Sounds like not much worse than if one of these liquid sodium solar plants went kapoof, maybe less as you'd expect the hydrogen to evaporate, whereas sodium will react with whatever it touches.
Seems to me smart design assumes a meltdown and keeps the supporting structures a good earth birm away from the fusion bottle, so you only have to replace half the plant.
Thanks, I think learned something today. (Well, that's why I asked!)
This isn't actually about getting rights for chimps. It's about getting them declared people so that animal rights groups can sue other people (specifically the chimps' owners) on behalf of the chimps. Once established, this will trickle down to include all animals, thus to make pet ownership too legally risky, since anyone could sue you on behalf of your pet. (Ditto raising livestock.) Yet another step in the ARs' avowed goal of ending animal ownership and use.
Outfits like Greenpeace and PETA don't want to save the Earth, nor do they love animals. They want to destroy humanity, and they hate people.
Definitely sounds expensive.
So what does it do to the surrounding environment when it melts the reactor?
Sounds to me like what this needs for containment (which works when unpowered) is collapsed matter, or perhaps a solid mass of neutrons. Best get busy on that new research project.
Seriously, would something like that work?
So what happens when (not if) the magnetic containment fails?
I had a similar thought:
How much energy does it take to maintain the magnetic containment? How does this compare to the energy output that can be captured from the fusion reaction? (Uncapturable energy doesn't count; it's a waste product. And where does it go?)
If that exceeds the value of the fusion energy, is it possible to bootstrap this into something that produces net energy?
I suspect it may be more "Justifying our jobs", since these invasive policies seem to come from TLA bureaucracies rather than from those actually in charge.
Bulk supply, starting at $33 each:
Sounds interesting... But is there any such thing as a text-UI smartphone?
I've got a ZTE Awe that's up for experiments, as the phone is of no use to me glued to Virgin Mobile and it's worth very little on the used market. Any thoughts on what I might try with it?
TFA led me to this list of interesting studies:
I had the same thought. What happens if this spills over into the countries bordering the current hot zone?
I've long since decided it's best to just let them kill each other and get it over with. All that's happened from our efforts to suppress it is that the moment our backs are turned, they resume killing one another with more zeal than before.
But how can I find bugs that affect normal use if I'm not using it in a normal manner?
I've got nothing against a test build reporting everything I *do*, such as save a file; that's the whole idea. I do have a problem with them collecting info on what that file contains; that's none of their business.
--signed, the beta tester who can break anything
...followed by Fireball XL5 and topped off by reruns of live-action shows like Sky King.
Great, now I feel like I'm comin' up 60 for real!!
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.
