Mod parent down! Your statistic is off by a factor of ten! From wikipedia: "By the time East Germany collapsed in 1989, it was estimated that 91,000 full-time employees and 300,000 informants were employed by the Stasi. In other words, about one in fifty East Germans collaborated with the Stasi--one of the highest penetrations of any civilian society by an intelligence-gathering organization." Here's a recommendation for you: next time check numbers instead of pulling them out of your ass!
Breeders fission is cheap for the energy it generates. It is only expensive in terms of political incorrectness, but in the end utility will override that.
All those Sunburns the Chinese bought from the Russians are now useless since recent anti-missle defenses the US Navy fleet has adopted can shoot them down. I guess Taiwan won't be reattached to the PRC just yet.
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Mod parent down: The two chromosomes are not missing, they are simply merged. The same genetic material is there, it's just that four of them got linked together into two longer chromosomes somewhere in our ancestral path.
Psychological reasons would only make sense if these people were locked in a prison. But that is not so; psychologically they knew there was an outside they could go to any time. If anything, I bet in the case of students daylight without windows would be even better because they wouldn't be distracted by things happening outside.
CFLs have terrible color rendering ability because their spectrum consists of narrow, tall spikes. It can never be filtered to approximate daylight because there are no practical wavelength-specific filters that can be used. On the other hand, the smooth spectrum of a blackbody (incandescent) can easily be filtered to match daylight, and high end incandescent bulbs (SoLux, etc.) produce actual daylights spectrum.
If you match daylight spectrum with a light, you would get the same effect. This can only be done with an incandescent, not fluorescents, not high intensity discharge lamps, not LEDs!
My computer averages 400 W (running SETI etc.). My audio system alone goes over 2 kW. For 400 Hz and higher frequencies I'm using glow discharge plasma based on Alan Hill's patent. The power supply for that draws 1800 W continuously.
There is plenty of energy to be had--breeder reactors and several extensions such as the waste transmuter developed at CERN allow most nuclear waste to be reprocessed for more fuel. As uranium mines wind down a thorium-based fuel cycle will provide plenty of long term energy supply, far more than is needed for the offspring of the multibillion dollar international ITER project to have begun operation. However, the greens insist on inadequate sources like solar and wind power because those things force conservation and that way they restrict progress. Environmentalists are at best Luddites and at worst fanatical misanthropes.
Only a blackbody like an incandescent has a smooth spectrum. There are no sufficiently wavelength-specific filters that can be used to make a fluorescent or LED match daylight spectrum. On the other hand, filtered incandescents such as solux match it almost exactly.
The color issue cannot be solved, because they use phosphors stimulated by the UV generated in the plasma to emit light, and that light is in narrow spectral peaks. There's no filtering sufficiently wavelength-specific to deal with this. On the other hand, a smooth blackbody spectrum of an incandescent can be effectively filtered to match daylight almost exactly; there are incandescent bulbs like this, such as solux.
LEDs lighting also suffers from narrowband spikes in its spectrum, and thus cannot render colors as good as a properly filtered incandescent. Only a blackbody emitter can be made to match daylight. The problem is that when you have narrow spikes in the spectrum, as LEDs and fluorescents do, it's impossible to filter them effectively as there are no practical filters that are sufficiently wavelength-specific. Compare the spectral measurement of any fluorescent or LED with that of a good daylight bulb like a solux etc., which match the solar spectrum almost exactly.
You can still do that. They didn't say you couldn't. They said that Internet radio stations are entitled to use the statutory license rather than negotiate with copyright holders, for everything. And that whenever someone uses the statutory license, the money is handled by SoundExchange, regardless of whether the copyright holder is signed up with them or not, because that's what the law mandates. No one has said that there can't be other licenses. Though signing up with SoundExchange does seem to preclude further collective licensing, though not non-collective licensing.
Honestly, this is all not a big deal. There are plenty of more important things to get worked up about, and I'd like to know how you would expect collective licensing to work, if not basically along these lines.
Are you stupid? Most of the population of Ontario (just like the rest of canada) is within 400 miles of the US border. Use other technologies for the rest, but for the dense sections where most people live, there's no reason not to go all nuclear. Look at the French, they get most of their energy from nuclear at a mere 3 cents/kW-h.
And where do you think the Ontario Power Authority gets that money? Form taxpayers. Your implication that because the cost is subsidized by the government somehow means taxpayers are not responsible for it is intellectually dishonest.
The average nuclear power plant produces as much energy as a hundred square miles of solar panels (which only produce during the day, actually, so double that number). Why waste the land? How's increasing land usage by ludicrous amounts good enviropolicy?
Maybe not all of 4chan, but certainly anyone regular in the/b/ section. Seeing the cat torture photographs convinced me of that. I don't care if I'm modded down for this post; I'm not trolling, it's how I really feel about the issue.
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Nice try, but too late.
Graphite fire is so sexy.
What's U.S. Worst?
Not even close. It's one in forty, not one in four.
Mod parent down! Your statistic is off by a factor of ten! From wikipedia: "By the time East Germany collapsed in 1989, it was estimated that 91,000 full-time employees and 300,000 informants were employed by the Stasi. In other words, about one in fifty East Germans collaborated with the Stasi--one of the highest penetrations of any civilian society by an intelligence-gathering organization." Here's a recommendation for you: next time check numbers instead of pulling them out of your ass!
I never understood why making fun of seniors is considered acceptable in these circles. I think it's really quite unethical.
Elaborate.
Breeders fission is cheap for the energy it generates. It is only expensive in terms of political incorrectness, but in the end utility will override that.
All those Sunburns the Chinese bought from the Russians are now useless since recent anti-missle defenses the US Navy fleet has adopted can shoot them down. I guess Taiwan won't be reattached to the PRC just yet.
Mod parent down: The two chromosomes are not missing, they are simply merged. The same genetic material is there, it's just that four of them got linked together into two longer chromosomes somewhere in our ancestral path.
Psychological reasons would only make sense if these people were locked in a prison. But that is not so; psychologically they knew there was an outside they could go to any time. If anything, I bet in the case of students daylight without windows would be even better because they wouldn't be distracted by things happening outside.
CFLs have terrible color rendering ability because their spectrum consists of narrow, tall spikes. It can never be filtered to approximate daylight because there are no practical wavelength-specific filters that can be used. On the other hand, the smooth spectrum of a blackbody (incandescent) can easily be filtered to match daylight, and high end incandescent bulbs (SoLux, etc.) produce actual daylights spectrum.
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Human productivity is increased by the presence of daylight: http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/conten
If you match daylight spectrum with a light, you would get the same effect. This can only be done with an incandescent, not fluorescents, not high intensity discharge lamps, not LEDs!
My computer averages 400 W (running SETI etc.). My audio system alone goes over 2 kW. For 400 Hz and higher frequencies I'm using glow discharge plasma based on Alan Hill's patent. The power supply for that draws 1800 W continuously.
There is plenty of energy to be had--breeder reactors and several extensions such as the waste transmuter developed at CERN allow most nuclear waste to be reprocessed for more fuel. As uranium mines wind down a thorium-based fuel cycle will provide plenty of long term energy supply, far more than is needed for the offspring of the multibillion dollar international ITER project to have begun operation. However, the greens insist on inadequate sources like solar and wind power because those things force conservation and that way they restrict progress. Environmentalists are at best Luddites and at worst fanatical misanthropes.
There are various of easy to use switchmode converter ICs that can be used.
Unless you have the air conditioner on, any household appliance is 100% efficient, since the 'waste' heat goes towards heating your house.
Only a blackbody like an incandescent has a smooth spectrum. There are no sufficiently wavelength-specific filters that can be used to make a fluorescent or LED match daylight spectrum. On the other hand, filtered incandescents such as solux match it almost exactly.
The color issue cannot be solved, because they use phosphors stimulated by the UV generated in the plasma to emit light, and that light is in narrow spectral peaks. There's no filtering sufficiently wavelength-specific to deal with this. On the other hand, a smooth blackbody spectrum of an incandescent can be effectively filtered to match daylight almost exactly; there are incandescent bulbs like this, such as solux.
LEDs lighting also suffers from narrowband spikes in its spectrum, and thus cannot render colors as good as a properly filtered incandescent. Only a blackbody emitter can be made to match daylight. The problem is that when you have narrow spikes in the spectrum, as LEDs and fluorescents do, it's impossible to filter them effectively as there are no practical filters that are sufficiently wavelength-specific. Compare the spectral measurement of any fluorescent or LED with that of a good daylight bulb like a solux etc., which match the solar spectrum almost exactly.
That's bullshit. We've used an FTDI USBserial chip and works fine.
You can still do that. They didn't say you couldn't. They said that Internet radio stations are entitled to use the statutory license rather than negotiate with copyright holders, for everything. And that whenever someone uses the statutory license, the money is handled by SoundExchange, regardless of whether the copyright holder is signed up with them or not, because that's what the law mandates. No one has said that there can't be other licenses. Though signing up with SoundExchange does seem to preclude further collective licensing, though not non-collective licensing. Honestly, this is all not a big deal. There are plenty of more important things to get worked up about, and I'd like to know how you would expect collective licensing to work, if not basically along these lines.
That comment deserves a +6.
Don't play stupid. Thorium breeders will last way longer than needed to see ITER's fusion offspring in operation.
Are you stupid? Most of the population of Ontario (just like the rest of canada) is within 400 miles of the US border. Use other technologies for the rest, but for the dense sections where most people live, there's no reason not to go all nuclear. Look at the French, they get most of their energy from nuclear at a mere 3 cents /kW-h.
And where do you think the Ontario Power Authority gets that money? Form taxpayers. Your implication that because the cost is subsidized by the government somehow means taxpayers are not responsible for it is intellectually dishonest.
The average nuclear power plant produces as much energy as a hundred square miles of solar panels (which only produce during the day, actually, so double that number). Why waste the land? How's increasing land usage by ludicrous amounts good enviropolicy?
Maybe not all of 4chan, but certainly anyone regular in the /b/ section. Seeing the cat torture photographs convinced me of that. I don't care if I'm modded down for this post; I'm not trolling, it's how I really feel about the issue.