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by nukeman 2y ago
Interesting, I hadn’t realized the range was so short. I guess if they did trans-Pacific it would mostly be limited to Seattle to Tokyo, or routes with a stopover in Hawaii.
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by nukeman 2y ago
I think the real advantage would be for transpacific flights. San Francisco to Tokyo is currently about 11.5 hours, assuming a similar ratio (maybe slightly better due to flying supersonic for longer), Boom’s time would be around 6.5 to 7 h
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by nukeman 2y ago
Old World Vultures are not closely related to New World Vultures (which are closer to storks). The mechanism which kills vultures in India and Africa does not present the same issue in vultures native to North America.
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by nukeman 3y ago
But the severity of Chernobyl definitely fomented anti-nuclear sentiment much further than it had been. It “showed” that a major radiological release could happen in a civilian power plant (nonwithstanding that such designs weren’t used in
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by nukeman 3y ago
1. Being on the front lines of the Cold War, in the event of a hot war, most nuclear weapons would be used in West Germany. (Yes, weapons aren’t power plants, but they can be hard to separate in popular discourse.) 2. Plans to build a nucle
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by nukeman 3y ago
DC has an advantage in newness and in materials selection (tiny tiles with lots of grout looks cool for 5 minutes), as well as having relatively fewer station layouts. t. former NoVa resident
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by nukeman 3y ago
No, it gives off alpha particles and gamma rays. Hypothetically, you could build a device to harvest that energy (along the lines of an RTG), but the energy density and conversion efficiency would be laughable, given the 3.8 day half-life a
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by nukeman 3y ago
Thanks!
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by nukeman 3y ago
Likely due to: - Environmental regulations requiring NEPA analysis or categorical exclusion - State laws on who can perform road construction - Construction codes for roadways and bridges - Miscellaneous overhead for other areas (e.g., Huma
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by nukeman 3y ago
I’d be interested to hear your thoughts, this jibes with mine on the subject to an extent.
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by nukeman 3y ago
This is a real disappointment. My most recent Best Buy purchase was a PS4 copy of GTA V to give as a gift. I’d previously purchased several movies from them. I liked being able to buy these items in person, without having to worry about dam
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by nukeman 3y ago
Do you have links to pilot blogs/discussions about this? I’d be curious to give it a read.
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by nukeman 3y ago
As a blank check, sure. But there are specific regulations that could be removed. For example, the U.S. prohibits automatic load following equipment in nuclear plants, while the French allow it. It would allow for a control room operator to
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by nukeman 3y ago
I know your comment was sarcastic, but today I was wondering if you could do remote control via SIPRNet or JWICS (military computer networks) and avoid the issues associated with conventional controls.
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by nukeman 3y ago
Quantity. One of the big issues with nuclear power is that we aren’t building frequently enough, and therefore lose expertise and capability, which drives up costs, both from screw-ups and from not being able to amortize over a large produc
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by nukeman 3y ago
There are plenty of cleared jobs that don’t do polygraphs. I work for a DOE contractor. Q-cleared, no poly. The vast majority of positions where I am don’t have a polygraph associated with them.
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by nukeman 3y ago
A lump of raw ore on a shelf in your home office? Sure. Uranium ore in ton quantities, underground in a poorly ventilated mine? That’s a big health risk, due to radon, other daughter products, and the inherent heavy metal hazards of uranium
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by nukeman 3y ago
It’s 70 years after the death of the author. So if Andy Weir died tomorrow, The Martian wouldn’t enter the public domain until 2093.
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by nukeman 3y ago
Yes, you can have the reactor offline, with control rods inserted for launch. Then when you reach the requisite altitude, withdraw the control rods and start up the reactor. In the event of a launch accident and potential destruction of th
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by nukeman 3y ago
Hypothetically, if the technique can enrich U, Pu, or other fissile isotopes in decent quantities, you run into other issues. Stirring an aqueous enriched uranium solution is a great way to have a criticality accident (cf. https:/&#x2
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by nukeman 3y ago
It’s still a point source, and thus cheaper and easier than direct air capture. I don’t think it will be as significant as some think it will be (we will likely move toward different processes for the remaining limited petrochemical product
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by nukeman 3y ago
Is there any way to link up which designer works with which contract manufacturer (or at least the models)? And are there any exceptions? I seem to recall Alienware stuff was made in Florida at some point.
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by nukeman 3y ago
By the way, I never thanked you for the replies. This stuff is really great, thank you!
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by nukeman 3y ago
Per the CDC, they estimate 59,000 deaths worldwide due to rabies, with the vast majority caused by dogs. There may be more deaths that are unreported. https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/world/index.html
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by nukeman 3y ago
The 1972 ban was in the United States. It wasn’t global, and even the Stockholm Convention allows for vector control using DDT. In any case, starting in the 1960s DDT-resistant mosquitos began to emerge, so continued non-targeted spraying l
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by nukeman 3y ago
Tough to say. Not all countries have total bans on DDT, and even the Stockholm Convention exempted vector control from the ban on certain organochlorine compounds. In any case, DDT-resistant mosquitoes were already starting to occur in the
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by nukeman 3y ago
The cause is mostly rabies infections acquired from either strays or village/communal dogs (not quite pets, but not strays either).
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by nukeman 3y ago
Loud minorities can form a market, if they are willing to put their money where their mouth is. But too often they don’t (cf. the “brown manual diesel wagon” from the car world. Enthusiasts say they want one, but when a manufacturer puts on
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by nukeman 3y ago
Interesting, what made you go for wood fiber insulation versus something like ICF? Also, UK or Canada? Noticed the spelling difference.
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by nukeman 3y ago
I’m curious to hear about what you did with the house (I’m thinking about building/renovating a house in a few years). Did you go DIY or hire a contractor? What were some of your replacements for plastics?

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