Not really. The average half-life of current waste is orders of magnitude larger than the waste from an IFR reactor that burns up all of the long-lived actinides.
what employer is going to let an employee get away with STEALING $0.5 worth of power per day?
It isn't about the price of the electrons, it's the logistics of it.
I can envision pushback when talking about a small to medium sized business. Think about the logistics of having 1 person charge at work. There's not a whole lot to that - find a spare spot in the breaker box for the 220V/30A GFCI breaker, run the 3 #10 (2 hot, 1 ground) to the new waterproof outlet outside, and you're done.
When you start multiplying that by 25-50, things get out of hand very quickly. You'll likely need a service upgrade from the power company (possibly to 3 phase, which would entail changing your existing 220V equipment to 208V and maybe moving your lighting circuits around), new service entrance equipment, additional breaker panels (and all the wall space they'll consume in your already-overcrowded and barely legal electrical closet), install lots of very expensive 220V GFCI breakers, and now have to run a literal ton of copper across the parking lot/along the building to 25-50 new waterproof outlets (possibly digging up the parking lot or drilling holes in the structure in the process).
If you're smart, you might run 480V out to a transformer in the parking lot to limit I2R losses, but those transformers aren't free, and not you've taken up parking space with a giant green tumor and waterproof (and vandal-proof) breaker panel.
That's a lot to expect of an employer for no tangible return on investment.
...things are done differently when public money is involved, and it has nothing to do with politics.
I would say politics is the very reason things are done differently when public money is involved; specifically the elimination of political graft and favoritism from the process.
I meant the murder and mayhem part, not the part where his behavior was deemed against the common good and his nutty ass was locked up. Him getting locked up wasn't his behavior, it was the consequence of his behavior.
Anyone who kills another person intentionally is insane.
You use the word kill and then conflate it with murder. They are distinct concepts. Policemen who kill in the line of duty are insane? No. One who kills in self-defense is insane? No. Both of those cases involve the intentional killing of another.
They commit white-collar crimes ruining the lives of millions of people instead of Dahmer-esque 'red-collar' crimes that ruin the lives of 10's or 100's of people.
I guess they could image the brains of a large group of infants and monitor them as they age, but that would take a lifetime (literally) to establish which way the causal link points.
To be really useful, outlets must be available wherever cars are parked. That means on the street, in parking lots, decks, etc. You shack idea fails under those situations.
People don't steal electricity because there's no real financial incentive to do so since there are no portable (or mobile) electrical appliances that consume enough power or are able to store enough power to make it worth their while -- start using it instead of gasoline and you'll have the electrical equivalent to drive-offs and siphoning.
Again, it isn't the technical issues that get you, it's the practical ones, like keeping your time-of-use meter on the wall and unviolated (spray painted, glued shut, hax0red, skimmers installed, etc). To be practical, these things have to be as ubiquitous as parking meters, which makes video monitoring infeasible.
You're right in that the system is like a gas pump, but those are at a central location that is videoed, attended, and so forth. Your electrical dispenser is more like an ATM in that it'll be in the wild, subject to all sorts of bad behavior.
What's to keep an enterprising person from trimming a little insulation off the wires leading to the meter and using jumper cables to bypass it? It's not going to cause a massive fuel spill, so no one may find out for a long time. If you push the switch that starts the current flowing farther away from the customer (like under the sidewalk or up the utility pole) that'll incur more cost and trouble.
Unless your box uses cellular comms, you'll need a data line, and that's another weak point (damage-prone and hax0r-bait).
It's not quite as easy as sticking a parking meter in the ground.
At 220V (in the US) that cord would probably be the size of a hawser on a Navy Destroyer, and weight about 20 lbs/ft. The cost on copper alone would pay for the car.
Typical low power outlets are 120V, but we also have 240V outlets for high power items like ovens, cooktops, water heaters, and clothes dryers. We use Split phase 240V.
Nit: Power in the US is single split phase, so the 220V connection is single phase. You're equating the number of 'hot' wires with the number of phases, which isn't always the same. Two phase was something else entirely.
It's a little more difficult to hook up an idiot-, water-, abrasion-, and UV-proof 220V public outlet than a (hopefully) stationary indoor dryer or oven. The problems I see are liability and charging (no pun intended) for use. The rules are already in place for the logistics of installing the outlet, although they're pretty expensive to implement (GFCI [and possibly arc fault], watertight conduit, covered-in-use receptacle, etc). The aesthetic and insurance angles remain open issues.
Sorry - I replied to the wrong post. The National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA) is behind the National Electrical Code (NEC), not the federal government. That's right, the electrical safety rules are written by people whose job is to prevent fires, which makes some sense for once. Most states adopt the NEC as their official electrical code, sometimes with slight (and sometimes not-so-slight) changes.
The National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA) is behind the National Electrical Code (NEC), not the federal government. That's right, the electrical safety rules are written by people whose job is to prevent fires, which makes some sense for once. Most states adopt the NEC as their official electrical code, sometimes with slight (and sometimes not-so-slight) changes.
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Not really. The average half-life of current waste is orders of magnitude larger than the waste from an IFR reactor that burns up all of the long-lived actinides.
Let's compare apples to apples. France is 674,843 km^2. Texas is 696,241 km^2, roughly the same size.
France has a population density of 115/km^2, Texas has 0.75/km^2. The whole US has an overall population density of 31/km^2.
what employer is going to let an employee get away with STEALING $0.5 worth of power per day?
It isn't about the price of the electrons, it's the logistics of it.
I can envision pushback when talking about a small to medium sized business. Think about the logistics of having 1 person charge at work. There's not a whole lot to that - find a spare spot in the breaker box for the 220V/30A GFCI breaker, run the 3 #10 (2 hot, 1 ground) to the new waterproof outlet outside, and you're done.
When you start multiplying that by 25-50, things get out of hand very quickly. You'll likely need a service upgrade from the power company (possibly to 3 phase, which would entail changing your existing 220V equipment to 208V and maybe moving your lighting circuits around), new service entrance equipment, additional breaker panels (and all the wall space they'll consume in your already-overcrowded and barely legal electrical closet), install lots of very expensive 220V GFCI breakers, and now have to run a literal ton of copper across the parking lot/along the building to 25-50 new waterproof outlets (possibly digging up the parking lot or drilling holes in the structure in the process).
If you're smart, you might run 480V out to a transformer in the parking lot to limit I2R losses, but those transformers aren't free, and not you've taken up parking space with a giant green tumor and waterproof (and vandal-proof) breaker panel.
That's a lot to expect of an employer for no tangible return on investment.
So they uncommented the gene in 'DNA.xml', and modified its XSL 'DNA2Cell.xsl' so that it would parse again?
How cool is that?
I would say politics is the very reason things are done differently when public money is involved; specifically the elimination of political graft and favoritism from the process.
His natural body heat gives him the edge in melting the really icy areas.
Of course he does burn up an awful lot of expensive snowplow seats and steering wheels.
Well, triboelectricity is generated by rubbing/crushing things like when you chomp down on wintergreen lifesavers and sparks shoot off of them.
Bremsstrahlung is German for slowing/braking, therefore bremsstrahlung radiation is given off when electrons lose energy while being decelerated.
At least that's what I remember from Physics 101 25 years ago.
I have one running one an NSLU2. There's a tutorial on this site somewhere to install linux and configure dnsmasq.
I meant the murder and mayhem part, not the part where his behavior was deemed against the common good and his nutty ass was locked up. Him getting locked up wasn't his behavior, it was the consequence of his behavior.
Thank you for following through - so many developers don't bother.
Anyone who kills another person intentionally is insane.
You use the word kill and then conflate it with murder. They are distinct concepts. Policemen who kill in the line of duty are insane? No. One who kills in self-defense is insane? No. Both of those cases involve the intentional killing of another.
Killing is not always murder; see these exceptions.
They commit white-collar crimes ruining the lives of millions of people instead of Dahmer-esque 'red-collar' crimes that ruin the lives of 10's or 100's of people.
A diagnosis is only rendered (or at the very least, treated) if it's problematic to the individual.
Or to society at large, I'd hope. Charles Manson's behavior wasn't problematic to himself in the least.
I guess they could image the brains of a large group of infants and monitor them as they age, but that would take a lifetime (literally) to establish which way the causal link points.
Nice ad hominem attacks.
To be really useful, outlets must be available wherever cars are parked. That means on the street, in parking lots, decks, etc. You shack idea fails under those situations.
People don't steal electricity because there's no real financial incentive to do so since there are no portable (or mobile) electrical appliances that consume enough power or are able to store enough power to make it worth their while -- start using it instead of gasoline and you'll have the electrical equivalent to drive-offs and siphoning.
Surely you mean "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
Again, it isn't the technical issues that get you, it's the practical ones, like keeping your time-of-use meter on the wall and unviolated (spray painted, glued shut, hax0red, skimmers installed, etc). To be practical, these things have to be as ubiquitous as parking meters, which makes video monitoring infeasible.
You're right in that the system is like a gas pump, but those are at a central location that is videoed, attended, and so forth. Your electrical dispenser is more like an ATM in that it'll be in the wild, subject to all sorts of bad behavior.
What's to keep an enterprising person from trimming a little insulation off the wires leading to the meter and using jumper cables to bypass it? It's not going to cause a massive fuel spill, so no one may find out for a long time. If you push the switch that starts the current flowing farther away from the customer (like under the sidewalk or up the utility pole) that'll incur more cost and trouble.
Unless your box uses cellular comms, you'll need a data line, and that's another weak point (damage-prone and hax0r-bait).
It's not quite as easy as sticking a parking meter in the ground.
Exactly. I needed a 3.5mm stereo jack so I could unbrick a Netgear 614L router. Radio Shack was around the corner and had what I needed.
For my real projects Digikey is the place for me.
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At 220V (in the US) that cord would probably be the size of a hawser on a Navy Destroyer, and weight about 20 lbs/ft. The cost on copper alone would pay for the car.
Typical low power outlets are 120V, but we also have 240V outlets for high power items like ovens, cooktops, water heaters, and clothes dryers. We use Split phase 240V.
Nit: Power in the US is single split phase, so the 220V connection is single phase. You're equating the number of 'hot' wires with the number of phases, which isn't always the same. Two phase was something else entirely.
It's a little more difficult to hook up an idiot-, water-, abrasion-, and UV-proof 220V public outlet than a (hopefully) stationary indoor dryer or oven. The problems I see are liability and charging (no pun intended) for use. The rules are already in place for the logistics of installing the outlet, although they're pretty expensive to implement (GFCI [and possibly arc fault], watertight conduit, covered-in-use receptacle, etc). The aesthetic and insurance angles remain open issues.
Sorry - I replied to the wrong post. The National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA) is behind the National Electrical Code (NEC), not the federal government. That's right, the electrical safety rules are written by people whose job is to prevent fires, which makes some sense for once. Most states adopt the NEC as their official electrical code, sometimes with slight (and sometimes not-so-slight) changes.
The National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA) is behind the National Electrical Code (NEC), not the federal government. That's right, the electrical safety rules are written by people whose job is to prevent fires, which makes some sense for once. Most states adopt the NEC as their official electrical code, sometimes with slight (and sometimes not-so-slight) changes.