernobyl, but still a level 7 disaster with 1/8 the amount of radiation leaked (very very large). Chernobyl is so radioactive that it can't be inhabited for at least a few centuries.
There is a difference between leaked radioactive materials. Iodine has a half-life of 8 days and is responsible for most of the radiation. There is also a difference between some material leaking into the ocean where it will be diluted to the point that it cannot be measured, and material being explosively deposited in the atmosphere.
If the core and its steal containment structure is melted with radioactive material with water leaking through cracked concrete from it, then indeed the situation is much more serious. Radiation is going up in the sea outside the plant right after a 5.9 aftershock. This was after it fell when the leak was plugged. This points to a crack through the foundation where this is leaking into the groundwater and sea.
The leak is most likely from the wetwell, not from the reactor vessel. Measurements so far indicate that the amount of fuel in the cores that have melted is way smaller than TMI. In TMI only a small fraction of the reactor vessel wall thickness was melted, not even close to melting through it.
This comment surprises me. Although I am not from the US. Over here in Sweden thorium and fast reactors are subject to a lot of research, and everyone in the nuclear industry wants to get to the point where those solutions are feasible. The real problem here is getting new types of reactors and processing plants approved by the government.
Personally I have never seen any nuclear "fanboys" speak against those kinds of new ideas in the field.
You always get church funerals, whether you're a member or not. I don't know about baptisms, but for weddings you are right that you need to be a member.
You mean like Spotify? It is almost exactly what you describe and has been around since 2006. It's not available outside of Europe yet though, guess there are some "legal" issues there.
However, the ad financed part of it (there are adfree premium subscriptions with higher quality) has had a hard time raking in enough money for artists to consider it worthwhile, and some have pulled their music from it. Metallica most notably.
I do think that the Spotify model in some form will become very widespread however.
Of course. But it is not necessarily the case that the extra work to do manned flights is wasted. I'm not saying "we" (I'm not in the US) should rush off to do this, all I'm saying is that it is possible that the benefits could outweigh the costs. The benefits are of course at this point unclear, long-term benefits and cannot be quantified for many years if the project should be started.
It does not make sense if you only consider the short-term and disregard the resulting development of new tech. It is possible that the new tech and brainpower would make it worthwhile.
Personally I use a Razer Abyssus, which is cheap and has no extra buttons. However, the resolution allows me to have very high sensitivity and still have great control (Sure, FPS guys swear by low sensitivity, but I play mostly RTS). This way I can reach everywhere on the screen while only using my wrist.
Another big difference for me was putting teflon feet on the mouse and using it on a hard plastic mouse mat. With good glide everything just feels so much easier to me. I also feel much less strain in my wrist. This really can't be described, you have to try it to really know what I mean.
All this combined feels like a big improvement when I'm working as well, having to use a mouse that at max pointer speed is still slow really annoys me now.
Of course it's different from person to person what you like, this setup is ideal for me.
12mSv/h is slightly more than one red square, no where near an orange one. This makes the highest level of radiation detected, in the cloud of vented gas from inside the containment vessel about 30,000 times less than those at chyernobyl, and only for a very very brief period involving very short half life elements.
The radiation level has since fallen back way down, especially since managing to resubmurge the spent fuel. The reaction has also slowed to about 1/2000th of it's original rates in the reactors, making a melt down extremely unlikely at this point.
Well to be fair, meltdowns have already occurred with very high certainty. Point is that no significant release of radioactive material has occurred, and as you say, at this point that is very unlikely to happen.
Not to mention that since these countries will be using fuel from an international pool, there is no reason why that fuel can't be used in Gen IV reactors located in other countries. Sweden for example has sent some "spent" fuel to France for use in the Phenix reactors (I forget which one of the two).
This creates a problem though. If they can turn the energy tools in to weapons, well then you can end up having nuclear arms in the hands of people who would use them out of spite, ignorance, etc
These countries will be subject to stringent control through the IAEA safeguards program. Which means this: any hint of an enrichment facility being constructed, and the country is completely cut off from any outside help, be it nuclear physics education or uranium trading etc.
An enrichment facility capable of producing anything remotely usable for weapons is a hell of a lot harder to build than a facility used for creating nuclear fuel. The whole point of this is to keep these countries from building enrichment facilities at all.
1.12 mN = 0.114 grams is what was meant in your quote.
Why that would be relevant in this case I don't know, just pointing it out.
Correct, of course. I knew this, just not last night :) Thank you.
"Beta-rays" means electrons and positrons. These are light charged particles. Neutrons are heavy and neutral.
That being said, being in a high neutron flux for any length of time can be harmful to a human.
Of course this is handled with shielding. And I believe in any serious fusion reactor breeder blankets (not sure which material) are put in place, which absorb neutrons to generate lithium. Lithium is required for the D-T reaction.
Since I'm no expert in fusion I'm sure someone else can give a more precise answer.
I just want to make a semi-related comment on this topic. Because of the natural content of radioactive isotopes in coal, coal fired plants actually release significant amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere during normal operation. Not to mention the other nasty stuff that comes from them. Obviously with nuclear the dangerous stuff is kept contained and in solid form.
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"These products emit low-level radiation. But because of regulatory differences, coal-fired power plants are allowed to release quantities of radioactive material that would provoke enormous public outcry if such amounts were released from nuclear facilities" - Radioactivity from burning coal - Brief Article
The sources talking about the relative amounts I have found seem to be biased either one way or the other, but this quote is certainly relevant. There is a fear of anything nuclear, but radiation from other sources seem to be accepted.
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Just a few corrections. "Huge tokamak reactors" have been built before and are currently operated (see for example Joint European Torus).
Secondly, you say that as if both confinement techniques require tokamaks. This is not so. Inertial confinement makes use of lasers for the confinement, and requires no tokamak. I am not saying this is better, just that it has very different requirements.
Jack Bauer had depth? No offense, I just never saw it. To me it was just "badguy wants to hurt me/my friends/my family/my country, ill go kill him".
I am probably not a master of social convention, but Kramer makes me LMAO every time. I dont think this "understanding" has to be a requirement to like Seinfeld. And tbh I never met anyone in software who didnt like seinfeld.
i can start my car in 3rd gear if i really want to, do you know of an AT that can do that?
My Volvo 960 can do that (in winter mode it only uses gears 3 and 4). Not that I disagree with you, I do like the control a manual transmission gives you. I just prefer the comfort of an automatic (been driving manuals for ~7 years, switched last year to automatic).
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If your lawn requires an emergency brake, you better get off it.