Concussion bombs could be a fast way of containing a wildfire, but are any currently available military bombs suitable for this application? The MOAB is an effective large airburst weapon, but they cost $16 million each and the USAF has a total of about twenty in inventory. We may be better off developing a special low-cost airburst device specifically for the job. These could be stored on military bases near fire-prone areas.
Obviously, they'd have to figure out if it makes any economic sense to do this, but it's pretty neat as an experiment.
Especially if they can run one of these hot enough to boil water and create a column of steam in the air in a spot strategically chosen to water a dry area of adjacent land.
It's been used throughout the postwar period, but since much of that time was the pro-science Fifties and Sixties, there were no activists to focus on it.
But why do liberals have more of a problem with GMO than with cultivars that result from being blasted with gamma radiation to induce mutations? The radiation-curation method of getting a usable variety is like tossing a deck of cards into the air until they fall in some desired way, while GMO is nothing but the sorting the deck the way you wanted in the first place.
The general public is not going to buy into any artificial distinction between GMO and gene-edited, any more than the tech community was able to sell that "hacker/cracker" distinction. The best strategy would be to openly apply genetic engineering to totally new foods, rather than having it just be a convenience for farmers.
This approach is already working for the Impossible Burger. It's not vegan because it's GMO, but foodies and vegetarians don't care.
For the time being, just move the Big E to a naval mothballing area and let it sit. Wait until a general nuclear recycling system is in place. By the time we have robots feeding it piece by piece to a breeder reactor along with spent fuel rods, the cost will be substantially less. Depending on the value of medical/industrial isotopes at the time, it may even turn a profit.
What about the Mars orbiter that mixed up metric/imperial and thrust itself into the planet instead of going around it? How amateur was that?
What people don't realize about that particular fusterclck is that it was not caused by someone making a gross error in converting between units. But because science operates in SI while the military contractors who built the probe work in Imperial, months of high-precision conversions back and forth between systems, in software, caused an accumulation of tiny roundoff errors to add up to aerobraking into the wrong part of the Martian atmosphere and loss of the craft.
I, on the other hand, am hoping that all of the Hayabusa researchers wear that same Hawaiian shirt at the press conference. Japan does science, and it doesn't give a fsck what SJWs think about a subject they know nothing about.
Even vague and generalized research implications of cancer for a product that every homeowner uses successfully on his lawn are worth a huge amount of money, while Nicholas White, the New Yorker who, riding an elevator to work on a Friday evening, was stuck there for an entire weekend, got nothing but his legal expenses back after a 4-year struggle.
In Japan, you also have to give the cabbie directions on how to get to your destination. For newly arrived business people who do not yet speak the language , this means having your secretary (Japan still has these!) write down the instructions in kanji.
Not that I've any time for this 'documentary', but I can see why someone called her a carrier here.
I'm going to invoke Occam here. The guy was posting mobile and got tripped up by autocorrect.
A week ago in Phoenix, a sports reporter filing his story mobile on a Diamondbacks game included a description of a haboob rolling through town during the game, momentarily cutting off stadium power. The word got autocorrected to 'baboon'. Much hilarity ensued:
It will bring on elitism in a form and magnitude the world has never seen before. It might be good for the individual, but for society it's a terrible mistake.
There's nothing "elitist" about you not inheriting a horrible genetic disease that has run in your family. You will in that one particular respect, the one you had a gene edited for, just like everyone else.
When we get to the point of improving on the existing normal, you can more honestly claim elitism. But once we do get to that point, the enhancements people will worry most about will be exactly the ones everyone wants to have.
What world event, now and specifically, justifies pumping up the existing Space Command into a sixth branch of an already bloated military? Space Command's existing remit of watching for any need to escalate is still the best paradigm for the present.
Meanwhile, the most likely external threat is still an Earth-crossing asteroid or comet. If we did identify one headed our way, we wouldn't want to trust the job to cost-plus contractors, those wonderful folk who have brought us the $10,000 toilet cover and the perpetually unfinished JWST. We would tweet Elon Must and let him romp.
High-impact cancer papers are distributed on Snapchat. That’s why every interesting new approach that we hear about in this forum disappears and is never seen again.
Waste thermal-plant heat can be directed for useful purposes also, such as keeping Arctic towns warm. The biggest voting bloc in favor of nuclear plants in Florida is manatees, which flock to them in winter to bask in the warm water.
Technical nitpick: this is about heat sink water, not coolant. The too-warm heat sink problem is why ocean water is a preferred heat sink for thermal plants. This affects ALL thermal power plants and has nothing especially to do with nuclear.
Emitted carbon dropped at first, as the oldest coal was replaced by renewables, just as US gas replaced the oldest coal for an early drop. But despite heavy subsidies for more renewables, carbon is going up again now that lignite is replacing nuclear. And now that Germany has run out of anthracite, the newest lignite coal is a lot dirtier and contains less energy than the old anthracite.
And meanwhile, NASA doesn’t think it could get to the Moon starting from today even as fast as it did the first time. So much for sitting around waiting for governments to do high technology.
The problem is much greater than being down “a couple of nukes.” You’re going to lose all of your nukes, including the newer ones with highest efficiency. To avoid the embarrassment of an all-lignite baseload, you have now agreed to fracked gas, so long as it’s being produced in Russia.
What they're talking about here is that old-geneation nuclear plants don't run very hot. Those using river water as a heat sink can lose efficiency if the river gets too warm in summer. The same is true of any thermal power plant that runs at the same temperature.
Using molten salt as a coolant instead of water enables a nuclear plant to run hotter, providing a Carnot heat differential that will remain efficient at any heat sink temperature on Earth.
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Concussion bombs could be a fast way of containing a wildfire, but are any currently available military bombs suitable for this application? The MOAB is an effective large airburst weapon, but they cost $16 million each and the USAF has a total of about twenty in inventory. We may be better off developing a special low-cost airburst device specifically for the job. These could be stored on military bases near fire-prone areas.
Because labels list ingredients, and genetic editing is not an ingredient.
That whole region is crammed with Old Norse geographical names like ey, ness, foss, fell, water (from vatn, lake) and byre.
Obviously, they'd have to figure out if it makes any economic sense to do this, but it's pretty neat as an experiment.
Especially if they can run one of these hot enough to boil water and create a column of steam in the air in a spot strategically chosen to water a dry area of adjacent land.
It's been used throughout the postwar period, but since much of that time was the pro-science Fifties and Sixties, there were no activists to focus on it.
Furthermore, asbestos was "organic" in that it was an unmodified natural substance. Everything we use should be tested and held to the same standard.
But why do liberals have more of a problem with GMO than with cultivars that result from being blasted with gamma radiation to induce mutations? The radiation-curation method of getting a usable variety is like tossing a deck of cards into the air until they fall in some desired way, while GMO is nothing but the sorting the deck the way you wanted in the first place.
The general public is not going to buy into any artificial distinction between GMO and gene-edited, any more than the tech community was able to sell that "hacker/cracker" distinction. The best strategy would be to openly apply genetic engineering to totally new foods, rather than having it just be a convenience for farmers.
This approach is already working for the Impossible Burger. It's not vegan because it's GMO, but foodies and vegetarians don't care.
For the time being, just move the Big E to a naval mothballing area and let it sit. Wait until a general nuclear recycling system is in place. By the time we have robots feeding it piece by piece to a breeder reactor along with spent fuel rods, the cost will be substantially less. Depending on the value of medical/industrial isotopes at the time, it may even turn a profit.
What about the Mars orbiter that mixed up metric/imperial and thrust itself into the planet instead of going around it? How amateur was that?
What people don't realize about that particular fusterclck is that it was not caused by someone making a gross error in converting between units. But because science operates in SI while the military contractors who built the probe work in Imperial, months of high-precision conversions back and forth between systems, in software, caused an accumulation of tiny roundoff errors to add up to aerobraking into the wrong part of the Martian atmosphere and loss of the craft.
I, on the other hand, am hoping that all of the Hayabusa researchers wear that same Hawaiian shirt at the press conference. Japan does science, and it doesn't give a fsck what SJWs think about a subject they know nothing about.
Even vague and generalized research implications of cancer for a product that every homeowner uses successfully on his lawn are worth a huge amount of money, while Nicholas White, the New Yorker who, riding an elevator to work on a Friday evening, was stuck there for an entire weekend, got nothing but his legal expenses back after a 4-year struggle.
https://www.reddit.com/r/video...
If only it had been a Monsanto elevator.
I’m not a Trump fan, but I would applaud if he did this.
In Japan, you also have to give the cabbie directions on how to get to your destination. For newly arrived business people who do not yet speak the language , this means having your secretary (Japan still has these!) write down the instructions in kanji.
Not that I've any time for this 'documentary', but I can see why someone called her a carrier here.
I'm going to invoke Occam here. The guy was posting mobile and got tripped up by autocorrect.
A week ago in Phoenix, a sports reporter filing his story mobile on a Diamondbacks game included a description of a haboob rolling through town during the game, momentarily cutting off stadium power. The word got autocorrected to 'baboon'. Much hilarity ensued:
http://www.azfamily.com/story/...
It will bring on elitism in a form and magnitude the world has never seen before. It might be good for the individual, but for society it's a terrible mistake.
There's nothing "elitist" about you not inheriting a horrible genetic disease that has run in your family. You will in that one particular respect, the one you had a gene edited for, just like everyone else.
When we get to the point of improving on the existing normal, you can more honestly claim elitism. But once we do get to that point, the enhancements people will worry most about will be exactly the ones everyone wants to have.
Just the Tower of Babel, the Tree in the garden, and every other time man tried to play God.
We played God when we took out the first diseased appendix. Now we are going on to far greater things.
What world event, now and specifically, justifies pumping up the existing Space Command into a sixth branch of an already bloated military? Space Command's existing remit of watching for any need to escalate is still the best paradigm for the present.
Meanwhile, the most likely external threat is still an Earth-crossing asteroid or comet. If we did identify one headed our way, we wouldn't want to trust the job to cost-plus contractors, those wonderful folk who have brought us the $10,000 toilet cover and the perpetually unfinished JWST. We would tweet Elon Must and let him romp.
High-impact cancer papers are distributed on Snapchat. That’s why every interesting new approach that we hear about in this forum disappears and is never seen again.
Waste thermal-plant heat can be directed for useful purposes also, such as keeping Arctic towns warm. The biggest voting bloc in favor of nuclear plants in Florida is manatees, which flock to them in winter to bask in the warm water.
Technical nitpick: this is about heat sink water, not coolant. The too-warm heat sink problem is why ocean water is a preferred heat sink for thermal plants. This affects ALL thermal power plants and has nothing especially to do with nuclear.
Emitted carbon dropped at first, as the oldest coal was replaced by renewables, just as US gas replaced the oldest coal for an early drop. But despite heavy subsidies for more renewables, carbon is going up again now that lignite is replacing nuclear. And now that Germany has run out of anthracite, the newest lignite coal is a lot dirtier and contains less energy than the old anthracite.
And meanwhile, NASA doesn’t think it could get to the Moon starting from today even as fast as it did the first time. So much for sitting around waiting for governments to do high technology.
The problem is much greater than being down “a couple of nukes.” You’re going to lose all of your nukes, including the newer ones with highest efficiency. To avoid the embarrassment of an all-lignite baseload, you have now agreed to fracked gas, so long as it’s being produced in Russia.
http://www.climatechangenews.c...
What they're talking about here is that old-geneation nuclear plants don't run very hot. Those using river water as a heat sink can lose efficiency if the river gets too warm in summer. The same is true of any thermal power plant that runs at the same temperature.
Using molten salt as a coolant instead of water enables a nuclear plant to run hotter, providing a Carnot heat differential that will remain efficient at any heat sink temperature on Earth.