Thorium when used as a reactor fuel does not involve separating the U 233 from the spent fuel. A small amount of 233 can be used to start the reaction but you burn the 233 in the reactor fuel that breeds it. It is also full of FUD. "The last serious attempt to use thorium in a commercial reactor was at the Fort St. Vrain plant in Colorado, which closed in 1989 after 10 years and hundreds of equipment failures, leaks, and fuel failures." The problems had nothing to do with the use of thorium fuel. It had everything to do with a badly designed cooling system that used He instead of water. I just not have time to shred it but it is just terrible FUD! Look up the Fort St. Vrain reactor yourself to see the reports on the problems with the He system. They used bad water seals that leaked into the cooling circuit that caused the problems. In other words this article has nothing really to do with the Thorium reactors that are being proposed today. Not surprising since samzenpus is know to be anti-nuclear.
"In a hundred years, there will be nothing but abandoned cities under flood waters" No in the worst case many cities will not have any issues with flooding. Think Denver, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Phoenix, and so on, none are going to flood.."Humans and many other animals will be dead." Nope that is extremely unlikely. Not impossible but I super unlikely. "But there will be some bacteria with this extra base pair." Maybe but again not likely. In other words wll in to crazy.
The nice thing is that we live in a time where I can get high quality digital recording of any classical work and get access to just about any book I want to read anywhere. Yes it is not the same as going to a live event. I feel that way about going to theater which I am lucky because we have the Kravis center nearby. But that is the point. NYC and SF is not universally better than any other place. I can get things in my location you can not in NYC. I can see Sandhill Cranes and tortoises in my yard. I can have a large garden in both my front and backyard. I have a workshop in my garage to build bookcases and work on my motorcycles. I can see hawks, eagles, and owls while walking my dog. But I can also go the theater, get good vietnamese food, get good mexican food, and good pizza. I can shop at Macy's, Bloomingdales, and Costco and buy my food at Publix, Publix Greenwise, and if I really want to WholeFoods. I also don't have to pay for parking or hunt for a parking space. I can also go to the beach in November most years. Everyplace has advantages for some people. For a lot of people NYC and especially SF have just too many downsides. I also feel that the concentration of tech venture capital is bad thing for the tech industry. It tends to cause inbreeding which decrease innovation.
Frankly killer robots have been around for at least a century. Torpedos, sea mines, and land mines. Sure the kill logic started off simple for them. Kill what steps on me, kill a ship that bumps me, and kill what I run into. By WWII sea mines could "decide" to blow up based on the size of the ship that passes over it. Torpedos could find their target based on the sound it made. And some landmines would kill tanks and trucks but not men that walked over them. By the 70s you had guided missiles of all kinds, and Captor mines that would fire a torpedo at a sub that got near it. As to Skynet frankly I have to wonder if SAGE was the inspiration of SkyNet. Just take out the controllers and replace the F-106s with drones and you are good to go.
The workers would not be an issue in Florida. As I have pointed out you have lots of aerospace in the state from NASA. Pratt and Whitney builds Centaur upper stages in Florida as well as jet engines. Northrop Grumman built the JStars in Florida, LockMart built the Patriot PAC-3 here. Did I mention that Florida and not California was the birthplace of the PC? Launch them in Florida. Build them in California, and test them in Texas. That is a lot of votes in congress, in fact three out of the top four states by population and votes in congress. The factory is in California for votes.
Like what? 10 minutes to the Kravis Center. 20 to the airport. 20 to the beach. Good pizza, Mexican, thai, Vietnamese, Greek, and who knows what else? I have just started to explore the area. I am near a city, just not NYC. There a lot of cities that are not the nightmares that are SF and NYC as far as cost of living and crowding. My wife's mother lived just outside Dallas. It was great because you could go to the store or a mall in 10 minutes and be in downtown in less than 30. You can tell yourself that you do not want what not living in NYC or SF offers and you might even mean it but you are still choosing to be without them. I like visiting NYC but I would not want to live their the trade off is just not worth it. It is just too crowded, too expensive, and too polluted for me. Hey Donald Trump can live anywhere but he has a house in Palm Beach as well as NYC. I doubt he goes without much when he is here in Florida.
LA? Chicago? Dallas Fort Worth? I think you will find the choice is probably pretty good. Some people do like NYC but a lot of people would hate it. Where I live I can get 90% of what you can get in NYC for 5% of the greif. Clean air, clean water, light traffic, low housing costs, free parking and so one. Plus no snow. and 9 to 10 months a year of good beach weather.
" it will take a NYCer 30 minutes or so to get outside of the city to a place where you can go hiking, biking, camping, picking apples, etc." Sure it will. Without a car? on mass transit? I have been to NYC and it takes a lot longer than 30 minutes to go out of the city unless it is the middle of the night or the crack of dawn. I could get a house for about the same that I paid for mine only 8 minutes from my office and only 10 minutes from downtown. I bought my home when I was working for a different company. Oh and that location I am talking about is about 5 minutes from a mountain biking trail, HPR launch site, and a Wholefoods.
What if I want to go mountain biking? What if I want to go hiking? What if I want to plant a large garden? What if I want to launch high power model rockets? What if I want to ride my motorcycle without traffic? What if I want to rebuild an old car? It all depends on what you want to do. Opera? Not really my thing? They symphony? Yes but I can do that with a 30 minute drive and minimal traffic where I am at. Theater? The same. Of course I am not in a town of 2000 people but a town of 200,000 just 25 minutes from Palm Beach which is one of the richest cities in the nation so we get a lot of high end stuff. Did I mention that the crime rate is also very low and the air and water quality is very high? The ideal location depends on the person. Take a look at the job openings in Melbourne Florida, the Palm Beach area, and Fort Lauderdale. The company that I work for even has it's own fab.
You can say the same thing about any large city. SF is a case of they really need to move out. It like NYC is a geographically constrained city. Cities like Chicago, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Houston, and even LA offer lower cost housing and less traffic than SF or NYC. Here is a list of the best downtowns from Liveablity. NYC and SF are no on the list. http://livability.com/top-10/t...
" LA County is where you go for aerospace technology." Boeing in Washington and Kansas might have a lot to say about that. Lockheed Martin builds the F16 and the F35 in Fort Worth Texas. ULA builds the Delta 4 in Alabama. Pratt and Whitney builds the Centaur in West Palm Beach Florida. You might be surprised how many people would follow Space X to the Space cost of Florida. They could buy a nice house for a quarter of the price
It is all about the votes. No Bucks no Buck Rogers.
"If you think it is so damn better and you can do a better job than Elon Musk to figure this kind of thing out, go start up your own company for crying out loud."
Ahhh.... A fan boy. I never said that it was better to build it in Florida. I said it would have been cheaper and more efficient to build it in Florida. Putting the factory in California, test center in Texas, and launching from Florida means you get support from three large states congress people. It is an old game and Musk is playing it correctly. As they say in the Right Stuff. No bucks, no Buck Rogers. Of course it would cheaper to build the Falcon right in Titusville Florida. Heck There is an an industrial park right next to the Cape! Recruiting would not be hard since their was the massive cut back in the space program when the Shuttle program ended. Home prices in Florida are much lower than California so to relocate would mean a big step up and the weather on the coast of Florida is great for 9 months of the year and frankly I know people that even like the summer. We also do not have earthquakes or mudslides and Hurricanes are not as bad as you see on TV. I have been through 5 of them. Also the Palm Bay Melbourne area of Florida has the second highest number of engineers per capita in the US. Only Huntsville Alabama beats it. So Florida does have the talent and lower costs but it also has the Cape so Musk can get the support of the Florida Congress people by just launching from the Cape.
Actually their are a good number of factories in Florida. Pratt and Whitney builds and tests the Centaur at the Palm Beach location. Lockheed Martin builds that Patriot Pac 3 in Orlando. Grumman Northrop built the JStars in Melbourne, and Vought builds parts for airliners in Stuart Florida. Just to name a few. I also left out Harris which is headquartered in the Melbourne/Palm City area. It is all about the votes.
You do not need that talent at the factory. And Florida has a huge amount of aerospace firms, Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Pratt and Whitney, United Technologies. and Vought to name just a few off the top of my head. Add in the lower costs and taxes and it just does not make sense to put a rocket factory in California except for the votes in congress.
Not nearly the number from Florida. Does it make sense to put a factory near the second biggest launch site instead of the largest? Not to mention the savings in cost.
The Delta IV is all new and also computer designed. Same for the ESA launchers. Even the Atlas V is a new modern design. It will be interesting to see if SpaceX can pull it off.
Actually SpaceX also has the "look at where all the parts are made" poster. Plus Space has facilities now in California, Texas, and Florida. Texas and Florida makes sense but California for the main factory does not. If most launches are going to be from Florida or eventually Texas then it would make more sense to have the factory in Florida or Texas. The factory is in California because of congressional support. Texas, Florida, and California are a whole lot of votes in congress.
It should not have to be reported. This is a QA level of failure. You should test each function of the code you write before you release to testing. Testing should test all functions in the release candidate and the common tasks the program used for. The testing needs to test the documentation as well as the functions to make sure they match. Only then should it be released. It is not perfect of course but this is how it should work. The end user docs for OO and OL often lag the software by at least one version if not more. Writing docs is not fun and it just does not often get done on FOSS projects. The docs when written are often not end user documentation. Of course you could always pay for good docs to be written and contribute that to the FOSS project but then you are not getting the software for free as in beer and you could just pay for a well documented program instead of paying to document a program. I love FOSS but if the community refuses to see the limitations they can not overcome them.
But it is empty just ask anybody that wants to build solar power plants in the area. The Solar advovates are treating the desert the same way people treated the "swamps" in the 40s,50s, and 60s. Actually I agree it was sarcasm. Now running the pipe to the Salton Sea might not be a bad idea.
AMD is targeting this at the server market. It is supposed to be socket compatible with the new X86 they working on. It is not strictly targeting the mobile market.
better yet run a pipe to death valley and put in a membrane. You would have a new inland sea and could use solar from that area to pump it to the people. What could be greener.
The Transmeta chip was not a smash hit so probably not. The really cool thing is that you will see ARM and X86 will share parts. GPU cores are a no brainer. Throwing in things like cache and memory controllers could be a big deal. ARM sharing a socket with x86 will be really cool IMHO.
Sorry but I just used Yelp. Part of me really wants to move to Wyoming. I was born here in South Florida and I am tired of the heat, traffic, and snow birds.
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Thorium when used as a reactor fuel does not involve separating the U 233 from the spent fuel. A small amount of 233 can be used to start the reaction but you burn the 233 in the reactor fuel that breeds it. It is also full of FUD.
"The last serious attempt to use thorium in a commercial reactor was at the Fort St. Vrain plant in Colorado, which closed in 1989 after 10 years and hundreds of equipment failures, leaks, and fuel failures."
The problems had nothing to do with the use of thorium fuel. It had everything to do with a badly designed cooling system that used He instead of water.
I just not have time to shred it but it is just terrible FUD! Look up the Fort St. Vrain reactor yourself to see the reports on the problems with the He system. They used bad water seals that leaked into the cooling circuit that caused the problems.
In other words this article has nothing really to do with the Thorium reactors that are being proposed today. Not surprising since samzenpus is know to be anti-nuclear.
"In a hundred years, there will be nothing but abandoned cities under flood waters" No in the worst case many cities will not have any issues with flooding. Think Denver, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Phoenix, and so on, none are going to flood. ."Humans and many other animals will be dead." Nope that is extremely unlikely. Not impossible but I super unlikely.
"But there will be some bacteria with this extra base pair." Maybe but again not likely.
In other words wll in to crazy.
The nice thing is that we live in a time where I can get high quality digital recording of any classical work and get access to just about any book I want to read anywhere. Yes it is not the same as going to a live event. I feel that way about going to theater which I am lucky because we have the Kravis center nearby.
But that is the point. NYC and SF is not universally better than any other place.
I can get things in my location you can not in NYC. I can see Sandhill Cranes and tortoises in my yard. I can have a large garden in both my front and backyard. I have a workshop in my garage to build bookcases and work on my motorcycles. I can see hawks, eagles, and owls while walking my dog.
But I can also go the theater, get good vietnamese food, get good mexican food, and good pizza. I can shop at Macy's, Bloomingdales, and Costco and buy my food at Publix, Publix Greenwise, and if I really want to WholeFoods. I also don't have to pay for parking or hunt for a parking space. I can also go to the beach in November most years.
Everyplace has advantages for some people. For a lot of people NYC and especially SF have just too many downsides. I also feel that the concentration of tech venture capital is bad thing for the tech industry. It tends to cause inbreeding which decrease innovation.
Frankly killer robots have been around for at least a century.
Torpedos, sea mines, and land mines. Sure the kill logic started off simple for them. Kill what steps on me, kill a ship that bumps me, and kill what I run into.
By WWII sea mines could "decide" to blow up based on the size of the ship that passes over it. Torpedos could find their target based on the sound it made. And some landmines would kill tanks and trucks but not men that walked over them.
By the 70s you had guided missiles of all kinds, and Captor mines that would fire a torpedo at a sub that got near it.
As to Skynet frankly I have to wonder if SAGE was the inspiration of SkyNet. Just take out the controllers and replace the F-106s with drones and you are good to go.
The workers would not be an issue in Florida. As I have pointed out you have lots of aerospace in the state from NASA. Pratt and Whitney builds Centaur upper stages in Florida as well as jet engines. Northrop Grumman built the JStars in Florida, LockMart built the Patriot PAC-3 here. Did I mention that Florida and not California was the birthplace of the PC?
Launch them in Florida. Build them in California, and test them in Texas. That is a lot of votes in congress, in fact three out of the top four states by population and votes in congress.
The factory is in California for votes.
Like what? 10 minutes to the Kravis Center. 20 to the airport. 20 to the beach. Good pizza, Mexican, thai, Vietnamese, Greek, and who knows what else? I have just started to explore the area.
I am near a city, just not NYC. There a lot of cities that are not the nightmares that are SF and NYC as far as cost of living and crowding. My wife's mother lived just outside Dallas. It was great because you could go to the store or a mall in 10 minutes and be in downtown in less than 30.
You can tell yourself that you do not want what not living in NYC or SF offers and you might even mean it but you are still choosing to be without them.
I like visiting NYC but I would not want to live their the trade off is just not worth it. It is just too crowded, too expensive, and too polluted for me.
Hey Donald Trump can live anywhere but he has a house in Palm Beach as well as NYC. I doubt he goes without much when he is here in Florida.
LA? Chicago? Dallas Fort Worth?
I think you will find the choice is probably pretty good. Some people do like NYC but a lot of people would hate it. Where I live I can get 90% of what you can get in NYC for 5% of the greif.
Clean air, clean water, light traffic, low housing costs, free parking and so one.
Plus no snow. and 9 to 10 months a year of good beach weather.
" it will take a NYCer 30 minutes or so to get outside of the city to a place where you can go hiking, biking, camping, picking apples, etc."
Sure it will. Without a car? on mass transit? I have been to NYC and it takes a lot longer than 30 minutes to go out of the city unless it is the middle of the night or the crack of dawn.
I could get a house for about the same that I paid for mine only 8 minutes from my office and only 10 minutes from downtown. I bought my home when I was working for a different company. Oh and that location I am talking about is about 5 minutes from a mountain biking trail, HPR launch site, and a Wholefoods.
What if I want to go mountain biking? What if I want to go hiking? What if I want to plant a large garden? What if I want to launch high power model rockets? What if I want to ride my motorcycle without traffic? What if I want to rebuild an old car?
It all depends on what you want to do. Opera? Not really my thing? They symphony? Yes but I can do that with a 30 minute drive and minimal traffic where I am at. Theater? The same.
Of course I am not in a town of 2000 people but a town of 200,000 just 25 minutes from Palm Beach which is one of the richest cities in the nation so we get a lot of high end stuff. Did I mention that the crime rate is also very low and the air and water quality is very high?
The ideal location depends on the person. Take a look at the job openings in Melbourne Florida, the Palm Beach area, and Fort Lauderdale. The company that I work for even has it's own fab.
You can say the same thing about any large city.
SF is a case of they really need to move out. It like NYC is a geographically constrained city. Cities like Chicago, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Houston, and even LA offer lower cost housing and less traffic than SF or NYC.
Here is a list of the best downtowns from Liveablity. NYC and SF are no on the list.
http://livability.com/top-10/t...
" LA County is where you go for aerospace technology."
Boeing in Washington and Kansas might have a lot to say about that.
Lockheed Martin builds the F16 and the F35 in Fort Worth Texas.
ULA builds the Delta 4 in Alabama.
Pratt and Whitney builds the Centaur in West Palm Beach Florida.
You might be surprised how many people would follow Space X to the Space cost of Florida. They could buy a nice house for a quarter of the price
It is all about the votes.
No Bucks no Buck Rogers.
Javascript is a programing language.
Saying that is like saying if you take a CSV file and throw in some Fortran it becomes turing compete.
"If you think it is so damn better and you can do a better job than Elon Musk to figure this kind of thing out, go start up your own company for crying out loud."
Ahhh....
A fan boy.
I never said that it was better to build it in Florida. I said it would have been cheaper and more efficient to build it in Florida.
Putting the factory in California, test center in Texas, and launching from Florida means you get support from three large states congress people. It is an old game and Musk is playing it correctly.
As they say in the Right Stuff. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
Of course it would cheaper to build the Falcon right in Titusville Florida. Heck There is an an industrial park right next to the Cape! Recruiting would not be hard since their was the massive cut back in the space program when the Shuttle program ended. Home prices in Florida are much lower than California so to relocate would mean a big step up and the weather on the coast of Florida is great for 9 months of the year and frankly I know people that even like the summer. We also do not have earthquakes or mudslides and Hurricanes are not as bad as you see on TV. I have been through 5 of them. Also the Palm Bay Melbourne area of Florida has the second highest number of engineers per capita in the US. Only Huntsville Alabama beats it. So Florida does have the talent and lower costs but it also has the Cape so Musk can get the support of the Florida Congress people by just launching from the Cape.
Actually their are a good number of factories in Florida. Pratt and Whitney builds and tests the Centaur at the Palm Beach location. Lockheed Martin builds that Patriot Pac 3 in Orlando. Grumman Northrop built the JStars in Melbourne, and Vought builds parts for airliners in Stuart Florida.
Just to name a few.
I also left out Harris which is headquartered in the Melbourne/Palm City area.
It is all about the votes.
You do not need that talent at the factory. And Florida has a huge amount of aerospace firms, Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Pratt and Whitney, United Technologies. and Vought to name just a few off the top of my head. Add in the lower costs and taxes and it just does not make sense to put a rocket factory in California except for the votes in congress.
Not nearly the number from Florida. Does it make sense to put a factory near the second biggest launch site instead of the largest?
Not to mention the savings in cost.
Yep C++, C, Objective-C, and C# are not popular?
CSS is a programing language?
The Delta IV is all new and also computer designed. Same for the ESA launchers. Even the Atlas V is a new modern design.
It will be interesting to see if SpaceX can pull it off.
Actually SpaceX also has the "look at where all the parts are made" poster.
Plus Space has facilities now in California, Texas, and Florida. Texas and Florida makes sense but California for the main factory does not. If most launches are going to be from Florida or eventually Texas then it would make more sense to have the factory in Florida or Texas. The factory is in California because of congressional support. Texas, Florida, and California are a whole lot of votes in congress.
It should not have to be reported. This is a QA level of failure.
You should test each function of the code you write before you release to testing.
Testing should test all functions in the release candidate and the common tasks the program used for.
The testing needs to test the documentation as well as the functions to make sure they match.
Only then should it be released.
It is not perfect of course but this is how it should work.
The end user docs for OO and OL often lag the software by at least one version if not more. Writing docs is not fun and it just does not often get done on FOSS projects. The docs when written are often not end user documentation.
Of course you could always pay for good docs to be written and contribute that to the FOSS project but then you are not getting the software for free as in beer and you could just pay for a well documented program instead of paying to document a program.
I love FOSS but if the community refuses to see the limitations they can not overcome them.
But it is empty just ask anybody that wants to build solar power plants in the area. The Solar advovates are treating the desert the same way people treated the "swamps" in the 40s,50s, and 60s.
Actually I agree it was sarcasm. Now running the pipe to the Salton Sea might not be a bad idea.
AMD is targeting this at the server market. It is supposed to be socket compatible with the new X86 they working on. It is not strictly targeting the mobile market.
better yet run a pipe to death valley and put in a membrane. You would have a new inland sea and could use solar from that area to pump it to the people. What could be greener.
The Transmeta chip was not a smash hit so probably not.
The really cool thing is that you will see ARM and X86 will share parts. GPU cores are a no brainer. Throwing in things like cache and memory controllers could be a big deal.
ARM sharing a socket with x86 will be really cool IMHO.
Sorry but I just used Yelp.
Part of me really wants to move to Wyoming. I was born here in South Florida and I am tired of the heat, traffic, and snow birds.