Fusion power is also fission power. All current fusion technologies involve He3 or tritium, but of which are fission byproducts created by bombarding lithium with neutrons. The current thinking is to place lithium in the fusion reactors to soak up the neutrons and produce heat and fuel, effectively making them hybrid fission / fusion reactors.
You can have unlimited use a self-digging shovel today for $20,000. A year from now, you have also have unlimited use of a self-digging shovel for $20,000.
Or:
You cannot have a self-digging shovel today. A year from now, you can have a self-digging shovel for $5,000.
Which is the better option? The answer really depends on your needs.
Have you actually used a DVD or Blu-Ray disc? You stick the disc in, watch several minutes of ads and warnings, and eventually get to a menu that allows the movie to play. It is annoying and it is one of the reasons I quit buying them.
"Good includes the fact that he's not dependent on campaign contributors like almost all major politicians are."
Uhhhh.....I guarantee you that Trump has mountains of debt; that is the nature of the real estate business. If you believe that Trump does not owe anyone anything you are in for a very rude awakening.
You have to "decarbonize" limestone (CaCO3) to Calcium Oxide (CaO) to make cement. You _cannot_ make cement without producing a lot of carbon dioxide, even if your energy source is carbon-free.
A Boeing 737-900 with 180 passengers on board gets about 99 passenger-miles to the gallon for a 1000-mile flight. That is better than most cars with 3 passenger.
Single passenger cars are probably the worst common offenders for carbon output for work done.
Another thing, H2O is a lousy combustion product if you are building an ICE. The problem is that H2O has a very high heat of vaporization, 44kJ/mol, and it is nearly impossible to recover this heat. When you burn hydrogen in an ICE, you are spending a lot of energy essentially boiling water. You get 286kJ from burning a mole of H2 gas, but you lose 15% of that heat because you cannot condense the water vapor.
I dislike the video content on CNN.com. I don't need a video of a reporter reading a story. I can read myself. In general would rather read a story and see a high-quality still picture than a tiny compress video.
Don't get me started on pictures or videos of text.
Everything Zavodnik did was pretty brilliant. You would not want to play poker with this guy.
He threw the printer away to make himself seem ridiculous. That was planned. He wanted to look like a crank. What kind of idiot throws away evidence before taking you to small claims court? Then he sends you a weird letter wanting you to admit that you owe him $600,000. What do you do? What would you do if I sent you a registered letter saying that I wanted you to admit to owing me $600,000? You would ignore it like any sane person would...
The message used to say something like "Do you want to install Windows 10 now, or do you want to schedule your Windows 10 installation for later?" Clicking the X was the only way to say 'neither'. Now clicking the X says yeah, go ahead. You don't see this as sneaky in any way?
Remember a month ago when people were saying that there was no way you could accidently consent to installing Windows 10?
The only sane solution is to turn off all updates from Microsoft.
Pump storage works great as long as you have a mountain, a lake, and all the permits are in place. There are maybe a dozen places in the US where pump storage is viable. Batteries will be needed for EVs and the batteries in the EVs will massive controllable storage facility. When the batteries are no longer suitable for EVs, they can be re-purposed for grid storage for a few more years, and finally they can be recycled.
Both houses were damaged by the tornado. From some other reports, the house that was torn down was unlivable at the time.
It usually is often easier and cheaper to tear down a structure and start over that repair one.
I am sorry the owner lost some personal items, but it was a mistake and mistakes happen. No one was hurt. It can all be fixed. It really is not that big a deal.
Oddly, the meltdown may be good for the environment. The meltdown has created regions that a bad for humans and may be good for nature. Overfishing in the hot zones is no longer an issue...
In residential areas where there is a 25MPH speed limit, is it safer to drive on the far right side of the road or is it safer to drive near the middle of the road? Obviously, you pull to the right to pass on-coming car, but what is there is little to no on coming traffic? The 'unexpected' tends to come for the sides of the roads and driving near the center of the road increases visibility and gives you more time to react. There is no real danger of hitting an on-coming car, both drivers have plenty of time to move to the right.
You are comparing the estimated cost of the hyperloop to the actual cost of an airline terminal. If an airline terminal actually costs $2 billion to build, do you really think that $6-$8 billion is a realistic estimate for the hyperloop? How would a hyperloop terminal be any less complex than an airline terminal?
Less land?? Are you forgetting the amount of land that the tube take up?
You could terminate in the center of a city iff you could acquire the right of way to the center of the city. Good luck with that.
The idea sounds cool enough, but how does it benefit the customer? I am struggling to figure out what issue is solved by drone delivery. Drones are not faster than cars so it is not a speed issue. The drones require pilots so it is not a labor issue. Drones are expensive compared to a scooter or a used car so it is not a cost issue. Drones can't fly in bad weather so it is not a reliability issue...
If you are only 10 miles from your customer, you might as well open a retail store. Order on-line and pick up at the counter.
Pizza delivery has been 30 minutes or less for decades and they do not need drones.
. 12 years is about the longest half life of the 'dangerous stuff', which means you stop caring in a hundred years or so AT MOST
Bullcrap. cesium-137, strontium-90 and iodine-131 have half lives much longer than 12 years and are and are some of the more dangerous nuclear byproducts out there. You are a damned fool if you think you can stop caring about these after "100 years of so."
You are right in that materials with very long half lives are not that dangerous due to the fact that they are not that radioactive. Stuff with very short half lives does not stick around for a long time so it is not a long-term hazard. But you are WAY off in your assertion that a spent fuel rod is perfectly safe after a 100 years of so.
Unfortunately, it really is not. Pumped hydro energy storage facilities do work; they are reasonably efficient and they can store a lot of energy. But you have to have a pretty unique combination of geology and hydrology to build such a facility.
The energy storage problems really is THE ISSUE with solar and wind. There is no magic answer.
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Fusion power is also fission power. All current fusion technologies involve He3 or tritium, but of which are fission byproducts created by bombarding lithium with neutrons. The current thinking is to place lithium in the fusion reactors to soak up the neutrons and produce heat and fuel, effectively making them hybrid fission / fusion reactors.
You may be better off without the option.
What if the options look like this:
You can have unlimited use a self-digging shovel today for $20,000. A year from now, you have also have unlimited use of a self-digging shovel for $20,000.
Or:
You cannot have a self-digging shovel today. A year from now, you can have a self-digging shovel for $5,000.
Which is the better option? The answer really depends on your needs.
I am paying about $1.50 each for 9V batteries at Costco. What are you paying?
" You stick a disc in and movie plays."
Uhh. No. They do not work that way.
Have you actually used a DVD or Blu-Ray disc? You stick the disc in, watch several minutes of ads and warnings, and eventually get to a menu that allows the movie to play. It is annoying and it is one of the reasons I quit buying them.
"Good includes the fact that he's not dependent on campaign contributors like almost all major politicians are."
Uhhhh.....I guarantee you that Trump has mountains of debt; that is the nature of the real estate business. If you believe that Trump does not owe anyone anything you are in for a very rude awakening.
So why doesn't it detect the imbalance and reduce speed or shut down? Pretty much every washing machine I have owned does this.
You have to "decarbonize" limestone (CaCO3) to Calcium Oxide (CaO) to make cement. You _cannot_ make cement without producing a lot of carbon dioxide, even if your energy source is carbon-free.
A Boeing 737-900 with 180 passengers on board gets about 99 passenger-miles to the gallon for a 1000-mile flight. That is better than most cars with 3 passenger.
Single passenger cars are probably the worst common offenders for carbon output for work done.
Another thing, H2O is a lousy combustion product if you are building an ICE. The problem is that H2O has a very high heat of vaporization, 44kJ/mol, and it is nearly impossible to recover this heat. When you burn hydrogen in an ICE, you are spending a lot of energy essentially boiling water. You get 286kJ from burning a mole of H2 gas, but you lose 15% of that heat because you cannot condense the water vapor.
Labor participation rates are where they were in the late 1970's.
www.businessinsider.com/labor-force-participation-rate-september-2014-2014-10
I guess that is one reason I like Slashdot.
I dislike the video content on CNN.com. I don't need a video of a reporter reading a story. I can read myself. In general would rather read a story and see a high-quality still picture than a tiny compress video.
Don't get me started on pictures or videos of text.
-Charles
Everything Zavodnik did was pretty brilliant. You would not want to play poker with this guy.
He threw the printer away to make himself seem ridiculous. That was planned. He wanted to look like a crank. What kind of idiot throws away evidence before taking you to small claims court? Then he sends you a weird letter wanting you to admit that you owe him $600,000. What do you do? What would you do if I sent you a registered letter saying that I wanted you to admit to owing me $600,000? You would ignore it like any sane person would...
The message used to say something like "Do you want to install Windows 10 now, or do you want to schedule your Windows 10 installation for later?" Clicking the X was the only way to say 'neither'. Now clicking the X says yeah, go ahead. You don't see this as sneaky in any way?
Remember a month ago when people were saying that there was no way you could accidently consent to installing Windows 10?
The only sane solution is to turn off all updates from Microsoft.
The important criteria is no longer watts/$. It is storage.
Pump storage works great as long as you have a mountain, a lake, and all the permits are in place. There are maybe a dozen places in the US where pump storage is viable. Batteries will be needed for EVs and the batteries in the EVs will massive controllable storage facility. When the batteries are no longer suitable for EVs, they can be re-purposed for grid storage for a few more years, and finally they can be recycled.
Both houses were damaged by the tornado. From some other reports, the house that was torn down was unlivable at the time.
It usually is often easier and cheaper to tear down a structure and start over that repair one.
I am sorry the owner lost some personal items, but it was a mistake and mistakes happen. No one was hurt. It can all be fixed. It really is not that big a deal.
Oddly, the meltdown may be good for the environment. The meltdown has created regions that a bad for humans and may be good for nature. Overfishing in the hot zones is no longer an issue...
Atari bet the farm on ET. That is what makes it special in terms of bad games.
The truth is the farm was already in deep trouble. They lost nearly $400 million dollars by failing to sell 4 million copies of a game at $20 a pop?
GM's last transmission was a $1.3 BILLION development.
In residential areas where there is a 25MPH speed limit, is it safer to drive on the far right side of the road or is it safer to drive near the middle of the road? Obviously, you pull to the right to pass on-coming car, but what is there is little to no on coming traffic? The 'unexpected' tends to come for the sides of the roads and driving near the center of the road increases visibility and gives you more time to react. There is no real danger of hitting an on-coming car, both drivers have plenty of time to move to the right.
You are comparing the estimated cost of the hyperloop to the actual cost of an airline terminal. If an airline terminal actually costs $2 billion to build, do you really think that $6-$8 billion is a realistic estimate for the hyperloop? How would a hyperloop terminal be any less complex than an airline terminal?
Less land?? Are you forgetting the amount of land that the tube take up?
You could terminate in the center of a city iff you could acquire the right of way to the center of the city. Good luck with that.
The idea sounds cool enough, but how does it benefit the customer? I am struggling to figure out what issue is solved by drone delivery. Drones are not faster than cars so it is not a speed issue. The drones require pilots so it is not a labor issue. Drones are expensive compared to a scooter or a used car so it is not a cost issue. Drones can't fly in bad weather so it is not a reliability issue...
If you are only 10 miles from your customer, you might as well open a retail store. Order on-line and pick up at the counter.
Pizza delivery has been 30 minutes or less for decades and they do not need drones.
So the airplane is going to spoof GPS signals to a drone 6 miles away without causing any other problems?
. 12 years is about the longest half life of the 'dangerous stuff', which means you stop caring in a hundred years or so AT MOST
Bullcrap. cesium-137, strontium-90 and iodine-131 have half lives much longer than 12 years and are and are some of the more dangerous nuclear byproducts out there. You are a damned fool if you think you can stop caring about these after "100 years of so."
You are right in that materials with very long half lives are not that dangerous due to the fact that they are not that radioactive. Stuff with very short half lives does not stick around for a long time so it is not a long-term hazard. But you are WAY off in your assertion that a spent fuel rod is perfectly safe after a 100 years of so.
Unfortunately, it really is not. Pumped hydro energy storage facilities do work; they are reasonably efficient and they can store a lot of energy. But you have to have a pretty unique combination of geology and hydrology to build such a facility.
The energy storage problems really is THE ISSUE with solar and wind. There is no magic answer.