I'd gladly pay $0.50/watt, if I'm guaranteed to have my watts delivered as long as I live. I'll take 3000. That'd be 3kW*30yrs*365days/yr*24hr/day (assuming I live another 30 years) = 788,400 kW*h...for $1500. $0.0019 / kW*h. That's a real bargain!
"I never metamod and I keep getting these 15 point packs. It's kind of annoying as I stop posting so I can mod."
Almost same here. I rarely metamod. Especially since the redesign made it so you don't directly moderate the moderation - now you re-moderate the comment and moderate the original moderation depending on whether your moderation agrees or disagrees with the original moderation. Is that as clear as mud?
That's also what we're doing where I work. Just starting to go to Windows 7 now from XP. I'm still on XP. Probably will upgrade a home PC (my wife uses mainly) from Vista to 7 soon. I have disliked Vista.
According to USGS, it was 40km east of Sendai, but only 13km deep. (shallower=worse). I signed up for their alerts so I get an email when theres a quake within the parameters I specified.
Gee, you're right. But how did you know that I knew where I'd be working when I moved where I did, and that it would be practical to sell my house and move close to where I would be working? I guess I needed someone with your foresight to help me.
Joke. Got it. Just FYI though, you don't make something radioactive by irradiating it with gammas (like the TSA scanners)(or betas or *alphas). To do that, you have to irradiate it with neutrons. *Practically speaking, of course, to irradiate something with alphas means you have to contaminate it with an alpha emitter, since alpha particles are shielded even by air, or thin layers of any solid matter.
"The main reason why elements with low half lives are dangerous is precisely *because* they have low half lives."
Partially true, but irrelevant. All it means is that a nuclide has a high specific activity if it has a short half-life. But we measure radioactive contamination in units of activity, not units of concentration of the nuclide per area or volume, so we've already accounted for the specific activity. Na-24 is commonly found in reactor coolant and its half-life is on the order of seconds. If you could somehow drink a stream of reactor coolant just as it exits the reactor vessel during reactor operation, you would exposed to it and that would be bad. But if it has already decayed away, which it will have done one minute after the reactor is shutdown, it poses no threat. Co-60, on the other hand, has quite a long half life, measured in years. It also emits very high energy beta radiation, and exposure to 1 Curie of Cobalt-60 is worse for you than exposure to 1 Curie of potassium -40. You really don't need to know the half life to state the risk, IF YOU ARE EXPOSED. If you are exposed, the risk is related to amount of exposure, the target organs, the route of exposure etc. What the half-life tells you, is that the risk *of exposure* at time t+x relative to the risk of exposure at time t. That is why short half life means low risk of exposure a month after I-131 is released.
I suppose it wasn't all Moore's fault that Moonraker was so bad, or to his credit that Live and Let Die was good. I still think he was the worst, but I haven't seen the newest one, whom the commenter below says is worse.
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Yeah, Courier's good for a monospace typeface. But MS didn't develop it, IBM did.
First you need mod points, then the comment has be below maximum moderation (+5). No one can up-mod a +5 comment.
...a reasonable cost - say, $0.50/watt.
I'd gladly pay $0.50/watt, if I'm guaranteed to have my watts delivered as long as I live. ...for $1500.
I'll take 3000.
That'd be 3kW*30yrs*365days/yr*24hr/day (assuming I live another 30 years) = 788,400 kW*h
$0.0019 / kW*h.
That's a real bargain!
Yes, you can... but why would you want to? It's like poetry, man!
"I never metamod and I keep getting these 15 point packs. It's kind of annoying as I stop posting so I can mod."
Almost same here.
I rarely metamod. Especially since the redesign made it so you don't directly moderate the moderation - now you re-moderate the comment and moderate the original moderation depending on whether your moderation agrees or disagrees with the original moderation. Is that as clear as mud?
"Check the name (there seem to be only 5 or 6)"
You mean like "Irina Olga Katya Larissa Zelenskaya" or "Anya Susana Katarina Livia Elena Bondarenko"?
...The new Apple Black Mamba chip, or BM chip for short.
Since DeLoreans don't have hair what effect does lice have on them?
That's also what we're doing where I work. Just starting to go to Windows 7 now from XP. I'm still on XP.
Probably will upgrade a home PC (my wife uses mainly) from Vista to 7 soon. I have disliked Vista.
Perhaps, in some cultures, phone-smashing is a sign of maturity.
According to USGS, it was 40km east of Sendai, but only 13km deep. (shallower=worse). I signed up for their alerts so I get an email when theres a quake within the parameters I specified.
Gee, you're right. But how did you know that I knew where I'd be working when I moved where I did, and that it would be practical to sell my house and move close to where I would be working? I guess I needed someone with your foresight to help me.
Discreet, not discrete. Discrete is for electronic components etc.
Joke. Got it.
Just FYI though, you don't make something radioactive by irradiating it with gammas (like the TSA scanners)(or betas or *alphas).
To do that, you have to irradiate it with neutrons.
*Practically speaking, of course, to irradiate something with alphas means you have to contaminate it with an alpha emitter, since alpha particles are shielded even by air, or thin layers of any solid matter.
Hmmm. Shouldn't the comments change depending on which word selections I make in the story? Doesn't seem to make any difference.
I'd take the bus(ses) to work, if it didn't take three hours to get there by doing so, instead of the 35 minutes it takes to drive.
Before someone else corrects me, Co-60 *is* a beta emitter, but the high energy decay mode is gamma. It's a high energy gamma emitter.
"The main reason why elements with low half lives are dangerous is precisely *because* they have low half lives."
Partially true, but irrelevant. All it means is that a nuclide has a high specific activity if it has a short half-life. But we measure radioactive contamination in units of activity, not units of concentration of the nuclide per area or volume, so we've already accounted for the specific activity.
Na-24 is commonly found in reactor coolant and its half-life is on the order of seconds. If you could somehow drink a stream of reactor coolant just as it exits the reactor vessel during reactor operation, you would exposed to it and that would be bad. But if it has already decayed away, which it will have done one minute after the reactor is shutdown, it poses no threat.
Co-60, on the other hand, has quite a long half life, measured in years. It also emits very high energy beta radiation, and exposure to 1 Curie of Cobalt-60 is worse for you than exposure to 1 Curie of potassium -40. You really don't need to know the half life to state the risk, IF YOU ARE EXPOSED. If you are exposed, the risk is related to amount of exposure, the target organs, the route of exposure etc. What the half-life tells you, is that the risk *of exposure* at time t+x relative to the risk of exposure at time t. That is why short half life means low risk of exposure a month after I-131 is released.
"The world's first nuclear reactor was the Chicago Pile, famous for their "ax man" control rod system."
That's right. Everyone knows that, don't they? Under the squash court at the University of Chicago. Enrico Fermi et al.
It gave him the time and opportunity to sit and think about physics problems.
I suppose it wasn't all Moore's fault that Moonraker was so bad, or to his credit that Live and Let Die was good. I still think he was the worst, but I haven't seen the newest one, whom the commenter below says is worse.
Don't you think the real reason why commercial airlines make their passengers turn off their cell phones has nothing to do with EMI?
Wait, is this still referring to women's pubic regions, or not? I can't tell anymore.
Ja, das ist Die Deutsche version, mit Kristoph Ecklsteiner als der Zeitlord: Herr Doktor Wer.
You've got to be kidding! Roger Moore was the worst James Bond ever. Moonraker = worst 007 movie of all time.