The inside of the parabolic dish is covered with 36 elliptic mirrors made of 0.2-millimeter-thin recyclable plastic foil with a silver coating, which are then curved using a slight vacuum.
A new ultra-high concentration 12 KWel – 20 KWth unit, currently under development, jointly with IBM research Zurich. The system implements a multi-mirror parabolic dish topology (40 m2 active surface area) and will achieve concentrations beyond 2,000 suns.
Some say 12KWh/day electric cause of the cascading failure of non-engineering descriptions. I say 100KWh/day electric and 160KWh/day thermal, (it's a beast). Quoted 12KW electric and 20KW thermal output. Some math: 40 m2 * 80% * 1KW/m2 = 32KW (consistency check: yep that's 12KW+20KW) Assume 8hr/day near maximum input because it's tracking the sun.
ALSO: 40m2 area is about 7m diameter. If you had one in your backyard to run your home: 4m diameter: 30KWh/day el and 50KWh/day th. That's a big big house with many kids (you're Xtian right?) 3m diameter: 17KWh/day el and 28KWh/day th. That's a good fit for most families 2m diameter: 7.5KWh/day el and 12KWh/day th. That's a good fit for singles.
Bringing up Al Gore does prove something. That there exists powerful people who have exaggerated the impact of climate change in order to accumulate further power and wealth. Of course, this doesn't change any scientific facts, but its an important consideration when evaluating any proposed policy changes.
Bringing up the Koch brother conspiracy does prove something. That there exists powerful people who have actively degraded the message of the impact of climate change in order to accumulate further power and wealth. Of course, this doesn't change any scientific facts, but its an important consideration when evaluating why there are no effective policy changes.
BMW Werk Leipzig Germany, where the electric and hybrid BMW i3 and i8 are manufactured, has 4x 2.5 MW wind turbines that more than cover the 36GWHr/year electricity used. The Leipzig Werk also manufactures X1, 1er and 2er series gas burners. The factory tour to watch the birth of an i3 is awesome. There are a number of youtube video of the process as well.
“Steve Ballmer tried to convince the mayor that it would be a bad decision to switch to open source, because it’s not something an administration can rely on....And it just got worse for Microsoft’s boss. “The mayor was preparing for a meeting with Steve Ballmer, and because English is not his native language, he asked his interpreter: ‘What shall I say if I don’t have the right words?’ And the interpreter replied: ‘Stay calm, think and say: What else can you offer?’
Later on during the meeting, the mayor was quickly at the point where he had nothing to say to Ballmer, except for ‘What else can you offer?’ several times. Years later, he heard that Ballmer was deeply impressed by how hard he was in negotiations!"
Really simple method of disposal is incineration of high level nuclear waste: 1. it solves the long term storage problem as there is no longer any reason for long term thinking. 2. it solves the human overpopulation problem (creating real zombies with flesh hanging off 'em) 3. since huge radiation release is guaranteed, no need to build expensive containment vessels for nuke power stations... 4. more nukes, more incineration, more more MORE MOREmoar! MOAR !! MOAR !!!.
I can't see why anyone can afford to spend another minute thinking that thorium is going to be economic.
further clarification: economic in the US and its vassal states tied by such shackles as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
When China and/or India (smirk) start running a major portion of their economy on "pure green clean thorium" I expect the US will implement a raft of hasty patent reform bills, maybe with IV facing RICO charges as inducement to turn over thorium patents for the "benefit of mankind"/national security.
Because they've burnt through all the trillion$ already thrown at them.
Cannot the Fed just install the printing presses on site so that the newly minted Benjamins tip directly into the nuclear core?
Solar burns Hydrogen to produce Helium, generating clean e- and hot water. Wind bumps off a few birds and produces lots of pain for incumbent generators Thermal burns coal/gas/oil to produce CO2 and will cook the planet before too long (your opinion may vary) Nuclear just burns lots of money and a tiny bit of Uranium and "aint going hurt anyone in 200,000 years time".
Molten Salt's coming. Patented to the hilt by the worlds biggest patent troll.
Given the work China and India are doing on molten-salt Thorium cycle reactors, I can't see why anyone would spend another dime on a pressurized water reactor again.
Given the patent portfolio that Nathan Mordvold holds on molten-salt Thorium cycle reactors, I can't see why anyone can afford to spend another minute thinking that thorium is going to be economic.
For those with tl;dr disease, a quick review of why the FIRST POSTer's comment (well done sir) is worth every mod point.
Reading summary: this seems pretty stupid and a little fear-mongery for slashdot. Click link: Fox news, figures. Usual shit reporting and lack of detail. Obamacare not mentioned anywhere in article. Click link in article to watchdog.org: not much more detail, more zomg fear crap, still no mention of obamacare. Read comments on watchdog.org: ok, I’m out
The last part about the comment section of watchdog.org (trust me dont go there) consists mainly of a turgid stream of inane comments from a single commenter (Obummer) such as:
ALERT! ALERT!! The Worst Rated Solar Flare in 2006 LASTED FOR 10 MINUTES!! EXPERTS ESTIMATE!! Pay 2 Billion or 2 Million Will Die!!!!
But through this shite storm shines one gem:
I had a friend whose sister's husband's ex-wife's step-daughter's 1st husband made $87,000 last month selling EMP protective clothing made from recycled tin foil. You can too. Check it out at www.empinsuranceforchumps.com
The laws of supply and demand will move fast enough to ensure disaster is adverted.
On this point only, can I agree with you (at least with the sense of your typo): The disaster will be advertized (:-() The speed of global communications means the disaster will be known about very quickly.
Enough flim flam. Your simple economics model is for simple minds: "If steak gets too expensive, you can buy chicken cheaper"
As resources get scarce and harder to extract, the price rises.
Possibly very true for quick responding consumer trinket markets, but quite the wrong theory (as in too simple) for high stakes long term resource extraction. As these resources gets more expensive to acquire and becomes less reliable (more of a gamble vs a good investment) as the required LONG lead time, development of newer lower grade, more expensive resource reserves REDUCES as the investment is seen as poor. This is happening today to many non renewable, vital-to-civilization resources. Example: If oil 'runs out' (as in gets too expensive due to decreased production due to expensive exploration not done) how fast is your definition of fast when the american auto fleet has to convert to electric vehicles? The oil majors to satisfy their pension fund shareholders require good quarterly figures and are selling off assets as the high stakes gambles on finding more, easy oil have not panned out over the last couple of years. And it's getting worse, fast.
New Zealand is going (maybe) to get a new flag (new FLAG, I said, oh what this isnt 4chan, nevermind) well anyway the Enzedders are planning a nice black flag with a silver fern leaf. Like the logo of their football team, the All Blacks. Classy.Very nice. I would like to see as new Australian flag which replaces the English cross (the combination of wales england and scotland crosses) (oh there's a thought... what if Scotland _does_ leave the United Kingdom. Does this mean all the ex-commonwealth countries have to remove the scottish part of the english cross that would make it a standard double cross rather than the superb triple cross that says 'UK - once we had an empire but we still own all the banks'). So lets put a red kangaroo up there instead, makes it very friendly a la Qantas (Tony, if you are on slashdot tonight for policy ideas, how about licensing the red roo logo from Qantas say $250m per year. Joycey is awaiting your call...) Yes a nice friendly welcoming kangaroo (unless you're trying to sneak passed the Abbot drones. Refugees: "Nobody wants us, because we didn't come by Qantas").... OK where were we? that flag idea? The way this mob of sheeple here are so insipid, probably they'll go for a upgrade on the Southern Cross to the Southern Swastika (subtle eh?). Rupert would LOVE it.
Remember to take the mask out of the plastic bag before fitting. The resulting lack of oxygen can cause disorientation as suggested by the above comment.
Length: 100,000km, anchored on the Earth with a large mass floating in the ocean and a large counterweight at the top end, called an Apex Anchor. Width: One meter Design: Woven with multiple strands to absorb localized damage and curved to ensure edge-on small size hits do not sever the tether. External Power: The power must be external as the gravity well is extreme and lifting your own power is a non-starter. Dr. Edwards’ approach was to use large lasers pointing up to the climber with a “solar panel like” receiver on its nadir position. Cargo: The first few years will enable 20ton payloads without humans [radiation tolerance an issue for the two week trip] with five concurrent payloads on the tether for the two-week trip to GEO. [Currently, the plan is seven concurrent payloads for one-week travel.]
A submarine landslide might release a Gigaton of carbon as methane (Archer, 2007), but the radiative effect of that would be small, about equal in magnitude (but opposite in sign) to the radiative forcing from a volcanic eruption.
That cherry. Let's talk about the effect on climate change of the release of tens of thousands times more CH4 than a hypothetical submarine landslides.
...what is the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity? That's the Billion dollar question...
E X A C T L Y
Now why are we crying about a meagre $1B to get that answer?
Re the " Apocalyptic Global Warmists ":, we are more concerned with methane tipping points (you know, when we burn enough carbon to warm the oceans and atmosphere so the TRILLIONS of tons of methane in permafrost and in undersea clathrate deposits are emitted). That promises runaway climate change.
Slashdot Mirror
Flat mirrors, maybe
Which is what this thing uses.
Nope
Follow the links
http://www.research.ibm.com/la...
The inside of the parabolic dish is covered with 36 elliptic mirrors made of 0.2-millimeter-thin recyclable plastic foil with a silver coating,
which are then curved using a slight vacuum.
http://www.airlightenergy.com/...
A new ultra-high concentration 12 KWel – 20 KWth unit, currently under development, jointly with IBM research Zurich.
The system implements a multi-mirror parabolic dish topology (40 m2 active surface area) and will achieve concentrations beyond 2,000 suns.
Some say 12KWh/day electric cause of the cascading failure of non-engineering descriptions.
I say 100KWh/day electric and 160KWh/day thermal, (it's a beast).
Quoted 12KW electric and 20KW thermal output.
Some math: 40 m2 * 80% * 1KW/m2 = 32KW (consistency check: yep that's 12KW+20KW)
Assume 8hr/day near maximum input because it's tracking the sun.
ALSO: 40m2 area is about 7m diameter.
If you had one in your backyard to run your home:
4m diameter: 30KWh/day el and 50KWh/day th. That's a big big house with many kids (you're Xtian right?)
3m diameter: 17KWh/day el and 28KWh/day th. That's a good fit for most families
2m diameter: 7.5KWh/day el and 12KWh/day th. That's a good fit for singles.
Whimpered the gutless Scotsman.
One
Rich
Arsehole
Called
Larry
Ellison
Yeah! Someone who didn't missed the "hakuna matata" message in Lion King.
Recycling EV batteries is the virtuous circle of LiFePO4
Bringing up Al Gore does prove something. That there exists powerful people who have exaggerated the impact of climate change in order to accumulate further power and wealth. Of course, this doesn't change any scientific facts, but its an important consideration when evaluating any proposed policy changes.
Bringing up the Koch brother conspiracy does prove something. That there exists powerful people who have actively degraded the message of the impact of climate change in order to accumulate further power and wealth. Of course, this doesn't change any scientific facts, but its an important consideration when evaluating why there are no effective policy changes.
BMW Werk Leipzig Germany, where the electric and hybrid BMW i3 and i8 are manufactured, has 4x 2.5 MW wind turbines that more than cover the 36GWHr/year electricity used. The Leipzig Werk also manufactures X1, 1er and 2er series gas burners.
The factory tour to watch the birth of an i3 is awesome. There are a number of youtube video of the process as well.
ROFL quote from TFA:
“Steve Ballmer tried to convince the mayor that it would be a bad decision to switch to open source, because it’s not something an administration can rely on. ...And it just got worse for Microsoft’s boss. “The mayor was preparing for a meeting with Steve Ballmer, and because English is not his native language, he asked his interpreter: ‘What shall I say if I don’t have the right words?’ And the interpreter replied: ‘Stay calm, think and say: What else can you offer?’
Later on during the meeting, the mayor was quickly at the point where he had nothing to say to Ballmer, except for ‘What else can you offer?’ several times.
Years later, he heard that Ballmer was deeply impressed by how hard he was in negotiations!"
Hereby declare support for naming Ununtrium (element 113) as:
Pixarium
Really simple method of disposal is incineration of high level nuclear waste:
1. it solves the long term storage problem as there is no longer any reason for long term thinking.
2. it solves the human overpopulation problem (creating real zombies with flesh hanging off 'em)
3. since huge radiation release is guaranteed, no need to build expensive containment vessels for nuke power stations...
4. more nukes, more incineration, more more MORE MORE moar! MOAR !! MOAR !!!.
Argh! Mein Fuhrer I kann valk!
I can't see why anyone can afford to spend another minute thinking that thorium is going to be economic.
further clarification: economic in the US and its vassal states tied by such shackles as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
When China and/or India (smirk) start running a major portion of their economy on "pure green clean thorium" I expect the US will implement a raft of hasty patent reform bills, maybe with IV facing RICO charges as inducement to turn over thorium patents for the "benefit of mankind"/national security.
Direct money toward large nuclear reactors!
Yes.Now.Do It.
Because they've burnt through all the trillion$ already thrown at them.
Cannot the Fed just install the printing presses on site so that the newly minted Benjamins tip directly into the nuclear core?
Solar burns Hydrogen to produce Helium, generating clean e- and hot water.
Wind bumps off a few birds and produces lots of pain for incumbent generators
Thermal burns coal/gas/oil to produce CO2 and will cook the planet before too long (your opinion may vary)
Nuclear just burns lots of money and a tiny bit of Uranium and "aint going hurt anyone in 200,000 years time".
Molten Salt's coming. Patented to the hilt by the worlds biggest patent troll.
Given the work China and India are doing on molten-salt Thorium cycle reactors, I can't see why anyone would spend another dime on a pressurized water reactor again.
Given the patent portfolio that Nathan Mordvold holds on molten-salt Thorium cycle reactors, I can't see why anyone can afford to spend another minute thinking that thorium is going to be economic.
I came
I saw
I concreted
tf;du
too fast ; didn't understand
For those with tl;dr disease, a quick review of why the FIRST POSTer's comment (well done sir) is worth every mod point.
Reading summary: this seems pretty stupid and a little fear-mongery for slashdot.
Click link: Fox news, figures. Usual shit reporting and lack of detail. Obamacare not mentioned anywhere in article.
Click link in article to watchdog.org: not much more detail, more zomg fear crap, still no mention of obamacare.
Read comments on watchdog.org: ok, I’m out
The last part about the comment section of watchdog.org (trust me dont go there) consists mainly
of a turgid stream of inane comments from a single commenter (Obummer) such as:
ALERT! ALERT!! The Worst Rated Solar Flare in 2006 LASTED FOR 10 MINUTES!!
EXPERTS ESTIMATE!! Pay 2 Billion or 2 Million Will Die!!!!
But through this shite storm shines one gem :
I had a friend whose sister's husband's ex-wife's step-daughter's 1st husband made $87,000 last month selling EMP protective clothing made from recycled tin foil. You can too. Check it out at www.empinsuranceforchumps.com
Yep, robotics is progressing in leaps and bounds...
Behold the BionicKangaroo
http://www.festo.com/cms/en_co...
Just look at it!
Malay culture blowback
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
On this point only, can I agree with you (at least with the sense of your typo): The disaster will be advertized (:-()
The speed of global communications means the disaster will be known about very quickly.
Enough flim flam.
Your simple economics model is for simple minds: "If steak gets too expensive, you can buy chicken cheaper"
Possibly very true for quick responding consumer trinket markets, but quite the wrong theory (as in too simple) for high stakes long term resource extraction.
As these resources gets more expensive to acquire and becomes less reliable (more of a gamble vs a good investment) as the required LONG lead time, development of newer lower grade, more expensive resource reserves REDUCES as the investment is seen as poor. This is happening today to many non renewable, vital-to-civilization resources.
Example: If oil 'runs out' (as in gets too expensive due to decreased production due to expensive exploration not done) how fast is your definition of fast when the american auto fleet has to convert to electric vehicles?
The oil majors to satisfy their pension fund shareholders require good quarterly figures and are selling off assets as the high stakes gambles on finding more, easy oil have not panned out over the last couple of years. And it's getting worse, fast.
New Zealand is going (maybe) to get a new flag (new FLAG, I said, oh what this isnt 4chan, nevermind) well anyway the Enzedders are planning a nice black flag with a silver fern leaf. Like the logo of their football team, the All Blacks. Classy.Very nice.
I would like to see as new Australian flag which replaces the English cross (the combination of wales england and scotland crosses) (oh there's a thought... what if Scotland _does_ leave the United Kingdom. Does this mean all the ex-commonwealth countries have to remove the scottish part of the english cross that would make it a standard double cross rather than the superb triple cross that says 'UK - once we had an empire but we still own all the banks').
So lets put a red kangaroo up there instead, makes it very friendly a la Qantas (Tony, if you are on slashdot tonight for policy ideas, how about licensing the red roo logo from Qantas say $250m per year. Joycey is awaiting your call...)
Yes a nice friendly welcoming kangaroo (unless you're trying to sneak passed the Abbot drones. Refugees: "Nobody wants us, because we didn't come by Qantas")....
OK where were we? that flag idea? The way this mob of sheeple here are so insipid, probably they'll go for a upgrade on the Southern Cross to the Southern Swastika (subtle eh?). Rupert would LOVE it.
Article extract:
The signal is very well fit by a 31-40 GeV dark matter particle annihilating to bb_ *** with a density of 0.3 GeV/cm^3.
*** bb_ (note: that's a bottom quark and a bottom antiquark)
WIkipedia "Bottom quark":
There are many bottomonium states .... These consist of a bottom quark and its antiparticle.
Conclusion: Dark matter decays to a state of bottomonium.
Remember to take the mask out of the plastic bag before fitting.
The resulting lack of oxygen can cause disorientation as suggested by the above comment.
Length: 100,000km, anchored on the Earth with a large mass floating in the ocean and a large counterweight at the top end, called an Apex Anchor.
Width: One meter
Design: Woven with multiple strands to absorb localized damage and curved to ensure edge-on small size hits do not sever the tether.
External Power: The power must be external as the gravity well is extreme and lifting your own power is a non-starter.
Dr. Edwards’ approach was to use large lasers pointing up to the climber with a “solar panel like” receiver on its nadir position.
Cargo: The first few years will enable 20ton payloads without humans [radiation tolerance an issue for the two week trip] with five concurrent payloads on the tether for the two-week trip to GEO. [Currently, the plan is seven concurrent payloads for one-week travel.]
What could possibly go right?
A submarine landslide might release a Gigaton of carbon as methane (Archer, 2007), but the radiative effect of that would be small, about equal in magnitude (but opposite in sign) to the radiative forcing from a volcanic eruption.
That cherry.
Let's talk about the effect on climate change of the release of tens of thousands times more CH4 than a hypothetical submarine landslides.
Nice cherries you got there. Pick 'em yourself?
FWIW I do live in hell (aka Australia) and its getting too f**king warm by half.
This is the same hell your climate denialism is dead on target to create,
with no VIABLE alternative except to burn baby burn.
E X A C T L Y
Now why are we crying about a meagre $1B to get that answer?
Re the " Apocalyptic Global Warmists ":, we are more concerned with methane tipping points
(you know, when we burn enough carbon to warm the oceans and atmosphere so the TRILLIONS of tons of
methane in permafrost and in undersea clathrate deposits are emitted). That promises runaway climate change.