But I'm against decentralization of population. I'm not saying we should all live in arcologies, but clearly suburbs are a flawed model. Cities with dense residential cores, such as the one I live in (Vancouver, BC) show that high density urban life can have very high quality (Vancouver is 3rd in the world in Mercer's quality of life rankings). I certainly cannot see conservation as anything but restriction on progress. Perfect example: light bulbs. Only incandescent bulbs have a smooth spectrum which can be filtered easily to match daylight exactly. The rest are non-blackbody emitters, and all of them, be they CFLs, other fluorescents, high intensity discharge, or LEDs, have spiky narrowband spectra with horrible color rendering ability, and no filters are sufficiently wavelength-specific to be effective in correcting these lights. Yet due to conservation issues, Australia, California, and Canada are all getting ready to ban light bulbs that do not meet efficiency standards which would eliminate incandescents from the market. Conservation and efficiency should never, ever, be at the expense of anything else! I say any compromise is unacceptable.
The true environmentalist scam is that conservation is a thinly veiled attempt to curb human progress. The greens are little more than fanatical misanthropes.
Restricting energy usage, and conservation overall, is equivalent to restricting human progress. Money should be spent on developing promising energy sources. With the best technologies fission will run out in a few centuries, due to finite supplies of uranium and thorium, even if breeder technology is used. Fusion is the ONLY really long term source. Solar and wind is insufficient to sustain progress, especially as developing and third world nations become industrialized. You'd have to cover the planet with solar panels and windmills to cope.
You're full of shit and FUD. There is far more uranium that can be extracted with more advanced methods than the current mining styles. Beyond that, there are enormous supplies of thorium, which can be bred into fuel. As for breeders, political reality in the end cannot override energy needs. The most politically incorrect methods will be acceptable when the world gets starved from energy. There is NO other method that can provide the increasing energy needs due to progress and the industrialization of developing and third world nations. With green options, you'd have to cover the fucking planet with solar panels and wind mills to manage. With full development of the fission options, there will be more than enough time for the ITER project's fusion offspring to be in full operation. No serious scientist expects ITER to fail, and the world's foremost nations are pouring tens of billions into it for good reason.
Three things make this a nonissue. Breeder reactors can extend this significantly; it's referring to only current mining methods; there is far more that can be extracted with increased effort; thorium can be bred into fuel and there's way more thorium than uranium. By the time all these options are used up, the ITER project's fusion offspring would have long been in operation.
What a dumbass you are. State transitions don't define states of matter; many state transitions don't lead to new states of matter at all. Go back to your books.
That's still not enough. The human eye has at least 60 dB dynamic range within any given pupil dilation state. This far only expensive HDR displays (e.g. Brightside's which are about $50,000) to manage that.
Then you need an extended color gamut to cover the full range of color that the eye can see. There are some projector systems that do that, using more than the usual 3 color filters.
Then you need autostereoscopic displays to get proper 3D (I won't even mention the lack of accomodation depth perception, the eye's adjustment of focal depth, which does play a part; only holographic displays manage that).
There are some examples of each of these. But you'd need to have all three in one display to get a true illusion of a window into another world. Not gonna happen anytime soon!
Geico only operates in the US. Slasdhot has a significant population elsewhere, so it IMO it's not appropriate for the OP to have gotten +5 for a joke only a subset of the site users would be able to get.
No, you cretinous imbecile. The problem with a touchscreen on the front is that the fingers cover part of the screen when you're touching it. When it's on the back, you can see the whole screen while using the touch interface. You didn't need to read the article to realize that, just basic thinking. Then again, obviously your type needs everything handed on a platter.
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You can't go electric as there's not enough copper in the world to wind large electric motors for every car.
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Follow the money. The tens of billions are going towards tokamaks, not some crackpot's pipe dream.
But I'm against decentralization of population. I'm not saying we should all live in arcologies, but clearly suburbs are a flawed model. Cities with dense residential cores, such as the one I live in (Vancouver, BC) show that high density urban life can have very high quality (Vancouver is 3rd in the world in Mercer's quality of life rankings). I certainly cannot see conservation as anything but restriction on progress. Perfect example: light bulbs. Only incandescent bulbs have a smooth spectrum which can be filtered easily to match daylight exactly. The rest are non-blackbody emitters, and all of them, be they CFLs, other fluorescents, high intensity discharge, or LEDs, have spiky narrowband spectra with horrible color rendering ability, and no filters are sufficiently wavelength-specific to be effective in correcting these lights. Yet due to conservation issues, Australia, California, and Canada are all getting ready to ban light bulbs that do not meet efficiency standards which would eliminate incandescents from the market. Conservation and efficiency should never, ever, be at the expense of anything else! I say any compromise is unacceptable.
IEC is useful as a neutron source in the lab, and little else. You can never improve the horrible efficiency of Fusors.
Self-reliance is not good, because it is the opposite mode of mass production of (whatever) at centralized locations that is most efficient.
The true environmentalist scam is that conservation is a thinly veiled attempt to curb human progress. The greens are little more than fanatical misanthropes.
Restricting energy usage, and conservation overall, is equivalent to restricting human progress. Money should be spent on developing promising energy sources. With the best technologies fission will run out in a few centuries, due to finite supplies of uranium and thorium, even if breeder technology is used. Fusion is the ONLY really long term source. Solar and wind is insufficient to sustain progress, especially as developing and third world nations become industrialized. You'd have to cover the planet with solar panels and windmills to cope.
You're full of shit and FUD. There is far more uranium that can be extracted with more advanced methods than the current mining styles. Beyond that, there are enormous supplies of thorium, which can be bred into fuel. As for breeders, political reality in the end cannot override energy needs. The most politically incorrect methods will be acceptable when the world gets starved from energy. There is NO other method that can provide the increasing energy needs due to progress and the industrialization of developing and third world nations. With green options, you'd have to cover the fucking planet with solar panels and wind mills to manage. With full development of the fission options, there will be more than enough time for the ITER project's fusion offspring to be in full operation. No serious scientist expects ITER to fail, and the world's foremost nations are pouring tens of billions into it for good reason.
Three things make this a nonissue. Breeder reactors can extend this significantly; it's referring to only current mining methods; there is far more that can be extracted with increased effort; thorium can be bred into fuel and there's way more thorium than uranium. By the time all these options are used up, the ITER project's fusion offspring would have long been in operation.
www.iter.org
No serious scientist expects ITER to fail. It's no wonder tens of billions of dollars are being poured into the project by the world's major nations.
Obviously I meant to type phase transitions.
What a dumbass you are. State transitions don't define states of matter; many state transitions don't lead to new states of matter at all. Go back to your books.
Resistivity of aluminum is significantly higher than copper. You'll get unreasonable I^2*R losses, and cooling the motor also becomes an issue.
That's still not enough. The human eye has at least 60 dB dynamic range within any given pupil dilation state. This far only expensive HDR displays (e.g. Brightside's which are about $50,000) to manage that.
Then you need an extended color gamut to cover the full range of color that the eye can see. There are some projector systems that do that, using more than the usual 3 color filters.
Then you need autostereoscopic displays to get proper 3D (I won't even mention the lack of accomodation depth perception, the eye's adjustment of focal depth, which does play a part; only holographic displays manage that).
There are some examples of each of these. But you'd need to have all three in one display to get a true illusion of a window into another world. Not gonna happen anytime soon!
The real loss in hybrids is that there's simply not enough copper to wind large electric motors in every car in the world.
Doesn't matter; I still have more Karma than you, sucka
Geico only operates in the US. Slasdhot has a significant population elsewhere, so it IMO it's not appropriate for the OP to have gotten +5 for a joke only a subset of the site users would be able to get.
Yeah, the last episode happened. It was the best of the series (I also enjoyed the Baltar trial a lot).
>All characters are fair game. I must admit, I couldn't watch the show without the Olmos character.
Care to back up your attack on ITER?
No, you cretinous imbecile. The problem with a touchscreen on the front is that the fingers cover part of the screen when you're touching it. When it's on the back, you can see the whole screen while using the touch interface. You didn't need to read the article to realize that, just basic thinking. Then again, obviously your type needs everything handed on a platter.
It's dying. Even new Macs don't have Firewire.
I don't get the duck/mango reference.
What's with the 4chan speak anyway...