It's bullshit since it measures that you are under stress. Some people don't get visibly stressed while lying. In fact some people get *calmer* while lying and this is well known. Other people get stressed not because they committed the action but for other reasons (they find it repulsive, are afraid of being wrongly sentenced, whatever).
I am not against renewables. Hydro and wind power are economic and make sense to a point. However they cannot make up for 100% of supply. Hence we need either coal, nuclear or whatever to fill up the rest of the generation capacity. Solar will be cheap eventually but like wind it is an intermittent energy source. IMO one reason for the growing economic gap between the rich and poor is the growing cost of energy. Taxing nuclear power plants to subsidize windmills in places where there isn't enough wind resource for them to make sense is not the answer.
There is no 100% safe answer to the problem. We have been dealing with the consequences ever since we learned how to use fire. It is all a matter of tradeoffs. Once people realize that, then we can have sound energy policies.
The best way is to build the friggin house properly for the climate in question in the first place. Then you can consider things like air conditioning or whatever. I mean if Genghis could live in Mongolia nearly 1000 years ago why do these people "need" air conditioning?
It depends on the revolution. Stalin is one counter example even if the electrification of the USSR started when Lenin was still around but there are more like Hitler (autobahn), Mussolini (trains running on time, draining swamps infested with malaria, etc).
The thing is they had the means and/or the allies with the resources to do it. As for Venezuela don't have a clue. Can't they ask the Chinese for help or something?
Breeders use the neutrons in the fission reaction to generate Plutonium from U-238. They are called breeders because they generate more Plutonium than they consume while also generating heat and power in the process. Examples of such reactors include the US Integral Fast Reactor or the French Superphénix.
Breeder research basically stopped in the West after the end of the Cold War. With the decommissioning of nuclear warheads nuclear fuel was so cheap most mines became uneconomic and had to close down. I believe the price of uranium fuel has gone up 10x since. Everyone since has been mostly focused on improving the efficiency of nuclear separation to make it cheaper. The gas-centrifuge process is now used in France and was previously used in Russia and China. The US is presently investigating the gas-centrifuge and SILEX processes of nuclear separation. I think SILEX has a lot of potential for nuclear reprocessing if it is exploited fully. This is part of the reason why Japan and South Korea were interested in ALVIS in the first place but its a double-edged sword so it may get canned to show up elsewhere. Just like gas-centrifuges did. I guess you cannot stop the invisible hand of the market and the laws of thermodynamics.
The Russians are probably the current leaders in research of this kind of reactor. Their lead cooled fast reactors are probably the current leading contenders in this field since they had a lot of experience operating it in their submarines. They seem to be quite safe.
The main difference is you cannot inline OpenCL in C like you can do with CUDA because its done differently. The rest is fluff and I do not consider it beautifully designed. In fact it is a lot more cryptic than OpenCL.
You ignore all the Android devices which use OpenCL including the ARM processors from Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, and others. Mali, Exynos, and PowerVR have OpenCL acceleration. I have tried to use 3rd party CUDA implementations. They all suck. The reason is fairly obvious. They support the standard to various degrees and the "fragmentation" is worse than in OpenCL. The main problem with OpenCL is that the open source implementations suck and NVIDIA does not update their implementation from anything post OpenCL version 1.1. That is the problem. AMD's OpenCL drivers and tools are excellent both on the CPU and GPU. Plus there are several people modifying clang to compile to OpenCL to NVIDIA graphics PTX format. Eventually clang may target all the platforms. As for CUDA...
OpenCL caches the binaries after the first compile. Your NVIDIA driver will be doing the same thing except its compiling from PTX binaries to the specific card rather than straight from source. There are debuggers and profilers for OpenCL. Plus LLVM also supports OpenCL.
Not if you use breeder reactors. Besides there are plenty more exploitable reserves of uranium than those mined traditionally. It is present in seawater and granite for example.
That is wrong. Plato was given a chance to try out his method of government. And Socrates was the teacher of several of the Thirty Tyrants. So who knows...
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Like someone else said here Aldrich Ames.
Seventy years after death of author.
It's bullshit since it measures that you are under stress. Some people don't get visibly stressed while lying. In fact some people get *calmer* while lying and this is well known. Other people get stressed not because they committed the action but for other reasons (they find it repulsive, are afraid of being wrongly sentenced, whatever).
Precisely. That was the point behind net neutrality as a principle.
I am not against renewables. Hydro and wind power are economic and make sense to a point. However they cannot make up for 100% of supply. Hence we need either coal, nuclear or whatever to fill up the rest of the generation capacity. Solar will be cheap eventually but like wind it is an intermittent energy source. IMO one reason for the growing economic gap between the rich and poor is the growing cost of energy. Taxing nuclear power plants to subsidize windmills in places where there isn't enough wind resource for them to make sense is not the answer.
There is no 100% safe answer to the problem. We have been dealing with the consequences ever since we learned how to use fire. It is all a matter of tradeoffs. Once people realize that, then we can have sound energy policies.
The best way is to build the friggin house properly for the climate in question in the first place. Then you can consider things like air conditioning or whatever. I mean if Genghis could live in Mongolia nearly 1000 years ago why do these people "need" air conditioning?
AMD has had those for a long time ever since they started their APU family post ATI acquisition.
right to life, liiberty and the pursuit of happiness.
What are your thoughts on Russia's democracy, is it also a shining example to the world?
The Putin/Medved dynamic duo you mean?
In fact they arguably lost their attempted invasion of Vietnam in the 1970s.
So how well would the floating platforms withstand a tsunami?
The generated energy from wind power increases with wind turbine blade size. The turbine blades are as large as the wings of a 747 already.
You can also convert natural gas to diesel using Fischer-Tropsch. However that requires infrastructure to do it.
AFAIK fracking is about more than natural gas however.
It depends on the revolution. Stalin is one counter example even if the electrification of the USSR started when Lenin was still around but there are more like Hitler (autobahn), Mussolini (trains running on time, draining swamps infested with malaria, etc).
The thing is they had the means and/or the allies with the resources to do it. As for Venezuela don't have a clue. Can't they ask the Chinese for help or something?
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Breeders use the neutrons in the fission reaction to generate Plutonium from U-238. They are called breeders because they generate more Plutonium than they consume while also generating heat and power in the process. Examples of such reactors include the US Integral Fast Reactor or the French Superphénix.
Breeder research basically stopped in the West after the end of the Cold War. With the decommissioning of nuclear warheads nuclear fuel was so cheap most mines became uneconomic and had to close down. I believe the price of uranium fuel has gone up 10x since. Everyone since has been mostly focused on improving the efficiency of nuclear separation to make it cheaper. The gas-centrifuge process is now used in France and was previously used in Russia and China. The US is presently investigating the gas-centrifuge and SILEX processes of nuclear separation. I think SILEX has a lot of potential for nuclear reprocessing if it is exploited fully. This is part of the reason why Japan and South Korea were interested in ALVIS in the first place but its a double-edged sword so it may get canned to show up elsewhere. Just like gas-centrifuges did. I guess you cannot stop the invisible hand of the market and the laws of thermodynamics.
The Russians are probably the current leaders in research of this kind of reactor. Their lead cooled fast reactors are probably the current leading contenders in this field since they had a lot of experience operating it in their submarines. They seem to be quite safe.
The main difference is you cannot inline OpenCL in C like you can do with CUDA because its done differently. The rest is fluff and I do not consider it beautifully designed. In fact it is a lot more cryptic than OpenCL.
You ignore all the Android devices which use OpenCL including the ARM processors from Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, and others. Mali, Exynos, and PowerVR have OpenCL acceleration. I have tried to use 3rd party CUDA implementations. They all suck. The reason is fairly obvious. They support the standard to various degrees and the "fragmentation" is worse than in OpenCL. The main problem with OpenCL is that the open source implementations suck and NVIDIA does not update their implementation from anything post OpenCL version 1.1. That is the problem. AMD's OpenCL drivers and tools are excellent both on the CPU and GPU. Plus there are several people modifying clang to compile to OpenCL to NVIDIA graphics PTX format. Eventually clang may target all the platforms. As for CUDA...
Also Adobe seems to disagree with you since they have been shifting from CUDA to OpenCL for some time now.
OpenCL caches the binaries after the first compile. Your NVIDIA driver will be doing the same thing except its compiling from PTX binaries to the specific card rather than straight from source. There are debuggers and profilers for OpenCL. Plus LLVM also supports OpenCL.
Not if you use breeder reactors. Besides there are plenty more exploitable reserves of uranium than those mined traditionally. It is present in seawater and granite for example.
He is probably taking into account heat to electricity losses. But that is kind of a misnomer since this does not apply to non-thermal power plants.
That is wrong. Plato was given a chance to try out his method of government. And Socrates was the teacher of several of the Thirty Tyrants. So who knows...
There are more cases like Ulysses Grant.