Republican, Democrat, WHATEVER, they're all saying the same thing to you (whatever they think will make you vote for them) now, and doing whatever the fuck they can to maximize benefit to their personal pocket book later.
If you think this is somehow mitigated by party affiliation, you REALLY need to stop abusing your prescriptions and hike your way out of fantasy land.
Nuclear plants can't be used to adjust production on the fly, it's a baseline production.
Uh yeah. That's the point. You build a baseline system with nuclear. Then augment it with renewables like existing Hydro, and the growing solar, wind and geo to smooth out peaks in demand.
One can't just start or stop the nuclear reactor in a few minutes or even an hour of response time to answer for power increase or decrease of fluctuating renewable source.
One can, however, build a nuclear baseline that meets the majority of needs and use other forms of power (preferably ones that don't release CO2 back into the atmosphere) for peak power.
(I also remind that emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor is quite bad for its components)
Keeping some NG plants handy while increasing renewable sources is actually a pretty good deal.
Sure it is. For the NG suppliers.
Also, how is a shutdown "bad for its components" in something like a molten salt reactor? Oh that's right. It isn't. It's a simple, gravity-driven process that IMMEDIATELY shuts down the reaction. And there's no water to superheat and cause explosions.
Sorry, but if you think you can run the country on just renewables plus NG, you're insane.
In the US, you're not going to get any more big hydro. And micro-hydro projects will have to be snuck in SPARINGLY. Also, why the crap should we keep going with a polluting technology like NG?
Read my text. NUCLEAR! Far more energy dense, and you don't pump the waste out into the atmosphere. Moreover, the byproducts of things like a LFTR can be burned in a separate reactor as fuel. Nice, steady, PLENTIFUL power with which to make a solid try at something better (like Fusion power).
Seriously. People need to stop thinking of renewable energy sources as completely clean and utterly harmless. They aren't. And never have been.
Once the lies and misconceptions are cleared away, THEN people can start making intelligent choices about the risks they want to take building out their power systems.
Fusion isn't developed to the point where it's viable yet. It's currently short-duration and net-energy negative at the moment.
Second, trying to get to fusion with existing fossil fuel plants will just kill the planet that much faster. DUMB!
There ARE relatively clean and safe options for fission power. And in the long run, we're better off transitioning base load power to fission plants, eliminating coal, oil and NG now, then chasing fusion while not poisoning the planet.
Is there a possibility of something like the original article describes?
Sure.
But there's also a possibility of a rogue black hole eating the system too. Do we crouch here, wet ourselves and just wait for it to happen?
OCZ crashed and burned its goodwill in the industry for a reason. Toshiba, one of the most customer-hostile electronics companies I've ever come across bought them.
Sure, Toshiba COULD have improved the OCZ line drastically. At this point, it's a Zenith-type brand label and nothing more. And if it means having to deal with those noxious pricks at Toshiba? NO FUCKING WAY IN HELL!
I'd rather buy something like a 1TB Samsung 850 Pro and film myself: Running software to burn it over it's write limits till it dies. Repeatedly throw it on the ground from the top of a 10 story building. Run over it with a forklift a couple times. Douse it in lighter fluid and light it up. Wipe my ass with the remains. Emasculate myself with an ice cream scooper.
Then try to the drive, the video and the schlong into Samsung demanding warranty service. I'd have better luck with everything working out okay than I would for even a minor problem with Toshiba.
Basically, like just about every other "ism" out there, we'll see mission creep. Or people abusing a badly defined policy to censor legitimate and non-infringing dialogs.
I'm not saying the sentiment isn't noble. But they just don't have an apparatus in place to make sure it gets applied in a fair, even-handed manner.
Sorry, but the pool of "end users" are a seething, bottomless morass of rampant, drooling idiocy.
Switching to another platform isn't going to magically "fix" things. You're still going to have a bunch of nincompoops who're unable to comprehend your systems and who will complain regardless of what you put in place. Simply because bitching at you is easier and more fun than actually trying to learn something.
I'm stating a simple fact of doing business over there. Sooner or later, regardless of the precautions you take, someone working for or with you in China is going to fuck you over and steal your stuff.
Period.
Several of my clients, who've never DONE business in China have had their entire COMPANIES cloned.
Suddenly they're getting parts in that don't match any of their specs, and, eventually, entire units that their company has never produced from disgruntled "customers".
This is not a slur against the Chinese people.
It is merely that the business atmosphere over there is one gigantic den of thieves.
Maybe in some areas of the world, Hydro can help supplement the baseload.
But not everywhere.
And in some developed countries, like the US, you're not going to see any more major, large-scale hydro projects due to environmental concerns.
And, as it is, Hydro only supplies a tiny fraction of the energy needs of the US (66% of all renewable energy in the US is Hydro, and the US currently utilizes renewable energy for about 11% of it's total consumption). So do the math.
Not to mention the environmental impacts.
Look at 3 Gorges in China. The breakdown of vegetation in the reservoirs actually is releasing CO2 back into the atmosphere.
On top of this, the water in the area is highly polluted as the Yangtze river has BILLIONS OF GALLONS of sewage dumped into it every year, and the communities that were flooded out have released effluents and detritus into the waters.
The amount of silt being blocked by the dam upstream is gradually becoming a hazard to shipping, a flood hazard and will eventually effect the dams ability to control waterflow through the dam's own systems, reducing energy output.
The damn interferes with the ecosystem. Fish can't swim upstream to spawn, etc, etc.
Massive amounts of forest land was cleared and burned during the construction of the dam. Releasing tons and tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
The changing ground pressure and altered water table have contributed to landslides and earthquakes in the region.
Honestly. This is just going to continue being a problem for these overly complex, Rube Goldberg device solid fuel, pressurized water reactors.
Creating the fission reaction is the EASY part. Even keeping it under control is fairly brain-dead simple. The problem is that a psychotic amount of over-engineering goes into a complex, heavily layered disaster shutdown system. And, because the engineering is so complex, and the tolerances so exacting, even marginal variances explode the project from expensive to "snorting cash like a 50,000hp vacuum" boondoggle in negative three seconds.
This is one of the big reasons I'm a huge fan of molten salt reactors. In an emergency, you dump the reactor vessel, separating the fuel from the catalyst. The reaction stops. And the system cools off. PLUS, there's no water under high temperature and pressure looking to explode and turn your powerplant into the Oz Scarecrow (they tore my legs off and they threw them over there, and then they tore my chest out and threw it over THERE!).
It has nothing to do with scoring. Just the game itself puts me to sleep. I don't watch football for much the same reason. And, while I've enjoyed a few live baseball games, I don't go out of my way to go to them and never watch them on TV. About the closest I come is Hockey. And, even there, I don't usually pay lots of attention.
All in all, I view the enterprise as a giant waste of time and money.
Most humans can barely control automobiles that are limited to TWO dimensions. And we still have millions of accidents and tens of thousands of fatalities every year. Add a vertical dimension and watch statistics skyrocket (no pun intended).
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In other words, he's being a Republican.
No you jackass. He's being a politician.
Republican, Democrat, WHATEVER, they're all saying the same thing to you (whatever they think will make you vote for them) now, and doing whatever the fuck they can to maximize benefit to their personal pocket book later.
If you think this is somehow mitigated by party affiliation, you REALLY need to stop abusing your prescriptions and hike your way out of fantasy land.
Sorry, but if you think you can run the country on just renewables plus NG, you're insane.
I don't think renewables and NG will be enough with current and foreseeable technologies, maybe I've been misunderstood...
Then I apologize for the inference.
I think s/he is trying to make a point that African crises are largely confined to Africa.
Yes, because nasty shit like this, and the things that follow it, ALWAYS stay contained!
Not to mention that it's just shrugging off the sheer misery happening over the entire continent...
You ever actually see what sales are like at a gaming convention?
Apparently not.
Nuclear plants can't be used to adjust production on the fly, it's a baseline production.
Uh yeah. That's the point. You build a baseline system with nuclear.
Then augment it with renewables like existing Hydro, and the growing solar, wind and geo to smooth out peaks in demand.
One can't just start or stop the nuclear reactor in a few minutes or even an hour of response time to answer for power increase or decrease of fluctuating renewable source.
One can, however, build a nuclear baseline that meets the majority of needs and use other forms of power (preferably ones that don't release CO2 back into the atmosphere) for peak power.
(I also remind that emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor is quite bad for its components)
Keeping some NG plants handy while increasing renewable sources is actually a pretty good deal.
Sure it is. For the NG suppliers.
Also, how is a shutdown "bad for its components" in something like a molten salt reactor?
Oh that's right. It isn't. It's a simple, gravity-driven process that IMMEDIATELY shuts down the reaction. And there's no water to superheat and cause explosions.
Sorry, but if you think you can run the country on just renewables plus NG, you're insane.
In the US, you're not going to get any more big hydro. And micro-hydro projects will have to be snuck in SPARINGLY.
Also, why the crap should we keep going with a polluting technology like NG?
Read my text. NUCLEAR!
Far more energy dense, and you don't pump the waste out into the atmosphere.
Moreover, the byproducts of things like a LFTR can be burned in a separate reactor as fuel.
Nice, steady, PLENTIFUL power with which to make a solid try at something better (like Fusion power).
Seriously. People need to stop thinking of renewable energy sources as completely clean and utterly harmless.
They aren't. And never have been.
Once the lies and misconceptions are cleared away, THEN people can start making intelligent choices about the risks they want to take building out their power systems.
Pathfinder kicked the living crap out of D&D5 in terms of sales.
For a good chunk of people now, Pathfinder IS D&D. Congrats to the guys and gals at Paizo.
Fusion isn't developed to the point where it's viable yet. It's currently short-duration and net-energy negative at the moment.
Second, trying to get to fusion with existing fossil fuel plants will just kill the planet that much faster. DUMB!
There ARE relatively clean and safe options for fission power. And in the long run, we're better off transitioning base load power to fission plants, eliminating coal, oil and NG now, then chasing fusion while not poisoning the planet.
Is there a possibility of something like the original article describes?
Sure.
But there's also a possibility of a rogue black hole eating the system too. Do we crouch here, wet ourselves and just wait for it to happen?
It's called "risk management" for a reason.
Sorry, but no way in hell.
OCZ crashed and burned its goodwill in the industry for a reason.
Toshiba, one of the most customer-hostile electronics companies I've ever come across bought them.
Sure, Toshiba COULD have improved the OCZ line drastically. At this point, it's a Zenith-type brand label and nothing more.
And if it means having to deal with those noxious pricks at Toshiba? NO FUCKING WAY IN HELL!
I'd rather buy something like a 1TB Samsung 850 Pro and film myself:
Running software to burn it over it's write limits till it dies.
Repeatedly throw it on the ground from the top of a 10 story building.
Run over it with a forklift a couple times.
Douse it in lighter fluid and light it up.
Wipe my ass with the remains.
Emasculate myself with an ice cream scooper.
Then try to the drive, the video and the schlong into Samsung demanding warranty service.
I'd have better luck with everything working out okay than I would for even a minor problem with Toshiba.
Basically, like just about every other "ism" out there, we'll see mission creep. Or people abusing a badly defined policy to censor legitimate and non-infringing dialogs.
I'm not saying the sentiment isn't noble. But they just don't have an apparatus in place to make sure it gets applied in a fair, even-handed manner.
Hey, I never said there wouldn't be consequences.
It's up to the individual to determine whether or not said consequences are acceptable.
Oh. So you disagree!
Tell us all about it!
Note: This disagreement brought to you by American-backed free speech...
Sorry, but the pool of "end users" are a seething, bottomless morass of rampant, drooling idiocy.
Switching to another platform isn't going to magically "fix" things. You're still going to have a bunch of nincompoops who're unable to comprehend your systems and who will complain regardless of what you put in place. Simply because bitching at you is easier and more fun than actually trying to learn something.
No. Because, if the law is prevented from doing its job, it's the duty of every freedom-loving citizen to draw attention to the injustice.
Promising and then following through with giving these people "David Carradine Happy Endings" will draw appropriate amounts.
They SQL-injected Healthcare.gov and received a dump of everything that hasn't been purged out of the system since the last purge.
No. But thanks for pulling the race card moron.
I'm stating a simple fact of doing business over there. Sooner or later, regardless of the precautions you take, someone working for or with you in China is going to fuck you over and steal your stuff.
Period.
Several of my clients, who've never DONE business in China have had their entire COMPANIES cloned.
Suddenly they're getting parts in that don't match any of their specs, and, eventually, entire units that their company has never produced from disgruntled "customers".
This is not a slur against the Chinese people.
It is merely that the business atmosphere over there is one gigantic den of thieves.
Seriously. Stealing there is a way of life.
Maybe in some areas of the world, Hydro can help supplement the baseload.
But not everywhere.
And in some developed countries, like the US, you're not going to see any more major, large-scale hydro projects due to environmental concerns.
And, as it is, Hydro only supplies a tiny fraction of the energy needs of the US (66% of all renewable energy in the US is Hydro, and the US currently utilizes renewable energy for about 11% of it's total consumption). So do the math.
Not to mention the environmental impacts.
Look at 3 Gorges in China.
The breakdown of vegetation in the reservoirs actually is releasing CO2 back into the atmosphere.
On top of this, the water in the area is highly polluted as the Yangtze river has BILLIONS OF GALLONS of sewage dumped into it every year, and the communities that were flooded out have released effluents and detritus into the waters.
The amount of silt being blocked by the dam upstream is gradually becoming a hazard to shipping, a flood hazard and will eventually effect the dams ability to control waterflow through the dam's own systems, reducing energy output.
The damn interferes with the ecosystem. Fish can't swim upstream to spawn, etc, etc.
Massive amounts of forest land was cleared and burned during the construction of the dam. Releasing tons and tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
The changing ground pressure and altered water table have contributed to landslides and earthquakes in the region.
Clean, safe energy for the masses?
I think not...
Why don't we apply this to ALL craptocurrency?
It's a waste of time, computing power, energy and programming time needed to alter payment backends for this e-funny-money.
If nobody participates, they all collapse like the speculating-their-asses-off house of cards that they are.
Honestly. This is just going to continue being a problem for these overly complex, Rube Goldberg device solid fuel, pressurized water reactors.
Creating the fission reaction is the EASY part. Even keeping it under control is fairly brain-dead simple. The problem is that a psychotic amount of over-engineering goes into a complex, heavily layered disaster shutdown system. And, because the engineering is so complex, and the tolerances so exacting, even marginal variances explode the project from expensive to "snorting cash like a 50,000hp vacuum" boondoggle in negative three seconds.
This is one of the big reasons I'm a huge fan of molten salt reactors. In an emergency, you dump the reactor vessel, separating the fuel from the catalyst.
The reaction stops. And the system cools off. PLUS, there's no water under high temperature and pressure looking to explode and turn your powerplant into the Oz Scarecrow (they tore my legs off and they threw them over there, and then they tore my chest out and threw it over THERE!).
Paul,
When has DRM seriously hindered anyone (but legitimate consumers) from accessing desired content?
You all need to step back and take a breath.
It has nothing to do with scoring. Just the game itself puts me to sleep.
I don't watch football for much the same reason.
And, while I've enjoyed a few live baseball games, I don't go out of my way to go to them and never watch them on TV.
About the closest I come is Hockey. And, even there, I don't usually pay lots of attention.
All in all, I view the enterprise as a giant waste of time and money.
And I still have to turn it off after a couple minutes because it's putting me to sleep.
Most humans can barely control automobiles that are limited to TWO dimensions.
And we still have millions of accidents and tens of thousands of fatalities every year.
Add a vertical dimension and watch statistics skyrocket (no pun intended).