I am far more interested in seeing GE Prism and the micro thorium reactors be approved.
Now, we need NRC to push approval for the micro reactors. We have a large number of coal plants that are going to be shut down over the next 10 years. The choice is what to replace them with. Ideally, small thorium reactors are the ideal choice (though I also like the idea of adding thermal storage combined with a small natural gas boiler).
The other issue that we have, is that many of the nuke plants are old like Japan's. These plants are going to be closed down over the next 20-30 years. Right now, they are LOADED with large quantities of 'waste' fuel. That 'waste' will need to go to WIPP to be buried for 20K years or more. HOWEVER, if we get the GE PRISM reactor going, then we can drop these into place at each of these sites, and fuel them with the 'waste' fuel. The much smaller amount of output from it would then last only 200 years, of which the worst part is over in something like 50 years.
Seriously, all of the waste fuel that exists in America combined with thorium (which we have plenty of), combined with AE and Natural gas could fuel America for the next couple of centuries.
exactly. The west is destroying itself by trusting goods coming from China. Instead, the west's military should require that all electronic be secured by west manufacturing.
which are easy enough to locate in a different part of the ship. Ideally, the ship would have multiple locations for caps and would simply rotate through them. That way if hit, the likelihood of going up is minimal
Ships on the ocean will move up and down according to the waves. That is pretty easy for a computer to calculate esp. when you have sat or plane visual.
Where you would have difficulty would be hitting floating targets close to shore where you have waves in and out causing up-down issues.
But this should be able to take out incoming missiles, planes, etc as well.
When you are in China, they enforce THEIR IP laws STRICTLY. They have ZERO issues with stealing from outside of the nation. However, if you steal within their nation and esp. if you are a westerner, then the punishment is severe. Apple is likely to get by. For now. However, once Foxconn has moved more work there and China has learned what they want from Apple, come the next IP issue, then China will charge them full price.
Chinese gov. backs the theft of IP, reselling of copies, etc. Yet, all that happens is hand slapping. NOW, Apple could get 1.6 BILLION dollar over the use of the name. Amazing. Who knows. PERHAPS, it will lead to western, esp. American, companies re-thinking what they are doing in China.
So many are missing is that evolution tends to jump like this. As such, the implication is not that radiation does it, but that life borrows from each other. We will find a number of virus in the future that are asymptomatic, but are carrying genes from one species to another.
The capsule is named dragon. The thrusters are called draco (as in latin for dragon). These are upgraded versions of the dracos. And this is an engine, not a rocket. Finally, just because the military uses letter/number combos, is no reason why a private company must.
My understanding is that they will not be trying a powered landing on the first launch. The reason is that the super dracos are not built into the capsules yet. HOWEVER, assuming that it was, that would mean that dragon was ready for human launches, though it might require multiple tests and launches.
The reason is that SpaceX has everything else ready for the conversion of dragon to human launch: controls and software, seats, and ELCSS.
My understanding is that LIDS is also ready to go.
You make too big a deal out of their F1s. The 3 failures were caused due to corrosion (changed bolts), early end of second stage engine (added baffles to the tanks), and first stage colliding with 2'nd stage (changed some parameters in the software). All minor items.
If Musk can figure out a new way to mine minerals, then yes, it would be possible to lower their costs. Why do you call spaceX liars WRT pica-X?
Well, as for not inventing anything, then do not sweat it. There is NO reason for China or anybody else to want to look into their goods. Of course, actions speak MUCH louder than an AC's words.
As to your condemnation of both Musk, well, musk owns multiple companies that change the world. How many would a coward like yourself own? As to stern, well, he is just one of a number of ppl.
And yet, China continues to cheat at everything that WTO stands for. Basically, giving them WTO, constrains the west, but China just flaunts it. And having given them perm. MFN is destroying America. At this point, America should
implement scaled tariffs, esp. against China. Interestingly, WTO not only makes it legal, but encourages it. Only fools, or those wanting to destroy either America or the west, would oppose it.
The issue becomes, how long would it take to strip it? LONG TIME. And actually, we do have plants that CAN exist at the martian atmosphere. Not sure how they will thrive, but they are capable of existing in it.
What is needed is to drop some heat source on one of the poles, and/or send an ammonia asteroid careening into mars. That would do the trick.
You mean magnequench? The technology that allows us to fly missiles without using GPS and relatively accurately? The tech that China wanted and the DOD and Clinton would NOT allow it to be transferred. But then W/neo-cons got into office, the DOD approved it. You mean that technology transfer?
Or are you talking about Hughes and Loral who ILLEGALLY transferred tech to China and was CONVICTED of such?
There IS treason, but it sure as heck was not Clinton. Sadly, the treason continues to this day.
First off, the neo-cons are VERY much alive and doing well. They control the republican party. Neo-cons was originally applied to dems that switched to the republican party. reagan was the head of that. The big difference is that the group that adapted reagan's beliefs (changing republican party's core beliefs dramatically) called themselves neo-cons. IOW, they declared themselves a group by doing that. That includes not just reagan, but those that follow him such as W., Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Boehner, Cantor, etc. (though not republicans like Poppa Bush, Nixon, Ford, etc; basically, republicans from before reagan). Even to this day, those ppl remain in control of the republican party.
Secondly, I am a registered Libertarian and support it. HOWEVER, I am also not so stupid as to ignore TANSTAAFL. Why would China offer us up a goods/services below costs esp. since the vast majority of Chinese leaders are opposed to the west, and
pour more money into their military than does America?
China IS cheating. And it is designed to destroy America by denying us the industry that allowed America to maintain a solid economical foundation. According to WTO, IMF, and even our FTA with them, says that neither side will cheat the way that China has. And yet, we allow it. Worse, the neo-cons CONTINUE to push it. They fight against any punishment against China. Likewise, when we do the 2009 'investment', it was originally about buying American goods. Why? Because Germany and China made their investments all about THEIR nation. It has been over and over the neo-cons that fight to keep offshoring more to CHina with a coming disaster to America (and the west).
The ones that have pushed to have tech transfered to China has NOT been dems. It has been neo-cons when W was in office. While the neo-cons are out of the admin, they point fingers to O/dems, but the truth is that much of America's self destructive industrial policies were put into place by W/neo-cons. The question is, when will O/dems roll it back. The only way that they can do this, is if they will finally balance the budget. At the least, get it below.5T.
Of course, I am not a liberal. But the problem is that China is cheating at WTO/IMF/FTAs. So, paying for tech like this and then allowing it to simply transfer to there because a bunch of neo-cons say to transfer.
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I am far more interested in seeing GE Prism and the micro thorium reactors be approved.
Now, we need NRC to push approval for the micro reactors. We have a large number of coal plants that are going to be shut down over the next 10 years. The choice is what to replace them with. Ideally, small thorium reactors are the ideal choice (though I also like the idea of adding thermal storage combined with a small natural gas boiler).
The other issue that we have, is that many of the nuke plants are old like Japan's. These plants are going to be closed down over the next 20-30 years. Right now, they are LOADED with large quantities of 'waste' fuel. That 'waste' will need to go to WIPP to be buried for 20K years or more. HOWEVER, if we get the GE PRISM reactor going, then we can drop these into place at each of these sites, and fuel them with the 'waste' fuel. The much smaller amount of output from it would then last only 200 years, of which the worst part is over in something like 50 years.
Seriously, all of the waste fuel that exists in America combined with thorium (which we have plenty of), combined with AE and Natural gas could fuel America for the next couple of centuries.
Sure, but where are the other chips from? And where does construction take place?
exactly. The west is destroying itself by trusting goods coming from China. Instead, the west's military should require that all electronic be secured by west manufacturing.
In particular, any computer needs to be built in the west, with chips from the west, to be trusted.
which are easy enough to locate in a different part of the ship. Ideally, the ship would have multiple locations for caps and would simply rotate through them. That way if hit, the likelihood of going up is minimal
Yeah, but they really need to move the DDX to nuke powered. At least half of them. Cheaper over the long haul, and easier to make electricity with.
That is why you only take it to mach 3-5, then use other means to get 17K mph.
Ships on the ocean will move up and down according to the waves. That is pretty easy for a computer to calculate esp. when you have sat or plane visual. Where you would have difficulty would be hitting floating targets close to shore where you have waves in and out causing up-down issues. But this should be able to take out incoming missiles, planes, etc as well.
When you are in China, they enforce THEIR IP laws STRICTLY. They have ZERO issues with stealing from outside of the nation. However, if you steal within their nation and esp. if you are a westerner, then the punishment is severe. Apple is likely to get by. For now. However, once Foxconn has moved more work there and China has learned what they want from Apple, come the next IP issue, then China will charge them full price.
Chinese gov. backs the theft of IP, reselling of copies, etc. Yet, all that happens is hand slapping. NOW, Apple could get 1.6 BILLION dollar over the use of the name. Amazing. Who knows. PERHAPS, it will lead to western, esp. American, companies re-thinking what they are doing in China.
While they're track record probably isn't completely spotless, they are by NO definition political despots.
Which part did you not understand? Do you have something newer and frequent?
So many are missing is that evolution tends to jump like this. As such, the implication is not that radiation does it, but that life borrows from each other. We will find a number of virus in the future that are asymptomatic, but are carrying genes from one species to another.
I knew that it would be bigger, but not this big:
Estimated thrust of 15,000 pounds-force (67,000 N) makes this second most powerful engine developed by SpaceX, more than 200x[4] more powerful than regular Dracos. By comparison it is more than 2x more powerful than Kestrel engine, and about more than 1/9 of Merlin 1D engine.
The capsule is named dragon. The thrusters are called draco (as in latin for dragon). These are upgraded versions of the dracos. And this is an engine, not a rocket. Finally, just because the military uses letter/number combos, is no reason why a private company must.
My understanding is that they will not be trying a powered landing on the first launch. The reason is that the super dracos are not built into the capsules yet. HOWEVER, assuming that it was, that would mean that dragon was ready for human launches, though it might require multiple tests and launches.
The reason is that SpaceX has everything else ready for the conversion of dragon to human launch: controls and software, seats, and ELCSS.
My understanding is that LIDS is also ready to go.
These will be replaced each and every time. If these fails, the damage to the node could, and likely would, be extensive.
You make too big a deal out of their F1s. The 3 failures were caused due to corrosion (changed bolts), early end of second stage engine (added baffles to the tanks), and first stage colliding with 2'nd stage (changed some parameters in the software). All minor items.
If Musk can figure out a new way to mine minerals, then yes, it would be possible to lower their costs. Why do you call spaceX liars WRT pica-X?
Well, as for not inventing anything, then do not sweat it. There is NO reason for China or anybody else to want to look into their goods. Of course, actions speak MUCH louder than an AC's words.
As to your condemnation of both Musk, well, musk owns multiple companies that change the world. How many would a coward like yourself own? As to stern, well, he is just one of a number of ppl.
And what makes you think that they will go out of business?
Also, iff they go out of business, then the tech would be sold off to pay off their debt.
And yet, China continues to cheat at everything that WTO stands for. Basically, giving them WTO, constrains the west, but China just flaunts it. And having given them perm. MFN is destroying America. At this point, America should implement scaled tariffs, esp. against China. Interestingly, WTO not only makes it legal, but encourages it. Only fools, or those wanting to destroy either America or the west, would oppose it.
The issue becomes, how long would it take to strip it? LONG TIME. And actually, we do have plants that CAN exist at the martian atmosphere. Not sure how they will thrive, but they are capable of existing in it.
What is needed is to drop some heat source on one of the poles, and/or send an ammonia asteroid careening into mars. That would do the trick.
Seriously, we need to get plants to mars that can break down the rocks and provide an atmosphere.
You mean magnequench? The technology that allows us to fly missiles without using GPS and relatively accurately? The tech that China wanted and the DOD and Clinton would NOT allow it to be transferred. But then W/neo-cons got into office, the DOD approved it. You mean that technology transfer?
Or are you talking about Hughes and Loral who ILLEGALLY transferred tech to China and was CONVICTED of such?
There IS treason, but it sure as heck was not Clinton. Sadly, the treason continues to this day.
First off, the neo-cons are VERY much alive and doing well. They control the republican party. Neo-cons was originally applied to dems that switched to the republican party. reagan was the head of that. The big difference is that the group that adapted reagan's beliefs (changing republican party's core beliefs dramatically) called themselves neo-cons. IOW, they declared themselves a group by doing that. That includes not just reagan, but those that follow him such as W., Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Boehner, Cantor, etc. (though not republicans like Poppa Bush, Nixon, Ford, etc; basically, republicans from before reagan). Even to this day, those ppl remain in control of the republican party.
Secondly, I am a registered Libertarian and support it. HOWEVER, I am also not so stupid as to ignore TANSTAAFL. Why would China offer us up a goods/services below costs esp. since the vast majority of Chinese leaders are opposed to the west, and pour more money into their military than does America?
China IS cheating. And it is designed to destroy America by denying us the industry that allowed America to maintain a solid economical foundation. According to WTO, IMF, and even our FTA with them, says that neither side will cheat the way that China has. And yet, we allow it. Worse, the neo-cons CONTINUE to push it. They fight against any punishment against China. Likewise, when we do the 2009 'investment', it was originally about buying American goods. Why? Because Germany and China made their investments all about THEIR nation. It has been over and over the neo-cons that fight to keep offshoring more to CHina with a coming disaster to America (and the west).
The ones that have pushed to have tech transfered to China has NOT been dems. It has been neo-cons when W was in office. While the neo-cons are out of the admin, they point fingers to O/dems, but the truth is that much of America's self destructive industrial policies were put into place by W/neo-cons. The question is, when will O/dems roll it back. The only way that they can do this, is if they will finally balance the budget. At the least, get it below .5T.
Of course, I am not a liberal. But the problem is that China is cheating at WTO/IMF/FTAs. So, paying for tech like this and then allowing it to simply transfer to there because a bunch of neo-cons say to transfer.