Comment Have they checked up on the Swiss Green Party? (Score 3, Interesting) 128
They have a history of "direct action" against French nuclear plants.
They fired five RPG-7 rounds at the Superphenix when it was still under construction in 1982.
They have a history of "direct action" against French nuclear plants.
They fired five RPG-7 rounds at the Superphenix when it was still under construction in 1982.
The people who sold chemical weapons tech to Iraq were European countries like Germany, assisted by France and others. The weapons casings were from Spain and China. The ones made in Spain were based on old US designs (which is mentioned in the article, but the part where they were knockoff designs without US input was glossed over).
The US sold Iraq some smaller helicopters and some agricultural insecticides (which were not, in any reasonable fashion, convertible to chemical weapons). We didn't sell them any sort of chemical weapons - or weapons of any kind, for that matter.
We did send them some biological agents - again, for agricultural purposes, like anthrax. Look up "American Type Culture Collection" for how this works. Iraq tried to repurpose the anthrax for weapons (and failed, apparently).
The test reactor (to prove that they can get fusion) is the short timeline.
The five year timeline is the first power-producing design.
...because we've seen their act too many times, and pretty much everything except the location of the doors is common sense in the first place.
Anyone who can't figure that stuff out is probably traveling with an adult to handle the actual decisions.
It's only "2075" if human performance follows a smooth curve.
What it will take in reality is two or three extreme performers in a group, each putting in a run equivalent to a Bob Beamon long jump. Actually, less. You're looking at about a five percent increase in performance versus the current world record.
There are certainly at least three people like that in the world right now - people with the right build, freakish VO2 max scores, and the sort of mental determination to stick with professional marathon running.
The problem is, they're probably not marathon runners - yet. Or possibly ever.
But sooner or later - and I'm betting sooner - it will happen. Probably closer to 2025 than 2075.
Lots and lots of NewEgg.
All of the time.
Forever.
You can never get away...
HIV made a cross-species jump in the 1920s, and went on to kill millions.
But Ebola couldn't possibly mutate enough to survive slightly longer when exposed to air.
I feel much safer now.
"These solar households are now buying less and less electricity, but the utilities still have to manage the costs of connecting them to the grid."
The pro-solar folks think the utilities should pay this cost, instead of the people who actually incur that cost? Do tell.
If the power companies didn't have to worry about connecting all of that moderately-erratic power to the grid, they could easily "build down" over the next decade or two - and chop lots of unprofitable customers from their systems. They could dump pretty much all of the rural customers, and wouldn't have to worry about capacity expansion in the near future. They could even shut down a lot of older power plants that are low performers, profit-wise, instead of having to fight the government to build new plants while trying to keep the old ones running.
You mean "they predict they will hit the target in six years." They hit 31.5%, and might have hit the 33% - if you believe a government spokesman.
This is only "locally-generated" power, by the way: they don't count the power imported from other states, and fail to mention that overall power generation in South Australia is expected to decline due to cheaper power imported from places like Victoria.
They also won't add "one additional dollar to energy prices" by adding the many additional dollars to taxes levied by the federal government.
Yeah, I just bet it is.
This kid managed to make a rugged, reliable piece of hardware that recognizes many fingerprints, will withstand regular impacts from firing, and managed to make the failure rate only one in ten thousand.
Oh, wait - he made a plastic prototype, and hasn't actually tested it in a firing weapon?
Do tell.
No, I know where they are. They just bribed me.
The genes are obviously smart enough to hide from researchers.
...as long as they studied plants and insects on the Fukushima site itself, including right next to the reactor.
"Yeah, as long as we put the seeds right in this radioactive puddle, we got results."
"What about further away? Like outside of the plant property?"
"Are you nuts? I need funding for my next scary study here!"
...from other articles.
The biggest issue with molten salt reactors is corrosion, so they need to find just the right materials to build the thing.
Economies of scale have mostly kicked in already.
As of right now, the panels are no longer the biggest part of the cost of a full-scale installation - it's the "putting it on your roof correctly so it doesn't fall off or catch fire" part that costs.
Prices will drop - some - but for anything like the near future, they're going to stay in the $15,000-$20,000 range - without storage.
You can get lower quotes, but for some reason, those quotes always leave things out... the folks who brag about "I got it for half that" haven't dealt with contractors before, for the most part.
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.