There's also a reason why the Dead's "Wall of Sound" didn't last long. Two semi-trailer loads of audio equipment leap frogging across the nation, and a mixing board and wiring so cantankerous that a short in a single portion would render the entire system inoperative? Yeah.
No, not really. You need to play guitar and hear and feel the way your music comes out of a Marshall vs. a VOX or a Yamaha.
Much like the great Gretch sound, you can't really explain it to someone in words they'll understand.
I can tell you that a Marshall is richer and has that classic tube sound where the peaks and valleys don't seem chopped off which makes your brighter tones a lot brighter and your bass notes a lot darker and fuller, but what does that even mean?
I used to work for your host's primary competition, and while they have been bought up and chopped to pieces, their terrible approach to customer service is the stuff of legends.
The Random Reboot Lottery was an hourly occurrence, as one poorly trained data center monkey after another went swinging from rack to rack pressing all of the shiny buttons. The Random Restore Lottery was a daily thing, as the same reboot monkeys removed the hard drives from the wrong machines and replaced them with default images. Of course the removed drives were never checked for data or media issues, simply reformatted with the default image and put in the queue to fail again and cause some other customer hours of frustration.
That would be a vast improvement, but where are we going to get the massive amounts of uranium needed to fuel all of these Shipstones? Also, what is the lifetime? The best data I can find on sub PWRs is a year or so per fuel load.
Yeah, energy policy in the U.S. is amazingly fucked.
One thing that really gets me, there are enough geothermal hot-spots in the US to provide a huge amount of power, especially if the R&D were funded like drilling in the 60's and 70's. Even better, we've already got a huge amount of operational know-how and technology from that very investment that could be adapted to geothermal power use. The basic hole drilling technology is the same, and only small modifications would be needed to bring us around to closed cycle steam/water loops and we already know how to turn hot steam in to electrical power.
I wouldn't call what we're doing "massively subsidizing." When compared to the subsidies for petrochem and nuclear we're more offering minimal or token subsidies.
And lack of manufacture and transport infrastructure for nuclear fuel in those sizes. Not to mention the amazing security and radio-contamination risks involved in domestic reactor use.
If we're going to go that route, I'd rather see municipal sized reactors and home sized solar/wind than the other way around.
Pure musical notion is just another expression of mathematics while listening to music can be a wonderful way of understanding how waves interact. Just because it is considered an art doesn't mean it is somehow below the purity of math.
I like your theory and would like to subscribe to your news letter. One thing bothers me though, where is George Soros in all of this? Did... oh god, did he fund this entire project?
There a comment lower down that talks about a human rated magnet in the teens. It's been a while since I was in diagnostic imaging, and the 8T magnets at the time had tiny bore holes, and were limited to small animal use.
Jeez, 17T, that must have amazing resolution. Any idea how many slices?
Who's building the 13T? When I got out of diagnostic imaging, 8T was as big as we got, and those things were monsters but the bore hole was only large enough for the leg of a small dog.
You're damn right 100T is incredibly powerful. Most MRI rings for humans max out at 3T. Some of the experimental medical rings are 7T-8T and you have to be really careful working around those. I can't imagine 100T. Hell, we stuck a dumpster to a brick wall with a 5T magnet.
First off, I'm not accusing you of being anything other than uninformed about the dangerous nature of controlled fission reactions and the even more dangerous nature of the companies that build them.
I am in complete agreement with you about the need for power generation to be a public service. I think deregulation of the power industry was one of the worst things to come out of the deregulation craze because you have plants that are operating for-profit that suck up government subsidies AND lobby the government for fewer regulations so they can cut corners while claiming public lands for "right-of-way" without paying far market value for the land, like any regular company would.
The way it works now only encourages massive corruption, regulatory capture, and a shocking disregard for safety. Though, I suppose it could be worse and we could have a situation like the Japanese do with TECPO that combines the worst traits of a corporate owned power generation facility with entrenched and corrupt government interests.
I miss Car Wars too, even when people would do hilariously broken crap like the Copula Car. The smallest motor, driver, and a single machine gun would fit in the four spaces available in the copula, and that let you have a car body with no armor and nothing critical. Combine that with the total inability of other vehicle weapons to hit a copula unless their guns had the anti-aircraft modification, and you've got the cheesiest tournament winner ever.
If you see nothing inherently dangerous about a nuclear reactor, then I would suggest that you aren't fully educated on the subject. You also don't seem to understand how the business of building a power plant for profit nearly forces the company that is taking the responsibility to cut out all of those unnecessary costs like triple redundancy and water-tight doors. Really, if it weren't for government subsidies, nuclear plants probably wouldn't ever get built. The costs on even a small plant are staggering, and anything that a company can do to reduce the up-front costs reduces the time to profitability, which we all know, is the only goal.
The topsoil after a shale project may look beautiful, but the ground water is still unbelievably fucked. A couple of communities in Pennsylvania still have tap water that you can light on fire, but the land used for fracking looks pristine.
Also, if you take a core soil sample from those areas, you'll get a nice top layer of rich soil that isn't native to the area, a clay cap, more than likely some sort of thin buffer layer of chalk, talc, or some other very basic and cheap mineral, and then the local dirt and rock that is sterile and saturated with a stew of the same horrible crap you find in drilling mud.
That's almost never the case. A buddy of mine is a maintenance foreman for a nuke plant, and we talk about this a lot. There are tons of places that get hot where you'd never expect it. The power turbines are constantly being pulled apart and the blades inspected, as the neutron flux from the reactor makes the metal brittle much faster. Even the employee cafeteria and control room, two places that have the most shielding in the entire plant are weekly checked and scrubbed, as the chairs, benches, tables, and food prep equipment starts to get radioactive over time.
While it is all low level radiation, it can build up. Doubly so if you pile all of that stuff together for disposal.
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British Amps, British Rockers.
There's also a reason why the Dead's "Wall of Sound" didn't last long. Two semi-trailer loads of audio equipment leap frogging across the nation, and a mixing board and wiring so cantankerous that a short in a single portion would render the entire system inoperative? Yeah.
No, not really. You need to play guitar and hear and feel the way your music comes out of a Marshall vs. a VOX or a Yamaha.
Much like the great Gretch sound, you can't really explain it to someone in words they'll understand.
I can tell you that a Marshall is richer and has that classic tube sound where the peaks and valleys don't seem chopped off which makes your brighter tones a lot brighter and your bass notes a lot darker and fuller, but what does that even mean?
You just have to listen.
Great, just one more think to go wrong when pimply faced teenagers wish to live in a world without zinc.
I used to work for your host's primary competition, and while they have been bought up and chopped to pieces, their terrible approach to customer service is the stuff of legends.
The Random Reboot Lottery was an hourly occurrence, as one poorly trained data center monkey after another went swinging from rack to rack pressing all of the shiny buttons. The Random Restore Lottery was a daily thing, as the same reboot monkeys removed the hard drives from the wrong machines and replaced them with default images. Of course the removed drives were never checked for data or media issues, simply reformatted with the default image and put in the queue to fail again and cause some other customer hours of frustration.
Think of it this way... self removing ass sand.
Great, I just won a game as the Spartans on Trancendi difficulty, now I want to go back and play more.
That would be a vast improvement, but where are we going to get the massive amounts of uranium needed to fuel all of these Shipstones? Also, what is the lifetime? The best data I can find on sub PWRs is a year or so per fuel load.
Yeah, energy policy in the U.S. is amazingly fucked.
One thing that really gets me, there are enough geothermal hot-spots in the US to provide a huge amount of power, especially if the R&D were funded like drilling in the 60's and 70's. Even better, we've already got a huge amount of operational know-how and technology from that very investment that could be adapted to geothermal power use. The basic hole drilling technology is the same, and only small modifications would be needed to bring us around to closed cycle steam/water loops and we already know how to turn hot steam in to electrical power.
I wouldn't call what we're doing "massively subsidizing." When compared to the subsidies for petrochem and nuclear we're more offering minimal or token subsidies.
And lack of manufacture and transport infrastructure for nuclear fuel in those sizes. Not to mention the amazing security and radio-contamination risks involved in domestic reactor use.
If we're going to go that route, I'd rather see municipal sized reactors and home sized solar/wind than the other way around.
Pure musical notion is just another expression of mathematics while listening to music can be a wonderful way of understanding how waves interact. Just because it is considered an art doesn't mean it is somehow below the purity of math.
I like your theory and would like to subscribe to your news letter. One thing bothers me though, where is George Soros in all of this? Did... oh god, did he fund this entire project?
I won't be once walking in stations and DUST are complete. That should be any day now...
There a comment lower down that talks about a human rated magnet in the teens. It's been a while since I was in diagnostic imaging, and the 8T magnets at the time had tiny bore holes, and were limited to small animal use.
Jeez, 17T, that must have amazing resolution. Any idea how many slices?
Who's building the 13T? When I got out of diagnostic imaging, 8T was as big as we got, and those things were monsters but the bore hole was only large enough for the leg of a small dog.
You're damn right 100T is incredibly powerful. Most MRI rings for humans max out at 3T. Some of the experimental medical rings are 7T-8T and you have to be really careful working around those. I can't imagine 100T. Hell, we stuck a dumpster to a brick wall with a 5T magnet.
I think we're getting off on the wrong foot here.
First off, I'm not accusing you of being anything other than uninformed about the dangerous nature of controlled fission reactions and the even more dangerous nature of the companies that build them.
I am in complete agreement with you about the need for power generation to be a public service. I think deregulation of the power industry was one of the worst things to come out of the deregulation craze because you have plants that are operating for-profit that suck up government subsidies AND lobby the government for fewer regulations so they can cut corners while claiming public lands for "right-of-way" without paying far market value for the land, like any regular company would.
The way it works now only encourages massive corruption, regulatory capture, and a shocking disregard for safety. Though, I suppose it could be worse and we could have a situation like the Japanese do with TECPO that combines the worst traits of a corporate owned power generation facility with entrenched and corrupt government interests.
I miss Car Wars too, even when people would do hilariously broken crap like the Copula Car. The smallest motor, driver, and a single machine gun would fit in the four spaces available in the copula, and that let you have a car body with no armor and nothing critical. Combine that with the total inability of other vehicle weapons to hit a copula unless their guns had the anti-aircraft modification, and you've got the cheesiest tournament winner ever.
If you see nothing inherently dangerous about a nuclear reactor, then I would suggest that you aren't fully educated on the subject. You also don't seem to understand how the business of building a power plant for profit nearly forces the company that is taking the responsibility to cut out all of those unnecessary costs like triple redundancy and water-tight doors. Really, if it weren't for government subsidies, nuclear plants probably wouldn't ever get built. The costs on even a small plant are staggering, and anything that a company can do to reduce the up-front costs reduces the time to profitability, which we all know, is the only goal.
The topsoil after a shale project may look beautiful, but the ground water is still unbelievably fucked. A couple of communities in Pennsylvania still have tap water that you can light on fire, but the land used for fracking looks pristine.
Also, if you take a core soil sample from those areas, you'll get a nice top layer of rich soil that isn't native to the area, a clay cap, more than likely some sort of thin buffer layer of chalk, talc, or some other very basic and cheap mineral, and then the local dirt and rock that is sterile and saturated with a stew of the same horrible crap you find in drilling mud.
That's almost never the case. A buddy of mine is a maintenance foreman for a nuke plant, and we talk about this a lot. There are tons of places that get hot where you'd never expect it. The power turbines are constantly being pulled apart and the blades inspected, as the neutron flux from the reactor makes the metal brittle much faster. Even the employee cafeteria and control room, two places that have the most shielding in the entire plant are weekly checked and scrubbed, as the chairs, benches, tables, and food prep equipment starts to get radioactive over time.
While it is all low level radiation, it can build up. Doubly so if you pile all of that stuff together for disposal.
Two marks to you sir! Though, I see by your user name that this was probably an easy one.
Ok, show of hands, how many people here could diagnose modem connection problems and handshake speeds by listening?
Lets see if I can do this justice.
Beee beeee beeeeeeee boo waaa woooo waaaaaaaaa bzzzzzzzzup thup thup thup thup thup thup thup PING! PING fwashhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Ok, name that connection speed!