Comment Re:Is this more of the same? (Score 1) 157
hum the average solar panel does not have any heavy metals.. while ending up in a landfill is not and efficent reuse of materials - they are not toxic to the environment..
hum the average solar panel does not have any heavy metals.. while ending up in a landfill is not and efficent reuse of materials - they are not toxic to the environment..
While i understand your stance towards Thorium vs. Uranium as a fuel - do remember these are Commercial designs, expecting a Commercial Lifecyle and financial returns.
There is a large industrial complex that exists today around Uranium fuel bundle manufacturing, and zero around Thorium.
If we waned to make that kind of shift - we would be looking at a major government action to ensure viable and affordable long term Thorium fuel production - and that just isn't going to happen when we can barely get the general population to stop being scared of the radiation bogeyman.
as the owner of an EV with a 7kWh charger - i'd only save ~35$/month - not really worth the effort and risk of trying to modify something like this
I get that the breaker can be at the consumption of the feeder - BUT the code was not written for 2 physically separate consumption points from the meter.
Currently you have to have a single through for the main from the feeder at the consumption box OR the box must be a 6 throw or less..
Unless there is a single throw breaker on this sucker right between the meter and the box - this is basically providing two consumption points with the assumption that they in total don't overload the line coming in.
Now that said i'm sure they are smart enough to know NEC - so i'd assume there is a single main breaker on this, and it provides a feed out to the charger (which may have a local or a different breaker at the device) and then is rated to feed down to the main panel the 200-300amp depending on service sizes.
That said, ti's an odd gray area on code, but likely good and would get some clarifications next update - and a kind of neat idea on how to add a significant draw load like an EV fast charger for older homes...
New homes i'd expect have room for a 240v 30amp off a main, or even a sub panel, and for those this is over kill cost wise.
This is basically super plasma cutters - also known as magic fire - which uses compressed air that has been ionized to transfer the energy to the object to melt. The air passing by pulls residual heat from the nozzle that it absorbs from the plasma radiant heat. As long as you have proper air flow for the for the amount of power you are dumping in the nozzles last just fine...
They likely will also have a heat sink/water cooling - but the big challenge will be ensuring the vaporized rock makes it to the outer wall to form a glass casing..
From a technical challenge aspect is how they are going to feed this think power - that amount of power sustained for any real amount of time will be a big challenge to deliver logistically..
100% agree - the odds of an apocalypse is low, if it does happen none of this matters - buy low/now and wait 5-8 years and be golden, glad my retirement target is yesterday 2032, should be right at the right point in the cycle.
The expense/profit but as an "investment' is only a small bit - most tech companies who make money off of "IP" sell the IP to a shell in a country that doesn't have corporates taxes (that zero value) and then license it back to the US company, which then uses the licensing fees as an Expense to offset profits so they pay no taxes in the US, and then all their money is sitting in an "IP" holding shell company which can then turn around and finance investments in other areas for the same "customers" that are licensing the "IP".
There is a whole industry around tax avoidance, and in the end yes - they pay effectively zero, especially compared to the effective rate of what any other person in the US pays.
Lowering the Corporate tax rates in the US is useless, closing loop hopes and double backs so that we actually can get tax revenue from these corporations vs. bleeding the middle class is what we need to do.
"We also need to lower commercial tax rates to compete with the economic incentives to off-shore productivity."
You realize they basically don't pay taxes now? Lowering zero to less than zero isn't going to help.
100% agree to incentivize domestic manufacturing over of-shore - but you do that by adjusting tariffs on incoming goods, but that also has global impacts and can cause global backlash.
Another option would be to completely redo our corporate tax laws, and remove the incentives for off-shore manufacturing and of-shore revenue movements.... but that would require those in power to do something that negatively impacts them, so that will never happen..
i've got 10kwh worth of LifePO4 batteries in my office at the moment for a pack i'm building ofr a mobile trailer... they are here and in use..
what i don't get is - Li[Ni0.5Mn0.3Co0.2]O2 - are the Ni 0.5/Min 0.3 Co 0.2 because they are shared ion connections?
Shouldn't that be written out to the common denominator? 10Li5Ni3Mn2Co10O2 i mean its a big molecule but still...
not sure why you got marked as a troll other than not a likely commercial scenarios (until it is). but what you just described (minus the concrete) is a US Air Craft Carrier during a natural disaster..
The goal of these SMRs are to be shipping containers with minimal onsite connections and assembly. and they are damn close or some of them... Putting them on a ship and moving where power is needed by contract, is an interesting business model....
in NC its so bad you have to have an HVAC license to scrap an AC Unit or condenser coil - i couldn't even scrap an old split unit..
yeah - all i can think about is this as a good example
We all know what it does and "why" you have to sync/program the ECU for the broadcast ID's to watch for. But with the TPMS being the dominant design for a Federally mandated requirement, its complete BS that some vendors require a dealer only tool to change those IDs. It hooks up through the ODB2 port, talks on the CAN bus, but has encrypted keys for validating the tool before the ECU will accept reprogram. Adding that in there is not "protecting" the end users, its "protecting" vendor lock-in and dealer revenue. Its EXACTLY what the right to repair laws are intended to prevent.
And due to the vendor lock in on programming tools - when i have one go bad (as i do now), it would cost me 500$ to get it replaced and reprogram the ECU to use the ID of the new unit.. Because only the dealer has the tool, and they refuse to use customer provided parts.
And there are people out there that are completely opposite (like me). While I'm not a fan of mandating it - i can see why once it is easily available, if an incident happens where it would have prevented it that the owner is held accountable (same as car insurance with modern/vs old and insurance rates).
I myself would be more interested in having a gun in my home for sport shooting knowing there was a bio metric lock out as i do have kids in the house, At the moment we don't and won't because statistically adding it to the home would increase the chances of a child dying due to a hand gun accident more than they would reduce the odds of needing it to defend myself or family.
Nothing against people who want a gun for self defense - but unless you are in a line of work which regularly puts you in harms way - statistically your more likely to hurt your self or others than ever needing it to defend yourself (or others). And that's ok - its a choice - but do realize there is a large portion of the population that doesn't make that choice for those reasons. I'd view this tech could actually increase gun ownership vs. being used to suppress it.
My personal issue is that this tech is likely to get attached to a gun i don't care for - and isn't really able to be retrofitted to one i'd want like the XD-S
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.