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[gringo2011]

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Anti Ye-mite. Someone said he put up some hardcore pr0n on twitter then cancelled his account after a few days of upsetting everyone.

 

[jwikked]

Anti Ye-mite. Someone said he put up some hardcore pr0n on twitter then cancelled his account after a few days of upsetting everyone.

some? He linked a lot of videos from his favourite pr0n chick lol, it was completely insane and quite frankly, it was the last straw for me.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

I kind of figure he's got that old man thing happening, where they start to realise they can get away with anything , so they test it, like the old buggers that will walk around in the street with no pants on sort of thing.
Prince Phillip used to do it all the time, but had no-where near as much scope as the Pres of the USA.

Phil the greek probably didn't go out without pants on, but he still had that state of mind.

At least he was funny. ( oops i probably can't say that ).

Prince Philip’s most infamous gaffes: ‘I can’t believe he just said that’

“You’re not wearing mink knickers, are you?”

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Some of it was kind of poignant too.

 

[PoppedCorn]

lol you guys/girls arent going to win the knowledge argument on this topic with TB

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Fukushima also happened, so nuclear was seen as a "why are we doing dis when they go boom yoose guz suck..." type instance at the time. So a sizeable change is no further catastrophic meltdowns occurring.

One thing that I feel really makes nuclear unfeasible in this nation beyond costs and meltdowns is the question "Do we have the water to actually supply the power plants"

We grow cotton in this nation which is already a big user of water and beyond stupid when hemp is there to be used.

 

[True Believer]

One thing that I feel really makes nuclear unfeasible in this nation beyond costs and meltdowns is the question "Do we have the water to actually supply the power plants"

We grow cotton in this nation which is already a big user of water and beyond stupid when hemp is there to be used.

You know they have Nuclear power plants in desert states like California and places like the UAE? How about a closed loop system with cooling towers? You know the same system that uses a radiator in your car - or do you have to drive beside a river to keep your car cool?

 

[Dard Ball Get]

One thing that I feel really makes nuclear unfeasible in this nation beyond costs and meltdowns is the question "Do we have the water to actually supply the power plants"

We grow cotton in this nation which is already a big user of water and beyond stupid when hemp is there to be used.

Melt the icecaps, bottle the water. Simple

 

[CursingFijian]

You know they have Nuclear power plants in desert states like California and places like the UAE? How about a closed loop system with cooling towers? You know the same system that uses a radiator in your car - or do you have to drive beside a river to keep your car cool?

Are you across the purported breakthrough China is making in nuclear fusion right now?

 

[bergholt]

You know they have Nuclear power plants in desert states like California and places like the UAE? How about a closed loop system with cooling towers? You know the same system that uses a radiator in your car - or do you have to drive beside a river to keep your car cool?

The problem is that closed loop systems take even more money and time to build.

I think our best bet is molten salt reactors. I haven't looked at them closely but they seem to be moving ahead pretty well.

 

[True Believer]

Are you across the purported breakthrough China is making in nuclear fusion right now?

Heard about it, but the problem is how much do you believe the info? I think there is a large dose of smoke and mirrors involved.....

One of the things I've come to realise since I started working in the defence industry is how much effort goes into disinformation. Things like keeping real capabilities hidden and creating the impression that you have capabilities that you don't.......huge energy expended on both. As an example, did you know that the vast majority of ferries in China can be adapted virtually overnight, with minimal effort, to accommodate military hardware and effectively be used as landing craft, probably worth knowing if you're in Taiwan.......

 

[Saint Ray]

Heard about it, but the problem is how much do you believe the info? I think there is a large dose of smoke and mirrors involved.....

One of the things I've come to realise since I started working in the defence industry is how much effort goes into disinformation. Things like keeping real capabilities hidden and creating the impression that you have capabilities that you don't.......huge energy expended on both. As an example, did you know that the vast majority of ferries in China can be adapted virtually overnight, with minimal effort, to accommodate military hardware and effectively be used as landing craft, probably worth knowing if you're in Taiwan.......

Wasn't a secret.

 

[True Believer]

Wasn't a secret.

Things like that aren't and cannot be state secrets, but they don't often rate as news, so don't make news.......but like I said, there is a great deal of energy expended on keeping some things quiet and gaining column inches for news that may not be "entirely accurate".......

 

[Sully111]

Karoline Leavitt is a pistol.

Best I've seen at that job.

 

[sunny3193]

 

[StFly]

I just want to say, decided to zinger crunch for lunch today as CBF cooking anything. I don't care for why we have to have say soft tortilla, slaw, spiced chicken that is tender and we decide "I know, I'll add several rock hard pieces of corn chips in here" as a great idea.

Boggles the mind.

What is the point of having a crumb on chicken that is crispy, that is spiced, that provides the crunch that only fried chook can and you randomly then have to crunch a sweet chip?

Last time I have one of those anyway, back to banh mi from bakeries for me, I just felt like a tortilla wrap today... but yeah, F chips in a wrap, whoever came up with that idea needs to be deposited into a bog or something.

 

[True Believer]

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There's some good seafood places in Galveston.....but I wasn't up to speed on the local place names!

 

[gringo2011]

Are you across the purported breakthrough China is making in nuclear fusion right now?

Hopefully it's better than Rolls Royce's.

Seriously though, they've only done it on a small scale. They are still doing research into microwaving solar back from a solar state in the sky.

 

[StFly]

Hopefully it's better than Rolls Royce's.

Seriously though, they've only done it on a small scale. They are still doing research into microwaving solar back from a solar state in the sky.

It's all large scale and further research seemingly with a "maybe" 2030 for "might start feeding into grid" in some areas with fusion.

Given we had one of the first V12 engines in Australia back in the day as our US branch did us a solid, I dare say having an engine of any sort if 2030 pans out would be maybe 2080? I mean I'm not a car guy, but when I first saw that motor and what we planned to stick it in (from memory it was a 60's Camaro and that motor was big) I'm glad it ended up doing doughnuts outside of the building before it got "given away" to a lucky person just to see it in action.

You don't go from hadron colliding to plants to engines in maybe years, that shit takes decades to achieve let alone on mass production means for consumers in general.

 

[gringo2011]

It's all large scale and further research seemingly with a "maybe" 2030 for "might start feeding into grid" in some areas with fusion.

Given we had one of the first V12 engines in Australia back in the day as our US branch did us a solid, I dare say having an engine of any sort if 2030 pans out would be maybe 2080? I mean I'm not a car guy, but when I first saw that motor and what we planned to stick it in (from memory it was a 60's Camaro and that motor was big) I'm glad it ended up doing doughnuts outside of the building before it got "given away" to a lucky person just to see it in action.

You don't go from hadron colliding to plants to engines in maybe years, that shit takes decades to achieve let alone on mass production means for consumers in general.

Engine capacity was in an arms race in the US until around 1973 when the Iran oil crisis hit. All of a sudden people couldn't run a 455ci engine. Japan's auto industry boomed ands never lost ground. The US subsidised their auto industry which meant they stopped innovating. They lead the world before that.

 

[jwikked]

Do Aboriginals suffer from going bald?

Reason I'm asking, there's a player out there tonight with a bit of a bald patch starting. I remember Paddy Ryder had a big one towards the end.

I'm curious if that mutation occurred before the Aboriginals set foot in Australia, or if their male pattern baldness is from European genes. I did a really brief Google search, and apparently Native Americans weren't afflicted with going bald.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

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Big ol patch of water out there past the swamp cleetus.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

It's all large scale and further research seemingly with a "maybe" 2030 for "might start feeding into grid" in some areas with fusion.

Given we had one of the first V12 engines in Australia back in the day as our US branch did us a solid, I dare say having an engine of any sort if 2030 pans out would be maybe 2080? I mean I'm not a car guy, but when I first saw that motor and what we planned to stick it in (from memory it was a 60's Camaro and that motor was big) I'm glad it ended up doing doughnuts outside of the building before it got "given away" to a lucky person just to see it in action.

You don't go from hadron colliding to plants to engines in maybe years, that shit takes decades to achieve let alone on mass production means for consumers in general.

V12's were a way of cramming more cylinders into a shorter length.
Common in WW2 aircraft and in a Packard production car in 1935.
They were complex and expensive.
Performance wise, a V8 wasn't superior to a straight 8, or a V6 superior to a straight six , its all packaging.

Henry Ford had the real innovation.
He designed a compact V8 engine , and reduced costs by having a single camshaft, and eventually, the big one, using a low cost cast iron crankshaft instead of a forged steel item.
He ended up with an engine that would fit into the space of a 4 cylinder , with double the power ( and they needed more in those days ), that barely cost more than the 4 cylinder.

Meanwhile in nuclear fusion fairlyland, a nuclear fusion reaction is seriously hot , and nothing can contain anything that hot, so they are trying to contain it in a vortex of superheated gas, like a force field.
The Chinese have not claimed to have controlled a fusion reaction, they have claimed to keep a containment field in place for 20 minutes. ( about twice as long as the previous record ).
Most of the actual fusion reactions earthlings have done so far, have been H bombs.

 

[StFly]

V12's were a way of cramming more cylinders into a shorter length.
Common in WW2 aircraft and in a Packard production car in 1935.
They were complex and expensive.
Performance wise, a V8 wasn't superior to a straight 8, or a V6 superior to a straight six , its all packaging.

Henry Ford had the real innovation.
He designed a compact V8 engine , and reduced costs by having a single camshaft, and eventually, the big one, using a low cost cast iron crankshaft instead of a forged steel item.
He ended up with an engine that would fit into the space of a 4 cylinder , with double the power ( and they needed more in those days ), that barely cost more than the 4 cylinder.

Meanwhile in nuclear fusion fairlyland, a nuclear fusion reaction is seriously hot , and nothing can contain anything that hot, so they are trying to contain it in a vortex of superheated gas, like a force field.
The Chinese have not claimed to have controlled a fusion reaction, they have claimed to keep a containment field in place for 20 minutes. ( about twice as long as the previous record ).
Most of the actual fusion reactions earthlings have done so far, have been H bombs.

Oh yeah I've read things, kind of figure China are full of shit but hey, they can BS as much as they want as they're kind of irrelevant to that space.

Kind of why I stated the whole "taking decades" to get to that v12 aspect where as you say, no real innovation, I was glad to get hands on and use it but really it did SFA to the market as a whole and thus mentioned hadron colliding, as that's where it is at present to say "might" be viable for plants "later".

That's actual fission though, not fusion, fusion is lazy and best kept in the "put this in a missile and fire it at someone" space. Rocketry is highly inefficient, loud and flashy and implodes under its own screaming, last thing it needs is fusion to add more to it.

 

[gringo2011]

V12's were a way of cramming more cylinders into a shorter length.
Common in WW2 aircraft and in a Packard production car in 1935.
They were complex and expensive.
Performance wise, a V8 wasn't superior to a straight 8, or a V6 superior to a straight six , its all packaging.

Henry Ford had the real innovation.
He designed a compact V8 engine , and reduced costs by having a single camshaft, and eventually, the big one, using a low cost cast iron crankshaft instead of a forged steel item.
He ended up with an engine that would fit into the space of a 4 cylinder , with double the power ( and they needed more in those days ), that barely cost more than the 4 cylinder.

Meanwhile in nuclear fusion fairlyland, a nuclear fusion reaction is seriously hot , and nothing can contain anything that hot, so they are trying to contain it in a vortex of superheated gas, like a force field.
The Chinese have not claimed to have controlled a fusion reaction, they have claimed to keep a containment field in place for 20 minutes. ( about twice as long as the previous record ).
Most of the actual fusion reactions earthlings have done so far, have been H bombs.

Longer inline engines needed extra balancing, engineering and bearings. V formation engines have shorter cranks and cams.They don't break as much under speed and strain. Chrysler used extra bearings in their hemi 6 in Australia because the old slant 6 motors were prone to breaking cranks and cams in their performance motors.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Oh yeah I've read things, kind of figure China are full of shit but hey, they can BS as much as they want as they're kind of irrelevant to that space.

Kind of why I stated the whole "taking decades" to get to that v12 aspect where as you say, no real innovation, I was glad to get hands on and use it but really it did SFA to the market as a whole and thus mentioned hadron colliding, as that's where it is at present to say "might" be viable for plants "later".

That's actual fission though, not fusion, fusion is lazy and best kept in the "put this in a missile and fire it at someone" space. Rocketry is highly inefficient, loud and flashy and implodes under its own screaming, last thing it needs is fusion to add more to it.

Chinese are on both.

The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

Small modular reactors (SMRs) won’t save the day quite yet; depending on the country, there’s still plenty of regulatory and logistical issues to hammer out. But, experts say, the 2020s could help set the foundations for a nuclear blossoming in decades to come.

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China Breaks Nuclear Fusion Record, Again | OilPrice.com

Chinese researchers set a new record by sustaining a nuclear fusion reaction at 100 million degrees Celsius for 1,066 seconds.

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