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Are you referring to the Russians, Chinese, or Iraq? I agree, if evil murdering dicator nations would stop invading other countries then a lot of our soldiers would indeed not have to die defending our allies.
Criticality is not a function of free neutrons. Criticality (or rather, the multiplication factor) is an eigenvalue of a system and is independent of flux. A reactor can be critical with zero neutrons flying around. This is actually a real issue, because when a reactor is being initially loaded while offline, you need a constant, external neutron source to provide some flux- otherwise if the core was misloaded you could be critical and not even know until it was too late.
Actually these numbers have been calculated. There is an entire field in the industry called probabilistic risk assessment, and deals with the probability of accident event chains leading to reactor core damage. There is a number called "core damage frequency" (you can google this) and typically range from 1e-5 to 1e-6 for US reactors (i.e. the odds of the a reactor accident leading to core damage is about 1 in a million per reactor per year. This only means core damage like TMI, not radioactivity release. That is a different number, called the "large early release factor" and is an even smaller number, around 1e-7 or less).
Also, when compared to wind and solar, Nuclear is the one power source that allow corporations to retain control of power generation.
You think that the government is more honest and accountable then a publicly traded company? When is the last time you read about a major radiological disaster at a nuclear power plant? As for the government, well, they are STILL cleaning up the mess that is the plutonium production facilities around the country.
What I'd really like to understand (I always ask this and I've never gotten an answer) is why some people are so for it.
Because most of us pay for our own electricity bills and would prefer to not have to deal with higher rates or brownouts.
but where does one get the motivation for the positive passion that this topic so often seems to create?
Because it is such an amazing technology that is already here and now, not some 100-year-away dream. A nuclear reactor produces twice as much energy as the biggest coal plants, and instead of using an entire mile-long freight train of fuel every day, uses one train car worth of fuel for a whole year. It produces enough energy to heat 10,000 gallons of water by 50 degrees in 1 second - equivalent to a hiroshima-sized nuclear bomb every 6 hours. It's an engineering marvel on the level of the space shuttle in my opinion, but safe enough to be used all around the world.
Actually, as chief executive, the President can (and has in the past, see Clinton, Carter) restrict or ban nuclear power technology. The NRC is an enforcement agency under the jurisdiction of the President. At a whim, he can write an executive order to not approve any new power plant licenses, reactor designs, research, or even end current power production by enacting unattainable restrictions.
The issue is, wind power is needs a lot of space to operate. And for aesthetic reasons, they need to be placed in fairly remote locations away from urban centers, which reduces efficiency.
As opposed to nuclear plants? They don't tend to get built in densely populated areas either.
(I agree with most of your points - I just think wind farms aren't alone with the NIMBY issues).
Most nuclear plants only require a few hundred acres and can be located just miles outside major cities. The reason why they are usually far away from population centers is mainly for cheap land costs.
I don't think you know what base load means. While wind power has zero fuel cost, meaning that it is always producing as much power as it can, base load refers to constant, reliable power output. Examples include Coal, Nuclear, Hydro, and Geothermal. Wind is the precise opposite definition of base load. It is a transient load, which must be accompanied by a load-following gas turbine at all times.
Calling coal power similar to wind power, with the only difference being "a little bit larger [capacity factor]" reveals your complete lack of understanding of the matter.
Nuclear doesn't meet peak power needs either. It turns out that multiple sources can be used together -- every wind turbine spinning replaces MWh generated by gas or coal. Build enough un/negatively correlated turbines and you can count a fraction of wind generation as base. The rest replaces gas turbine output. No engineer is claiming that wind can, by itself, replace all other power demands. It can certainly play a role replacing some fossil fuel power generation, and it's nuclear waste-free!
The only reason why nuclear "does not meet peak power needs" is because nuclear pants are very large and operating them at less then 100% power is a big waste of resources. If the economics were different, reactors can (and have in the past) operate in load-following mode (i.e. providing peak power demand).
You can make the claim that with all the wind power around the country, at any given time at least some of them are spinning and therefore the total installed wind base has a minimum threshold. But a wind farm that is spinning in California can't ship its power to one that isn't in New York. You still need the natural gas turbine backup locally. So wind power can never be counted as base load capacity.
Yes, but most anti-drug people are arguing from the basis of a puritan's punitive mythology, in which taking drugs is pleasurable and therefore drug takers "deserve" to be harmed.
This isn't the reasoning for which the anti-drug side are against free needle programs. That is just the sarcastic reasoning the liberal side use as a straw man to ridicule the religious types.
The actual reasoning the anti-drug side use for their position against free needle programs is that any form of support a dangerous activity is tantamount to implicit acceptance. To the conservatives, saying "don't do drugs, but if you do here's a free needle" would be the same as saying "drug use isn't encouraged, but isn't really bad either". This kind of mixed message does more harm than good, since it provides justification for drug abusers to continue using as opposed to doing everything they can to avoid the activity.
I'm not going to argue whether drugs should be banned or not, or whether free-needle programs are a good idea or not. I am completely neutral on the subject. However, I did feel the need to debunk your intellectually dishonest reasoning. It does neither side any good.
Is it just me, or did the W7 Beta run faster and smoother then the RC? When I was using the Beta, I thought it was very fast and streamlined like XP. The RC feels exactly like Vista (i.e. slow and bloated, hard drive chugging constantly). The one good point I'll concede is that the RC actually had all the newest drivers for all my hardware, even the motherboard chipset, which blew my mind since I have a custom built rig.
I'm pretty sure all the major US carriers offer tethering, however it is usually to the tune of $60/month in addition to your phone+data plan, and you only get 5 GB.
You get a subsidized phone in exchange for signing a binding contract for service. The company is getting the money for that service contract regardless of what you do with the phone, so why lock it?
So they can force you to buy their bundled apps and services.
Even better, pretend to be an even more unscrupulous squatter and offer to buy a whole bunch of their domains, and offer a price less then what you were willing to pay as a premium on the one domain you wanted.
My favorite was the mile long tunnel at Fort McCarthur in San Pedros, CA that ran under the hill there. Some of the oldest IBM machines I have ever seen were there collecting dust and huge generators.
Yeah, because the "private" health care industry has never been tainted by the hand of government before.
Oh wait, I forgot about that one time back in the 40's when the government implemented wage and price controls, and as a result companies used free health care benefits packages as incentives to hire employees, which is what started the whole mess to begin with.
Actually as a matter of fact, Verizon customer support does NOT have supervisors or managers on duty. Just try calling and asking for one. You will be told that one is not available or busy, but if you leave your number they can call you back in 24-48 hours, which they do not. I am currently
The engine room: the scale was completely wrong, and was jarring. I liked the idea of having a 'mechanical' engine room, this looked more like a Detroit Big-3 factory then a nuclear sub.
You're one of the few other people who was as bothered by this as I. When I saw the scenes in "engineering" I thought they were filmed at a coal power plant. Giant pipes, steel girders, big open spaces, exactly NOT what you would imagine a starship would look like.
Alltel has speech-to-text service that translates your voicemail to text and sends it to you as an SMS. I think it works great since it is accurate enough and I never need to call my voicemail. I can read my messages immediately after receiving them even if I'm in a meeting or noisy environment.
I'm tired of seeing people duped into clamoring for corporate taxes as though they'll somehow benefit from it.
It's schadenfreude politics. People that think the economy is a fixed sized pie believe that the rich are "taking more then their fair share" and that somehow taxing them more will improve their own life.
Many kinds of animals survived, after all. Why shouldn't dinosaurs have, too?
Because when the ejecta from a largeish asteroid impact falls back to earth, it heats up, bathing the entire surface in 500+ degree infrared light for hours to days. Small animals can hide in holes in the ground, making them nearly immune to the effects. But for everything else, BBQ's on!
There wasn't a distinction between total war and limited war until there were countries which were so rich and prosperous that they could engage in war without having to conscript their entire population and resources.
Obama's definition of Clean Coal = raise taxes on regular coal, and claim that selling carbon credits to non-producing third world countries somehow reduces overall pollution.
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Are you referring to the Russians, Chinese, or Iraq? I agree, if evil murdering dicator nations would stop invading other countries then a lot of our soldiers would indeed not have to die defending our allies.
Criticality is not a function of free neutrons. Criticality (or rather, the multiplication factor) is an eigenvalue of a system and is independent of flux. A reactor can be critical with zero neutrons flying around. This is actually a real issue, because when a reactor is being initially loaded while offline, you need a constant, external neutron source to provide some flux- otherwise if the core was misloaded you could be critical and not even know until it was too late.
Actually these numbers have been calculated. There is an entire field in the industry called probabilistic risk assessment, and deals with the probability of accident event chains leading to reactor core damage. There is a number called "core damage frequency" (you can google this) and typically range from 1e-5 to 1e-6 for US reactors (i.e. the odds of the a reactor accident leading to core damage is about 1 in a million per reactor per year. This only means core damage like TMI, not radioactivity release. That is a different number, called the "large early release factor" and is an even smaller number, around 1e-7 or less).
You think that the government is more honest and accountable then a publicly traded company? When is the last time you read about a major radiological disaster at a nuclear power plant? As for the government, well, they are STILL cleaning up the mess that is the plutonium production facilities around the country.
Because most of us pay for our own electricity bills and would prefer to not have to deal with higher rates or brownouts.
Because it is such an amazing technology that is already here and now, not some 100-year-away dream. A nuclear reactor produces twice as much energy as the biggest coal plants, and instead of using an entire mile-long freight train of fuel every day, uses one train car worth of fuel for a whole year. It produces enough energy to heat 10,000 gallons of water by 50 degrees in 1 second - equivalent to a hiroshima-sized nuclear bomb every 6 hours. It's an engineering marvel on the level of the space shuttle in my opinion, but safe enough to be used all around the world.
Actually, as chief executive, the President can (and has in the past, see Clinton, Carter) restrict or ban nuclear power technology. The NRC is an enforcement agency under the jurisdiction of the President. At a whim, he can write an executive order to not approve any new power plant licenses, reactor designs, research, or even end current power production by enacting unattainable restrictions.
The issue is, wind power is needs a lot of space to operate. And for aesthetic reasons, they need to be placed in fairly remote locations away from urban centers, which reduces efficiency.
As opposed to nuclear plants? They don't tend to get built in densely populated areas either.
(I agree with most of your points - I just think wind farms aren't alone with the NIMBY issues).
Most nuclear plants only require a few hundred acres and can be located just miles outside major cities. The reason why they are usually far away from population centers is mainly for cheap land costs.
I don't think you know what base load means. While wind power has zero fuel cost, meaning that it is always producing as much power as it can, base load refers to constant, reliable power output. Examples include Coal, Nuclear, Hydro, and Geothermal. Wind is the precise opposite definition of base load. It is a transient load, which must be accompanied by a load-following gas turbine at all times.
Calling coal power similar to wind power, with the only difference being "a little bit larger [capacity factor]" reveals your complete lack of understanding of the matter.
The only reason why nuclear "does not meet peak power needs" is because nuclear pants are very large and operating them at less then 100% power is a big waste of resources. If the economics were different, reactors can (and have in the past) operate in load-following mode (i.e. providing peak power demand).
You can make the claim that with all the wind power around the country, at any given time at least some of them are spinning and therefore the total installed wind base has a minimum threshold. But a wind farm that is spinning in California can't ship its power to one that isn't in New York. You still need the natural gas turbine backup locally. So wind power can never be counted as base load capacity.
This isn't the reasoning for which the anti-drug side are against free needle programs. That is just the sarcastic reasoning the liberal side use as a straw man to ridicule the religious types.
The actual reasoning the anti-drug side use for their position against free needle programs is that any form of support a dangerous activity is tantamount to implicit acceptance. To the conservatives, saying "don't do drugs, but if you do here's a free needle" would be the same as saying "drug use isn't encouraged, but isn't really bad either". This kind of mixed message does more harm than good, since it provides justification for drug abusers to continue using as opposed to doing everything they can to avoid the activity.
I'm not going to argue whether drugs should be banned or not, or whether free-needle programs are a good idea or not. I am completely neutral on the subject. However, I did feel the need to debunk your intellectually dishonest reasoning. It does neither side any good.
Is it just me, or did the W7 Beta run faster and smoother then the RC? When I was using the Beta, I thought it was very fast and streamlined like XP. The RC feels exactly like Vista (i.e. slow and bloated, hard drive chugging constantly). The one good point I'll concede is that the RC actually had all the newest drivers for all my hardware, even the motherboard chipset, which blew my mind since I have a custom built rig.
I'm pretty sure all the major US carriers offer tethering, however it is usually to the tune of $60/month in addition to your phone+data plan, and you only get 5 GB.
I never understood locking phones.
You get a subsidized phone in exchange for signing a binding contract for service. The company is getting the money for that service contract regardless of what you do with the phone, so why lock it?
So they can force you to buy their bundled apps and services.
1920 OMG Commies
1930 OMG Fascists
1940 OMG Fascists
1950 OMG Commies
1960 OMG Commies
1970 OMG Commies
1980 OMG Japan
1990 OMG Iraq
2000 OMG Muslims
Basically, the US has always had a national fear to attack. Independent thought is rare and independent action even rarer in the US.
Now shut up and go watch the TV.
Hmm I wonder how far I can back extrapolate.
1910 OMG Germans ... ? ... ? ... ? ... ?
1900 OMG
1890 OMG Spaniards
1880 OMG
1870 OMG
1860 OMG Confederates
1850 OMG
1840 OMG Mexicans
1830 OMG Indians
1820 OMG Indians
1810 OMG British
1800 OMG Muslims (!)
1780 OMG British
1770 OMG British
1760 OMG French
1750 OMG French
Even better, pretend to be an even more unscrupulous squatter and offer to buy a whole bunch of their domains, and offer a price less then what you were willing to pay as a premium on the one domain you wanted.
Did you blow it up just in case it was Skynet?
Yeah, because the "private" health care industry has never been tainted by the hand of government before.
Oh wait, I forgot about that one time back in the 40's when the government implemented wage and price controls, and as a result companies used free health care benefits packages as incentives to hire employees, which is what started the whole mess to begin with.
Actually as a matter of fact, Verizon customer support does NOT have supervisors or managers on duty. Just try calling and asking for one. You will be told that one is not available or busy, but if you leave your number they can call you back in 24-48 hours, which they do not. I am currently
You're one of the few other people who was as bothered by this as I. When I saw the scenes in "engineering" I thought they were filmed at a coal power plant. Giant pipes, steel girders, big open spaces, exactly NOT what you would imagine a starship would look like.
Alltel has speech-to-text service that translates your voicemail to text and sends it to you as an SMS. I think it works great since it is accurate enough and I never need to call my voicemail. I can read my messages immediately after receiving them even if I'm in a meeting or noisy environment.
It's schadenfreude politics. People that think the economy is a fixed sized pie believe that the rich are "taking more then their fair share" and that somehow taxing them more will improve their own life.
Because when the ejecta from a largeish asteroid impact falls back to earth, it heats up, bathing the entire surface in 500+ degree infrared light for hours to days. Small animals can hide in holes in the ground, making them nearly immune to the effects. But for everything else, BBQ's on!
Actually that was just republicans switching parties to vote for Hillary over Obama in the primary. :)
Eh? Alexander? Caesar? Ghengis Khan? Ottoman Empire?
There wasn't a distinction between total war and limited war until there were countries which were so rich and prosperous that they could engage in war without having to conscript their entire population and resources.
Racist against witches, you insensitive clod.
Obama's definition of Clean Coal = raise taxes on regular coal, and claim that selling carbon credits to non-producing third world countries somehow reduces overall pollution.