such as "false flag" and "crisis actor," web slang meaning a shooting is not what the government or the traditional media is reporting it to be.
Duh. You could get a better description on Wikipedia. "False flag" is when someone, it could be government agents, does an offensive act while pretending to be someone else to pin the blame on them. Typically to use it as a casus belli afterwards. It happened when Hitler invaded Poland (Gleiwitz incident).
PS: Oh you meant a Molten Salt Fast Breeder Reactor. Well those aren't exactly a done technology either. The Russians are arguably more advanced in that regard.
Any place where there are large coal deposits, there are exploitable natural gas deposits.
Even if that was true, the coal deposits are in the north of the country. It would be useful for Beijing, but not for the large cities in the south. Natural gas needs to either be piped or converted to LNG and transported and that's expensive. The Russians are also planning to build the Altai natural gas pipeline in the North of China to Manchuria I believe, but it's not going to be ready any time soon.
The Chinese are also implementing an experimental MSR power plant, and provided its commercially feasible, will probably be the future model of nuclear reactors in China; not older, breeder reactor designs.
Uh... you mean PBR (Pebble Bed Reactor) instead of LWR (Liquid Water Reactor)? I don't think so. People have been working on that for decades. It isn't going to happen anytime soon.
You seem to think it is cheap to build high capacity power lines. It isn't. In fact its more expensive than to build a natural gas pipeline to transfer the same amount of energy.
Westinghouse took a huge risk when they bought the CB&I Stone and Webster construction company that was building the reactors in the USA. They didn't examine their accounts properly and the construction company was hiding huge debts. Since Toshiba bought Westinghouse, to get the AP1000 reactor design, they inherited that financial burden. Given the news from Toshiba last year you had to know the shakedown at Westinghouse would come eventually. Toshiba bet a lot on this deal and they lost tremendously. This will setback nuclear power R&D in the West for like a decade at least.
The nuclear reactors in the USA are being built under a fixed price contract. With all the changes that were required to the design, because of regulation changes, plus the fact that no one had built a lot of new reactors in the USA in decades, meant there was a high risk with a deal like that. Couple that with the oil price and natural gas price crashes and the deal is pretty bad. They probably thought they would recoup the losses with further reactor construction in the USA in the future once these initial reactors were built and their licensing was done and construction knowledge improved but there's little chance of it happening anymore.
Still there are going to be like four reactors of this same AP1000 design going online in China this year at two locations. Plus the Chinese already have a license to build an enlarged version of it they call the CAP1400 for which they intend to do serial production in relatively large amounts. So even if these are the last AP1000 reactors to be build in the USA, construction of the licensed designs will continue in China. The Chinese don't have a lot of natural gas, unlike the USA, and given the air pollution issues they have in their large coastal cities, they have few alternatives to nuclear if they want to reduce atmospheric pollution.
Natural gas doesn't make sense everywhere. In places where there aren't natural gas pipelines nearby, or coal mines, or hydropower, nuclear still makes sense.
Poets? I don't know about that. There's software that can compose music. I doubt it can't be done for poetry as well considering there's many rules on how to write it.
I think its interesting that Greenpeace is dismissing one of its founders. He advocates for nuclear power. So what? So does James Lovelock and other well known environmentalists.
The fire hazard was because the battery was too tightly fit into the device. They only need to make the battery physically smaller and they can reuse everything else.
That's one reason why weapons clients prefer to buy battle tested equipment which has had a large production run. It means the kinks have been ironed out.
One way to prevent these issues is to have someone from the client physically present on the production facility to inspect the vehicles before delivery.
Well sure they have issues. Ukraine's economy is quite poor so they can't spend much on their military. They are also presently at war with Russia and their weapons factories are often close to the Russian border and sometimes used to buy parts and materials from Russia proper (the relations date back from the USSR). So of course they're having a hard time fulfilling the order. But AFAIK the Ukrainians have always fulfilled their weapons deals in the past. There may be delays but they've always done their part as long as they get paid for it. One example is the deal with Pakistan with the T-80UD a couple of years back. When Russia denied them some critical parts the Ukrainians just made their own replacements locally. They have some good talent on engines and gas-turbines. Their tank, naval, and aircraft industries are presently mostly export oriented.
The T-90 has had its own issues as well. The Indians complained there was a wide variation between tanks. Some had turrets installed different from the original specification. Quite a lot of them were in fact remanufactured T-72 chassis. So it isn't just Ukraine that does this. There's quite a lot of ex-USSR equipment lying around so of course they'll reuse it as much as possible.
Kharkiv, Ukraine is the home of one of the largest tank manufacturing facilities in the world, for the Morozov Design Bureau, the designers of the T-34,T-54,T-64 tanks. There are quite a lot of deactivated ex-USSR tanks there: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
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As bad as Wal-Mart is, I would rather work there than at one of Amazon's sweat shop warehouses.
A much simpler problem to solve and solids don't have the same performance.
such as "false flag" and "crisis actor," web slang meaning a shooting is not what the government or the traditional media is reporting it to be.
Duh. You could get a better description on Wikipedia. "False flag" is when someone, it could be government agents, does an offensive act while pretending to be someone else to pin the blame on them. Typically to use it as a casus belli afterwards. It happened when Hitler invaded Poland (Gleiwitz incident).
PS: Oh you meant a Molten Salt Fast Breeder Reactor. Well those aren't exactly a done technology either. The Russians are arguably more advanced in that regard.
Any place where there are large coal deposits, there are exploitable natural gas deposits.
Even if that was true, the coal deposits are in the north of the country. It would be useful for Beijing, but not for the large cities in the south. Natural gas needs to either be piped or converted to LNG and transported and that's expensive. The Russians are also planning to build the Altai natural gas pipeline in the North of China to Manchuria I believe, but it's not going to be ready any time soon.
The Chinese are also implementing an experimental MSR power plant, and provided its commercially feasible, will probably be the future model of nuclear reactors in China; not older, breeder reactor designs.
Uh... you mean PBR (Pebble Bed Reactor) instead of LWR (Liquid Water Reactor)? I don't think so. People have been working on that for decades. It isn't going to happen anytime soon.
Power lines have more transmission losses and worse energy density than a natural gas pipeline.
Fusion power is a wholly different kettle of fish. But yes, it is more uneconomic than fission power unless the technology changes radically.
You seem to think it is cheap to build high capacity power lines. It isn't. In fact its more expensive than to build a natural gas pipeline to transfer the same amount of energy.
Westinghouse took a huge risk when they bought the CB&I Stone and Webster construction company that was building the reactors in the USA. They didn't examine their accounts properly and the construction company was hiding huge debts. Since Toshiba bought Westinghouse, to get the AP1000 reactor design, they inherited that financial burden. Given the news from Toshiba last year you had to know the shakedown at Westinghouse would come eventually. Toshiba bet a lot on this deal and they lost tremendously. This will setback nuclear power R&D in the West for like a decade at least.
The nuclear reactors in the USA are being built under a fixed price contract. With all the changes that were required to the design, because of regulation changes, plus the fact that no one had built a lot of new reactors in the USA in decades, meant there was a high risk with a deal like that. Couple that with the oil price and natural gas price crashes and the deal is pretty bad. They probably thought they would recoup the losses with further reactor construction in the USA in the future once these initial reactors were built and their licensing was done and construction knowledge improved but there's little chance of it happening anymore.
Still there are going to be like four reactors of this same AP1000 design going online in China this year at two locations. Plus the Chinese already have a license to build an enlarged version of it they call the CAP1400 for which they intend to do serial production in relatively large amounts. So even if these are the last AP1000 reactors to be build in the USA, construction of the licensed designs will continue in China. The Chinese don't have a lot of natural gas, unlike the USA, and given the air pollution issues they have in their large coastal cities, they have few alternatives to nuclear if they want to reduce atmospheric pollution.
Natural gas doesn't make sense everywhere. In places where there aren't natural gas pipelines nearby, or coal mines, or hydropower, nuclear still makes sense.
Not to mention that before "social networks" we had finger and plan files.
Perhaps I should have said 'talk' instead of ICQ as well.
It's all marketing blurb. All the new "services" are E-mail, IRC, and yes ICQ rehashed a zillion times over.
The future "jobs" will be as greeters and crap like that.
Poets? I don't know about that.
There's software that can compose music. I doubt it can't be done for poetry as well considering there's many rules on how to write it.
I think its interesting that Greenpeace is dismissing one of its founders. He advocates for nuclear power. So what? So does James Lovelock and other well known environmentalists.
Offtopic uh? I thought this article was about climate change.
Former president of Greenpeace Canada at the Boston Globe.
Seems like a poorly designed system to me. Then again you could as well be describing Oracle DB.
If Elon Musk volunteers to be the first to get that chip implant surgery. No? You don't want to have the surgery Elon? Oh well.
The fire hazard was because the battery was too tightly fit into the device. They only need to make the battery physically smaller and they can reuse everything else.
That's one reason why weapons clients prefer to buy battle tested equipment which has had a large production run. It means the kinks have been ironed out.
One way to prevent these issues is to have someone from the client physically present on the production facility to inspect the vehicles before delivery.
Well sure they have issues. Ukraine's economy is quite poor so they can't spend much on their military. They are also presently at war with Russia and their weapons factories are often close to the Russian border and sometimes used to buy parts and materials from Russia proper (the relations date back from the USSR). So of course they're having a hard time fulfilling the order. But AFAIK the Ukrainians have always fulfilled their weapons deals in the past. There may be delays but they've always done their part as long as they get paid for it. One example is the deal with Pakistan with the T-80UD a couple of years back. When Russia denied them some critical parts the Ukrainians just made their own replacements locally. They have some good talent on engines and gas-turbines. Their tank, naval, and aircraft industries are presently mostly export oriented.
The T-90 has had its own issues as well. The Indians complained there was a wide variation between tanks. Some had turrets installed different from the original specification. Quite a lot of them were in fact remanufactured T-72 chassis. So it isn't just Ukraine that does this. There's quite a lot of ex-USSR equipment lying around so of course they'll reuse it as much as possible.
Kharkiv, Ukraine is the home of one of the largest tank manufacturing facilities in the world, for the Morozov Design Bureau, the designers of the T-34,T-54,T-64 tanks. There are quite a lot of deactivated ex-USSR tanks there:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
A notable example of that is silicon wafer manufacturing.