I dunno, see how much of your city it covers.
http://paulrademacher.com/oilspill/
My entire county.
Granted, the slick wouldn't really spread too much on solid ground. It's a bit misleading.
Makes wind farms look better and better.
Quote from: Richter on May 11, 2010, 04:54:38 PM
Makes wind farms look better and better.
BAAAWWWWW THEY RUIN THE LANDSCAPE
BAAAAWWWW NOT IN MY BACKYARD
well well.
seems this thing is pretty big.
Quote from: Remington on May 11, 2010, 05:04:04 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 11, 2010, 04:54:38 PM
Makes wind farms look better and better.
BAAAWWWWW THEY RUIN THE LANDSCAPE
BAAAAWWWW NOT IN MY BACKYARD
Better than havign a nuke reactor in your backyard.
Quote from: Richter on May 11, 2010, 06:17:09 PM
Quote from: Remington on May 11, 2010, 05:04:04 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 11, 2010, 04:54:38 PM
Makes wind farms look better and better.
BAAAWWWWW THEY RUIN THE LANDSCAPE
BAAAAWWWW NOT IN MY BACKYARD
Better than havign a nuke reactor in your backyard.
BAAAWWWW I DON'T WANT THAT EITHER
CAN'T YOU SCIENTISTS JUST FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE POWER WITHOUT ALL OF THAT DANGEROUS GENERATING EQUIPMENT? I JUST WANT TO WATCH AMERICAN IDOL
wow that's a lot of oil.
Almost covers most of my state...
Quote from: Remington on May 11, 2010, 06:26:26 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 11, 2010, 06:17:09 PM
Quote from: Remington on May 11, 2010, 05:04:04 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 11, 2010, 04:54:38 PM
Makes wind farms look better and better.
BAAAWWWWW THEY RUIN THE LANDSCAPE
BAAAAWWWW NOT IN MY BACKYARD
Better than havign a nuke reactor in your backyard.
BAAAWWWW I DON'T WANT THAT EITHER
CAN'T YOU SCIENTISTS JUST FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE POWER WITHOUT ALL OF THAT DANGEROUS GENERATING EQUIPMENT? I JUST WANT TO WATCH AMERICAN IDOL
Yeah!!! pedalvision is the answer to American IDLE . . . http://scienceshareware.com/bicycle-generator-faq.htm#television
also the slick is the size of North Wales . . . fuck . . . :eek:
Quote from: Richter on May 11, 2010, 04:54:38 PM
Makes wind farms look better and better.
BIRD MURDERER!
\
:troll:
...looks like it would cover most of SD.
Quote from: MMIX on May 11, 2010, 06:36:12 PM
Quote from: Remington on May 11, 2010, 06:26:26 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 11, 2010, 06:17:09 PM
Quote from: Remington on May 11, 2010, 05:04:04 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 11, 2010, 04:54:38 PM
Makes wind farms look better and better.
BAAAWWWWW THEY RUIN THE LANDSCAPE
BAAAAWWWW NOT IN MY BACKYARD
Better than havign a nuke reactor in your backyard.
BAAAWWWW I DON'T WANT THAT EITHER
CAN'T YOU SCIENTISTS JUST FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE POWER WITHOUT ALL OF THAT DANGEROUS GENERATING EQUIPMENT? I JUST WANT TO WATCH AMERICAN IDOL
Yeah!!! pedalvision is the answer to American IDLE . . . http://scienceshareware.com/bicycle-generator-faq.htm#television
BAAAWWWW TOO MUCH WORK
...Yeah. Pretty much anything that isn't incredibly cheap and easy gets knocked down as "impractical".
It covers Providence, Worcester, and Boston in one fell swoop.
It also covers the entirety of Pinellas County, FL and most of Tampa, down the coast to Port Charlotte....If this shit gets into the current and makes it down there, Tampa Bay is fucked.
fuck, that's big....
wonder why it's such an odd shape?
Quote from: Remington on May 11, 2010, 05:04:04 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 11, 2010, 04:54:38 PM
Makes wind farms look better and better.
BAAAWWWWW THEY RUIN THE LANDSCAPE
BAAAAWWWW NOT IN MY BACKYARD
off-shore wind farms :eek:
Quote from: Fredyjafjallajökull on May 11, 2010, 11:19:30 PM
Quote from: Remington on May 11, 2010, 05:04:04 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 11, 2010, 04:54:38 PM
Makes wind farms look better and better.
BAAAWWWWW THEY RUIN THE LANDSCAPE
BAAAAWWWW NOT IN MY BACKYARD
off-shore wind farms :eek:
WHY DO YOU HATE THE SKY-WHALES?
Quote from: Fredyjafjallajökull on May 11, 2010, 11:19:30 PM
Quote from: Remington on May 11, 2010, 05:04:04 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 11, 2010, 04:54:38 PM
Makes wind farms look better and better.
BAAAWWWWW THEY RUIN THE LANDSCAPE
BAAAAWWWW NOT IN MY BACKYARD
off-shore wind farms :eek:
We have wind farms in Kansas. Like the wind ever blows here.
Oh... Holy hell.
I can't be the only person here who thinks wind farms are pretty.
the problem with wind farms are the windy places arent usually near where most of the population needs them
Many solutions.
If it's not windy, not sunny, no waves, no rivers, and no decent place to keep a nuclear reactor, how feasible is it really to have a city in that location at all, in the long run?
people build in strange places
anyway thats why i said OFFSHORE WIND FARM. cause so many cities w/ coastal winds
Expensive sounding. Wind farms are somwhat affordable because you don't have to build platforms for them to float on.
off shore wind farms are anchored to the floor just like off shore oil drilling
(http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2009/04/large_wind-power.jpg)
...Interesting!
Sigmatic,
did not know that.
My love for you is greater
than the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Quote from: Fredyjafjallajökull on May 11, 2010, 11:58:15 PM
off shore wind farms are anchored to the floor just like off shore oil drilling
(http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2009/04/large_wind-power.jpg)
And when that irresponsible jerk in the boat hits one, it will tip over, ripping loose from the bottom, and the ocean will all drain out.
THANKS, HIPPIES!
the major part of that slick covers all of orlando.
orlando is really big. that shit is big.
that doesn't even count the littler part.
and if it hits the coast, not just tampa will be fucked. the whole coast will be fucked.
guess what happens if it hits the gulf stream, which moves 3 ft per second and goes all the way around the state and up the east coast.
HEY!
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 11, 2010, 11:37:39 PM
Oh... Holy hell.
I can't be the only person here who thinks wind farms are pretty.
No I agree they are pretty.
But only when you're driving past them on a dike or field or something.
I dunno if you ever saw one up close, but those fuckers are HUGE. Well there's several different types here, and the most popular one is gigantic. I once saw one that was being constructed or maintenanced and the triple rotor blade thing was on the ground next to the road. Only then did I realize how enormous they actually are.
The point is, if you live next to one, having a huge white thing rotating in the corner of your eye all the time* when you look/are outside. I can totally imagine it would get on my nerves in a very real but somewhat hard to pinpoint sort of way.
*I once heard that if there's no wind some models are rotated by a motor because it's better for the structure if they don't stand still too long. But there's a lot of conflicting stuff about windmills out there.
Oh, this other time, we were driving back to the city at night, passing a whole field of these things. Imagine this: A dark orangey sky (because of nearby city and of course greenhouses light pollution), looming black objects sticking out into the sky, and red lights on them (for the planes) flashing on and off. It was totally like a scene from the Matrix :)
(http://eetdnews.lbl.gov/nl22/images/palmwind002-sized.jpg)
Pretty wind farm in Palm Springs, CA
Pakini Nui Wind Farm, South Point, Hawaii
(http://renewablehawaii.com/vcmcontent/StaticFiles/Images/Articles/south-pt-wind.jpg)
Quote from: Triple Zero on May 12, 2010, 10:11:41 AM
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 11, 2010, 11:37:39 PM
Oh... Holy hell.
I can't be the only person here who thinks wind farms are pretty.
No I agree they are pretty.
But only when you're driving past them on a dike or field or something.
I dunno if you ever saw one up close, but those fuckers are HUGE. Well there's several different types here, and the most popular one is gigantic. I once saw one that was being constructed or maintenanced and the triple rotor blade thing was on the ground next to the road. Only then did I realize how enormous they actually are.
The point is, if you live next to one, having a huge white thing rotating in the corner of your eye all the time* when you look/are outside. I can totally imagine it would get on my nerves in a very real but somewhat hard to pinpoint sort of way.
*I once heard that if there's no wind some models are rotated by a motor because it's better for the structure if they don't stand still too long. But there's a lot of conflicting stuff about windmills out there.
Oh, this other time, we were driving back to the city at night, passing a whole field of these things. Imagine this: A dark orangey sky (because of nearby city and of course greenhouses light pollution), looming black objects sticking out into the sky, and red lights on them (for the planes) flashing on and off. It was totally like a scene from the Matrix :)
Just the 3 blades fill a flatbed tractor trailer.
The blades we get going down I20 towards west TX are freaking huge. they go down the road one blade at a time, and the flatbeds aren't big enough for them. they have the truck with some wheels on the front, and then they have some wheels strapped to the rear end of the blade, with the blade supporting itself for the length of it. they're at least as long as a double trailer rig...
Quote from: Iptuous on May 12, 2010, 04:26:04 PM
The blades we get going down I20 towards west TX are freaking huge. they go down the road one blade at a time, and the flatbeds aren't big enough for them. they have the truck with some wheels on the front, and then they have some wheels strapped to the rear end of the blade, with the blade supporting itself for the length of it. they're at least as long as a double trailer rig...
Likewise here, holy shit; the new ones are fantastically huge, like some legendary creature. I can't imagine how they assemble them.
This is a good pic of one of our newer wind farms; there's a road with a pickup truck on it for size comparison.
(http://media.oregonlive.com/environment_impact/photo/wind-turbines-boydjpg-ffb9283b8f41badd.jpg)
These are much bigger than the wind turbines I remember 15 years ago or so. I've never been near one of the newer ones.
I would so rather see that, than this:
(http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009/20090908_powerplantfl.jpg)
They actually built really expensive neighborhoods around this thing. And like a whole community with a town center and shit. It's kind of disgusting. I don't want to look out my window at that thing belching smoke out of it's holes 24 hrs a day
Yeah, wind turbines are pretty cool. They remind me that I live in the future!
The pic I showed of the ones out in the So. Cali desert doesn't do it justice, either. When you drive in and amongst them, you feel so insignificant. It's like walking onto another planet or a scifi movie set.
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on May 12, 2010, 04:57:09 PM
Yeah, wind turbines are pretty cool. They remind me that I live in the future!
Well if we continue to use the wind up so foolishly we will run out one day and have to import wind from the middle east.
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 04:44:32 PM
I would so rather see that, than this:
(http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009/20090908_powerplantfl.jpg)
They actually built really expensive neighborhoods around this thing. And like a whole community with a town center and shit. It's kind of disgusting. I don't want to look out my window at that thing belching smoke out of it's holes 24 hrs a day
smoke?
it's just steam, right?
i've always thought the cooling towers are kind of elegant looking.
I love wind turbines. And photovoltaics. Much less damage to ecosystems than mining and burning fuels.
Once you get a turbine set up, it lasts as long as you maintain it. Free energy, people.
We have the big boobs of San Onofre out here:
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h183/Jenne73/san-onofre-at-night-300x186.jpg)
Featured in one of Leslie Nielson's movies, I think.
Quote from: Iptuous on May 12, 2010, 05:01:50 PM
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 04:44:32 PM
I would so rather see that, than this:
(http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009/20090908_powerplantfl.jpg)
They actually built really expensive neighborhoods around this thing. And like a whole community with a town center and shit. It's kind of disgusting. I don't want to look out my window at that thing belching smoke out of it's holes 24 hrs a day
smoke?
it's just steam, right?
i've always thought the cooling towers are kind of elegant looking.
Yeah, it's steam, and actually quite safe given the safeguards on nuclear reactors these days.
The problems are: Incredibly expensive, and dangerous waste products you can't put anywhere.
Quote from: Jenne on May 12, 2010, 05:07:26 PM
We have the big boobs of San Onofre out here:
Featured in one of Leslie Nielson's movies, I think.
yeah, those aren't as pretty...
Quote from: Kai on May 12, 2010, 05:11:59 PM
Yeah, it's steam, and actually quite safe given the safeguards on nuclear reactors these days.
The problems are: Incredibly expensive, and dangerous waste products you can't put anywhere.
that's why we need a space elevator; so we can get the rods up there, and just toss them into the sun.
:)
Quote from: Kai on May 12, 2010, 05:11:59 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on May 12, 2010, 05:01:50 PM
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 04:44:32 PM
I would so rather see that, than this:
(http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009/20090908_powerplantfl.jpg)
They actually built really expensive neighborhoods around this thing. And like a whole community with a town center and shit. It's kind of disgusting. I don't want to look out my window at that thing belching smoke out of it's holes 24 hrs a day
smoke?
it's just steam, right?
i've always thought the cooling towers are kind of elegant looking.
Yeah, it's steam, and actually quite safe given the safeguards on nuclear reactors these days.
The problems are: Incredibly expensive, and dangerous waste products you can't put anywhere.
Sure you can put them somewhere. I have a foolproof solution for this.
Quote from: Kai on May 12, 2010, 05:06:48 PM
I love wind turbines. And photovoltaics. Much less damage to ecosystems than mining and burning fuels.
Once you get a turbine set up, it lasts as long as you maintain it. Free energy, people.
Bosh. In Tucson, we burn whatever we can cram in the boilers.
It only makes a third of the city smell like a burning tire.
Quote from: Iptuous on May 12, 2010, 05:01:50 PM
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 04:44:32 PM
I would so rather see that, than this:
(http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009/20090908_powerplantfl.jpg)
They actually built really expensive neighborhoods around this thing. And like a whole community with a town center and shit. It's kind of disgusting. I don't want to look out my window at that thing belching smoke out of it's holes 24 hrs a day
smoke?
it's just steam, right?
i've always thought the cooling towers are kind of elegant looking.
Looks like a coal plant, in which case yes, the stacks on the right are belching smoke.
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on May 12, 2010, 05:15:59 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on May 12, 2010, 05:01:50 PM
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 04:44:32 PM
I would so rather see that, than this:
(http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009/20090908_powerplantfl.jpg)
They actually built really expensive neighborhoods around this thing. And like a whole community with a town center and shit. It's kind of disgusting. I don't want to look out my window at that thing belching smoke out of it's holes 24 hrs a day
smoke?
it's just steam, right?
i've always thought the cooling towers are kind of elegant looking.
Looks like a coal plant, in which case yes, the stacks on the right are belching smoke.
We have NO SCRUBBERS OR BAGHOUSES on our "burn all" plant. It's older than my dad, and grandfathered against the EPA to hell and gone.
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on May 12, 2010, 05:15:59 PM
Looks like a coal plant, in which case yes, the stacks on the right are belching smoke.
i was thinking that those type of cooling towers were only on nuke plants, but quick gooogling shows that i'm wrong....
i guess if it was nuke, there wouldn't be the stacks on the right at all, huh?
Quote from: Iptuous on May 12, 2010, 05:20:22 PM
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on May 12, 2010, 05:15:59 PM
Looks like a coal plant, in which case yes, the stacks on the right are belching smoke.
i was thinking that those type of cooling towers were only on nuke plants, but quick gooogling shows that i'm wrong....
i guess if it was nuke, there wouldn't be the stacks on the right at all, huh?
Correct, and the cooling towers would be quite a bit larger.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 12, 2010, 05:18:25 PM
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on May 12, 2010, 05:15:59 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on May 12, 2010, 05:01:50 PM
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 04:44:32 PM
I would so rather see that, than this:
(http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009/20090908_powerplantfl.jpg)
They actually built really expensive neighborhoods around this thing. And like a whole community with a town center and shit. It's kind of disgusting. I don't want to look out my window at that thing belching smoke out of it's holes 24 hrs a day
smoke?
it's just steam, right?
i've always thought the cooling towers are kind of elegant looking.
Looks like a coal plant, in which case yes, the stacks on the right are belching smoke.
We have NO SCRUBBERS OR BAGHOUSES on our "burn all" plant. It's older than my dad, and grandfathered against the EPA to hell and gone.
:x
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on May 12, 2010, 05:23:54 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 12, 2010, 05:18:25 PM
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on May 12, 2010, 05:15:59 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on May 12, 2010, 05:01:50 PM
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 04:44:32 PM
I would so rather see that, than this:
(http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009/20090908_powerplantfl.jpg)
They actually built really expensive neighborhoods around this thing. And like a whole community with a town center and shit. It's kind of disgusting. I don't want to look out my window at that thing belching smoke out of it's holes 24 hrs a day
smoke?
it's just steam, right?
i've always thought the cooling towers are kind of elegant looking.
Looks like a coal plant, in which case yes, the stacks on the right are belching smoke.
We have NO SCRUBBERS OR BAGHOUSES on our "burn all" plant. It's older than my dad, and grandfathered against the EPA to hell and gone.
:x
Half a million bucks, and I could cut their emissions in half.
2 million bucks, and you'd never smell the plant, even when they're shoveling animal corpses through it.
...nobody's mentioning mah San Onofre boobs... :(
Quote from: Jenne on May 12, 2010, 05:30:23 PM
...nobody's mentioning mah San Onofre boobs... :(
You got a hotlinking error.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 12, 2010, 05:33:38 PM
Quote from: Jenne on May 12, 2010, 05:30:23 PM
...nobody's mentioning mah San Onofre boobs... :(
You got a hotlinking error.
Ah. I saw it, that's why I thought it was ok, will go fix.
ETA: IS FIX
Quote from: Kai on May 12, 2010, 05:11:59 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on May 12, 2010, 05:01:50 PM
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 04:44:32 PM
I would so rather see that, than this:
(http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009/20090908_powerplantfl.jpg)
They actually built really expensive neighborhoods around this thing. And like a whole community with a town center and shit. It's kind of disgusting. I don't want to look out my window at that thing belching smoke out of it's holes 24 hrs a day
smoke?
it's just steam, right?
i've always thought the cooling towers are kind of elegant looking.
Yeah, it's steam, and actually quite safe given the safeguards on nuclear reactors these days.
The problems are: Incredibly expensive, and dangerous waste products you can't put anywhere.
Sure it's steam. Brown and grey steam. I can see this thing every day when I drive to work. It's an eyesore. And this plant has had the EPA down it's throats forever.
And whatever is chuggin out of it's pipes is NOT clean or safe. Before 9-11 we could drive right up to the thing. I got a bunch of pics when I was in HS.
Deer drinking out of the water around the thing made me sad. (man made river/pond thing)
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 05:37:10 PM
Deer drinking out of the water around the thing made me sad. (man made river/pond thing)
don't the ponds that the hot water goes into have some strange bacteria/algae in it due to the elevated temperatures?
Most likely, even worse in this swamp I'm sure. You leave a cup of water outside in this heat for a day and you've grown a new civilization.
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 05:52:18 PM
Most likely, even worse in this swamp I'm sure. You leave a cup of water outside in this heat for a day and you've grown a new civilization.
That blows even worse than here. Here, you leave a cup of water outside for a day, and you have a dry, brittle, faded cup.
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 05:37:10 PM
Quote from: Kai on May 12, 2010, 05:11:59 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on May 12, 2010, 05:01:50 PM
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 04:44:32 PM
I would so rather see that, than this:
(http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009/20090908_powerplantfl.jpg)
They actually built really expensive neighborhoods around this thing. And like a whole community with a town center and shit. It's kind of disgusting. I don't want to look out my window at that thing belching smoke out of it's holes 24 hrs a day
smoke?
it's just steam, right?
i've always thought the cooling towers are kind of elegant looking.
Yeah, it's steam, and actually quite safe given the safeguards on nuclear reactors these days.
The problems are: Incredibly expensive, and dangerous waste products you can't put anywhere.
Sure it's steam. Brown and grey steam. I can see this thing every day when I drive to work. It's an eyesore. And this plant has had the EPA down it's throats forever.
And whatever is chuggin out of it's pipes is NOT clean or safe. Before 9-11 we could drive right up to the thing. I got a bunch of pics when I was in HS.
Deer drinking out of the water around the thing made me sad. (man made river/pond thing)
It' was my mistake. The towers on the left are for cooling steam. The towers on the right are letting out smoke.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 12, 2010, 05:14:21 PM
Quote from: Kai on May 12, 2010, 05:11:59 PM
Yeah, it's steam, and actually quite safe given the safeguards on nuclear reactors these days.
The problems are: Incredibly expensive, and dangerous waste products you can't put anywhere.
Sure you can put them somewhere. I have a foolproof solution for this.
GO AHEAD! ASK HIM HOW!
Quote from: LMNO on May 12, 2010, 06:04:51 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 12, 2010, 05:14:21 PM
Quote from: Kai on May 12, 2010, 05:11:59 PM
Yeah, it's steam, and actually quite safe given the safeguards on nuclear reactors these days.
The problems are: Incredibly expensive, and dangerous waste products you can't put anywhere.
Sure you can put them somewhere. I have a foolproof solution for this.
GO AHEAD! ASK HIM HOW!
I honestly didn't expect anyone to even noticed I'd posted that.
I'm fond of the Marianas Trench as a place to keep it. Theorized to have very very minimal impact, considering they'll probably just fall in between the tectonic plates like the mother of all pennies lost between the seat cushions.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 12, 2010, 06:06:00 PM
Quote from: LMNO on May 12, 2010, 06:04:51 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 12, 2010, 05:14:21 PM
Quote from: Kai on May 12, 2010, 05:11:59 PM
Yeah, it's steam, and actually quite safe given the safeguards on nuclear reactors these days.
The problems are: Incredibly expensive, and dangerous waste products you can't put anywhere.
Sure you can put them somewhere. I have a foolproof solution for this.
GO AHEAD! ASK HIM HOW!
I honestly didn't expect anyone to even noticed I'd posted that.
I CAN HAZ REEDIN COMP'RHENSHUN.
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 12, 2010, 06:07:52 PM
I'm fond of the Marianas Trench as a place to keep it. Theorized to have very very minimal impact, considering they'll probably just fall in between the tectonic plates like the mother of all pennies lost between the seat cushions.
Or why not just mix it with sand, fuse it into glass blocks, and store it in the desert in lead-lined shacks? There's nothing to leak, and if you want the hot shit back (remember, if it's still radioactive, it's still got useful energy in it), you just crush the glass and centerfuge out the the stuff you want, then fuse it back into glass blocks.
Problem #1: I don't own any congressmen.
Problem #2: The NRC won't approve anything that would put it out of business.
Problem #3: The hippies would be depressed. One less thing to bitch about.
Anyone catch that the Russians have suggested controlled nuclear explosion to collapse and cap the oil leak....
Apparently they've tried it many times and it only failed to work once..... :x
don't they keep them in giant pools of water to keep them cool?
would the glass build up heat and melt?
it just seems like they would have gone for a dry storage method if there was anything they could've figured out originally...
Quote from: Telarus on May 12, 2010, 06:25:02 PM
Anyone catch that the Russians have suggested controlled nuclear explosion to collapse and cap the oil leak....
Apparently they've tried it many times and it only failed to work once..... :x
I'm actually more okay with that than just letting the oil spread to the rest of the ocean.
The spill is fucking gigantic, It's big enough that if it was over here it would stretch from Duluth, cover my entire country, and still reach the Twin Cities. This both terrifies and impresses me.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 12, 2010, 06:06:00 PM
Quote from: LMNO on May 12, 2010, 06:04:51 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 12, 2010, 05:14:21 PM
Quote from: Kai on May 12, 2010, 05:11:59 PM
Yeah, it's steam, and actually quite safe given the safeguards on nuclear reactors these days.
The problems are: Incredibly expensive, and dangerous waste products you can't put anywhere.
Sure you can put them somewhere. I have a foolproof solution for this.
GO AHEAD! ASK HIM HOW!
I honestly didn't expect anyone to even noticed I'd posted that.
I noticed, I was skeered so I let it go.
Quote from: Telarus on May 12, 2010, 06:25:02 PM
Anyone catch that the Russians have suggested controlled nuclear explosion to collapse and cap the oil leak....
Apparently they've tried it many times and it only failed to work once..... :x
They're probably right. Except I would only trust THEM to do it and not any of our spags cause they're smarter than us. Do NOT disagree with me. I will punch you in the taint!
Quote from: Telarus on May 12, 2010, 06:25:02 PM
Anyone catch that the Russians have suggested controlled nuclear explosion to collapse and cap the oil leak....
Apparently they've tried it many times and it only failed to work once..... :x
O GOOD GOD. :x is right.
So does that mean Russia has detonated "many" devices, and it never made news?
Quote from: Iptuous on May 12, 2010, 06:25:30 PM
don't they keep them in giant pools of water to keep them cool?
would the glass build up heat and melt?
it just seems like they would have gone for a dry storage method if there was anything they could've figured out originally...
Not if you kept the quantities of material in the glass blocks small enough and kept the blocks far enough apart.
And "they" lose their job if they come up with a workable solution.
Personally, I suggest we destroy nuclear waste with nuclear weaponry. Fighting fire with fire and all that.
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 12, 2010, 06:41:29 PM
So does that mean Russia has detonated "many" devices, and it never made news?
Uh, yeah.
Also, what is meant by "controlled" nuclear explosions? You can't exactly tell the bomb what shape to explode in.
controlled in that they place the explosion in a specific spot and control how big it will be.
non controlled is just dropping a bomb somewhere
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 06:55:34 PM
non controlled is just dropping a bomb somewhere
And is way more awesome.
I think the worst thing I ever ate was a Burger King burger. It was so...gummy.
Other than that, I had sweet and salty dried squid, which wasn't very nice at all. But most seafood doesn't do it for me anyway.
Quote from: Nast on May 12, 2010, 07:17:35 PM
I think the worst thing I ever ate was a Burger King burger. It was so...gummy.
Other than that, I had sweet and salty dried squid, which wasn't very nice at all. But most seafood doesn't do it for me anyway.
I like turtles
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 07:23:50 PM
Quote from: Nast on May 12, 2010, 07:17:35 PM
I think the worst thing I ever ate was a Burger King burger. It was so...gummy.
Other than that, I had sweet and salty dried squid, which wasn't very nice at all. But most seafood doesn't do it for me anyway.
I like turtles
Two words.
FROG LEGS.
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on May 12, 2010, 07:23:50 PM
Quote from: Nast on May 12, 2010, 07:17:35 PM
I think the worst thing I ever ate was a Burger King burger. It was so...gummy.
Other than that, I had sweet and salty dried squid, which wasn't very nice at all. But most seafood doesn't do it for me anyway.
I like turtles
Squid, octopus, shellfish, eels, too.
and sushi. LOVES ME SOME SUSHI.
I like turtles. :)
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 12, 2010, 08:15:24 PM
I like turtles. :)
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That really needs to be an emoticon. :lol:
It's perfect for when someone keeps stating their case in the same manner.