Five minutes a day? When you're comparing with Windows laptops, don't forget to allow for the system-bogging antivirus app you have to keep running, the adware scanner you have to sweep with periodically, and calling IT to reimage the damn thing when your Windows updates suddenly stop installing.
The magnitude of an air disaster and a nuclear disaster are rather different.
This is a good point. If I avoid cherry-picking the largest air disaster, the collision of two 747s at Tenerife that killed 583, the run-of-the-mill plane crash that we get somewhere in the world about once a year that kills perhaps 100 or 200. but when we consider the vast number of daily flights in every country, we consider air travel a highly safe technology compared to any of the others, especially private manual driving.
Meanwhile, the nuclear accident death toll remains at 51, all in one incident. And no "devastation forever" either. The corium at Chernobyl and Fukushima will all end up disassembled by robots and chucked into Asian breeder reactors while Germany is still making excuses for keeping the lignite pits going as its baseload.
It's not stealing if you develop an idea that its originator had no intention of bringing to the market. That's why patent systems are supposed to include an exploitation requirement.
The problem is not just that a few cops go bad. That happens in every line of business. It's that the working police culture protects bad actors, rather than isolating and exposing them. So few of those bad guys are even prosecuted, let alone convicted.
Spotted the antivaxer! If I were a millennial, how could I have had measles in 1956? In actual fact, my fiftieth birthday was the exact day that Hale-Bopp reached its maximum brightness.
Opening up Yucca Mountain as soon as possible is where Congress can help. Tie the project to a fuel breeder to be built on the same same Nevada Test Site, which is the most secure place in the world for doing anything nuclear. Yucca Mountain can act as a buffer to hold all of our spent fuel for a generation while the breeder is developed and built.
A better approach than going to the US Congress would be equity partnership with a country where the Greens have no influence, like China or Korea, and which is strongly motivated to reduce fossil pollution by doing whatever ittakes. Asian reactors of existing design can be built in 4 years, which reduces costs considerably, freeing up capital for new development.
Carbon use for mining and transportation applies to all power technologies, and is a self-liquidating argument because it applies to the level of carbon power generation already in the economy. As ICE are replaced by electric motors everywhere and the generating sources for these motors are less carbon intensive, the role of carbon in mining and manufacturing steadily decreases. This will apply in the same way if every generating source was photovoltaic.
The place to build new nuclear plants is where older plants have already been sited, if there is available land and up to the capacity of each local heat sink. One problem with today's plants is that their operating temperature is rather low, because they use water as a coolant and it has to be kept under pressure. The low operating temperature means that some plants that use rivers as a heat sink have to be turned off in summer when natural temperature of the river is too warm for an efficient Carnot differential with the reactor temperature.
Some of the new designs use molten salt as a coolant. allowing much higher operating temperatures. Such reactors could be sited at older locations and not require any heat sink capacity already being used by the older plants. An ideal location might be Phoenix, AZ, where existing reactors use dry desert air as a heat sink, with some help from municipal sewage. New MSRs could use air only, and there is space at the complex for enough reactors to power California.
Unfortunately, the flat-earth lobby hates transmission lines almost as much as it hates generating plants. They are even trying to stop work on the Stromautobahn ("Power freeway") that is being built to carry northern Germany's coastal wind power to cities in the south.
Geothermal can be thought of as renewable nuclear, and is a good choice for places that have hot spots within a reasonable distance of the surface. I saw it in action in Iceland, on the bleak slopes of Mt. Hengill.
When you drill a thermal well, you can't just drill one. The boreholes keep clogging up with time, like old water pipes, and you have to keep drilling new ones. Your location has to be a place where it is economical to keep drilling more holes.
Shaddap faggot people in stress situations make mistakes with consequences.
Blasting away at a person who does nothing more than open his own front door wondering what the hell is going on outside is bad police procedure that should have brought prosecution. As in, a mistake with consquences.
My cure for the police malpractice problem would be to take civil judgements for police malpractice straight out of the local police retirement fund, rather than billing the taxpayers. This would break the "blue wall" by motivating good cops to help get rid of bad cops.
I too think that the cop should have been tried for second-degree murder, as should the copsucking local prosecutor who refused to bring charges in this case.
Isn't putting someone in PRISON for 20 years just because they made a phone call pretty much the definition of censorship?
Whether a phone call should be criminalized purely depends on what the aim of the phone call was. If the call was, as in this case, to falsely invoke SWAt action, then hell yes.
Which is no different from the number of unvaccinated kids who get autism.
Autism was first described as a medical condition in 1943. Before that, no records were kept on who was autistic. They were simply people who were "eccentric" enough to occupy jobs that nobody else was suited for.
That's the experience of most people who got measles, which includes myself. There was no vaccine for it in 1956. But because the disease has a number of horrible side effects in some patients, we don't want anyone to catch it now that a vaccine exists.
Charging parked BEVs would be a good application for solar in appropriate climates. Use solar panels as a roof over those large office parking lots where the cars sit all day, and you could do a substantial amount of charging. At the same time, shaded parking is highly valued in such climates, and generally only available to neurosurgeons. Every week in here we get another article telling us how solar is too cheap to meter, so how hard can this be?
So far, I have seen one example of this idea in use, at one of the large Krogers in Phoenix.
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Five minutes a day? When you're comparing with Windows laptops, don't forget to allow for the system-bogging antivirus app you have to keep running, the adware scanner you have to sweep with periodically, and calling IT to reimage the damn thing when your Windows updates suddenly stop installing.
The magnitude of an air disaster and a nuclear disaster are rather different.
This is a good point. If I avoid cherry-picking the largest air disaster, the collision of two 747s at Tenerife that killed 583, the run-of-the-mill plane crash that we get somewhere in the world about once a year that kills perhaps 100 or 200. but when we consider the vast number of daily flights in every country, we consider air travel a highly safe technology compared to any of the others, especially private manual driving.
Meanwhile, the nuclear accident death toll remains at 51, all in one incident. And no "devastation forever" either. The corium at Chernobyl and Fukushima will all end up disassembled by robots and chucked into Asian breeder reactors while Germany is still making excuses for keeping the lignite pits going as its baseload.
It's not stealing if you develop an idea that its originator had no intention of bringing to the market. That's why patent systems are supposed to include an exploitation requirement.
You could build a political movement around this, one with all sorts of cool branding and stirring rallies.
The problem is not just that a few cops go bad. That happens in every line of business. It's that the working police culture protects bad actors, rather than isolating and exposing them. So few of those bad guys are even prosecuted, let alone convicted.
Imagine what life would be like today if the first two major airline crashes had caused us to stop pursuing aviation.
Closedown is supposed to be in 2022. So they need three years worth of coal.
So that's when Merkel will be gone and the nukes can reopen?
Two days! The rest of the year, you have to fill in a fluctuating power gap with coal.
Spotted the antivaxer! If I were a millennial, how could I have had measles in 1956? In actual fact, my fiftieth birthday was the exact day that Hale-Bopp reached its maximum brightness.
Compared to the development and build times we're talking about, the tiff with Trump is an eyeblink.
Opening up Yucca Mountain as soon as possible is where Congress can help. Tie the project to a fuel breeder to be built on the same same Nevada Test Site, which is the most secure place in the world for doing anything nuclear. Yucca Mountain can act as a buffer to hold all of our spent fuel for a generation while the breeder is developed and built.
A better approach than going to the US Congress would be equity partnership with a country where the Greens have no influence, like China or Korea, and which is strongly motivated to reduce fossil pollution by doing whatever ittakes. Asian reactors of existing design can be built in 4 years, which reduces costs considerably, freeing up capital for new development.
Carbon use for mining and transportation applies to all power technologies, and is a self-liquidating argument because it applies to the level of carbon power generation already in the economy. As ICE are replaced by electric motors everywhere and the generating sources for these motors are less carbon intensive, the role of carbon in mining and manufacturing steadily decreases. This will apply in the same way if every generating source was photovoltaic.
The place to build new nuclear plants is where older plants have already been sited, if there is available land and up to the capacity of each local heat sink. One problem with today's plants is that their operating temperature is rather low, because they use water as a coolant and it has to be kept under pressure. The low operating temperature means that some plants that use rivers as a heat sink have to be turned off in summer when natural temperature of the river is too warm for an efficient Carnot differential with the reactor temperature.
Some of the new designs use molten salt as a coolant. allowing much higher operating temperatures. Such reactors could be sited at older locations and not require any heat sink capacity already being used by the older plants. An ideal location might be Phoenix, AZ, where existing reactors use dry desert air as a heat sink, with some help from municipal sewage. New MSRs could use air only, and there is space at the complex for enough reactors to power California.
Unfortunately, the flat-earth lobby hates transmission lines almost as much as it hates generating plants. They are even trying to stop work on the Stromautobahn ("Power freeway") that is being built to carry northern Germany's coastal wind power to cities in the south.
Geothermal would also meet this criteria.
Geothermal can be thought of as renewable nuclear, and is a good choice for places that have hot spots within a reasonable distance of the surface. I saw it in action in Iceland, on the bleak slopes of Mt. Hengill.
When you drill a thermal well, you can't just drill one. The boreholes keep clogging up with time, like old water pipes, and you have to keep drilling new ones. Your location has to be a place where it is economical to keep drilling more holes.
My own total loss of the last shreds of respect I once had for the police came after seeing this video:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer...
At least this perp was prosecuted, though a cabbagehead jury let him off. Te Wichita cop was not even prosecuted.
Shaddap faggot people in stress situations make mistakes with consequences.
Blasting away at a person who does nothing more than open his own front door wondering what the hell is going on outside is bad police procedure that should have brought prosecution. As in, a mistake with consquences.
My cure for the police malpractice problem would be to take civil judgements for police malpractice straight out of the local police retirement fund, rather than billing the taxpayers. This would break the "blue wall" by motivating good cops to help get rid of bad cops.
I too think that the cop should have been tried for second-degree murder, as should the copsucking local prosecutor who refused to bring charges in this case.
Isn't putting someone in PRISON for 20 years just because they made a phone call pretty much the definition of censorship?
Whether a phone call should be criminalized purely depends on what the aim of the phone call was. If the call was, as in this case, to falsely invoke SWAt action, then hell yes.
All of the antivax cranks in this thread are ACs. What does this say about their willingness to debate?
...1 in 60 vaccinated kids getting autism...
Which is no different from the number of unvaccinated kids who get autism.
Autism was first described as a medical condition in 1943. Before that, no records were kept on who was autistic. They were simply people who were "eccentric" enough to occupy jobs that nobody else was suited for.
That's the experience of most people who got measles, which includes myself. There was no vaccine for it in 1956. But because the disease has a number of horrible side effects in some patients, we don't want anyone to catch it now that a vaccine exists.
I would like to see refusing to vaccinate your kids defined as child abuse. CPS rates you as an unfit parent and takes your kids away.
Charging parked BEVs would be a good application for solar in appropriate climates. Use solar panels as a roof over those large office parking lots where the cars sit all day, and you could do a substantial amount of charging. At the same time, shaded parking is highly valued in such climates, and generally only available to neurosurgeons. Every week in here we get another article telling us how solar is too cheap to meter, so how hard can this be?
So far, I have seen one example of this idea in use, at one of the large Krogers in Phoenix.