This is true, but in the absence of reprocessing the flat-earth lobby insists that spent fuel is some sort of massive unsolved problem that threatens our very existance. Even though reprocessing will cost more than dry storage for years to come, we have to implement it just to kill off this stupid argument.
What those breathless stories about fast Chinese deployment of small renewables are missing is that any factory-built tech can be placed in service faster than site-built technologies. But then compare the feeble capacity factor of those fast-built windfields with, say, Three Gorges Dam.
And be aware that there ARE other places to work than Silicon Valley. Places without stack ranking and where you can still keep going at age fifty, provided you dye your hair.
When I retired I kept my Sub-S, so I could operate it as a residential IT service business. In this high-end retirement area, my customers are people who had great jobs (executives, factory managers, a Secret Service agent, a world correspondent for Life magazine, owners of every imaginable kind of business) but always had staff to handle their IT. As retirees their needs are simpler now, but because of their upbringing they were never digital natives. That's where I come in.
We've been worrying about the militarization of city police forces, but now we have the FBI and other national investigative forces quietly acquiring the powers of galactic overlords.
Not true, the hurricanes are caused by Trump's unnatural love of coal.
In the long run yes, but in line with your own climate hypothesis today's hurricanes are being caused by Carter not allowing nuclear fuel to be reprocessed and Obama killing off Yucca Mountain.
Each set would consist of batteries and the accompanying solar array to charge them, packaged so it could be deployed as a first response to disasters like this.The ability to get early power to critical facilities would be really valuable. The array shown here looks as though it could fit into a standard 2 TEU, to be shipped or trucked anywhere.
Gibber away all you want about your favorite Elon Musk conspiracy theory. The rest of us have long since stopped listening to you.
I was talking about decimation of the SOUTH Korean economy, and it will happen if you combine by force the north and south with any form of government. Well, ok, decimation is actually "reduce by 1/10th", so cutting the south's economy in half would be much worse than decimation.
Why in God's name would the south want to absorb a non-functional society like the north, destroying their economy in the process? Do you imagine that the south has the money to rebuild the north? Again, take it on the road, you'll make a million from ROTFL audiences.
Unlike you, I had a real country in mind when I made that statement: GERMANY. When Communism collapsed, West Germany had to absorb millions of "lost" Germans who had been impoverished by two generations of the same kind of dictatorship, originally formed at the same time by the same country, as North Korea. This was not an easy task. Taxes had to go up to rebuild the East German infrastructure, including their part of Berlin itself. But Germany was prosperous enough to support this effort, and could now save billions of dollars of defense costs that could now be plowed into developing the economy of a unified country.
Before WW II, Korea has been one country for far longer than Germany had, so a prosperous South Korea will gladly support the cost of rebuilding the north, and feeding its lost population while this process goes on, because as with Germany reunification represents the healing of a wound. South Korea spends more of its own money on defending against the North than West Germany ever did, so its peace dividend will be correspondingly higher.
"And how big a war will it take to make the South Koreans bend over and accept that decimation of their economy?..."
Decimation of the Korean economy would be what happens if we united South Korea with North Korea as one psychotic dictatorship.
What i had in mind was the other way around. Like East Germany before it, at some point North Korea has to accept that it has no moral right to exist and must dissolve, allowing Korea to unify again. This will permit the US to remove its troops and weapons from the peninsula and Japan to get its kidnapped citizens back. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Japanese_citizens)
At some point, people will realize that they're worth more in the future than at the present time and you won't be able to make use of any of them because nobody is willing to sell.
Most national currencies gradually inflate with time, meaning that it takes more dollars, pounds or euros to buy a beer than it did previously. This is not a big problem if it happens slowly, but if it happens too fast (the Zimbabwe dollar after the farmers were run off their land and everyone starved to death) then people bail out of the currency and it becomes worthless. Conversely if the money supply grows too slowly with respect to goods (the Swiss franc, on several occasions) then speculators hoard the currency and it no longer functions as a medium of exchange.
Scenario 2 is what is happening now in Bitcoin. It's no longer a currency, but is being treated as an "investment." Whether my scare quotes apply to it long term is something we will have to revisit after a few centuries of it holding its value.
federal agents were unable to access the content of more than 6,900 mobile devices, Wray said in a speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia. "To put it mildly, this is a huge, huge problem,"
And to the extent that we care about the Constitution, we want to keep it that way. Don't forget, these police associations are the primary lobbyists for that police right to steal from citizens.
The "Trump will go nuclear!" thing is hyperbole; it means you've fallen for the demonization
Trump does not even have the authority to initiate a nuclear attack. It would require careful consideration by a team of designated strategists. This was also the case all the way back to Truman.
At the current rate that Elon Musk, et. al. are ramping up their space efforts, by the time ISS is ready for decommission it may have a resale value to some entrepreneur wanting to save the high costs of building their own orbital infrastructure. The first fixer-upper in space actually may end up at a Lagrange point as a way station.
A Korea unified in prosperity, peacefully cranking out bigscreens, electric Kias and bridge beams will motivate the surrounding nations to recycle even more weapons.
"Anyone who is pissed off can now automatically find other people that are similarly pissed off," argues author Jamie Bartlett, in a new essay...
This used to be the prerogative of essayists in newsmagazines. Now they feel marginalized by public access to rich sources of information and online pulpits far bullier than any fora they had available to them in the days when freedom of the press was only available to those who owned presses.
I'm assuming that critical energy infrastructure is airgapped from the Internet. Any single large-scale generating plant is easy to isolate, because all the maintenance is being done by permanent onsite staff.
But how do you isolate the grid itself? It inherently has to be controlled as a network, which you dutifully isolate at the outset from all other networks. Still, the vast array of spread-out components in a grid comes into close contact with possible malefactors at many points, most of which are unmanned and many of which would not be difficult to inject from the Internet directly, or from small portable devices carried by people dressed in stolen utility uniforms. Nobody passing by is going to question what that guy in a Local Electric truck is doing up on that pole, will they?
But the grid as it stands is for the most part dumb, which makes the outer parts of it not all that vulnerable to hacking. Now look at what happens when we start connecting small-to-medium scale renewables on the grid. Not only are there a lot of small unattended wind turbines and solar panels all over the place (just imagine the potential of a Stuxnet-style attack on wind turbine software that prevents whole windfields from feathering during a storm), but these generators have to be data-networked to the grid, to make regional control possible. The grid itself will need a much richer data connection among all of its components than it does now. The next generation of smart utility meters will not just gather continuous load information, but will have the ability to turn major user appliances on and off as supply fluctuates.
Hackers getting loose in smart grids could destroy entire cities.
But in the UK, isn't a change in prevailing interest rate reflected in mortgages already outstanding, rather than the rate being fixed at whatever it was when the mortgage was made? In a rising market with money getting tighter and rates rising, that would mean rising payments.
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This is true, but in the absence of reprocessing the flat-earth lobby insists that spent fuel is some sort of massive unsolved problem that threatens our very existance. Even though reprocessing will cost more than dry storage for years to come, we have to implement it just to kill off this stupid argument.
China uses conundrums? I thought their favored technique was to throw baby girls down wells.
What those breathless stories about fast Chinese deployment of small renewables are missing is that any factory-built tech can be placed in service faster than site-built technologies. But then compare the feeble capacity factor of those fast-built windfields with, say, Three Gorges Dam.
And be aware that there ARE other places to work than Silicon Valley. Places without stack ranking and where you can still keep going at age fifty, provided you dye your hair.
When I retired I kept my Sub-S, so I could operate it as a residential IT service business. In this high-end retirement area, my customers are people who had great jobs (executives, factory managers, a Secret Service agent, a world correspondent for Life magazine, owners of every imaginable kind of business) but always had staff to handle their IT. As retirees their needs are simpler now, but because of their upbringing they were never digital natives. That's where I come in.
We've been worrying about the militarization of city police forces, but now we have the FBI and other national investigative forces quietly acquiring the powers of galactic overlords.
Not true, the hurricanes are caused by Trump's unnatural love of coal.
In the long run yes, but in line with your own climate hypothesis today's hurricanes are being caused by Carter not allowing nuclear fuel to be reprocessed and Obama killing off Yucca Mountain.
Each set would consist of batteries and the accompanying solar array to charge them, packaged so it could be deployed as a first response to disasters like this.The ability to get early power to critical facilities would be really valuable. The array shown here looks as though it could fit into a standard 2 TEU, to be shipped or trucked anywhere.
Gibber away all you want about your favorite Elon Musk conspiracy theory. The rest of us have long since stopped listening to you.
I was talking about decimation of the SOUTH Korean economy, and it will happen if you combine by force the north and south with any form of government. Well, ok, decimation is actually "reduce by 1/10th", so cutting the south's economy in half would be much worse than decimation.
Why in God's name would the south want to absorb a non-functional society like the north, destroying their economy in the process? Do you imagine that the south has the money to rebuild the north? Again, take it on the road, you'll make a million from ROTFL audiences.
Unlike you, I had a real country in mind when I made that statement: GERMANY. When Communism collapsed, West Germany had to absorb millions of "lost" Germans who had been impoverished by two generations of the same kind of dictatorship, originally formed at the same time by the same country, as North Korea. This was not an easy task. Taxes had to go up to rebuild the East German infrastructure, including their part of Berlin itself. But Germany was prosperous enough to support this effort, and could now save billions of dollars of defense costs that could now be plowed into developing the economy of a unified country.
Before WW II, Korea has been one country for far longer than Germany had, so a prosperous South Korea will gladly support the cost of rebuilding the north, and feeding its lost population while this process goes on, because as with Germany reunification represents the healing of a wound. South Korea spends more of its own money on defending against the North than West Germany ever did, so its peace dividend will be correspondingly higher.
That's nothing. In New Zealand I saw black shags.
Obviously this study was conducted in the below-the-fold part of Daily Mail Online.
Let's see now: credited to BeauHD, derogatory reference to something nuclear. Yep.
Why not post it on AWS S3 or Cloudfront
Or better still, on Sci-Hub.
"And how big a war will it take to make the South Koreans bend over and accept that decimation of their economy?..."
Decimation of the Korean economy would be what happens if we united South Korea with North Korea as one psychotic dictatorship.
What i had in mind was the other way around. Like East Germany before it, at some point North Korea has to accept that it has no moral right to exist and must dissolve, allowing Korea to unify again. This will permit the US to remove its troops and weapons from the peninsula and Japan to get its kidnapped citizens back.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Japanese_citizens)
At some point, people will realize that they're worth more in the future than at the present time and you won't be able to make use of any of them because nobody is willing to sell.
Most national currencies gradually inflate with time, meaning that it takes more dollars, pounds or euros to buy a beer than it did previously. This is not a big problem if it happens slowly, but if it happens too fast (the Zimbabwe dollar after the farmers were run off their land and everyone starved to death) then people bail out of the currency and it becomes worthless. Conversely if the money supply grows too slowly with respect to goods (the Swiss franc, on several occasions) then speculators hoard the currency and it no longer functions as a medium of exchange.
Scenario 2 is what is happening now in Bitcoin. It's no longer a currency, but is being treated as an "investment." Whether my scare quotes apply to it long term is something we will have to revisit after a few centuries of it holding its value.
Chinese Scientists Create Less Tasty Pigs
To look at this another way, GMO pigs will cause liberals to die of heart attacks while the rest of us enjoy guilt-free bacon.
When you distribute new hardware, even cheap hardware, to the masses make sure it actually does something that said masses find useful.
federal agents were unable to access the content of more than 6,900 mobile devices, Wray said in a speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia. "To put it mildly, this is a huge, huge problem,"
And to the extent that we care about the Constitution, we want to keep it that way. Don't forget, these police associations are the primary lobbyists for that police right to steal from citizens.
The "Trump will go nuclear!" thing is hyperbole; it means you've fallen for the demonization
Trump does not even have the authority to initiate a nuclear attack. It would require careful consideration by a team of designated strategists. This was also the case all the way back to Truman.
At the current rate that Elon Musk, et. al. are ramping up their space efforts, by the time ISS is ready for decommission it may have a resale value to some entrepreneur wanting to save the high costs of building their own orbital infrastructure. The first fixer-upper in space actually may end up at a Lagrange point as a way station.
how about spending that money to GET RID OF THEM!
To a large extent we have already done that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A Korea unified in prosperity, peacefully cranking out bigscreens, electric Kias and bridge beams will motivate the surrounding nations to recycle even more weapons.
"Anyone who is pissed off can now automatically find other people that are similarly pissed off," argues author Jamie Bartlett, in a new essay...
This used to be the prerogative of essayists in newsmagazines. Now they feel marginalized by public access to rich sources of information and online pulpits far bullier than any fora they had available to them in the days when freedom of the press was only available to those who owned presses.
I'm assuming that critical energy infrastructure is airgapped from the Internet. Any single large-scale generating plant is easy to isolate, because all the maintenance is being done by permanent onsite staff.
But how do you isolate the grid itself? It inherently has to be controlled as a network, which you dutifully isolate at the outset from all other networks. Still, the vast array of spread-out components in a grid comes into close contact with possible malefactors at many points, most of which are unmanned and many of which would not be difficult to inject from the Internet directly, or from small portable devices carried by people dressed in stolen utility uniforms. Nobody passing by is going to question what that guy in a Local Electric truck is doing up on that pole, will they?
But the grid as it stands is for the most part dumb, which makes the outer parts of it not all that vulnerable to hacking. Now look at what happens when we start connecting small-to-medium scale renewables on the grid. Not only are there a lot of small unattended wind turbines and solar panels all over the place (just imagine the potential of a Stuxnet-style attack on wind turbine software that prevents whole windfields from feathering during a storm), but these generators have to be data-networked to the grid, to make regional control possible. The grid itself will need a much richer data connection among all of its components than it does now. The next generation of smart utility meters will not just gather continuous load information, but will have the ability to turn major user appliances on and off as supply fluctuates.
Hackers getting loose in smart grids could destroy entire cities.
But in the UK, isn't a change in prevailing interest rate reflected in mortgages already outstanding, rather than the rate being fixed at whatever it was when the mortgage was made? In a rising market with money getting tighter and rates rising, that would mean rising payments.
"the value of my house has risen about 10% and added about $200 to my mortgage..."
Then you must be Canadian or British. Our mortgages stay the same as equity rises. But be careful, because they also stay the same if equity drops.