The IFR ran fine for a year before it got defunded. Thirty years ago.
Indeed, a burner reactor with integrated fuel reprocessing. An awesome concept. A problem with adequate materials technology as sodium cooling a reactor has issues when it starts to leak and air gets in.
Funny that Mr. "I Have a Slideshow" led the effort to kill the IFR and has since made a billion dollars on global-warming fear mongering.
Well Mr "Wartimepresident" finished it of by funding its complete destruction in the 2005 US Energy Policy act, SEC. 625 if I recall correctly.
The Chinese will build these and then take all of our nuclear "waste" off our hands for billions to trillions of dollars since the West is killing itself with anxiety.
Not a chance. The lobbying effort on the part of the oil and coal industry was who was calling for its complete destruction. There is no way they are going to *ever* let IFR go any further.
Perhaps this is best left to the Chinese. They probably have a few decades to go before their processes are subsumed by the same bullshit that ruins the West.
Thanks for the information.
I don't think that's going to happen. I think they are going to go ahead with a Nuclear Program the way the Nuclear Narcissists here have always wanted in the west and simply crush any resistance.
Let's face it, the capital and corruptions in western economics is what has destroyed Nuclear power. If the oil and coal industry hadn't destroyed every avenue to develop Nuclear Power properly and everyone banded together to design it properly, it may have had a chance. Then again, if that was the case, we would have chosen Thorium reactors first and not weaponized the technology. Now we have plutonium spent fuel waste to deal with and no burner technology capable of dealing with it. If you want to blame someone blame all the nuclear supporters who think that Nuclear power is perfect and can do no wrong that prevented the technology from evolving. That's who the Japanese Diet blamed in the official Fukushima report, not NIMBYS.
Much of China's strategies make sense to me now because they don't have to concern themselves with the performance of capital in relation to infrastructure projects. In the same way the Soviet Union destroyed itself from within due to corruption, the West is destroying itself in the same way, which is sad. What's worse is the west sold our competitive edge out so our corporations could exploit Chinese labor. If they didn't respect Intellectual Property laws what makes anyone think the designs for the AP1000 weren't fair game, what a joke. I wish they had taken a decent reactor design though like EPR, at least its containment building has been tested properly.
Perhaps they will do it differently and prove that communism can do nuclear better. More than likely though they will take 20 years or so to learn what we already know in the west that Nuclear power doesn't provide a worthwhile energetic return on its energetic investment and it doesn't work. Anyone want to guess what will happen when they have an accident?
>And please don't vote this down - I think we should be able to have a discussion on the matter, and I've been friends with and supportive of trans athletes since at least 2006 and am fully supportive of their inclusion in sport in whatever capacity those athletes wish to compete in.
Bodies accumulate scarring in the muscles has been my experience of training Martial Arts. After 30+ years training I took some time off to do extensive dry needling physiotherapy for almost 4 years. Nothing like a thin flexy needle in a dirty knot in my back, legs or anywhere else.
It is an intense process and when the scarred up tissue releases, first it completely exhausts you with relief and then you're just more loose and limber as you gradually re-balance the tension between your limbs to a more relaxed configuration.
My experiences with how the body can heal itself we extraordinary, 33 injuries were uncovered. The releases of larger injuries put me into shock twice and required several days rest before I could move.
So far I've only been able to do light training however everything feels smooth and fast, I can't wait to be able to do leg work however that is something that is still being worked on. Only skipping or swimming, no squats or dead-lifts, etc.
I know that this is mainly my will power to not be a grumpy from accumulated injury so I'll be passing this onto the people treating me and ask them and see what they have to say.
For me, the easiest way to hear BT and other compression artifacts is with a recording with lots of cymbals.
Cymbals are odd because they generate two waveforms when hit, a triangle off the bell and sine of the edges. It's the combination of this that produces the cymbal sound in various timbre. When the psychoacoustic tries to drop the less "important" information it seems to me that, depending on how the cymbal was mic'd, it algorithm has to select which of these has a higher amplitude and what results is low resolution pink noise.
I suspect the cymbals create a lot of non transient sine data from 5KHz - 20KHz, considering data lossy as the context for compression, opposed to amplitude of a transient triangle wave in the initial 10-40ms of the initial hit of the cymbal being selected for preservation.
They'll take on a "watery" sound as the compression really screws with the harmonics.
I did some comparisons using a spectral analyzer (where I could zoom in on a moment) and I suspect this is because every other instrument has clearly defined transients and that what you are hearing is the bitrate that the music is being encoded in as the harmonics are thrown away. Consequently some A/B tests are very easy to identify if you've trained your ears. I'm not %100 sure, these are the conclusions I've drawn from doing music production and observations based on curiosity as a motivation.
The steaming model is a shit model for music for this and many other reasons.
If a song is less than 29 minutes and 37 seconds Or at the very least, coding to as I am now
Thank you - I'm going to have a listen to that. May I suggest a listen to Mars Volta's Cassandra Gemini at 32 minutes plus it is a work of genius. Features Flea from RHCP playing a Trumpet solo that has to be heard to believed.
You've misread my comments and made faulty interpretations of my statements.
The onus for communicating your ideas accurately is your responsibility, this is another burden of free speech. Allowing you to communicate your ideas freely reveals your position, which is mostly justifying censorship. That's how you used your free speech.
Your credit card vendor has a legal obligation to make payment. A random website has no legal obligation to you. Apples v. Hockey Sticks
Well you've made a great case for censorship.
Censorship isn't always inappropriate.
By unparsing your double negative you're saying that censorship is mostly appropriate.
And FWIW, I'm fine with someone wanting to yell and scream or hold up signs for ANY cause on the steps of the capital, because...free speech!
But nowhere else. It's interesting how you view free speech as people yelling and screaming.
Conversely, I think the courts overstepped when they allowed the Westboro Baptist Church members to protest and interrupt funeral ceremonies...
Defending free speech means defending people's right to express ideas that you may not agree with so that the ideas can stand or fall on their own merits. It would seem you think there are limits to how free speech should be, which isn't free speech.
your rights stop where they interfere with the rights of others IMO.
Except, according to your previous statements, if it is a public web forum, where members of the public make public comments that the forum "doesn't like", then they can interfere with the posters free speech rights because they don't exist on a privately owned public forum.
I'm very much against censorship of ideas in any forum run by the government,
so you're against censoring child pornography because the government does that and says that's illegal.
but open to it by any place, site, business etc..
however you're in favor of corporate censorship. So you're open to all the privately owned media censoring what is seen on TV, print media, radio and anything they "don't like" on their privately owned websites, ergo, you're open to closing down free speech.
I completely disagree, I think the onus is on private companies to defend free speech. More-so, I believe they are obligated to defend free speech as a fundamental tenet of democracy which allows stable business environments to exist, indeed their very business model exists as a function of free speech. The entire premise of western democracy is founded on the right of free speech and association, yet somehow those foundations of our society can be thrown away because someone "doesn't like" what is being said and it offends them? There is nothing more offensive than the banal inoffensive cloistering of conformity.
You may wish to consider your perspective. I suggest that the enemy within is that you are open to censorship.
Thank goodness we're in a place that respects free speech and would never consider censoring someones posts.
Your free speech rights don't cross the line into a web site owned and operated by someone else who doesn't like what you have to say. You're completely free to create your own though.
I'm sure you would feel differently if your credit card vendor decided they did not like what you were purchasing and decided to cancel the transaction. You would be completely free to create your own though.
This is where the deception starts Rick. This is where the poorly thought out idealism is started so that people will pick up a cognitively cheap idea about nuclear power that they can simply repeat. They're refer to these supporters as useful idiots, because they are despised by the very people who created them in the first place, the Nuclear Industry's PR machine.
You're being manipulated and deceived into displaying contempt for people who have valid concerns, which are your concerns too, to reduce their effectiveness. They do it by hi-jacking your good intentions, that you want the best for everybody. Keep reading and slowly it will dawn on you why Nuclear power doesn't solve anything.
Fukushima was a decades old already outdated reactor design and it suffered an earthquake so severe it literally moved the entire goddamn planet as well as one of the most brutal tsunamis in recorded history and it killed precisely NO ONE due to radiation.
Except the community around it where everyone lived.
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The IFR ran fine for a year before it got defunded. Thirty years ago.
Indeed, a burner reactor with integrated fuel reprocessing. An awesome concept. A problem with adequate materials technology as sodium cooling a reactor has issues when it starts to leak and air gets in.
Funny that Mr. "I Have a Slideshow" led the effort to kill the IFR and has since made a billion dollars on global-warming fear mongering.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages...
Well Mr "Wartimepresident" finished it of by funding its complete destruction in the 2005 US Energy Policy act, SEC. 625 if I recall correctly.
The Chinese will build these and then take all of our nuclear "waste" off our hands for billions to trillions of dollars since the West is killing itself with anxiety.
Not a chance. The lobbying effort on the part of the oil and coal industry was who was calling for its complete destruction. There is no way they are going to *ever* let IFR go any further.
Wear your Troll points like a badge of honor on this one.
The irony amused me.
Perhaps this is best left to the Chinese. They probably have a few decades to go before their processes are subsumed by the same bullshit that ruins the West.
Thanks for the information.
I don't think that's going to happen. I think they are going to go ahead with a Nuclear Program the way the Nuclear Narcissists here have always wanted in the west and simply crush any resistance.
Let's face it, the capital and corruptions in western economics is what has destroyed Nuclear power. If the oil and coal industry hadn't destroyed every avenue to develop Nuclear Power properly and everyone banded together to design it properly, it may have had a chance. Then again, if that was the case, we would have chosen Thorium reactors first and not weaponized the technology. Now we have plutonium spent fuel waste to deal with and no burner technology capable of dealing with it. If you want to blame someone blame all the nuclear supporters who think that Nuclear power is perfect and can do no wrong that prevented the technology from evolving. That's who the Japanese Diet blamed in the official Fukushima report, not NIMBYS.
Much of China's strategies make sense to me now because they don't have to concern themselves with the performance of capital in relation to infrastructure projects. In the same way the Soviet Union destroyed itself from within due to corruption, the West is destroying itself in the same way, which is sad. What's worse is the west sold our competitive edge out so our corporations could exploit Chinese labor. If they didn't respect Intellectual Property laws what makes anyone think the designs for the AP1000 weren't fair game, what a joke. I wish they had taken a decent reactor design though like EPR, at least its containment building has been tested properly.
Perhaps they will do it differently and prove that communism can do nuclear better. More than likely though they will take 20 years or so to learn what we already know in the west that Nuclear power doesn't provide a worthwhile energetic return on its energetic investment and it doesn't work. Anyone want to guess what will happen when they have an accident?
Nuclear Power is a dumb way to boil water.
Let's hope they have studied the the Fukupshima NPP and learned something.
So instead of building something safe by design, they're going to dick around with Rube Goldberg cooling and control systems.
What is safe by design?
A safe.
>And please don't vote this down - I think we should be able to have a discussion on the matter, and I've been friends with and supportive of trans athletes since at least 2006 and am fully supportive of their inclusion in sport in whatever capacity those athletes wish to compete in.
Bodies accumulate scarring in the muscles has been my experience of training Martial Arts. After 30+ years training I took some time off to do extensive dry needling physiotherapy for almost 4 years. Nothing like a thin flexy needle in a dirty knot in my back, legs or anywhere else.
It is an intense process and when the scarred up tissue releases, first it completely exhausts you with relief and then you're just more loose and limber as you gradually re-balance the tension between your limbs to a more relaxed configuration.
My experiences with how the body can heal itself we extraordinary, 33 injuries were uncovered. The releases of larger injuries put me into shock twice and required several days rest before I could move.
So far I've only been able to do light training however everything feels smooth and fast, I can't wait to be able to do leg work however that is something that is still being worked on. Only skipping or swimming, no squats or dead-lifts, etc.
I know that this is mainly my will power to not be a grumpy from accumulated injury so I'll be passing this onto the people treating me and ask them and see what they have to say.
I agree typical streaming sucks, but I use Tidal right now and get at least CD quality or better...
Thanks, I've never tried tidal. I think CD quality is about where it should be, mp3 is like a step backwards - like an advertisement for a song.
There is a definite audio difference when listening to the exact same track streamed on Google Music (320 kbps) and Tidal.
I've noticed that some browser codecs are pretty horrible as well if Google Music is browser based vs Tidal.
For me, the easiest way to hear BT and other compression artifacts is with a recording with lots of cymbals.
Cymbals are odd because they generate two waveforms when hit, a triangle off the bell and sine of the edges. It's the combination of this that produces the cymbal sound in various timbre. When the psychoacoustic tries to drop the less "important" information it seems to me that, depending on how the cymbal was mic'd, it algorithm has to select which of these has a higher amplitude and what results is low resolution pink noise.
I suspect the cymbals create a lot of non transient sine data from 5KHz - 20KHz, considering data lossy as the context for compression, opposed to amplitude of a transient triangle wave in the initial 10-40ms of the initial hit of the cymbal being selected for preservation.
They'll take on a "watery" sound as the compression really screws with the harmonics.
I did some comparisons using a spectral analyzer (where I could zoom in on a moment) and I suspect this is because every other instrument has clearly defined transients and that what you are hearing is the bitrate that the music is being encoded in as the harmonics are thrown away. Consequently some A/B tests are very easy to identify if you've trained your ears. I'm not %100 sure, these are the conclusions I've drawn from doing music production and observations based on curiosity as a motivation.
The steaming model is a shit model for music for this and many other reasons.
If a song is less than 29 minutes and 37 seconds Or at the very least, coding to as I am now
Thank you - I'm going to have a listen to that. May I suggest a listen to Mars Volta's Cassandra Gemini at 32 minutes plus it is a work of genius. Features Flea from RHCP playing a Trumpet solo that has to be heard to believed.
Just fucking awesome.
You've misread my comments and made faulty interpretations of my statements.
The onus for communicating your ideas accurately is your responsibility, this is another burden of free speech. Allowing you to communicate your ideas freely reveals your position, which is mostly justifying censorship. That's how you used your free speech.
I'm done with you.
If course, your position is indefensible.
Your credit card vendor has a legal obligation to make payment. A random website has no legal obligation to you. Apples v. Hockey Sticks
Well you've made a great case for censorship.
Censorship isn't always inappropriate.
By unparsing your double negative you're saying that censorship is mostly appropriate.
And FWIW, I'm fine with someone wanting to yell and scream or hold up signs for ANY cause on the steps of the capital, because...free speech!
But nowhere else. It's interesting how you view free speech as people yelling and screaming.
Conversely, I think the courts overstepped when they allowed the Westboro Baptist Church members to protest and interrupt funeral ceremonies...
Defending free speech means defending people's right to express ideas that you may not agree with so that the ideas can stand or fall on their own merits. It would seem you think there are limits to how free speech should be, which isn't free speech.
your rights stop where they interfere with the rights of others IMO.
Except, according to your previous statements, if it is a public web forum, where members of the public make public comments that the forum "doesn't like", then they can interfere with the posters free speech rights because they don't exist on a privately owned public forum.
I'm very much against censorship of ideas in any forum run by the government,
so you're against censoring child pornography because the government does that and says that's illegal.
but open to it by any place, site, business etc. .
however you're in favor of corporate censorship. So you're open to all the privately owned media censoring what is seen on TV, print media, radio and anything they "don't like" on their privately owned websites, ergo, you're open to closing down free speech.
I completely disagree, I think the onus is on private companies to defend free speech. More-so, I believe they are obligated to defend free speech as a fundamental tenet of democracy which allows stable business environments to exist, indeed their very business model exists as a function of free speech. The entire premise of western democracy is founded on the right of free speech and association, yet somehow those foundations of our society can be thrown away because someone "doesn't like" what is being said and it offends them? There is nothing more offensive than the banal inoffensive cloistering of conformity.
You may wish to consider your perspective. I suggest that the enemy within is that you are open to censorship.
Your credit card vendor has a legal obligation to make payment. A random website has no legal obligation to you. Apples v. Hockey Sticks
Well you've made a great case for censorship.
Thank goodness we're in a place that respects free speech and would never consider censoring someones posts.
Your free speech rights don't cross the line into a web site owned and operated by someone else who doesn't like what you have to say. You're completely free to create your own though.
I'm sure you would feel differently if your credit card vendor decided they did not like what you were purchasing and decided to cancel the transaction. You would be completely free to create your own though.
Thank goodness we're in a place that respects free speech and would never consider censoring someones posts.
Do we get to speak in these sponsored pieces?
Pretty minds caged with desperation. Don't believe what they are telling you.
In fact if it had not been for manned missions, Hubble would have returned no data at all.
Hubble would be hobbled!
This is where the deception starts Rick. This is where the poorly thought out idealism is started so that people will pick up a cognitively cheap idea about nuclear power that they can simply repeat. They're refer to these supporters as useful idiots, because they are despised by the very people who created them in the first place, the Nuclear Industry's PR machine.
You're being manipulated and deceived into displaying contempt for people who have valid concerns, which are your concerns too, to reduce their effectiveness. They do it by hi-jacking your good intentions, that you want the best for everybody. Keep reading and slowly it will dawn on you why Nuclear power doesn't solve anything.
Interesting ideas - thanks.
...or maybe we could go back to arguing about GamerGate
It would probably be less repetitive.
Breeder reactors.
is dead technology.
For the record, I'd prefer to live down the street from a nuclear plant than a gas or coal or oil-burning power plant.
I hear that they're giving away properties around Fukushima.
Fukushima was a decades old already outdated reactor design and it suffered an earthquake so severe it literally moved the entire goddamn planet as well as one of the most brutal tsunamis in recorded history and it killed precisely NO ONE due to radiation.
Except the community around it where everyone lived.
The very fact that nuclear waste is radioactive means that the reactor design is inefficient and leaving fuel unburned.
Breeder reactors can burn fuel down to nearly inert lumps of rock.
You really need to update your thinking, it's stuck in the 1950s.
Here's a handy rule of thumb:
Any energy policy proposal that fits on a bumper, or in a tweet, is wrong...
Nuclear has a key role to play.