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President Beep: Apr 30, 2009; i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

cool startup feel posted:

maybe we could put one in your mom's bathtub boom roasted

gently caress!

# ? Feb 16, 2018 13:01

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# ? May 25, 2024 21:15

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

i don't think fusion will ever be a source of electric power, period. not in my lifetime, not in your lifetime, probably not in the lifetime of our species

iter and the stellarator are fascinating exercises in high energy physics but i have no idea how either one is meant to lead to electric power generation

when you think about it solar power is fusion based :v:

iirc one of the proposed electrical power extraction methods for fusion reactors is to line the thing with optical ports and direct the visible-UV radiation onto photovoltaic arrays.

# ? Feb 16, 2018 13:08

Munkeymon: Aug 14, 2003; Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

2. tritium is radioactive and seeps through everything. imagine hydrogen embrittlement, except, also, anything it embrittles is also radioactive

can't they store it as heavy water and separate it on site?

# ? Feb 16, 2018 13:42

Munkeymon: Aug 14, 2003; Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.

ate all the Oreos posted:

it's just beta radiation, yawn

I think he's saying they store it as a gas or liquefied gas and gasses that emit beta particles are very bad for people's lungs

# ? Feb 16, 2018 13:46

Caganer: Feb 15, 2018

cis autodrag posted:

Just got my first ever shares and set them to sell at market opening. Gonna pay off a credit card and the coinsurance for my titties.

nice and smart

too many people think they�re rich cause they have a bunch of GOOG or AMZN but if you lose your job that will probably coincide w a stock dip 📉

# ? Feb 16, 2018 14:48

Illusive Fuck Man: Jul 5, 2004; RIP John McCain feel better xoxo ð ð; Taco Defender

sometimes I wonder if it's a good idea to short the company stock or a general tech index to reduce my exposure to the tech or advertising industry making GBS threads itself but I don't care enough to actually bother. plus it sounds like it might be illegal or a conflict of interest

# ? Feb 16, 2018 15:09

mrmcd: Feb 22, 2003; Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

Illusive gently caress Man posted:

sometimes I wonder if it's a good idea to short the company stock or a general tech index to reduce my exposure to the tech or advertising industry making GBS threads itself but I don't care enough to actually bother. plus it sounds like it might be illegal or a conflict of interest

You wouldn't short the stock, you'd buy out of the money puts if you wanted to hedge a collapse in price. It's prohibited by every employment agreement I've seen though, and legally shaky as long as you're employed by that company. A tech index etf is probably fine though, legally speaking.

In either case, it's probably too expensive to do continuously as a retail investor to be worth it.

# ? Feb 16, 2018 15:19

fishmech: Jul 16, 2006; by VideoGames; Salad Prong

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

do feel free to take a break in positing possible future energy sources to enjoy the fact that solar with storage is in fact looking set to take over a large section of the market

It's not actually looking like that.

# ? Feb 16, 2018 15:21

wide stance: Jan 28, 2011; If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then he will do it that way.

Munkeymon posted:

can't they store it as heavy water and separate it on site?

Mine it from lithium in the reactor.

D-T fusion is essentially D-Lithium fusion with regards to what gets sent to the plant.

# ? Feb 16, 2018 15:47

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

you hedge against a collapse of the industry you work in by investing in everything but that industry

# ? Feb 16, 2018 15:58

Jimmy Carter: Nov 3, 2005; THIS MOTHERDUCKER
FLIES IN STYLE

I honestly think the proposals for small reactors that are essentially "dig a big hole in the ground, throw this prepackaged reactor in the ground, it puts out 50 megawatts. We'll be back in 10 years to swap it out for a fresh one" are pretty cool especially for remote areas, but I'm realistic that it's gonna take like 20 years for anything to get certified these days.

In the interim, high-voltage DC lines are making big advances in cost, so that should help moving solar/wind power around where its needed.

# ? Feb 16, 2018 15:59

Pollyanna: Mar 5, 2005; Milk's on them.

i dont like startups /opinion

# ? Feb 16, 2018 16:00

Pollyanna: Mar 5, 2005; Milk's on them.

what does "fast growing" truly mean

to me it means "we're hiring a lot of engineers whether or not it is a good idea"

# ? Feb 16, 2018 16:02

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

FrozenVent posted:

you hedge against a collapse of the industry you work in by investing in everything but that industry

ding ding ding

# ? Feb 16, 2018 16:02

in a well actually: Jan 26, 2011; dude, you gotta end it on the rhyme

apparently the whole nuke industry in the us is hosed by cheap natgas and the lack of a carbon tax and also by being mbad to death

like smrs are probably the best bet because the industry is bankrupt cant manage a project of any large scale

# ? Feb 16, 2018 16:02

President Beep: Apr 30, 2009; i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

i need to figure out a way to monetize bad posts. income security for life.

# ? Feb 16, 2018 16:03

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

President Beep posted:

i need to figure out a way to monetize bad posts. income security for life.

start a social media site, sell to one of the bigger ones

# ? Feb 16, 2018 16:04

crabrock: Aug 2, 2002; I

AM

MAGNIFICENT

Apple Employees Keep Smacking Into Their New Headquarters' Glass Walls

http://time.com/5162419/apple-new-headquarters-glass/

lol like birds

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:03

PIZZA.BAT: Nov 12, 2016

Jonny 290 posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly_ash_slurry_spill

disgusting

reminder that one of the first things the trump admin did was rescind the executive order that disallowed coal slurry from being dumped into rivers

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:12

Schadenboner: Aug 15, 2011; by Shine

Rex-Goliath posted:

reminder that one of the first things the trump admin did was rescind the executive order that disallowed coal slurry from being dumped into rivers

Wait... Trump: bad?

:thunk:

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:13

Sapozhnik: Jan 2, 2005; Nap Ghost

Jimmy Carter posted:

I honestly think the proposals for small reactors that are essentially "dig a big hole in the ground, throw this prepackaged reactor in the ground, it puts out 50 megawatts. We'll be back in 10 years to swap it out for a fresh one" are pretty cool especially for remote areas, but I'm realistic that it's gonna take like 20 years for anything to get certified these days.

In the interim, high-voltage DC lines are making big advances in cost, so that should help moving solar/wind power around where its needed.

what do you do when you want it to stop putting out 50 megawatts

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:17

Schadenboner: Aug 15, 2011; by Shine

Sapozhnik posted:

what do you do when you want it to stop putting out 50 megawatts

You dig it up and put it somewhere else that does want the 50MW?

I mean, the whole thing would be housed in a cement-clad lead envelope I assume?

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:19

fishmech: Jul 16, 2006; by VideoGames; Salad Prong

Sapozhnik posted:

what do you do when you want it to stop putting out 50 megawatts

connect it to somewhere that wants it duh

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:22

Pollyanna: Mar 5, 2005; Milk's on them.

tech is a bubble imo

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:24

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

PCjr sidecar posted:

apparently the whole nuke industry in the us is hosed by cheap natgas and the lack of a carbon tax and also by being mbad to death

like smrs are probably the best bet because the industry is bankrupt cant manage a project of any large scale

as an energy feminist i appreciate that i have the choice between musk li-ion and fracking

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:24

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Munkeymon posted:

can't they store it as heavy water and separate it on site?

the mode of separation is operating a heavy-water fission reactor

so sure you could do that but then you no longer need the tokamak/stellarator

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:33

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

crabrock posted:

Apple Employees Keep Smacking Into Their New Headquarters' Glass Walls

http://time.com/5162419/apple-new-headquarters-glass/

lol like birds

from this time last year:

Apple was also reportedly obsessed with doorways, insisting that they should be completely flat without any threshold �the argument being that if staff had to change their gait, it would risk distracting them.

also lol this is an old engineering joke/apocryphal story come to life:

The company also appears to have demanded too-strict tolerances in measurements, treating architecture like its electronics. Whereas most construction projects max out at 1/8th of an inch, Apple often pushed for even smaller figures, which conflicted with real-world limits.

"With phones, you can build to very, very minute tolerances," a former architect said. "You would never design to that level of tolerance on a building. Your doors would jam."

usually it's told about a junior engineer under a time crunch is given their first large chunk of design to perform: the foundation for a building. he performs all the calcs to determine depths and the footprint is worked out, so the junior engineer drafts everything up and then takes his calcs and calls out all the dimensions. the contractor takes one look at the plan and tells them that this will completely blow the budget and timeline to construct - you see the junior engineer had written out every dimension to four decimal places just like in his calcs, and to build to such fine tolerances would require more effort than the rest of the project put together

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:35

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

do feel free to take a break in positing possible future energy sources to enjoy the fact that solar with storage is in fact looking set to take over a large section of the market

did not expect to feel this optimistic about the energy future just a few short years ago

I�m glad that solar and wind are displacing peak plants

I just ain�t seeing the path to replace base generation. has there been some wild breakthrough in storage? batteries ain�t gonna do it

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:36

ADINSX: Sep 9, 2003; Wanna run with my crew huh? Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?

crabrock posted:

Apple Employees Keep Smacking Into Their New Headquarters' Glass Walls

http://time.com/5162419/apple-new-headquarters-glass/

lol like birds

genuinely surprised this isn't an onion article

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:40

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

gotta put predator silhouettes on the glass

anyone have a couple of big android robot stickers

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:42

crabrock: Aug 2, 2002; I

AM

MAGNIFICENT

haveblue posted:

gotta put predator silhouettes on the glass

anyone have a couple of big android robot stickers

"Some staff started to stick Post-It notes on the glass doors to mark their presence. However, the notes were removed because they detracted from the building�s design"

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:45

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

i'm surprised he's not hanging out in the o.c. or inland empire

proto-fascist vampires are kind of the core constituencies there

yeah but he's not a farmer

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:52

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

organ farmer maybe

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:56

silence_kit: Jul 14, 2011; by the sex ghost

Shifty Pony posted:

when you think about it solar power is fusion based

iirc one of the proposed electrical power extraction methods for fusion reactors is to line the thing with optical ports and direct the visible-UV radiation onto photovoltaic arrays.

when solar cells get warm, their efficiency degrades. hopefully when they evaluate this idea, they include the solar cell efficiency penalty and/or necessary refrigeration energy cost when running the solar cells at intensities of what I assume are many many multiples of 1 sun.

# ? Feb 16, 2018 17:57

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

just make the solar cells white instead of black that'll keep em cool in the sun

# ? Feb 16, 2018 18:19

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

from this time last year:

Apple was also reportedly obsessed with doorways, insisting that they should be completely flat without any threshold �the argument being that if staff had to change their gait, it would risk distracting them.

also lol this is an old engineering joke/apocryphal story come to life:

The company also appears to have demanded too-strict tolerances in measurements, treating architecture like its electronics. Whereas most construction projects max out at 1/8th of an inch, Apple often pushed for even smaller figures, which conflicted with real-world limits.

"With phones, you can build to very, very minute tolerances," a former architect said. "You would never design to that level of tolerance on a building. Your doors would jam."

usually it's told about a junior engineer under a time crunch is given their first large chunk of design to perform: the foundation for a building. he performs all the calcs to determine depths and the footprint is worked out, so the junior engineer drafts everything up and then takes his calcs and calls out all the dimensions. the contractor takes one look at the plan and tells them that this will completely blow the budget and timeline to construct - you see the junior engineer had written out every dimension to four decimal places just like in his calcs, and to build to such fine tolerances would require more effort than the rest of the project put together

loving contractors, what do they know about innovation anyway

hire one who went to Stanford ffs

# ? Feb 16, 2018 18:20

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

ate all the Oreos posted:

this generation's "we can put a man on the moon but we can't..." is going to be "some dorkwad sent his car to the asteroid belt but we can't..." ugh gently caress

# ? Feb 16, 2018 18:27

silence_kit: Jul 14, 2011; by the sex ghost

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

just make the solar cells white instead of black that'll keep em cool in the sun

that reminds me�during the height of the solar cell research/funding era, with Solyndra and all of that, the US government funded research of transparent solar cells lol

it�s probably not that much money and so it doesn�t really matter but man what a stupid idea

# ? Feb 16, 2018 18:27

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

im ded

# ? Feb 16, 2018 18:30

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# ? May 25, 2024 21:15

President Beep: Apr 30, 2009; i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

what if...........

everyone drove good??? huh? can we do it?

# ? Feb 16, 2018 18:35

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