Long term storage isn't too bad, it is medium term that is tough (because the spent fuel is a lot hotter in the medium term). Having the used rods sitting on site at reactors is a great way to have them be available when the political will to use them as fuel eventually turns up, so it still isn't that big a deal. It does sort of hinge on viable breeder reactors though:
Those end up being pretty good reasons when easier, cleaner (at least in the house/yard) alternatives are price competitive. Outdoor burners and gasification burners improve the situation, but they don't fix it.
Anecdotally, NIMBY is holding wind back far more than powerful interests. The existence of government subsidies and the fact that there are lots of wind towers going up are both pretty good indicators that there isn't a great deal of powerful resistance, but find a wind project going on anywhere near a few people and you will find an agitator screaming that the towers will ruin everything.
Most of the developed world is even more broke than the U.S. (if you use debt to GDP ratios). There is probably some argument to be made that the U.S. GDP isn't as strong as it looks because of the valuation of the dollar, but on the other hand, it probably isn't overstated by a factor of 2.
European banks appear to be in more trouble than U.S. banks (meaning that the Euro zone has at least as much pain to look forward to as the U.S.). China has a lot of economic growth going on, but they need that growth (their per capita GDP is not particularly high). They are slowly establishing internal consumption, but there are so many people there that they often can't afford to implement efficiencies (because a few people working inefficiently is somewhat better than a bunch of people not working at all).
Basically, the U.S. dollar looks pretty bad, but not as bad as a lot of other stuff.
When living beings inside a universe are the ones that are having the discussion, there isn't anything remarkable about the fine tuning. It is a tautology.
If you are on windows, give Paint.NET a try. It doesn't cost anything, so make sure to use the official download (there are 'opportunists' that charge for it):
Not as feature laden as Photoshop, but a lot more similar to Photoshop than the Gimp (there are silly redundant path tools right on the default toolbox).
$1,000 is peanuts for something that you use everyday for years at a time. That suggests that features have plenty to do with it (even if a major feature is "I learned it first and it is what I am used to").
So you could (at least) double your fuel efficiency by car pooling. And all it would cost you is a little bit of convenience.
(I realize that it might not actually be an option for you, for many reasons, but it surely makes sense for thousands of people, thousands and thousands of dollars of sense)
Feel free to stop glad-handing yourself anytime. 7000 Calories (That's 2 pounds of pure fat, you pretty much can't digest anything more energy dense than that) is equivalent to (just under) 0.21 gallons of gasoline. That ends up being about 1.3 pounds of the stuff. So using the 10:1, that's 13 pounds (or about 2 gallons) of gasoline that went into feeding you 7000 Calories of fat. If you use a more reasonable number that includes water weight and non-fat foods, you are going to get something less than a gallon of gasoline (a gallon of diesel has more energy than a gallon of gasoline, so it would be even less diesel).
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Hopefully this guy is playing for the good guys:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2934
Or noon. It's always noon somewhere.
Long term storage isn't too bad, it is medium term that is tough (because the spent fuel is a lot hotter in the medium term). Having the used rods sitting on site at reactors is a great way to have them be available when the political will to use them as fuel eventually turns up, so it still isn't that big a deal. It does sort of hinge on viable breeder reactors though:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/4891
(but still, millions of pounds of solid waste is probably better than trillions of pounds emissions)
Wood heat is filthy and a lot of work.
Those end up being pretty good reasons when easier, cleaner (at least in the house/yard) alternatives are price competitive. Outdoor burners and gasification burners improve the situation, but they don't fix it.
Anecdotally, NIMBY is holding wind back far more than powerful interests. The existence of government subsidies and the fact that there are lots of wind towers going up are both pretty good indicators that there isn't a great deal of powerful resistance, but find a wind project going on anywhere near a few people and you will find an agitator screaming that the towers will ruin everything.
Most of the developed world is even more broke than the U.S. (if you use debt to GDP ratios). There is probably some argument to be made that the U.S. GDP isn't as strong as it looks because of the valuation of the dollar, but on the other hand, it probably isn't overstated by a factor of 2.
European banks appear to be in more trouble than U.S. banks (meaning that the Euro zone has at least as much pain to look forward to as the U.S.). China has a lot of economic growth going on, but they need that growth (their per capita GDP is not particularly high). They are slowly establishing internal consumption, but there are so many people there that they often can't afford to implement efficiencies (because a few people working inefficiently is somewhat better than a bunch of people not working at all).
Basically, the U.S. dollar looks pretty bad, but not as bad as a lot of other stuff.
It makes sense as a goal. Their quiet and total success is laughable.
Is this a master beta?
Don't go making this about TSA approved luggage locks.
I'm impressed that he passed on the opportunity to goad a student into it.
Damn it. Lack, not like.
It must be really disappointing when the 6 billion of us that like your life-affirming level of paranoia end up surviving each day.
Yes, hopeful optimists all have religion. Clearly.
When living beings inside a universe are the ones that are having the discussion, there isn't anything remarkable about the fine tuning. It is a tautology.
Please don't describe things that didn't happen as having been done. It makes everybody dumber.
If you are on windows, give Paint.NET a try. It doesn't cost anything, so make sure to use the official download (there are 'opportunists' that charge for it):
http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
Not as feature laden as Photoshop, but a lot more similar to Photoshop than the Gimp (there are silly redundant path tools right on the default toolbox).
$1,000 is peanuts for something that you use everyday for years at a time. That suggests that features have plenty to do with it (even if a major feature is "I learned it first and it is what I am used to").
The Swiss are notorious for their precision.
Try disabling flash (or use flashblock). On Windows, a week with dozens of tabs is fine (but maybe there are issues on other platforms).
Are you on Windows? My anecdotal observation is that other platforms get quite a bit less QA.
LEO is bat country!
So you could (at least) double your fuel efficiency by car pooling. And all it would cost you is a little bit of convenience.
(I realize that it might not actually be an option for you, for many reasons, but it surely makes sense for thousands of people, thousands and thousands of dollars of sense)
Feel free to stop glad-handing yourself anytime. 7000 Calories (That's 2 pounds of pure fat, you pretty much can't digest anything more energy dense than that) is equivalent to (just under) 0.21 gallons of gasoline. That ends up being about 1.3 pounds of the stuff. So using the 10:1, that's 13 pounds (or about 2 gallons) of gasoline that went into feeding you 7000 Calories of fat. If you use a more reasonable number that includes water weight and non-fat foods, you are going to get something less than a gallon of gasoline (a gallon of diesel has more energy than a gallon of gasoline, so it would be even less diesel).
Modern farming techniques basically transform natural gas and diesel into food. Fuel is a necessity.