And how exactly is it impossible to transmit megawatts of power wirelessly over transcontinental distances? We can already do it via microwaves, so of course there are probably other ways to do it that we just haven't figured out yet.
But Tesla wasn't using microwaves, which only work line-of-sight, and which hadn't been invented yet. Tesla wanted to somehow use the ionosphere and/or ground currents to make the energy follow the curvature of the earth. This is a totally different concept, and it cannot work.
BTW, we can theoretically transmit megawatts of microwaves over long distances. Nobody has demonstrated such a system, which would only make sense for spece-based solar power.
How long ago did Tesla conceive of this, and we're still trying to keep up with the guy?
One little problem: Tesla thought that he would transmit megawatts of power wirelessly over transcontinental distances. The idea, as he conceived it, was and is completely unworkable. (Which helps to explain why he died penniless.)
Magnetic field != radiation. Even a fluctuating magnetic field isn't going to effect humans
As Maxwell showed with his equations, fluctuating magnetic field == radiation, by definition. (And is always associated with a corresponding fluctuating electrical field.)
Your second statement is not always true either. For example, the fluctuating electromagnetic field inside a microwave oven would certainly affect humans.
In the olden days, chip consumers insisted on a second source. AMD was annointed as Intel's second source so that Intel could sell to such folks (like the US government of yesteryear).
That's how AMD got the schematics to the original 8086, but that's no longer very relevant. Much more important today is AMD's patent cross license agreements with Intel. (BTW, the cross licensing also helped save Intel's position in the marketplace because it entitled them to use AMD's X86-64 design verbatim after the Itanium fiasco.)
The flammable Apollo Command module was designed by North American Aviation, not by the imported German rocket scientists who worked on the Saturn V booster.
(The Apollo capsule was considered by many to be bloated and technically inferior to the earlier Gemini capsules.)
It doesn't work that way. You can get energy out of fusion and fission until you hit iron at the middle, which is at an energy well. The sun will end up a lump of iron once it finishes fusing due to this fact.
Actually, the sun isn't massive enough to create iron. It will instead end up as a lump of mostly degenerate carbon and oxygen.
One carefully controlled nuclear reactor could probably supply all medical and other isotope needs for mankind.
all it'd do is remove a supposed smoke screen which evidently failed to work for Iran.
The smokescreen has not failed to work. Iran continues its activities with the "excuse" that it's working on nuclear power. There is no evidence that they are going to stop before they succeed.
Even if everyone closed their reactors down, what's to stop a rogue nation building one?
When you detect one, you destroy it, since unlike the current situation, there would be no possible excuse to have it.
Note the difference: Israel destroyed Syria's reactor, and nobody cared because nobody thinks that Syria was working on a valid nuclear power program. Iran, OTOH, has convinced a lot of people, including a few powerful trading partners, that it just might be working on a valid nuclear power program, so destroying it is currently politically infeasible. That means that Iran will probably have nuclear weapons within a few years.
Yes. It's not just the reactors, but the entire fuel cycle that may emit trace amounts of isotopes that don't occur in nature. It would be almost impossible to emit absolutely zero evidence. Intelligence services have used sniffer aircraft to track nuclear activities for a long time.
2. = Enforce ban on fission activities of any kind because there's no longer any excuse for them
North Korea didn't use fission as a major power source but they still got nukes, same with Pakistan, same with Israel.
They all hid their weapons programs within "civilian" nuclear research. They all justify such research with the need to develop "peaceful" nuclear power. Of course they didn't need large power reactors to generate weapons materials. The point is, they shouldn't have *any* reactors, large or small, nor an excuse to build them.
You also need to demonstrate a correlation between nuclear proliferation and nuclear power use.
100% of countries that developed nuclear weapons had nuclear power or "research" reactors.
You can't eliminate technology any more than you can erase knowledge.
Maybe not, but one nice thing about nuclear technology is that you can make it *really* hard to hide by sniffing trace isotopes in the air. Eliminating nuclear power generation would help make it much harder to mask clandestine programs.
We must learn to deal with nuclear proliferation
A good way to deal with it is make it very hard to hide, and take away any excuses to be playing around with it. If there were no civilian nuclear power, then there wouldn't be much argument in the world community about taking out Iran's program, because it would be an undeniably belligerent activity. Under that scenario, they would have been much less likely to start their activities in the first place, and we probably wouldn't have this problem at all.
Maintaining the status quo with various countries goofing around with "peaceful research" under the guise of power generation is the real "ostrich approach".
Their actions only make sense if nuclear weapons are their goal.
Precisely. That's why nuclear power is not a viable answer to the world's energy needs.
Iran is not a special case. Regimes are constantly coming and going all over the world, and some of them are dangerously nationalistic. This will be a continual problem until we eliminate fission-based nuclear power technology.
Also, they have demonstrated their capability of suicidal and homicidal actions so have lost the privilege of nuclear capabilities.
Exactly. The factors that make us deem nuclear technology to be a "privilege" are the same ones that prevent it from being a viable answer to the world's energy needs.
I hit the same wall in Oakbrook Mall in the spring. I was taking a picture of the fountain through the mist being sprayed in the breeze. The security guard, very politely, asked me to desist for security purposes. WTF?
Do you not realize what could happen if control of that fountain fell into the wrong hands?
So you got one of their lawyers to approve a contract under which they assume liability for damages for only $50K? I find that hard to believe. And yet after all that negotiation, they still wouldn't provide you a dongle-free version. Hmm.
I wasn't even aware that I was in a digital theater until about halfway through the movie their server lost connection to the host and the movie theater screen suddenly turned into a giant Windows desktop.
What's even more unnerving is when the Windows desktop locks up in the projector, then after about 20 seconds it starts melting and smoking, and then an expanding hole consumes the whole screen. I hate when that happens.
And when that happen? Who cares, I'll just sue their asses, like I do whenever OTHER problems come up, and it works to recover losses
No you won't. For essentially any software product available on today's market, during installation you agree to waive your rights to recover any losses beyond the purchase price.
You mean like all the senseless boilerplate crap that you have to use to write C++ GUI programs on Windows??
Yeah, just like that, but even more senseless, because you don't get the benefit of a GUI out of the effort. (Very few people these days write Windows GUIs in C++ without some kind of nanny IDE doing the work for them anyway.)
The great part was all the programs had the same structure, so a program I wrote was easily understood by someone else.
And the amazing part is that over the course of 5 decades, nobody has bothered to factor out the crap that's always the same in every program.
Why do people think it's so hard for a new person to learn COBOL? It's not exactly like learning Japanese: find a good reference book, write a few practice programs, and voila.
In my case, I've taught myself to use a couple of dozen programming languages over the years, and I've mastered several of them. However, I've never managed to make it all the way through the senseless boilerplate headers of any COBOL program before puking. Once the monitor is covered with puke, it's too hard to see the screen well enough to continue.
Brilliant idea! Let's have all the other innocent employees lose their jobs, pension, and benefits and put loads of extra stress on social services like unemployment! We also get to take the economic hit when all the sharehoders lose their investments - Woo hoo! What is your name? I would like to write you on the ballot when I vote for president.
That looks like a really effective way to make sure that all employees, shareholders and board members stay properly focused on keeping the corporation in compliance with relevant laws and security practices. Sounds like a good plan to me.
If they would really let us be responsible for our own actions they would let us choose wether we want to pay for insurance or not.
Uusually, that's already the way it works. If you post a bond with the state in the amount of the minimum liability requirement, then you don't have to buy insurance. So you really have nothing to complain about unless you plan on causing damages and then skipping out on paying for them.
Unfortunately, in the end this measure did not end up protecting the children. Root Beer Tapper's promotion of the consumption of massive quantities of high fructose corn syrup was one of the primary causes behind the current epidemic of childhood obesity.
Parents should have insisted on converting the game to "Celery Juice Tapper".
Well what's the replacement? Word/Writer are garbage for writing research papers or theses, so what else is there?
PowerPoint, of course. To handle the math expressions, just use Comic Sans. That makes it look like the math problems were solved with a pencil, the way a real mathematician would do it.
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And how exactly is it impossible to transmit megawatts of power wirelessly over transcontinental distances? We can already do it via microwaves, so of course there are probably other ways to do it that we just haven't figured out yet.
But Tesla wasn't using microwaves, which only work line-of-sight, and which hadn't been invented yet. Tesla wanted to somehow use the ionosphere and/or ground currents to make the energy follow the curvature of the earth. This is a totally different concept, and it cannot work.
BTW, we can theoretically transmit megawatts of microwaves over long distances. Nobody has demonstrated such a system, which would only make sense for spece-based solar power.
How long ago did Tesla conceive of this, and we're still trying to keep up with the guy?
One little problem: Tesla thought that he would transmit megawatts of power wirelessly over transcontinental distances. The idea, as he conceived it, was and is completely unworkable. (Which helps to explain why he died penniless.)
Magnetic field != radiation. Even a fluctuating magnetic field isn't going to effect humans
As Maxwell showed with his equations, fluctuating magnetic field == radiation, by definition. (And is always associated with a corresponding fluctuating electrical field.)
Your second statement is not always true either. For example, the fluctuating electromagnetic field inside a microwave oven would certainly affect humans.
She wants to 'anonymize' court records by substituting initials for names.
My name is Xavier Zachary Quincy. How does this help me?
In the olden days, chip consumers insisted on a second source. AMD was annointed as Intel's second source so that Intel could sell to such folks (like the US government of yesteryear).
That's how AMD got the schematics to the original 8086, but that's no longer very relevant. Much more important today is AMD's patent cross license agreements with Intel. (BTW, the cross licensing also helped save Intel's position in the marketplace because it entitled them to use AMD's X86-64 design verbatim after the Itanium fiasco.)
The flammable Apollo Command module was designed by North American Aviation, not by the imported German rocket scientists who worked on the Saturn V booster.
(The Apollo capsule was considered by many to be bloated and technically inferior to the earlier Gemini capsules.)
It doesn't work that way. You can get energy out of fusion and fission until you hit iron at the middle, which is at an energy well. The sun will end up a lump of iron once it finishes fusing due to this fact.
Actually, the sun isn't massive enough to create iron. It will instead end up as a lump of mostly degenerate carbon and oxygen.
One carefully controlled nuclear reactor could probably supply all medical and other isotope needs for mankind.
all it'd do is remove a supposed smoke screen which evidently failed to work for Iran.
The smokescreen has not failed to work. Iran continues its activities with the "excuse" that it's working on nuclear power. There is no evidence that they are going to stop before they succeed.
Even if everyone closed their reactors down, what's to stop a rogue nation building one?
When you detect one, you destroy it, since unlike the current situation, there would be no possible excuse to have it.
Note the difference: Israel destroyed Syria's reactor, and nobody cared because nobody thinks that Syria was working on a valid nuclear power program. Iran, OTOH, has convinced a lot of people, including a few powerful trading partners, that it just might be working on a valid nuclear power program, so destroying it is currently politically infeasible. That means that Iran will probably have nuclear weapons within a few years.
Yes. It's not just the reactors, but the entire fuel cycle that may emit trace amounts of isotopes that don't occur in nature. It would be almost impossible to emit absolutely zero evidence. Intelligence services have used sniffer aircraft to track nuclear activities for a long time.
2. ???
2. = Enforce ban on fission activities of any kind because there's no longer any excuse for them
North Korea didn't use fission as a major power source but they still got nukes, same with Pakistan, same with Israel.
They all hid their weapons programs within "civilian" nuclear research. They all justify such research with the need to develop "peaceful" nuclear power. Of course they didn't need large power reactors to generate weapons materials. The point is, they shouldn't have *any* reactors, large or small, nor an excuse to build them.
You also need to demonstrate a correlation between nuclear proliferation and nuclear power use.
100% of countries that developed nuclear weapons had nuclear power or "research" reactors.
You can't eliminate technology any more than you can erase knowledge.
Maybe not, but one nice thing about nuclear technology is that you can make it *really* hard to hide by sniffing trace isotopes in the air. Eliminating nuclear power generation would help make it much harder to mask clandestine programs.
We must learn to deal with nuclear proliferation
A good way to deal with it is make it very hard to hide, and take away any excuses to be playing around with it. If there were no civilian nuclear power, then there wouldn't be much argument in the world community about taking out Iran's program, because it would be an undeniably belligerent activity. Under that scenario, they would have been much less likely to start their activities in the first place, and we probably wouldn't have this problem at all.
Maintaining the status quo with various countries goofing around with "peaceful research" under the guise of power generation is the real "ostrich approach".
Their actions only make sense if nuclear weapons are their goal.
Precisely. That's why nuclear power is not a viable answer to the world's energy needs.
Iran is not a special case. Regimes are constantly coming and going all over the world, and some of them are dangerously nationalistic. This will be a continual problem until we eliminate fission-based nuclear power technology.
Also, they have demonstrated their capability of suicidal and homicidal actions so have lost the privilege of nuclear capabilities.
Exactly. The factors that make us deem nuclear technology to be a "privilege" are the same ones that prevent it from being a viable answer to the world's energy needs.
A nuclear plant could produce twice that on about ten acres.
If nuclear power were a viable answer to the world's energy needs, we'd be helping Iran develop its fuel cycle technology.
I hit the same wall in Oakbrook Mall in the spring. I was taking a picture of the fountain through the mist being sprayed in the breeze. The security guard, very politely, asked me to desist for security purposes. WTF?
Do you not realize what could happen if control of that fountain fell into the wrong hands?
So you got one of their lawyers to approve a contract under which they assume liability for damages for only $50K? I find that hard to believe. And yet after all that negotiation, they still wouldn't provide you a dongle-free version. Hmm.
I wasn't even aware that I was in a digital theater until about halfway through the movie their server lost connection to the host and the movie theater screen suddenly turned into a giant Windows desktop.
What's even more unnerving is when the Windows desktop locks up in the projector, then after about 20 seconds it starts melting and smoking, and then an expanding hole consumes the whole screen. I hate when that happens.
And when that happen? Who cares, I'll just sue their asses, like I do whenever OTHER problems come up, and it works to recover losses
No you won't. For essentially any software product available on today's market, during installation you agree to waive your rights to recover any losses beyond the purchase price.
You mean like all the senseless boilerplate crap that you have to use to write C++ GUI programs on Windows??
Yeah, just like that, but even more senseless, because you don't get the benefit of a GUI out of the effort. (Very few people these days write Windows GUIs in C++ without some kind of nanny IDE doing the work for them anyway.)
The great part was all the programs had the same structure, so a program I wrote was easily understood by someone else.
And the amazing part is that over the course of 5 decades, nobody has bothered to factor out the crap that's always the same in every program.
Why do people think it's so hard for a new person to learn COBOL? It's not exactly like learning Japanese: find a good reference book, write a few practice programs, and voila.
In my case, I've taught myself to use a couple of dozen programming languages over the years, and I've mastered several of them. However, I've never managed to make it all the way through the senseless boilerplate headers of any COBOL program before puking. Once the monitor is covered with puke, it's too hard to see the screen well enough to continue.
Brilliant idea! Let's have all the other innocent employees lose their jobs, pension, and benefits and put loads of extra stress on social services like unemployment! We also get to take the economic hit when all the sharehoders lose their investments - Woo hoo! What is your name? I would like to write you on the ballot when I vote for president.
That looks like a really effective way to make sure that all employees, shareholders and board members stay properly focused on keeping the corporation in compliance with relevant laws and security practices. Sounds like a good plan to me.
If they would really let us be responsible for our own actions they would let us choose wether we want to pay for insurance or not.
Uusually, that's already the way it works. If you post a bond with the state in the amount of the minimum liability requirement, then you don't have to buy insurance. So you really have nothing to complain about unless you plan on causing damages and then skipping out on paying for them.
Unfortunately, in the end this measure did not end up protecting the children. Root Beer Tapper's promotion of the consumption of massive quantities of high fructose corn syrup was one of the primary causes behind the current epidemic of childhood obesity.
Parents should have insisted on converting the game to "Celery Juice Tapper".
Well what's the replacement? Word/Writer are garbage for writing research papers or theses, so what else is there?
PowerPoint, of course. To handle the math expressions, just use Comic Sans. That makes it look like the math problems were solved with a pencil, the way a real mathematician would do it.
Put your money on the robot that doesn't exist, and won't, for at least a few decades?
So you put your money on an equally non-existant human astronaut on Mars. Who NASA allows to go exploring in dangerous caves.
I bet you play state lottery scratchoff games, too.