I reject the notion that "greenhouse gases" are sufficiently a problem to justify anything risky. The most powerful greenhouse gas on earth is water vapor, good luck modeling that.
Those are 5.5 MW gen sets we're talking about, those fuckers weigh 100 tons each, sure you can take them apart somewhat, though to get down to the 20 ton range of a sky crane probably not too quickly. then have construction gear to reassemble in place.....you aren't going to pull off such a job in 8 hours.
hahahaha! Are you proposing splicing into the primary coolant loop in two places, or cutting into the reactor vessel, to splice in your magic turbine/gen set?
Wrong, you're quoting the very lowest end, photosynthetic efficiency, which ranges from 0.1 to 8%, and the norm is 3% to 6%. Look it up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis#Efficiency
Yours is higher tech solution, more effort and money and resources. Plants (the biological kind) may be inefficient, but we have lots of useless land and infinite and indefinite supply of growing plants. Pluck 'em and throw them into vat with proper micro-organisms, easy as pie.
As systems programmer have been using NFS since version 2 (lockless and udp only, by the way). Of course I know what I'm talking about, I'm older than Unix. Your writing as if you only know Sun's history for the last 15 years or so.
It's ok for coal to have killed and maimed thousands directly and more than a million indirectly, but a nuclear incident that gives a few workers a dose over limit.....
I find that's way too much work in the busy morning, I prefer my "instant neutrons". Just take an empty 2lb. instant coffee can, put in 5 lbs. finely divided u-235, fill remainder with heavy water, put on the plastic lid and shake vigorously for ten seconds. Presto, I love a blast of neutrons in the morning. If it gets too hot just put in a couple tablespoon's of Borax.
NFS was very flawed and no suitable for serious business use until very recently, so a token release of such source code doesn't make Sun "open source friendly" when 99% of their code base was closed tighter than a clam for decades. Sun was 95% open source hostile for most of their existence until the too little too late finally stopped bad mouthing Linux and stopped making deals worth millions with SCO Group, and tried to get on the train. They richly deserved their utter failure as the dot-com boom of late 90s made them cocky and slack off
That "thrust basically forever" is good if source is external, then we're talking about solar sails or laser boosting reflectors. But for onboard source it's terrible thing, running a reactor onboard one would be better off using ion thruster, a little fuel with high momentum per particle. The only time photonic propulsion would give massive thrust is with matter-antimatter annihilation, if one could figure out how to reflect gamma rays from one end of the reaction chamber
eh? The WORST thing is light, because light has so very little momentum for so much energy. Using light in collimated beam, it takes 300MW per newton (0.2 lbs) of thrust. or if you reflect the light off of ship from external source, 150 MW per newton. For photonic rocket thrust equals power divided by C, it's a bitch.
Lewis didn't get the memo about plants that grow like crazy on non-farmable scrubland that yield 500% or more the useful alcohol of corn. Switchgrass, it's what's for dinner, if you're cattle.
There are no bullet proof body armors either, in the absolute sense. Name a product and i'll tell you what bullet at standard loading will penetrate it.
The topic is measuring radiation in high-rad areas, and remote viewing. It remains to be seen how useful such machinery will be or even if any use at all. Wasting tens of millions on something of no use is not what I would want my power company to do, just raise rates. Instead they could have spent mere hundreds of thousands to put half of their 13 gen sets up high and this would have been a non-event.
You mean Greenpeace detecting the 50 times background in 25 miles NW of plant? *yawn*, I've glassware from my grandfather that gives off more than that, and it's totally safe and legal to ship through U.S. mail.
I've seen the news of Groupe-Intra sending rad-hardened robots (and a few companies from other countries), but where is your source saying they were rejected?
Note japan doesn't have nuclear weapons program, but I strongly suspect that countries that have them are the ones with thriving rad-hardened robot industry (a mainly military-industrial complex thing with some civilian application)
Eh? how is a remote controlled bulldozer or backhoe going to do anything useful as far as checking reactor vessel and spent fuel pools and turbine building? They don't climb ladders and stairs and fit in aisles between pipes Cranes and lifts are very useful at a nuke plant, the things you mentioned only come on site for new roads and buildings and security modifications.
They key here is "radiation hardened", the robots and cameras will both be so, they are from Idaho National Laboratory, the nation's Nuclear R&D facility. Your PC or typical hobby type remote controlled gear would go ape-shit in a high rad environment from charged particles being created in the silicon.
The problems with TEPCO and the current crisis will continue with or without the former CEO, as they have for decades
they could re-enter the market and gain widespread adoption of a Microsoft produced tablet if they only they would make killer-app software to make the tablet useful. They could give it a friendly and common name that would evoke emotional response of a trustworthy friend. They could design a cheerful, happy, bright colored (perhaps yellow) anthropomorphic logo to be the icon and "face" of the product. I think following this strategy will make Microsoft a resounding success in the tablet market.
Tablets in the future may weight no more than one and a half pounds.
There is no reason anyone would want a tablet in their homes
This '"tablet" has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of computation and communication. The device is inherently of no value to us
The wireless tablet has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for packets sent to nowhere in particular?
Useful lighter-than-lapdop computing devices are impossible
Tablets are useful toys but of no real mobile computing value
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even at the time, it was called a "luggable" in the reviews.
my friend had one, he mainly used it as word processor
I reject the notion that "greenhouse gases" are sufficiently a problem to justify anything risky. The most powerful greenhouse gas on earth is water vapor, good luck modeling that.
Please explain how your helicopter is going to lift a 100 ton 5.5 MW gen set. Four words: too heavy, too far. You armchair quarterbacks are a hoot.
Those are 5.5 MW gen sets we're talking about, those fuckers weigh 100 tons each, sure you can take them apart somewhat, though to get down to the 20 ton range of a sky crane probably not too quickly. then have construction gear to reassemble in place.....you aren't going to pull off such a job in 8 hours.
hahahaha! Are you proposing splicing into the primary coolant loop in two places, or cutting into the reactor vessel, to splice in your magic turbine/gen set?
Wrong, you're quoting the very lowest end, photosynthetic efficiency, which ranges from 0.1 to 8%, and the norm is 3% to 6%. Look it up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis#Efficiency Yours is higher tech solution, more effort and money and resources. Plants (the biological kind) may be inefficient, but we have lots of useless land and infinite and indefinite supply of growing plants. Pluck 'em and throw them into vat with proper micro-organisms, easy as pie.
That's great, even to Mars it only goes to somewhat less than half that power, but by Jupiter it's less than 1/25th....can you see the problem?
As systems programmer have been using NFS since version 2 (lockless and udp only, by the way). Of course I know what I'm talking about, I'm older than Unix. Your writing as if you only know Sun's history for the last 15 years or so.
It's ok for coal to have killed and maimed thousands directly and more than a million indirectly, but a nuclear incident that gives a few workers a dose over limit.....
I find that's way too much work in the busy morning, I prefer my "instant neutrons". Just take an empty 2lb. instant coffee can, put in 5 lbs. finely divided u-235, fill remainder with heavy water, put on the plastic lid and shake vigorously for ten seconds. Presto, I love a blast of neutrons in the morning. If it gets too hot just put in a couple tablespoon's of Borax.
NFS was very flawed and no suitable for serious business use until very recently, so a token release of such source code doesn't make Sun "open source friendly" when 99% of their code base was closed tighter than a clam for decades. Sun was 95% open source hostile for most of their existence until the too little too late finally stopped bad mouthing Linux and stopped making deals worth millions with SCO Group, and tried to get on the train. They richly deserved their utter failure as the dot-com boom of late 90s made them cocky and slack off
That "thrust basically forever" is good if source is external, then we're talking about solar sails or laser boosting reflectors. But for onboard source it's terrible thing, running a reactor onboard one would be better off using ion thruster, a little fuel with high momentum per particle. The only time photonic propulsion would give massive thrust is with matter-antimatter annihilation, if one could figure out how to reflect gamma rays from one end of the reaction chamber
eh? The WORST thing is light, because light has so very little momentum for so much energy. Using light in collimated beam, it takes 300MW per newton (0.2 lbs) of thrust. or if you reflect the light off of ship from external source, 150 MW per newton. For photonic rocket thrust equals power divided by C, it's a bitch.
Lewis didn't get the memo about plants that grow like crazy on non-farmable scrubland that yield 500% or more the useful alcohol of corn. Switchgrass, it's what's for dinner, if you're cattle.
There are no bullet proof body armors either, in the absolute sense. Name a product and i'll tell you what bullet at standard loading will penetrate it.
oh yeah, robocop's comic relief foil. had to look that one up..thought you were referring to medical condition.
Gus: Banging... yuck! It amazes me that although I'm a robot, I am infinitely more evolved and refined than you are. I would never bang someone.
Chode: Yeah, because you can't! You can't afford the banging attachment!
Gus: [ Sighs ]
The topic is measuring radiation in high-rad areas, and remote viewing. It remains to be seen how useful such machinery will be or even if any use at all. Wasting tens of millions on something of no use is not what I would want my power company to do, just raise rates. Instead they could have spent mere hundreds of thousands to put half of their 13 gen sets up high and this would have been a non-event.
That can be done old-school way, no robotics needed, just respirator and suit and watch the dosimeter.
You mean Greenpeace detecting the 50 times background in 25 miles NW of plant? *yawn*, I've glassware from my grandfather that gives off more than that, and it's totally safe and legal to ship through U.S. mail.
I've seen the news of Groupe-Intra sending rad-hardened robots (and a few companies from other countries), but where is your source saying they were rejected? Note japan doesn't have nuclear weapons program, but I strongly suspect that countries that have them are the ones with thriving rad-hardened robot industry (a mainly military-industrial complex thing with some civilian application)
Eh? how is a remote controlled bulldozer or backhoe going to do anything useful as far as checking reactor vessel and spent fuel pools and turbine building? They don't climb ladders and stairs and fit in aisles between pipes Cranes and lifts are very useful at a nuke plant, the things you mentioned only come on site for new roads and buildings and security modifications.
They key here is "radiation hardened", the robots and cameras will both be so, they are from Idaho National Laboratory, the nation's Nuclear R&D facility. Your PC or typical hobby type remote controlled gear would go ape-shit in a high rad environment from charged particles being created in the silicon.
The problems with TEPCO and the current crisis will continue with or without the former CEO, as they have for decades
they could re-enter the market and gain widespread adoption of a Microsoft produced tablet if they only they would make killer-app software to make the tablet useful. They could give it a friendly and common name that would evoke emotional response of a trustworthy friend. They could design a cheerful, happy, bright colored (perhaps yellow) anthropomorphic logo to be the icon and "face" of the product. I think following this strategy will make Microsoft a resounding success in the tablet market.
Tablets in the future may weight no more than one and a half pounds.
There is no reason anyone would want a tablet in their homes
This '"tablet" has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of computation and communication. The device is inherently of no value to us
The wireless tablet has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for packets sent to nowhere in particular?
Useful lighter-than-lapdop computing devices are impossible
Tablets are useful toys but of no real mobile computing value