I can guarantee that if they studied the impact of various chemical spills and other impacts left behind by the tsunami, they would find orders of magnitude more 'genetic impacts' than anything they'll find due to radiation. Problem is, nobody cares to do that study because there is no agenda driving it, and no funding, and no press would care.
In this case, there is a reasonable case that radiation is a factor. However, you'll find mutations in butterflies all the time, and some percentage of those are due to natural radiation.
Funny you won't see similar studies based on exposure to sunlight. You'll find it has an impact, but the press won't really care so much.
Take the pale grass blue butterfly, a species long known to be highly susceptible to environmental impacts, feed it the highest found doses of contaminated leaves in a small area near Fukushima, observe a slight mutation increase, announce a finding. OK, some of the study reports are interesting, too bad the press interprets and takes it to an extreme.
Bingo. You hit the target. Local solutions are just window dressing, the problem is global and solution need to address the global scale and situation.
Resorting to fines is not a solution, its battling a symptom that won't change the fundamental trend. Some people enjoy working their asses off, they should reap the rewards. Controls and incentives have their place, but they are more often tools to manage, not to solve problems.
France has tried the reduced workhour thing, its not working.
One thing you can do is allow part of people's social security to move to ownership of companies (stocks) and so they can reap the benefits of high profit margins created by the trend.
My comment wasn't based on what I want, just the impact of taking that approach. 70 hour weeks, on a consistent basis, are a waste no matter what. Few people can stay productive for that time. Some businesses have figured that out.
I'm not sure that would pay off. You'd need to model the nearby city-scape for a wind tunnel as well, since its not just one building but a combination of buildings that typically cause problems. Also, it is very hard to reproduce the variations in wind that we see in nature. Wind tunnels generally have a steady flow in one direction.
You are mis-representing the clock. It is common to have a clock for continuous days without an outage, 3 digits would be up to 999, which is well beyond the refueling cycle. Its a measure to show the results of their preventative maintenance and operations effectiveness, and quite impressive numbers are often achieved. Some plants do clocks for number of days without a workplace injury, which is typical of any industry, and also pretty much unheard of to go 999 days with the type of maintenance activities that go on without someone falling or cutting themselves or hurting their back.
I can assure you it was not for time between nuclear accidents, but don't let that little truth stop you from you from making a slant.
These plants were built in the 70s, and have been running for quite a while. They are AGR models, very few build and troublesome compared to most of the PWR designs. Despite that, they have generated a bunch of power, and probably will continue to as soon as the issues are worked out.
If you think about leasing, check into the issues with selling a house and solar leases. If there is any chance you may move or sell before it is paid off, it could be a problem.
Also, before you install, make sure your shingles/roofing is good. If it is near end of life, replace before installing solar, otherwise you'll pay to have the solar removed and re-installed when you replace the roofing.
We are not talking about a switch or a cpu. We are talking about a reflector, of sorts, which can be detected based on the effect it has on external signal fields. And, also, I said no 'internal power', thus any power required being supplied externally. A CPU would be the case of the active component, not a passive one.
That's my thought. Although this device takes no internal power to cause the back scatter effect, how useful can it be if whatever data is to be collected is likely provided by something that needs a power source to begin with. If its just a static device, then its not much more that a longer range RFID. If it is active, it needs power.
The "internet of things" is a pure marketing play. It broad brushes a huge spectrum of possible devices even though any single item typically only applies to a small slice of that market. It is too broad and useless when describing anything in particular, but will be used so that every related product can be considered a big freakin deal. Investors... please line up at the door.....
Well, I've answered my own question... $200 to $300 bucks, and not only available on XBOX but other games and devices as well. But only to those who "qualify".
Yes, mining and those things does cause emissions. That is also true of Solar PV, for instance. Not only mining of the semiconductor materials, but there is also some nasty chemical processes used in manufacture, then transportation from Asia, delivering on land and so forth. So, you are correct, if you factor in those types of things, no source is emission free.
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I can guarantee that if they studied the impact of various chemical spills and other impacts left behind by the tsunami, they would find orders of magnitude more 'genetic impacts' than anything they'll find due to radiation. Problem is, nobody cares to do that study because there is no agenda driving it, and no funding, and no press would care.
Did the AC submitter read the abstracts? Did they understand them?
You mean mdsolar. He had to post AC because he knew he'd use up his weekend anti-nuke submission quota up.
In this case, there is a reasonable case that radiation is a factor. However, you'll find mutations in butterflies all the time, and some percentage of those are due to natural radiation.
Funny you won't see similar studies based on exposure to sunlight. You'll find it has an impact, but the press won't really care so much.
Take the pale grass blue butterfly, a species long known to be highly susceptible to environmental impacts, feed it the highest found doses of contaminated leaves in a small area near Fukushima, observe a slight mutation increase, announce a finding. OK, some of the study reports are interesting, too bad the press interprets and takes it to an extreme.
Bingo. You hit the target. Local solutions are just window dressing, the problem is global and solution need to address the global scale and situation.
Resorting to fines is not a solution, its battling a symptom that won't change the fundamental trend. Some people enjoy working their asses off, they should reap the rewards. Controls and incentives have their place, but they are more often tools to manage, not to solve problems.
France has tried the reduced workhour thing, its not working.
One thing you can do is allow part of people's social security to move to ownership of companies (stocks) and so they can reap the benefits of high profit margins created by the trend.
My comment wasn't based on what I want, just the impact of taking that approach. 70 hour weeks, on a consistent basis, are a waste no matter what. Few people can stay productive for that time. Some businesses have figured that out.
While I'd love the extra time off, reducing human employee's productivity & increasing their cost will only re-enforce the case for replacing them.
RE: Wind Tunnel Testing
I'm not sure that would pay off. You'd need to model the nearby city-scape for a wind tunnel as well, since its not just one building but a combination of buildings that typically cause problems. Also, it is very hard to reproduce the variations in wind that we see in nature. Wind tunnels generally have a steady flow in one direction.
OK. Its official $.25/GB is the next milestone!
Well, what is the next 'barrier' then? I vote for $0.40/GB. Then we can have another /. submission.
One imagines that sort of thing comes with using non-prehistoric reactor designs.
How about a power source that shuts down every single night. That would suck, wouldn't it?
You are mis-representing the clock. It is common to have a clock for continuous days without an outage, 3 digits would be up to 999, which is well beyond the refueling cycle. Its a measure to show the results of their preventative maintenance and operations effectiveness, and quite impressive numbers are often achieved. Some plants do clocks for number of days without a workplace injury, which is typical of any industry, and also pretty much unheard of to go 999 days with the type of maintenance activities that go on without someone falling or cutting themselves or hurting their back.
I can assure you it was not for time between nuclear accidents, but don't let that little truth stop you from you from making a slant.
If they more solar, as some folks think wise, they could lose even more electrical generation than this every single evening.
These plants were built in the 70s, and have been running for quite a while. They are AGR models, very few build and troublesome compared to most of the PWR designs. Despite that, they have generated a bunch of power, and probably will continue to as soon as the issues are worked out.
RE: Looking in to solar.
Just a couple of things to keep in mind;
If you think about leasing, check into the issues with selling a house and solar leases. If there is any chance you may move or sell before it is paid off, it could be a problem.
Also, before you install, make sure your shingles/roofing is good. If it is near end of life, replace before installing solar, otherwise you'll pay to have the solar removed and re-installed when you replace the roofing.
The FCC has no business making rulings that have sports ticket prices as a central factor.
The government would get screwed in the deal. The most effective exploits would somehow be left out of the deal.
We are not talking about a switch or a cpu. We are talking about a reflector, of sorts, which can be detected based on the effect it has on external signal fields. And, also, I said no 'internal power', thus any power required being supplied externally. A CPU would be the case of the active component, not a passive one.
That's my thought. Although this device takes no internal power to cause the back scatter effect, how useful can it be if whatever data is to be collected is likely provided by something that needs a power source to begin with. If its just a static device, then its not much more that a longer range RFID. If it is active, it needs power.
The "internet of things" is a pure marketing play. It broad brushes a huge spectrum of possible devices even though any single item typically only applies to a small slice of that market. It is too broad and useless when describing anything in particular, but will be used so that every related product can be considered a big freakin deal. Investors... please line up at the door.....
no, you walk the line
I wonder what they will charge for it.
Well, I've answered my own question... $200 to $300 bucks, and not only available on XBOX but other games and devices as well. But only to those who "qualify".
Sunday Ticket on Xbox is a big deal. I wonder what they will charge for it.
Yes, mining and those things does cause emissions. That is also true of Solar PV, for instance. Not only mining of the semiconductor materials, but there is also some nasty chemical processes used in manufacture, then transportation from Asia, delivering on land and so forth. So, you are correct, if you factor in those types of things, no source is emission free.