"If this technology escapes the lab this would be the ultimate weed. Sucking out all of the CO2 out of the air and killing off crops."
I can see the disaster movie now. Environmentalists desperately setting fire to coal seams and doing donuts with huge SUVs in the parking lot of Whole Foods as the ice age marches on.
What is needed is a not-very expensive device that can be put into the home that prints high quality metal parts, plastics, ceramics and electronics.
FTFY
No, the $1000 printer that most of us can afford for the home is going to be good for nothing but small and flimsy PLA widgets. But now imagine being able to upload your design to a $25K commercial printer that works in metal or ceramic, and being able to pick up the piece after work. NOW it's getting to be useful.
"It's a joke. Laugh. Another nail in the coffin for the humorlessness of the Left "
And sadly, it was not always thus. The left's main power source today is not those pinwheels and mirrors it keeps pushing, but the rapidly rotating corpses of Bruce, Sahl and Carlin.
When the IRS or any other agency wants discovery of evidence in a case, it should be demonstrating interest in a specific person, partnership or corporation being investigated. The whole idea of John Doe warrants is an unconstitutional fishing expedition. Let's hope that now we'll get some new Supreme Court appointees who don't rubberstamp the government's every whim.
"There are always going to be some places where you can't get around having a box, where it's more convenient to have one, or where it's cheaper to have one."
Our smartphones are wondrously functional, but when you need to run Photoshop, you will want a computer.
For security, NFC with tokenization hardware in your device beats any scheme for securing credit card information on a website, which you have to do to buy anything online.
I'd be interested in seeing the results of saturation divers vs recreational divers.
And if, as I suspect, this effect doesn't show up for either class, then it's caused by microgravity. Long-duration space missions will include a rotating section of the habitat.
But this is Japan we're talking about, not Russia, and not the gloom-shrouded, anti-science West. Fukushima is not far from Tsukuba Science City, where I once worked, and if Japanese culture is still as I remember it, multiple teams are working on multiple solutions to this problem that will amaze the rest of the world. Right now, foreign journalists can't even spell terms like 'mycoremediation', but they're going to have to learn fast.
"This could be a real game changer if it manages to change some minds. We need nuclear tech to cope with the nuclear waste, and this can be done in an inherently safe and responsible way that turns the waste into energy."
But take a closer look at the article. This iech only applies to reactors using graphite blocks as a moderator, a type not used in the US or Asia. The 14C is separated out from the stable 12C and formed into the energy-producing diamonds.
Our own spent fuel, because it still contains 95% of the original energy potential, is better off being fed to a new generation of full-burnup reactors that will extract all the energy and leave behind only short-lived waste.
I think a lot of this has to do with the lingering effects of a hundred "don't close your browse / click refresh / click twice" warnings during that critical credit card submit/commit step. They make me nervous enough on a PC wired to a network - I really don't want to see a dropped connection during this step if I'm my mobile device. (So, I may build up a shopping cart with my phone, but I usually wait until I'm at a trusted PC before buying.)
As Apple/Android Pay on sites becomes a standard, this objection goes away.
Pretty much impossible to do meaningful comparison between products on a small device. I only buy using my phone when I know what I need and don't need to compare with similar products.
Yes! For most people, the computer is an ordering device and the phone is a reorder button.
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"If this technology escapes the lab this would be the ultimate weed. Sucking out all of the CO2 out of the air and killing off crops."
I can see the disaster movie now. Environmentalists desperately setting fire to coal seams and doing donuts with huge SUVs in the parking lot of Whole Foods as the ice age marches on.
Last week I saw a printed metal gear that included a working ballbearing assembly, complete with the ballbearings themselves.
What is needed is a not-very expensive device that can be put into the home that prints high quality metal parts, plastics, ceramics and electronics.
FTFY
No, the $1000 printer that most of us can afford for the home is going to be good for nothing but small and flimsy PLA widgets. But now imagine being able to upload your design to a $25K commercial printer that works in metal or ceramic, and being able to pick up the piece after work. NOW it's getting to be useful.
"Yes, exactly. What is needed is a more expensive device that can be put into corner shops that prints high quality metal parts and maybe ceramics"
Exactly! Such a business would be the Kinko's of the new century.
"It's a joke. Laugh. Another nail in the coffin for the humorlessness of the Left "
And sadly, it was not always thus. The left's main power source today is not those pinwheels and mirrors it keeps pushing, but the rapidly rotating corpses of Bruce, Sahl and Carlin.
"If you think that RT, the mouthpiece of Vladimir Putin, has more credibility than CNN, you are an idiot.
Rufus the desert blogger UFO crank has more credibility than today's CNN.
Would this be someone who lives in a $200,000 shack with an old CRT television and a Windows laptop?
"No matter how fit he is, I think visiting the south pole aged 86 its taking awesomeness a bit too far."
Why? Compared to the moon, the temperatures on the south pole are quite toasty.
The South Pole may be a flat place, but it's at over 2800m, or 9300 ft. I understand that Aldrin's problem was getting oxygen at that altitude.
I met Aldrin once, at a conference in Tucson years ago. A truly awesome guy, but age means increasing physical limitations.
When the IRS or any other agency wants discovery of evidence in a case, it should be demonstrating interest in a specific person, partnership or corporation being investigated. The whole idea of John Doe warrants is an unconstitutional fishing expedition. Let's hope that now we'll get some new Supreme Court appointees who don't rubberstamp the government's every whim.
Coming soon: a sudden change of heart on allowing imports of those generic medications that keep being shkrelied.
So is milk.
Huh?
Use of milk leads to interest in breasts?
"There are always going to be some places where you can't get around having a box, where it's more convenient to have one, or where it's cheaper to have one."
Our smartphones are wondrously functional, but when you need to run Photoshop, you will want a computer.
Is this an actual claim that Trump will use the cellular reverse emergency alert system for political spam?
Will he be calling them Orange Alerts?
For security, NFC with tokenization hardware in your device beats any scheme for securing credit card information on a website, which you have to do to buy anything online.
I'd be interested in seeing the results of saturation divers vs recreational divers.
And if, as I suspect, this effect doesn't show up for either class, then it's caused by microgravity. Long-duration space missions will include a rotating section of the habitat.
But this is Japan we're talking about, not Russia, and not the gloom-shrouded, anti-science West. Fukushima is not far from Tsukuba Science City, where I once worked, and if Japanese culture is still as I remember it, multiple teams are working on multiple solutions to this problem that will amaze the rest of the world. Right now, foreign journalists can't even spell terms like 'mycoremediation', but they're going to have to learn fast.
Hardly cheap, but less costly than the above-cited costs of letting melted cores sit there and fester.
"I think everyone who thought about it for more than a couple of minutes was figuring to multiply the 'estimate' by a factor between 2 and 10."
Then later the estimate will get divided by some large factor as a new generation of rad-hard disassembly robots gets produced.
"This could be a real game changer if it manages to change some minds. We need nuclear tech to cope with the nuclear waste, and this can be done in an inherently safe and responsible way that turns the waste into energy."
But take a closer look at the article. This iech only applies to reactors using graphite blocks as a moderator, a type not used in the US or Asia. The 14C is separated out from the stable 12C and formed into the energy-producing diamonds.
Our own spent fuel, because it still contains 95% of the original energy potential, is better off being fed to a new generation of full-burnup reactors that will extract all the energy and leave behind only short-lived waste.
I think a lot of this has to do with the lingering effects of a hundred "don't close your browse / click refresh / click twice" warnings during that critical credit card submit/commit step. They make me nervous enough on a PC wired to a network - I really don't want to see a dropped connection during this step if I'm my mobile device. (So, I may build up a shopping cart with my phone, but I usually wait until I'm at a trusted PC before buying.)
As Apple/Android Pay on sites becomes a standard, this objection goes away.
Pretty much impossible to do meaningful comparison between products on a small device. I only buy using my phone when I know what I need and don't need to compare with similar products.
Yes! For most people, the computer is an ordering device and the phone is a reorder button.
"Doing anything on a phone sucks."
Define 'phone'? The range of devices that are given this name is expanding exponentially.
Here we are, complaining about crappy mobile sites - on Slashdot.
Article summary should define what this is..??
If there's anything to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Europeans should have at least 400 different words for 'tax'.
Arizona was not a swing state.
Give us a pitcher of margaritas, and you'd be surprised.