The water needs are actually far less since none of it is wasted. You could say the same about fertilizer needs, if your traditional farms are using synthetic fertilizers. Obviously growing huge trees like this is currently a pipe dream, but for smaller crops like tomatoes, lettuce, etc it may be far more efficient. Check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tomatotree.JPG
Plus within a year all the answers to the exercises would be easily available online leaving them worthless. The exercises would need to be updated each year.
I have a Touchpad with Cyanogen's alpha android build and an iPad 2. I haven't touched the Touchpad with Cyanogen's alpha android build since I installed android on the touchpad. The Touchpad is about to go on ebay (and I'm sure I'll get next to nothing for it).
Who is to say a heat engine is necessary? Fission reactions give off their energy mostly in the form of kinetic energy, which is then converted to heat and finally electricity. There are attempts to convert the kinetic energy directly to electricity => much higher efficiency.
I think the term you're looking for is 'exergy'. Without exergy, the energy is useless to us. Also, there is work being done to try and directly convert the kinetic energy from nuclear fission to electricity. If this could be done, we would see dramatic improvements in the efficiency of our fission plants.
30 years old is too old?? How long do you propose you operate your new "safe" designs for, 20 years? I'd love to see how much you'd be paying for kwH if that's the case (don't forget to factor in decommission costs)
The same people who complain about coal pollution complain that nuclear is bad only because of cheapskates and their old designs. Along the same lines, coal emissions (except CO2) could be reduced to virtually nil if we were to use more expensive but more environmental processes for recycling and capturing harmful emissions.
We have the technology to make coal pretty much completely clean (minus the CO2)...its just not done because of expense. Similarly note the DOE's budget for "Legacy" costs keeps increasing every single year because we still have no idea what to do with leftover nuclear waste. Currently we just leave it in on-site storage...there is cost associated with safekeeping it. Do you think this can continue indefinitely? The argument isn't such a no-brainer as you make it seem.
Technically without a filibuster doesn't it just need 50%? Why not call the bluff and force them to go through with the actual filibuster? This is never done anymore...
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The water needs are actually far less since none of it is wasted. You could say the same about fertilizer needs, if your traditional farms are using synthetic fertilizers. Obviously growing huge trees like this is currently a pipe dream, but for smaller crops like tomatoes, lettuce, etc it may be far more efficient. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tomatotree.JPG
At least you're not from (South) Jersey....
And slashdot...
The complete solutions or solutions manual would also be online though and probably torrented.
Plus within a year all the answers to the exercises would be easily available online leaving them worthless. The exercises would need to be updated each year.
Mod parent up!
I have a Touchpad with Cyanogen's alpha android build and an iPad 2. I haven't touched the Touchpad with Cyanogen's alpha android build since I installed android on the touchpad. The Touchpad is about to go on ebay (and I'm sure I'll get next to nothing for it).
Undoing accidental posted mod?
Posting to undo accidental mod
A 1913 dollar bill is probably worth a lot these days
They don't make IE for OSX anymore.
And the temperature of the working fluid as compared to the surrounding environment gives us more of what, class?
Who is to say a heat engine is necessary? Fission reactions give off their energy mostly in the form of kinetic energy, which is then converted to heat and finally electricity. There are attempts to convert the kinetic energy directly to electricity => much higher efficiency.
I think the term you're looking for is 'exergy'. Without exergy, the energy is useless to us. Also, there is work being done to try and directly convert the kinetic energy from nuclear fission to electricity. If this could be done, we would see dramatic improvements in the efficiency of our fission plants.
30 years old is too old?? How long do you propose you operate your new "safe" designs for, 20 years? I'd love to see how much you'd be paying for kwH if that's the case (don't forget to factor in decommission costs)
The same people who complain about coal pollution complain that nuclear is bad only because of cheapskates and their old designs. Along the same lines, coal emissions (except CO2) could be reduced to virtually nil if we were to use more expensive but more environmental processes for recycling and capturing harmful emissions.
What law? I was under the impression they actually had to go through with it, but were never put to the test?
That's irrelevant without taking into account the relative devaluations of the currencies.
We have the technology to make coal pretty much completely clean (minus the CO2)...its just not done because of expense. Similarly note the DOE's budget for "Legacy" costs keeps increasing every single year because we still have no idea what to do with leftover nuclear waste. Currently we just leave it in on-site storage...there is cost associated with safekeeping it. Do you think this can continue indefinitely? The argument isn't such a no-brainer as you make it seem.
Technically without a filibuster doesn't it just need 50%? Why not call the bluff and force them to go through with the actual filibuster? This is never done anymore...
Sugar high is a myth http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=19743
I agree, what useful products have ever come out of Hawking's research?
Play on words from "don't taze me bro"
Not english
Kia outsells Maybach too