I still don't understand why market share has to be the single arbiter of platform health. Incoming car analogy!
BMW and Mercedes are perfectly fine with making a product line that only has single-digit market share out of worldwide car sales, which costs more than the cheapest automobiles around. They make a decent enough profit to stay alive, and have a loyal customer base. If anyone said that BMW AG or Daimler-Benz was "getting the crap kicked out of them", or saying that "they can't innovate anymore" because they weren't moving as many cars as Ford or Toyota, they would be laughed out of the room.
The exact same go-to-market strategy is employed by Apple in a different industry, and all of a sudden they're dying because they don't shift as much inventory as every other player in the market combined. Yet, they are still insanely profitable even after dumping untold billions into R&D, and perfectly happy to sell a product that their customers have ridiculously high satisfaction with, and a repurchase rate that is the envy of practically every company in the world.
What is so special about computers and phones that dictates that one company must move more devices than everyone else combined in order to not be "getting the crap kicked out of them" ?
The fact that real engineers are discussing it disproves you. Engineers found a possible problem. Engineers brought it to the regulatory body. The regulatory body will then decide what needs to be done about it.
What you're failing to recognize is that this particular story was presented with the typical doom-and-gloom FUD that mdsolar presents everything anti-nuclear with. This is a problem that can happen with literally any three-phase electrical system regardless of where it's installed, and it can be fixed incredibly easily by adding a phase-detecting relay.
Being as we've been operating nuclear power for decades and it's only become a thing now, after a completely safe shutdown with no damage done when the issue actually happened, I don't feel that OMG SHUT THEM ALL DOWN NOW is a proper response - this is something that can be (and should be) mended during the next planned maintenance interval. Problem solved, without losing 20% of our generating capacity.
See? Even-tempered discussion, with a solution supported by evidence and facts. Without any dire predictions of nuclear death and dismemberment. It is possible.
Heh. I lucked out bigtime, and got a position doing "devops" work for a Bay Area company remotely. Bay Area salary with midwest cost of living. Double-plus excellent.
And I think I've also found the best definition yet for "devops" - doing traditional IT work that traditional IT guys can't be bothered with, or can't be bothered with doing in a speed and level of quality that is deemed reasonable for the software engineering team I work with. Because that's what I do.
So what you're saying is the next time they go subcritical for fueling or maintenance, they can install such a phase loss detection relay, and the problem is then taken care of.
They won't be replacing anything. These engineers petitioned the NRC all of 3 days ago. The NRC hasn't ruled on anything yet. And, should they put in some kind of regulation for this to be fixed (and they should), the operators will fix it the next time they are shut down for maintenance. And nothing of consequence will happen at all. The world keeps turning, and these reactors keep boiling water.
Not only that, but the RBMK units at Chernobyl use a positive void coefficient - if there are voids in the coolant, it speeds up the reaction. Thus, a loss of coolant causes a runaway problem. This was one of the MANY problems that stacked up to create the Chernobyl disaster.
Every single licensed commercial reactor in the US uses a negative void coefficient, so if you have a loss of coolant, the reaction shuts down. If you can't get coolant back onto the fuel, you might end up with some melt, but it will stay contained (Three Mile Island) rather than EXPLODING and showering radioactive debris over hundreds of miles.
You have to remember what the reaction to 9/11 was - that was two buildings in Manhattan, a closed-for-renovation wing of the Pentagon, and a 4th airliner crashing into a field. That spawned two wars and a deposing of a government that wasn't even involved.
If a nuke was detonated in the Port of Long Beach, the US military wouldn't stop until South Korea was an island.
At least he can use critical thinking and math. You seem to be falling short in those respects.
Here's a hint: in order to make a big-dick multi-megaton nuclear explosive, it's really HEAVY, and still has the inverse-cube law applied to it's detonation. Instead, you can use the same missile to carry *multiple* smaller independently-targetable warheads that do MORE damage and cost less.
Did you fall through a time hole while writing that, and finish up in 2006 rather than 2016? Do you even know what Halliburton does?
Here's a hint: it's nowhere near anything to do with space, or military defense systems. Unless they construct the concrete pad that the rockets blast off from, but that would be it.
I don't need to post facts when I have the truth on my side.
Seriously? Is this the Donald Trump School of Arguing?
If you are trying to argue truth, you DO need facts, you twit. In case you forgot, the process for making an argument without sounding like a demagogue is the following:
1. State your position 2. Present your supporting evidence (FACTS) 3. State your conclusion, where you tie the FACTS to your position.
Well, roads in Ohio are complete shit, including the toll section of I-90. I'm not saying that all toll roads are fantastic, because there's always the problem of terrible management.
I am, however, saying that the idea of usage fees paying for maintenance is just the most fair way to go - if you use more, you pay more. And I will say that the Pennsylvania Turnpike, as well as Florida's Turnpike are fantastic roads, with service stops completely furnished and maintained with usage fees.
I'd be happy if there was some in-auditorium fact checker, so when someone spouts off with some nonsense that has been long disproven, they hit a big red button that sounds a loud game-show style buzzer, and it also cuts the mic of the candidate who is speaking, and they forfeit the remainder of their time for that question.
I think a simple change like that would greatly increase the tone and substance of these debates.
Unfortunately, the restrictions on corporate "soft money" were tossed by the Supreme Court in the Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission Supreme Court decision. Thus, the unlimited money that Super PACs and corporations can dump into elections now.
Yeah, because I'm sure that engineers haven't thought of using some kind of sealed casing for the wind turbine gearboxes. Yep, those are just open-air cogs that birds can freely shit in.
And yeah, I'm sure some meth-head metal thief is going to climb a 100 foot pylon with no hand holds on it to steal... what? A spinning propeller? Energized electrical cable? Is there even one case you can point to where a wind turbine has been visited by 'metal thieves' ?
More than that, you have reliably conservative publications openly deriding him as a "Dorito-tinted proto-fascist" and declaring that anyone who endorses him is a political whore in editorials.
I don't like the idea of trading two billionaires who are pulling the puppet strings for one billionaire loudmouth asshole, personally. It would be interesting to watch, if I wasn't afraid that it will end the Republic as we know it.
You are still burning carbon chains, and that carbon is still going up the pipe. You are still releasing different oxidized gases. You are still letting lose unscrubbed particulate matter. And, that coal isn't just found laying on the ground somewhere, it still has to be dug out of a mountain, which isn't exactly the picture of 'clean' either.
Your definition of "clean" is far different than many others.
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I still don't understand why market share has to be the single arbiter of platform health. Incoming car analogy!
BMW and Mercedes are perfectly fine with making a product line that only has single-digit market share out of worldwide car sales, which costs more than the cheapest automobiles around. They make a decent enough profit to stay alive, and have a loyal customer base. If anyone said that BMW AG or Daimler-Benz was "getting the crap kicked out of them", or saying that "they can't innovate anymore" because they weren't moving as many cars as Ford or Toyota, they would be laughed out of the room.
The exact same go-to-market strategy is employed by Apple in a different industry, and all of a sudden they're dying because they don't shift as much inventory as every other player in the market combined. Yet, they are still insanely profitable even after dumping untold billions into R&D, and perfectly happy to sell a product that their customers have ridiculously high satisfaction with, and a repurchase rate that is the envy of practically every company in the world.
What is so special about computers and phones that dictates that one company must move more devices than everyone else combined in order to not be "getting the crap kicked out of them" ?
The fact that real engineers are discussing it disproves you. Engineers found a possible problem. Engineers brought it to the regulatory body. The regulatory body will then decide what needs to be done about it.
What you're failing to recognize is that this particular story was presented with the typical doom-and-gloom FUD that mdsolar presents everything anti-nuclear with. This is a problem that can happen with literally any three-phase electrical system regardless of where it's installed, and it can be fixed incredibly easily by adding a phase-detecting relay.
Being as we've been operating nuclear power for decades and it's only become a thing now, after a completely safe shutdown with no damage done when the issue actually happened, I don't feel that OMG SHUT THEM ALL DOWN NOW is a proper response - this is something that can be (and should be) mended during the next planned maintenance interval. Problem solved, without losing 20% of our generating capacity.
See? Even-tempered discussion, with a solution supported by evidence and facts. Without any dire predictions of nuclear death and dismemberment. It is possible.
Heh. I lucked out bigtime, and got a position doing "devops" work for a Bay Area company remotely. Bay Area salary with midwest cost of living. Double-plus excellent.
And I think I've also found the best definition yet for "devops" - doing traditional IT work that traditional IT guys can't be bothered with, or can't be bothered with doing in a speed and level of quality that is deemed reasonable for the software engineering team I work with. Because that's what I do.
So what you're saying is the next time they go subcritical for fueling or maintenance, they can install such a phase loss detection relay, and the problem is then taken care of.
Sounds like a plan!
It's safe to ignore calls that the sky is falling, if the person screaming it is indeed Chicken Little. Yes.
They won't be replacing anything. These engineers petitioned the NRC all of 3 days ago. The NRC hasn't ruled on anything yet. And, should they put in some kind of regulation for this to be fixed (and they should), the operators will fix it the next time they are shut down for maintenance. And nothing of consequence will happen at all. The world keeps turning, and these reactors keep boiling water.
Not only that, but the RBMK units at Chernobyl use a positive void coefficient - if there are voids in the coolant, it speeds up the reaction. Thus, a loss of coolant causes a runaway problem. This was one of the MANY problems that stacked up to create the Chernobyl disaster.
Every single licensed commercial reactor in the US uses a negative void coefficient, so if you have a loss of coolant, the reaction shuts down. If you can't get coolant back onto the fuel, you might end up with some melt, but it will stay contained (Three Mile Island) rather than EXPLODING and showering radioactive debris over hundreds of miles.
Besides that we're still technically at war with them?
You have to remember what the reaction to 9/11 was - that was two buildings in Manhattan, a closed-for-renovation wing of the Pentagon, and a 4th airliner crashing into a field. That spawned two wars and a deposing of a government that wasn't even involved.
If a nuke was detonated in the Port of Long Beach, the US military wouldn't stop until South Korea was an island.
At least he can use critical thinking and math. You seem to be falling short in those respects.
Here's a hint: in order to make a big-dick multi-megaton nuclear explosive, it's really HEAVY, and still has the inverse-cube law applied to it's detonation. Instead, you can use the same missile to carry *multiple* smaller independently-targetable warheads that do MORE damage and cost less.
Go back to 1963 where you belong.
Did you fall through a time hole while writing that, and finish up in 2006 rather than 2016? Do you even know what Halliburton does?
Here's a hint: it's nowhere near anything to do with space, or military defense systems. Unless they construct the concrete pad that the rockets blast off from, but that would be it.
I don't need to post facts when I have the truth on my side.
Seriously? Is this the Donald Trump School of Arguing?
If you are trying to argue truth, you DO need facts, you twit. In case you forgot, the process for making an argument without sounding like a demagogue is the following:
1. State your position
2. Present your supporting evidence (FACTS)
3. State your conclusion, where you tie the FACTS to your position.
Well, roads in Ohio are complete shit, including the toll section of I-90. I'm not saying that all toll roads are fantastic, because there's always the problem of terrible management.
I am, however, saying that the idea of usage fees paying for maintenance is just the most fair way to go - if you use more, you pay more. And I will say that the Pennsylvania Turnpike, as well as Florida's Turnpike are fantastic roads, with service stops completely furnished and maintained with usage fees.
Well, I'm in Cincinnati, which is still doomed. But at least Buffalo is getting a bit of something.
Yeah, because spending untold millions of dollars in this primary has had a correlation of who's doing the best. Ask Jeb! how that worked out for him.
I'd be happy if there was some in-auditorium fact checker, so when someone spouts off with some nonsense that has been long disproven, they hit a big red button that sounds a loud game-show style buzzer, and it also cuts the mic of the candidate who is speaking, and they forfeit the remainder of their time for that question.
I think a simple change like that would greatly increase the tone and substance of these debates.
We actually did pass that law. First, there was the Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974, and then the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, better known as McCain-Feingold.
Unfortunately, the restrictions on corporate "soft money" were tossed by the Supreme Court in the Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission Supreme Court decision. Thus, the unlimited money that Super PACs and corporations can dump into elections now.
And once again I am amazed by the idiocy of my fellow man.
I'd rather have the 1970s tech that was never built here, than the 1950s tech we're running (and extending the licenses for) today.
Good News: some of it is being on-shored next year when the biggest solar manufacturing plant in the western hemisphere opens in Buffalo, NY.
Only when you stop subsidizing coal with my money, you authoritarian fucktard.
Yeah, because I'm sure that engineers haven't thought of using some kind of sealed casing for the wind turbine gearboxes. Yep, those are just open-air cogs that birds can freely shit in.
And yeah, I'm sure some meth-head metal thief is going to climb a 100 foot pylon with no hand holds on it to steal... what? A spinning propeller? Energized electrical cable? Is there even one case you can point to where a wind turbine has been visited by 'metal thieves' ?
More than that, you have reliably conservative publications openly deriding him as a "Dorito-tinted proto-fascist" and declaring that anyone who endorses him is a political whore in editorials.
Strange times, indeed.
I don't like the idea of trading two billionaires who are pulling the puppet strings for one billionaire loudmouth asshole, personally. It would be interesting to watch, if I wasn't afraid that it will end the Republic as we know it.
You are still burning carbon chains, and that carbon is still going up the pipe. You are still releasing different oxidized gases. You are still letting lose unscrubbed particulate matter. And, that coal isn't just found laying on the ground somewhere, it still has to be dug out of a mountain, which isn't exactly the picture of 'clean' either.
Your definition of "clean" is far different than many others.