ability to burn existing nuclear waste as fuel Why do people constantly repeat this nonsense?
Nuclear waste is: Strontium/Yttrium Cesium Promethium Zircconium Strontium Ruthenium Niobium Barium/Lanthanum Iodine Tritium (and many others - I only copied the most dangerous because they get absorbed by the body)
Nothing of those above you can 'burn' in any reactor.
The only thing you can do is reprocess spent fuel, remove the decay products above, and mix the remaining non spend Uranium into your Thorium based fuel.
You could simply put the spend fuel without reprocessing into the Thorium fuel... if it does not influence the chain reaction, no idea. That migth be diffiult because old fuel us usually some kind of Uranium-Oxyde.
Anyway: there is no reactor that 'burns radioactive waste' that is a complete silly claim!
Yes, it's "possible". It's just that no society has ever built anything that big before in the entire history of the planet. Thats nonsense. We have plenty of 'constructions' on the planet that are hundrets or even thousands of years old and have succh sizes, e.g. the irrigation and water storage system in Cambodia, or the irrigation systems in Iran/Persia.
Why would there be no plan for recycling perfectly fine silicon sources like old panel? Only an idiot would put them on a land fill. On top of that they contain useful metals... Solar you build mostly on existing buildings, because that is also the place the power gets consumed. Wind plants you build offshore, and even on land they don't use much land, you simply put them on farms and farm around them, like everyone else does.
Japan... but failed to follow up within the "software will eat the world" revolution. Depends how you define fail. The Japanese economy got destroyed end of the 1980s early 1990s buy american bank consortiums. During that period they cut down their TRON project (e.g. no own hardware anymore).
that's why "playing chess at grandmaster level" and "translate text from one language to another" used to be considered "AI" but no longer are. They never where considered AI.
Currently "safely drive a car on public roads" is considered AI; Perhaps by the public, but not by the programmers. It is not AI...
But perhaps we have to accept that the definition for AI is in public and in the media a different one than in the academics and software development world?
If a competition-driven AI gets loose in the world, then its highest priority will almost surely be to neutralize any competitive threats And how exactly would it do that when it only controls e.g. a factory and can access a market for raw materials? It can not fire a gun at another AI or human, or let a robot walk somewhere and burn down a house. It can not disable the power plant, or disrupt the oil/coal supply to the plant.
Etc. p.p.
An AI can basically do nothing outside of the parameters it is designed for nor can it interact with anything it has no authorization for or physical connection.
They have a race, called the Indowy, which are basically the "engineering caste", they build weapons and star ships etc. But they somehow use a mystical mind power approach... for some reason the author ditched that idea and never went deeper into it. Would have been interesting if he had.
Anyway, what for some people is mysticism is reality for others. Just talk about Chi with someone who thinks Chi is bollocks and one who practices Tai Chi, or Kundalini energy or Prana...
there is a reluctance among TV execs to have a Chinese lead with a cast of Chinese actors. Thats a pity, depending on region of origin, Chinese especially the women, are the most beautiful people on earth. I just saw a nice martial arts (fantasy) movie on youtube a year ago, over 100 women breathtakingly beautiful and only 10 men or something... Who would not want to watch that?
This https://www.umweltbundesamt.de... is a picture about the usage of area in Germany. Germany is a very densely populated country.
Blue is water, yellow is mining etc. in between settlements and traffic/streets/rails.
Dark green, about 30% woods. 50% light green is agriculture. Those two numbers are misleading as a wood has pretty special restrictions to be counted as a wood. So I would estimate it is more likely 40% woods and 40% agriculture, by a layman definition.
While we worldwide have erosion problems, e.g. in 3rd world countries like the central USA, and we have deforestation especially in south america and salt accumulation on fields especially in Africa, it is not really plausible that 75% of the landmass should be "damaged".
You are an idiot just like the previous poster. Where I live there is no cliff, I have to travel to the sea about 1000km. And then I have a hard time to find a cliff, as Germany is not exactly riddled with cliffs. And that is true for a huge amount of people on the planet.
Try better next time.
P.S. I'm a mathematician. Unfortunately, you try to state there's no math(s) I can use in a matter of seconds to prove the earth is round. There is. But you need to know maths. I can quite happily grace you with a complete geometric analysis of things that ONLY HAPPEN ON SPHERICAL OBJECTS In a matter of seconds? Really? And when did you get your Nobel prize?
You want to tell me you have a math/physics method were I can go now out my house (14:00 local time) and can prove the world is a sphere?
I sent you all my money I have right now if you can show me a way to prove the earth is a sphere in a matter of seconds by going outside and make a simple observation.
Sorry, the argument is not if the world is flat or spheric, the argument is that you ant our GP are idiots. Good luck disproving that.
Actually you see him entering the rocket. You watch the wrong movies.
Do we have any evidence that the rocket was not simply pulled up by a cable? There can not be evidence for a negative... however if you see the launch, you see that the sky is clear... where should the cable be coming from? From a low orbit space craft?
Let's call it what it is: a fraud. Yeah, lets call you what you are: and idiot.
It doesn't need any complicated tools, experience, mathematics or intellect to prove it in a matter of seconds. Actually it does, there is no math or experience you can use in a matter of seconds to prove the earth is round. And all your other points require traveling. You see... for one who never travels and never thinks about astronomy and navigation, the earth can basically have any shape.
My point is quite simple: you are convinced the earth is a sphere. But even you lack the words and arguments to explain it properly... so: you basically know nothing. Only a fact, and no way how to prove the fact.
First if all: the radar would pick up the rest of the truck/trailer. Why would it not? Secondly on simple driver assist systems, the truck/trailer is picked up by camera.
In Korea it is the opposite way. The gates going inside are open, when you tab and its ok, they stay open, if you don't tab, you can simply pass. If you tab and your card is not ok, the gates close. That is to speed up people passing into the train stations, I guess.
No it is not. But it is not the task of an extraticcction court to deccide if it makes a ccase for hacking. If the US are so keen to get him convicted they should file a case in the UK... Simple as that.
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ability to burn existing nuclear waste as fuel
Why do people constantly repeat this nonsense?
Nuclear waste is:
Strontium/Yttrium
Cesium
Promethium
Zircconium
Strontium
Ruthenium
Niobium
Barium/Lanthanum
Iodine
Tritium
(and many others - I only copied the most dangerous because they get absorbed by the body)
Nothing of those above you can 'burn' in any reactor.
The only thing you can do is reprocess spent fuel, remove the decay products above, and mix the remaining non spend Uranium into your Thorium based fuel.
You could simply put the spend fuel without reprocessing into the Thorium fuel ... if it does not influence the chain reaction, no idea. That migth be diffiult because old fuel us usually some kind of Uranium-Oxyde.
Anyway: there is no reactor that 'burns radioactive waste' that is a complete silly claim!
Yes, it's "possible". It's just that no society has ever built anything that big before in the entire history of the planet.
Thats nonsense. We have plenty of 'constructions' on the planet that are hundrets or even thousands of years old and have succh sizes, e.g. the irrigation and water storage system in Cambodia, or the irrigation systems in Iran/Persia.
Why would there be no plan for recycling perfectly fine silicon sources like old panel? ...
Only an idiot would put them on a land fill. On top of that they contain useful metals
Solar you build mostly on existing buildings, because that is also the place the power gets consumed.
Wind plants you build offshore, and even on land they don't use much land, you simply put them on farms and farm around them, like everyone else does.
You obviously have no idea how much lithium we have on the planet. ...
Just saying
Japan ... but failed to follow up within the "software will eat the world" revolution.
Depends how you define fail.
The Japanese economy got destroyed end of the 1980s early 1990s buy american bank consortiums. During that period they cut down their TRON project (e.g. no own hardware anymore).
But in 2003 it was still the most used operation system on the planet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Shame you never heard about it in the west :D
that's why "playing chess at grandmaster level" and "translate text from one language to another" used to be considered "AI" but no longer are.
They never where considered AI.
Currently "safely drive a car on public roads" is considered AI; ...
Perhaps by the public, but not by the programmers. It is not AI
But perhaps we have to accept that the definition for AI is in public and in the media a different one than in the academics and software development world?
If a competition-driven AI gets loose in the world, then its highest priority will almost surely be to neutralize any competitive threats
And how exactly would it do that when it only controls e.g. a factory and can access a market for raw materials?
It can not fire a gun at another AI or human, or let a robot walk somewhere and burn down a house.
It can not disable the power plant, or disrupt the oil/coal supply to the plant.
Etc. p.p.
An AI can basically do nothing outside of the parameters it is designed for nor can it interact with anything it has no authorization for or physical connection.
Every man and his son can use prefabed lego like stones to build a house, probably even without need of mortar.
Building your own house, with your own concrete, and setting up the "forms" for it: is not that easy.
One reason more to learn Mandarin, I guess.
Na, no worries. If it were, it would be posted on facebook.
Well,
considering that physics in Star Trek or Star Wars are utter nonsense, a bit mysticism does not hurt, IMHO.
E.g. this would also be a good series to make action movies from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (By John Ringo)
They have a race, called the Indowy, which are basically the "engineering caste", they build weapons and star ships etc. But they somehow use a mystical mind power approach ... for some reason the author ditched that idea and never went deeper into it. Would have been interesting if he had.
Anyway, what for some people is mysticism is reality for others. Just talk about Chi with someone who thinks Chi is bollocks and one who practices Tai Chi, or Kundalini energy or Prana ...
there is a reluctance among TV execs to have a Chinese lead with a cast of Chinese actors. ...
Thats a pity, depending on region of origin, Chinese especially the women, are the most beautiful people on earth.
I just saw a nice martial arts (fantasy) movie on youtube a year ago, over 100 women breathtakingly beautiful and only 10 men or something
Who would not want to watch that?
Well, common sense says this is bollocks.
This https://www.umweltbundesamt.de... is a picture about the usage of area in Germany. Germany is a very densely populated country.
Blue is water, yellow is mining etc. in between settlements and traffic/streets/rails.
Dark green, about 30% woods. 50% light green is agriculture. Those two numbers are misleading as a wood has pretty special restrictions to be counted as a wood. So I would estimate it is more likely 40% woods and 40% agriculture, by a layman definition.
While we worldwide have erosion problems, e.g. in 3rd world countries like the central USA, and we have deforestation especially in south america and salt accumulation on fields especially in Africa, it is not really plausible that 75% of the landmass should be "damaged".
You are an idiot just like the previous poster.
Where I live there is no cliff, I have to travel to the sea about 1000km. And then I have a hard time to find a cliff, as Germany is not exactly riddled with cliffs.
And that is true for a huge amount of people on the planet.
Try better next time.
P.S. I'm a mathematician. Unfortunately, you try to state there's no math(s) I can use in a matter of seconds to prove the earth is round. There is. But you need to know maths. I can quite happily grace you with a complete geometric analysis of things that ONLY HAPPEN ON SPHERICAL OBJECTS
In a matter of seconds? Really? And when did you get your Nobel prize?
You want to tell me you have a math/physics method were I can go now out my house (14:00 local time) and can prove the world is a sphere?
I sent you all my money I have right now if you can show me a way to prove the earth is a sphere in a matter of seconds by going outside and make a simple observation.
Sorry, the argument is not if the world is flat or spheric, the argument is that you ant our GP are idiots. Good luck disproving that.
You seem to mix up the non existing american privacy laws with the strongly enforced european ones.
Actually you see him entering the rocket.
You watch the wrong movies.
Do we have any evidence that the rocket was not simply pulled up by a cable? ... however if you see the launch, you see that the sky is clear ... where should the cable be coming from? From a low orbit space craft?
There can not be evidence for a negative
Let's call it what it is: a fraud.
Yeah, lets call you what you are: and idiot.
Looks like he is more qualified than Trump, unless it is real estate business perhaps (*rolleys* looking at his trailer)
Well, in Europe, a troll is something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And like Gremlins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... you should avoid feeding them at night, but that is another story.
It doesn't need any complicated tools, experience, mathematics or intellect to prove it in a matter of seconds. ... for one who never travels and never thinks about astronomy and navigation, the earth can basically have any shape.
Actually it does, there is no math or experience you can use in a matter of seconds to prove the earth is round.
And all your other points require traveling. You see
My point is quite simple: you are convinced the earth is a sphere. But even you lack the words and arguments to explain it properly ... so: you basically know nothing. Only a fact, and no way how to prove the fact.
That is actually a funny gift :D
And somehow fitting to your name ... rofl!
First if all: the radar would pick up the rest of the truck/trailer. Why would it not?
Secondly on simple driver assist systems, the truck/trailer is picked up by camera.
As you see, I used the diamond operator.
And in a /. discussion it makes no sense to use an Interface on the left side and a concrete typenon the right side.
It most of the time makes no sense in real code either.
Being truly paranoid, is a rare skill in our times.
In Korea it is the opposite way. The gates going inside are open, when you tab and its ok, they stay open, if you don't tab, you can simply pass. If you tab and your card is not ok, the gates close.
That is to speed up people passing into the train stations, I guess.
No it is not. ...
But it is not the task of an extraticcction court to deccide if it makes a ccase for hacking.
If the US are so keen to get him convicted they should file a case in the UK
Simple as that.