The only feasible way we have of converting electricity to stored energy and back again for more than an hour with anything like 90% efficiency is pumped hydro
It's expensive nasty crap with a whole host of other problems, see my other posts, it's not just about how many people die or get cancer.
And quite frankly the figures on that blog are complete and utter bullshit, 0.04 deaths per TWH - that's the kind of figure the nuclear industry would come up with by fudging the figures and ignoring some factors.
What about 500 million+ Europeans+former USSR people and 100 million+ Japanese don't like being poisoned with any amount of radiation - how much is THAT worth? These radioactive accidents are a nasty nightmare and are just not worth it.
Plane crashes.... So why do we keep having nuclear accidents then - because the engineers work out the risk and then the PHBs make the decisions to take slight risks and then the shit hits the fan, again and again and again.
And since we can run our world several times over with renewables, why shouldn't we - and we'd most likely be creating a few jobs along the way.
Renewables = good quality sustainable living, nuclear = dystopian fucking nightmare which we should end asap.
I don't like coal power one bit, the small increase to our cost of living is a price worth paying for renewables. Measuring everything in terms of money is the wrong way to go about this (renewables would most likely end up cheaper with ongoing investment anyway).
In the UK nuclear only survives because of subsidies, large subsidies.
I also would like to see your 90% efficiency electricity storage system that can store 1MWh, let alone few dozens 1GWh. You've got yourself a Nobel prise in physics right there!
- Physics can't be scaled up!! Wow, that's news to me, I award you the Nobel prize for stupidity.
And by the way, you can get electricity in the UK from 100% renewables and the cost is very similar to the competition (I just checked and it was cheaper).
I remember when 'big bang type stuff' poisoned half of Europe with nuclear fallout, we had to drink powdered milk for a while and some livestock were quarantined for many years because they were concentrating radioactive isotopes in their meat and milk.
Humans are greedy and stupid and fuck-up regularly, when the problem of humans fucking up regularly has been solved then and only then will I accept nuclear power.
So many slashdot nuclear apologists in denial about the dangers of nuclear power that they marked your post interesting instead of informative.
This one is going to be interesting to watch, nuclear can't be dangerous, no-one could of predicted Fukushima. Chernobyl, one-mile island and Windscale were a one-off (count them, 1-2-3.... ONE) and will never happen again because the modern safety systems are too good.
Nuclear power stations never leak and it wouldn't matter anyway because radioactive waste is not really all that harmful.
Terrorists could never get hold of nuclear waste, gov'ts never support terrorists and gov'ts never fall. There is no such thing as corruption, and nothing ever gets lost.
It beggars belief the mindset you need to support nuclear, ignoring all of the above.
Wind-power, there are technologies to store energy with 90% efficiency. It doesn't create deadly waste that no-one knows what to do with. The price of the energy input is free and unchanging. IT'S CHEAPER THAN NUCLEAR.
So many slashdot nuclear apologists in denial about the dangers of nuclear power that they marked your post interesting instead of informative.
This one is going to be interesting to watch, nuclear can't be dangerous, no-one could of predicted Fukushima. Chernobyl, one-mile island and Windscale were a one-off (count them, 1-2-3.... ONE) and will never happen again because the modern safety systems are too good.
Nuclear power stations never leak and it wouldn't matter anyway because radioactive waste is not really all that harmful.
Terrorists could never get hold of nuclear waste, gov'ts never support terrorists and gov'ts never fall. There is no such thing as corruption, and nothing ever gets lost.
It beggars belief the mindset you need to support nuclear, ignoring all of the above.
Wind-power, there are technologies to store energy with 90% efficiency. It doesn't create deadly waste that no-one knows what to do with. The price of the energy input is free and unchanging. IT'S CHEAPER THAN NUCLEAR.
(Other sources like solar / wind would be best, but I don't see them being able to fill the whole planet's energy needs any time soon)
Why not? Solar supply has been increasing at 10x per decade and is expected to meet cost parity with other forms of supply this decade. Wind power has the fastest ROI of any energy supply. The constant supply argument is false, there are plenty of energy storage technologies with efficiencies of up to 90%+, they just need further investment.
Whilst the insane energy hog that is USA might have difficulty running completely from renewables, I don't think the rest of the world would have a problem.
Why waste time pissing about with nasty dirty technologies when we can have clean ones?
And much of the gas wouldn't have entered the water naturally, from the article linked by parent post:
To determine where the methane in the wells they tested came from, the researchers ran it through a molecular fingerprinting process called an isotopic analysis. Water samples furthest from gas drilling showed traces of biogenic methane - a type of methane that can naturally appear in water from biological decay. But samples taken closer to drilling had high concentrations of thermogenic methane, which comes from the same hydrocarbon layers where gas drilling is targeted. That - plus the proximity to the gas wells - told the researchers that the contamination was linked to the drilling processes.
So all shop staff, cleaners and people living above or near the riot area, or their friends would be implicated - I don't think you thought that through.
For me marijuana was not at all addictive, even though I was a heavy user, I got bored of it and just stopped buying it, I felt no urge to go and get more, I didn't feel physically bad either.
The only addiction was to tobacco - that took me another 10 years and many attempts to give up.
I drink Tea - that would be much harder to give up - I'm honestly not exaggerating.
However, he admits the very sites the small team is asked to judge are those that are the most subjective. âoeDrawing the line between erotic and hardcore pornography is probably the most difficult," he said. "Another thing is websites that go into extreme left or right side [politically], but still do news or something like that."
Anti-nuclear - extreme? Anti-abortion - extreme? Anti-GM food - extreme? Right to wear burka- extreme? Calling politicians corrupt - extreme? Calling politicians scumbags - extreme? Muslim sites that are not in English - extreme? Christian fundamentalist - extreme?
The gov't should not be supporting this company in any way.
"You can easily get convicted without a single shred of hard evidence, for any type of crime."
Not normally in the UK, the CPS (crown prosecution service) wouldn't bring the case to court without some evidence.
I vaguely recall someone in the UK had a case dropped due to the suspect having a trojan and rightly so, the prosecutions job is of course to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
I live in the UK and the burden of proof is on the prosecution, not the defendant.
How many people got hit by code red - are you seriously telling me in these days of regular exploits in Flash, PDFs, java, browsers, MS office etc that a person can be held at fault for getting rooted!!!!! The gov't gets rooted all the time, If Sony, govt etc can't secure their systems, then how can the technically clueless general public be expected to?
And once again, deliberately opening up your wireless for the public to share is not the same as getting rooted, can you honestly tell me that you know your system doesn't have any unpatched vulnerabilities and can you account for every process and driver etc running?
I don't think you get it, if a criminal steals your car, ram-raids a shop and makes off with the contents, are you telling me that the car owner is responsible for the crimes committed????.. Or perhaps the gov't is responsible because it owns the roads?
So, if you're a criminal in Germany, all you have to do is install this software on your computer and then you have plausible deniability because anybody could have uploaded anything to your PC. Your PC could no longer be used as evidence.
If you're worried about dying penniless then get life insurance or a pension like everyone else instead of proposing the right to sponge off of people without good reason.
Copyright's purpose is to encourage artists to create work, please explain to me how you are going to create work after you're dead?
Our ratios are far worse, mine is 10mbit/1mbit, when I was with Virgin Media it was 10 / 0.45mbit... when it wasn't being throttled, once throttled my upload with VM was as little as 20-30KBytes/sec.
The cynical part of me thinks artificial tests are pointless, the ISPs will investigate the boxes and then skew the figures to suit.
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The only feasible way we have of converting electricity to stored energy and back again for more than an hour with anything like 90% efficiency is pumped hydro
No, it's not the only way, there are several ways.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Energy_storage#Storage_methods
Including pumping air into dis-used mines, molten salts/oil, Fly-wheel (V'large ones).. I'm sure there are plenty more.
It's expensive nasty crap with a whole host of other problems, see my other posts, it's not just about how many people die or get cancer.
And quite frankly the figures on that blog are complete and utter bullshit, 0.04 deaths per TWH - that's the kind of figure the nuclear industry would come up with by fudging the figures and ignoring some factors.
What about 500 million+ Europeans+former USSR people and 100 million+ Japanese don't like being poisoned with any amount of radiation - how much is THAT worth? These radioactive accidents are a nasty nightmare and are just not worth it.
Plane crashes.... So why do we keep having nuclear accidents then - because the engineers work out the risk and then the PHBs make the decisions to take slight risks and then the shit hits the fan, again and again and again.
And since we can run our world several times over with renewables, why shouldn't we - and we'd most likely be creating a few jobs along the way.
Renewables = good quality sustainable living, nuclear = dystopian fucking nightmare which we should end asap.
http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/hazmat/articles/chernobyl1.html
Have YOU lived with a nuclear cloud dropping radioactive shit on you?
I don't like coal power one bit, the small increase to our cost of living is a price worth paying for renewables. Measuring everything in terms of money is the wrong way to go about this (renewables would most likely end up cheaper with ongoing investment anyway).
In the UK nuclear only survives because of subsidies, large subsidies.
I also would like to see your 90% efficiency electricity storage system that can store 1MWh, let alone few dozens 1GWh. You've got yourself a Nobel prise in physics right there!
- Physics can't be scaled up!! Wow, that's news to me, I award you the Nobel prize for stupidity.
And by the way, you can get electricity in the UK from 100% renewables and the cost is very similar to the competition (I just checked and it was cheaper).
All this report is talking about is that more things can be done to address big bang type stuff,
Oh well, that's ok then, thanks for the re-assurance.
http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/hazmat/articles/chernobyl1.html
I remember when 'big bang type stuff' poisoned half of Europe with nuclear fallout, we had to drink powdered milk for a while and some livestock were quarantined for many years because they were concentrating radioactive isotopes in their meat and milk.
Humans are greedy and stupid and fuck-up regularly, when the problem of humans fucking up regularly has been solved then and only then will I accept nuclear power.
My previous comment covers the replies:
So many slashdot nuclear apologists in denial about the dangers of nuclear power that they marked your post interesting instead of informative.
This one is going to be interesting to watch, nuclear can't be dangerous, no-one could of predicted Fukushima. Chernobyl, one-mile island and Windscale were a one-off (count them, 1-2-3.... ONE) and will never happen again because the modern safety systems are too good.
Nuclear power stations never leak and it wouldn't matter anyway because radioactive waste is not really all that harmful.
Terrorists could never get hold of nuclear waste, gov'ts never support terrorists and gov'ts never fall. There is no such thing as corruption, and nothing ever gets lost.
It beggars belief the mindset you need to support nuclear, ignoring all of the above.
Wind-power, there are technologies to store energy with 90% efficiency. It doesn't create deadly waste that no-one knows what to do with. The price of the energy input is free and unchanging. IT'S CHEAPER THAN NUCLEAR.
So many slashdot nuclear apologists in denial about the dangers of nuclear power that they marked your post interesting instead of informative.
This one is going to be interesting to watch, nuclear can't be dangerous, no-one could of predicted Fukushima. Chernobyl, one-mile island and Windscale were a one-off (count them, 1-2-3.... ONE) and will never happen again because the modern safety systems are too good.
Nuclear power stations never leak and it wouldn't matter anyway because radioactive waste is not really all that harmful.
Terrorists could never get hold of nuclear waste, gov'ts never support terrorists and gov'ts never fall. There is no such thing as corruption, and nothing ever gets lost.
It beggars belief the mindset you need to support nuclear, ignoring all of the above.
Wind-power, there are technologies to store energy with 90% efficiency. It doesn't create deadly waste that no-one knows what to do with. The price of the energy input is free and unchanging. IT'S CHEAPER THAN NUCLEAR.
(Other sources like solar / wind would be best, but I don't see them being able to fill the whole planet's energy needs any time soon)
Why not? Solar supply has been increasing at 10x per decade and is expected to meet cost parity with other forms of supply this decade. Wind power has the fastest ROI of any energy supply. The constant supply argument is false, there are plenty of energy storage technologies with efficiencies of up to 90%+, they just need further investment.
Whilst the insane energy hog that is USA might have difficulty running completely from renewables, I don't think the rest of the world would have a problem.
Why waste time pissing about with nasty dirty technologies when we can have clean ones?
To determine where the methane in the wells they tested came from, the researchers ran it through a molecular fingerprinting process called an isotopic analysis. Water samples furthest from gas drilling showed traces of biogenic methane - a type of methane that can naturally appear in water from biological decay. But samples taken closer to drilling had high concentrations of thermogenic methane, which comes from the same hydrocarbon layers where gas drilling is targeted. That - plus the proximity to the gas wells - told the researchers that the contamination was linked to the drilling processes.
UK:
http://www.writetothem.com/
UK:
http://www.europarl.org.uk/section/your-meps/your-meps
Rest of Europe:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch.do;jsessionid=EAF5D554A71EBE16A5E8A71092CD2DB9.node2
So all shop staff, cleaners and people living above or near the riot area, or their friends would be implicated - I don't think you thought that through.
For me marijuana was not at all addictive, even though I was a heavy user, I got bored of it and just stopped buying it, I felt no urge to go and get more, I didn't feel physically bad either.
The only addiction was to tobacco - that took me another 10 years and many attempts to give up.
I drink Tea - that would be much harder to give up - I'm honestly not exaggerating.
Everyone has to tighten their belt these days, no exceptions.
This is why we're practically in a recession, the less belt-tightening the better to get out of the recession.
However, he admits the very sites the small team is asked to judge are those that are the most subjective. âoeDrawing the line between erotic and hardcore pornography is probably the most difficult," he said. "Another thing is websites that go into extreme left or right side [politically], but still do news or something like that."
Anti-nuclear - extreme?
Anti-abortion - extreme?
Anti-GM food - extreme?
Right to wear burka- extreme?
Calling politicians corrupt - extreme?
Calling politicians scumbags - extreme?
Muslim sites that are not in English - extreme?
Christian fundamentalist - extreme?
The gov't should not be supporting this company in any way.
"There's no one in the Defense Department with his hand on the network switch. In fact, there is no one switch to speak of. "
I am shocked that US runs it's country like this, build a big switch and glue someone's hand to it immediately you crazy fools.
!!! So, I'm a European, I'd throw him a large rock to hold onto to help him float.
Pulitzer or not.
"You can easily get convicted without a single shred of hard evidence, for any type of crime."
Not normally in the UK, the CPS (crown prosecution service) wouldn't bring the case to court without some evidence.
I vaguely recall someone in the UK had a case dropped due to the suspect having a trojan and rightly so, the prosecutions job is of course to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
I live in the UK and the burden of proof is on the prosecution, not the defendant.
How many people got hit by code red - are you seriously telling me in these days of regular exploits in Flash, PDFs, java, browsers, MS office etc that a person can be held at fault for getting rooted!!!!! The gov't gets rooted all the time, If Sony, govt etc can't secure their systems, then how can the technically clueless general public be expected to?
And once again, deliberately opening up your wireless for the public to share is not the same as getting rooted, can you honestly tell me that you know your system doesn't have any unpatched vulnerabilities and can you account for every process and driver etc running?
Root-kit != WLAN hotspot.
why dont you get that?
I don't think you get it, if a criminal steals your car, ram-raids a shop and makes off with the contents, are you telling me that the car owner is responsible for the crimes committed????.. Or perhaps the gov't is responsible because it owns the roads?
Root-kit != WLAN hotspot.
So, if you're a criminal in Germany, all you have to do is install this software on your computer and then you have plausible deniability because anybody could have uploaded anything to your PC. Your PC could no longer be used as evidence.
Fucked that one up didn't you Germany!!!
3.5Gbps ... wish I got 3.5Gbps you lucky bastard... ;-)
If you're worried about dying penniless then get life insurance or a pension like everyone else instead of proposing the right to sponge off of people without good reason.
Copyright's purpose is to encourage artists to create work, please explain to me how you are going to create work after you're dead?
You countries pathetic internet link is less than 1/4 of the potential speed of a single optical fiber and probably costs less than $100 - $500k.
In the future UK FTTC will be delivering bandwidth potential of your country to 10's of thousands of cabinets across the country.
If you're in the ISP business, maybe you are doing it wrong.
sources (see vid on youtube page)
http://www.youtube.com/my_speed#
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fiber_to_the_x
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication
Our ratios are far worse, mine is 10mbit/1mbit, when I was with Virgin Media it was 10 / 0.45mbit... when it wasn't being throttled, once throttled my upload with VM was as little as 20-30KBytes/sec.
The cynical part of me thinks artificial tests are pointless, the ISPs will investigate the boxes and then skew the figures to suit.