No one every argues that solar panels are going to take up all the sun's warmth and freeze our planet.
That's because we have an atmosphere that retains heat that would otherwise be reflected back into space and moving electrons produces heat as well. Unless you suggest blocking sunlight with huge solar panels in space and using the generated electricity for purposes other than heating with 100% efficiency.
The problem is keeping the reaction under control afterwards!
You're confusing fission and fusion:
If a nucleus is unstable (radioactive) it will eventually decay, shooting off particles with lots of energy. Individual nuclei are unpredictable, but for a group of atoms, the half-life tells how long it will take for half of them to go off. But if you concentrate a bunch of atoms close together, the particles shot of by one can trigger another atom to fission. This "chain reaction" can result in many or most of the nuclei all decaying very quickly. To keep it from going too fast, a fission reactor has control rods to insert in between the rods that contain the radioactive material--this keeps the chain reaction from working. If the control rods are not inserted, the chain reaction will produce energy. If some malfunction or error were to result in the energy not being removed fast enough, the reactor could overheat and things can actually "melt down".
A fusion reactor would be very different. Fusion does not take place spontaneously the way fission does. Since the protons in one nucleus repel the protons in another nucleus you have to supply a lot of force to get them close enough together to get the nuclear attraction to takeover and fuse the 2 smaller nuclei together to make a bigger one. Energy is then produced. So, if there is some malfunction in a fusion reactor, it can't take off like in a chain reaction. In a malfunction the fusion would just stop. - http://users.marshall.edu/~bady/ps110/content/expl 1a.html
If you were thinking of hydrogen bomb fusion, that's triggered by an atomic bomb.
Why buy those really expensive, big, fast-updating LCDs when a cheap, big enough LCD screen will display MS Office just as well while saving even more energy and desk space? Times a few hundred that really adds up.
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Until there's a way to safely dispose of nuclear waste and keep it out of the hands of terrorists, I'd opt for more efficient (incl. sustainable) power usage. Hybrids and flywheels are a nice start.
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Most oxygen is bound up in different oxides.
Burned, as it were.;)
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Fire requires free oxygen and something to burn. You are not going to find much of that anywhere where there is not life.
Which is exactly what we're evolved to have. Intelligence and society.
I think that conflicts with the notion that we were evolutionarily designed to be aggressive and violent. Or atleast severely weakens that assertion.
Most aggression amongst humans, or virtually any animal, simply arises out of stress and fear, not because we were specifically designed for it.
Don't need 'em. We have rocks, spears, and nuclear weapons.
Rocks and spears are a bit hard to carry with you at all times and nuclear weapons take a lot of intelligence and team work to build.
We don't think full-grown lions are cute.
I do.
What's a baby going to do?
Baby lifeforms that have evolved to be agressive and violent tend to bite and break stuff.. ok, you may be on to something there.;)
Anyway, there are lots of nice, non-violent humans.
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There is some astonishingly good reason, incidentally, for why plastic panels are not being picked up by other automakers, excluding Saturn. I just can't remember what it is right now.
It's hard to get it strong, durable and repairable enough.
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No one every argues that solar panels are going to take up all the sun's warmth and freeze our planet.
That's because we have an atmosphere that retains heat that would otherwise be reflected back into space and moving electrons produces heat as well. Unless you suggest blocking sunlight with huge solar panels in space and using the generated electricity for purposes other than heating with 100% efficiency.
Our uranium supply is limited and nuclear waste stays nasty for a very long time. Storage capacity is running out, too.
You're confusing fission and fusion:
If you were thinking of hydrogen bomb fusion, that's triggered by an atomic bomb.
Less eyestrain and power consumption.
My college bought them mainly to relieve the airconditioning.
Why buy those really expensive, big, fast-updating LCDs when a cheap, big enough LCD screen will display MS Office just as well while saving even more energy and desk space? Times a few hundred that really adds up.
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How about a Beowulf cluster of Profit jokes?
I was thinking of Faceball.
And/or compete to become a market leader in sustainable power. While they're still profiting off oil, they could figure out better fusion reactors.
Until there's a way to safely dispose of nuclear waste and keep it out of the hands of terrorists, I'd opt for more efficient (incl. sustainable) power usage. Hybrids and flywheels are a nice start.
Most oxygen is bound up in different oxides.
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Burned, as it were.
Fire requires free oxygen and something to burn. You are not going to find much of that anywhere where there is not life.
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Since you're picking nits, I'd like to point out that oxygen and most burnable elements were in fact created by stars and are abundant in the universe.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/stars/stellars
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Which is exactly what we're evolved to have. Intelligence and society.
I think that conflicts with the notion that we were evolutionarily designed to be aggressive and violent. Or atleast severely weakens that assertion. Most aggression amongst humans, or virtually any animal, simply arises out of stress and fear, not because we were specifically designed for it.
Unless they mean chicken eggs, in which case it depends on how you define what kind of egg it is.
Don't need 'em. We have rocks, spears, and nuclear weapons. Rocks and spears are a bit hard to carry with you at all times and nuclear weapons take a lot of intelligence and team work to build. We don't think full-grown lions are cute. I do. What's a baby going to do? Baby lifeforms that have evolved to be agressive and violent tend to bite and break stuff.. ok, you may be on to something there. ;)
Anyway, there are lots of nice, non-violent humans.
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> I'm not sure I would go so far, but it is true: humans are evolutionarily designed to be aggressive and violent.
If that were so, why don't we have claws, horns, a tougher hide, and less affection for cute cuddly things?
There's always hemp.
it says so itself!
Here are some other creation stories.
Perhaps God created the big bang in itself and mankind invented religion to soothe minds and facilitate ruling.
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