Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Killer Power]

Doing my first homebrew from scratch today (well, i didn't grow the grain or hops but hey). Intense, feeling the pressure. May need a beer to calm things down!

 

[Ford Fairlane]

I remember my dad doing that once and half the bottles blew up in the spare room. Mum was not impressed. I think he over-yeasted them or something.

 

[Concussion]

I remember my dad doing that once and half the bottles blew up in the spare room. Mum was not impressed. I think he over-yeasted them or something.

Something to do with heat as well, my next door neighbour, years ago, did home brew and I remember a few of his bottles exploded just before a massive thunderstorm.

 

[Killer Power]

Nope. Can only happen if you bottle before fermentation is complete or add too much carbonating sugar at bottling stage. It is much more scientific these days, leaves a lot less to luck. Hydrometers, sanitisation, carbonation calculators etc.

Edit: Your neighbour's bottles would have be tipped over the edge by the air pressure drop as the thunderstorm approached but must have done something wrong earlier on for them to be sitting on the edge.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Nope. Can only happen if you bottle before fermentation is complete or add too much carbonating sugar at bottling stage. It is much more scientific these days, leaves a lot less to luck. Hydrometers, sanitisation, carbonation calculators etc.

Edit: Your neighbour's bottles would have be tipped over the edge by the air pressure drop as the thunderstorm approached but must have done something wrong earlier on for them to be sitting on the edge.

#beerscience

 

[Killer Power]

#beerscience

The pinnacle of all the sciences

 

[xflamedancer]

On the subject of hashtags #19thcustomer is trending down again.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Jay Weatherill has just announced a Royal Commission into the nuclear fuel cycle in SA.

More to come.

 

[Steve Dore]

Anyone seen The Water Diviner?

Yes, really enjoyed it.

In the last three weeks I have seen;

The Water Diviner
The Imitation Game
American Sniper

All very good movies.

Yep on new years day. enjoyed it. curious to know how much was real and how much was artistic licence. Some of the scenery from Turkey is stunning.

There is a train bridge in Turkey that looks very much like a train bridge in the southern Flinders Ranges.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Nope. Can only happen if you bottle before fermentation is complete or add too much carbonating sugar at bottling stage. It is much more scientific these days, leaves a lot less to luck. Hydrometers, sanitisation, carbonation calculators etc.

Edit: Your neighbour's bottles would have be tipped over the edge by the air pressure drop as the thunderstorm approached but must have done something wrong earlier on for them to be sitting on the edge.

I believe a fair degree of luck was involved.

 

[Steve Dore]

Jay Weatherill has just announced a Royal Commission into the nuclear fuel cycle in SA.

More to come.

Is he going to enter it in next years TDU?

 

[Doctor Feel]

I am monitoring this thread.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Jay Weatherill has just announced a Royal Commission into the nuclear fuel cycle in SA.

More to come.

Source?

 

[Powerstufff]

Jay Weatherill has just announced a Royal Commission into the nuclear fuel cycle in SA.

More to come.

They're going to be built at Gillman.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I'm super keen on nuclear energy on one condition:

It decreases energy prices.

 

[raman]

I'm super keen on nuclear energy on one condition:

It decreases energy prices.

There should probably be some other conditions.

 

[StuMan]

 

[FromTheHartland]

Just saw Hammer at the supermarket, pretty sure he will break Clangerfield into tiny edible morsels, devour him and then shit him out at the first showdown. looks as strong as an ox.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Source?

Saw him make the announcement at a press conference shown live on ABC.

Now articles on line.

ABC News

Adelaide Now

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Own up, who broke it?

 

[Killer Power]

*rushes to check ASADA thread for breaking news.

Nothing

 

[Concussion]

Yes, really enjoyed it.

In the last three weeks I have seen;

The Water Diviner
The Imitation Game
American Sniper

All very good movies.

I liked unbroken

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

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.

 

[Duck Farmer]

Jay Weatherill has just announced a Royal Commission into the nuclear fuel cycle in SA.

More to come.

It's a good idea to look at this. Rather than digging up yellow cake and shipping it off in barrels, there is a lot of opportunity for value adding in the complete life cycle including enriching and storage of spent fuel. SA has competitive advantages here - we have the ore to mine and we have the geography to store as safely as anywhere in the world. We could provide a complete service - we'll "rent" you enriched uranium and when you've finished with it we'll take it back and store the waste (including tracking what we sell and take back to prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons)

 

[Killer Power]

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