So let us get this in terms of reality. So there was.4 becquerels found in 1 tonne of seawater. That's the equivalent of 1/4 of a slice of a banana? This has zero effect on the environment. To be clear if you drank 40 million tonnes of this seawater and retained all the Fukushima radiation for one year you would have reached to lowest amount of exposure shown to be able to cause cancer.
Fukushima and Chernoblyl are tiny bumps on the chart of radiation from nuclear testing and combined they are a tiny bit of natural background radiation.
The reality is farmers own their machines less and less. Outside of simple tractors they are too complex and too expensive. Combines today are processing plants on wheels. Pass this and they will just stop selling altogether and only lease. You want things opened up give manufacturers immunity from liability. Manufacturers don't care about few hundred dollars in service work. The dealer gets most of that anyway. They care about a multi-million dollar lawsuit because some idiot bypassed the safety lock and ground himself into kibble. Jurys don't care about who's really at fault. they just see a poor farmer and a billion dollar company. The fact is these companies can be fined and sued for things they allow others to do with their product.
It takes great amounts of energy to condense water and there is very little water even in humid air. And you still have to purify it. It will always by more costly and less efficient than the alternatives.
Telecoms have already abandoned phone systems. they can't abandon local exchanges fast enough and they don't really care about cellular except to provide data along with it. Corporations follow the money and its not in phone service.
It just doesn't work like that. if you have 100 1W transmitters running different signals it is not the same as a 100W transmitter. A hundred people having conversations in a restaurant is not 100 times louder than a single person. Its just harder to understand. By the way millions already have this its called a 802.11ac router.
Poor public opinion due to ignorance and capital costs, not operating costs. Wind and solar are a path of least resistance, but not necessarily cheaper. Nuclear is always cheaper than fossil fuels and usually a bit better than wind and solar at the moment. the only thing that beats it is natural gas because the initial cost is so low and scalable. Nuclear like wind and solar gets more efficient everyday and attracts huge investments.
Actually I'm stating how science feels. That includes oceanographers, ichtyologists and fishery managers, as well as nuclear health scientists.
And Nuclear typically comes in cheaper than all other forms of energy even without adding the much lower external costs due to it being one of the cleanest and safest forms of energy.
The area is not dangerous and never was. While background radiation is now elevated higher than previous levels it is still well below levels that would effect humans at all. unless you go to the reactor itself this is the crisis that never was.
Actually "dump it in the bottom of the ocean" was the normal procedure for a long time. 100ft of water is plenty to render just about any material safe. That's exactly how they store spent fuel.
Good analogy since like the US border the radiation at fukushima poses little threat and the "clean up" is mostly political theater that has claimed more lives than the radiation ever will.
if you wait to long you get trapped by technology. The big problem here is while the data on these systems is trivial today the pushed the limits of 8-16k miniframes. Thus there were a lot of sneaky calls directly accessing memory or even processor registers. The software was integrated into the hardware with bits of assembly and what not. This makes it pretty much impossible for a young modern programer to figure out. The old ones are dead or want $500/hr to touch a COBOL system. and lets face it the guys that bid on gov contracts wont hire them anyway. So these systems become black boxes... they still work but no one knows how. There is a local business here that until being bought out still depended on an 80's wang system running software built for a 70's wang system. There only source of parts was trading with the air force and they only used theirs to train people to what tech may be hooked up to old soviet bloc weapon systems.
We're getting paranoid now because programs know what buttons we pushed? That is sort of integral to how they work. What's next "researchers reveal Word records what you type"
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40% growth with new sales records every year hardly represents few people buying EVs.
So let us get this in terms of reality. So there was .4 becquerels found in 1 tonne of seawater. That's the equivalent of 1/4 of a slice of a banana? This has zero effect on the environment. To be clear if you drank 40 million tonnes of this seawater and retained all the Fukushima radiation for one year you would have reached to lowest amount of exposure shown to be able to cause cancer.
Fukushima and Chernoblyl are tiny bumps on the chart of radiation from nuclear testing and combined they are a tiny bit of natural background radiation.
The reality is farmers own their machines less and less. Outside of simple tractors they are too complex and too expensive. Combines today are processing plants on wheels. Pass this and they will just stop selling altogether and only lease.
You want things opened up give manufacturers immunity from liability. Manufacturers don't care about few hundred dollars in service work. The dealer gets most of that anyway. They care about a multi-million dollar lawsuit because some idiot bypassed the safety lock and ground himself into kibble. Jurys don't care about who's really at fault. they just see a poor farmer and a billion dollar company.
The fact is these companies can be fined and sued for things they allow others to do with their product.
It takes great amounts of energy to condense water and there is very little water even in humid air. And you still have to purify it. It will always by more costly and less efficient than the alternatives.
Water from air is redicolously inefficient and dumb.
Just as long as your really stupid and don't understand thermodynamics.
No one on earth is running out of water. They are running out of cheap water.
That's a self solving problem. Water costs go up, waste goes down.
Telecoms have already abandoned phone systems. they can't abandon local exchanges fast enough and they don't really care about cellular except to provide data along with it. Corporations follow the money and its not in phone service.
Actually losses will likely be in the millions as facebook authorization is not working cutting traffic to sites and usage of apps.
Has anyone told them there are already communication systems operating in those bands already?
It just doesn't work like that. if you have 100 1W transmitters running different signals it is not the same as a 100W transmitter. A hundred people having conversations in a restaurant is not 100 times louder than a single person. Its just harder to understand.
By the way millions already have this its called a 802.11ac router.
Poor public opinion due to ignorance and capital costs, not operating costs. Wind and solar are a path of least resistance, but not necessarily cheaper. Nuclear is always cheaper than fossil fuels and usually a bit better than wind and solar at the moment. the only thing that beats it is natural gas because the initial cost is so low and scalable. Nuclear like wind and solar gets more efficient everyday and attracts huge investments.
Yeah, in pools, not the ocean. Pools don't have currents.
Neither does the bottom of the ocean. and generally Uranium is pretty heavy. Then again pools have currents especially fuel storage pools.
Actually I'm stating how science feels. That includes oceanographers, ichtyologists and fishery managers, as well as nuclear health scientists.
And Nuclear typically comes in cheaper than all other forms of energy even without adding the much lower external costs due to it being one of the cleanest and safest forms of energy.
Actually Fukushima's can be detected around the world but is insignificant. Most of it no longer exists.
Maybe this is just referring to the fact that people fear both for no reason because they don't know what it is or how it works.
The area is not dangerous and never was. While background radiation is now elevated higher than previous levels it is still well below levels that would effect humans at all. unless you go to the reactor itself this is the crisis that never was.
Actually "dump it in the bottom of the ocean" was the normal procedure for a long time. 100ft of water is plenty to render just about any material safe. That's exactly how they store spent fuel.
Good analogy since like the US border the radiation at fukushima poses little threat and the "clean up" is mostly political theater that has claimed more lives than the radiation ever will.
if you wait to long you get trapped by technology.
The big problem here is while the data on these systems is trivial today the pushed the limits of 8-16k miniframes. Thus there were a lot of sneaky calls directly accessing memory or even processor registers. The software was integrated into the hardware with bits of assembly and what not. This makes it pretty much impossible for a young modern programer to figure out. The old ones are dead or want $500/hr to touch a COBOL system. and lets face it the guys that bid on gov contracts wont hire them anyway. So these systems become black boxes... they still work but no one knows how.
There is a local business here that until being bought out still depended on an 80's wang system running software built for a 70's wang system. There only source of parts was trading with the air force and they only used theirs to train people to what tech may be hooked up to old soviet bloc weapon systems.
Were talking about web based apps here. if you can't figure out there is data exchanged that is your issue.
We're getting paranoid now because programs know what buttons we pushed? That is sort of integral to how they work. What's next "researchers reveal Word records what you type"
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