Comment Re:Drinking water (Score 1) 141
Would it be possible to run a desalination plant off of the heat produced by a nuclear reactor?
Yes, the USSR did that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-350_reactor
Would it be possible to run a desalination plant off of the heat produced by a nuclear reactor?
Yes, the USSR did that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-350_reactor
I think a lot of people don't realize how unlikely this process is to ever change, or how unlikely it is that there will be a 3rd party president.
Lincoln was the last one. Don't see too many Whig candidates these days...
Following constitutional law can be such a pain. But whatever individuals can do, groups should be able to do as well. Else their rights are being violated. That's the core of the Citizens United ruling.
I've read some fiction where corporations have exactly the same rights as citizens (i.e. right to vote, etc.) and if you joined a corporation or nation, you had to revoke your citizenship in any previous entity.
Samba vampire basically automates this. It replaces an existing domain controller, by reading all the users/ groups/shares/member servers/etc. and then *becomes* it.
Only thing you can do is create hydrogen as a fuel using vast solar arrays.. Unfortunately the fuel tanks would need to be 4x bigger, cooled, and instead of leaking, will explode. This may qualify as the dumbest question on slashdot I've seen.
Slush hydrogen solves some of these problems, the energy density is higher, the tanks can be smaller, but you still need cooling and added complexity.
History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men...
Now I have to go home and play Guitar Hero
And lastly good luck breaking into my safe if I don't tell you where it is or what the combo is.
No problem. Just have a 3-year-old open it.
Clearly it was a minor typo, and he meant:
Depth to America!
Depth to America!
Depth to America!
close, but it's actually
Debt to America!
Debt to America!
Debt to America!
Before you get too caught up in your jingoism, do remember that the Obama administration had the guy who made the "Innocence of Muslims" movie thrown in jail through some trumped-up parole violation. (Apparently posting a video with a screen name is "using an alias" now.)
Even in the grand old United States, you only have "freedom" of speech until they figure out some other way to send you to jail.
Apparently, posting a video to YouTube under a screen name is a violation of his parole agreement to
a) not use the Internet
b) not use fictitious names.
I thought oh, Amazon is buying Texas. That should help with the sales tax issue
replying to undo accidental redundant moderation.
Wasn't one of those examples related to recipes? Have you ever tried to surf the web while cooking?
If you thought your keyboard was dirty now...
yes, all the time. I have a netbook that is my kitchen computer. I look up recipes, etc. It's not dirty, because I don't have it in the same part of the kitchen that I'm measuring ingredients in.
100% sounds efficient, but if you're set on electric heating then it's pretty lousy compared to an electric heat-pump. For example, I have an aircon at home that runs at about 400-500% efficiency for heating - not unusual these days. Admittedly, though, it's not so easy to fit as a light bulb, and not so bright either!
I've got a heat pump and it's much more affordable in the winter than electric heating. My wife's previous apartment was the bottom floor of a converted old house with electric radiant panels in the ceiling. It was a terrible design, because if you were right under them, you'd feel a bit of warmth, but they didn't heat the house at all (well, probably the upstairs neighbors). Her 2-room apartment had a $350 / month electric bill in the winter, and she kept her thermostat at 50F. Now, we live in a 6-room house with a heat pump, and our electric bill is about $160 in the winter, with the thermostat at 68F.
Will it blend?
Yeah, I think http://www.betterplace.com/ has the better idea. Swapping out a battery in just a few minutes is far superior to waiting 30 minutes for a charge.
I'd love to see Tesla working with those guys. The Tesla cars with the Better Place battery swap system would be great!
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberrys!" -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
