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« on: November 12, 2014, 06:34:04 PM »
Lockhead Martin thinks otherwise. They're looking to get something up within a decade.
IIRC, as a military application to power battleships...military always get fast tracked cool tech which is a gyp. Even if that were true (and I'm rather pessimistic about this...), assuming absolutely no delays whatsoever and they produce one, they still need to modify it or perhaps even a complete redesign to do it on a larger commercial scale, and then still there's the site location for one of these things, planning, contracts, construction and finally operation. Just for a comparison, the UK began planning for new reactors in the 90's, to be ready around now (if it weren't for political opinions changing and putting them on hold), and the first operation of a new GEN II/III reactor is not going to be 2024 at the earliest...nearly 40 years. Even without the political delay, operation wouldn't be for 20 years after early planning stages.
5162
« on: November 12, 2014, 06:24:31 PM »
Spoiler What is nuclear fusion?
Expensive and still in research/trial stages. I'm not expecting commercial use for at least another 50 years seeing as it takes fucking aaaaages for a fission reactor to be planned and built today, let alone development and breakthroughs with fusion past the present, than something to get it past environmentalists, then actual construction. There's also the other alternative which is Thorium reactors, and from what little I've heard they're the next likely "miracle fuel", with low waste, higher energy output per unit, higher abundancy than current nuclear fuels and would require slight modifications to current fission reactors. (Though don't quote me on this bit).
5163
« on: November 12, 2014, 05:43:33 PM »
+1 for halal
It's all in the details.
5164
« on: November 12, 2014, 05:42:57 PM »
I'll support it when it's not producing nuclear waste.
That's a strange outlook I find. It's like supporting coal, oil or gas but "as long as it doesn't produce smoke". Also an interesting fact: If you piled up all the High Level Waste from the Nuclear Reactors running in the UK since the early 50's it would be only a 1m 3 block. Low & Intermediary Waste is either cleaned or buried under concrete in the case of clothing and equipment, reprocessed back into the newer reactors that can re-use some of it, or vitryfied, where it's covered in glass, than concrete and lead storage containers until it decays which is far shorter time than HLW. In the UK they don't even dump it in the sea anymore which is a good thing.
5165
« on: November 12, 2014, 05:36:16 PM »
5166
« on: November 12, 2014, 05:16:13 PM »
I've drunk-and-dashed once, but that was a complete accident on account of my lack of sobriety at the time.
5167
« on: November 12, 2014, 05:12:14 PM »
MCC isn't coming to '360 is it?
Wondering if there was any potential for merging cross-gen servers, kinda like what they did for Halo 3 - ODST and Halo Reach - Anniversary.
5168
« on: November 12, 2014, 05:06:02 PM »
Maybe you're thinking of Japan, we aren't shutting down plants in the U.S.
Nuclear energy is the future.
Yeah I just skimmed through an article for the US, didn't really have time for much background. Opposition to nuclear power is the biggest failure of the Left.
This is one of the only things that annoys me about the leftist parties here. I agree with almost totally when it comes to the Green Party, but for some damned reason they hate nuclear so much that it's beyond ridiculous. Solar and Wind farms are great, but you need fuck-tons for the same amount of energy 3-4 nuclear plants could do and everyone has NIMBY syndrome regarding them "because they damage the landscape". Bitch, the newset plants are only going right next the old ones, while the wind farms are strategically placed on top of a fucking beautiful mountain in Wales or Scotland. *ahem* Sorry, went off on a bit of an environmentalist rant there.
5169
« on: November 12, 2014, 04:52:17 PM »
So in the US and the UK it accounts for just around ~20% of each countries' energy supply, and in Britain there has been plans for more since the early 90's though only early construction work is beginning now. In the US I'm not as well versed in what's being going on, but they seem to have been shutting down power plants left-right-and-centre in favour of coal, and I assume oil.
So, seeing as we all generally know a thing or two about it, rely on it to an extent and love it's benefits (and hate it's negatives), I want your opinion on it, Flood.
Go on, give your opinion about that glowing green gold.
5170
« on: November 12, 2014, 04:38:26 PM »
Ok now, shit's serious.
Which of you mods had a botched lobotomy and banned him?
I'm totally not being serious.
5171
« on: November 12, 2014, 01:23:26 PM »
Have an upvote then!
5172
« on: November 12, 2014, 10:19:49 AM »
 Soon...
5173
« on: November 12, 2014, 10:10:40 AM »
I suppose this would be a good time if you wanted a cheap near-new Iphone...
5174
« on: November 12, 2014, 07:48:42 AM »
Not exactly at school, but a roommate on a night out pointed out that the house next door of foreign students (Chinese, I think?) had extra rooms in the roof with skylights.
Few days later, my roommate (now sober) asks me did I report them.
"Uh...no...why..?"
"Because it's harsh that they're all bunched up in the roof living there, then if someone reported them they'd get deported back to China where they escaped from"
"... *burst out laughing*"
She genuinely though that the house next door was housing illegal immigrants in some cramped-up attic space, instead of I dunno, people living there like normal? Weed, man, don't get excessive on that like she does please. Before this year is through I'm going to have to write down some of the stuff she says, create a compendium of retardation.
5175
« on: November 12, 2014, 07:36:52 AM »
You turned the Republic of Dave into a glue factory, you bastard!
...but, other than that, we cool. You play good stuff on Plug.DJ and conversation isn't exactly dead when you're around.
5176
« on: November 12, 2014, 07:23:37 AM »
What could it even be used for?
Mod's version of the Bungie Whaaaaambulance.
5177
« on: November 12, 2014, 07:20:50 AM »
5178
« on: November 12, 2014, 06:44:21 AM »
5179
« on: November 11, 2014, 06:11:11 PM »
 You goddamned neutral. With whites and blacks, girls or boys, I know where they stand, but Neutrals?! You never know.
5180
« on: November 11, 2014, 06:03:13 PM »
lonepaul is a stand up guy compared to this.
Why he wasn't a stand-up guy in the first place, I do not know. That whole thing was hardly a fiasco worth Bungie getting a hard-on for and spouting it every time he made a thread. Plus his UK orientated stuff he posted kept it a bit local compared to the constant american stuff I've no reference to.
5181
« on: November 11, 2014, 06:00:37 PM »
Burrito Senor, Declined A1.
For some reason these names come to mind, though I have no reason as to why. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?!
5182
« on: November 11, 2014, 05:57:38 PM »
You know what's funny, you're essentially the Lounpaul of this place now. It's hilarious.
What, because of the flirting with a girl in a chip-shop with a sausage? Nah this is totally worse.
5183
« on: November 11, 2014, 05:39:24 PM »
The shadow looks...off somehow.
And I'm pretty sure we don't have helicopters that can completely rotate on it's axis like that with the behavior of a ADD dragonfly.
Still fucking cool though.
5184
« on: November 11, 2014, 05:35:28 PM »
5185
« on: November 11, 2014, 05:26:12 PM »
Sure, I got a topic and tequila on standby. Say a pint/shot per page? (excluding spam so we don't shutdown our livers).
Also, when is the next round of it anyway?
5186
« on: November 11, 2014, 05:22:48 PM »
I would but my Xbox is no longer at my disposal.
Plus, I'm pretty sure my LIVE has ran out by now...
5187
« on: November 11, 2014, 05:20:57 PM »
Gastby
Gassy
Gasbby
Gasbooty
ZwampGas
Gassy Gatsby
5188
« on: November 11, 2014, 05:17:40 PM »
I feel that SJW's are gonna rage. Something along the lines of not taking them seriously.
5189
« on: November 11, 2014, 05:12:44 PM »
I was gone for several months and was just checking on how everyone is doing. What's happened since I've been gone?
Hey man, you've missed a ton of shit. It was mostly just shit though, so I guess that's a good thing.
5190
« on: November 11, 2014, 02:42:18 PM »
A watered out version of psychology, I think, and it's watered out for the reason that you have more mouths to feed.
Well loosely it's the study of how society operates and develops, but it's a pretty broad field and I don't mean it unkindly or disparagingly when I say it's just watered down psychology >_>
But it is.
Ah right. Just keep bumping into them and wondering how large their classes are...
I don't think the class sizes are much bigger than the standard one <.<
It's weird though. 175 Geology/Earth Science students for first year and I've only met them since going to lectures. First 2 weeks of freshers = everyone out of the ~20,000 students here is doing fucking Sociology studies and I just have to stare blankly interested with an optimistic "Hmm, that's cool...<.<....>.>"
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