Some lumps of moderator at the bottom of the tank will not really be an issue. Of course a massive family of tornados could hit a wind farm and the blades could take out every elementary school of a city and kill of the children. AKA your fears are will in the super freakish events area that are in the same range of probability of a meteor strike.
Yes but the molten salt and the storage container will act as heat sinks. The fuel is in the mass of the salt and not contained in the fuel rods. Not to mention that the fuel is already melted so no worry about a meltdown damaging the fuel rods. No water to boil, the fuel is in the coolant, and no possible steam explosion and it all works at one atmosphere.
Yes. The design uses a "salt" plug that is cooled. Cooling shuts off the plug melts and the fuel drains into a tank that lacks a moderator so the reaction stops. There is no water to boil and fuel is already melted. It will then cool and solidifies.
As long as you have gravity then you are good. Now if all of a sudden gravity stops working then we have much bigger problems.
Here you go http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html vusb is a USB stack for the AVR line of chips. They even have a diagram of how to wire it up. You could also just use any number of micros that come with a USB interface. As to the number of parts needed to blink an LED using the USB port... You could do it really simply with this http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/ICs/FT232R.htm
I think that the issue that Nazis are bad has been solved to the vast majority of people. I am not saying that this is an ideal solution but it is one that the German people have chosen. I do not know if you are German but I am not so I really do not get the right be part of their system. All I can say is I do not find this really evil and that I can understand why they have taken that path. It is kind of like when people ask why the US is so hard on sexual content compared to violence in media. To me that is a simple answer. Parents are far more afraid of their kids getting pregnant or catching a STD than being shot. What is funny is that they are right in that danger assessment.
While the US has some shared history the US did not have to deal with what Germany did. Had France and the UK had just gone along with the US's plan for a "Just Peace" after WWI their might not have been a WWII. Instead the allies decided to punish the central powers.The US was in a different position at the end of WWII including the total defeat of Germany and Japan. That allowed for a far more just and long lasting piece and Germany and Japan becoming Allies with the allies and not future enemies. As i said if modern German does not have the a combination of fear and anger when seeing a Neo-Nazi then they they are just stupid or evil. Frankly even in the US I think people should have the same feelings. Also I think that if you say it can never happen here you are not really helping. That attitude should be "I will never stand by and let that happen here" or in Germany "happen here again". I have faith that Germany can work this out. While from my point of view in the US this law goes over the top Germany is not the US. I want to believe that there are enough good people in Germany, a strong enough democratic tradition, and a proper education level that such a thing will never happen again.
Funny things but very rarely do I see anyone trying to convince anyone that their view point is wrong. Most often I see people yelling, insulting, and preaching to the choir.
Sigh.... You just don't get it. The Japanese where demonized because of Pearl Harbor and the attacks on the US mainland. Germany was also demonized. Italy was less so but still demonized. Italy switched sides pretty early in the war so they had to be humanized. You really should look at the movies of the time as well as comic books and cartoons. Again you just do not get it. You are trying to demonize the people in the US that did this without understanding why you might have done the same thing. You are looking to make yourself feel superior because you are so sure that you would never do the same. That is a dangerous tactic and one that is all too common today in history classes. Think of it this way. FDR was one of the most liberal and progressive world leaders of the time. Why was he okay with this? No it was not the right thing to do. However it is understandable how it happened and how good people would make that choice at that time.
Yea so you do not just feel secure in ignoring them. Actually wanting to destroy someone that you do not fear just because you disagree with them is frankly evil. That is what Nazis do. Really think about it for a minute. If they are no threat why not just ignore them? Simple answer is you worry about them becoming a threat. AKA there is no shame in not feeling secure in Germany about Neo-Nazis. In fact if you where just okay with it I would worry. It has happened before and that knowledge should keep you on your guard. BTW my Uncle was reported killed in action twice in Europe during WWII and had a terrible scar on his arm from where his watch branded him his tank caught fire and helped liberate one of the camps. He was from Brooklyn his however his grandparents on both sides where from Germany. He died in the 1980s but I think he would for the most part be happy with how Germany is today.
The internment camps where not death camps. The US did not intern all Japanese and did intern many Germans and Italians. What will prevent it happening again is for History teachers to start teaching history instead of political doctrine. I had a friend who went to Dartmouth. Her history professor brought in a woman that survived Hiroshima as a child. It was to teach that the US where monsters and dropped the bomb because the US was racist. The same teacher never mentioned the rape of Nanking, the Bataan death match, or Japans use of biological and chemical weapons in China. When teaching about the internment camps they never talk about the Niihau incident, the bombing of Washington state, or the shelling of Long Beach by Japan. When will we prevent something like that again? When we understand that the people of that time where not monsters and that if we where put in the same position and had the same knowledge that they had we would probably do the same thing. AKA we need to stop thinking we are better than they where and be grateful that we can learn from their mistakes.
This is in Germany. They have a different history than we do in the US. You will find laws like that in France and other nations that where under Nazi rule. They are a democratic nation and it is up to them to change their laws if they see fit. Canada also has laws about hate speech that would not fly in the US. The US never had Nazis in control of our nation so we feel the best protection is freedom of speech. In many places in the EU they do not feel secure in that. The US has stricter restrictions on porn because of our culture. Although the restrictions are really very minimal outside of broadcast TV and radio. I hate when a bunch of people from Europe start spouting off options about the US's rules. Germany is a free nation so let it's citizens decide what works best for them.
"Having function is necessary, but so is form, as function without form is a complex mess no user desires. " Function should drive form and not the other way around. The new iMac is a prime example. You can not even replace the hard drive without special tools. AKA it is not user serviceable. The cost of both SSD and HDDs are dropping but with an iMac you can not upgrade easily for future needs. The MacPro is another example. You can upgrade the video cards or even add GPU compute cards the the Tesla for the very high end. No no no Apple has gone past good industrial design and into the realm of fashion. Their products might be easy to recycle but they are not easy to keep working and upgrade.
As to the solutionI have to wonder what they are using now? I mean if they have cables already just upgrade them to Cat6 and keep them in the walls. Other than that I can not say without seeing the building. I mean you could run fake wooden beams that are hollow boxes on the walls and maybe add wainscoting on the walls with the cables running behind it. Another option would be to add a false floor with the cables under that. Since the building is brick maybe it has a slightly industrial feel if so you could use cast iron pipe hanging from the ceiling for the cable runs or PVC pipe painted to look like cast iron pipe. You could add a false ceiling... Really folks your office designer should not just say "No you can not have fast wired network access because it is ugly." The office designer should be trying to make it look as good as it can. FUNCTION then form.
"The problem is that if you're driving an unsafe vehicle on public roads, you're not just putting your own life at risk, but that of other drivers (and pedestrians) as well.' Ahh no you are wrong. A car like this driven at the speed limit will have so much grip that it will not break traction. The limits are so far off the chart it is not going to happen on the street if you follow the laws. All new cars are required to have active satiability control. AKA traction control. Is is important to have the option to turn it off sometimes. A good example is on all well drive cars in mud or starting on ice. And of course track days. The Carrera GT has not been made in 6 years an less than 1300 where made. In other words this really does not matter. 1. There are only 600 or so in the US. 2. They cost about half a million dollars. An oil change is 900 dollars. 3. All new cars come with stability control. In other words you can not change the car because it is no longer being made. You can pass a low preventing cars from shipping without traction control because that law has already passed. You do not want to prevent people from turning off traction control. And you do not really need to worry about the common person picking one of these up on the used market cheap.
Even at twice the speed limit it would be fine. Unless it is wet or ice is on the road. Since this is like a half million dollar car the people buying it really should know what they are getting into. This is like a cheap car that you get because you do not know better.
I blame World War Z and the idiots that loved the book. It was pure cliche from start to finish. The military always fights the last war. People with no military experience know more than the military. The Military used the most complex and expensive solution. The Military does not listen to the grunts that do the actual fighting. Eating meat is bad.
Pretty much. It is stupid to punish the teachers. Maybe they should instead put their money into increasing money for all CS studies and students. That and increase the pay and promotion opportunities for programmers and more opportunities to work at home
"For a number of years the British intelligence service - GCHQ – has been installing this malicious software in the Belgacom network in order to tap their customers’ telephone and data traffic. The Belgacom network was infiltrated by GCHQ through a process of luring employees to a false Linkedin page." The GCHQ is not the NSA. The NSA might have gotten data from it but looks like it was the British that did the actual tapping. BTW intelligence gathering is not considered a military operation. You do not go to war of spying if you did the US and the USSR would have long ago gone to war. Spying on allies is also not uncommon. I promise you that France has in the past spied on the US and has done things like record the sound signatures of US subs and ships and evaluated US aircraft and systems that they have gotten their hands on. The reverse is probably also true. Before WWII but the US and the UK had war gamed fighting each other. The US Navy and the UK Navy saw each other as potential rivals up to the early 1930s when they saw the Nazi Germany and Japan as there rivals. The US saw Japan as a rival by 1900. In other words, "same as it ever was". It only seems new to people that do not know history,
I left out that Tesla has no plans for Superchargers on the Florida Turnpike and I-75 North in Florida including Orlando! You know where all the theme parks and a major university is.
There are three Superchargers in Florida two on the east coast and one on the west. One is near my home actually so places I can not drive to if I owned a Tesla? Tampa, St. Petersburg, Key West, Tallahassee, Pensacola. These are all round trips of course but since you can not be sure of a charger at your hotel and some like Tallahassee are not reachable even oneway. I sure could not drive to Texas to visit family. This all about the Tesla which has the longest range and fastest recharge of any of the EVs. If i could afford say a Tesla and maybe a Audi Q5 TDI, Mazda CX-5 diesel, or Jeep Grand Cherokee TDI I would love it. The Tesla would work for 90% of what I use my car for. Once you get into the Leaf then it drops a lot.
They will just find other ways to pay them the money like stock or give them 30 jobs each making X. Maybe just raise minimum wage people or change the Taxcode to increase the tax rate but offer more deductions for paying people.
You picked up one item. From the list. I never they where equal but they are far less unequal than EV enthusiasts claim. My care has 200K+ miles and the transmission and engine have cause only one problem and that was an purge valve on the vapor recovery system. I have had brakes, wheel bearings, shocks, alignment, AC relay, thermostat, cooling fan, and so on. All parts that are on an EV.
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Some lumps of moderator at the bottom of the tank will not really be an issue. Of course a massive family of tornados could hit a wind farm and the blades could take out every elementary school of a city and kill of the children.
AKA your fears are will in the super freakish events area that are in the same range of probability of a meteor strike.
Yes but the molten salt and the storage container will act as heat sinks. The fuel is in the mass of the salt and not contained in the fuel rods. Not to mention that the fuel is already melted so no worry about a meltdown damaging the fuel rods. No water to boil, the fuel is in the coolant, and no possible steam explosion and it all works at one atmosphere.
Yes.
The design uses a "salt" plug that is cooled. Cooling shuts off the plug melts and the fuel drains into a tank that lacks a moderator so the reaction stops. There is no water to boil and fuel is already melted. It will then cool and solidifies.
As long as you have gravity then you are good. Now if all of a sudden gravity stops working then we have much bigger problems.
Probably not. If you put that much hope into one man, even the president of the US you will be disappointed. Need to change congress first.
Here you go http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html
vusb is a USB stack for the AVR line of chips. They even have a diagram of how to wire it up. You could also just use any number of micros that come with a USB interface.
As to the number of parts needed to blink an LED using the USB port... You could do it really simply with this http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/ICs/FT232R.htm
I think that the issue that Nazis are bad has been solved to the vast majority of people. I am not saying that this is an ideal solution but it is one that the German people have chosen. I do not know if you are German but I am not so I really do not get the right be part of their system. All I can say is I do not find this really evil and that I can understand why they have taken that path.
It is kind of like when people ask why the US is so hard on sexual content compared to violence in media.
To me that is a simple answer. Parents are far more afraid of their kids getting pregnant or catching a STD than being shot. What is funny is that they are right in that danger assessment.
While the US has some shared history the US did not have to deal with what Germany did. Had France and the UK had just gone along with the US's plan for a "Just Peace" after WWI their might not have been a WWII. Instead the allies decided to punish the central powers.The US was in a different position at the end of WWII including the total defeat of Germany and Japan. That allowed for a far more just and long lasting piece and Germany and Japan becoming Allies with the allies and not future enemies.
As i said if modern German does not have the a combination of fear and anger when seeing a Neo-Nazi then they they are just stupid or evil. Frankly even in the US I think people should have the same feelings. Also I think that if you say it can never happen here you are not really helping. That attitude should be "I will never stand by and let that happen here" or in Germany "happen here again".
I have faith that Germany can work this out. While from my point of view in the US this law goes over the top Germany is not the US. I want to believe that there are enough good people in Germany, a strong enough democratic tradition, and a proper education level that such a thing will never happen again.
The good news is that Judges hate to reverse other judges and odds are very high that Google will have IBM on there side.
Funny things but very rarely do I see anyone trying to convince anyone that their view point is wrong. Most often I see people yelling, insulting, and preaching to the choir.
You keep using that word but I do not think you know what it means.
Sigh.... You just don't get it.
The Japanese where demonized because of Pearl Harbor and the attacks on the US mainland. Germany was also demonized. Italy was less so but still demonized. Italy switched sides pretty early in the war so they had to be humanized. You really should look at the movies of the time as well as comic books and cartoons. Again you just do not get it. You are trying to demonize the people in the US that did this without understanding why you might have done the same thing. You are looking to make yourself feel superior because you are so sure that you would never do the same. That is a dangerous tactic and one that is all too common today in history classes. Think of it this way. FDR was one of the most liberal and progressive world leaders of the time. Why was he okay with this?
No it was not the right thing to do. However it is understandable how it happened and how good people would make that choice at that time.
Yea so you do not just feel secure in ignoring them. Actually wanting to destroy someone that you do not fear just because you disagree with them is frankly evil. That is what Nazis do. Really think about it for a minute. If they are no threat why not just ignore them? Simple answer is you worry about them becoming a threat.
AKA there is no shame in not feeling secure in Germany about Neo-Nazis. In fact if you where just okay with it I would worry. It has happened before and that knowledge should keep you on your guard.
BTW my Uncle was reported killed in action twice in Europe during WWII and had a terrible scar on his arm from where his watch branded him his tank caught fire and helped liberate one of the camps. He was from Brooklyn his however his grandparents on both sides where from Germany. He died in the 1980s but I think he would for the most part be happy with how Germany is today.
The internment camps where not death camps. The US did not intern all Japanese and did intern many Germans and Italians.
What will prevent it happening again is for History teachers to start teaching history instead of political doctrine.
I had a friend who went to Dartmouth. Her history professor brought in a woman that survived Hiroshima as a child. It was to teach that the US where monsters and dropped the bomb because the US was racist.
The same teacher never mentioned the rape of Nanking, the Bataan death match, or Japans use of biological and chemical weapons in China. When teaching about the internment camps they never talk about the Niihau incident, the bombing of Washington state, or the shelling of Long Beach by Japan.
When will we prevent something like that again? When we understand that the people of that time where not monsters and that if we where put in the same position and had the same knowledge that they had we would probably do the same thing. AKA we need to stop thinking we are better than they where and be grateful that we can learn from their mistakes.
This is in Germany. They have a different history than we do in the US. You will find laws like that in France and other nations that where under Nazi rule. They are a democratic nation and it is up to them to change their laws if they see fit. Canada also has laws about hate speech that would not fly in the US. The US never had Nazis in control of our nation so we feel the best protection is freedom of speech. In many places in the EU they do not feel secure in that. The US has stricter restrictions on porn because of our culture. Although the restrictions are really very minimal outside of broadcast TV and radio.
I hate when a bunch of people from Europe start spouting off options about the US's rules. Germany is a free nation so let it's citizens decide what works best for them.
"Having function is necessary, but so is form, as function without form is a complex mess no user desires. "
Function should drive form and not the other way around. The new iMac is a prime example. You can not even replace the hard drive without special tools. AKA it is not user serviceable. The cost of both SSD and HDDs are dropping but with an iMac you can not upgrade easily for future needs.
The MacPro is another example. You can upgrade the video cards or even add GPU compute cards the the Tesla for the very high end. No no no Apple has gone past good industrial design and into the realm of fashion. Their products might be easy to recycle but they are not easy to keep working and upgrade.
As to the solutionI have to wonder what they are using now? I mean if they have cables already just upgrade them to Cat6 and keep them in the walls. Other than that I can not say without seeing the building. I mean you could run fake wooden beams that are hollow boxes on the walls and maybe add wainscoting on the walls with the cables running behind it. Another option would be to add a false floor with the cables under that. Since the building is brick maybe it has a slightly industrial feel if so you could use cast iron pipe hanging from the ceiling for the cable runs or PVC pipe painted to look like cast iron pipe. You could add a false ceiling...
Really folks your office designer should not just say "No you can not have fast wired network access because it is ugly."
The office designer should be trying to make it look as good as it can. FUNCTION then form.
"The problem is that if you're driving an unsafe vehicle on public roads, you're not just putting your own life at risk, but that of other drivers (and pedestrians) as well.'
Ahh no you are wrong. A car like this driven at the speed limit will have so much grip that it will not break traction. The limits are so far off the chart it is not going to happen on the street if you follow the laws.
All new cars are required to have active satiability control. AKA traction control. Is is important to have the option to turn it off sometimes. A good example is on all well drive cars in mud or starting on ice. And of course track days.
The Carrera GT has not been made in 6 years an less than 1300 where made.
In other words this really does not matter.
1. There are only 600 or so in the US.
2. They cost about half a million dollars. An oil change is 900 dollars.
3. All new cars come with stability control.
In other words you can not change the car because it is no longer being made. You can pass a low preventing cars from shipping without traction control because that law has already passed. You do not want to prevent people from turning off traction control. And you do not really need to worry about the common person picking one of these up on the used market cheap.
Even at twice the speed limit it would be fine. Unless it is wet or ice is on the road. Since this is like a half million dollar car the people buying it really should know what they are getting into. This is like a cheap car that you get because you do not know better.
I blame World War Z and the idiots that loved the book. It was pure cliche from start to finish.
The military always fights the last war.
People with no military experience know more than the military.
The Military used the most complex and expensive solution.
The Military does not listen to the grunts that do the actual fighting.
Eating meat is bad.
Pretty much. It is stupid to punish the teachers. Maybe they should instead put their money into increasing money for all CS studies and students. That and increase the pay and promotion opportunities for programmers and more opportunities to work at home
"For a number of years the British intelligence service - GCHQ – has been installing this malicious software in the Belgacom network in order to tap their customers’ telephone and data traffic. The Belgacom network was infiltrated by GCHQ through a process of luring employees to a false Linkedin page."
The GCHQ is not the NSA. The NSA might have gotten data from it but looks like it was the British that did the actual tapping.
BTW intelligence gathering is not considered a military operation. You do not go to war of spying if you did the US and the USSR would have long ago gone to war. Spying on allies is also not uncommon. I promise you that France has in the past spied on the US and has done things like record the sound signatures of US subs and ships and evaluated US aircraft and systems that they have gotten their hands on. The reverse is probably also true. Before WWII but the US and the UK had war gamed fighting each other. The US Navy and the UK Navy saw each other as potential rivals up to the early 1930s when they saw the Nazi Germany and Japan as there rivals. The US saw Japan as a rival by 1900.
In other words, "same as it ever was". It only seems new to people that do not know history,
I left out that Tesla has no plans for Superchargers on the Florida Turnpike and I-75 North in Florida including Orlando! You know where all the theme parks and a major university is.
There are three Superchargers in Florida two on the east coast and one on the west. One is near my home actually so places I can not drive to if I owned a Tesla? Tampa, St. Petersburg, Key West, Tallahassee, Pensacola. These are all round trips of course but since you can not be sure of a charger at your hotel and some like Tallahassee are not reachable even oneway. I sure could not drive to Texas to visit family. This all about the Tesla which has the longest range and fastest recharge of any of the EVs. If i could afford say a Tesla and maybe a Audi Q5 TDI, Mazda CX-5 diesel, or Jeep Grand Cherokee TDI I would love it. The Tesla would work for 90% of what I use my car for. Once you get into the Leaf then it drops a lot.
They will just find other ways to pay them the money like stock or give them 30 jobs each making X.
Maybe just raise minimum wage people or change the Taxcode to increase the tax rate but offer more deductions for paying people.
I dropped a k from that. 30k but i think you understand.
You picked up one item. From the list. I never they where equal but they are far less unequal than EV enthusiasts claim. My care has 200K+ miles and the transmission and engine have cause only one problem and that was an purge valve on the vapor recovery system. I have had brakes, wheel bearings, shocks, alignment, AC relay, thermostat, cooling fan, and so on. All parts that are on an EV.