What are the great advances in energy storage technology, again? You know, to allow those wind and solar systems to provide base load?
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Maybe you meant to reply to someone else?
For the record I have no problem with nuclear (I live in France for fucks sake!) I just get sick of all the fanbois blathering on about miraculous new nuclear technology.
Of course we should research "new" technologies, but never forget the French lesson - build lots of identical reactors - you'll get better at it and you can reuse the experience.
Just look at whats happening with the EPR - The first one is taking far too long and far to much money to build. The second is still overdue and over budget, but the third and fourth ones are coming in ahead of time.
So far we've had three meltdowns in the past 50 years
No, five. Don't forget we had 3 meltdowns at Fukushima.
And that's only counting destruction of commercial power reactors. If you count experimental designs and partial meltdowns we've had quite a few (Chapelcross, St Laurent des aux (twice!), Lucens,.the Chechoslovakian A1 plant, EBR-1,..)
Supply must match the demand curve, and no method of power generation does that by itself, including coal and nuclear..
Overstated.
It is in fact possible to run nuclear plants in load following mode. France, which generates around 80% of its electricity from nuclear does it.
It's one of the design features of the EPR to be able to vary its output with demand:
between 60 and 100% nominal output, the EPR reactor can adjust it power output at a rate of 5% nominal power per minute at constant temperature, preserving the service life of the components and of the plant.
If it were, you would be implying we would have to eliminate all forest fires too as it's essentially the same thing as burning fossil fuels
No.
A forest fire adds no extra CO2 to the atmosphere:
1. the trees are made of carbon extracted from the atmosphere 2. even if they don't burn that carbon goes back to the atmosphere when the trees die and decay.
The article says nothing about thinking for yourself. It talks about giving directions.
Now re-run the test asking car and bicycle drivers what metro line or bus route you should take,.and how long it'll take to get there. (Who cares what the distance is - it's time that counts).
If you're a app developer using the free-to-play model (or freemium), it's another option to consider. And given PC gaming is also going towards the freemium model to bypass stuff like DRM and piracy.
But it's not free - the player has to buy the electricity that's going to be used to mine the bitcoins.
And given that bitcoin mining on non specialised hardware now costs more in electricity than it makes in bitcoin the app developper would be better off seeing if he could make an under the table deal with the electricty company.
This is just another version of the app that phones premium rate numbers behind the users back.
And the attacker can't learn where the original router was going to deliver the packet, and simply deliver the packet to that IP?
Only if the attacker is directy connected(*) to the netwok that has that IP. You can't "deliver a packet", you pass it to someone who passes it to someone who...
(*) or as sjames says enough, more closely connected than the place you stole the packet..
And with the $95/mo plan, there are certain phones you can't get them to subsidize
My plan has no phone, it's bring your own.
Now, your plan has some things that this plan wouldn't, like unlimited EDGE data, but this plan has a few things yours doesn't -- it doesn't care whether you're calling a land line or a cellular phone in its calculation of the minutes.
Yeah, it's 'cos of the America/Europe difference in who pays for celular calls - over here it's more expensive to call a cellular, but it's free to receive calls. As I understand it over there you (sometimes?) pay to get calls.
At the end of the day, I'd rather your plan.
You need to convince Xavier Niel to wage war on the American operators like he's been doing to the French ones.
(American used in the sense of continent, not country).
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What are the great advances in energy storage technology, again? You know, to allow those wind and solar systems to provide base load?
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Maybe you meant to reply to someone else?
For the record I have no problem with nuclear (I live in France for fucks sake!) I just get sick of all the fanbois blathering on about miraculous new nuclear technology.
Of course we should research "new" technologies, but never forget the French lesson - build lots of identical reactors - you'll get better at it and you can reuse the experience.
Just look at whats happening with the EPR - The first one is taking far too long and far to much money to build. The second is still overdue and over budget, but the third and fourth ones are coming in ahead of time.
So far we've had three meltdowns in the past 50 years
No, five. Don't forget we had 3 meltdowns at Fukushima.
And that's only counting destruction of commercial power reactors. If you count experimental designs and partial meltdowns we've had quite a few (Chapelcross, St Laurent des aux (twice!), Lucens,.the Chechoslovakian A1 plant, EBR-1, ..)
small-scale reactors can be mass produced, much like how solar and wind would need to be mass produced, except with far more bang for your buck.
You may want to rethink your language!
You'd need to complete about one per week for the next 35 years to replace ONE-SEVENTH of the energy we now get from fossil fuels.
Where in the links you quote does it say that?
Finish one reactor per week. Good luck with that.
That notoriously "can do" country, France, built 56 reactors in 15 years.
Wind peaks either side of solar, extending the peak of that to cover the demand of residential use (breakfast and tea).
This is strange. You think wind has time of day based peaks? Time of year I can imagine, but time of day?
Supply must match the demand curve, and no method of power generation does that by itself, including coal and nuclear..
Overstated.
It is in fact possible to run nuclear plants in load following mode. France, which generates around 80% of its electricity from nuclear does it.
It's one of the design features of the EPR to be able to vary its output with demand:
between 60 and 100% nominal output, the EPR reactor can adjust it power output at a rate of 5% nominal power per minute at constant temperature, preserving the service life of the components and of the plant.
http://www.areva.com/EN/global-offer-419/epr-reactor-one-of-the-most-powerful-in-the-world.html
Liquid fluoride thorium reactor
"This technology was first investigated at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment in the 1960s."
Not so new.
Something like the Argonne Experimental Breeder Reactor-II
EBR-II was the backbone of the U.S. breeder reactor effort from 1964 to 1994, when research was terminated.
Not so new.
If it were, you would be implying we would have to eliminate all forest fires too as it's essentially the same thing as burning fossil fuels
No.
A forest fire adds no extra CO2 to the atmosphere:
1. the trees are made of carbon extracted from the atmosphere
2. even if they don't burn that carbon goes back to the atmosphere when the trees die and decay.
A lot? Practically all of it that was ever accumulated sits there, in the US at least.
But the US is almost unique in this stupidity.
Other countries reprocess their fuel.
The article says nothing about thinking for yourself. It talks about giving directions.
Now re-run the test asking car and bicycle drivers what metro line or bus route you should take, .and how long it'll take to get there. (Who cares what the distance is - it's time that counts).
Unfortunately not. Or SA wouldn't be the massive cluster fuck it is today.
No, it would probably be a radioactive desert.
Depends.
Do you have an ulcer?
I know a guy who has the Nobel Prize in Economics
No you don't.
No.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. Yes, I fail at reading comprehension.
By definition the only Civilised language is Latin, and all languages that are not Greek are Bararian.
(So the only Civilised language is spoken by Barbarians, and the people who speek the only non-Barbarian language are Uncivilised).
ROM that comes with it is very buggy
Oh for fucks sake.
This is Linux, not Android. There is no "ROM".
Since it's RPM based (boo) you just need to do a "yum update".
So you're ok with people stealing your money if they don't steal much?
If you're a app developer using the free-to-play model (or freemium), it's another option to consider. And given PC gaming is also going towards the freemium model to bypass stuff like DRM and piracy.
But it's not free - the player has to buy the electricity that's going to be used to mine the bitcoins.
And given that bitcoin mining on non specialised hardware now costs more in electricity than it makes in bitcoin the app developper would be better off seeing if he could make an under the table deal with the electricty company.
This is just another version of the app that phones premium rate numbers behind the users back.
That would be insane.
Mining bitcoins on most machines will cost more in electricity bills than the bitcoins will be worth.
If you want money just ask for it.
Get this on this side of the Big Pond and I'll sign up in a heartbeat.
Sign up?
Just but the phone. No "signing up" needed.
And the attacker can't learn where the original router was going to deliver the packet, and simply deliver the packet to that IP?
Only if the attacker is directy connected(*) to the netwok that has that IP. You can't "deliver a packet", you pass it to someone who passes it to someone who...
(*) or as sjames says enough, more closely connected than the place you stole the packet..
This was likely a misconfigured customer router connected to an irresponsible ISP that doesn't filter the routes it accepts,
The "irresponsible ISP" is most (all?) of them.
And with the $95/mo plan, there are certain phones you can't get them to subsidize
My plan has no phone, it's bring your own.
Now, your plan has some things that this plan wouldn't, like unlimited EDGE data, but this plan has a few things yours doesn't -- it doesn't care whether you're calling a land line or a cellular phone in its calculation of the minutes.
Yeah, it's 'cos of the America/Europe difference in who pays for celular calls - over here it's more expensive to call a cellular, but it's free to receive calls. As I understand it over there you (sometimes?) pay to get calls.
At the end of the day, I'd rather your plan.
You need to convince Xavier Niel to wage war on the American operators like he's been doing to the French ones.
(American used in the sense of continent, not country).
You're being ripped off.