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[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="692" id="3404018"] Quoting Cykur, reply 691There really isn't any additional risk with a waste processing reactor, not anymore than already exists.. I dunno... I don't want to troll you, it just looks to much like a breeder reactor to me. Are you absolutely sure it's not a breeder reactor? Because it looks to me like you can put anything you want into such a reactor and it'll produce all possible isotopes. Thi

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="690" id="3403987"] I wouldn't want them to run on waste! Currently the waste (plutonium) is buried safely underground, or deep in the ocean - whereever one can not touch it and abuse it. As soon as such waste products are handled and brought above ground, you START introducing problems. It is brought near habitable areas, it's concentrated, transported... and if that's done globally, there's a risk of abuse. What happens if pl

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="688" id="3403975"] Ok, it looked like a breeder reactor because it can breed the complete spectrum of isotopes... from uranium to plutonium to... very short-live waste. That's the idea behind a breeder. http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/2013/02/28/u-s-china-molten-salt-nuclear-adviser-among-vets-joining-transatomic-board/ It seems like it's more or less intended for use of thorium anyway. I'd prefer

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="685" id="3403968"] I'm not sure, but I think that's a breeder reactor too.[/quote] It is a type of molten salt reactor, it is NOT a breeder reactor. EDIT: Just to clarify, there can be molten salt breeder reactors and there can be thorium molten salt reactors as well. The one that Transatomic wants to build they specifically call a "Waste Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor" because it uses its fuel to

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="683" id="3403964"]I'd prefer to spend some more resources on less risky ways of producting energy, than to replace one risk (runaway global warming) with another risk (nuclear apocalypse) just because it's "more economical".[/quote] One more thing, if you don't want either fossil fuel OR nuclear, what are YOU suggesting. Maybe I missed it somewhere in all the reams of posts. Other energy sources have limitations. Hydro and

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="683" id="3403964"] You're probably refering to breeder reactors. http://e360.yale.edu/feature/are_fast-breeder_reactors_a_nuclear_power_panacea/2557/ It says (among other things): "Fast reactors can be run in different ways, either to destroy plutonium, to maximise energy production, or to produce new plutonium." I wouldn't like breeder reactors everywhere on the world that are using plutonium as a fuel source (or pro

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="681" id="3403962"] I suppose you got it from here. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Uranium-Resources/Supply-of-Uranium/#.Ulul7538I-U It mentions that consumption is 68,000 tons/year. The reserves are enough for about 80 years of production. However, only a small percentage of the total energy production is supplied by nuclear reactors, therefore those reserves cannot supply the total world energy requirement&nb

[quote who="Seleuceia" reply="674" id="3403899"] I'm not inclined to bother with the AGW debate, as no one here is changing their opinion... I will however tackle a discussion about alternative energy... Nuclear accidents are a problem...while rare, they are "big" and so when they do happen it's a big boondoggle...the uranium mining process is also a problem because it is a highly volumetric type of mining and all that radioactive rock is now just laying on

[quote who="Jafo" reply="672" id="3403861"] Quoting Cykur, reply 671The only way to get off fossil fuel is to price it out of the game You mean....like taxing it at least as much as the rest of the world does...and thus help subsidise alternatives? Yep....while the world really seems to love the idea of a carbon tax..... ....not.[/quote] No, I was thinking more along the lines of future, safer nuclear plants that were cost ef

Barring some mind blowing breakthrough, fusion is not a practical or cost effective solution for the near future. There are existing technologies to make safe nuclear plants, we just have to implement them rather than using old designs that generate tons of nuclear waste to just sit around waiting to be mismanaged or in the case of Fukushima, have both mismanagement and a natural disaster. Something like Transatomic's proposed modern salt reactor that actually consumes EXISTIN

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="665" id="3403668"]We produce over 10 billion tonnes of carbon a year. The biomass of the entire earth is about 500 billion tonnes of carbon (excluding bacteria), which means that every 50 years, we dig up the equivalent of all (visible) life on our planet from deep in the earth where it's been buried for millions of years and add this to the existing carbon cycle. Such an act creates enormous stress on an existing system that so far was more or less

[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="27" id="3403573"]I tried to give GameStop a chance, I had much invested in Impulse, but it didn't work out. I tried to pre-ordering a few products, but they didn't seem to warn you what sorts of DRM these products would have. I have pictures (screenshots) of the details pages of these products not listing any DRM before release. It was only after release did I find out what DRM they carried. Some were Steam, some were SecuRom. Of course, I tried to ask

[quote who="Alstein" reply="21" id="3403418"]I often wonder what would have happened if Gamersgate had bought Impulse- that would have been a good combination, or if Impulse could have been spun off into its own entity the way Paradox did Gamersgate.[/quote] Yeah, I also preferred Impulse. I didn't start using Steam until you couldn't get the games anymore without it, even if you didn't purchase from Steam. I liked the Impulse model better, but i

If you guys want to look at how the US compares for the "common man" vs other countries, you should probably look at Median PPP (purchasing power) by country. The US is #4 on the list. It is lower in terms of actual income, but purchasing power is a better indicator because many goods and services are quite inexpensive in the US compared to other countries, and by taking the median you are seeing a better representation how most of the population vs being shifted up by the wealthi

This is really interesting, I too wondered what the exact reason was for selling Impulse. I assumed it was because you decided you didn't want to compete with Steam, so you sold Impulse while it was a very valuable property and let someone else wage that battle. It makes more sense now that you describe what it had done to your corporate culture. In a way, your company experienced a microcosm of how Wall St. tries to do to business these days. Everything is based

This list seems pretty biased to a certain style of movie....there are a many other fantastic animated movies.... the first ones that came to mind for me were Howl's Moving Castle, Akira, and I couldn't believe the original list didn't have Wall-E.

[quote who="XATHOS" reply="90" id="3400832"] This is so stupid. You're bitching for them to remove a component of the game engine. Won't be done. Deal with it.[/quote] True, no one is going to change the engine, but the command to manually move ships in the Z-axis could be disabled so people can't abuse it. Ships would still move in the Z-axis occasionally when their path required it. That said, this is an extremely mature game, and I

Yeah, stocks probably won't be much affected unless this goes on for a month and the Treasury is depleted and can't pay all of the bills. There may be hundreds of thousands of individual people who can be very affected if they don't get paid, but it takes a while for that lack of consumer spending power to hurt the economy. If the shutdown goes long enough to hurt consumer spending power, then the markets will react to the much bigger problem of the US defaulting on bi

[quote who="StevenAus" reply="14" id="3389304"] It is a different time from the 1930s, and there are a lot of positive things happening, if you avoid the doom and gloom merchants (the mainstream media). And worrying about all the worst possible scenarios isn't really beneficial or productive. If it happens, it happens. Why reduce one's own happiness today for something that might never happen, and even if it did, there would be nothing one could do about i

How fast necessities run out will depend a lot on where you live and if the problem is localized, nationwide, or global. Being able to get some kind of help from somewhere else is going to make a huge difference. It is pretty hard to knock out the entire country, unless of course the whole world is affected. Assuming it is the whole world.....the biggest cities are probably going to have looting and anarchy within days, well before people actually deplete canned and dry

I noticed something similar trying to use the GameStop web portal ....no record of my previous purchases. However, when I used the Impulse/Gamestop application, I could see all the games under my account. You probably still have access if you use the downloader at: http://www.impulsedriven.com/about This might be helpful to you or someone else if they have other games via Gamestop. I&

Just to rule out the obvious, did you research the star travel or worm hole travel technologies?

Interesting, there have been a number of articles tying success to people who don't require much sleep. Seems like many CEO's / Executives claim not to need much sleep, though I'm only familiar with the anecdotal claims -- not sure if a study has been done on success vs sleep requirements. Not to deflect your thread from the flame warriors site, just thought it was interesting you don't need much sleep.

We used to have clans for the first couple years the game was out, but it became kind of pointless after a while. The reason clans don't really work is that the community is so small, it is almost impossible to get a clan vs clan fight going, and a bunch of random people are not going to fight a clan team, even if we did 4v6 or occasionally 3v7. Since people tend to prefer to pick teams, there was no real advantage to being on a clan.....in fact, once picking teams became the

[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="59" id="3383118"] Well, that's not all you said about his gameplay, but it's cool [/quote] It's actually kind of un-cool.