"Any DVDs that force me to watch adverts are taken straight back for a refund as "broken" by the way - hopefully other people do this as well..."
You are sooo right. I absolutely LOATHE it when I am blocked from fast forwarding or skipping ads (commercials) for other movies released by the same company. I bought the damn DVD so I wouldn't have to sit through that crap.
I have taken back a total of four dvd's now that had this "feature".
I think after the first 25 shipments are completed with nothing bad happening, the news media will get bored and go chase something else to demonize for ratings/sell adds.
The decision was made a long time ago to use combination transport and storage containers. You load the spent fuel or GTCC waste into the same container it will reach and be stored at the repository. No second load/unload movement of the waste. Unless they changed their minds again, always possible when new technologies appear.
Also you gotta love the term "dump". Sounds like an old man on the pot squeeezing out a thick loaf. Or 55 gallon drums of green slime being kicked off the back of a flatbed truck.
These canisters are handled very very carefully. They are extremely heavy for one thing and precision is the culture around this stuff. More precision than might be required really sometimes. I should know, I've moved more than a few bundles of spent fuel. Stuff hot out of the reactor too. Nice blue glow from the water around the bundles too.
You are forgetting that that $58B has already partially been paid (and will continue to be paid) by the people who have nuclear power as part of their local utility bills. A tiny surcharge has been added to utility bills incorporating nuclear power nearly since the inception of nuclear power. The $58B will come from the people who are using the power. It will not come from other taxpayers pockets, and hence will not be "diverted" from other more "worthy" causes.
A better place would be the deep granite formations of the northeast. But you gotta be kidding politically. Vermont and New Hampshire delegations even got a law through way back in 1987 prohibiting any consideration of granite for nuclear waste storage. Incredible NIMBY policital shortsightedness.
Don't get me wrong, I beleive Yucca mountain will be fine. The amount of isolation is incredible. And I don't believe it'll be there more than 100 years, I think we'll be pullin it back out and using the isotopes for something by then.
I know this is meant as a joke but there is some truth to the way you spend your money for reliability. You have to choose carefully which systems get the money spent to design and validate that they will perform with 99.9999xxxx reliability. If you waste your money, you won't have enough for those systems that really need the quality.
And nothing contributes to reliability more than hiring, training and retaining high quality operators and engineers.
I don't think you realize how tiny the amount of waste generated per person using nuclear power is. There is a LOT of energy per unit volume in nuclear fuel.
A showbox sized volume will hold all the nuclear waste generated from production of electricity for a family of four for forty-years!
Contrast that to the mountains of coal ash and billions of tons of CO2 emitted.
The Washington Public Power Supply System and 88 smaller utility partners throughout the Pacific Northwest planned to build five nuclear plants to meet the demand. But energy conservation prompted by the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s dramatically reduced demand.
The combination of lower demand and construction delays led the utility to suspend construction on three of the five nuclear plants.
Nuclear Plant WNP 1. Located at Hanford, Washington. Was mothballed in 1983, and is about 70 percent completed. It could conceivably could be on line by 2007 and would produce 1200MW for over 60 years.
Nuclear Plant WNP 2. Located at Hanford, Washington. Is completed and is in operation. It is called the Washington Generating Station. Produces 1250 megawatts at 2.14 cents per kilowatt hour or $ 21.40 dollars a megawatt hour.
Nuclear Plant WNP 3. Located at Satsop, Washington. Scrapped.
Nuclear Plant WNP 4. Located at Hanford, Washington. Concrete work partially completed.
Nuclear Plant WNP 5. Located at Satsop, Washington. Scrapped.
The people who voted down, or sued to prevent, construction of new power lines, or power plants near them get to look at, listen to, and smell a few big diesel engines with 36 trashcan-sized-cylinders per engine roaring away.
The planning number used by most utilities in hot states in the US for load distribution is 1.15KW per single family household. Somewhat less for apartment units. This comes from long term average load useage and assumes appliances that are no more than 3-5 years old from an energy efficiency point of view.
I would guess (an informed guess since I work in the power generation industry in CA) they will be using these engines in particular locations at periods of very high load to maintain voltage. Probably areas far down a transmission link from the nearest major power station. Local grid support at critical locations for a few hours a week is the only thing I can see these could used for.
"100MW is a good guess for a small-to-medium city in europe. for US, its a rather small town with A/Cs hanging from every window and your monster fridges;)"
Not a good guess at all.
Including light industry, 1.875Kw per person continuous average load = 53 thousand people per 100MW. That is a small to medium sized city in the USA. Maybe not in CA or NY but in "flyover" country it is. FYI, San Diego a city of near three million, with no major load industry (no smelters or large assembly plants) has an average load of about 3500MW.
Contrary to popular belief, cities in Europe consume the same energy or more than cities in the USA. Yes, individual households usually consume less, but industry consumes more, so it pretty much evens out.
Americans posting to an American website about American currency not giving a rip about what individuals like youself (who are on hair trigger alert to be offended by anything said or done by any American) think.
"The anti-counterfeit measures are basically non-existant"
Wrong.
Just because you personally can't see or detect the methods of protection, doesn't mean they aren't there. It's actually EXTREMELY hard to copy $10 and up denonmination bills reliably.
You usually don't pay anything on the custom home construction loan during contruction. The interest of what you have drawn on your loan accumulates until the house is finished. The amount you draw is usually in five or six chunks spaced out over construction. The land mortgage(if any) usually is rolled into the first chunk of the construction loan. The only thing you will pay is rent where you need to live for six months to eighteen months during contruction and some upfront costs not allowed to be included in the construction loan. Upfront costs are things like permits and utillity tie-ins, architects fees etc...
Do you think you will retain it from your boss/co-workers?
And do you have enough of it towards your boss to give your boss the chance to retain you?
Seems only fair to give the person who hired you the chance to counter in good faith. By that I mean accept the counter and evaluate it honorably, don't give lip service about it. If it is a good offer be prepared to take it.
"In the same vein, just because the internet could be used for piracy, doesn't mean you have the right to call me a crook and try to take my rights away."
It's not a question of could be used. It is being used for piracy.
And last time I checked neither you nor anyone else has the right to steal. So no one is taking your "rights" away.
The parent post is entirely correct. If you want a service someone is not currently providing with their property, start your own service and negotiate the use of their property. This is like saying, hey I want a cab ride to the airport and the cab driver will not drive that far out of his area, screw him I'll just take his cab and use it anyway. But of course I'll leave him money for gas (as if that makes everything OK).
"But global warming is a big enough pertubation to make all bets off on that."
And you know this how?
All the CO2 added to the atmosphere from manmade sources is still only a small fraction of what nature is pumping out every year. Manmade sources are on the order of less than 5 percent of global CO2 production. Mount Pinatubo pumped out orders of magnitude more CO2 than anthropomorthic sources. I really do not believe we can change the direction we were (already) headed in before the Industrial Revolution. We just do not matter that much.
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"Any DVDs that force me to watch adverts are taken straight back for a refund as "broken" by the way - hopefully other people do this as well..."
You are sooo right. I absolutely LOATHE it when I am blocked from fast forwarding or skipping ads (commercials) for other movies released by the same company. I bought the damn DVD so I wouldn't have to sit through that crap.
I have taken back a total of four dvd's now that had this "feature".
Bastards.
I think after the first 25 shipments are completed with nothing bad happening, the news media will get bored and go chase something else to demonize for ratings/sell adds.
This is old news.
The decision was made a long time ago to use combination transport and storage containers. You load the spent fuel or GTCC waste into the same container it will reach and be stored at the repository. No second load/unload movement of the waste. Unless they changed their minds again, always possible when new technologies appear.
Also you gotta love the term "dump". Sounds like an old man on the pot squeeezing out a thick loaf. Or 55 gallon drums of green slime being kicked off the back of a flatbed truck.
These canisters are handled very very carefully. They are extremely heavy for one thing and precision is the culture around this stuff. More precision than might be required really sometimes. I should know, I've moved more than a few bundles of spent fuel. Stuff hot out of the reactor too. Nice blue glow from the water around the bundles too.
You are forgetting that that $58B has already partially been paid (and will continue to be paid) by the people who have nuclear power as part of their local utility bills. A tiny surcharge has been added to utility bills incorporating nuclear power nearly since the inception of nuclear power. The $58B will come from the people who are using the power. It will not come from other taxpayers pockets, and hence will not be "diverted" from other more "worthy" causes.
A better place would be the deep granite formations of the northeast. But you gotta be kidding politically. Vermont and New Hampshire delegations even got a law through way back in 1987 prohibiting any consideration of granite for nuclear waste storage. Incredible NIMBY policital shortsightedness.
Don't get me wrong, I beleive Yucca mountain will be fine. The amount of isolation is incredible. And I don't believe it'll be there more than 100 years, I think we'll be pullin it back out and using the isotopes for something by then.
I know this is meant as a joke but there is some truth to the way you spend your money for reliability. You have to choose carefully which systems get the money spent to design and validate that they will perform with 99.9999xxxx reliability. If you waste your money, you won't have enough for those systems that really need the quality.
And nothing contributes to reliability more than hiring, training and retaining high quality operators and engineers.
I don't think you realize how tiny the amount of waste generated per person using nuclear power is. There is a LOT of energy per unit volume in nuclear fuel.
A showbox sized volume will hold all the nuclear waste generated from production of electricity for a family of four for forty-years!
Contrast that to the mountains of coal ash and billions of tons of CO2 emitted.
MOD PARENT UP!!!!!
It wasn't 7 it was 5.
The Washington Public Power Supply System and 88 smaller utility partners throughout the Pacific Northwest planned to build five nuclear plants to meet the demand. But energy conservation prompted by the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s dramatically reduced demand.
The combination of lower demand and construction delays led the utility to suspend construction on three of the five nuclear plants.
Nuclear Plant WNP 1. Located at Hanford, Washington. Was mothballed in 1983, and is about 70 percent completed. It could conceivably could be on line by 2007 and would produce 1200MW for over 60 years.
Nuclear Plant WNP 2. Located at Hanford, Washington. Is completed and is in operation. It is called the Washington Generating Station. Produces 1250 megawatts at 2.14 cents per kilowatt hour or $ 21.40 dollars a megawatt hour.
Nuclear Plant WNP 3. Located at Satsop, Washington. Scrapped.
Nuclear Plant WNP 4. Located at Hanford, Washington. Concrete work partially completed.
Nuclear Plant WNP 5. Located at Satsop, Washington. Scrapped.
I kind of like this better.
The people who voted down, or sued to prevent, construction of new power lines, or power plants near them get to look at, listen to, and smell a few big diesel engines with 36 trashcan-sized-cylinders per engine roaring away.
"though I don't really see why they can't just run extra cabling between new static power stations to make up a better-connected grid?"
One word, NIMBY.
No one wants a big transmission tower running through their backyard (and environazis don't want any running through "wilderness" lands).
The planning number used by most utilities in hot states in the US for load distribution is 1.15KW per single family household. Somewhat less for apartment units. This comes from long term average load useage and assumes appliances that are no more than 3-5 years old from an energy efficiency point of view.
;)"
I would guess (an informed guess since I work in the power generation industry in CA) they will be using these engines in particular locations at periods of very high load to maintain voltage. Probably areas far down a transmission link from the nearest major power station. Local grid support at critical locations for a few hours a week is the only thing I can see these could used for.
"100MW is a good guess for a small-to-medium city in europe. for US, its a rather small town with A/Cs hanging from every window and your monster fridges
Not a good guess at all.
Including light industry, 1.875Kw per person continuous average load = 53 thousand people per 100MW. That is a small to medium sized city in the USA. Maybe not in CA or NY but in "flyover" country it is. FYI, San Diego a city of near three million, with no major load industry (no smelters or large assembly plants) has an average load of about 3500MW.
Contrary to popular belief, cities in Europe consume the same energy or more than cities in the USA. Yes, individual households usually consume less, but industry consumes more, so it pretty much evens out.
Duh.
It was founded by Americans. It has an American flavor and slant.
You want a Slashdot more to your local cultural flavor? Start one.
Who cares?
This story was about changes to U.S. currency. Not Japanese.
You forgot the third view:
Americans posting to an American website about American currency not giving a rip about what individuals like youself (who are on hair trigger alert to be offended by anything said or done by any American) think.
"The anti-counterfeit measures are basically non-existant"
Wrong.
Just because you personally can't see or detect the methods of protection, doesn't mean they aren't there. It's actually EXTREMELY hard to copy $10 and up denonmination bills reliably.
You usually don't pay anything on the custom home construction loan during contruction. The interest of what you have drawn on your loan accumulates until the house is finished. The amount you draw is usually in five or six chunks spaced out over construction. The land mortgage(if any) usually is rolled into the first chunk of the construction loan. The only thing you will pay is rent where you need to live for six months to eighteen months during contruction and some upfront costs not allowed to be included in the construction loan. Upfront costs are things like permits and utillity tie-ins, architects fees etc...
Do you think you will retain it from your boss/co-workers?
And do you have enough of it towards your boss to give your boss the chance to retain you?
Seems only fair to give the person who hired you the chance to counter in good faith. By that I mean accept the counter and evaluate it honorably, don't give lip service about it. If it is a good offer be prepared to take it.
"In the same vein, just because the internet could be used for piracy, doesn't mean you have the right to call me a crook and try to take my rights away."
It's not a question of could be used. It is being used for piracy.
And last time I checked neither you nor anyone else has the right to steal. So no one is taking your "rights" away.
The parent post is entirely correct. If you want a service someone is not currently providing with their property, start your own service and negotiate the use of their property. This is like saying, hey I want a cab ride to the airport and the cab driver will not drive that far out of his area, screw him I'll just take his cab and use it anyway. But of course I'll leave him money for gas (as if that makes everything OK).
NTSC has 525 scanlines. Not sure of the width though....
LOL!!!!!
That was very very funny.
"But global warming is a big enough pertubation to make all bets off on that."
And you know this how?
All the CO2 added to the atmosphere from manmade sources is still only a small fraction of what nature is pumping out every year. Manmade sources are on the order of less than 5 percent of global CO2 production. Mount Pinatubo pumped out orders of magnitude more CO2 than anthropomorthic sources. I really do not believe we can change the direction we were (already) headed in before the Industrial Revolution. We just do not matter that much.
I didn't read it as an argument for/against global warming. I read it as an indictment of the credibility of the chicken littles of the world.
Thanks for the chuckle. Your reply was quite amusing, and with a kernal of truth to it.
Buuuurp.
A/C postings are SO unintelligent.
One way of curing your wearyness is stop reading slashdot, or any other public forumn. Gasp, you might be offended!
Grow up.