Assuming that it was in afghanistan and then hijacked, we should have gone in and gotten it, or at least blown it up. Hopefully, it has a transponder of some type announcing where it is. We can simply blow it up.
I keep hoping that this is a faked system designed to be taken by them. Otherwise, I have to wonder why O did not go in after it.
What a cluster *
Seriously, the USAF has fallen and fallen. It also shows why we need to focus on our security. We have too many fools at the top in the military as well as CONgress, who no longer put the nation first. Instead, they are fighting for their retirement as high up as possible instead of fighting for the nation.
The majority of coal that China gets from Australia is NOT coking. It is all around Coal. When China drops their need for coal, then it will put Australia's coal mines in a panic. I said nothing about bad or good. However, you can go through my comments to realize that I am opposed to using coal for energy. Hence the reason why I am opposed to Kyoto.
That is not true. Gates can build it here without any issues. He has to have a license, but those are NOT that expensive to get. Now, EU and Japan are wigged out over nukes, but I do not see America, Canada, or even UK heading towards insanity.
Thank god if they do. Kyoto is a nightmare. It is actually making things WORSE, not better. What is needed is for Canada to back out of that junk and then put a tax on all goods based on where it is manufactured at and their emissions. However, it can NOT be emissions per capita. Worst idea going. Instead, make it based on CO2 per $ of PPP GDP and/or on CO2 per sq km. Both are better than per capita (which actually encourages cheating, population growth, etc).
I am American, and to be honest, I agree with the pipe. It will go in one place or the other. From a strategic POV, it is better to put it in America and run it down to the gulf. In addition, if Obama has a brain, he will allow this through, but require the material to come from America.
And that is the problem. It is applied ONLY TO THEM. As such, it will encourage the outsourcing of manufacturing. Where will it go? To 3rd world nations and China that will follow the China model: basically put in new coal plants and pollute like hell. IOW, Australia who is slowly taking strides to NOT make things worse, is going to cause their pollution to be sent to other nations.
They need to change their tax so that it encourages ALL companies, nations to work towards dropping emissions.
China has billions, if not trillions that they MUST send back to America one way or another. They are currently attempting to buy as much high tech from traitors as possible.
And that is BS as well, unless you normalize across something. Basically, you have to normalize across land mass or economics. Both are far more related to CO2 and pollution then just the issue of ppl. For example, look at the fact that China's CO2 emissions are screaming upwards faster and faster, and yet, they have a fairly low-growth population.
But, you are right that using per capita as a metric really is worthless and stupid.
No, China is NOT that CO2-free. Right now, the Chinese gov. blocks decent and honest measurements. Once OCO2 is flying and able to provide honest information, the world is going to be shocked. China is a nightmare.
Nearly all of it. THink of it this way: UK has 18-25% of their electricity nukes (basically, 18 reactors).
Now, not a big deal, it is about the same as America. What is interesting is that they have accumulated all that fuel since 1967 (average appears to be 35 years). And that is less than 5% burned. So, if UK, puts in these reactors, then they will be able to burn the rest of the fuel. How long will it take? Over a 100 years depending on how many reactors they put in.
Basically, if UK or America builds these, it will be cheaper than storing them. In addition, it will likely be safer.
And yes, I know that you want a QUANTATIVE number, but not really needed. Think instead in terms of how much and how long. If they build new reactors to cover ALL OF THEIR ENERGY NEEDS, they can run them for 100 years with just this waste fuel. What is missing is that the reactors are not cheap.
Basically, not only will it be burning WASTE fuel, but, it is actually cheaper to burn this then to try and handle the 'waste' fuel. Look at WIPP. It is a true cluster. OTH, these can actually be built for a fraction of what it costs to store all that waste but instead makes money.
In addition, because it is modular, these can be added at the sites that are already handling nuke reactors. With this approach, it allows a plant that is already built to handle large power but heading towards closure to switch to this. That allows the grid, cooling, perhaps the generators, etc to continue being used.
But what else is missing is that the heat from this is so high. This is useful in areas like processing Lithium for batteries. The high cost of this is actually about the high temps that it takes to process them. With a reactor like this, the temperature can be used directly to do the work, rather than converting to electricity and back to heat. Basically, one reactor like this could process all the lithium that a nation would need (and more) while still using the waste heat for power (though to be fair, it will be a lot less; still not a waste ).
Which group in the American gov., other than those researching, backed the concept of AGW? It was the military. Why? Because they did enough of the calculations to see that it was close, if not accurate, and then went on to play out scenerios. They came up as being that there is going to be a lot of chaos in the future.
As such, I would hope that the DOD would be looking into issues of possible non-terrestrial life considering the possibility for a major impact to our nation and the world.
Why? You going to put ankle bracelets on everybody on this planet? The fact is, that the plant was breached and should not have been. They just did a favor, because I know that I prefer that it be greenpeace and not AQ that does this.
The west has become way to complacent with thinking that we can all get along. Many nations and groups of ppl are looking to destroy the west.
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Assuming that it was in afghanistan and then hijacked, we should have gone in and gotten it, or at least blown it up. Hopefully, it has a transponder of some type announcing where it is. We can simply blow it up.
I keep hoping that this is a faked system designed to be taken by them. Otherwise, I have to wonder why O did not go in after it.
What a cluster *
Seriously, the USAF has fallen and fallen. It also shows why we need to focus on our security. We have too many fools at the top in the military as well as CONgress, who no longer put the nation first. Instead, they are fighting for their retirement as high up as possible instead of fighting for the nation.
Only if there is lead, mercury and other poisons to be able to include on western sales.
oops. You win. My bad. Sorry.
Google is investing in a number of tech. That includes Solar power, but also wind, geo-thermal, and they continue to look at nuke.
Keep in mind that I said likely, while you say that it will not be.
And what makes you think that Gates will not insist that Windows be used there?
The majority of coal that China gets from Australia is NOT coking. It is all around Coal. When China drops their need for coal, then it will put Australia's coal mines in a panic. I said nothing about bad or good. However, you can go through my comments to realize that I am opposed to using coal for energy. Hence the reason why I am opposed to Kyoto.
That is not true. Gates can build it here without any issues. He has to have a license, but those are NOT that expensive to get. Now, EU and Japan are wigged out over nukes, but I do not see America, Canada, or even UK heading towards insanity.
Thank god if they do. Kyoto is a nightmare. It is actually making things WORSE, not better. What is needed is for Canada to back out of that junk and then put a tax on all goods based on where it is manufactured at and their emissions. However, it can NOT be emissions per capita. Worst idea going. Instead, make it based on CO2 per $ of PPP GDP and/or on CO2 per sq km. Both are better than per capita (which actually encourages cheating, population growth, etc).
I am American, and to be honest, I agree with the pipe. It will go in one place or the other. From a strategic POV, it is better to put it in America and run it down to the gulf. In addition, if Obama has a brain, he will allow this through, but require the material to come from America.
And that is the problem. It is applied ONLY TO THEM. As such, it will encourage the outsourcing of manufacturing. Where will it go? To 3rd world nations and China that will follow the China model: basically put in new coal plants and pollute like hell. IOW, Australia who is slowly taking strides to NOT make things worse, is going to cause their pollution to be sent to other nations.
They need to change their tax so that it encourages ALL companies, nations to work towards dropping emissions.
The scary thought it that it will likely be Windows.
China has billions, if not trillions that they MUST send back to America one way or another. They are currently attempting to buy as much high tech from traitors as possible.
And that 28% more was in 2008 and with dishonest numbers. When OCO2 comes, their numbers are going to jump massively. Good post, BTW.
We need to kill kyoto and push a tax on ALL goods based on CO2 from where manufactured.
Not really. We have very different policies. Canada's regard for the environment is much higher than EU's and certainly higher than Americas.
And that is BS as well, unless you normalize across something. Basically, you have to normalize across land mass or economics. Both are far more related to CO2 and pollution then just the issue of ppl. For example, look at the fact that China's CO2 emissions are screaming upwards faster and faster, and yet, they have a fairly low-growth population.
But, you are right that using per capita as a metric really is worthless and stupid.
No, China is NOT that CO2-free. Right now, the Chinese gov. blocks decent and honest measurements. Once OCO2 is flying and able to provide honest information, the world is going to be shocked. China is a nightmare.
China has more than enough coal for that. Australia's coal will be in trouble once China can build nuke plants cheaply.
prism is nothing more than an IFR. So, yeah that is part of the issue.
He pushes Windows here, but will send American tech over there for a few bucks. I think that he and his family should just move to China.
This is simply an IFR. But the amazing thing is that this is going into America already.
Nearly all of it. THink of it this way: UK has 18-25% of their electricity nukes (basically, 18 reactors). Now, not a big deal, it is about the same as America. What is interesting is that they have accumulated all that fuel since 1967 (average appears to be 35 years). And that is less than 5% burned. So, if UK, puts in these reactors, then they will be able to burn the rest of the fuel. How long will it take? Over a 100 years depending on how many reactors they put in.
Note that this is simply GE's IFR and here is the info on IFR.
Basically, if UK or America builds these, it will be cheaper than storing them. In addition, it will likely be safer.
And yes, I know that you want a QUANTATIVE number, but not really needed. Think instead in terms of how much and how long. If they build new reactors to cover ALL OF THEIR ENERGY NEEDS, they can run them for 100 years with just this waste fuel. What is missing is that the reactors are not cheap.
Basically, not only will it be burning WASTE fuel, but, it is actually cheaper to burn this then to try and handle the 'waste' fuel. Look at WIPP. It is a true cluster. OTH, these can actually be built for a fraction of what it costs to store all that waste but instead makes money.
In addition, because it is modular, these can be added at the sites that are already handling nuke reactors. With this approach, it allows a plant that is already built to handle large power but heading towards closure to switch to this. That allows the grid, cooling, perhaps the generators, etc to continue being used.
But what else is missing is that the heat from this is so high. This is useful in areas like processing Lithium for batteries. The high cost of this is actually about the high temps that it takes to process them. With a reactor like this, the temperature can be used directly to do the work, rather than converting to electricity and back to heat. Basically, one reactor like this could process all the lithium that a nation would need (and more) while still using the waste heat for power (though to be fair, it will be a lot less; still not a waste ).
Which group in the American gov., other than those researching, backed the concept of AGW? It was the military. Why? Because they did enough of the calculations to see that it was close, if not accurate, and then went on to play out scenerios. They came up as being that there is going to be a lot of chaos in the future.
As such, I would hope that the DOD would be looking into issues of possible non-terrestrial life considering the possibility for a major impact to our nation and the world.
Why? You going to put ankle bracelets on everybody on this planet? The fact is, that the plant was breached and should not have been. They just did a favor, because I know that I prefer that it be greenpeace and not AQ that does this.
The west has become way to complacent with thinking that we can all get along. Many nations and groups of ppl are looking to destroy the west.