Do reasonable non-sensationalist submissions and we can discuss them reasonably.
hahaha, going for the moral highground. First paragraph of the article:
A surprisingly large number of critical infrastructure participants—including chemical manufacturers, nuclear and electric plants, defense contractors, building operators and chip makers—rely on unsecured wireless pagers to automate their industrial control systems. According to a new report, this practice opens them to malicious hacks and espionage.
doesn't seem to be singling nuclear out. doesn't say they have or will be hacked, just that they are open to it along with other utilities. That doesn't seem very sensationalist to me. How would you phrase it?
The ratio of the available capacity (the amount of electrical power actually produced by a generating unit) to the theoretical capacity (the amount of electrical power that could theoretically have been produced if the generating unit had operated continuously at full power) during a given time period.
Define 'capacity factor'(gross)?
The ratio of the gross electricity generated, for the time considered, to the energy that could have been generated at continuous full-power operation during the same period.
Define 'capacity factor'(net)?
The ratio of the net electricity generated, for the time considered, to the energy that could have been generated at continuous full-power operation during the same period.
Define 'capacity factor' (moron check)?
Well the way the morons are using it, the time period is left out. The way a sentence that includes Capacity Factor as a measure should be 'Palo Verde Unit 1' achieved a CF of 90% over a one year period or to put it in a moronic car analogy that car did 180Kmh for 1 hour.
They also leave out that CF applies to a 'generating unit' not 'The entire nuclear industry has a CF of 90%', it's like saying 'all cars do 180Kmh', see how moronic it is?
Define 'Utilization' (moron check)?
The moronic thing about CF is that people like to cite 'hey nuclear power has a CF of 90%'. No. An operating period that did not any any outages was used to produce that figure because the 'Utilization' is masked. And utilization is a issue for the nuclear industry. Do the morons realize that the reactor doesn't reach it's full output? Any ideas?
Define 'Availability Factor' (moron check)?
Of course, most morons probably don't even know what this is. Was the plant even available to produce power? This is the problem with the way morons use CF, they ignore or are unaware of Availability.
If you move the window of time that you examined Palo Verde and shrank it around the record breaking refueling for the reactor of 28 days, you would have a Capacity Factor of 0% for the same reactor. That doesn't mean the entire nuclear industries CF went to 0% it means CF is a variable figure for a generating unit.
Same as if I measured the CF for Davis Besse for the year or whatever it was it was down to fix the reactor head, for that time Davis Besse unit something had a CF of 0%.
Examine the Capacity Factor of Palo Verde for a 12 month window that included the 'record breaking refuelling' then it is now 84%.
So if you wanted to use CF accurately it would be a conglomerate of information like 'Palo Verde 12:90%' might say Palo Verde reached 90% CF for 12 months or 'Palo Verde AF93%:CF84%' Palo Verde was Available for 93% of the time and achieved 84% CF.
Instead the morons put it down to one simple and wrong answer because it is a number that fits their confirmation bias.
But wait...
(moron check)
What about taking into account:
The energetic cost of spent fuel storage
The energetic cost of infrastructure to move spent fuel to it
The energetic cost of DU storage
The energetic cost of demolishing the reactor
The variability of ore grades and the energetic extraction costs
The energetic cost of cleaning up mine tailings from mine sites
The ongoing energetic costs for accident clean-ups from Fukushima and Chernobyl
How can CF factor these things into it, especially when a lot of these costs occur decades *after* the end of the service life of the reactor?
It is *exactly* the same as the coal industry getting benefit by externalizing the cost of the carbon, only the nuclear industry does it with radionuclides and pushes the cost and consequences far far into the future.
I think the really good thing about mdsolar's submissions is it really shows that so called 'enlightened' nuclear supporters are prepared to use ad hom character assassinations, emotional pleas and social proof in the place of reason, fact and, dialogue. A lot of nuclear supporters seem to transpose their idealistic thinking onto reality. As soon as anybody tests that reality they first make it personal, rarely present any fact to support their 'argument', then wheel out the same repetitive dogmatic skepticism to bludgeon any non-believers into submission.
I totally get it, they think their idealized version of nuclear power based on their flawed assumptions will save the world if only all the NIMBYS, economics, physics and, reality would just get out of the way. They'll impose their ideas on the rest of us and we will all have to say that they were right all along, that they saved us all despite ourselves.
The final irony is that because they don't accept the Nuclear industry has any flaws, they don't perceive it to require any improvements thus making accidents like Fukushima possible (at least according to the Japanese government commission into the accident) and no where for the industry to go politically and technologically.
'Capacity Factor' is a way to measure power station facilities in a way that ignores negative externalities. For power sources that have a large impact on the environment it is a favourable measure to use. The higher the 'Capacity Factor', the greater the environmental damage.
I never said that DU is "weapons grade" but rather what is left over after enriching other bits of uranium to be "weapons grade" - as in a large percentage U235.
Indeed, perhaps armoureddragon mistakes where DU comes from. You are right about what DU *is*, we agree on that. What I am saying is DU is used as a projectile due to its mass and pyrophoric properties.
Discussions of police state, freedom and spying aside, which are the most important considerations - how much is all this spying on me, costing me? These are direct costs foisted onto the taxpayer with questionable value in terms of service it provides.
Then there is the secondary cost via the fraud it enables that has no impact on the state and only impacts the population. The convenience of a phone in your pocket has morphed to include an array of tools to gather intelligence on you. Gathered into infrastructure paid for by internet users to telecommunications companies doing the bidding of the government acting on your behalf.
These secrets must be expensive to maintain and I wonder what burden it places on the budget provided by the taxpayer to government, to provide services? What services are underfunded as a result of these agencies maintaining this apparatus?
I think you will find that thorium reactors also create Thallium 233 as a waste by-product, which is pretty nasty stuff. Consumption of weapons grade plutonium was prototyped in an experimental fast 'burner' reactor called IFR, Integral Fast Reactor. Very interesting technology.
Because that's not how it works. "Depleted" Uranium is simply the U238 that is left over after enriching natural Uranium into reactor grade / HEU / weapons grade. It's not "depleted" by being used in a reactor - actually, U238 that is in a reactor (the majority of the fuel assembly) captures neutrons and turns into Plutonium, which then fissions and gives off more neutrons.
You've missed the point.
DU doesn't need to be weapons grade to be used as a weapon. It's used because it's mass gives the warhead a larger range.
The other property is that it is pyrophoric, which means it bursts into flames and lances through the target's armour. It's ash is ceramic and an inhalant, from memory it is also spontaneously critical, so it will have bursts of 10-15 times as much alpha emissions (iirc).
I think the confusion you are having is that DU is used as a sub critical ordinance. Nasty stuff when used as a weapon.
It makes sense to send terrorist threats from the Kremlin to the airport where they become a photo op and a chance to show strong leadership. Why do you think other politicians want it?
Nuclear power has a capacity factor of about 0.9. So a 1 GW plant will generate on average 900 MW throughout the year after taking into account downtime for maintenance and refueling.
But *NOT* taking into account:
The cost of spent fuel storage
The cost of infrastructure to move spent fuel to it
The cost of DU storage
The cost of demolishing the reactor
The variability of ore grades and the extraction costs
The cost of cleaning up mine tailings from mine sites
The ongoing costs for accident clean-ups from Fukushima and Chernobyl
How can CF factor these things into it, especially when a lot of these costs occur decades *after* the end of the service life of the reactor?
Isn't it *exactly* the same as the coal industry getting benefit by externalizing the cost of the carbon, only the nuclear industry does it with radionuclides and pushes the cost and consequences far far into the future. Do you include the cost of carbon remediation into a coal plants capacity factor?
It seems to me capacity factor is a measure designed to obscure the socialization of those costs at the expense of methods of generation that don't have those costs.
Invented on Linux's crappy UI and still the most awsome and useful UI paradigm invented since the UI. The only problem with it is it has been dumbed down since 2009 for no reason I can tell other than to make it easier for Windows, then finally Mac users to use.
I know people who start using Linux see the default Linux UI experience as not much. But it used to be a lot more configurable. I liked customizing my own UI experience because I wasn't building a comptuer for everyone else, I was building it for me. So, I was building it to impress myself. When my friends saw it it blew them away.
I prefer the power paradigm of Linux.
That's what I like about Linux, it forces you to get better. I want every single scrap of CPU cycle I can get out of my machine.
Remember getting in the zone when coding and then that moron would come up to you then talk about their car, lawn or how their daughter was attending a private school and other mundane information I don't want to know.
They're the people that think multitasking is something more than a bullshit buzzword to be thrown around as a criticism of people who are able to concentrate on the task at hand. I doubt they would feel the same way if they were told to cross a busy road and only look at their phone while they did.
Let's hope they release that stuff publicly ASAP. I want to know what Tepco has been lying about lately.
That the ground around unit four spent fuel pool has subsided 30 inches since the accident with 400 or so spent fuel rods still in there.
Allegations are that unit 4 was being upgraded when the quake struck and that fuel was being stored illegally in the spent fuel pool at the time of the quake. Money that should have been spent on seawall and generator upgrades.
Japanese civil engineers have said they're at a loss to explain the damage to the concrete supports for the spent fuel pool in unit four as the quake did not have enough ground acceleration to damage them.
Accounts are emerging that when part of the crane fell in the pool, some of the illegal fuel rods struck one another causing a neutron pulse and it is that which damaged the concrete supports.
Meanwhile The fall guy president admits there is a cover up of a meltdown to cover-up the illegal activity that was happening in unit four in the first place. Look at that silly monkey!
We have this brain dead blanket on all news and information about Fukushima there is little chance we are going to get much real information while they continue to let that pig of a plant belch radioisotopes into the pacific ocean. I wish they would at least close in the sea walls around the plant to at least *try* to stop or filter the ground water that reaches the ocean. Plutonium Chloride is very soluble.
Here is my ---> theory about what is going on in Japan: The shutdown of their reactor fleet has nothing to do with protestors or anything other that what is happening in Unit 4 spent fuel pool. I suspect that the government now knows just how badly Tepco fucked up, but they're in a bind. If they let Tepco hang, everyone will know why and they won't be able to control the situation.
The situation at Unit 4 is so dire they have been toiling day and night since the accident to remove all the fuel rods from the damaged pool. It has stopped because they need to do maintenance on the crane. The count is down from 1100 spent rods, to 400 rods so far, which is awesome work, but remains a threat. I reason it is because of the following potential scenarios:
Best Case: All the fuel rods are removed and Fukushima is no worse than it already is, an INES level 7 accident whose radioactive steam effluents will continue to blow via the jet stream over the US.
Worse Case: There is some failure which initiates a plutonium file in the remaining rods with hundreds of millions of curies blowing over the continental US mainland and into the pacific ocean.
Worst Case: *IF* the Japanese continued to operate their reactors, the worse case above initiates a much larger neutron pulse that initiates meltdowns in all of the nuclear plants on the japanese eastern seaboard, leaving most of the Japanese population unable to respond to the multiple meltdowns. I know, it seems far fetched, but it seems more reasonable that the Japanese government would respond to pressure from that scenario to shut down the economic benefit they get from nuclear power, as opposed to pressure from any hippy hick NIMBY anty-nukker protestor.
Excuse me dp, I have to address the fanboi reading, yes you fanboi, re-read the worst case scenario again, notice the big *IF*, no read it again. Now before you respond, you don't know enough fact to make up a fictional scenario that elaborate, so it's either possible or you don't know what you are talking about enough to respond with anything other than an emotive diatribe. *IF*.
Apologies dp, it's just a theory though. We will know if the Japanese reactors are started up again *after* the last of the fuel rods are removed from unit 4.
So your healthy active lifestyle led to you injuring yourself and so not being active and healthy?
Not exactly. Three scumbags on a train were looking for trouble. One trapped me between the seats and headbutted me. When I was defending myself subduing the guy who started it to the ground, one grabbed me by the shoulders and the other kicked me in the head. Remarkably I remained conscious, successfully defended myself and, was still on my feet when they ended up running.
I'm not saying I'm a hero, just that I survived - albeit with some pretty serious injuries.
Maybe it wasn't such a healthy lifestyle after all.
All the years of excellent sleep and clear mindedness I get from training is not something you can understand unless you are a part of it. I don't think I would be typing this to you now if I didn't have that healthy lifestyle.
I've been recovering from some injuries, including surgery to my neck, so I have been stuck on a couch in front of netflix under orders from the doctors to do nothing and be bored while I heal. Since May, I've had 1 month initial, then another 2 1/2 months recovery time, not allowed to drive (painkillers), essentially prisoner in my own house.
Apart from being a completely unhealthy thing to do and contrary to my normal life style, I hadn't watched TV regularly for almost 2 years so I was kinda grateful I had nf to spare my sanity. I used the time to catch up on lots of stuff. Six weeks seems to be about when it got stale and then took about 2 weeks of absence before I could watch it again.
Like anything I found you have to leave it and do something else for a while. It's definitely possible to get bored with it. I considered popcorn time, but I just can't watch that much TV.
Frankly, I can't wait to be able to go for a run, cycle, swim or any physical activity as soon as I can.
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The tip of the iceberg.
Do reasonable non-sensationalist submissions and we can discuss them reasonably.
hahaha, going for the moral highground. First paragraph of the article:
A surprisingly large number of critical infrastructure participants—including chemical manufacturers, nuclear and electric plants, defense contractors, building operators and chip makers—rely on unsecured wireless pagers to automate their industrial control systems. According to a new report, this practice opens them to malicious hacks and espionage.
doesn't seem to be singling nuclear out. doesn't say they have or will be hacked, just that they are open to it along with other utilities. That doesn't seem very sensationalist to me. How would you phrase it?
And "Leak" in the context of nuke plants...?
Well what would you say?
Every power source has a negative environmental impact,
Generalization, minimization. Some produce more environmental impact than others.
so you are implying it makes sense to intentionally lower capacity factors of all sources.
No
Of course that is as stupid and your contention, as when one plant is not producing, you use another.
Well, it's your stupid idea.
Maybe you thought you were just being clever, but it comes accross as pathetic rationalization, just like DBIII
Another possibility is you are just being a dick and have nothing other than empty words to add to the conversation.
Define 'capacity factor'?
The ratio of the available capacity (the amount of electrical power actually produced by a generating unit) to the theoretical capacity (the amount of electrical power that could theoretically have been produced if the generating unit had operated continuously at full power) during a given time period.
Define 'capacity factor'(gross)?
The ratio of the gross electricity generated, for the time considered, to the energy that could have been generated at continuous full-power operation during the same period.
Define 'capacity factor'(net)?
The ratio of the net electricity generated, for the time considered, to the energy that could have been generated at continuous full-power operation during the same period.
Define 'capacity factor' (moron check)?
Well the way the morons are using it, the time period is left out. The way a sentence that includes Capacity Factor as a measure should be 'Palo Verde Unit 1' achieved a CF of 90% over a one year period or to put it in a moronic car analogy that car did 180Kmh for 1 hour.
They also leave out that CF applies to a 'generating unit' not 'The entire nuclear industry has a CF of 90%', it's like saying 'all cars do 180Kmh', see how moronic it is?
Define 'Utilization' (moron check)?
The moronic thing about CF is that people like to cite 'hey nuclear power has a CF of 90%'. No. An operating period that did not any any outages was used to produce that figure because the 'Utilization' is masked. And utilization is a issue for the nuclear industry. Do the morons realize that the reactor doesn't reach it's full output? Any ideas?
Define 'Availability Factor' (moron check)?
Of course, most morons probably don't even know what this is. Was the plant even available to produce power? This is the problem with the way morons use CF, they ignore or are unaware of Availability.
If you move the window of time that you examined Palo Verde and shrank it around the record breaking refueling for the reactor of 28 days, you would have a Capacity Factor of 0% for the same reactor. That doesn't mean the entire nuclear industries CF went to 0% it means CF is a variable figure for a generating unit.
Same as if I measured the CF for Davis Besse for the year or whatever it was it was down to fix the reactor head, for that time Davis Besse unit something had a CF of 0%.
Examine the Capacity Factor of Palo Verde for a 12 month window that included the 'record breaking refuelling' then it is now 84%.
So if you wanted to use CF accurately it would be a conglomerate of information like 'Palo Verde 12:90%' might say Palo Verde reached 90% CF for 12 months or 'Palo Verde AF93%:CF84%' Palo Verde was Available for 93% of the time and achieved 84% CF.
Instead the morons put it down to one simple and wrong answer because it is a number that fits their confirmation bias.
But wait...
(moron check)
What about taking into account:
How can CF factor these things into it, especially when a lot of these costs occur decades *after* the end of the service life of the reactor?
It is *exactly* the same as the coal industry getting benefit by externalizing the cost of the carbon, only the nuclear industry does it with radionuclides and pushes the cost and consequences far far into the future.
Where is the energetic cost of c
All the mdsolar rants
Simplification, generalization, ad hom. Same boring tactics.
If they kill cash you can bet they will replace it with a bunch of iFees.
Dear mdsolar,
You are a worthless douche.
I think the really good thing about mdsolar's submissions is it really shows that so called 'enlightened' nuclear supporters are prepared to use ad hom character assassinations, emotional pleas and social proof in the place of reason, fact and, dialogue. A lot of nuclear supporters seem to transpose their idealistic thinking onto reality. As soon as anybody tests that reality they first make it personal, rarely present any fact to support their 'argument', then wheel out the same repetitive dogmatic skepticism to bludgeon any non-believers into submission.
I totally get it, they think their idealized version of nuclear power based on their flawed assumptions will save the world if only all the NIMBYS, economics, physics and, reality would just get out of the way. They'll impose their ideas on the rest of us and we will all have to say that they were right all along, that they saved us all despite ourselves.
The final irony is that because they don't accept the Nuclear industry has any flaws, they don't perceive it to require any improvements thus making accidents like Fukushima possible (at least according to the Japanese government commission into the accident) and no where for the industry to go politically and technologically.
But, of course, it's everyone else's fault.
'Capacity Factor' is a way to measure power station facilities in a way that ignores negative externalities. For power sources that have a large impact on the environment it is a favourable measure to use. The higher the 'Capacity Factor', the greater the environmental damage.
I never said that DU is "weapons grade" but rather what is left over after enriching other bits of uranium to be "weapons grade" - as in a large percentage U235.
Indeed, perhaps armoureddragon mistakes where DU comes from. You are right about what DU *is*, we agree on that. What I am saying is DU is used as a projectile due to its mass and pyrophoric properties.
Discussions of police state, freedom and spying aside, which are the most important considerations - how much is all this spying on me, costing me? These are direct costs foisted onto the taxpayer with questionable value in terms of service it provides.
Then there is the secondary cost via the fraud it enables that has no impact on the state and only impacts the population. The convenience of a phone in your pocket has morphed to include an array of tools to gather intelligence on you. Gathered into infrastructure paid for by internet users to telecommunications companies doing the bidding of the government acting on your behalf.
These secrets must be expensive to maintain and I wonder what burden it places on the budget provided by the taxpayer to government, to provide services? What services are underfunded as a result of these agencies maintaining this apparatus?
I think you will find that thorium reactors also create Thallium 233 as a waste by-product, which is pretty nasty stuff. Consumption of weapons grade plutonium was prototyped in an experimental fast 'burner' reactor called IFR, Integral Fast Reactor. Very interesting technology.
Because that's not how it works. "Depleted" Uranium is simply the U238 that is left over after enriching natural Uranium into reactor grade / HEU / weapons grade. It's not "depleted" by being used in a reactor - actually, U238 that is in a reactor (the majority of the fuel assembly) captures neutrons and turns into Plutonium, which then fissions and gives off more neutrons.
You've missed the point.
DU doesn't need to be weapons grade to be used as a weapon. It's used because it's mass gives the warhead a larger range.
The other property is that it is pyrophoric, which means it bursts into flames and lances through the target's armour. It's ash is ceramic and an inhalant, from memory it is also spontaneously critical, so it will have bursts of 10-15 times as much alpha emissions (iirc).
I think the confusion you are having is that DU is used as a sub critical ordinance. Nasty stuff when used as a weapon.
It makes sense to send terrorist threats from the Kremlin to the airport where they become a photo op and a chance to show strong leadership. Why do you think other politicians want it?
The cost of spent fuel storage
The cost of infrastructure to move spent fuel to it
Its about $1.5 million to store and move 1/4 of a PWR core.
Seems awfully cheap, how did you arrive at that cost?
Nuclear power has a capacity factor of about 0.9. So a 1 GW plant will generate on average 900 MW throughout the year after taking into account downtime for maintenance and refueling.
But *NOT* taking into account:
How can CF factor these things into it, especially when a lot of these costs occur decades *after* the end of the service life of the reactor?
Isn't it *exactly* the same as the coal industry getting benefit by externalizing the cost of the carbon, only the nuclear industry does it with radionuclides and pushes the cost and consequences far far into the future. Do you include the cost of carbon remediation into a coal plants capacity factor?
It seems to me capacity factor is a measure designed to obscure the socialization of those costs at the expense of methods of generation that don't have those costs.
Invented on Linux's crappy UI and still the most awsome and useful UI paradigm invented since the UI. The only problem with it is it has been dumbed down since 2009 for no reason I can tell other than to make it easier for Windows, then finally Mac users to use.
I know people who start using Linux see the default Linux UI experience as not much. But it used to be a lot more configurable. I liked customizing my own UI experience because I wasn't building a comptuer for everyone else, I was building it for me. So, I was building it to impress myself. When my friends saw it it blew them away.
I prefer the power paradigm of Linux. That's what I like about Linux, it forces you to get better. I want every single scrap of CPU cycle I can get out of my machine.
lean. powerful.configurable.
Well, that is three words.
Indeed!
Remember getting in the zone when coding and then that moron would come up to you then talk about their car, lawn or how their daughter was attending a private school and other mundane information I don't want to know.
They're the people that think multitasking is something more than a bullshit buzzword to be thrown around as a criticism of people who are able to concentrate on the task at hand. I doubt they would feel the same way if they were told to cross a busy road and only look at their phone while they did.
They were thinking about the children.
Now we can see what happened when Venusian politicians used climate change as a political tool.
Let's hope they release that stuff publicly ASAP. I want to know what Tepco has been lying about lately.
That the ground around unit four spent fuel pool has subsided 30 inches since the accident with 400 or so spent fuel rods still in there.
Allegations are that unit 4 was being upgraded when the quake struck and that fuel was being stored illegally in the spent fuel pool at the time of the quake. Money that should have been spent on seawall and generator upgrades.
Japanese civil engineers have said they're at a loss to explain the damage to the concrete supports for the spent fuel pool in unit four as the quake did not have enough ground acceleration to damage them.
Accounts are emerging that when part of the crane fell in the pool, some of the illegal fuel rods struck one another causing a neutron pulse and it is that which damaged the concrete supports.
Meanwhile The fall guy president admits there is a cover up of a meltdown to cover-up the illegal activity that was happening in unit four in the first place. Look at that silly monkey!
We have this brain dead blanket on all news and information about Fukushima there is little chance we are going to get much real information while they continue to let that pig of a plant belch radioisotopes into the pacific ocean. I wish they would at least close in the sea walls around the plant to at least *try* to stop or filter the ground water that reaches the ocean. Plutonium Chloride is very soluble.
Here is my ---> theory about what is going on in Japan: The shutdown of their reactor fleet has nothing to do with protestors or anything other that what is happening in Unit 4 spent fuel pool. I suspect that the government now knows just how badly Tepco fucked up, but they're in a bind. If they let Tepco hang, everyone will know why and they won't be able to control the situation.
The situation at Unit 4 is so dire they have been toiling day and night since the accident to remove all the fuel rods from the damaged pool. It has stopped because they need to do maintenance on the crane. The count is down from 1100 spent rods, to 400 rods so far, which is awesome work, but remains a threat. I reason it is because of the following potential scenarios:
Best Case: All the fuel rods are removed and Fukushima is no worse than it already is, an INES level 7 accident whose radioactive steam effluents will continue to blow via the jet stream over the US.
Worse Case: There is some failure which initiates a plutonium file in the remaining rods with hundreds of millions of curies blowing over the continental US mainland and into the pacific ocean.
Worst Case: *IF* the Japanese continued to operate their reactors, the worse case above initiates a much larger neutron pulse that initiates meltdowns in all of the nuclear plants on the japanese eastern seaboard, leaving most of the Japanese population unable to respond to the multiple meltdowns. I know, it seems far fetched, but it seems more reasonable that the Japanese government would respond to pressure from that scenario to shut down the economic benefit they get from nuclear power, as opposed to pressure from any hippy hick NIMBY anty-nukker protestor.
Excuse me dp, I have to address the fanboi reading, yes you fanboi, re-read the worst case scenario again, notice the big *IF*, no read it again. Now before you respond, you don't know enough fact to make up a fictional scenario that elaborate, so it's either possible or you don't know what you are talking about enough to respond with anything other than an emotive diatribe. *IF*.
Apologies dp, it's just a theory though. We will know if the Japanese reactors are started up again *after* the last of the fuel rods are removed from unit 4.
So your healthy active lifestyle led to you injuring yourself and so not being active and healthy?
Not exactly. Three scumbags on a train were looking for trouble. One trapped me between the seats and headbutted me. When I was defending myself subduing the guy who started it to the ground, one grabbed me by the shoulders and the other kicked me in the head. Remarkably I remained conscious, successfully defended myself and, was still on my feet when they ended up running.
I'm not saying I'm a hero, just that I survived - albeit with some pretty serious injuries.
Maybe it wasn't such a healthy lifestyle after all.
All the years of excellent sleep and clear mindedness I get from training is not something you can understand unless you are a part of it. I don't think I would be typing this to you now if I didn't have that healthy lifestyle.
I can't imagine having to spend months in that state. Best wishes for a speedy(er) recovery!
Thank you!
I've been recovering from some injuries, including surgery to my neck, so I have been stuck on a couch in front of netflix under orders from the doctors to do nothing and be bored while I heal. Since May, I've had 1 month initial, then another 2 1/2 months recovery time, not allowed to drive (painkillers), essentially prisoner in my own house.
Apart from being a completely unhealthy thing to do and contrary to my normal life style, I hadn't watched TV regularly for almost 2 years so I was kinda grateful I had nf to spare my sanity. I used the time to catch up on lots of stuff. Six weeks seems to be about when it got stale and then took about 2 weeks of absence before I could watch it again.
Like anything I found you have to leave it and do something else for a while. It's definitely possible to get bored with it. I considered popcorn time, but I just can't watch that much TV.
Frankly, I can't wait to be able to go for a run, cycle, swim or any physical activity as soon as I can.