This is exactly how Joules Energy is doing this, only with blue-green algae (cyanobacteria). The advantage of using cyanobacteria is that it uses the sun and our sewage for feed stock. OTOH, by doing e-coli, they will have to feed it corn and other energy expensive feedstock.
My guess is that since Joules Energy made the announcement 2 years ago about what they had worked towards for the previous 8 years, that South Korea is simply playing catch up.
Actually, we have an easy way to lower the price, which is to encourage coal industry to do coal=>methane. It can be done for $6.5/MMBTU (including mining, transportation, and conversion), and to be honest, it makes sense to do this. But 6.5 is above the price of nukes. As such, we are still much better off NOT killing these nukes, but replacing these with cheaper thorium reactors, which can burn up the nuke waste.
What is really needed is to have NEW reactors available to replace the old ones. To replace nuclear power with Nat. Gas or wind/solar is a horrible mistake. By putting in place a number of small reactors (300 MW size) that were built in factories and shipped to on-site, this can lower the price of nuke energy. But, what is also needed are reactors that can burn up the on-site stored 'waste'. It is long past time for CONgress to quit playing their fucking games and focus on solving problems: illegals, and energy are but 2 big ones.
First off, China does not go to the ISS (thankfully).
Secondly, for us to have bases in space and elsewhere, we need MULTIPLE launch systems. That way, when one has issues, then things can still go forward. Right now, the ISS is 100% dependent on Russia. We need for there to be 3 or more multiple human launchers and ideally at least 2 cargo launch systems in the same area. By that, I mean that ESA and Russia service cargo via the Russian ports. America has 2 services on the western berth (and now 3).
BTW, when SpaceX builds their 150-200 tonnes launch system over the next couple of years, we really need to have another complement it. Sadly, the SLS is NOT a good choice.
Just because it has been done before doesn't make this routine. More importantly, that there are now two companies with proven track records of delivering bulk cargo to the ISS, it implies that a disaster or major engineering flaw on one spacecraft won't stop the other spacecraft type from continuing to fly.
Oh, I am a big fan of redundancy, esp. for space systems. NASA under Nixon, reagan, and W proved that we need multiple launch systems to be in space constantly. However, when it comes to delivering cargo to the ISS, there is Russia, and ESA that deliver on on Russian ports, and SpaceX, and Japan that use berthing of the west. IOW, we already had redundancy in terms of cargo to the ISS. What is REALLY needed right now, is human flight to be restored.
Now you pointed out 2 of the options which is CST-100 and actually, Dragon Rider. But there is a 3rd which is SNC's Dream Chaser.
And when one of these fly first with a human cargo, they will be historic since it will be the first private system to LEO. The second that follows it will NOT be historic since, like COTS, CCXDEV is designed to put multiple American human launcher systems into space. The 2'nd and 3rd will simply be following.
Oh, I am fine with it being posted. Just noting the fact that it was NOT historic, and that OSC really did not do that much. In fact, they did far less building then even Boeing and L-Mart do on their systems.
This is really not that historic. They were not first private company to their. That was SpaceX. They did not build the unit that docked there. That was thale. The did not build the rocket. That was Russia and other companies of America.
OSC simply assembled other ppl's work and called it theirs, while claiming enough money to pay for it all. IOW, OSC really did not put skin into the game.
amazing.
Scientists proclaim that climage change is occurring. Scientists are doing this for making money.
American DOD studies it and proclaims that it is occuring and they need to be ready. Obviously, it is about making money.
Insurance companies procmain that it is occuring and show evidence of it. Obviously, it is about making money.
Then the oil companies and the GOP claim that it is not happening, and you claim that it is not about making money.
Really? I guess that explains why we have creationism being pushed into schools.
Yes, but, assume a flock of drones go in. During a fight, it might be useful to have several that have active radar and can then send the information to the others. Likewise, the others can have sensors to pick up the radar scatter and then cross send the information.
directional radar is possible. Likewise, with the detectors in place, it might be able to make use of other's radar signals to see crafts. Personally, I think that a fleet of drones that communicate would make good sense.
That is in the VISIBLE light spectrum. In other spectrum, you would pick up images even with the clouds. Personally, I am wondering if a drone flying on its own would be fine, esp. using enemy radar against others. Likewise, add in the ability for drone's to talk to each other and notify themselves of where they are at, and perhaps picking up other crafts.
Seriously, these plants are ran on old gen I and II technology. they have built up a MASSIVE amount of 'spent fuel', that will sit there for ages while politcians fight over storage.
BUT, a smart move is for yankee and others to buy B&H reactors, and push for thorium reactor as well. These are Gen III+ as well as Gen IV. These can be brought in SAFELY, and replace the current reactors. Then the spent fuel is used in the thorium reactors to burn it up. So, instead of transporting 1000 tonnes of fuel, in about 40 years, they will only need to transport about 100 tonnes of fuel.
These towns should be pushing hard and fast for thorium plants. Now.
Japan is LOADED with a number of beta emitters that are perfect for making nuclear batteries. If we start filtering that water over by their nukes, we can create a number of batteries that can provide power for mars and the moon. And this is actually safer than Pu.
Now, with that said, we STILL need plutonium. In particular, deep space probes need not just power, but heat. Plutonium is far better for both of that.
Lets see.
Will it have the quality? Not likely.
Will it have the customer services? Again, not likely.
Will it have the safety? Zero chance.
Will it have the performance? Based on GM since 1980, zero chance.
Will it have the range for 30K? Well, their junky volt costs an arm and a leg and delivers little, so zero chance.
This should be about making a CHEAP, nearly fail-safe, anaerobic digester, that will take human and animal waste and create methane. It needs to allow easy run-time loading, rather than batch loading. With such an approach, it solves multiple issues.
Chemicals can and do kill many more in one shot, is far far worse, is less discriminatory, and finally, will lead to the use of the worst: biologicals.
BTW, I have seen ppl die from bullets, and I have worked with Sarin, so have watched rabbits die from it. I will take a bullet over the gas.
First off, you will notice that I spoke of using American or Western parts. Secondly, states regularly require that an item comes from their state. Happens all the time. Texas is a big one on that.
Actually, u need to re-read the constitution.
We CAN and DO put restrictions on where parts are sourced. Happens all the time. Used to happen long ago. The fear is about WTO, however, they have rules that say that when a nation is down in the hole 5% to another in a trade deficit, then that nation can take actions. In addition, WTO is about the FEDERAL gov, not states. IOW, the WTO can not say SQUAT.
Yeah, can not outsource roads or bridges. Google for 'illegal aliens united states'. Then google for 'bay bridge china'. Idiots like you have no clue.
OTOH, if a STATE requires that the item be made in their state using local material (and one as big as California), then it can not be outsourced.
Too bad we have so many trolls like you. Last I talk to you.
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This is exactly how Joules Energy is doing this, only with blue-green algae (cyanobacteria). The advantage of using cyanobacteria is that it uses the sun and our sewage for feed stock. OTOH, by doing e-coli, they will have to feed it corn and other energy expensive feedstock.
My guess is that since Joules Energy made the announcement 2 years ago about what they had worked towards for the previous 8 years, that South Korea is simply playing catch up.
Actually, we have an easy way to lower the price, which is to encourage coal industry to do coal=>methane. It can be done for $6.5/MMBTU (including mining, transportation, and conversion), and to be honest, it makes sense to do this. But 6.5 is above the price of nukes. As such, we are still much better off NOT killing these nukes, but replacing these with cheaper thorium reactors, which can burn up the nuke waste.
exactly. The problem with nat. gas is that it went down in price, but we KNOW that it WILL rise.
What is really needed is to have NEW reactors available to replace the old ones. To replace nuclear power with Nat. Gas or wind/solar is a horrible mistake. By putting in place a number of small reactors (300 MW size) that were built in factories and shipped to on-site, this can lower the price of nuke energy. But, what is also needed are reactors that can burn up the on-site stored 'waste'. It is long past time for CONgress to quit playing their fucking games and focus on solving problems: illegals, and energy are but 2 big ones.
I agree.
First off, China does not go to the ISS (thankfully).
Secondly, for us to have bases in space and elsewhere, we need MULTIPLE launch systems. That way, when one has issues, then things can still go forward. Right now, the ISS is 100% dependent on Russia. We need for there to be 3 or more multiple human launchers and ideally at least 2 cargo launch systems in the same area. By that, I mean that ESA and Russia service cargo via the Russian ports. America has 2 services on the western berth (and now 3).
BTW, when SpaceX builds their 150-200 tonnes launch system over the next couple of years, we really need to have another complement it. Sadly, the SLS is NOT a good choice.
exactly.
Just because it has been done before doesn't make this routine. More importantly, that there are now two companies with proven track records of delivering bulk cargo to the ISS, it implies that a disaster or major engineering flaw on one spacecraft won't stop the other spacecraft type from continuing to fly.
Oh, I am a big fan of redundancy, esp. for space systems. NASA under Nixon, reagan, and W proved that we need multiple launch systems to be in space constantly. However, when it comes to delivering cargo to the ISS, there is Russia, and ESA that deliver on on Russian ports, and SpaceX, and Japan that use berthing of the west. IOW, we already had redundancy in terms of cargo to the ISS. What is REALLY needed right now, is human flight to be restored.
Now you pointed out 2 of the options which is CST-100 and actually, Dragon Rider. But there is a 3rd which is SNC's Dream Chaser.
And when one of these fly first with a human cargo, they will be historic since it will be the first private system to LEO. The second that follows it will NOT be historic since, like COTS, CCXDEV is designed to put multiple American human launcher systems into space. The 2'nd and 3rd will simply be following.
Oh, I am fine with it being posted. Just noting the fact that it was NOT historic, and that OSC really did not do that much. In fact, they did far less building then even Boeing and L-Mart do on their systems.
Sadly, I agree.
This is really not that historic. They were not first private company to their. That was SpaceX. They did not build the unit that docked there. That was thale. The did not build the rocket. That was Russia and other companies of America.
OSC simply assembled other ppl's work and called it theirs, while claiming enough money to pay for it all. IOW, OSC really did not put skin into the game.
So again, nothing historic here.
amazing.
Scientists proclaim that climage change is occurring. Scientists are doing this for making money.
American DOD studies it and proclaims that it is occuring and they need to be ready. Obviously, it is about making money.
Insurance companies procmain that it is occuring and show evidence of it. Obviously, it is about making money.
Then the oil companies and the GOP claim that it is not happening, and you claim that it is not about making money.
Really? I guess that explains why we have creationism being pushed into schools.
Yes, but, assume a flock of drones go in. During a fight, it might be useful to have several that have active radar and can then send the information to the others. Likewise, the others can have sensors to pick up the radar scatter and then cross send the information.
Hmmm. Been awhile since I have been flying. Did not know about the PCAS. Nice.
directional radar is possible. Likewise, with the detectors in place, it might be able to make use of other's radar signals to see crafts. Personally, I think that a fleet of drones that communicate would make good sense.
That is in the VISIBLE light spectrum. In other spectrum, you would pick up images even with the clouds. Personally, I am wondering if a drone flying on its own would be fine, esp. using enemy radar against others. Likewise, add in the ability for drone's to talk to each other and notify themselves of where they are at, and perhaps picking up other crafts.
Seriously, these plants are ran on old gen I and II technology. they have built up a MASSIVE amount of 'spent fuel', that will sit there for ages while politcians fight over storage.
BUT, a smart move is for yankee and others to buy B&H reactors, and push for thorium reactor as well. These are Gen III+ as well as Gen IV. These can be brought in SAFELY, and replace the current reactors. Then the spent fuel is used in the thorium reactors to burn it up. So, instead of transporting 1000 tonnes of fuel, in about 40 years, they will only need to transport about 100 tonnes of fuel.
These towns should be pushing hard and fast for thorium plants. Now.
Japan is LOADED with a number of beta emitters that are perfect for making nuclear batteries. If we start filtering that water over by their nukes, we can create a number of batteries that can provide power for mars and the moon. And this is actually safer than Pu.
Now, with that said, we STILL need plutonium. In particular, deep space probes need not just power, but heat. Plutonium is far better for both of that.
Lets see.
Will it have the quality? Not likely.
Will it have the customer services? Again, not likely.
Will it have the safety? Zero chance.
Will it have the performance? Based on GM since 1980, zero chance.
Will it have the range for 30K? Well, their junky volt costs an arm and a leg and delivers little, so zero chance.
I used to believe in IBM, but no more. In my mind, they are a trash company.
This should be about making a CHEAP, nearly fail-safe, anaerobic digester, that will take human and animal waste and create methane. It needs to allow easy run-time loading, rather than batch loading. With such an approach, it solves multiple issues.
Chemicals can and do kill many more in one shot, is far far worse, is less discriminatory, and finally, will lead to the use of the worst: biologicals.
BTW, I have seen ppl die from bullets, and I have worked with Sarin, so have watched rabbits die from it. I will take a bullet over the gas.
and instead visited more sites. It is possible that this was an exception, however, this might also be standard practice. Now, it will not be known.
First off, you will notice that I spoke of using American or Western parts. Secondly, states regularly require that an item comes from their state. Happens all the time. Texas is a big one on that.
Actually, u need to re-read the constitution.
We CAN and DO put restrictions on where parts are sourced. Happens all the time. Used to happen long ago. The fear is about WTO, however, they have rules that say that when a nation is down in the hole 5% to another in a trade deficit, then that nation can take actions. In addition, WTO is about the FEDERAL gov, not states. IOW, the WTO can not say SQUAT.
Yeah, can not outsource roads or bridges. Google for 'illegal aliens united states'. Then google for 'bay bridge china'. Idiots like you have no clue.
OTOH, if a STATE requires that the item be made in their state using local material (and one as big as California), then it can not be outsourced.
Too bad we have so many trolls like you. Last I talk to you.