How do US private corporations make any serious profit from that oil? The 185 Billion a year is going mostly to non Arab countries. Read the post! You can't simply make an argument by saying that corporations are going to get the money and hey, Bush worked for a corporation too so there must be a relationship and truth to my "no blood for oil" crap.
All of those people are now looking at Canada for the same reason you should be. Canada has heavy oil reserves that put them way out infront of Saudi Arabia in total oil reserves. As the price of oil increases as it should, the profit achieved by exploiting those reserves increases. Canada is happy since it is the only way they will ever support their socialist economy. See Norway.
Still on the blood for oil game? Look at the numbers and try not to blush.
1. The US Imports roughly 70 percent of its oil
2. We get 23 percent of our imported oil from the middle east.
3. That means that 16 percent of our oil from the middle east
4. Under 5 percent of our oil comes from Iraq
5. We import roughly 11 million barrels a day
6. At 46 dollars a barrel that is $506 million a day. or $185 billion a year
So your conclusion is that the US spent almost double what it costs to import its oil needs for a year to secure a minor supplier. Where can I get some of that coolaid?
This reactor only has 195MW power potential and the fuel can't be reprocessed? From what I remember that is incredibly low when compared to conventional reactors. At what cost? From what I remember the cost to install any nuclear asset in the US is several hundred million dollars. As much as I hate promoting a green energy source, you could install the same capacity for approximately $200 million.
I don't want to say much about this. I don't want to even chance giving anyone an idea. I am a laser engineer. This is not advanced technology. This can be bought off the shelf. No background check. The power source can easily be rigged to fit inside your average van with the laser unit.
As much as I would hate to agree with Fox's fear mongering, this would be much easier than it seems ad it could be done with off theshelf technology.
CO2 lasers are powerfull enough to cut through the skin of an aircraft at several kilometers given the appropriate optics. I shouldn't say much more than that.
I have actually heard a first hand account of a tree being cut down at roughly a kilometer in Palo Alto by slightly drunk laser engineers.
This could also be an Argon-Ion Laser. These are way more powerfull than a DPSS. It would be difficult to manage the supplies in the field. However, you can dump several Watts down range.
The most difficult part of this would be a low cost system that is collimated at several kilometers. Even lab quality HeNe lasers can diverge a fractions of a percent per meter.
Having worked on things like this, whoever built a device spend several thousand dollars minimum to pull it off.
You forgot about human power. Think if we wired those treadmills in health clubs all over the U.S. to the grid. I would love to know that some middle aged heath nut is paying monthly dues to make my porn machine run.
Was that the president that outlawed nuclear reprocessing? Oh yeah. That was pretty wise considering that we can turn Thorium into a viable nuclear fuel. I would hate to turn an element as abundent as lead into an energy source. To bad he was only president until 1981 when Reagan was sworn in.
There is as yet no way to perform simulated emission of Gamma rays. That would make building a Gamma ray laser very tough. Population inversion for nuclear states is kind of a mind bending concept.
Not all plastics are affected equally by UV. While acrylic has absorption bands in the UV many others don't. You can't say that plastics across the board would degrade.
The limit for traditional optical storage, which is nothing more than a poor mans interferometer, is low in wavelength your semiconductor lasers can go.
Semiconductors are getting to the lowest wavelengths the will most likely ever get to. The band gaps that traditional diode lasers use are now where near the energies required for X-ray.
I was in a Fab last year that was boasting about roughly 300 - 200 nm. I think that was on Gallium Nitride.
Excimers can go down to the UV/X-ray wavelengths. However, those tend to table to room size and extremely power hungry/dangerous.
I hope a virtual Pompeii would be better than it is in person. Having just visited it, I can say don't waste your time. Everything of interest has been removed and relocated to Naples. This is just about all the Italians can do in terms of national treasure protection. Every great monument in the country has been vandalized terribly. You can find spray paint all over the place.
If your in the area I hear Hurculeum[sp?] is much better. I personally haven't checked it out. Also, there are boats that are always leaving Naples to go to the Aeolian Islands. Most Americans never go there, and Lipardi, Vulcan, and Stromboli are really beautiful. I am sure the Europeans love it when I point out another place on there continent we don't visit in droves.
Make sure you bring your own lady. Slashdoters will have a tough time finding companionship.
Logic(French Version) = Our long time ally and protector is going to war with a thug? Get me that guy's number. I have some Roland Anti Aircraft missiles he might be interested in.
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How do US private corporations make any serious profit from that oil? The 185 Billion a year is going mostly to non Arab countries. Read the post! You can't simply make an argument by saying that corporations are going to get the money and hey, Bush worked for a corporation too so there must be a relationship and truth to my "no blood for oil" crap.
All of those people are now looking at Canada for the same reason you should be. Canada has heavy oil reserves that put them way out infront of Saudi Arabia in total oil reserves. As the price of oil increases as it should, the profit achieved by exploiting those reserves increases. Canada is happy since it is the only way they will ever support their socialist economy. See Norway.
Who cares what the price is. It doesn't matter one bit. The middle east hasn't been our dominant Oil supplier since the Arab oil embargo.
Still on the blood for oil game? Look at the numbers and try not to blush. 1. The US Imports roughly 70 percent of its oil 2. We get 23 percent of our imported oil from the middle east. 3. That means that 16 percent of our oil from the middle east 4. Under 5 percent of our oil comes from Iraq 5. We import roughly 11 million barrels a day 6. At 46 dollars a barrel that is $506 million a day. or $185 billion a year So your conclusion is that the US spent almost double what it costs to import its oil needs for a year to secure a minor supplier. Where can I get some of that coolaid?
This reactor only has 195MW power potential and the fuel can't be reprocessed? From what I remember that is incredibly low when compared to conventional reactors. At what cost? From what I remember the cost to install any nuclear asset in the US is several hundred million dollars. As much as I hate promoting a green energy source, you could install the same capacity for approximately $200 million.
I don't want to say much about this. I don't want to even chance giving anyone an idea. I am a laser engineer. This is not advanced technology. This can be bought off the shelf. No background check. The power source can easily be rigged to fit inside your average van with the laser unit.
As much as I would hate to agree with Fox's fear mongering, this would be much easier than it seems ad it could be done with off theshelf technology.
CO2 lasers are powerfull enough to cut through the skin of an aircraft at several kilometers given the appropriate optics. I shouldn't say much more than that.
I have actually heard a first hand account of a tree being cut down at roughly a kilometer in Palo Alto by slightly drunk laser engineers.
This could also be an Argon-Ion Laser. These are way more powerfull than a DPSS. It would be difficult to manage the supplies in the field. However, you can dump several Watts down range. The most difficult part of this would be a low cost system that is collimated at several kilometers. Even lab quality HeNe lasers can diverge a fractions of a percent per meter. Having worked on things like this, whoever built a device spend several thousand dollars minimum to pull it off.
I like the modifiers on "and". I very much agree on the notion of increasing your news sample size. I ted to read Drudge and the BBC.
You forgot about human power. Think if we wired those treadmills in health clubs all over the U.S. to the grid. I would love to know that some middle aged heath nut is paying monthly dues to make my porn machine run.
Was that the president that outlawed nuclear reprocessing? Oh yeah. That was pretty wise considering that we can turn Thorium into a viable nuclear fuel. I would hate to turn an element as abundent as lead into an energy source. To bad he was only president until 1981 when Reagan was sworn in.
Turn off NPR and RTFA. Their models only used wind capacity for a tenth of the total power power production.
There is as yet no way to perform simulated emission of Gamma rays. That would make building a Gamma ray laser very tough. Population inversion for nuclear states is kind of a mind bending concept.
Not all plastics are affected equally by UV. While acrylic has absorption bands in the UV many others don't. You can't say that plastics across the board would degrade.
The limit for traditional optical storage, which is nothing more than a poor mans interferometer, is low in wavelength your semiconductor lasers can go. Semiconductors are getting to the lowest wavelengths the will most likely ever get to. The band gaps that traditional diode lasers use are now where near the energies required for X-ray. I was in a Fab last year that was boasting about roughly 300 - 200 nm. I think that was on Gallium Nitride. Excimers can go down to the UV/X-ray wavelengths. However, those tend to table to room size and extremely power hungry/dangerous.
The same people that do it here. Young people tagging things. The Italians just don't clean it up. It might be the sheer volume too.
I hope a virtual Pompeii would be better than it is in person. Having just visited it, I can say don't waste your time. Everything of interest has been removed and relocated to Naples. This is just about all the Italians can do in terms of national treasure protection. Every great monument in the country has been vandalized terribly. You can find spray paint all over the place. If your in the area I hear Hurculeum[sp?] is much better. I personally haven't checked it out. Also, there are boats that are always leaving Naples to go to the Aeolian Islands. Most Americans never go there, and Lipardi, Vulcan, and Stromboli are really beautiful. I am sure the Europeans love it when I point out another place on there continent we don't visit in droves. Make sure you bring your own lady. Slashdoters will have a tough time finding companionship.
Logic(French Version) = Our long time ally and protector is going to war with a thug? Get me that guy's number. I have some Roland Anti Aircraft missiles he might be interested in.
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