Wrong. You are very ignorant of the safety systems in nuclear power plant. The facts are nuclear power is clean and safe. How many people die in coal mines per year? What about natural gas explosions in homes and industrial locations? Thousands around the world. How died at Fukushima due to radioactive material exposure? None. I happen to work in a DOE nuclear lab; we are very capable as citizens of the world to use nuclear power for power generation, let alone other high temperature process heat applications. We just need to be the feel good and damn commie enviro bastards out of the way.
There are other nuclear power generation alternatives as well. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors and High Temperature Gas Reactors are very good technologies and work. We as citizens of the world need to allow these new reactor into our communities. There is the promises and hope of Small Modular Reactors was well.
Get the damn liberals out of the way and we can make energy work for us. The damn Germans are being so PC stupid they don't see the failures of the renewable technologies of solar and wind power. Without subsidies, renewable energy technologies are too expensive.
Cheers and enjoy the radiation around you. Nothing like a little alpha particles enlightening your world.
TMI was a success. Most people do not realize that there are still three of the four reactors on TMI still in operation. TMI was successful because it proved the technology to keep the core from going critical. The amount of exposure to radiation during the TMI incident is less than half of the amount of radiation one gets during an standard dental x-ray. One working through Grand Central Station gets more exposure to radiation (from radon in the granite) than those exposed during the TMI incident. I know this because I work with four or five people who did the post accident studies and worked with the programs to mitigate the hazard during post incident operations.
Chernobyl was an accident waiting to happen. The poor reactor design, the poor safety design, and the stupid tests being performed caused the accident. To read more : http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.html. There are still operations happening near Chernobyl.
Anyway, if we want to handle the energy needs of the demands forth coming, nuclear is an answer. Wind power is not the answer. It only generates power, at the best estimates, 25% of the time. To get the windmills manufacture there are a lot of raw material necessary, with require large amounts of mining. Recycle materials are not always available to produce the steels necessary to provide the structure to support the blades. The birds flying into the blade is an urban and rural legend.
Solar works only during the day, and require toxic batteries to store the energy. Plus, on the environment, the materials to produce solar panels are very earth unfriendly--heavy mining for the raw materials. Supply of silica and gallium is in short supply. China and India are consuming large quantities of copper, gold, and other metals because of the development activities under way.
Bio fuels is stupid! Let burn all our food and starve to death, then no will be around to worry about how to get around because everyone will be dead. Cellulose bio fuels may work, but the US does not have the kind of conditions to allow the growth of those kind of crops. Brazil does a great job at it because they are not burning food, but special crops for bio fuel.
I personally believe thorium based reactors are best. There is an alternative as well--small distributed reactors. Hyperion and NuScale both have reactors perfect to a distributed energy solution. http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/ and http://www.nuscalepower.com/
Go nuclear. Its clear, it renewable, and it proven. It is safe.
ITS stands for Intelligent Transportation Systems, not Intelligent Transport Systems. There is a whole world of ITS that very few people know about. To learn more maybe the./ers should visit http://www.itsa.org/, or better yet visit a company that does ITS for a living, http://www.iteris.com/. There is even a national architecture standard available for all to use when planning and developing an ITS project. Visit http://itsarch.iteris.com/itsarch/ to get more information.
Enjoy. The roads of the future are ITS based products and deployments. Infact, has anyone seen those little camera in the intersections? That is ITS. Has anyone seen those neat like weather stations along the roadside? That is ITS. Has anyone used a toll road automated pass system? That is ITS. Has anyone seen a commercial vehicle drive past an open port-of-entry while others have to stop? That is ITS.
The list goes on and on and on. Keep./ing. Mormonboy
I think you all are confusing morality with ethics. If something is morally correct in doing, that is an individual, if not theological based, decision. Ethics looks at whether if a company or an individual should perform a specific activity due to the issue if is it correct.
Ethically, hiring people in India to keep people in San Franciso seems abit stupid. I say more the jobs to a small AMERICAN community, like Idaho Falls, Idaho, or any other small community. The cost of doing business in small town America is much less than San Franciso. Also, it keeps American jobs in America. The advent to high speed telecommunications makes it very easy to put large production (software or hardware) outside the expensive coastal areas. How would the CFO and CEO of CollabNet like to save about 2/3 on labor, office space, and other operational cost my moving most of his company activities to a small community.
For example, AMI semiconductors did just that. They moved their HQ to Pocatello Idaho. Why, because it is so much cheaper. The have production facilities as well.
I believe the future of keeping American high tech in America is keeping the high tech companies and employees in America. Small town America has a great future, if and only if the companies' CEO have the strength and courage to explore that small town communities of this great nation.
I know being a tech geek for 24 years, I love the smaller communities. Good pay, cheap ( and lot of) land, great outdoor activities, NO TRAFFIC CONGESTION, NO SMOG, safe communities for my children, and CHEAP TAXES.
It appears the/.er that wrote the summary does not know very much about the atmosphere and the distribution of radioactive materials. The concentrated level of the radioactive materials from RORSAT satellite would be so small, it most likely would not even able to be measured. You receive more exposure to radiation from your toothpaste, dental X-rays, and Sun exposure than you would from fallout of the RORSAT satellite powerpack.
People are afraid of nuclear power and material but there is no reason to be. People quote Three-Mile Island incident as reason why we should not have nuclear power. We people of this freeloader society, you get more exposure every year from your dental X-rays than the people around Three-Mile received.
Some would say Chernobyl (Tschernobyl in Russian) was was a huge disaster. It was, but it failed because of the failure inherit to Communism and Socialism. Lack of capital principles to keep operations and maintenance in place. Failure on the government does not automatically mean failure in the technology.
If you want a good resource on the next generation of nuclear power go here:http://www.inel.gov/initiatives/generation.sh tml.
The GreenPeace nix are just out to destroy capitalism and all that is American. If you look at real data from real scientist you will see that the Earth has cooled for the last five years not warmed up. The Earth has cycles of warm and cold. The ice core samples from the South Pole show the evidence very well. Computer models show atmospheric temperatures at high elevations and terrestioral data shows that the "Global Warming" in bunk.
The problem is not Western countries causing the pollution to this "Green House Gases", it is the third world countries the UN is so pandering to that cause most of the air based pollutes.
I don't see the big problem, so some large piece of ice has fallen apart. Look at the Anarctic, there is still a whole lota ice down there. Get over people. The Earth will take care of herself. It is arrogant and ignorant to think that man can damage God's greatest creation - Earth.
If global warming does exist, well we all need a little shaking around. If California floods into the Pacific, the world would be a better place. The fewer the liberals the better. Drownd the liberal communie bastards. Go swim with the precious fishes.
Technically, in the USA anything and everything your write is copyrighted. This very reply, under copyright law is copyrighted. You don't have to file an paperwork to the feds either. This is just another example of liberalism and selvish, money minded attorneys wanting more of the economic share of the world.
Since when do providers have any right to look at my data. I am just glad I live the the USA. At least I can keep my guns and used them to defend myself and family. Compared to Australia, where the guns were taken from the people, with a result of over 70% increase in crime. What's next down in Aussie Land. You won't be able to go out in the sun with violating a law. Wait, it is already against the law to let children outside without hats and sunscreen.
Wake up people, the world is under attack by these leftists that want to make the world a happy, single-minded society where the world government knows best. Freedom seems to be a foreign conspect to too many people in the world. We are already under control to more laws that contradict each other. Next thing you know, Communnist China will be killing girls in other countries to prevent population regeneration.
Remember why the USA was created? Keep get away from government overcontrolling our lives. Well, that has not gone so good. Excite, AOL or any other providers does not need to mingle in the policing of private communications between any two or more persons.
The only good part of the movie was the "SuperToy", Teddy. He was the only one that seems to have any love, common sense, and intelligence. I believe Kubrick must have been on twelve different drugs when he wrote (or collective thought written in journals) this "work". I thoroughly enjoy most SciFi movies, but this movie sucked the big one. My family and I viewed this movie at a drive-in theater, so maybe I missed a few details, but the whole "alien" or "future bio-bots" was just too much. The reason I did not leave was for the second feature "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"; by far a better movie for entertainment.
The part that seemed the most stupid was the part about a robot "David", wanting to commit suicide by jumping off the building. This was stupid. Where is David learn about suicide? The insertion of the narrator here and there in the last 45 dreadful minutes as a little strange and out of sync with the other parts two parts of the movie.
I would not suggest anyone going to this movie. Wait for it on video or DVD. I would be very embarrassed if I was Steve Spielberg. It lacked compass for direction and meaning. I laughed at some many different part because it was so stupid. Why didn't the mother have another child instead of murring over her "frozen" child.
I told my children this why you do not do drugs. There where some very interesting SFX, but the "Flesh Fair" had no meaning to the initial plot. The "Sin City" was on little use to the plot except for the Dr. Know (Robin Williams did a good job on the voice by the way). The contrast of lust and love was over done. The gigalo Joe becoming sensitive to the loving needs of a child robot was worthless.
The environmental liberized stance on the ice caps melting was stupid. Then the whole world freezing was way too stupid. I thought the earth was too hot for freezing. Is this not the reason way the ice caps froze in the first place. Ignorance about the way physical, biological, and chemical systems work was not part of this movie.
Please say your money. Help with the power problems in California by not going to the movie. The less the number of people go to this movie the less it costs to cool theaters and run projectors. This movie sucked.
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Wrong. You are very ignorant of the safety systems in nuclear power plant. The facts are nuclear power is clean and safe. How many people die in coal mines per year? What about natural gas explosions in homes and industrial locations? Thousands around the world. How died at Fukushima due to radioactive material exposure? None. I happen to work in a DOE nuclear lab; we are very capable as citizens of the world to use nuclear power for power generation, let alone other high temperature process heat applications. We just need to be the feel good and damn commie enviro bastards out of the way.
There are other nuclear power generation alternatives as well. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors and High Temperature Gas Reactors are very good technologies and work. We as citizens of the world need to allow these new reactor into our communities. There is the promises and hope of Small Modular Reactors was well.
Get the damn liberals out of the way and we can make energy work for us. The damn Germans are being so PC stupid they don't see the failures of the renewable technologies of solar and wind power. Without subsidies, renewable energy technologies are too expensive.
Cheers and enjoy the radiation around you. Nothing like a little alpha particles enlightening your world.
TMI was a success. Most people do not realize that there are still three of the four reactors on TMI still in operation. TMI was successful because it proved the technology to keep the core from going critical. The amount of exposure to radiation during the TMI incident is less than half of the amount of radiation one gets during an standard dental x-ray. One working through Grand Central Station gets more exposure to radiation (from radon in the granite) than those exposed during the TMI incident. I know this because I work with four or five people who did the post accident studies and worked with the programs to mitigate the hazard during post incident operations.
Chernobyl was an accident waiting to happen. The poor reactor design, the poor safety design, and the stupid tests being performed caused the accident. To read more : http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.html. There are still operations happening near Chernobyl.
Anyway, if we want to handle the energy needs of the demands forth coming, nuclear is an answer. Wind power is not the answer. It only generates power, at the best estimates, 25% of the time. To get the windmills manufacture there are a lot of raw material necessary, with require large amounts of mining. Recycle materials are not always available to produce the steels necessary to provide the structure to support the blades. The birds flying into the blade is an urban and rural legend.
Solar works only during the day, and require toxic batteries to store the energy. Plus, on the environment, the materials to produce solar panels are very earth unfriendly--heavy mining for the raw materials. Supply of silica and gallium is in short supply. China and India are consuming large quantities of copper, gold, and other metals because of the development activities under way.
Bio fuels is stupid! Let burn all our food and starve to death, then no will be around to worry about how to get around because everyone will be dead. Cellulose bio fuels may work, but the US does not have the kind of conditions to allow the growth of those kind of crops. Brazil does a great job at it because they are not burning food, but special crops for bio fuel.
I personally believe thorium based reactors are best. There is an alternative as well--small distributed reactors. Hyperion and NuScale both have reactors perfect to a distributed energy solution. http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/ and http://www.nuscalepower.com/
Go nuclear. Its clear, it renewable, and it proven. It is safe.
ITS stands for Intelligent Transportation Systems, not Intelligent Transport Systems. There is a whole world of ITS that very few people know about. To learn more maybe the ./ers should visit http://www.itsa.org/, or better yet visit a company that does ITS for a living, http://www.iteris.com/. There is even a national architecture standard available for all to use when planning and developing an ITS project. Visit http://itsarch.iteris.com/itsarch/ to get more information.
./ing.
Enjoy. The roads of the future are ITS based products and deployments. Infact, has anyone seen those little camera in the intersections? That is ITS. Has anyone seen those neat like weather stations along the roadside? That is ITS. Has anyone used a toll road automated pass system? That is ITS. Has anyone seen a commercial vehicle drive past an open port-of-entry while others have to stop? That is ITS.
The list goes on and on and on. Keep
Mormonboy
I think you all are confusing morality with ethics. If something is morally correct in doing, that is an individual, if not theological based, decision. Ethics looks at whether if a company or an individual should perform a specific activity due to the issue if is it correct.
Ethically, hiring people in India to keep people in San Franciso seems abit stupid. I say more the jobs to a small AMERICAN community, like Idaho Falls, Idaho, or any other small community. The cost of doing business in small town America is much less than San Franciso. Also, it keeps American jobs in America. The advent to high speed telecommunications makes it very easy to put large production (software or hardware) outside the expensive coastal areas. How would the CFO and CEO of CollabNet like to save about 2/3 on labor, office space, and other operational cost my moving most of his company activities to a small community.
For example, AMI semiconductors did just that. They moved their HQ to Pocatello Idaho. Why, because it is so much cheaper. The have production facilities as well.
I believe the future of keeping American high tech in America is keeping the high tech companies and employees in America. Small town America has a great future, if and only if the companies' CEO have the strength and courage to explore that small town communities of this great nation.
I know being a tech geek for 24 years, I love the smaller communities. Good pay, cheap ( and lot of) land, great outdoor activities, NO TRAFFIC CONGESTION, NO SMOG, safe communities for my children, and CHEAP TAXES.
Just some thoughts.
It appears the /.er that wrote the summary does not know very much about the atmosphere and the distribution of radioactive materials. The concentrated level of the radioactive materials from RORSAT satellite would be so small, it most likely would not even able to be measured. You receive more exposure to radiation from your toothpaste, dental X-rays, and Sun exposure than you would from fallout of the RORSAT satellite powerpack.
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/.ing. Mormonboy.
People are afraid of nuclear power and material but there is no reason to be. People quote Three-Mile Island incident as reason why we should not have nuclear power. We people of this freeloader society, you get more exposure every year from your dental X-rays than the people around Three-Mile received.
Some would say Chernobyl (Tschernobyl in Russian) was was a huge disaster. It was, but it failed because of the failure inherit to Communism and Socialism. Lack of capital principles to keep operations and maintenance in place. Failure on the government does not automatically mean failure in the technology.
If you want a good resource on the next generation of nuclear power go here:http://www.inel.gov/initiatives/generation.s
Keep
The GreenPeace nix are just out to destroy capitalism and all that is American. If you look at real data from real scientist you will see that the Earth has cooled for the last five years not warmed up. The Earth has cycles of warm and cold. The ice core samples from the South Pole show the evidence very well. Computer models show atmospheric temperatures at high elevations and terrestioral data shows that the "Global Warming" in bunk.
The problem is not Western countries causing the pollution to this "Green House Gases", it is the third world countries the UN is so pandering to that cause most of the air based pollutes.
I don't see the big problem, so some large piece of ice has fallen apart. Look at the Anarctic, there is still a whole lota ice down there. Get over people. The Earth will take care of herself. It is arrogant and ignorant to think that man can damage God's greatest creation - Earth.
If global warming does exist, well we all need a little shaking around. If California floods into the Pacific, the world would be a better place. The fewer the liberals the better. Drownd the liberal communie bastards. Go swim with the precious fishes.
Technically, in the USA anything and everything your write is copyrighted. This very reply, under copyright law is copyrighted. You don't have to file an paperwork to the feds either. This is just another example of liberalism and selvish, money minded attorneys wanting more of the economic share of the world.
Since when do providers have any right to look at my data. I am just glad I live the the USA. At least I can keep my guns and used them to defend myself and family. Compared to Australia, where the guns were taken from the people, with a result of over 70% increase in crime. What's next down in Aussie Land. You won't be able to go out in the sun with violating a law. Wait, it is already against the law to let children outside without hats and sunscreen.
Wake up people, the world is under attack by these leftists that want to make the world a happy, single-minded society where the world government knows best. Freedom seems to be a foreign conspect to too many people in the world. We are already under control to more laws that contradict each other. Next thing you know, Communnist China will be killing girls in other countries to prevent population regeneration.
Remember why the USA was created? Keep get away from government overcontrolling our lives. Well, that has not gone so good. Excite, AOL or any other providers does not need to mingle in the policing of private communications between any two or more persons.
MormonBoy, many wives, many children.
The only good part of the movie was the "SuperToy", Teddy. He was the only one that seems to have any love, common sense, and intelligence. I believe Kubrick must have been on twelve different drugs when he wrote (or collective thought written in journals) this "work". I thoroughly enjoy most SciFi movies, but this movie sucked the big one. My family and I viewed this movie at a drive-in theater, so maybe I missed a few details, but the whole "alien" or "future bio-bots" was just too much. The reason I did not leave was for the second feature "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"; by far a better movie for entertainment. The part that seemed the most stupid was the part about a robot "David", wanting to commit suicide by jumping off the building. This was stupid. Where is David learn about suicide? The insertion of the narrator here and there in the last 45 dreadful minutes as a little strange and out of sync with the other parts two parts of the movie. I would not suggest anyone going to this movie. Wait for it on video or DVD. I would be very embarrassed if I was Steve Spielberg. It lacked compass for direction and meaning. I laughed at some many different part because it was so stupid. Why didn't the mother have another child instead of murring over her "frozen" child. I told my children this why you do not do drugs. There where some very interesting SFX, but the "Flesh Fair" had no meaning to the initial plot. The "Sin City" was on little use to the plot except for the Dr. Know (Robin Williams did a good job on the voice by the way). The contrast of lust and love was over done. The gigalo Joe becoming sensitive to the loving needs of a child robot was worthless. The environmental liberized stance on the ice caps melting was stupid. Then the whole world freezing was way too stupid. I thought the earth was too hot for freezing. Is this not the reason way the ice caps froze in the first place. Ignorance about the way physical, biological, and chemical systems work was not part of this movie. Please say your money. Help with the power problems in California by not going to the movie. The less the number of people go to this movie the less it costs to cool theaters and run projectors. This movie sucked.