Comment karmashock (Score 1) 337
trying to get time to reply to you karmashock
From the photos it looks like the mountains have pushed up through the ice. I wonder if that is how the 'Moated Mountain" formed, nitrogen ice eroding the geology.
I have to say this is an appropriate use of the word 'amazing' - Thank you NASA (and the American taxpayer)
if it were possible for you to be standing on the daylight side of Pluto
I don't know the math to calculate if you could see any other planets, I don't think so, however I can imagine that it would be the blackest night in our solar system.
Even the most cursory research will show you that the nuclear industry has significant CFC *greenhouse* gas emissions used in the enrichment process. Dig a little deeper and you will find the US enrichment is driven my coal generating facilities.
The failure to tolerate the most straight forward introspection shows that the nuclear fanbois out there do more damage to the Nuclear Industry than anyone, preventing any significant progress to the industry. No facts, no reason, no argument - every single time.
Back to a serious reply, of course we can handle it safely, all it requires is a desire to do so and the commitment to spend what that costs.
That's hilarious. Like any corporation the Nuclear industry charter is profitability, safety is a cost and Nuclear safety is very expensive indeed.
Obviously the problem here is that not enough plants are being built, not that there is a problem with the energy source itself.
The article, however, does its best to make this seem like a negative for the power source.
It is not an article, it is the peer reviewed science that was used by the European Parliament and other credible bodies. This is what scientific research on the Nuclear Industry found.
to attribute all of the energy going into uranium enrichment and other accociated energy needs to energy produced from CO2 emitting sources when a nuclear power plant produces electricity at vastly greater scales then what is required for these things.
*IF* it was able to extract the potential energy there instead of the 0.3% that reactor technology can extract.
I'll admit though, after two completely bogus claims I stopped reading so maybe that site has something that stands up to simple reasoning somewhere in its contents.
And what do you offer to back up the claim that the actual science is bogus? FYI, these are the Universities internationally that contributed to the report. Australia. University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, Monash University, Belgium. NPX Research Leuven, IMEC Leuven, Germany. Universität Regensburg, Öko Institut Darmstadt, Italy. University of Florence, Netherlands. University of Utrecht, Technical University Eindhoven, ECN Petten, Singapore. National University of Singapore, Spain. Bank of Spain Economics
Switzerland. CERN Geneva, ETH Zürich
UK. Imperial College London, University of Edenburgh, Oxford Research Group London, USA Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University New York, Princeton University
If you are able to overcome your prejudices and stop relying on your assumptions then you might learn what and why the issues exist.
The energy payback time of the currently operating nuclear energy systems, measured over the full cradle-to-grave period, is about 9 full-load years at the current world average uranium ore grade.
*IF* a nuclear power plant would operate at 100% of its nominal capacity during a full year without interruptions, which they don't. AND *IF* the ore grades mean the energetic input costs are low, which they aren't.
So what are you on about?
If you actually intend to have a serious discussion, instead of cherry picking lines from the report to make a point why don't you try honestly evaluating what is there? The "Aprs nous le dluge" attitude, that is what I'm on about.
I'll refer you to chapter 16 on "Energy Debt"
After closedown of a nuclear power plants a massive energy debt is left to society, increasing over time due to the unavoidable deterioration of the temporary storage facilities and increasing leaks.
You will find that statement is in context.
The polarization of this debate makes it difficult to discuss even the most benign criticism of the Nuclear industry. No doubt I'll be modded down for that however if the Nuclear industry wasn't so fragile perhaps it could tolerate the criticism and overcome many of the issues it has.
The peer reviewed science shows that Nuclear power provides no net energetic return and is not viable in its current form. Perhaps France has identified that and the vote will identify how well understood that is, unfortunately the political cycle is a lot shorter than the long range planning and oversight the Nuclear Industry requires.
The Nuclear industry has serious structural issues and the only way they can be solved is by looking at the facts in a realistic, analytic and pragmatic way. I welcome facts and a debate on this free of the general dogmatic skepticism and ad-hom attacks from nuclear fanbois, after all I am trying to learn as much as I can like any normal person about this important and complex subject.
I am not anti nuclear, I am Responsible Nuclear which is different from being pro or anti nuclear. Please understand the difference in that perspective before you test my radiation suit.
You would have to be nuts to pick a fight with one of them, sometimes not concerned with people either.
Someone had to show you guys how to surf ocean waves
It looks like the mountains are pushing up through the ice, I wonder if that is what produces the 'moated mountain' effect?
One does not simply walk into Mordor.
In the darkest depths or Mordor, I met a girl so fair
I have discovered an algorithm which can be used to decrypt any content protected by assymetrical key encryption, but the margins of this posting not large enough to record it here.
Have you implemented it yet?
There are things in this world that we want to hide even if we've done nothing wrong. I like responding to the "If you've got nothing to hide..." folks like this:
I generally reframe the statement to if you've got nothing to loose. People seem oblivious to the fact that these sorts of laws are a boon for organised crime and committing fraud on a massive scale.
Encryption represents the front line of the fight for maintaining freedom and the net is the battlefield.
The sum of the Universe is zero.
