It's been two things. Moving goalposts all the time and a nuclear reactor construction industry that was stopped for close to a generation. So new suppliers and supply lines had to be restarted from scratch. For example the capacity to build those size of pressure vessels was lost, and new facilities had to be made in France. At one time I think only Japan had the capacity to build large nuclear reactor pressure vessels.
The greatest killer in disaster terms for power generation is hydroelectric. When a dam bursts (or worse, you get a cascade failure) the deaths can be in the hundred thousand and millions. Plus your numbers are obviously inflated and plain bullshit.
There's a lot more uranium out there than the one that's already being mined. Then there's integral fast reactors which can burn up the fuel one to two orders of magnitude better.
Ford, a company that killed all their car models, to focus on constructing trucks and SUVs exclusively, at a time when oil prices are going up? If anything I think they are over valued.
In Soviet Russia, people always avoided things build near the end of their production drives. To meet the yearly production quota, they typically build things as slipshod as possible in the last quarter.
They did build a Soyuz launch pad in there. With the delays to Angara entering full production, it didn't make sense to complete the Angara launch site at the earlier date since they would have no rockets to actually launch.
Angara also needs the LOX/LH2 upper stage to become competitive.
In the British computer game "Uplink" by Introversion one of the biometric locks you need to bypass actually uses the exact same sentence "My Voice is My Password. Verify me."
The "secret" of Damascus steel is a naturally occurring alloy (wootz steel) that came from certain mines in India. That was traded to Damascus and forged there into weapons. Then sold across the Muslim empire. Once the mines with that alloy were exhausted it stopped being manufactured with the same degree of quality. Centuries later people have tried to reproduce its properties. One example would be Bulat steel.
Another Thatcherite. Had the UK government not injected capital into Rolls Royce when they were developing the RB211 jet engine (a pre-Thatcher Conservative UK government from the 1970s) the company wouldn't even exist today. Yet because of that nationalisation, they survived, and are now the 2nd largest civilian turbofan engine manufacturer in the world with only GE having more share of the market.
The solution was kinda simple, allow partnerships with Japanese companies, to get their know-how. That's what the Chinese have been doing for quite some time now. A lot of people forget that the UK spent decades after WWII paying war debts to other nations, including the US, so a lot of MAJOR sacrifices were done even post-WWII to repay that debt inc. rationing to reduce imports.
Fact is all car manufacturers end up getting subsidized to a degree regardless of their country of origin.
Are those cars manufactured with aluminum alloys in the bodywork, and is how large is their battery pack? You do know that Tesla had to build their own battery factory because the market doesn't have enough capacity right?
There were European proposals for reusable rockets, but the ESA member states refused to fund them. One of those proposals in the FLPP was to have a LOX/Methane reusable flyback first stage with an expendable upper stage. Sounds familiar?
If they ever make a movie based on Bobba Fett, I think it would be up right there with other Star Wars classics, like the Star Wars Xmas special, Jar-Jar-binks, and planet Ewok.
The same issue happened a couple years back with Microsoft selling Windows in China IIRC. They made the source code available for inspection. I assume this is a similar initiative.
Someone created such a system once. It was called the "PR" or Performance Rating. It was used by AMD and Cyrix at a time when they had processors with different MIPS/Hz than Intel. The thing is, the benchmark was mostly integer based, so when games like Quake came out, which used the Intel Pentium's pipelined FPU, which the other manufacturer's processors didn't have, the PR kind fell by the wayside.
Not really. In a lot of cases the public sector moves much faster. There's more money and people working on it. This wouldn't necessarily be the case in a place like the Soviet Union though. But there are cases where technology even regresses, like supersonic transport, or super-heavy space lift, so it's perfectly possible some "secret tech" is 50 years ahead or whatever.
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It's been two things. Moving goalposts all the time and a nuclear reactor construction industry that was stopped for close to a generation. So new suppliers and supply lines had to be restarted from scratch. For example the capacity to build those size of pressure vessels was lost, and new facilities had to be made in France. At one time I think only Japan had the capacity to build large nuclear reactor pressure vessels.
Actually the construction of these reactors was basically stopped for 2-3 years after Fukushima while they reevaluated the design for modifications.
The greatest killer in disaster terms for power generation is hydroelectric. When a dam bursts (or worse, you get a cascade failure) the deaths can be in the hundred thousand and millions.
Plus your numbers are obviously inflated and plain bullshit.
Concrete production is one of the most CO2 intensive activities that humans undertake. Dams take a massive amount of concrete to build.
I always like these excessive generalizations. Ever heard of an earth-filled dam?
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That's just with current known reserves. See this article:
http://www.world-nuclear-news....
There's a lot more uranium out there than the one that's already being mined. Then there's integral fast reactors which can burn up the fuel one to two orders of magnitude better.
Ford, a company that killed all their car models, to focus on constructing trucks and SUVs exclusively, at a time when oil prices are going up? If anything I think they are over valued.
In Soviet Russia, people always avoided things build near the end of their production drives. To meet the yearly production quota, they typically build things as slipshod as possible in the last quarter.
They did build a Soyuz launch pad in there. With the delays to Angara entering full production, it didn't make sense to complete the Angara launch site at the earlier date since they would have no rockets to actually launch.
Angara also needs the LOX/LH2 upper stage to become competitive.
Because Proton uses toxic hypergolic fuel. Try reading about Nedelin disaster.
I think Angara also uses less parts than Proton. So the reason it is currently more expensive is likely simply due to the low production rate.
In the British computer game "Uplink" by Introversion one of the biometric locks you need to bypass actually uses the exact same sentence "My Voice is My Password. Verify me."
Tencent is basically the Facebook of China.
The "secret" of Damascus steel is a naturally occurring alloy (wootz steel) that came from certain mines in India. That was traded to Damascus and forged there into weapons. Then sold across the Muslim empire. Once the mines with that alloy were exhausted it stopped being manufactured with the same degree of quality. Centuries later people have tried to reproduce its properties. One example would be Bulat steel.
I think South Korea is also in the top 3 with Samsung and Hynix.
The Chinese own the drone market, and are starting to own the smartphone market.
Another Thatcherite. Had the UK government not injected capital into Rolls Royce when they were developing the RB211 jet engine (a pre-Thatcher Conservative UK government from the 1970s) the company wouldn't even exist today. Yet because of that nationalisation, they survived, and are now the 2nd largest civilian turbofan engine manufacturer in the world with only GE having more share of the market.
The solution was kinda simple, allow partnerships with Japanese companies, to get their know-how. That's what the Chinese have been doing for quite some time now. A lot of people forget that the UK spent decades after WWII paying war debts to other nations, including the US, so a lot of MAJOR sacrifices were done even post-WWII to repay that debt inc. rationing to reduce imports.
Fact is all car manufacturers end up getting subsidized to a degree regardless of their country of origin.
For how many years did Amazon "lose" money?
They're ramping up facilities and fabs cost money.
Are those cars manufactured with aluminum alloys in the bodywork, and is how large is their battery pack? You do know that Tesla had to build their own battery factory because the market doesn't have enough capacity right?
The shader code already needs to be compiled by the graphics driver to the particular GPU architecture anyway. It's just an extra compilation step.
Vulkan at least will be multiplatform and already has significant support in Windows for example.
There were European proposals for reusable rockets, but the ESA member states refused to fund them. One of those proposals in the FLPP was to have a LOX/Methane reusable flyback first stage with an expendable upper stage. Sounds familiar?
I was joking of course. It could be great, as long as they look at the already available fiction around the Mandalores.
If they ever make a movie based on Bobba Fett, I think it would be up right there with other Star Wars classics, like the Star Wars Xmas special, Jar-Jar-binks, and planet Ewok.
The same issue happened a couple years back with Microsoft selling Windows in China IIRC. They made the source code available for inspection. I assume this is a similar initiative.
Someone created such a system once. It was called the "PR" or Performance Rating. It was used by AMD and Cyrix at a time when they had processors with different MIPS/Hz than Intel. The thing is, the benchmark was mostly integer based, so when games like Quake came out, which used the Intel Pentium's pipelined FPU, which the other manufacturer's processors didn't have, the PR kind fell by the wayside.
Not really. In a lot of cases the public sector moves much faster. There's more money and people working on it. This wouldn't necessarily be the case in a place like the Soviet Union though. But there are cases where technology even regresses, like supersonic transport, or super-heavy space lift, so it's perfectly possible some "secret tech" is 50 years ahead or whatever.
I still miss comp.os.misc, comp.arch., and sci.space. As late as 1998.
Back when news actually had content. Not spam.