The space station's pressure, such as ISS, is kept at sea level (kind of surprised, but...). That means that you have 101 kPa of pressure differential, on THIN ALUMINUM.
Seriously, all of the space stations have had leaks. Most were caused by micrometeorites that hit them. How many have blown apart because of that? NONE.
For those that are claiming that hyperloop will blow up, note that the tubes will actually be STRONGER than any of the stations.
And for those claiming that physicists are saying otherwise, I would suggest that they are NOT working in the field since they are too stupid to know.
The GOP USED to be Republicans. It really is not. They have continued to kick out Republicans (calling them RINOs) or the Republicans have left.
And I give 2 different names to these of GOP and Republicans because Republicans would match up with Lincoln, Teddy, IKE, etc. NOT with Hitler, AQ, China, etc. that the current GOP does.
yes, they HAVE said that. It does not mean that we should do that. They are interested in their OWN business and we need to worry about the business of America.
As to bringing in more techs, it is time to drop [HL]*Bs (including H2Bs), and instead increase the green cards for techs, along with automating the lower end jobs.
Huh. I know nothing about you?
the political left is no more a threat than you and your far right cronies that continue to run up massive deficits and try to blame the left.
Likewise, you get us into war, after war, after war.
Your party is a bunch of fascists nut jobs that have been destroying America starting with reagan.
There are PLENTY of far right wingers in CA that continue to cause major harm. But the real issue is that your party has been cheating at so much and does not care 1 whit about our nation.
We DESPERATELY need a NEW 3rd party that consist of moderates, with a strong fiscal conservative attitude. Sadly, the far right is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what is needed.
The president did NOT step it. He is the one that has to sign off if DOD AND Secretary of State says that it should be blocked. And yes, BOTH DOD and SoS did back this action. Trump could not have done this unilaterally.
This is about national security. There have been plenty of businesses that we prohibit CHina and Russia, amongst others that we prevent from buying. While it would be possible for a European, Canadaian, or Australian company to purchase this one, there are some that are NOT allowed to be bought by ANY nation, and others that can only be bought by Canada and/or England.
And oddly, CHina blocks nearly ALL buys of chinese companies from the west. Yet, I doubt that you object to that.
California Mineral Pass is a huge mine that produces rare earth and thorium. Chinese company just put in to but it ( the main American company bid 20M, while the chinese backed bid 20.5M; were supposed to be.5M difference and was supposedly bid blind ). They have already indicated that they will shut it down even though it is the world's most economically feasible REE mine.
Trump needs to block this and more importantly, get REE going in America again. This is easy to do with Tesla and their Model 3. Model S/X did used AC motors so did not have magnets. BUT, model 3 DOES use DC motors with REE magnets. This is idea.
Republicans? Yeah, maybe. GOP? God no.
HUGE difference between Republicans and the GOP. And nearly all of the former have left or been booted out of the GOP.
u obviously do not have a grasp of what the LP stands for. We are NOT rightwingers, by any strech. We oppose not only the far left, but also, ppl like you on the far right who love your fascists approaches to America.
Sadly, so many, including the idiots at the economists, tend to see political POV as right vs left and then shift policies as they see fit.
Worse yet, they think that Republicans want smaller gov and nothing but a strong defense. That is NOT a republican POV. That is a GOP POV that has more in common with NAZIs than with Abe Lincoln and what he wanted.
The Republican party is the one that stood up for BIG GOVERNMENT. They also support gov helping develop businesses. Railroads? Lincoln. Highway system? IKE. Nuke power plants? IKE. Plenty of support for business development by Republicans.
Now, the GOP, that is a different matter. They contstantly shift. Back in 1860, they were the liberals. Now the GOP is a conservative party.
As to Libertarian, well, the party has plenty of shifts, which makes sense. We believe in FREEDOM. Freedom to decide. Freedom to change. etc.
What is interesting is that SV exec actually fit us pretty well. They push freedom. Now, do they support regulations to protect ppl? ABSOLUTELY. Yet, Libertarians are all about freedom to do whatever, until you infringe on others. So, regulations to protect ppl,such as no pollution being dumped in rivers, or air, is about the same thing.
Regulations that protect businesses is where my party opposes things, and instead, we see the GOP supporting that. For all intents and purposes, Libertarians are OPPOSED to what today's GOP does. Ask a good Libertarian if America should go to war over oil and they will tell you that we need out of ALL WARS. And many of us DO support seeing America switch to EVs and AE. Why? Because it makes us avoid going to war, except internally.
there was another article, I forget where, that showed that they DID know just in front of their sale.
BUT, I agree that the sale itself was probably arranged 2-3 weeks PRIOR.
So, the real question becomes, did they delay the announcement knowing that they had a sale, or were they doing other things?
If so, that is a whole other issue. Not insider trading, but stock manipulation.
would not surprise me if they tried to deny it. Would not be the first time that some rich asshole lied through their teeth.:) However, it is still known that they WERE notified prior.
if they really are abusing their status, which I do not think that they did. Of course, with the current CEO, who knows. Pichai is a fuucking idiot and has turned Google into the next Microsoft.
Seriously, Europe is simply trying to go after foreign companies to make money from, rather than tax their own. I think that it is interesting that just about every European nations charges a VAT AND goes after corporate taxes, AND a number of them even have sales taxes. And yet, they still scream for more MONEY.
The entire world, including America, has the exact same issues. Basically, as long as we all make laws/tax rules that allow them to manufacture goods/services elsewhere and then ship cheaply to western nations, they will continue this.
The best way is to drop all corporate taxes for a company that makes/produces local goods. And then put on a subtractive VAT on nearly everything, except create an additive VAT for imported parts. With this approach, it means that anything that is moved from wholesale to retail, OR is sold in the nation from out of the nation, will then be subject to this VAT. As it is, many nations, such as Mexico and CHina charge 17 % VATs. And disregard the fact that both also have some MAJOR tariffs on imports.
The real interesting part is how to get the VAT on goods/services shipped into another nation. I think that the best way, is to simply require that the shipping company pick up the tax and pay to the nation in which delivered. If somebody buys a good for $100 and they have a $17 VAT, then that is added on. With the service, it should be VATed at the rate in which it would happen in the original nation.
And most of Europe already charge a VAT. What is needed is for the VAT to be charged on shipped goods as well.
actually, a good engineer trust the laws of physics will always apply, but then handle all of the items in which they do not. Of course, this reactor is based on the idea of laws of physics along with well-known chemical properties.
And a nuclear physicsts knows that neutrons are needed to make thorium fission, so if you have a clean separation of liquid thorium from your neutron source (which can be provided by uranium/plutonium, or by electrical source), then thorium will stop its fission.
IOW, I told you of the design of the reactor, and how it operates. This reactor is simple physics and chemistry. IOW, operation of the reactor can NOT fail. That does not mean that the manufacturing of the reactor can not produce an issue (not likely, but that is not a zero either), OR that a major neutron source is dropped in there forcing it, which would mean some form of an attack, but these are different issues from the operation of the reactor. Here you go. Now, go ahead and explain how the reactor can go critical
Whatever on the 'yelling'. As to the machine failure, please explain how such a reactor will fail. Keep in mind that the fissile rods are at of the top of the inner sink, which has a number of thermal plugs that simply melt at 805C, allowing the liquid thorium fuel to drain below. The rods without thorium around will not heat up enough to melt down. So those can be on their own. Once the thorium is drained to the outer sink, it no longer is exposed to vast amounts of neutrons.
So, how will this fail? Because they have already tried to force a failure by simply stopping the circulation and walking away.
good post.
My dad was USAF and American airlines pilot and has many 10,000s of hours in the air.
Likewise, I do live in Denver basin and yeah, we do have not just increased radiation from the sun, but also in our soils. And yup, we do just fine. Heck, I was exposed to P-32 and Tritium during biological work at CDC.
Yeah, I would much rather live next to a safe nuke than a guaranteed dirty coal plant.
First, Emphasis, is not yelling. Yelling is capping for a whole sentence, paragraph, etc. I cap a few words for emphasis. BIG difference.
Now with that said, the GEN 2/3 reactors that were built and the large ones continue to build, require human intervention to not fail. That is a fact. That is why I am opposed to those.
OTOH, a great example of a fail-proof reactor would be the liquid thorium fluoride salts reactors. Since thorium is fertile it does NOT produce neutrons needed for fission. So, it uses U/Pu for neutron emissions. The liquid thorium is put into a tub, which has drains in the bottom, along with another tub below that. Thermal plugs, designed to melt at 805C, are inserted into those drains to keep the liquid in. The normal temperature for the liquid thorium is 790-800C. If a 'melt-down' starts, the plugs melt and the thorium salts run out. Not only does it not need human intervention, but it does not need cooling. Basically, the liquid being separated from the neutron producing rods, will simply cool off on its own. This has already been tested back in the 70s. Now to re-start it DOES take human intervention.
And that is just 1 example of the Gen IVs that pretty much can not fail.
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space stations prove that you do not know what you are talking about.
The space station's pressure, such as ISS, is kept at sea level (kind of surprised, but...). That means that you have 101 kPa of pressure differential, on THIN ALUMINUM.
Seriously, all of the space stations have had leaks. Most were caused by micrometeorites that hit them. How many have blown apart because of that? NONE.
For those that are claiming that hyperloop will blow up, note that the tubes will actually be STRONGER than any of the stations.
And for those claiming that physicists are saying otherwise, I would suggest that they are NOT working in the field since they are too stupid to know.
The GOP USED to be Republicans. It really is not. They have continued to kick out Republicans (calling them RINOs) or the Republicans have left.
And I give 2 different names to these of GOP and Republicans because Republicans would match up with Lincoln, Teddy, IKE, etc. NOT with Hitler, AQ, China, etc. that the current GOP does.
yes, they HAVE said that. It does not mean that we should do that. They are interested in their OWN business and we need to worry about the business of America.
As to bringing in more techs, it is time to drop [HL]*Bs (including H2Bs), and instead increase the green cards for techs, along with automating the lower end jobs.
Huh. I know nothing about you?
the political left is no more a threat than you and your far right cronies that continue to run up massive deficits and try to blame the left.
Likewise, you get us into war, after war, after war.
Your party is a bunch of fascists nut jobs that have been destroying America starting with reagan.
There are PLENTY of far right wingers in CA that continue to cause major harm. But the real issue is that your party has been cheating at so much and does not care 1 whit about our nation.
We DESPERATELY need a NEW 3rd party that consist of moderates, with a strong fiscal conservative attitude. Sadly, the far right is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what is needed.
It is a Democratic Republic in mostly the same fashion that our forefathers set this up.
The president did NOT step it. He is the one that has to sign off if DOD AND Secretary of State says that it should be blocked. And yes, BOTH DOD and SoS did back this action. Trump could not have done this unilaterally.
This is about national security. There have been plenty of businesses that we prohibit CHina and Russia, amongst others that we prevent from buying. While it would be possible for a European, Canadaian, or Australian company to purchase this one, there are some that are NOT allowed to be bought by ANY nation, and others that can only be bought by Canada and/or England.
And oddly, CHina blocks nearly ALL buys of chinese companies from the west. Yet, I doubt that you object to that.
California Mineral Pass is a huge mine that produces rare earth and thorium. Chinese company just put in to but it ( the main American company bid 20M, while the chinese backed bid 20.5M; were supposed to be .5M difference and was supposedly bid blind ). They have already indicated that they will shut it down even though it is the world's most economically feasible REE mine.
Trump needs to block this and more importantly, get REE going in America again. This is easy to do with Tesla and their Model 3. Model S/X did used AC motors so did not have magnets. BUT, model 3 DOES use DC motors with REE magnets. This is idea.
Republicans? Yeah, maybe. GOP? God no.
HUGE difference between Republicans and the GOP. And nearly all of the former have left or been booted out of the GOP.
u obviously do not have a grasp of what the LP stands for. We are NOT rightwingers, by any strech. We oppose not only the far left, but also, ppl like you on the far right who love your fascists approaches to America.
Sadly, so many, including the idiots at the economists, tend to see political POV as right vs left and then shift policies as they see fit.
,such as no pollution being dumped in rivers, or air, is about the same thing.
Worse yet, they think that Republicans want smaller gov and nothing but a strong defense. That is NOT a republican POV. That is a GOP POV that has more in common with NAZIs than with Abe Lincoln and what he wanted.
The Republican party is the one that stood up for BIG GOVERNMENT. They also support gov helping develop businesses. Railroads? Lincoln. Highway system? IKE. Nuke power plants? IKE. Plenty of support for business development by Republicans.
Now, the GOP, that is a different matter. They contstantly shift. Back in 1860, they were the liberals. Now the GOP is a conservative party.
As to Libertarian, well, the party has plenty of shifts, which makes sense. We believe in FREEDOM. Freedom to decide. Freedom to change. etc.
What is interesting is that SV exec actually fit us pretty well. They push freedom. Now, do they support regulations to protect ppl? ABSOLUTELY. Yet, Libertarians are all about freedom to do whatever, until you infringe on others. So, regulations to protect ppl
Regulations that protect businesses is where my party opposes things, and instead, we see the GOP supporting that. For all intents and purposes, Libertarians are OPPOSED to what today's GOP does. Ask a good Libertarian if America should go to war over oil and they will tell you that we need out of ALL WARS. And many of us DO support seeing America switch to EVs and AE. Why? Because it makes us avoid going to war, except internally.
there was another article, I forget where, that showed that they DID know just in front of their sale.
BUT, I agree that the sale itself was probably arranged 2-3 weeks PRIOR.
So, the real question becomes, did they delay the announcement knowing that they had a sale, or were they doing other things?
If so, that is a whole other issue. Not insider trading, but stock manipulation.
would not surprise me if they tried to deny it. Would not be the first time that some rich asshole lied through their teeth. :)
However, it is still known that they WERE notified prior.
actually, it is KNOWN that they did the sale shortly after they learned about the breach.
Seriously, I am guessing that we will find out that it was done in India, not in America.
yes, but we have so many AC trolls, that it is just better off to not answer idiots like that.
if they really are abusing their status, which I do not think that they did. Of course, with the current CEO, who knows. Pichai is a fuucking idiot and has turned Google into the next Microsoft.
Seriously, Europe is simply trying to go after foreign companies to make money from, rather than tax their own. I think that it is interesting that just about every European nations charges a VAT AND goes after corporate taxes, AND a number of them even have sales taxes. And yet, they still scream for more MONEY.
you do realize that nearly all nations, EXCEPT for America, in WTO have VATS. Yes?
And many of those have sales taxes on TOP of that.
And they STILL want to charge corporate taxes to companies outside of their region.
The entire world, including America, has the exact same issues. Basically, as long as we all make laws/tax rules that allow them to manufacture goods/services elsewhere and then ship cheaply to western nations, they will continue this.
The best way is to drop all corporate taxes for a company that makes/produces local goods. And then put on a subtractive VAT on nearly everything, except create an additive VAT for imported parts. With this approach, it means that anything that is moved from wholesale to retail, OR is sold in the nation from out of the nation, will then be subject to this VAT. As it is, many nations, such as Mexico and CHina charge 17 % VATs. And disregard the fact that both also have some MAJOR tariffs on imports.
The real interesting part is how to get the VAT on goods/services shipped into another nation. I think that the best way, is to simply require that the shipping company pick up the tax and pay to the nation in which delivered. If somebody buys a good for $100 and they have a $17 VAT, then that is added on. With the service, it should be VATed at the rate in which it would happen in the original nation.
And most of Europe already charge a VAT. What is needed is for the VAT to be charged on shipped goods as well.
actually, a good engineer trust the laws of physics will always apply, but then handle all of the items in which they do not. Of course, this reactor is based on the idea of laws of physics along with well-known chemical properties.
And a nuclear physicsts knows that neutrons are needed to make thorium fission, so if you have a clean separation of liquid thorium from your neutron source (which can be provided by uranium/plutonium, or by electrical source), then thorium will stop its fission.
IOW, I told you of the design of the reactor, and how it operates. This reactor is simple physics and chemistry. IOW, operation of the reactor can NOT fail. That does not mean that the manufacturing of the reactor can not produce an issue (not likely, but that is not a zero either), OR that a major neutron source is dropped in there forcing it, which would mean some form of an attack, but these are different issues from the operation of the reactor.
Here you go. Now, go ahead and explain how the reactor can go critical
Whatever on the 'yelling'. As to the machine failure, please explain how such a reactor will fail. Keep in mind that the fissile rods are at of the top of the inner sink, which has a number of thermal plugs that simply melt at 805C, allowing the liquid thorium fuel to drain below. The rods without thorium around will not heat up enough to melt down. So those can be on their own. Once the thorium is drained to the outer sink, it no longer is exposed to vast amounts of neutrons. So, how will this fail? Because they have already tried to force a failure by simply stopping the circulation and walking away.
good post.
My dad was USAF and American airlines pilot and has many 10,000s of hours in the air.
Likewise, I do live in Denver basin and yeah, we do have not just increased radiation from the sun, but also in our soils. And yup, we do just fine. Heck, I was exposed to P-32 and Tritium during biological work at CDC.
Yeah, I would much rather live next to a safe nuke than a guaranteed dirty coal plant.
First, Emphasis, is not yelling. Yelling is capping for a whole sentence, paragraph, etc. I cap a few words for emphasis. BIG difference.
Now with that said, the GEN 2/3 reactors that were built and the large ones continue to build, require human intervention to not fail. That is a fact. That is why I am opposed to those.
OTOH, a great example of a fail-proof reactor would be the liquid thorium fluoride salts reactors. Since thorium is fertile it does NOT produce neutrons needed for fission. So, it uses U/Pu for neutron emissions. The liquid thorium is put into a tub, which has drains in the bottom, along with another tub below that. Thermal plugs, designed to melt at 805C, are inserted into those drains to keep the liquid in. The normal temperature for the liquid thorium is 790-800C. If a 'melt-down' starts, the plugs melt and the thorium salts run out. Not only does it not need human intervention, but it does not need cooling. Basically, the liquid being separated from the neutron producing rods, will simply cool off on its own. This has already been tested back in the 70s. Now to re-start it DOES take human intervention.
And that is just 1 example of the Gen IVs that pretty much can not fail.