Though Olympic officials once placed limits on its consumption, since 2004 athletes have been able to freely sip coffee or energy drinks, take caffeine pills, or chew caffeinated gum in search of that extra edge.
And recent research suggests up to three-fourths of the world’s elite athletes do just that. Take now-retired Scottish cyclist Chris Hoy, a six-time gold medalist. He’s so committed to his caffeine regimen that he reportedly lugged his own coffee machine and grinder to every competition, including the 2012 London Games.
The taxi industry has at most 5-10 years left in it.
Are these robot taxis going to pick up people's baggage from the curb and put it in the trunk? Will they be able to walk into a building to pick up a package to be delivered? Will they be able to resolve a dispute between two riders? Is it legal for an unattended child to ride in a vehicle with no adults in it?
You can call them a travel agent or a floor wax or a dessert topping or whatever you want to, but your stupid vocabulary tricks are meaningless. The law says what it says.
The benefit of running really hot means you have to pass a lot of water through it.
The big efficiency problem with nuclear power is that you CANNOT run "really hot". For safety reasons, nuclear plants must run at much lower temperatures than coal fired plants. The lower temperature means there is much less thermal overhead and much lower efficiency. You need much more cooling water per generated kwh for a nuclear plant, and it spews much more thermal energy into the waste water than a coal-fired plant. Thermodynamics is a harsh mistress.
Why not learn from those mistakes and control the waste better in the future?
Because what we've learned from those mistakes is that people are not able to safely handle nuclear material. Every time we think the concrete is thick enough, we are wrong. Every time we think the retaining wall is high enough, we are wrong. Every time we think we have a solution for where to put the waste, we are wrong. Face it, human beings have limited intelligence. Safely handling nuclear waste is a problem that's too difficult for stupid humans.
You can't even give an estimate as to the cost of nuclear generated electricity. There are unsolved problems in the waste disposal process. Nobody knows what it will cost to fix the problems or even if they can be fixed. Nobody has actually accounted fully for all the costs. Nobody even knows what all the costs are. Nobody has figured out a way to dispose of the waste. Nobody, not even the French. Nobody knows how much it will cost to clean up the existing mess. When anyone tells you that nuclear electricity is cheap, they are lying.
How to cheaply, efficiently and safely dispose of nuclear waste:
1. Enclose it in a huge solid block of glass (just melted sand, so it's cheap). 2. Take it to any deep ocean trench and dump it. 3. Tectonic plate subduction takes care of the rest.
Since 1993, ocean disposal has been banned by international treaties.
Well, it's a good thing fewer and fewer Americans are taxpayers these days.
Who doesn't pay taxes? There is sales tax, property tax, excise tax, telephone tax, meals tax, parking tax, gasoline tax, luxury tax, estate tax, the taxes go on and on.
Who are these people who don't pay taxes? I am curious.
Energy efficiency upgrades to New York City's Empire State Building have been so successful that they are seen as a model for building retrofits being rolled out across the United States.
For the second consecutive year, the building exceeded its "guaranteed energy savings." In 2011, the Empire State Building beat its year-one energy-efficiency guarantee by 5 percent, saving $2.4 million, and in year two, it beat it by almost 4 percent.
The core building retrofit is completed except for the build-out of high-performance space for new tenants. Once that's finished, $4.4 million is expected to be saved each year, about a 38 percent cut in energy consumption.
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Athletes are to sport as dixie cups are to drinking. Use once, dispose, move on to the next.
Athletics is just another way to move money from poor people to rich people.
Caffeine (at least above a certain level) is regulated in epretty much every sport that does PED testing.
BULLSHIT
http://www.menshealth.com/health/are-olympic-athletes-legally-doping
Though Olympic officials once placed limits on its consumption, since 2004 athletes have been able to freely sip coffee or energy drinks, take caffeine pills, or chew caffeinated gum in search of that extra edge.
And recent research suggests up to three-fourths of the world’s elite athletes do just that. Take now-retired Scottish cyclist Chris Hoy, a six-time gold medalist. He’s so committed to his caffeine regimen that he reportedly lugged his own coffee machine and grinder to every competition, including the 2012 London Games.
Fishing, for example, is a sport
If you put it that way, then tying your shoes or brushing your teeth is also a sport.
The only way to 'lose' while gaming is to lose sight of the fact that it's supposed to be for fun.
lost friends and lovers don't count?
Snowden definitely deserves jail time.
He deserves a medal. We would not even be talking about many of our security problems if he didn't tell us about them.
The taxi industry has at most 5-10 years left in it.
Are these robot taxis going to pick up people's baggage from the curb and put it in the trunk? Will they be able to walk into a building to pick up a package to be delivered? Will they be able to resolve a dispute between two riders? Is it legal for an unattended child to ride in a vehicle with no adults in it?
Uber are micro travel agents.
You can call them a travel agent or a floor wax or a dessert topping or whatever you want to, but your stupid vocabulary tricks are meaningless. The law says what it says.
I used to wear a watch, back in the 20th century. That's when cell phones were the size of a common house brick. Fuck watches
If they can make a phone the size of a watch, I say, fuck phones.
Yes let's dismiss this on the basis that it was conducted by a company that doesn't have a vested interest in it.
they have a totally vested interest in trashing the credibility of their competitors
Most are also really inaccurate [techtimes.com] when it comes to measuring calories burned.
Two of them were 85% accurate.
you are demonstrably oblivious to how broadly your statements don't apply.
pot, kettle, black
This is what you said originally:
Retro-fitting to old buildings would be unnecessarily expensive.
and now you are just playing "no true scotsman"
what makes you think that political problems are any easier than technical ones?
The benefit of running really hot means you have to pass a lot of water through it.
The big efficiency problem with nuclear power is that you CANNOT run "really hot". For safety reasons, nuclear plants must run at much lower temperatures than coal fired plants. The lower temperature means there is much less thermal overhead and much lower efficiency. You need much more cooling water per generated kwh for a nuclear plant, and it spews much more thermal energy into the waste water than a coal-fired plant. Thermodynamics is a harsh mistress.
Why not learn from those mistakes and control the waste better in the future?
Because what we've learned from those mistakes is that people are not able to safely handle nuclear material. Every time we think the concrete is thick enough, we are wrong. Every time we think the retaining wall is high enough, we are wrong. Every time we think we have a solution for where to put the waste, we are wrong. Face it, human beings have limited intelligence. Safely handling nuclear waste is a problem that's too difficult for stupid humans.
You can't even give an estimate as to the cost of nuclear generated electricity. There are unsolved problems in the waste disposal process. Nobody knows what it will cost to fix the problems or even if they can be fixed. Nobody has actually accounted fully for all the costs. Nobody even knows what all the costs are. Nobody has figured out a way to dispose of the waste. Nobody, not even the French. Nobody knows how much it will cost to clean up the existing mess. When anyone tells you that nuclear electricity is cheap, they are lying.
feel free to go collect some yourself
How to cheaply, efficiently and safely dispose of nuclear waste:
1. Enclose it in a huge solid block of glass (just melted sand, so it's cheap).
2. Take it to any deep ocean trench and dump it.
3. Tectonic plate subduction takes care of the rest.
Since 1993, ocean disposal has been banned by international treaties.
good luck with that
all of those issues are due to running OLD reactors that should have been replaced by now, with NEW gen IV reactors.
Nuclear advocates have NEVER been able to tally up the actual costs of what they are proposing, why should we believe them now?
Well, it's a good thing fewer and fewer Americans are taxpayers these days.
Who doesn't pay taxes? There is sales tax, property tax, excise tax, telephone tax, meals tax, parking tax, gasoline tax, luxury tax, estate tax, the taxes go on and on.
Who are these people who don't pay taxes? I am curious.
Retro-fitting to old buildings would be unnecessarily expensive. (except perhaps single-storey homes, but they are not common.)
http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2013/06/29/empire-state-building-retrofit-new-projects
Energy efficiency upgrades to New York City's Empire State Building have been so successful that they are seen as a model for building retrofits being rolled out across the United States.
For the second consecutive year, the building exceeded its "guaranteed energy savings." In 2011, the Empire State Building beat its year-one energy-efficiency guarantee by 5 percent, saving $2.4 million, and in year two, it beat it by almost 4 percent.
The core building retrofit is completed except for the build-out of high-performance space for new tenants. Once that's finished, $4.4 million is expected to be saved each year, about a 38 percent cut in energy consumption.
Humans - and you in particular, it seems - lack the capacity for analyzing catastrophic events that occur with very low probabilities.
There is a 100% probability that the nuclear waste at Hanford is going to cost untold billions to clean up, if ever.
There is a 100% probability that the Columbia river will be heavily contaminated with nuclear waste within a few years.
There is a 100% probability that the US taxpayer will end up paying over and over and over again to dispose of nuclear waste.
Solar generation machinery only pollutes when it's being manufactured.
Power plant machinery also pollutes when it is being manufactured... and then it continues to pollute for its entire lifespan.
these issues amount to almost nothing when scaled against the long term problem of global warming.
These issues are happening NOW, with our current level of nuclear use.
They will be even worse if nuclear capacity increases.
It will only take one more tsunami or earthquake to put a major portion of the world's population in jeopardy.
your entire post is crap
Modern electric drills for the consumer are rated for about 20 hours use before they die.
Unless you are in blackburn lancashire, that's probably a lot more holes than you will ever need.