In nuclear engineering, a fissile material is one that is capable of sustaining a chain reaction of nuclear fission.... Fissile" is distinguished from "fissionable". "Fissionable" are any materials with atoms that can undergo nuclear fission. "Fissile" is defined to be materials that are fissionable by neutrons with zero kinetic energy. "Fissile" thus, is more restrictive than "fissionable" -- although all fissile materials are fissionable, not all fissionable materials are fissile. Some authorities even restrict the term fissionable to mean only non-fissile materials....
* Uranium-233.
* Uranium-235.
* Plutonium-239.
All these have been used successfully as fission fuels. Plutonium-241 and Neptunium-237 are also fissile but have not been used as a nuclear fuel. Several other transuranic isotopes are known to be fissile, all of them having both even atomic numbers and odd atomic mass numbers. These include:
That's actually one of the main engineering problems, it's as lot easier to turn some fuel into a simulated sun than than it is to poke some fresh fuel into the middle of one.
Considering that it's communist philosophy "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" human nature is for people to understate the first and overstate the second, so it's not a chinese thing but a communist thing.
Actually it's not really a linear collider at all but a nutrino cannon! We just finished using a the prototype on japan and there hasn't been a terrorist attack on the subway in tokyo since 1995. A cannon that can shoot nutrinos through solid earth and stop terrorism, congress will pay-up for sure!
Actually it should be E^2=M^4*c^4*p^2*q^2, but using the actual formula makes the solutions strange, of course oscillating between matter and antimatter 3 trillion times a second is pretty strange too. The other thing this emphysises is how little we really understand about really basics of physics, I bet even to the experts it's jabberwocky most of the time.
First of all what is the legal definition of spy satellite or even spy, right there really isn't one, everyone makes up their own. How can a US keyhole satellite be a spy satelite, it has US printed on the side? If it was a spy satelite it would have Peoples Republic of China or at least China on the side! Obviously they are not spy satellites they are reconn satelites and not inherently different from anything that NASA, the ESA, Russia or even China herself flies routinely. Is it all right for the US to lase Chinese satelites with reccon capabilities, maybe blind a few Chinese astronauts because they might point a camera out the window? Your argument is stupid, no one has any right to expect privacy when standing out in the open, and for a satelite to be able to see you, you have to be out in the open. it seems to me that the someone else has the right to disable it with proportionate force at the time when it is trying to invade their privacy. and it seems to me if we mounted some corner-reflectors on our satelite it would reflect the laser back to almost where it came from, who would you hold responsable for some innocent pig farmer getting burned out of house and home because some general gets a hard-on from shoot at US satelites?
I honestly figured that the real reason for a ups rather than internal batteries was that they figured the vented gasses to be corrosive. I did learn farther down-thread that these MoBo's don't work the way I thought they did, they actualy take the 12VDC and convert to AC, feed it through a transformer with a switching powersupply arrangement on the circuit board; that means you would have to use a 12 VDC battery
Yeah, the ones that actually need to buy some gas once in a while, I remember even/odd days and lines 3 blocks long only to have the station run out as you finaly got your turn at the pump; was the '70s really that long ago?
crude is by nature a commodity, actually even gasoline is, it's been wholesaleing arround a $1.65 lately, so there might be some short term instability, over the longterm the price increases will be dilluted worldwide; and you'll never really notice. Most differences in gasoline price are from taxes or subsities, what I think you will notice is a feeding-frenzie of alternative-energy charletons at the public feeding trough
no it isn't, it'll take money from the taxpayers and give it to energy companies that are able to bullshit the government that they're researching alternative fuels. The people who get the money will be 3/4 swindlers selling snakeoil gizmos. When you've got that much money up for grabs, the sleeze-bags will be coming out of the woodwork. If you really want alternative fuels, mandate that every fueling station have pumps dedicated to E85, biodiesel, and LH2 somebody will fill those tanks, even if its just so they can sell petro fuels. Remember in Alaska residents get a $5000.00 check so it's not like the "consumer" isn't paying in Cali, it's just who their paying.
And it would be refuse to pump any oil out of the ground in California, but that's highly unlikely even if the prop passes. More likely consumer petrolium prices in Cali goes up marginaly untill the price of out-of-state crude and in-state crude reach an equilibrium (and maybe outside Cali as well). What I think the $64,000.00 question is, "If the state substitises research in alternative energy by private companies with the extraction tax, does the taxpayers own a portion of any patents created with that money?"
a fully charged 12 volt lead acid battery normally outputs 13.8 volts 13.8 * 3 = 41.4 so three "12 volt" batteries gets you "42" volts, 2 "12 volt" batteries gets you 27.6 volts or a 28 volt system unless it's in an automotive system where convention is to call it a 24 volt system
I've thought about it too and the fact of the matter is if you get a 6 VDC acid battery, and spliced it into the motherboard of a machine that works but was replaced it would probably run fine. I'd do it myself but I allways end-up running computers into the ground
I got 3 really neat devices called serial terminals, wyse 60's in fact, all the do is talk to servers via RS232! They got their own monitor, and keyboard and are about the size of a computer CRT and keyboard! put them on a cart, and push them to what ever, plug it in and you talking, the cart gives you room for a reference manual or two and a notebook to document any changes you've made.
I remember a while back reading the the primary google metric for servers was BTUs/ft^2 ! I suppose that a server the expells less heat likely uses less electricity, but it's a relational rather than functional. My guess is every time a new processor comes out its specs gets run through the equations and they figure out what the optimum number of chips to swap out are.
I was thinking what was the 12VDC actually used for and all I could come up with is motors for the drive platters and maybe the fans! So they're propose we make power supplies that output 12VDC, currently a 450 Watt ps is pumping most of the wattage into the 5VDC to supply 90 amps of electricity and the computer is capable of using 297 watts (90 * 3.3) ! So all ready they having to make the power supply 1/3 larger! Then when you really think about it why does google need traditional power supplies at all; voltage regulation, come on get real, they're located down the road from a dam for power and probably have their own sub-station, just install an extra transformer or two and use them for buck and boosting voltage. So now how much load variation is a google server going to have anyways not much, maybe between 6 and 8 am local time they might have a dip in load, but folding at home can easily suck that up, so basically the power supplies that google needs can be very sloppy at voltage regulation as long as they are very effeicent at voltage conversion. Custom built 416 VAC 3 phase makes more sense to me and would solve a lot of plant distribution issues to boot.
The trademark for PODS, Portable On-demand Storage Systems is owned by Portable On-demand Storage Systems, isn't that what an Ipod does, stores audio and video until demanded in a portable device?
Well considering the the trademark for PODS, Portable On-demand Storage Systems is owned by Portable On-demand Storage Systems, I'm trying to figure out why apple's system of storing audio and video information until demanded my the user in a portable device called an iPod isn't a trademark infingement; but hey I'm not a lawyer.
That's why its so dangerous internally, the radiation damage is concentrated into a very small area. alpha has a q factor as high as 20, gamma and neutrons are approx 1see Measuring radiation dosage.
Women are just naturaly driven to get in your pants, I can't figure it out. I wear a pair of bluejeans out to the resturant and set them aside, I mean I'm going to mow the grass, clean the garage and put out the trash later the next day so why should i wear a clean/clean pair of jeans when I have a pefect pair of worn/clean blue-jeans to get dirty/dirty! So what happen, the natural instinct takes over, she senses the worn/clean pants on the floor (Temporay storage) picks them up, takes out all of the money in them, leaves the wallet and puts the pants I was saving for yard-work tomorrow in the dirty clothes hamper! After that she's angry with me for making her steal the money out of my pockets and leaving my "dirty" pants on the floor for the rest of the day so I don't even get laid that night! She wouldn't even touch my dirty/dirty stuff, makes me wash it myself; not in "her" machine either, I have to take it the the laundromat and she wouldn't even give me my own change back to do it with!
Of course the big problem is the inverse is also true I.E. if the body absorbs all the radiation harmlessly in the dead-skin, on the way in, the body also absorbs all the radiation very harmfully once the uranium is on the inside and the radiation is heading outside! Don't screw arround with your smoke detectors either, what's true for unranium 235, is also true for americium 241, it's even fissile.
What does that mean? That if IBM were to prevail on all its motions (of course that is a rare event indeed) then the only thing left to bring to a jury would be IBM's counterclaims. That has to be SCO's worst nightmare. That would mean the only questions for the jury to decide, if they found for IBM on the rest of IBM's counterclaims, would be how bad was SCO and how much do they owe IBM?
Wouldn't that be the perfect iceing on SCO's cake!
we have enough computers and saftey technology to keep Joe Public from doing too much stupid stuff right now; besides I'd rather have him handle that much electricity than I would having him handle gasoline. Actually Jane public is worst, she can plug in the gas nozzle, go in side her car to answer the cell, get out sliding her nylon panties accross the plastic seat generating 150 KV of static electricity and return to the gas nozzle without touching anything metal except the fuel nozzle!
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Actually we buy the Pu238 in for the new rovers from Russia so they'd have no need to ask.
even atomic numbers and odd atomic mass numbers lets out Pu238 due to even atomic mass.
That's actually one of the main engineering problems, it's as lot easier to turn some fuel into a simulated sun than than it is to poke some fresh fuel into the middle of one.
Sorry I can't resist but Hydrogen fusion would burn through the ceiling!
Considering that it's communist philosophy "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" human nature is for people to understate the first and overstate the second, so it's not a chinese thing but a communist thing.
Actually it's not really a linear collider at all but a nutrino cannon! We just finished using a the prototype on japan and there hasn't been a terrorist attack on the subway in tokyo since 1995. A cannon that can shoot nutrinos through solid earth and stop terrorism, congress will pay-up for sure!
Actually it should be E^2=M^4*c^4*p^2*q^2, but using the actual formula makes the solutions strange, of course oscillating between matter and antimatter 3 trillion times a second is pretty strange too. The other thing this emphysises is how little we really understand about really basics of physics, I bet even to the experts it's jabberwocky most of the time.
First of all what is the legal definition of spy satellite or even spy, right there really isn't one, everyone makes up their own. How can a US keyhole satellite be a spy satelite, it has US printed on the side? If it was a spy satelite it would have Peoples Republic of China or at least China on the side! Obviously they are not spy satellites they are reconn satelites and not inherently different from anything that NASA, the ESA, Russia or even China herself flies routinely. Is it all right for the US to lase Chinese satelites with reccon capabilities, maybe blind a few Chinese astronauts because they might point a camera out the window? Your argument is stupid, no one has any right to expect privacy when standing out in the open, and for a satelite to be able to see you, you have to be out in the open.
it seems to me that the someone else has the right to disable it with proportionate force at the time when it is trying to invade their privacy. and it seems to me if we mounted some corner-reflectors on our satelite it would reflect the laser back to almost where it came from, who would you hold responsable for some innocent pig farmer getting burned out of house and home because some general gets a hard-on from shoot at US satelites?
I honestly figured that the real reason for a ups rather than internal batteries was that they figured the vented gasses to be corrosive. I did learn farther down-thread that these MoBo's don't work the way I thought they did, they actualy take the 12VDC and convert to AC, feed it through a transformer with a switching powersupply arrangement on the circuit board; that means you would have to use a 12 VDC battery
Yeah, the ones that actually need to buy some gas once in a while, I remember even/odd days and lines 3 blocks long only to have the station run out as you finaly got your turn at the pump; was the '70s really that long ago?
crude is by nature a commodity, actually even gasoline is, it's been wholesaleing arround a $1.65 lately, so there might be some short term instability, over the longterm the price increases will be dilluted worldwide; and you'll never really notice. Most differences in gasoline price are from taxes or subsities, what I think you will notice is a feeding-frenzie of alternative-energy charletons at the public feeding trough
no it isn't, it'll take money from the taxpayers and give it to energy companies that are able to bullshit the government that they're researching alternative fuels. The people who get the money will be 3/4 swindlers selling snakeoil gizmos. When you've got that much money up for grabs, the sleeze-bags will be coming out of the woodwork. If you really want alternative fuels, mandate that every fueling station have pumps dedicated to E85, biodiesel, and LH2 somebody will fill those tanks, even if its just so they can sell petro fuels. Remember in Alaska residents get a $5000.00 check so it's not like the "consumer" isn't paying in Cali, it's just who their paying.
And it would be refuse to pump any oil out of the ground in California, but that's highly unlikely even if the prop passes. More likely consumer petrolium prices in Cali goes up marginaly untill the price of out-of-state crude and in-state crude reach an equilibrium (and maybe outside Cali as well). What I think the $64,000.00 question is, "If the state substitises research in alternative energy by private companies with the extraction tax, does the taxpayers own a portion of any patents created with that money?"
a fully charged 12 volt lead acid battery normally outputs 13.8 volts
13.8 * 3 = 41.4 so three "12 volt" batteries gets you "42" volts,
2 "12 volt" batteries gets you 27.6 volts or a 28 volt system unless it's in an automotive system where convention is to call it a 24 volt system
I've thought about it too and the fact of the matter is if you get a 6 VDC acid battery, and spliced it into the motherboard of a machine that works but was replaced it would probably run fine. I'd do it myself but I allways end-up running computers into the ground
I got 3 really neat devices called serial terminals, wyse 60's in fact, all the do is talk to servers via RS232! They got their own monitor, and keyboard and are about the size of a computer CRT and keyboard! put them on a cart, and push them to what ever, plug it in and you talking, the cart gives you room for a reference manual or two and a notebook to document any changes you've made.
I remember a while back reading the the primary google metric for servers was BTUs/ft^2 ! I suppose that a server the expells less heat likely uses less electricity, but it's a relational rather than functional. My guess is every time a new processor comes out its specs gets run through the equations and they figure out what the optimum number of chips to swap out are.
I was thinking what was the 12VDC actually used for and all I could come up with is motors for the drive platters and maybe the fans! So they're propose we make power supplies that output 12VDC, currently a 450 Watt ps is pumping most of the wattage into the 5VDC to supply 90 amps of electricity and the computer is capable of using 297 watts (90 * 3.3) ! So all ready they having to make the power supply 1/3 larger! Then when you really think about it why does google need traditional power supplies at all; voltage regulation, come on get real, they're located down the road from a dam for power and probably have their own sub-station, just install an extra transformer or two and use them for buck and boosting voltage. So now how much load variation is a google server going to have anyways not much, maybe between 6 and 8 am local time they might have a dip in load, but folding at home can easily suck that up, so basically the power supplies that google needs can be very sloppy at voltage regulation as long as they are very effeicent at voltage conversion. Custom built 416 VAC 3 phase makes more sense to me and would solve a lot of plant distribution issues to boot.
The trademark for PODS, Portable On-demand Storage Systems is owned by Portable On-demand Storage Systems, isn't that what an Ipod does, stores audio and video until demanded in a portable device?
Well considering the the trademark for PODS, Portable On-demand Storage Systems is owned by Portable On-demand Storage Systems, I'm trying to figure out why apple's system of storing audio and video information until demanded my the user in a portable device called an iPod isn't a trademark infingement; but hey I'm not a lawyer.
That's why its so dangerous internally, the radiation damage is concentrated into a very small area.
alpha has a q factor as high as 20, gamma and neutrons are approx 1see Measuring radiation dosage.
Women are just naturaly driven to get in your pants, I can't figure it out. I wear a pair of bluejeans out to the resturant and set them aside, I mean I'm going to mow the grass, clean the garage and put out the trash later the next day so why should i wear a clean/clean pair of jeans when I have a pefect pair of worn/clean blue-jeans to get dirty/dirty! So what happen, the natural instinct takes over, she senses the worn/clean pants on the floor (Temporay storage) picks them up, takes out all of the money in them, leaves the wallet and puts the pants I was saving for yard-work tomorrow in the dirty clothes hamper! After that she's angry with me for making her steal the money out of my pockets and leaving my "dirty" pants on the floor for the rest of the day so I don't even get laid that night! She wouldn't even touch my dirty/dirty stuff, makes me wash it myself; not in "her" machine either, I have to take it the the laundromat and she wouldn't even give me my own change back to do it with!
Of course the big problem is the inverse is also true I.E. if the body absorbs all the radiation harmlessly in the dead-skin, on the way in, the body also absorbs all the radiation very harmfully once the uranium is on the inside and the radiation is heading outside! Don't screw arround with your smoke detectors either, what's true for unranium 235, is also true for americium 241, it's even fissile.
Wouldn't that be the perfect iceing on SCO's cake!
we have enough computers and saftey technology to keep Joe Public from doing too much stupid stuff right now; besides I'd rather have him handle that much electricity than I would having him handle gasoline. Actually Jane public is worst, she can plug in the gas nozzle, go in side her car to answer the cell, get out sliding her nylon panties accross the plastic seat generating 150 KV of static electricity and return to the gas nozzle without touching anything metal except the fuel nozzle!