I've found a mixed approach works best, given the dev inventory I run: - a good supply of passive SMT books from the usual suppliers (mainly the "notebook" style ones with cut tape in the pages) - various larger SMT &…
Fascinating stuff: > ...but at that time we were mostly worried about whether the reactor was still working. That is, was it generating short-lived radioactive isotopes... > ...the most precise information about the…
I wonder to what extent nuclear would be an option, given the relative abundance of previously-enchriched fuel now sitting around as waste, and an post-apocalyptic willingness to engage in high-risk, high-reward…
After a recent discussion with our home heating oil provider, seeing this post got me thinking - could a similar system be applied to the exhaust of a household furnace that is burning No. 2 heating oil? A typical…
I don't know if I'd agree its something you can't make useful, but trying to use inflation as a means of macroeconomic policy - rather than an indicator of the success/health of the overall economy - seems utterly…
I heard an interesting podcast a little while back that conjectured the typical way to get inflation going (so-called "helicopter money" to the spending population) is far and away the least predictable way to do…
I support a group called ERDG (Ecological Research & Development Group, https://www.horseshoecrab.org), which focuses on improving the state of the four remaining Horseshoe Crab species. For those who don't know -…
A couple items to note here: - while agreed that a trap should help contain gasses, in order to cure the resin involved they have to inject high-pressure steam into the piping... possible that it could cause bubbles to…
Based on how we humans use melanin, I would believe that this is a case of having these environmental-stress-reduction "tools" basically already in play (to deal with UV, free radicals, background radiation, etc.), then…
...with the corresponding scientific name would be "Brucea Banneriolus".
To put it another way - from an "immediate risk" point of view, the largest danger from critical-capable amount of fissile material is the prompt radiation emitted during a criticality: the pulse of neutrons, gamma and…
This is fascinating to me, because if the primary use of fossil energy at these plants is in process heating... why use electricity here at all? Seems to me like there are a variety of renewable options that could…
I've found a mixed approach works best, given the dev inventory I run: - a good supply of passive SMT books from the usual suppliers (mainly the "notebook" style ones with cut tape in the pages) - various larger SMT &…
Fascinating stuff: > ...but at that time we were mostly worried about whether the reactor was still working. That is, was it generating short-lived radioactive isotopes... > ...the most precise information about the…
I wonder to what extent nuclear would be an option, given the relative abundance of previously-enchriched fuel now sitting around as waste, and an post-apocalyptic willingness to engage in high-risk, high-reward…
After a recent discussion with our home heating oil provider, seeing this post got me thinking - could a similar system be applied to the exhaust of a household furnace that is burning No. 2 heating oil? A typical…
I don't know if I'd agree its something you can't make useful, but trying to use inflation as a means of macroeconomic policy - rather than an indicator of the success/health of the overall economy - seems utterly…
I heard an interesting podcast a little while back that conjectured the typical way to get inflation going (so-called "helicopter money" to the spending population) is far and away the least predictable way to do…
I support a group called ERDG (Ecological Research & Development Group, https://www.horseshoecrab.org), which focuses on improving the state of the four remaining Horseshoe Crab species. For those who don't know -…
A couple items to note here: - while agreed that a trap should help contain gasses, in order to cure the resin involved they have to inject high-pressure steam into the piping... possible that it could cause bubbles to…
Based on how we humans use melanin, I would believe that this is a case of having these environmental-stress-reduction "tools" basically already in play (to deal with UV, free radicals, background radiation, etc.), then…
...with the corresponding scientific name would be "Brucea Banneriolus".
To put it another way - from an "immediate risk" point of view, the largest danger from critical-capable amount of fissile material is the prompt radiation emitted during a criticality: the pulse of neutrons, gamma and…
This is fascinating to me, because if the primary use of fossil energy at these plants is in process heating... why use electricity here at all? Seems to me like there are a variety of renewable options that could…