They're all solvable, unlike green fantasies of unicorn fart-powered cities.
Fuel storage is a simple problem, until breeder reactors are viable, considering the relatively low amount of material that needs to be stored. Do not ignore storage requirements for coal ash, or the vast areas needed for solar and wind (though solar can be easily employed so that it can take advantage of structures to reduce land usage, it's probably never going to be enough).
Uranium reserves, seriously? 20 years is incredibly pessimistic and it only needs to last long enough for better solutions to be found (better solar panels, better nuclear fission reactors, nuclear fusion - if we ever see it commercially,...).
As for cost, care to estimate the cost of dumping tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere? Because *that's* the realistic alternative on a global scale.
Coal? Greenhouse gases, soot, ash and lots of other fun things (Note: not fun at all. Very dangerous.). Also, said not-very-fun stuff is (in part) radioactive.
Natural gas? Greenhouse gases. It's better, I guess, but it still screws us over. Efficiency might be better, than coal, too.
Solar Thermal or PV? Sure, let's take advantage of it on structures and stuff. Using it on an industrial scale isn't quite practical, though, considering the massive areas required. Large scale thermal installations are also hazardous to birds. Doesn't work all the time, either.
Wind? Wind can be unpredictable, and it's supposedly a very big hazard for birds.
Nuclear? Complex, expensive designs that produce highly radioactive materials - however, they're confined and easily handled (compared to exhaust from a boiler or turbine) and just have to be stored away until they decay or new reactors can use them as fuel.
Hydro? Apparently, pretty bad for local ecosystems, otherwise a good solution. Probably going to be necessary for large-scale storage whatever happens.
Quite simply, nuclear power makes complete sense to technically-inclined people who do not go along with shortsighted ignorant paranoia, which I expect represent a significant part of people here.
You can't even get your units' names straight and we're supposed to consider your opinion on units? SI = Système International (des Unités). Base units are kg, meter, ampere, second, kelvin, candela (and mole, for some reason) "metric" = anything that's not imperial units (SI, cgs (stupid little system),...) Imperial = System kept afloat by the idiotic argument that it's better for everyday use (when, in fact, ease of use is a function of use - familiarity, that is). The only reason it's usable for any semi-serious purpose is because every single unit is defined in terms of SI units.
The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a 338 kilogram (750 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998 to study the Martian climate, atmosphere, and surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor '98 program for Mars Polar Lander. However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbf s) instead of the metric units of newton-seconds (N s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed. The spacecraft encountered Mars on a trajectory that brought it too close to the planet, causing it to pass through the upper atmosphere and disintegrate.
So, as you see, the idiots at Lockheed were so attached to their stupid imperial units that they got the software wrong.
Card terminals that don't attach to a larger POS system (in other words, they're not integrated into the POS and work completely independently) almost exclusively connect via GPRS these days. Card transactions use a trivial amount of bandwidth and GbE levels of latency are not required.
The TomTom Go units used to require a crazy mess made up of a USB driver, a Win32 application that calls their website, which requires a browser plugin, which all had to be started in a very specific sequence. The process is then managed through said website.
For Windows 8, they simplified this by eliminating the browser plugin. The whole thing still feels like it's running in a browser behind the scenes, though, and the driver needs to be manually installed, even though it is included with the application and is signed.
Strictly speaking, only the menus need a touch interface, since (hardware allowing) USB OTG allows for Xbox 360 (and Xbox One, but those are less popular) controllers.
It limits the audience, but it was already limited by the nature of the games.
That worked magnificently for the N64 and its extremely fast (compared to CDs) ROM cartridges that (usually) contained battery-backed SRAM or EEPROM for saves, against the PS1's extremely slow CDs that could carry a lot more data and were cheap enough that you could make larger games by sticking them on relatively-arbitrary amounts of CDs.
Funny how nobody complains if a tablet, phone or console demands an OS update to continue functioning (unless significant features are removed), but if it's Windows, it's "malware"...
You want to complain about the automatic download? Fine, that is stupid. I was also surprised by the aggressiveness with which Windows 10 was pushed - I ended up accidentally upgrading sooner than I wanted when I thought I was just "reserving" the update.
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Cleanup is *much* easier if you're not working in a disaster area, with potentially unsound structures and a literal molten-down reactor (probably).
The above could've been easily (and economically!) avoided with a bit of common sense.
1000m^3 = 10^-6 km^3
You're way off and I recommend you take an hour to learn how to deal with powers of units.
They're all solvable, unlike green fantasies of unicorn fart-powered cities.
Fuel storage is a simple problem, until breeder reactors are viable, considering the relatively low amount of material that needs to be stored.
Do not ignore storage requirements for coal ash, or the vast areas needed for solar and wind (though solar can be easily employed so that it can take advantage of structures to reduce land usage, it's probably never going to be enough).
Uranium reserves, seriously? 20 years is incredibly pessimistic and it only needs to last long enough for better solutions to be found (better solar panels, better nuclear fission reactors, nuclear fusion - if we ever see it commercially, ...).
As for cost, care to estimate the cost of dumping tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere? Because *that's* the realistic alternative on a global scale.
Questioning your knowledge/experience on the matter is not a personal attack. Don't victimize yourself.
This is pretty much it.
Coal? Greenhouse gases, soot, ash and lots of other fun things (Note: not fun at all. Very dangerous.). Also, said not-very-fun stuff is (in part) radioactive.
Natural gas? Greenhouse gases. It's better, I guess, but it still screws us over. Efficiency might be better, than coal, too.
Solar Thermal or PV? Sure, let's take advantage of it on structures and stuff. Using it on an industrial scale isn't quite practical, though, considering the massive areas required. Large scale thermal installations are also hazardous to birds. Doesn't work all the time, either.
Wind? Wind can be unpredictable, and it's supposedly a very big hazard for birds.
Nuclear? Complex, expensive designs that produce highly radioactive materials - however, they're confined and easily handled (compared to exhaust from a boiler or turbine) and just have to be stored away until they decay or new reactors can use them as fuel.
Hydro? Apparently, pretty bad for local ecosystems, otherwise a good solution. Probably going to be necessary for large-scale storage whatever happens.
Quite simply, nuclear power makes complete sense to technically-inclined people who do not go along with shortsighted ignorant paranoia, which I expect represent a significant part of people here.
You can't even get your units' names straight and we're supposed to consider your opinion on units? ...)
SI = Système International (des Unités). Base units are kg, meter, ampere, second, kelvin, candela (and mole, for some reason)
"metric" = anything that's not imperial units (SI, cgs (stupid little system),
Imperial = System kept afloat by the idiotic argument that it's better for everyday use (when, in fact, ease of use is a function of use - familiarity, that is). The only reason it's usable for any semi-serious purpose is because every single unit is defined in terms of SI units.
Last I checked, it was good practice to have several compatible implementations.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (emphasis mine)
The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a 338 kilogram (750 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998 to study the Martian climate, atmosphere, and surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor '98 program for Mars Polar Lander. However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbf s) instead of the metric units of newton-seconds (N s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed. The spacecraft encountered Mars on a trajectory that brought it too close to the planet, causing it to pass through the upper atmosphere and disintegrate.
So, as you see, the idiots at Lockheed were so attached to their stupid imperial units that they got the software wrong.
Of course it's wrong. It's just as wrong as the original statement.
For every scenario you quote in favor of one, I can quote one in favor of the other.
How nice then that all imperial units cleanly divide by 12.
Oh, wait,
The foot is a rather awkward unit to use. It's too short for practical use in daily living and it's too long to be of much use otherwise.
I hope the above illustrates just how profoundly idiotic statements such as yours are.
Too bad the aerospace contractor didn't use SI units.
Let's keep things in perspective. Progress in Normandy was one (or more) order(s) of magnitude slower than planned.
I'm not sure why you don't like the comparison, it seems rather apt.
I mean, think about it: these cars actually meet European emission standards without a problem. They only run afoul of US emissions standards.
No, they do not, according to the testing that revealed this conspiracy (it's large enough to be a conspiracy).
consumer protection laws in the world, far tougher than Europe.
And where did you get that asinine idea?
It's clearly not an absolute necessity, since the cars did fine during official examinations.
I'm surprised they managed to write firmware that correctly identifies the official testing procedure without giving too many false positives.
I once worked with a Canon printer that refused to print anything if the color cartridges were not present.
Not as egregious, but still very nasty.
Card terminals that don't attach to a larger POS system (in other words, they're not integrated into the POS and work completely independently) almost exclusively connect via GPRS these days. Card transactions use a trivial amount of bandwidth and GbE levels of latency are not required.
They may not demand it explicitly, but yearly API changes that are not backported to older versions have nearly the same effect.
The TomTom Go units used to require a crazy mess made up of a USB driver, a Win32 application that calls their website, which requires a browser plugin, which all had to be started in a very specific sequence. The process is then managed through said website.
For Windows 8, they simplified this by eliminating the browser plugin. The whole thing still feels like it's running in a browser behind the scenes, though, and the driver needs to be manually installed, even though it is included with the application and is signed.
Strictly speaking, only the menus need a touch interface, since (hardware allowing) USB OTG allows for Xbox 360 (and Xbox One, but those are less popular) controllers.
It limits the audience, but it was already limited by the nature of the games.
Spare the bullshit. Windows Phone 8 devices will receive Windows 10 Mobile.
The WP7 to WP8 transition was poorly-handled, but probably necessary.
That worked magnificently for the N64 and its extremely fast (compared to CDs) ROM cartridges that (usually) contained battery-backed SRAM or EEPROM for saves, against the PS1's extremely slow CDs that could carry a lot more data and were cheap enough that you could make larger games by sticking them on relatively-arbitrary amounts of CDs.
Funny how nobody complains if a tablet, phone or console demands an OS update to continue functioning (unless significant features are removed), but if it's Windows, it's "malware"...
You want to complain about the automatic download? Fine, that is stupid. I was also surprised by the aggressiveness with which Windows 10 was pushed - I ended up accidentally upgrading sooner than I wanted when I thought I was just "reserving" the update.