real methanol fuel cells have EXTREMELY low efficiency because methanol sneaks across the membrane without reacting, regardless of the hype of theoretical goal of 40-50% which is not realized by manufactured cells. Internal combustion for the win!
irrelevant. no one is standing next to any tank. this is something leaking into the ground, not a pool in which someone is immersing themselves up to the neck. meaningless sensationalist way of talking about a measured level of contamination. Now if people living in houses were getting this kind of dose from the environment, that'd be a scary story of nuclear doom for a city.
why? liquid fuels have many times the energy density of batteries. we should be making that from dense vegetation grown on scrubland, an already solved problem that is carbon neutral
nonsenes, the world is full of atrocities that the USA has stayed out. yet you fixate on the one the media hypes.
and of course, you turn a blind eye to the tens of thousands of chemical weapon deaths the USA has caused (we bankrolled Saddam to make them and provided him with dual-use technology to build them). To say nothing of the USA using and providing white phosphorous weapons, mines, cluster bombs that kill innocents to this day.....
get off your high horse, we have no moral high ground.
Agent Orange was not intended to be a chemical weapon per se, but a defoliant. The idea was to kill crops and drive peasants to the cities. this is itself was a horrible crime against humanity in that it caused hundreds of thousands of deaths by eliminating food. The birth defects were unintended consequence.
WHO Report, Depleted Uranium: Sources, Exposure and Health Efects," 2001
"Most (>95%) uranium entering the body is not absorbed, but is eliminated via the faeces. Of the uranium that is absorbed into the blood, approximately 67% will be filtered by the kidney and excreted in the urine in 24 hours. Typically between 0.2 and 2% of the uranium in food and water is absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract. Soluble uranium compounds are more readily absorbed than those which are insoluble."
"Direct contact of depleted uranium metal with the skin, even for several weeks, is unlikely to produce radiation-induced erythema (superficial inflammation of the skin) or other short term effects. Follow-up studies of veterans with embedded fragments in the tissue have shown detectable levels of depleted uranium in the urine, but without apparent health consequences. The radiation dose to military personnel within an armoured vehicle is very unlikely to exceed the average annual external dose from natural background radiation from all sources." WHO, supra.
For the general population it is unlikely that the exposure to depleted uranium will significantly exceed the normal background uranium levels.
Measurements of depleted uranium at sites where depleted uranium munitions were used indicate only localized (within a few tens of metres of the impact site) contamination at the ground surface.
General screening or monitoring for possible depleted uranium-related health effects in populations living in conflict areas where depleted uranium has been used is not necessary. Individuals who believe they have been exposed to excessive amounts of depleted uranium should consult their medical practitioner for examination, appropriate treatment of any symptoms and follow-up.
The potential external dose received in the vicinity of a target following attack by DU munitions has been theoretically estimated to be in the order of 4 Sv/year (UNEP/UNCHS, 1999) based on gamma ray exposure. Such doses are small when compared to recommended guidelines for human exposure to ionizing radiation (20 mSv/annum for a worker for penetrating whole body radiation or 500 mSv/year for skin
uranium has no such "pyrophoric" properties, you are aping tin foil hat website lies in ignorance. There is no credible evidence from any peer reviewed study that it causes increased cancer and birth defects. Even th World Health Organization has said as much.
nonsense. for two years over one hundred thousand people have been killed, and that's fine with people like you because explosives and shrapnel and bullets are marvelous. But use this sensationalized method to kill a person and all of a sudden "we have to do something". Firing missiles is an act of war, and Syria and allies would attack US troops, interests, citizens perhaps allies. Whether "long term committment" is not something that can be planned, entirely up to the country bombed and their allies how long and how drastically they want to respond. And this is assuming the Syrian government used the weapons, and not Al Qaeda or other group to draw us in (since we know the Obama adminstration are pathological liars)
And it's hypocritical, the USA gave Saddam dual-use technology and billions of dollars to make chemical weapons, and even after he gassed Kurds and Iraqis we continued to do business with him. So the USA totally guilty of using chemical weapons, what actions do you support against the USA?
We supplied cluster bombs to Israel that to this day are maiming and killing Lebanese citizens in formerly pro-Israeli Christian cities. Do you support punishment for that ongoing crime against humanity. What about the white phosphorous bombs we've used and supplied, those are chemical weapons too.
The reality is this is not our fight. there are terrorsts on both sides. we need to stop jumping into civil wars and causing four or more times the casualties. We have no moral high ground because we too are guilty of the use of chemical weapons.
making a statement about deadliness of a sievert level of water leaking into the ground is also nonsense. that would be for a full body exposure to a level of radiation, and the lethal dose is more like 5000 mS, 1800mS over four hours and a person would be almost to the point of "severe radiation sickness", but most would not die. perhaps 8% would die at that level without proper medical intervention.
You know what's a hoot. I have (and had) some hippy aunts and uncles that subscribed to these hippie and back to nature magazines in the 70s, and there were these heroes of diet who were pushing low calorie diet for longevity. One very famous one even claimed he was going to reach 150 eating carrots, sprouts and such shit. Anyway, the punchline is that all of these super diet Methuselahs have one thing in common, they are all very dead. I don't recall any of them making it out of their 70s in fact.
On the other hand, other of my relatives ate the american barnyard diet of pork, beef and chickens with their fresh homegrown veggies and fruit and milk/ice cream/cheese and homemade bread and all that good stuff. They were overweight and who pot bellies but worked hard. They lived into 80s, 90s and my great grandma past 100. So exercise and eat the meat you crave with basic produce and dairy, and avoid the processed food. Don't go low calorie.
do you have any idea what would happen after 50 years if no one died? we'd have 3 billion more people is what. keep your bright ideas to yourself, then drop dead at 82 years or so
news for you, spent fuel is active enough to create its own critical configuration with the correct moderator. Plenty of material withstand high neutron flux with no damage just fine, like boron carbide. in short, the 1960s called, it wants your objections back
why don't you learn some nuclear chemistry before spouting nonsense? Bombarding transuranics and actinides in spent nuclear fuel with neutrons will cause fission of heavy long-lived isotopes into shorter lived ones, the end result is a waste that needs storage for about three centuries rather than tens of thousands of years.
hacking a web site isn't much of an accomplishment. rather like spray painting over a billboard. taking over a serious system such as a banking mainframe network would be impressive but that requires real knowledge and skill
yes, my cousin lives there. that Barcelona blackout of 2007 was a doozy, wasn't it? 153 portable generators placed through the city with their constant loud noise, while it took a month to repair the infrastructure. Too bad they didn't get some Marshall plan love.
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wars are HUGELY profitable for politician's portfolios, to say nothing of the large corporations that have our politicians in their pockets.
we're talking of vehicles here, smart phone batteries not a big part of energy storage on this planet.
real methanol fuel cells have EXTREMELY low efficiency because methanol sneaks across the membrane without reacting, regardless of the hype of theoretical goal of 40-50% which is not realized by manufactured cells. Internal combustion for the win!
You're lucky, my first read of SF works were of writers long dead - H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Doyle (Prof. Challenger stories)
irrelevant. no one is standing next to any tank. this is something leaking into the ground, not a pool in which someone is immersing themselves up to the neck. meaningless sensationalist way of talking about a measured level of contamination. Now if people living in houses were getting this kind of dose from the environment, that'd be a scary story of nuclear doom for a city.
why? liquid fuels have many times the energy density of batteries. we should be making that from dense vegetation grown on scrubland, an already solved problem that is carbon neutral
nonsenes, the world is full of atrocities that the USA has stayed out. yet you fixate on the one the media hypes.
and of course, you turn a blind eye to the tens of thousands of chemical weapon deaths the USA has caused (we bankrolled Saddam to make them and provided him with dual-use technology to build them). To say nothing of the USA using and providing white phosphorous weapons, mines, cluster bombs that kill innocents to this day.....
get off your high horse, we have no moral high ground.
but those "citizens" were rebels, terrorists, traitors, in the eyes of the Syrian government. It's ok to kill bad citizens, right? even Obama agrees.
Agent Orange was not intended to be a chemical weapon per se, but a defoliant. The idea was to kill crops and drive peasants to the cities. this is itself was a horrible crime against humanity in that it caused hundreds of thousands of deaths by eliminating food. The birth defects were unintended consequence.
read it and weep, you DU hysterics.
WHO Report, Depleted Uranium: Sources, Exposure and Health Efects," 2001
"Most (>95%) uranium entering the body is not absorbed, but is eliminated via the faeces. Of the uranium that is absorbed into the blood, approximately 67% will be filtered by the kidney and excreted in the urine in 24 hours. Typically between 0.2 and 2% of the uranium in food and water is absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract. Soluble uranium compounds are more readily absorbed than those which are insoluble."
"Direct contact of depleted uranium metal with the skin, even for several weeks, is unlikely to produce radiation-induced erythema (superficial inflammation of the skin) or other short term effects. Follow-up studies of veterans with embedded fragments in the tissue have shown detectable levels of depleted uranium in the urine, but without apparent health consequences. The radiation dose to military personnel within an armoured vehicle is very unlikely to exceed the average annual external dose from natural background radiation from all sources." WHO, supra.
For the general population it is unlikely that the exposure to depleted uranium will significantly exceed the normal background uranium levels.
Measurements of depleted uranium at sites where depleted uranium munitions were used indicate only localized (within a few tens of metres of the impact site) contamination at the ground surface.
General screening or monitoring for possible depleted uranium-related health effects in populations living in conflict areas where depleted uranium has been used is not necessary. Individuals who believe they have been exposed to excessive amounts of depleted uranium should consult their medical practitioner for examination, appropriate treatment of any symptoms and follow-up.
The potential external dose received in the vicinity of a target following attack by DU munitions has been theoretically estimated to be in the order of 4 Sv/year (UNEP/UNCHS, 1999) based on gamma ray exposure. Such doses are small when compared to recommended guidelines for human exposure to ionizing radiation (20 mSv/annum for a worker for penetrating whole body radiation or 500 mSv/year for skin
uranium has no such "pyrophoric" properties, you are aping tin foil hat website lies in ignorance. There is no credible evidence from any peer reviewed study that it causes increased cancer and birth defects. Even th World Health Organization has said as much.
nonsense. for two years over one hundred thousand people have been killed, and that's fine with people like you because explosives and shrapnel and bullets are marvelous. But use this sensationalized method to kill a person and all of a sudden "we have to do something". Firing missiles is an act of war, and Syria and allies would attack US troops, interests, citizens perhaps allies. Whether "long term committment" is not something that can be planned, entirely up to the country bombed and their allies how long and how drastically they want to respond. And this is assuming the Syrian government used the weapons, and not Al Qaeda or other group to draw us in (since we know the Obama adminstration are pathological liars)
And it's hypocritical, the USA gave Saddam dual-use technology and billions of dollars to make chemical weapons, and even after he gassed Kurds and Iraqis we continued to do business with him. So the USA totally guilty of using chemical weapons, what actions do you support against the USA?
We supplied cluster bombs to Israel that to this day are maiming and killing Lebanese citizens in formerly pro-Israeli Christian cities. Do you support punishment for that ongoing crime against humanity. What about the white phosphorous bombs we've used and supplied, those are chemical weapons too.
The reality is this is not our fight. there are terrorsts on both sides. we need to stop jumping into civil wars and causing four or more times the casualties. We have no moral high ground because we too are guilty of the use of chemical weapons.
so the population of the earth would be 13,5 billion and rising instead of peaking 8.5 billion in about 2072
making a statement about deadliness of a sievert level of water leaking into the ground is also nonsense. that would be for a full body exposure to a level of radiation, and the lethal dose is more like 5000 mS, 1800mS over four hours and a person would be almost to the point of "severe radiation sickness", but most would not die. perhaps 8% would die at that level without proper medical intervention.
You know what's a hoot. I have (and had) some hippy aunts and uncles that subscribed to these hippie and back to nature magazines in the 70s, and there were these heroes of diet who were pushing low calorie diet for longevity. One very famous one even claimed he was going to reach 150 eating carrots, sprouts and such shit. Anyway, the punchline is that all of these super diet Methuselahs have one thing in common, they are all very dead. I don't recall any of them making it out of their 70s in fact.
On the other hand, other of my relatives ate the american barnyard diet of pork, beef and chickens with their fresh homegrown veggies and fruit and milk/ice cream/cheese and homemade bread and all that good stuff. They were overweight and who pot bellies but worked hard. They lived into 80s, 90s and my great grandma past 100. So exercise and eat the meat you crave with basic produce and dairy, and avoid the processed food. Don't go low calorie.
do you have any idea what would happen after 50 years if no one died? we'd have 3 billion more people is what. keep your bright ideas to yourself, then drop dead at 82 years or so
why don't you just look up actinide neutron induced fission yourself instead of talking out of your ass?
if they name the langrange Duck Tape, would it stick?
news for you, spent fuel is active enough to create its own critical configuration with the correct moderator. Plenty of material withstand high neutron flux with no damage just fine, like boron carbide. in short, the 1960s called, it wants your objections back
yes, Oak Ridge did it but Nixon defunded the work in favor of a plutonium producing breeder, for some strange reason 8D
why don't you learn some nuclear chemistry before spouting nonsense? Bombarding transuranics and actinides in spent nuclear fuel with neutrons will cause fission of heavy long-lived isotopes into shorter lived ones, the end result is a waste that needs storage for about three centuries rather than tens of thousands of years.
hacking a web site isn't much of an accomplishment. rather like spray painting over a billboard. taking over a serious system such as a banking mainframe network would be impressive but that requires real knowledge and skill
yes, my cousin lives there. that Barcelona blackout of 2007 was a doozy, wasn't it? 153 portable generators placed through the city with their constant loud noise, while it took a month to repair the infrastructure. Too bad they didn't get some Marshall plan love.
one outage ten years ago from these issues? doesn't seem a dire problem at all
It's that damn sun, causes that and global warming.