Trash a clinic in Sierra Leone, then hop a Saudi bizjet to get to London or New York before the incubation period expires. By now they will be down in the subways, coughing on as many rush-hour passengers as they can.
That's the strategy, folks: prevent nuclear reprocessing plants from getting built, so you can complain about the long-term nature of the spent fuel that reprocessing would have consumed.
The rational response to this situation is that when the cost of keeping some old X running gets too high, you replace it with a new and improved X. But in this one case, no.
Can there be any such thing as a social (in the sense of having a community) where no one will strongly disagree with me? I'm sure Silicon Valley can package something like this as an app with a name ending in -ly.
Bitcoin certainly has its hazards, such as the ongoing possibility that some hacker will invent a way to make the whole BTC world disappear in one sudden poof, but Ponzi is not one of them. The amount of BTC that can ultimately exist is limited by mathematics. The USD is limited by how fast we can run our printing presses.
By 800 years from now, all it will take to deflect the asteroid will be emailing the manager of the Chinese steel mill on it and having him blip the thruster jets for long enough to nudge it in the proper direction.
Yes, don't forget that religion, work habits, family values and attitudes toward violence are genetically determined, with no element of free will allowed. That makes any comment about other cultures a racist comment. Isn't academia wonderful?
These proposed new designs need to be developed on a parallel track to the actual building of the standardized design we already have ready to build. Let's not fall into the "Let's wait for..." trap. Doing so would result in, at least, years of an energy-starved economy. If the AGW effect turns out to be real, and as apocalyptic as the left claims it is, delay would be fatal, not just inconvenient, for us all.
Cost overruns in the previous generation were common because of lack of standardization. In those days every nuke was an individually designed one-off. If every automobile were handmade to slightly different specifications, who could afford to drive?
This is a civilian project, not military, so no. Last time I checked, the only steel company that makes reactor vessels, even to American designs, is in Tokyo. I wish we had our own capability too, but while we acquire it we will have to line up for the Japanese product.
So all we're really talking about is it taking time for a long-unused precision manufacturing capability to come up to speed once more? The same thing happened in the early days of our entry into WW II.
Let's not hamstring projects with a feelgood but impractical "Buy American" requirement. That's the main reason for military gear being so overpriced. If Korea, Japan or China can get components to us faster, more power to them.
This is why I would like to see researchers in the Fukushima hot zone look for (and/or introduce) bioconcentrators for the specific elements that came from the meltdowns. And guess which highly-popular-in-Japan plant is a candidate? http://www.newscientist.com/ar...
...In exactly the same way as medicine. This makes both industries ripe for disruption. Go for it, Silicon Valley!
I can see traditional higher ed being replaced by a series of quantized certifications for 'units' of study (I'll leave it to academe to come up with a more portentous phrase of their choosing), applying in both the STEM and liberal arts realms. Some units can be taken purely online, others might require physical presence on a campus, while still others might take a combination of both. Let each student assemble a curriculum of units appropriate to a particular line of work or field of theoretical investigation.
We also need to get away from the old paradigm of getting an education once and you're done with it. There is so much knowledge out there today that we will all have to keep going back to the eduction system for additional sips of it, as required by your field of interest. Then there's the widening world of career change; now that we are living long enough to do something like starting a business after we turn forty and become too old for the corporate world, there is increasing need to be able to grab the 'units' required to effect such a change.
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So why would they bother waiting for driverless cars to hit the road before acting? Just rent a Hertz to carry a bomb anywhere they wish.
Trash a clinic in Sierra Leone, then hop a Saudi bizjet to get to London or New York before the incubation period expires. By now they will be down in the subways, coughing on as many rush-hour passengers as they can.
That's the strategy, folks: prevent nuclear reprocessing plants from getting built, so you can complain about the long-term nature of the spent fuel that reprocessing would have consumed.
The rational response to this situation is that when the cost of keeping some old X running gets too high, you replace it with a new and improved X. But in this one case, no.
Yes! And note also that every insightful post in response to one of these is modded Troll. Nice Team Greenpeace they have going there.
Can there be any such thing as a social (in the sense of having a community) where no one will strongly disagree with me? I'm sure Silicon Valley can package something like this as an app with a name ending in -ly.
Bitcoin certainly has its hazards, such as the ongoing possibility that some hacker will invent a way to make the whole BTC world disappear in one sudden poof, but Ponzi is not one of them. The amount of BTC that can ultimately exist is limited by mathematics. The USD is limited by how fast we can run our printing presses.
By 800 years from now, all it will take to deflect the asteroid will be emailing the manager of the Chinese steel mill on it and having him blip the thruster jets for long enough to nudge it in the proper direction.
Yes, don't forget that religion, work habits, family values and attitudes toward violence are genetically determined, with no element of free will allowed. That makes any comment about other cultures a racist comment. Isn't academia wonderful?
If it were actually a libertarian utopia, we would have been able to shoot that judge in your cited Kids For Cash scandal.
Roughly speaking, the '60s and '70s.
The equisetum (horsetail) has been around for so long that I think it uses FORTRAN.
...when Australia had the reputation, especially with conservatives, as being "America done right." How times have changed!
These proposed new designs need to be developed on a parallel track to the actual building of the standardized design we already have ready to build. Let's not fall into the "Let's wait for..." trap. Doing so would result in, at least, years of an energy-starved economy. If the AGW effect turns out to be real, and as apocalyptic as the left claims it is, delay would be fatal, not just inconvenient, for us all.
Cost overruns in the previous generation were common because of lack of standardization. In those days every nuke was an individually designed one-off. If every automobile were handmade to slightly different specifications, who could afford to drive?
This is a civilian project, not military, so no. Last time I checked, the only steel company that makes reactor vessels, even to American designs, is in Tokyo. I wish we had our own capability too, but while we acquire it we will have to line up for the Japanese product.
So all we're really talking about is it taking time for a long-unused precision manufacturing capability to come up to speed once more? The same thing happened in the early days of our entry into WW II.
Let's not hamstring projects with a feelgood but impractical "Buy American" requirement. That's the main reason for military gear being so overpriced. If Korea, Japan or China can get components to us faster, more power to them.
The article said absolutely nothing about the causes of delay. Since these are the standardized AP-1000 design, where is the delay coming from?
All news sources are biased, but the online world offers a much higher diversity of bias.
I wish there were a way to get your overseers to switch you from the political screed team to the manual-writing team.
The most important reason: the business world loves written audit trails of conversation.
This is why I would like to see researchers in the Fukushima hot zone look for (and/or introduce) bioconcentrators for the specific elements that came from the meltdowns. And guess which highly-popular-in-Japan plant is a candidate? http://www.newscientist.com/ar...
The "mod down every nuclear post" Greenpeace action team strikes again. Time to bring back the DGSE.
...In exactly the same way as medicine. This makes both industries ripe for disruption. Go for it, Silicon Valley!
I can see traditional higher ed being replaced by a series of quantized certifications for 'units' of study (I'll leave it to academe to come up with a more portentous phrase of their choosing), applying in both the STEM and liberal arts realms. Some units can be taken purely online, others might require physical presence on a campus, while still others might take a combination of both. Let each student assemble a curriculum of units appropriate to a particular line of work or field of theoretical investigation.
We also need to get away from the old paradigm of getting an education once and you're done with it. There is so much knowledge out there today that we will all have to keep going back to the eduction system for additional sips of it, as required by your field of interest. Then there's the widening world of career change; now that we are living long enough to do something like starting a business after we turn forty and become too old for the corporate world, there is increasing need to be able to grab the 'units' required to effect such a change.