On 17 Nov 2013, at 04:24, Samiya Illias wrote:
Bruno wrote: "In a sense, with comp, the illusions and dreams are
more real that the stuff we imagine, which are useful fictions."
Dreams and illusions are not stuff we imagine?
Not really, because the "we" is part of the dreams.
With comp,
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:41 AM, meekerdb wrote:
> On 11/16/2013 11:36 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
>>>
>>> But I certainly take your point that there is a reason the government is
>>> not
>>> >trusted. However, it is not the government that is warning us about
>>> > global
>>> >warming. It is in th
I think K. Susskind, is, or was a supporter of Boltzmann Brains, which is a
wild, subject, if true.
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Perhaps I am raising the technology bar, way too high, but I have suspected,
that there is some sort of nuclear phenomena, be it fission or fusion, that is
usable for human civilization-some laboratory phenomena, that never got looked
at, because with all the focus on carbon fuel, renewable, f
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 4:12 PM, wrote:
> Doesn't Thorium 232 need plutonium to initiate a fertile reaction into a
> fissile one. That is converting Th232 into U233?
>
Yes, a LFTR needs a sort of spark plug, a strong source of neutrons to get
the cycle going. Only about 1000 pounds of Uranium en
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
> Perhaps you should read: The End of Cheap Uranium, by Dr Michael Dittmar,
> of the Institute of Particle Physics (at CERN),
>
Dittmar wrote that in 2011, since then despite inflation the price of
Uranium has gone down not up. Historically
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
>> A regular reactor produces lots of neutrons but a LFTR makes less of
>> them, so it needs all that U233 to keep the chain reaction going, if you
>> try stealing some the reactor will simply stop operating making the theft
>> obvious.
>>
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 Richard Ruquist wrote:
> Global temperatures fell from 1950 to 1980 while CO2 atm content was
> rising. Can you explain that?
>
I can't explain that, nor do I understand why in the late Ordovician period
450 million years ago there was a huge 4400 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphe
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
> wait to see what happens to the cancer rates over the next fifty years.
>
I don't now about Fukushima but I do know that the predictions of huge
increases of cancer from Chernobyl have proved to be enormous exaggerations:
http://www.ny
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On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Chris de Morsella
wrote:
>> A regular rea
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Chris de Morsella
wrote:
>
On 11/16/2013 2:37 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
2013/11/14 Telmo Menezes mailto:te...@telmomenezes.com>>
Hi Alberto,
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Alberto G. Corona mailto:agocor...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Yes.
>
> I proposed myself not to argue against sectarian apocalyp
On 11/16/2013 12:51 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
Dry rock geothermal certainly does have a big upside potential -- there is a whole lot
of heat just a few miles below the ground, but it is not as easy or simple as you seem
to think it is. For example in a lot of dry areas water supply becomes a
On 11/16/2013 1:12 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote:
Doesn't Thorium 232 need plutonium to initiate a fertile reaction into a
fissile one.
No. It needs some seed of a neutron emitter to get the breeding cycle started, but U235
will work.
Brent
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On 11/16/2013 12:51 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
Dry rock geothermal c
Chris: you said it. I did not refer to "hydraulic fracturing' or "injecting
(anything) INTO THE ROCK". I am talking about
EXTRACTING H E A T only, in a CLOSED system. The carrying water must not
touch the surrounding 'reservoir', must stay
inside the well-system, in which it heats up for ascendin
How exactly then is the heat exchanged. Heat exchangers work by exposing a
large surface area in which to transfer heat from the source into the
working fluid or conversely from the working fluid into the heat sink if
heat is being pumped in the opposite direction.
If you do not accomplish creati
On 11/16/2013 10:17 PM, LizR wrote:
On 16 November 2013 19:54, meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>>
wrote:
On 11/15/2013 8:36 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
First, I think maybe we disagree as to what constitutes a police state. My
definition of it is one in which the police can
On 11/17/2013 4:25 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:41 AM, meekerdb wrote:
On 11/16/2013 11:36 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
But I certainly take your point that there is a reason the government is
not
trusted. However, it is not the government that is warning us about
global
wa
Well, those PV panels are of course using a handy fusion reactor.
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If the universe exists for long enough they appear to be inevitable. No
doubt that leads to some sort of Bayesian argument about the universe not
being able to last too long, or we'd all be BBs (too long would be an
awfully long time, to misquote Peter Pan).
However, can we be sure we aren't? Mayb
On 18 November 2013 03:29, wrote:
> Perhaps I am raising the technology bar, way too high, but I have
> suspected, that there is some sort of nuclear phenomena, be it fission or
> fusion, that is usable for human civilization-some laboratory phenomena,
> that never got looked at, because with al
On 18 November 2013 11:13, meekerdb wrote:
> On 11/16/2013 10:17 PM, LizR wrote:
>
> On 16 November 2013 19:54, meekerdb wrote:
>
>> On 11/15/2013 8:36 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
>>
>> First, I think maybe we disagree as to what constitutes a police
>> state. My definition of it is one in
This is quite simple. Markets ignore the commons, hence a free market
solution can't - or is highly unlikely - to work. No one is going to clean
up the commons, just as they didn't in medieval villages, because there is
no incentive for an individual, or a specific group, to do so. The tragedy
of t
On Nov 16, 2013, at 8:56 AM, smi...@zonnet.nl wrote:
Quantum mechanics is only an approximate description of the
Mathematical Multiverse. The only things that are real are the
elements of that Multiverse, which are algorithms (some of them
describe people in some computational state).
W
On 11/17/2013 9:30 AM, John Clark wrote:
I can think of one thing that could dramatically not just slow but reverse the growth of
photovoltaics, removing the tax incentives and subsidies. In effect government has been
lying to the free market about the true cost to the economy of solar cells.
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