Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[jonasshirtfront]

 

[Hooligan87]

T-Rex's have short arms and cannot masturbate. Looks like the lovely young woman in the picture has her work cut out for her.

That actually reminds me of this video involving a horse I saw on the internet once.

 

[jonasshirtfront]

T-Rex's have short arms and cannot masturbate. Looks like the lovely young woman in the picture has her work cut out for her.

That actually reminds me of this video involving a horse I saw on the internet once.

Was it being eaten by a dinosaur?

 

[Stromageddon]

i'm drunk

loooomao

 

[elsler]

Z Nation is a better series - much cornier and a good laugh.

didn't mind it but i don't know where its going for season 2 considering a nuke is about to land on them

 

[I Dont Care]

Look all I need is the next Fallout on PS4 cheers #hurryup

Yes. Next Fallout. In Boston, on PS.....PC

 

[Power Raid]

I'm sold on nuclear energy. Modern reactors tend to be smaller and run portions of a city, not the old style Long Island and Chernobyl type that rightly scared the crap out of people. This state needs an industry and this is one in which we can add value and become world experts rather than just pull it out of the ground and ship it off. Still need to overcome the NIMBYism to get it off of the ground though.

Edit: ^what he just said

FWIW both of the examples you mentioned were not nuclear power plants as a primary purpose. They were plutonium generators designed to make fuel for bombs and produced power as a by-product.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Power-Reactors/Appendices/RBMK-Reactors/

"The Soviet-designed RBMK (reaktor bolshoy moshchnosty kanalny, high-power channel reactor) is a pressurised water-cooled reactor with individual fuel channels and using graphite as its moderator. It is also known as the light water graphite reactor (LWGR). It is very different from most other power reactor designs as it derived from a design principally for plutonium production and was intended and used in Russia for both plutonium and power production."

 

[Power Raid]

To paraphrase Redgum - Jay Weatherill made me a nuclear cop.

As Power Raid told me, 99.7% of nuclear power plant waste ie the nuclear waste rods is unused energy and thats why they are radioactive waste for 4.5 billion years. This commission has to have experts tell us how the next couple of generations of enrichment will be able to use the majority of that 99.7% of energy. Crack that nut and I'm all for a full nuclear fuel cycle including a world storage depository. And build pebble bed reactors not nuclear rods ones, where helium is used to cool the reactor not water and you eliminate so many safety issues.

Get it right and SA has a thousand year industry no one can take away.

I better disclose an interest in uranium, getting heavily involved after a global due diligence 6 months after Fukushima.


It is 99.3% of the uranium mined, I must have given you the wrong number

The significance of just one mine in SA
The expansion of Olympic Dam would have seen some 15,000t of U3O8 produced each year (http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/olympic-dam/). Which is about 20-25% of the worlds current demand (being 68,000t per year). 75% of the current demand is met by mining whilst 25% is met by reprocessing tailings, spent fuel rods and the mega tonnes to mega watts program decommissioning bombs (which is finishing). Meaning there is a need for 25% additional supply within 3 years!

Why now
It is however expected that uranium demand will double in the next 20 years and SA should position itself with the growth in demand and the 25% current shortfall in production as we run out of bombs to reprocess.

Why SA
WA and the NT are blessed with great uranium deposits but the Saudi Arabia of uranium is SA.

Australia has 1,706,100 tonnes 29% percentage of world resources and most of that is in SA

SA would only need 200t annually for its own use and all of Australia would only need 2,500 tonnes at most. Meaning we have 680 years worth without another drill hole or any efficiencies. With efficiencies we would have 136,400 years supply.

The 99.3% thing
99.3% of U308 is U238 and 0.7% U235. We currently mine the U, process it to U3O8 then enrich the 0.7% to 4-5% to put into reactors. The spent fuel still contain 1% U235 meaning we have haven't used 20% of the 235 or 99.44% of the total uranium mined.

Note to power all of SA 1GW power station supplemented by wind, solar etc would suffice and would only use 200t U3O8 per year but only use actually use 1t.

Gen IV reactors will burn far more efficiently and are expected to generate 100 to 300 times more efficiently than current reactors. The Russian BN1200 will produce power at $0.023/kwh which makes it the cleanest cheapest power.


The crazy bit
At $200-300/lb U3O8 (7-10 times current price), but only an increase of around 20% in costs, we can mine U3O8 from sea water. That equates to some 4,000,000,000t. There are much lower hanging fruit including the current resources, further exploration and the logical ones like taking uranium out of phosphate before we spread it all over our farms as fertiliser and coal before we burn it and let it fall out over our cities.



Nuclear industry in OZ
Personally I don't want to see Gen 3+ reactors built in Oz but I am all for Gen4 reactors, nuclear medicine and becoming a world leader in the entire nuclear cycle (including education). This is something we do not need to pay US companies the privilege of working for them (like the car industry)!

I don't care if we never build a reactor but I do care that we are currently just digging it up and not getting involved with the smart part of the industry.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Associating with the crows helped Adelaide Bite no end as they lost their home baseball grand final series to Perth 2-1 on the weekend.

 

[I Dont Care]

I don't care if we never build a reactor but I do care that we are currently just digging it up and not getting involved with the smart part of the industry.

This. I have always thought the same. Plus, I knew you would get my name in there somewhere, Raid

 

[bomberclifford]

 

[Garibaldi Red]

Felt ripped off at the WC warm up game yesterday. Went to see the Aussies play India and instead we got Auaatzua

#freetickets

 

[bomberclifford]

 

[Papa G]

61 to 39. Only 12 change their vote and it's a different outcome. If most of the ministry/outer ministry voted for Tone, as well the Nationals, the Right Wing Crazzies and those that hate Turnbull, given those numbers, I reckon Mal will be PM by sometime in March.

 

[Grave Danger]

Felt ripped off at the WC warm up game yesterday. Went to see the Aussies play India and instead we got Auaatzua
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#freetickets

On 5aark yesterday they were saying that the game was "sold out". Looks like lots of empty seats there (unless that was taken well before the game started), but how do you sell out #freetickets ?

 

[Garibaldi Red]

On 5aark yesterday they were saying that the game was "sold out". Looks like lots of empty seats there (unless that was taken well before the game started), but how do you sell out #freetickets ?

The crowd was not huge that's for sure. We got there about 8 overs in, and left after the Aussie innings and the crowd size didn't alter dramatically. The majority of people kept within the shaded areas.

They had 27K GA tickets that were all claimed and I assume that a number of people grabbed the maximum of 8 tickets and only used a few of them.

 

[raman]

On 5aark yesterday they were saying that the game was "sold out". Looks like lots of empty seats there (unless that was taken well before the game started), but how do you sell out #freetickets ?

For whatever reason the ICC obviously limited the numbers they "sold". Maybe they just underestimated how much people like going to Adelaide Oval at the moment. But more likely they just wanted a logistical dry run with a small crowd.

Interestingly they had more food and bar staff working than at the couple of packed T20 games I went to this year.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

61 to 39. Only 12 change their vote and it's a different outcome. If most of the ministry/outer ministry voted for Tone, as well the Nationals, the Right Wing Crazzies and those that hate Turnbull, given those numbers, I reckon Mal will be PM by sometime in March.

Not Nationals voted. The LNP members and senators from Qld split up and some sit inside the Liberal's party room and some sit inside the National's party room. CLP members from NT dont sit in the Liberal's room. See on right hand side of this page and you will be able to see how they get to 101 in the party room.

Did one person abstain, deliberately vote informal is just ****en incompetent and produced an infromal vote??? The result was 61-39-1 member O's - 1 informal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Australia

 

[Stromageddon]

What an odd scorecard...

 

[Powerstufff]

... I don't care if we never build a reactor ....

Let's just convert the desal plant. Everyone's a winner then.

 

[Powerstufff]

61 to 39. Only 12 change their vote and it's a different outcome ....

At this point IMO the result doesn't matter unless somehow it was 100% Budgie Boy. The fact the vote even took place is the key. From this point the result is nearly always the same, dumped by the party or resigns unless an election is close and the voters do the job for them.
Meanwhile Labor officials will be raising glasses all over the nation to celebrate that Tony's still captain. Especially in NSW, as they head for the polls at the end of March.

 

[tangolikelama]

At this point IMO the result doesn't matter unless somehow it was 100% Budgie Boy. The fact the vote even took place is the key. From this point the result is nearly always the same, dumped by the party or resigns unless an election is close and the voters do the job for them.
Meanwhile Labor officials will be raising glasses all over the nation to celebrate that Tony's still captain. Especially in NSW, as they head for the polls at the end of March.

Das it mane, das it

 

[Concussion]

Whilst the BF boffins discuss the world issues of Nuclear Power, Oz Politics, etc I am reflecting on my healthy choice of lunch in Cheese & Roo Kranskies with chips and Johnnos spicy tomato sauce.

I think I might be reminded of this for the rest of the afternoon

 

[Powerstufff]

I cannot help but be impressed by this guy's thoroughness.
Drunk crashes into police car
"... A drunk and unlicensed driver who was travelling in an unregistered and uninsured ute has crashed into a police car after failing to give way in Adelaide ..."

 

[Powerstufff]

This Titus O'Reily effort is absolute gold:

The LNP leadership spill: how your AFL team reacted