Actually, no. China has reneged on all of their treaties and promises for some time. It was designed to weaken the west. Sadly, between reagan, Clinton, and W, they have all played along and made idiots of our leaders.
China promised to allow their yuan to float, but they have controlled it hard core. It was designed to cause America massive deflation. Had that occurred, it would have destroyed manufacturing here as you know it ( far worse than what reagan and W did). By doing QE1 and 2, we spurred inflation, but that ALSO spurs it more to CHina. China right now is sweating bullets (literally as they have had 3 different riots this week). But a VERY important item has been missed by most. Housing prices went down this last month for the first time in 30-40 years.
Pop. Pop. Pop. All of those bubbles are bursting. If Obama does the right thing, all of the American companies will come home rather than try to move to the next communist nation.
It will start in about 2 years or less. Right now, Google is figuring out how to build out a fast network. In this regard, it is similar to their data centers. The first data center out of CA took 2 years. Now, they build them in 6 months, or less.
This first network will likely be 1-2 years in the buildout. However, the next one will happen in 12-18 months and then 12 months or less. The fact is, they will learn to take advantage of their data centers.
Google is going to pick partners (amazon and netflix are likely to be the initial partners, but I would not be surprised to see Apple and maybe even MS) next year and start the build out.
At that time we will see them move QUICKLY into cities, subarbs, and then into rural. The more that companies like Comcast put the screws to these companies customers, the faster that they will bring fiber in.
Google has put in their network. Not a big deal. Right? Well, Google will likely partner with several other companies, notably, Amazon and Netflix to build out these networks. I would not be surprised to see Apple join up with them. Basically, we are going to see a new drive for Fiber to the homes. Comcast, TimeWarner, Qwest/Century Link, ATT, etc are about to meet real competition.
Oh, I think that we out to send them a member. Personally, I would send shelby. He is the one that is busy pushing for the new jobs bill, Senate Launch System.
Oh, I am amazed at how many ppl have passwords of stuff on their desk.
Personally, I have an algorithm and use that. It works great. Prior to GPUs, I would have given mine very little chance of being cracked. At this point, that is gone.
If you have a reputation of being a slut(fairly deserved) and you decide that you want to clean it up, Is it smart to continue doing what earned you that reputation in the first place? That is what you are asking.
Yes, MS is HORRIBLE on security. There are few on this planet that do not know it. Many try hard to stand up for them and claim that it is not an issue. Yet, the reason why the virus and attack come is because MS is EASY.
BUT, MS is working on cleaning up that reputation (and mac and linux should be wary of the day that MS is considered stronger than either of them, for they will be the targets). Off hand from what I have seen MS is better, but they are still at the bottom.
So, if you are at the bottom of a heap, why would you want to adopt something that continues your reputation and does enable you to compete against others?
Compare this of urban to poor rural. You will find that poor rural will have a LOT more mutations and BIGGER. Why? More mosquitoes. The fact is that most mutations are caused by virus and most virus probably transmit via arthopod-bourne than any other reason.
Sadly, these guys probably looked at fairly well to do ppl who are not just not exposed, but not around a whole lot of ppl or animals. Once they are closer to life, they will have more, faster, and bigger mutations (as in whole genes being transfered).
Ever sit and watch average ppl create new passwords at their desk? THey do not look into the air to think about it. Instead, they look at what is around them. I do not watch somebody enter the passwords, but I have noticed the subject's head. I believe that they are looking at the books, artwork, etc that is just around them.
Want to break into their stuff? Simply take a look around the desk and see what is important to them. Simple as that.
Namely, I would like to see B&W move from doing small nuke generators, to doing a small IFR. If they can build a small reactor to handle to the waste AND a small container room that goes with this, it could be put on sites that have been shutdown and then burn the remaining fuel. Many of those plants are close to cities, have cooling, transmission, generators, etc. Basically, they are ready to rock and roll and be used for another 50-100 years. Safely. And then once the current on-site waste is spent, then the sites are buried for 200 years or less, with none of it being useful for a bomb.
One thing is that I would like to see ONE IFR be used to breed for plutonium for space operations. We need that.
When ethOH was legalized, it was heavily controlled at first. This was done to enable them to wipe out gangsters/mafia. Once they were gone, THEN they opened up production. Not until that point. We need to do the same thing with drugs. Legalize all, but only the feds provide (via heavily regulated private industry).
Look, can you show me a single case of where meth is useful to humanity? You will be HARD pressed to do so. Do you really want that being produced AND PUSHED on YOUR CHILDREN? I have a 4 and a 7 y.o. I do not want them exposed to it. I do not want advertisement running around.
OTH, while my recreational drugs are just ethOH and caffeine, I have little issues with ppl using pot. However, at this time, I would want to kill off the gangs, and then in 10 years or so from now, allow SMALL production of such.
As to import/export, no. It is the fact that the west has LARGE demand, and no supplies that lead to illegal imports. We need to quit trying to provide a LOCAL supply of all drugs, heavily regulate it, and allow ZERO IMPORTS and ZERO EXPORTS. Once we have driven out the illegal trade, then raise the taxes on these. I am not certain what tax on ethOH is, but back in the early 80's, at a lab that I worked at, we paid $.97/gal, for what the open market was 20/gal. IOW, there was a tax of 19/gal. ANd yet, we do not see illegal imports of ethOH.
They are ALL harmful. Post is just least harmful.
However, consumption continues even with the neo-cons war on drugs. Basically, this is unwinnable, and it is funding gangs, drug lords, etc. The best way to stop them is to deny them money. THat solve this.
Without supplies, yes, that DOES create an underground market. HOWEVER, when the gov. supplies it cheaper than what illegal drugs can be brought in for, AND the penalty for USING illegal drugs is high, you pretty much destroy the illegal drugs. At the least, you make it trivial to wipe them out. Case in point is that in the 20's, the gangs were fueled by illegal alcohol (moonshine). How much moonshine do you see around the USA? Do you see gangs involved in illegal manufacturing of alcolhol? I do not. I am sure that there are small small groups involved, but nothing major. More of a local variety. It is just not worth it to ppl to get busted for producing something that you can BUY.
And just doing pot is not enough. The drug lords/gang would simply switch to other drugs and then push it here. OTH, if we legalize all drugs, provide enough tax as to cover the social costs, we wipe out nearly all gangs, most of the gun running, and much of the theft (gangs are fencing by trading drugs for stolen goods; very lucrative). We also see 1/2 of our crimes disappear, though new ones will spring up. But this time, we simple tax the new drug users and have that cover the costs of enforcement as well as addicts costs.
Seriously, we can not win the drug war. All this is doing around the world id funding these kinds of ppl. Taliban and AQ make loads of money from drugs. So do American gangs.
The only real solution is for America to legalize ALL drugs, and then allow NO IMPORTS OR EXPORTS of drugs. In addition, the production and sale of such is also heavily regulated. A whiff of a connection with ANY gang and you can not do anything. Get caught using illegal drugs? Not a problem. The state provides housing for 5 years. Get caught bringing in, or selling drugs? Again, not a problem 20 years.
I used to be a Geneticists that worked with lots of radiation. As such, I took classes, along with my general interest in science. Now, I am a Compter Scientist that is working on a manufacturing start-up. For the next decade, manufacturing esp. with robotics will be the place to be.
However, B&W HAD been working towards micro reactors (100-300 MWe sizes), which I thought made a lot of sense. Now, with Japan, that will be dead. But I think that by moving towards a IFR that burns up the fuel in-situ, then we could see something interesting.
Well, the majority of reactors will probably live out their lives and then be shut down.
And just thinking about it, I am wondering if can we build a small IFR reactor that can go on these sites and then finish burning the rest of the fuel. I mean, we were looking at small reactors, so why not an IFR type approach?
If we can get into the manufacturing approach, that would be CHEAP to do.
It would already have storage, safety zone, electricity hook-ups, cooling, heck, even generators, security, trained ppl, etc. All that would have to be added was multiple new style reactors, along with a processing plant.
Argh; There are times that I hate this new in-line editing.
Ok, ZERO chance of proliferation. The idea is that the 'waste' is brought in, loaded into the reactor, and then is burned. At various times, parts of the fuel is brought out, WHILE RUNNING. IOW, ZERO COOL DOWNS. The fuel is brought into a processing room, and then processed, WHILE HOT. Not just radioactive, but thermally hot. Apparently, robotics has advanced enough that they did not have to cool it. In the processing room, the fuel is re-processed and only the true waste is pulled from it. NONE of it is capable of being used in a bomb (other than a dirty bomb). The active fuel remains in the processing room and is re-mixed and sent back into the reactor. With this approach, anything that is useful to a terrorists, well, I would love to see them head on in.:)
I would not want to depend on this for 100%, or even 25% of our electricity, let alone energy. HOWEVER, it does make sense to build a few of these and burn up all of our waste fuel.
I will say that I still believe that we should restart thorium. Ft. St. Vrain did just fine in terms of the reactor. It was sensors that had issues, along with a few other items.
You are thinking in the wrong way. We already HAVE THIS FUEL, only we call it waste. By burying it NOW, it will be 200K years worth of poison. Longer than man has been on this planet. IFR was meant to take this waste, add a LITTLE bit of fresh fuel to start the process and then BURN IT UP. In fact, if we had a number of IFRs, the waste that we have would last over a 100 year WITHOUT mining a thing from anywhere. The idea was to burn the current waste and then bury the real waste in the reactors, on-site, and it would be less than 200 years. The IFR will cost about double (or was it 3x) what a regular reactor will costs. The reason is the integrated portion. However, we can burn up our fuel, get energy, and solve the waste issue.
As to letting the market place decide WRT to our waste, well, we already took this issue on back in the 60s when we started atomics for power program. We have this waste. It has to be solved. We can either make loads of fuel with it, and make it safe, or bury what we have, at I believe, a much higher costs (you have to include whatever replaces this).
As to the real market place, we currently subsidize our oil, our coal, our natural gas, our nukes, and all of our AE programs. We need to roll these back, except perhaps for AE (to help it get off the ground) as well as R&D for all the fields. While I do not want to continue the operating subsidies that we have for fossil fuels and nukes, we should continue doing R&D such as helping companies convert Coal to Natural gas
1) Thorium was used in Ft. St. Vrain, and did great (though the backside of the plant was a disaster, the frontside was fine). And reprocessing can come later once the program is RESTARTED.
2) You are kidding, right? Thorium is not fertile. At best, a dirty bomb is all that they could get. And it is easy enough to get thorium and process it NOW.
3) At Mountain Pass, CA, rare earth minerals were mined for 30 + years. During that time, they amassed a large quantities of other elements that were considered pollution. In fact, it was part of what shut down the mine. What element? Thorium. We have LARGE quantities of it being seen as waste.
In addition, Only India is known to posses more Thorium than America
Now, I agree that AE is useful. I think that we MUST continue forward with it. But it is insane to say that we must move to just one form of power. Instead, we should have a mixed input of energy in which no one single item is more than 1/3 (if not 1/4) of our input stream
Just guessing, but it has been some time since you were an nuke engineer.
I would not bet against you. The fact is, that as the price of oil goes up, and Russia will play games again with Natural Gas, then EU esp. Germany will realize that they really have little choice BUT to keep nukes running.
I am certain that the ultimate decisions for dealing with our current nuke waste stockpile will be to build IFRs or some way to burn it up. It is just plain cheaper than to come up with burial for 20 to 200K years.
Likewise, we will certainly re-start the thorium work that the USA did in the 60s. In particular, I suspect that General Atomic is hard at work on re-starting this program.
Personally, I have a lot more issues with it when the companies are fronts for Chinese gov. And yes, many of these VC companies that front the money are simply meant to hide what is going on.
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Actually, no. China has reneged on all of their treaties and promises for some time. It was designed to weaken the west. Sadly, between reagan, Clinton, and W, they have all played along and made idiots of our leaders.
China promised to allow their yuan to float, but they have controlled it hard core. It was designed to cause America massive deflation. Had that occurred, it would have destroyed manufacturing here as you know it ( far worse than what reagan and W did). By doing QE1 and 2, we spurred inflation, but that ALSO spurs it more to CHina. China right now is sweating bullets (literally as they have had 3 different riots this week). But a VERY important item has been missed by most. Housing prices went down this last month for the first time in 30-40 years.
Pop. Pop. Pop. All of those bubbles are bursting. If Obama does the right thing, all of the American companies will come home rather than try to move to the next communist nation.
It will start in about 2 years or less. Right now, Google is figuring out how to build out a fast network. In this regard, it is similar to their data centers. The first data center out of CA took 2 years. Now, they build them in 6 months, or less. This first network will likely be 1-2 years in the buildout. However, the next one will happen in 12-18 months and then 12 months or less. The fact is, they will learn to take advantage of their data centers.
Google is going to pick partners (amazon and netflix are likely to be the initial partners, but I would not be surprised to see Apple and maybe even MS) next year and start the build out.
At that time we will see them move QUICKLY into cities, subarbs, and then into rural. The more that companies like Comcast put the screws to these companies customers, the faster that they will bring fiber in.
Google has put in their network. Not a big deal. Right? Well, Google will likely partner with several other companies, notably, Amazon and Netflix to build out these networks. I would not be surprised to see Apple join up with them. Basically, we are going to see a new drive for Fiber to the homes. Comcast, TimeWarner, Qwest/Century Link, ATT, etc are about to meet real competition.
Oh, I think that we out to send them a member. Personally, I would send shelby. He is the one that is busy pushing for the new jobs bill, Senate Launch System.
Oh, I am amazed at how many ppl have passwords of stuff on their desk. Personally, I have an algorithm and use that. It works great. Prior to GPUs, I would have given mine very little chance of being cracked. At this point, that is gone.
If you have a reputation of being a slut(fairly deserved) and you decide that you want to clean it up,
.
Is it smart to continue doing what earned you that reputation in the first place?
That is what you are asking.
Yes, MS is HORRIBLE on security. There are few on this planet that do not know it. Many try hard to stand up for them and claim that it is not an issue. Yet, the reason why the virus and attack come is because MS is EASY
BUT, MS is working on cleaning up that reputation (and mac and linux should be wary of the day that MS is considered stronger than either of them, for they will be the targets). Off hand from what I have seen MS is better, but they are still at the bottom.
So, if you are at the bottom of a heap, why would you want to adopt something that continues your reputation and does enable you to compete against others?
Compare this of urban to poor rural. You will find that poor rural will have a LOT more mutations and BIGGER. Why? More mosquitoes. The fact is that most mutations are caused by virus and most virus probably transmit via arthopod-bourne than any other reason.
Sadly, these guys probably looked at fairly well to do ppl who are not just not exposed, but not around a whole lot of ppl or animals. Once they are closer to life, they will have more, faster, and bigger mutations (as in whole genes being transfered).
Yes, they did. However, with WebGL, they actually have a good and factual point. There ARE security flaws in it that MUST be addressed.
Well, she still might be. Of course, she would likely be a MILF, so just google for porn MILF Jenny.
Ever sit and watch average ppl create new passwords at their desk? THey do not look into the air to think about it. Instead, they look at what is around them. I do not watch somebody enter the passwords, but I have noticed the subject's head. I believe that they are looking at the books, artwork, etc that is just around them.
Want to break into their stuff? Simply take a look around the desk and see what is important to them. Simple as that.
Namely, I would like to see B&W move from doing small nuke generators, to doing a small IFR. If they can build a small reactor to handle to the waste AND a small container room that goes with this, it could be put on sites that have been shutdown and then burn the remaining fuel. Many of those plants are close to cities, have cooling, transmission, generators, etc. Basically, they are ready to rock and roll and be used for another 50-100 years. Safely. And then once the current on-site waste is spent, then the sites are buried for 200 years or less, with none of it being useful for a bomb.
One thing is that I would like to see ONE IFR be used to breed for plutonium for space operations. We need that.
When ethOH was legalized, it was heavily controlled at first. This was done to enable them to wipe out gangsters/mafia. Once they were gone, THEN they opened up production. Not until that point. We need to do the same thing with drugs. Legalize all, but only the feds provide (via heavily regulated private industry).
Look, can you show me a single case of where meth is useful to humanity? You will be HARD pressed to do so. Do you really want that being produced AND PUSHED on YOUR CHILDREN? I have a 4 and a 7 y.o. I do not want them exposed to it. I do not want advertisement running around.
OTH, while my recreational drugs are just ethOH and caffeine, I have little issues with ppl using pot. However, at this time, I would want to kill off the gangs, and then in 10 years or so from now, allow SMALL production of such.
The taliban fully backs the poppy fields at this time. They simply get a cut and that is funding them.
As to import/export, no. It is the fact that the west has LARGE demand, and no supplies that lead to illegal imports. We need to quit trying to provide a LOCAL supply of all drugs, heavily regulate it, and allow ZERO IMPORTS and ZERO EXPORTS. Once we have driven out the illegal trade, then raise the taxes on these. I am not certain what tax on ethOH is, but back in the early 80's, at a lab that I worked at, we paid $.97/gal, for what the open market was 20/gal. IOW, there was a tax of 19/gal. ANd yet, we do not see illegal imports of ethOH.
They are ALL harmful. Post is just least harmful.
However, consumption continues even with the neo-cons war on drugs. Basically, this is unwinnable, and it is funding gangs, drug lords, etc. The best way to stop them is to deny them money. THat solve this.
Without supplies, yes, that DOES create an underground market. HOWEVER, when the gov. supplies it cheaper than what illegal drugs can be brought in for, AND the penalty for USING illegal drugs is high, you pretty much destroy the illegal drugs. At the least, you make it trivial to wipe them out. Case in point is that in the 20's, the gangs were fueled by illegal alcohol (moonshine). How much moonshine do you see around the USA? Do you see gangs involved in illegal manufacturing of alcolhol? I do not. I am sure that there are small small groups involved, but nothing major. More of a local variety. It is just not worth it to ppl to get busted for producing something that you can BUY.
And just doing pot is not enough. The drug lords/gang would simply switch to other drugs and then push it here. OTH, if we legalize all drugs, provide enough tax as to cover the social costs, we wipe out nearly all gangs, most of the gun running, and much of the theft (gangs are fencing by trading drugs for stolen goods; very lucrative). We also see 1/2 of our crimes disappear, though new ones will spring up. But this time, we simple tax the new drug users and have that cover the costs of enforcement as well as addicts costs.
Seriously, we can not win the drug war. All this is doing around the world id funding these kinds of ppl. Taliban and AQ make loads of money from drugs. So do American gangs.
The only real solution is for America to legalize ALL drugs, and then allow NO IMPORTS OR EXPORTS of drugs. In addition, the production and sale of such is also heavily regulated. A whiff of a connection with ANY gang and you can not do anything. Get caught using illegal drugs? Not a problem. The state provides housing for 5 years. Get caught bringing in, or selling drugs? Again, not a problem 20 years.
I used to be a Geneticists that worked with lots of radiation. As such, I took classes, along with my general interest in science. Now, I am a Compter Scientist that is working on a manufacturing start-up. For the next decade, manufacturing esp. with robotics will be the place to be.
However, B&W HAD been working towards micro reactors (100-300 MWe sizes), which I thought made a lot of sense. Now, with Japan, that will be dead. But I think that by moving towards a IFR that burns up the fuel in-situ, then we could see something interesting.
Well, the majority of reactors will probably live out their lives and then be shut down.
And just thinking about it, I am wondering if can we build a small IFR reactor that can go on these sites and then finish burning the rest of the fuel. I mean, we were looking at small reactors, so why not an IFR type approach?
If we can get into the manufacturing approach, that would be CHEAP to do. It would already have storage, safety zone, electricity hook-ups, cooling, heck, even generators, security, trained ppl, etc. All that would have to be added was multiple new style reactors, along with a processing plant.
Argh; There are times that I hate this new in-line editing. :)
Ok, ZERO chance of proliferation. The idea is that the 'waste' is brought in, loaded into the reactor, and then is burned. At various times, parts of the fuel is brought out, WHILE RUNNING. IOW, ZERO COOL DOWNS. The fuel is brought into a processing room, and then processed, WHILE HOT. Not just radioactive, but thermally hot. Apparently, robotics has advanced enough that they did not have to cool it. In the processing room, the fuel is re-processed and only the true waste is pulled from it. NONE of it is capable of being used in a bomb (other than a dirty bomb). The active fuel remains in the processing room and is re-mixed and sent back into the reactor. With this approach, anything that is useful to a terrorists, well, I would love to see them head on in.
I would not want to depend on this for 100%, or even 25% of our electricity, let alone energy. HOWEVER, it does make sense to build a few of these and burn up all of our waste fuel.
I will say that I still believe that we should restart thorium. Ft. St. Vrain did just fine in terms of the reactor. It was sensors that had issues, along with a few other items.
You are thinking in the wrong way. We already HAVE THIS FUEL, only we call it waste. By burying it NOW, it will be 200K years worth of poison. Longer than man has been on this planet. IFR was meant to take this waste, add a LITTLE bit of fresh fuel to start the process and then BURN IT UP. In fact, if we had a number of IFRs, the waste that we have would last over a 100 year WITHOUT mining a thing from anywhere. The idea was to burn the current waste and then bury the real waste in the reactors, on-site, and it would be less than 200 years. The IFR will cost about double (or was it 3x) what a regular reactor will costs. The reason is the integrated portion. However, we can burn up our fuel, get energy, and solve the waste issue.
As to letting the market place decide WRT to our waste, well, we already took this issue on back in the 60s when we started atomics for power program. We have this waste. It has to be solved. We can either make loads of fuel with it, and make it safe, or bury what we have, at I believe, a much higher costs (you have to include whatever replaces this).
As to the real market place, we currently subsidize our oil, our coal, our natural gas, our nukes, and all of our AE programs. We need to roll these back, except perhaps for AE (to help it get off the ground) as well as R&D for all the fields. While I do not want to continue the operating subsidies that we have for fossil fuels and nukes, we should continue doing R&D such as helping companies convert Coal to Natural gas
Small amounts that can be burned up. Generally, the amount of waste from Thorium is a fraction of the uranium cycle.
1) Thorium was used in Ft. St. Vrain, and did great (though the backside of the plant was a disaster, the frontside was fine). And reprocessing can come later once the program is RESTARTED.
2) You are kidding, right? Thorium is not fertile. At best, a dirty bomb is all that they could get. And it is easy enough to get thorium and process it NOW.
3) At Mountain Pass, CA, rare earth minerals were mined for 30 + years. During that time, they amassed a large quantities of other elements that were considered pollution. In fact, it was part of what shut down the mine. What element? Thorium. We have LARGE quantities of it being seen as waste. In addition, Only India is known to posses more Thorium than America
Now, I agree that AE is useful. I think that we MUST continue forward with it. But it is insane to say that we must move to just one form of power. Instead, we should have a mixed input of energy in which no one single item is more than 1/3 (if not 1/4) of our input stream
Just guessing, but it has been some time since you were an nuke engineer.
Which was the issue that was being solved by the INTEGRATED fast reactor.
I would not bet against you. The fact is, that as the price of oil goes up, and Russia will play games again with Natural Gas, then EU esp. Germany will realize that they really have little choice BUT to keep nukes running.
I am certain that the ultimate decisions for dealing with our current nuke waste stockpile will be to build IFRs or some way to burn it up. It is just plain cheaper than to come up with burial for 20 to 200K years.
Likewise, we will certainly re-start the thorium work that the USA did in the 60s. In particular, I suspect that General Atomic is hard at work on re-starting this program.
Personally, I have a lot more issues with it when the companies are fronts for Chinese gov. And yes, many of these VC companies that front the money are simply meant to hide what is going on.