Steam? Do you burn yourself on misty mornings? It's really fog and nothing like steam at all. It's all just warm (~40C) droplets of water coming off the condensate that has come out of the condensors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_power_station#Steam_condensing) before going into the cooling towers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower).
The idiot there is the guy (not you obviously) that didn't put a date on the end of the specified standard to be used in the designs/legislation/whatever. With respect that's a newbie mistake. Standards change. If you don't refer to the one you actually mean and leave things open to referring to one that has not been written yet it's pretty obvious that things are going to go wrong someday. This fuckup looks like what happens when you get office workers with English Lit. degrees to do an engineers job. As a former member of ASTM (I stopped paying the fees about 15 years ago) I'm a bit curious as to why the ASME standard was used instead of ASTM which has the advantage of being more recognized internationally so would vastly increase the pool of potential suppliers.
Nuclear, like all thermal power, is only really useful when you scale up. Double the size of a solar panel and you get twice the power, but double the size of a thermal power unit and you get more than twice the power for a lot of reasons (such as a lower percentage of losses - getting turbines moving with a LOT of low pressure steam instead of them staying still with only a little bit of steam from the same pressure). If you want nukes it only makes sense to have them at huge scales unless you are driving a ship or something. However that doesn't mean you can't have little pebble bed or whatever reactors, it just means that you have enough of them close to a turbine to provide it with vast amounts of steam.
The whole idea with the next gen plants was standardized design an a combined construction operating license, which would keep costs down
That's what the economists think but they've missed out a very important step the engineers know. You need R&D and pilot plants so that you can design a GOOD standardized design before you build a lot of them. Otherwise your standardized design costs a fortune in the long run from retrofitting a lot of units each time you find a problem. Instead of that the R&D money got blown on PR (probably literally on hookers and blow for Senators) and we have nothing to build on apart from reactors from the 1970s and imported Japanese technology (Westinghouse made up for their lack of R&D spending by taking advantage of the Japanese taxpayer instead). Maybe we will be like the UK and just give up and buy Chinese?
I'm certain that he doesn't actually know any better and that's the sort of people running these things now. A "business expert" who knows nothing about managing the thing he is in charge of and hopes he has lucked out and picked the right underlings, because he would have no idea personally if they are fir for the job or not.
"If you're in the nuclear business, the sight behind me is a lovely sight," Johnson said. "It's a sight we've been waiting for some years to see, which is steam coming out of both cooling towers
Where do they get these people? The guy running the show may know business but if he thinks that's steam he knows fuckall about nuclear or power generation at all. He should ask a high schooler to tell him about cooling towers.
This is basically a handheld that you can also attach to your TV
Way back when the Nintendo DS came out someone asked me if it could be connected to a TV. People have wanted something with this sort of capability for a long time.
Artificial grass roots campaign? Seriously? As for the rest - read the fucking comment and try to understand it instead of your reply that fails the Turing test.
Quite a few of those Lenovo's are current models which is why I provided that link. Nowhere near the same as just getting a pre-installed linux ASUS eeePC before ASUS was "encouraged" in the middle of a trade show to suddenly drop them, but the support and drivers are all there. I've set a few Lenovo laptops up with linux for the purpose of running scientific software in the field.
The point is him being caught out with "do as a say not as I do". The character flaw is being discussed not the overdone issue of a fuckup with email procedure that Hillary, Powell, Rice and many others saw as beneath their notice (also a character flaw - one Trump shares - rules for the workers don't apply to the boss).
Here's a good example of something far, far worse that had very little consequence due to connections: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/18/donald-trump/fbi-director-james-comey-says-donald-trump-has-it-/ Petraeus deliberately leaked material even more sensitive than Manning did, but not as a whistleblower exposing crimes, instead as an outright criminal with the motive of getting laid by a journalist. No jail for him. No jail for Hillary's mistakes in procedure either (or Powell, or Rice who had the same problem with email getting onto unofficial servers).
Good point then. I was unaware that it was so close to completion. Still only 1/8 of what a Saturn V can do and barely better than the European Space Agency can do though. Dust off the Titan IVB plans if you want something with the same capacity. I really do not get all the fuss. "Commercial Space" is not a new thing and Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Douglass etc etc have done better.
To be technically correct those chromebooks that are alive and well have linux on them (under the google stuff). If you want Ubuntu or whatever Lenovo and I'm sure others support it on netbook sized machines: http://support.lenovo.com/au/en/documents/pd031426
but it's almost certainly a very bad way to produce room heat from wall electricity
Indeed - so bad that it looks like grasping at straws trying to find something wrong and settling on a ridiculous application. It makes me suspect that you have some sort of motive to go to the trouble of tying things in knots in such a ridiculous way.
Evidence? Start with the "birther" shit and run down a hundred things on the list after. True, the boy that is crying wolf may see a real one some day but the odds are fraudsters just keep on pushing fraud.
You appear to have jumped to a long list of conclusions yourself. "Much better to do..." when you don't know what input is required and if it is less than or more than the alternative you give.
All a bit silly when the thing that really matters is if this is a better way to get ethanol than some other ones in use.
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The guy is a Lawyer, and it shows.
Steam? Do you burn yourself on misty mornings?
It's really fog and nothing like steam at all. It's all just warm (~40C) droplets of water coming off the condensate that has come out of the condensors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_power_station#Steam_condensing) before going into the cooling towers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower).
"Greenfields" sites often cost a lot more than adding units to an existing facility.
The idiot there is the guy (not you obviously) that didn't put a date on the end of the specified standard to be used in the designs/legislation/whatever. With respect that's a newbie mistake. Standards change. If you don't refer to the one you actually mean and leave things open to referring to one that has not been written yet it's pretty obvious that things are going to go wrong someday. This fuckup looks like what happens when you get office workers with English Lit. degrees to do an engineers job.
As a former member of ASTM (I stopped paying the fees about 15 years ago) I'm a bit curious as to why the ASME standard was used instead of ASTM which has the advantage of being more recognized internationally so would vastly increase the pool of potential suppliers.
It makes sense so long as you have military uses so that you can share the vast cost of the nuclear infrastructure.
Nuclear, like all thermal power, is only really useful when you scale up. Double the size of a solar panel and you get twice the power, but double the size of a thermal power unit and you get more than twice the power for a lot of reasons (such as a lower percentage of losses - getting turbines moving with a LOT of low pressure steam instead of them staying still with only a little bit of steam from the same pressure). If you want nukes it only makes sense to have them at huge scales unless you are driving a ship or something.
However that doesn't mean you can't have little pebble bed or whatever reactors, it just means that you have enough of them close to a turbine to provide it with vast amounts of steam.
That's what the economists think but they've missed out a very important step the engineers know. You need R&D and pilot plants so that you can design a GOOD standardized design before you build a lot of them. Otherwise your standardized design costs a fortune in the long run from retrofitting a lot of units each time you find a problem.
Instead of that the R&D money got blown on PR (probably literally on hookers and blow for Senators) and we have nothing to build on apart from reactors from the 1970s and imported Japanese technology (Westinghouse made up for their lack of R&D spending by taking advantage of the Japanese taxpayer instead).
Maybe we will be like the UK and just give up and buy Chinese?
I'm certain that he doesn't actually know any better and that's the sort of people running these things now.
A "business expert" who knows nothing about managing the thing he is in charge of and hopes he has lucked out and picked the right underlings, because he would have no idea personally if they are fir for the job or not.
All of it does. It's water, not steam. :)
You were aiming to correct me but you mist
Where do they get these people? The guy running the show may know business but if he thinks that's steam he knows fuckall about nuclear or power generation at all. He should ask a high schooler to tell him about cooling towers.
The older machines didn't really have one, just a launcher for whatever was on the cart.
Way back when the Nintendo DS came out someone asked me if it could be connected to a TV. People have wanted something with this sort of capability for a long time.
Such as trading secrets for sex as one example. Please do try to keep up.
Artificial grass roots campaign? Seriously?
As for the rest - read the fucking comment and try to understand it instead of your reply that fails the Turing test.
Quite a few of those Lenovo's are current models which is why I provided that link.
Nowhere near the same as just getting a pre-installed linux ASUS eeePC before ASUS was "encouraged" in the middle of a trade show to suddenly drop them, but the support and drivers are all there. I've set a few Lenovo laptops up with linux for the purpose of running scientific software in the field.
It is entirely relevant since those others who did far more extreme things of a similar type are not being called criminals.
The point is him being caught out with "do as a say not as I do".
The character flaw is being discussed not the overdone issue of a fuckup with email procedure that Hillary, Powell, Rice and many others saw as beneath their notice (also a character flaw - one Trump shares - rules for the workers don't apply to the boss).
Here's a good example of something far, far worse that had very little consequence due to connections:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/18/donald-trump/fbi-director-james-comey-says-donald-trump-has-it-/
Petraeus deliberately leaked material even more sensitive than Manning did, but not as a whistleblower exposing crimes, instead as an outright criminal with the motive of getting laid by a journalist. No jail for him. No jail for Hillary's mistakes in procedure either (or Powell, or Rice who had the same problem with email getting onto unofficial servers).
Good point then. I was unaware that it was so close to completion.
Still only 1/8 of what a Saturn V can do and barely better than the European Space Agency can do though. Dust off the Titan IVB plans if you want something with the same capacity. I really do not get all the fuss. "Commercial Space" is not a new thing and Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Douglass etc etc have done better.
The simple solution is "bring your own device" instead of not giving people time to learn to use a tool before they have a pressing need to use it.
Shouldn't it be obvious in this situation to make the software local instead of depending on a network?
To be technically correct those chromebooks that are alive and well have linux on them (under the google stuff).
If you want Ubuntu or whatever Lenovo and I'm sure others support it on netbook sized machines:
http://support.lenovo.com/au/en/documents/pd031426
Indeed - so bad that it looks like grasping at straws trying to find something wrong and settling on a ridiculous application.
It makes me suspect that you have some sort of motive to go to the trouble of tying things in knots in such a ridiculous way.
Evidence? Start with the "birther" shit and run down a hundred things on the list after. True, the boy that is crying wolf may see a real one some day but the odds are fraudsters just keep on pushing fraud.
You appear to have jumped to a long list of conclusions yourself. "Much better to do ..." when you don't know what input is required and if it is less than or more than the alternative you give.
All a bit silly when the thing that really matters is if this is a better way to get ethanol than some other ones in use.