On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:18:31 -0400 Rich Thomas
wrote:
> Looks like the Outer Banks and Cape Cod and the Islands are going to be
> closest to the track. I think my BIL and MIL are on Nantucket for a
> coupla weeks, I'll have to check in with them. Could be wild.
Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5
The Wiki on Thorium talks about breeding Th(232) to U(233) in a
continuous process. Is this the 'breeder reactor' that has been talked
about since the 1970s?
'Breeder' refers to any cycle that produces more fuel than it
uses up, from nominally less- or non-radioactive materials.
Of course, it's
Dieselhead wrote:
There is a rule of thumb in the used parts business that goes something
like this. The parts that are popular now may not be in 5 years. The
parts you scrap now because there is no market, often become hard to
find later.
But that doesn't mean there becomes a market for th
There is a rule of thumb in the used parts business that goes
something like this. The parts that are popular now may not be in 5
years. The parts you scrap now because there is no market, often
become hard to find later.
In all cases any given thing is worth what someone will actually pay
In all cases any given thing is worth what someone will actually pay for it...
As someone who has recently parted (somewhat) a car and is looking at doing
another (sigh) I can vouch for it being a big effort. In retrospect I left many
good parts in my 190D but I just couldn't afford the time to
John Reames wrote:
Where will all of this magical radioactive fuel come from?
The half life of radioactives starts the moment it is formed; for any
significant quantities to exist it would have to have a really long half life,
be produced by the breakdown of something else, or there was a LOT
I agree
See this link for diffusion of innovation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
And this one for more background about diffusion of innovation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Rogers
The work of Ryan and Gross in the 40s and the
later work of Rogers is the foundatio
I think that you are correct that there are a lot of vested interests
(political, corporate and others) that would not like to see thorium
reactors. However we have reached a point in American political life where
citizen opinion and action are reaching a "critical mass" and can have a
powerful ef
I believe there are complete plans and some working pilot projects, but no
full-scale operations as yet. However the proof-of-concept exists, and the
technical hurdles to full-scale operation at this time are trivial compared
to the practicality of other clean sources such as fusion, solar and win
I am not a nuclear physicist either.
As I see it, here is the big problem, other than
commercializing the technology:
"You can run civilisation on thorium for hundreds
of thousands of years, and it's essentially free.
You don't have to deal with uranium cartels," he
said."
If the utility
The half-life of Thorium itself is huge- 1.405×10 to the 10th. power. It is
the half-life of the waste products of Thorium fission that is short.
According to Wikipedia, Thorium is about as abundant as Lead. There's lots
of that stuff around.
It's not magical, it's just a technology that has not
According to the article it is a by product of current mining
standards. I too am skeptical, after all no mention of a working
solution was mentioned, Greg do you know of any working solutions?
A little reading on wikipedia (God bless the wiki) is interesting. There
was a plan in operation f
Where will all of this magical radioactive fuel come from?
The half life of radioactives starts the moment it is formed; for any
significant quantities to exist it would have to have a really long half life,
be produced by the breakdown of something else, or there was a LOT of it
around...
I'd
I am NOT a nuclear physicist, but had some advanced physics, chemistry and
philosophy of science courses in college. I have had a lifelong interest in
keeping current in scientific advances. I have a pretty solid layman's
understanding of how this stuff works. I think this is a winning technolog
Since it has come up before,
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/31/battery_cars_destroy_the_world/
...
> But if you just want to emit less carbon right away, it seems you should buy
> a modern eco-diesel rather than an electric vehicle. ®
...
Someone call CARB and let them know.
-Tim
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I know there's at least one nuclear physicist on this list, so what do you think
of this?
Mitch
There is no certain bet in nuclear physics but work by Nobel laureate Carlo
Rubbia at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) on the use of
thorium as a cheap, clean and safe alternative
It's only worth as much as someone who has a use for it is willing to pay
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On Aug 31, 2010 11:14 AM, "R A Bennell" wrote:
> But, if it is still in the car, one can likely get it running and check it
out a bit. Once on a pallet it is much
> more of a gamble if buying from someone one does not k
Looks like it is taking a bead on the Carolinas. The question is whether it
is strong/large enough to resist steering currents that would veer it to the
N and then NW.
I love hurricanes!
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Mitch Haley wrote:
> Rich Thomas wrote:
>
>> Looks like the Outer Banks an
But, if it is still in the car, one can likely get it running and check it out
a bit. Once on a pallet it is much
more of a gamble if buying from someone one does not know.
Randy
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Rolf wrote:
> The engine has ~160k on it. Assuming there is papers proving maintenance and
> all it is worth more than that to someone, just my 2 cents. A good engine
> with unknown mileage or history goes but verifiable compression goes for
> about $800 here. Know
The engine has ~160k on it. Assuming there is papers proving maintenance
and all it is worth more than that to someone, just my 2 cents. A good
engine with unknown mileage or history goes but verifiable compression
goes for about $800 here. Knowing that it has a new tc, recently
services inject
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:11 PM, wrote:
http://www.mbworld.org/forums/e-class-w123/335940-my-sad-300d-story.html#post4224228
"The engine is worth more than that [$1000]."
What planet are these people on, and can I move there, since there
seems to be no Great Recessi
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:11 PM, wrote:
>
> http://www.mbworld.org/forums/e-class-w123/335940-my-sad-300d-story.html#post4224228
>
"The engine is worth more than that [$1000]."
What planet are these people on, and can I move there, since there
seems to be no Great Recession happening there?
Al
Looks like the Outer Banks and Cape Cod and the Islands are going to be
closest to the track. I think my BIL and MIL are on Nantucket for a
coupla weeks, I'll have to check in with them. Could be wild.
-R
On 8/31/10 9:44 AM, Mitch Haley wrote:
Could be the first Atlantic Category 5 since 20
Rich Thomas wrote:
Looks like the Outer Banks and Cape Cod and the Islands are going to be
closest to the track. I think my BIL and MIL are on Nantucket for a
coupla weeks, I'll have to check in with them. Could be wild.
If it gets back up to 134 knots, that would be very wild.
Even if it st
As long as he is will willing to split it I am okay. heheh
Mike
On Aug 30, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Mountain Man wrote:
Mike wrote:
I will Start the bidding at 20.00.
I think he charges $150 each for shipping...
mao
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Could be the first Atlantic Category 5 since 2007.
Buoys To Watch
120 miles east of Canaveral
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41010
40 miles ENE of st. Augustine, Florida
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41012
40 Miles ESE of Savannah
http://www.ndbc.noaa.
Sounds like you got it! I'll bring up my '95 next so you can
trouble-shoot the oil sensor...
-Max
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Excellent! If you're suspicious about your heat shields you could
replace them for peace of mind, but many folks have mistaken the
behavior of spilled fuel at base of injector as a leak from the
combustion side.
-Max
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