One of them has always been that flying over property that doesn't belong to you is illegal,
I've never heard that, and I've seen larger RC craft only on public property. Large parks that are flat, open, and large enough to fly complex patterns without leaving the park boundary or going out of sight.
Even your FAA link doesn't mention anything about who owns the land you are flying on, or over. There are even RC clubs that meet at public parks. Sure, they don't fly on the days when there are soccer games are going on in the fields, but when there aren't that many people out, they are out, in public parks, cutting corners across private land sometimes, as the park is a big L.
A lot of the logistics problems at the time I can forgive because they were distracted by the tsunami to deal with the meltdown properly. That, and they were being lied to about the extent of the problem. You can't tell 10,000 people to stay in their house for 2 days for the fallout to settle when those 10,000 people are without power and water from the tsunami. The trouble of getting water and food to those 10,000 in the middle of a major tsunami cleanup would have caused more harm (and probably more total deaths) than just moving them, regardless of the fallout at the moment.
You sound like my coworker when we planned a 20 kVA to 120 kVA UPS swap/upgrade. He wanted the whole building de-powered for 2 days (and guided the engineers into that design). I grabbed the EEs and went into a meeting room, and 30 minutes later we came out with a plan that had two sub-second outages, 24 hours apart, and about 24 hours of pre-work on de-powered portions.
His was more linear and easy to understand, but my solution was faster, cheaper, and worked. You do the last things first, then when you are at the middle, you flip, and then build the first things last, then, when everything's done, you flip back to the final circuit. But for a de-powered building, wiring in power isn't hard. There's a zero chance of a problem while wiring, though powering up the circuit could cause a problem.
It's not hard to match voltage. they are usually in the same multiples, even in Japan. So all you need is multiple smaller ones. The last generators I worked with were auto phase syncing, so if you hooked up two 240V to get 480V, they would sense a phase alignment issue, and adjust to be in phase with each other.
Because most murders don't result in a life sentence. So 40 years vs life * 2 would make a difference.
Also, nobody contemplates the penalties before deliberately choosing to commit a crime, aside from corporations. Most throw a first major felony into "ruins my life" category, and the minutia of rape vs rape+murder sentencing wouldn't be a thought. Not to mention that very few crimes are committed by a first-time offender, so the problem is the prisons breeding criminals, not the "good" people acting up. And only the "good" people would consider the consequences of being caught before doing something, so the minutia of sentencing is (effectively) never taken into consideration for violent crimes.
All calls to change sentencing for violent crimes are punitive, not prevention. And "tough on crime" makes more, not less crime, as the poorly treated convicts with no real life prospects after have no choice but a life of crime, and years of study of crime in prison, since so many want to deny them any other diversions.
If the charge for rape is the same as for murder, every rape victim WILL be murdered if the culprit is smart
So one murder, one rape, working out to consecutive live sentences without parole is fine, and everyone committing rape/murder is thinking clearly and logically at the time.
There was no damage to the electrical systems. They worked fine for 12 hours, under battery power. You are asserting damage that wasn't there. The critical damage was to the power supply, not the distribution within the plant.
You connect in the battery room. It was still secure, and without moisture. And everything from that point was operable. The cooling system was working. It just lost power after 12 hours. If 12 hours of working means there was nothing operable to work with, then we have different definitions of "operable".
You just connect in the battery room, whether before or after the batteries doesn't really matter.
[The problem] was that all of the electrical equipment was destroyed by the salt water.
The electrical power was being delivered by a battery room that was undamaged (until the batteries ran out). Matching the output of the battery room and wiring into the same line would be easy, with the right parts and equipment.
But nobody asked, and lots of lies were given as to the state of the reactor.
Then you fly in replacement parts. You think it's better to cover up than state the problems to the world? TEPCO thinks so. They deliberately chose a meltdown over stating the problems caused by a tsunami/earthquake.
You are right, I don't know the full details about the damage. I just know electrics and wiring. An "electrical distribution system" when things are that broken is ripping everything out, and replacing it with copper. It's not hard. You don't need to step up, step down, and such if you know the final output needed. So any complex systems damaged can be replaced in hours, if you had the parts, which I think would have appeared if Japan had asked for them.
When the incident happened, I had an 80kVA generator I could have had in Tokyo in about 6 hours (so long as the military would have flown it out for me, which I suspect they would have with an official international distress aid request). I imagine that there would have been hundreds that could have been on site in a few hours. The pic looks like a big generator. Something locomotive sized. That'd put it in the 250-500 kVA range, maybe up to 10 MW (the biggest locomotives on the planet). The smaller size would be easy to get there. Larger would be more rare and more difficult to transport, but still possible, even with the flood. So why didn't anyone ask for help? TEPCO was too busy lying about the problem.
About 12 hours, not multiple days was how long it would took for the batteries to run out at Fukushima, and start a meltdown.
The massive wall of water wasn't the problem. It was the TEPCO lies about the damage. If Japan had said "we need a 120kVA generator plugged in and working in in 8 hours" there would have been one there. I used 120kVA as a rough guess. I couldn't find the exact size of the ones that were at Fukushima. If they needed 250kVA instead, then get two.
But the point is TEPCO lied about the damage, and didn't ask for help. There are hundreds of generators in range. China or South Korea could have flown one in in a few hours, and helicopter them out and set them up well before the batteries ran out.
The fixes were easy and available. Yes, even after a tsunami. But no help is possible if nobody asks for it, and nobody offers because we are being lied to about the damage. That's all on TEPCO.
Get a job that requires you physically be there. You can't outsource the fry guy to India. Then the question comes back to whether your job can be replaced by a robot or computer.
You can't find a "safe" job anymore. The best you can do is find a stable company and convince them you are indispensable.
If labour costs and skills were the same everywhere, then there'd be no risk of offshoring. So the quickest way to eliminate offshoring is to open the borders, both ways, for everyone. But the conservatives assert it'll have the whole world living like the worst of Africa or wherever, so we try hard to make sure we lose our jobs in a nice country, rather than raise the standard for the whole world.
I ripped all the emissions off my car, then tested it. Passed the test. Most of the measured emissions were so low that they read as zero, and none were anywhere near the limits.
No, the stories about decaying cars is overblown. I had my '67 bug tested (it didn't need to be, but I had a friend who owned a testing station, so it was easy to test a car not in the system). The '67 bug, pre catalytic converter, carburated, and all that, passed the Texas emissions test in the mid-'90s. No OBDII, no O2 sensor. Just a reasonably tuned 1967 engine. Never rebuilt. Just maintained for 30 years. About 10 of that sitting and rotting in a garage.
CO2 isn't a toxic. CO2 causes no health issues for realistic concentrations. CO2 is linked to global warming. I'm on the side of the truth, which makes me on the "other side" to most people.
MPG is "known" based on real world averages and uses. Nobody uses the EPA numbers, other than to compare two cars in the buying process. That's all it's it's good for, and that's all everyone other than you uses it for.
A 3% increase in CO2 will not directly harm the health of any creature. The same can't be said for the other pollutants. CO2 is colorless, odorless, and harmless (up to poisonous levels, but that's true of water and oxygen as well).
By your definition, pure water is a pollutant because if you discharged an unlimited amount of it, it would flood the world and kill us all.
I had a number of friends on sports teams when I was at college. The stories they told were filled with NCAA violations. Of course, I grew up next to SMU, though I was only a child when it got the Death Penalty. It was a lesson on how to not get caught, not a lesson to not cheat. Violations are all over the place. But less blatant.
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One of them has always been that flying over property that doesn't belong to you is illegal,
I've never heard that, and I've seen larger RC craft only on public property. Large parks that are flat, open, and large enough to fly complex patterns without leaving the park boundary or going out of sight.
Even your FAA link doesn't mention anything about who owns the land you are flying on, or over. There are even RC clubs that meet at public parks. Sure, they don't fly on the days when there are soccer games are going on in the fields, but when there aren't that many people out, they are out, in public parks, cutting corners across private land sometimes, as the park is a big L.
A lot of the logistics problems at the time I can forgive because they were distracted by the tsunami to deal with the meltdown properly. That, and they were being lied to about the extent of the problem. You can't tell 10,000 people to stay in their house for 2 days for the fallout to settle when those 10,000 people are without power and water from the tsunami. The trouble of getting water and food to those 10,000 in the middle of a major tsunami cleanup would have caused more harm (and probably more total deaths) than just moving them, regardless of the fallout at the moment.
You sound like my coworker when we planned a 20 kVA to 120 kVA UPS swap/upgrade. He wanted the whole building de-powered for 2 days (and guided the engineers into that design). I grabbed the EEs and went into a meeting room, and 30 minutes later we came out with a plan that had two sub-second outages, 24 hours apart, and about 24 hours of pre-work on de-powered portions.
His was more linear and easy to understand, but my solution was faster, cheaper, and worked. You do the last things first, then when you are at the middle, you flip, and then build the first things last, then, when everything's done, you flip back to the final circuit. But for a de-powered building, wiring in power isn't hard. There's a zero chance of a problem while wiring, though powering up the circuit could cause a problem.
It's not hard to match voltage. they are usually in the same multiples, even in Japan. So all you need is multiple smaller ones. The last generators I worked with were auto phase syncing, so if you hooked up two 240V to get 480V, they would sense a phase alignment issue, and adjust to be in phase with each other.
Because most murders don't result in a life sentence. So 40 years vs life * 2 would make a difference.
Also, nobody contemplates the penalties before deliberately choosing to commit a crime, aside from corporations. Most throw a first major felony into "ruins my life" category, and the minutia of rape vs rape+murder sentencing wouldn't be a thought. Not to mention that very few crimes are committed by a first-time offender, so the problem is the prisons breeding criminals, not the "good" people acting up. And only the "good" people would consider the consequences of being caught before doing something, so the minutia of sentencing is (effectively) never taken into consideration for violent crimes.
All calls to change sentencing for violent crimes are punitive, not prevention. And "tough on crime" makes more, not less crime, as the poorly treated convicts with no real life prospects after have no choice but a life of crime, and years of study of crime in prison, since so many want to deny them any other diversions.
How long, given unlimited resources, would it have taken to fix?
If the charge for rape is the same as for murder, every rape victim WILL be murdered if the culprit is smart
So one murder, one rape, working out to consecutive live sentences without parole is fine, and everyone committing rape/murder is thinking clearly and logically at the time.
I think I see some holes in your logic.
There was no damage to the electrical systems. They worked fine for 12 hours, under battery power. You are asserting damage that wasn't there. The critical damage was to the power supply, not the distribution within the plant.
You connect in the battery room. It was still secure, and without moisture. And everything from that point was operable. The cooling system was working. It just lost power after 12 hours. If 12 hours of working means there was nothing operable to work with, then we have different definitions of "operable".
You just connect in the battery room, whether before or after the batteries doesn't really matter.
If someone walks into an open store, tries on some clothes, taking photos in the fitting room, and puts everything back and leaves, is that "theft"?
Pausing a person's life and preventing personal development for a few years doesn't help them integrate into society.
[The problem] was that all of the electrical equipment was destroyed by the salt water.
The electrical power was being delivered by a battery room that was undamaged (until the batteries ran out). Matching the output of the battery room and wiring into the same line would be easy, with the right parts and equipment.
But nobody asked, and lots of lies were given as to the state of the reactor.
Then you fly in replacement parts. You think it's better to cover up than state the problems to the world? TEPCO thinks so. They deliberately chose a meltdown over stating the problems caused by a tsunami/earthquake.
You are right, I don't know the full details about the damage. I just know electrics and wiring. An "electrical distribution system" when things are that broken is ripping everything out, and replacing it with copper. It's not hard. You don't need to step up, step down, and such if you know the final output needed. So any complex systems damaged can be replaced in hours, if you had the parts, which I think would have appeared if Japan had asked for them.
So is it trespass if you put up a "no entry" sign, and someone reads your house number from the street?
When the incident happened, I had an 80kVA generator I could have had in Tokyo in about 6 hours (so long as the military would have flown it out for me, which I suspect they would have with an official international distress aid request). I imagine that there would have been hundreds that could have been on site in a few hours. The pic looks like a big generator. Something locomotive sized. That'd put it in the 250-500 kVA range, maybe up to 10 MW (the biggest locomotives on the planet). The smaller size would be easy to get there. Larger would be more rare and more difficult to transport, but still possible, even with the flood. So why didn't anyone ask for help? TEPCO was too busy lying about the problem.
About 12 hours, not multiple days was how long it would took for the batteries to run out at Fukushima, and start a meltdown.
The massive wall of water wasn't the problem. It was the TEPCO lies about the damage. If Japan had said "we need a 120kVA generator plugged in and working in in 8 hours" there would have been one there. I used 120kVA as a rough guess. I couldn't find the exact size of the ones that were at Fukushima. If they needed 250kVA instead, then get two.
But the point is TEPCO lied about the damage, and didn't ask for help. There are hundreds of generators in range. China or South Korea could have flown one in in a few hours, and helicopter them out and set them up well before the batteries ran out.
The fixes were easy and available. Yes, even after a tsunami. But no help is possible if nobody asks for it, and nobody offers because we are being lied to about the damage. That's all on TEPCO.
You mean corporate welfare will finally end if we open up the borders? Then we should have done it 10 years ago.
Get a job that requires you physically be there. You can't outsource the fry guy to India. Then the question comes back to whether your job can be replaced by a robot or computer.
You can't find a "safe" job anymore. The best you can do is find a stable company and convince them you are indispensable.
If labour costs and skills were the same everywhere, then there'd be no risk of offshoring. So the quickest way to eliminate offshoring is to open the borders, both ways, for everyone. But the conservatives assert it'll have the whole world living like the worst of Africa or wherever, so we try hard to make sure we lose our jobs in a nice country, rather than raise the standard for the whole world.
I ripped all the emissions off my car, then tested it. Passed the test. Most of the measured emissions were so low that they read as zero, and none were anywhere near the limits.
No, the stories about decaying cars is overblown. I had my '67 bug tested (it didn't need to be, but I had a friend who owned a testing station, so it was easy to test a car not in the system). The '67 bug, pre catalytic converter, carburated, and all that, passed the Texas emissions test in the mid-'90s. No OBDII, no O2 sensor. Just a reasonably tuned 1967 engine. Never rebuilt. Just maintained for 30 years. About 10 of that sitting and rotting in a garage.
More fit people burn fewer calories. Their metabolisms become more efficient. So your claim is unfounded.
CO2 isn't a toxic. CO2 causes no health issues for realistic concentrations. CO2 is linked to global warming. I'm on the side of the truth, which makes me on the "other side" to most people.
MPG is "known" based on real world averages and uses. Nobody uses the EPA numbers, other than to compare two cars in the buying process. That's all it's it's good for, and that's all everyone other than you uses it for.
O2 is a pollutant. If you fill a room with 100% O2 (and don't reduce pressure to under 1/3 ATM), you'll be dead pretty quick.
It won't be the CO2 killing you, but will be the lack of O2 that kills you.
A 3% increase in CO2 will not directly harm the health of any creature. The same can't be said for the other pollutants. CO2 is colorless, odorless, and harmless (up to poisonous levels, but that's true of water and oxygen as well).
By your definition, pure water is a pollutant because if you discharged an unlimited amount of it, it would flood the world and kill us all.
I had a number of friends on sports teams when I was at college. The stories they told were filled with NCAA violations. Of course, I grew up next to SMU, though I was only a child when it got the Death Penalty. It was a lesson on how to not get caught, not a lesson to not cheat. Violations are all over the place. But less blatant.