the total volume of nuclear waste produced by this country in 60 years would cover a single football field 14 feet high. This is 94% recyclable into brand new fuel rods using technology that is being used in France right now, no new miracles of science required. This is nothing. Even without recycling it could be re sintered and sold to Canada for direct placement in their CANDO reactor models right now, no changes to their designs required.
The total amount of C02 produced by coal generation in this country would blanket us with a layer of gas at sea level pressure just over a foot deep EVERY YEAR. While still producing thousands of tons of radioactive and heavy metal toxic fly ash which they leave sitting around in ponds that are grandfathered into environmental laws and are really dangerous. Google for the coal pond damn failure last year in Tennessee for some example of how dangerous that is.
Wasting money on this stuff is questionable when a 2 gigawatt nuclear plant would cost only about twice that and not kill thousands of acres of desert. And if you want to do research on new technologies how about putting it into Thorium which since it's not pressurized is a lot easier and cheaper to build the plant. Even high estimates put that cost at only $250 million a gigawatt!
Nuclear plants also generate power after dark...
heh, in one breath they say how it could improve safety by making current plane designs have a larger margin for error under stall conditions. But then at the end they suggest that with this technology installed a plane might need smaller wings.
If you make the wings smaller then you remove that larger safety margin and get a plane no safer than they are now.
Like any new safety tech, once people start to expect it to work it stops improving safety. Like anti-lock brakes. Saved many lives when people still drove as if they weren't there, but now people drive even more recklessly and know that the anti-lock will probably save them if they have to slam stop in a hurry.
They come in 45 watt and 65 watt equivalent bulbs, not twice the output of a 100 watt bulb as stated in the article;) At this moment a CF bulb can be more efficient than them, pulling as little as 14 watts to produce the same output they do at 22. Tubular fluorescent bulbs are even more efficient.
They do look cool though, and LED's get better and more efficient every year.
At a watt or 2 there is nothing that can touch an LED as far as efficiency, but as soon as you go to higher power levels then even a halogen bulb can be more efficient. In my 1AA flashlights nothing is better than an LED. Plugged into the wall you're better off with a CF bulb.
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the total volume of nuclear waste produced by this country in 60 years would cover a single football field 14 feet high. This is 94% recyclable into brand new fuel rods using technology that is being used in France right now, no new miracles of science required. This is nothing. Even without recycling it could be re sintered and sold to Canada for direct placement in their CANDO reactor models right now, no changes to their designs required. The total amount of C02 produced by coal generation in this country would blanket us with a layer of gas at sea level pressure just over a foot deep EVERY YEAR. While still producing thousands of tons of radioactive and heavy metal toxic fly ash which they leave sitting around in ponds that are grandfathered into environmental laws and are really dangerous. Google for the coal pond damn failure last year in Tennessee for some example of how dangerous that is. Wasting money on this stuff is questionable when a 2 gigawatt nuclear plant would cost only about twice that and not kill thousands of acres of desert. And if you want to do research on new technologies how about putting it into Thorium which since it's not pressurized is a lot easier and cheaper to build the plant. Even high estimates put that cost at only $250 million a gigawatt! Nuclear plants also generate power after dark...
heh, in one breath they say how it could improve safety by making current plane designs have a larger margin for error under stall conditions. But then at the end they suggest that with this technology installed a plane might need smaller wings. If you make the wings smaller then you remove that larger safety margin and get a plane no safer than they are now. Like any new safety tech, once people start to expect it to work it stops improving safety. Like anti-lock brakes. Saved many lives when people still drove as if they weren't there, but now people drive even more recklessly and know that the anti-lock will probably save them if they have to slam stop in a hurry.
They come in 45 watt and 65 watt equivalent bulbs, not twice the output of a 100 watt bulb as stated in the article ;) At this moment a CF bulb can be more efficient than them, pulling as little as 14 watts to produce the same output they do at 22. Tubular fluorescent bulbs are even more efficient.
They do look cool though, and LED's get better and more efficient every year.
At a watt or 2 there is nothing that can touch an LED as far as efficiency, but as soon as you go to higher power levels then even a halogen bulb can be more efficient. In my 1AA flashlights nothing is better than an LED. Plugged into the wall you're better off with a CF bulb.