Comment Re:credibility of article is doubtful (Score 2) 571
" Carriers typically have one reactor replacement, combined with a several year refit and overhaul, halfway through their life."
No it is a refueling not a reactor replacement.
" Carriers typically have one reactor replacement, combined with a several year refit and overhaul, halfway through their life."
No it is a refueling not a reactor replacement.
It is amazing that reporters seem to lack even an 8th grade level of science education.
They did change the fusion reactor to fission but.
It now reads
"U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers run on nuclear power, but they have large fission reactors on board that have to be replaced on a regular cycle."
The reactors last the life of the ship. It is only the fuel that gets changed they they are aiming for that to be the life of the ship as well. It is at least 20 years today.
And this part.
"Ultra-dense deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, is found in the earth's oceans, and tritium is made from natural lithium deposits."
Wow.... ultra-dense......
Good grief.
Well the reporting is crap but lets hope Lockheed really has what it says it has.
Take a deep breath....
First of all the health care workers involved were monitoring their temperatures so the got isolated quickly and before they where highly contagious. Sending the patients to facilities trained for this is probably a good idea but then you still have the risks involved in transport. Finally I have to admit that I fear this a case where the CDC did send the right instructions but they failed in not knowing what what the Hospital did not know. They might have sent instructions to use full protective gear including eye protection, gloves, and foot coverings.
To the CDC that means tapeing the gloves and booties and face shields and respirators.
To a metro hospital it may have just meant gowns, booties, gloves, and goggles.
The CDC can only do what the government can let it do. The current administration did not start preparing soon enough IMHO. The current administration also has not seemed to have involved USAMRIID yet and of course the current administration disbanded the Aeromedical Isolation Team in 2010... Not the best move.
Really do not panic people it is not anywhere an ignition point yet. This is not the end of the world.
But it is in the French part of Canada.
Actually that is the reason that so many data centers are being built in Oregon and Washington. Lots of cheap hydro and not far from the West coast tech companies.
"This is actually a silly concern. Electricity demand is highest in the middle of the day when the sun is shining. That is also when the spot price for power is highest. It makes no sense at all to store that power to sell it in the middle of the night, when prices are far lower."
No you are wrong.
https://www.pacificpower.net/y...
Peak is around 4pm to 8 pm and 6am to 10 am. It varies a bit by season.
Peak solar production is centered at solar noon.
In other words the end of peak solar production almost exactly start of peak usage.
Here is Con-Edison and they call it super peak 2-6 pm http://www.coned.com/customerc...
" England the second (thanks to the US who confiscated a large part of her empire)."
What part of the the old UK Empire did the us confiscate?
India?
that is just dumb.
My families name at the time was Bosh. We are in no way connected to the tool company but still german.
Heartbleed and Shellshock show that nothing is really free.
Those bugs would have been found long ago if big companies had put resources into FOSS.
OpenSSL was used by everyone but had less than 20 active devs and a super skimpy budget.
Bash? When was the last build of Bash before Shellshock?
World War I devastated Europe in both lives and in wealth. The US came out of WWI as a world power. Sure the US lost a lot of men but nothing like the number France, Germany, and the UK lost. The US filled the gap in science after WWI. It didn't hurt that Edison had invented the industrial research lab and other companies in the US soon developed labs of their own.
Not really von Braun did more as political figure than as an engineer. The Thor, Atlas, and Titan had very little input from von Braun and Polaris and Minuteman had zero.
I doubt that religion had much to do with it. I am sure avoiding being slaves in Russia had a lot more to do with it.
My great grandfathers drug store was burned to the ground because he was unlucky enough to have the last name of Bosh in 1918.
My uncle who was about 20 years older than my mother fought in WWII.
Whoosh
I am pretty sure this is what they are trying to stop. Of course those contractors paid all the taxes due but some are less honest than others.
Once you change a language enough it is no longer the same language.
I just do not see the issue. If you want C++ without C create a new language that fits that description. Apple created Objective c without c and called it Swift. So make C++ without c and call it Sure.
Email is important because you use that for password recovery. I have a special email account that use just for password recovery.
I also use Lastpass to keep passwords but some like Slashdot I use a password I made up that I keep in my head as well as in Lastpass.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to work.