This is going to be horribly inefficient and eat up your camping fuel supply. Just stick one of the numerous available solar panel kits on your backpack...

turbine small enough and sturdy enough for camping use, and light enough to spin under low pressures you could generate would be at least 10x your price estimate. The VR circuit (DC-DC) alone would eat your $5 budget.

I think you'll find that the dissolved oxygen is only there because there's an abundance of oxygen in the atmosphere here on Earth. On Mars, there is no (0%) oxygen content in the atmosphere (which is only 0.01% as dense as on Earth anyway); so, there would be ZERO oxygen dissolved in the water on Mars.

Are they paying Oracle for support? Or are they just using MySQL in their server farm, supporting it with internal resources?

The purchased the interface for the docking datalink. Apparently the values being returned did not match the expected format. Boils down to testing, essentially.

You can't reuse the plant. You might be able to reuse the site and existing support infrastructure for CANDU. Commercial thorium reactors do not exist and the research reactors have not proven (yet) it is a commercially viable option.

I hate feeding trolls; but, the Fukushima reactors are an American design. They were a 2nd generation GE BWR plant design using a 1st generation containment design from the early 1960's, which TEPCO, Toshiba and Hitachi continued to copy. They also appear to have not incorporated any of the safety updates implemented in U.S. plants of the same design. There are quite a few plants, in the U.S., still operating, that are of similar design.

Highest ore concentration is 17%. More typical ore concentrations are on the order of 0.1% to 0.4%

The OP indicated "such a pandemic will kill 2 percent of the infected population, or about 2 million people" They're making the clear assumption as to the number infected. That's why I mentioned it. .

I knew about those. The point is to get people to think about preparation. It's not a case of if but when...

That 2-4 weeks applies to everyone, not the obese. Almost anyone who is physically fit should be able to go for 2 weeks without food. they will be very unhappy; but, they will be alive.

The fatal pandemic will happen, eventually. It's a matter of time and statistics. As for the response to an alien invasion, that's a different report.

They're not. if you read the report, it discusses how they handle the loss of manpower and resources necessary to maintain force. It's normal for them to periodically assess what would happen if... and how they would continue to function in those scenarios. The discussion assumes they have to support civilian population because of the mass casualties and because they are so very, very dependent upon the civilian population and manufacturing base for their support.

First, this is a military response plan to a pandemic. Some aspects of a military response would, of course, be classified. Second, they don't want to induce panic. Or engender complaints. A simple example... They might leave out the lines that read: "Mass casualties are to be placed in pits, the bodies burned, and then buried using available backfill material."

I'm not saying they are always right. Iraq was a huge intel. failure. The psychopath running the country might have needed to go; but, In my opinion, as long as they kept to themselves, we had no reason to go there.

I should have been more clear. No one, iregardless of weight can go "a long time" without eating. a couple of weeks to a month, I believe, is the safe limit. There are plenty of studies... Beyond that, well... go too long and a person begins to suffer organ damage as your body begins to break down tissues in search of proteins; or can't make the proteins necessary to keep the organs healthy. It's not a matter of how much fat reserve a person has... although having fat reserve does allow a person to last somewhat longer. However, a person with fat reserves can tap that reserve in times of famine and go much longer on a much reduced caloric intake. There has to be some intake of proteins and amino acids that the body just can't make or you go right back to my previous statement, ending in organ failure.