I think you mean ‘flake’ Crossie Cadbury’s Flake was very nice. Chocolate. Yummmmmmmmm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIdtVthtAVo
Open Thread – Mon 7 Feb 2022
H B Bear May 15, 2024 2:44 pm The Brittany Blob rolls on. I think the correct expression to commence all…
Halal processing at abattoirs was being done in NZ decades ago. Ditto Katanning. Scroll down a bit for the story.
On reversing the unfavourable policies of the Uni Party, Greens have set the precedent for local government to set many…
It is the creeping feminisation of society, matey. Sheep and lambs are cute. The big eyes. The women couldn’t care…
Let’s hope they inflict a goodly amount of damage to themselves.
I feel a song coming on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCA7–Qcp78
Eighty per cent of the world’s population already eat insects as a part of their everyday diet.
Not on purpose, Australian flies preferred method of ending it all is flying into someones mouth.
OK.
You know how we were all worried about over-regulation killing financial advisors?
Just got an advice that ANZ aren’t going to sell hybrid securities unless you are a wholesale investor or a private investor who has a private advisor.
Ker-ching!
Immediate income stream.
LOL
What if like me your education made you eligible for an AFSL in a few different areas, but you never got one?
“No sir, you cannot advise yourself”
So that means my advisor has power of attorney?
“No, you can’t possibly understand this because you did the training but never got a licence”
Hmmmmm……
Once again proving that government is the font of productivity and prosperity.
The new show Reacher shaping up well; and the guy playing Reacher, Alan Ritchson, unlike the cruise midget, looks the goods. He’s only 6’2″ but since everyone else in the show is under 6′, as opposed to 5′ in the cruise films, he looks huge.
No.
It was a U.S. Officer.
She assaulted Person 14, Roberts-Smith restrained her.
Heheh, you could sorta make a pretty good guess about the Officers background by the facts that she squirrel gripped ol’ 14.
Great stuff.
6,097 views Feb 7, 2022
Rebel News
Anti-lockdown pioneers launch NSW Supreme Court fight back
“Yeah it felt like the magistrate didn’t have jurisdiction…”
Don’t worry, they usually just rubber stamp most prosecutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy1IKIQLbu4
Yeah
Tom Cruise is a totally believable, gay fighter pilot, but Jack Reacher, hell no!
All of what Trump said was honest- truth hurts sometimes. You are a twerp
If he had built a wall (fences don’t count) I would have been content.
Even if he squibbed on everything else.
Something like this would have been good.
Skilling for big pharma is a more profitable grift.
Dot says:
February 7, 2022 at 8:51 pm
Methinks you’re wasting your time appealing for any cogency from Milts.
He still lives in the white picket-fence, red-caped-gnome-in-the-front-yard Australia that died in the early 70s.
A sad case.
Shilling*
Cruise is more like Jack Reacharound.
God I hope these fruit loops in the NT DPP never work again.
Whaddya mean they’re going to make the PMG run at break even?!
Responsible citizens from my Methodist Church and my neighbour Stavros’ union will write a sternly worded letter to our local member!
Ordinary ANZ shares plus franked dividends are usually better, unless APRA has a brain explosion like in 2020. Typical government alphabet agency.
Be interesting if Albo acts on ALP feelz and bans franked dividends or somesuch. We’re already a pariah, can we manage to be a pariah’s pariah?
Err, and the prosecution and defence can’t challenge jury selection for 3 or so jurors each in the northern wasteland?
Here’s the thing. How many indigenous were called for jury duty and did not appear?
Not really.
There was much more to him before, after & between being the bloke who wrote Discworld & other tales.
Propagandist/Marketer, however you want to see it, he knew what he had to sell and what he was up against.
Both the reality and the terror beat ups.
I often wish he had have stuck at it and used his skill to sell the acceptance of Nuclear Energy to Australians, but I suspect he knew why Our Nations’ Leaders were going to go the, ‘oogada boogada’, to Nukes, way.
Instead we end up with a man who regularly wrote great fantasy, based in a world that ‘wasn’t’ ours, but … funny to, how so many of his books key subjects became real world MSM News a while after they were released.
ahhh … if only we had a Moist von Lipwig selling us Nuclear Energy now …
Wasn’t there some chat about Rolfe’s house being burned down?
Hehe…
‘Too small’ Jack Reacher author finally addresses Tom Cruise height controversy (7 Jan)
Maybe he could wear platform shoes.
On Rolfe:
I’m always impressed with barristers ability to know exactly what to do in moments of extreme stress.
Whether it be a complex problem on a drill floor at midnight in a North Sea winter storm, or in a hot, dark corridor facing-off a stabby, shitfaced client with a mile long record.
They know exactly what the Man on the Clapham Omnibus would do.
Counts.
God I hope these fruit loops in the NT DPP never work again.
The head of the NT DPP, seeing which way this was going, resigned a year ago and moved interstate. Good on him.
The new one – again, recruited from interstate is a bloke called Papas (I think). Taking advice directly from the Attorney-General as to the trial’s direction.
The NT Attorney-General is, naturally, a teacher and with zero relevant experience:
Her seat, Arnhem, is as safe a Labor seat as you could get. Parachuted in during 2016, and made AG in early 2020.
Ask and you shall receive.
LFTRs in 5 minutes – Thorium Reactors
A short video of Kirk Sorensen taking us through the benefits of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, a revolutionary liquid reactor that runs not on uranium, but thorium. These work and have been built before. Search for either LFTRs or Molten Salt Reactors (MSR).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY
And again, that’s supposed to be 7 Feb. My brain is stuck in January. Gah.
Blockquote fail. That was Dot’s original comment.
A cup of diesel in the detergent tray, guaranteed to get rid of a petrol odour.
Dot at 9:04.
That is exactly my situation.
Probably what will happen is some advisory firm will set up a 30 minute on-line training module in the risks of hybrids, charge $450 for it, renewable annually.
I wonder if I am banned from buying directly into the IPO issue but can buy on-market when they list?
Went to look at my sisters flooded house on the weekend. 4” of water through the house. 3’ of water through the garage, and you really know you’ve had a flood when there’s a dead carp in the middle of the backyard! (NE VIC)
What a fucking joke. Ticket clipping scum.
Noooo!
At the very least, start with Colour of Magic, Light Fantastic and Equal Rites. That will enable you to (at least partially) “settle in”.
On the Long War series… Stephen Baxter is a very good co-writer. I suspect he was a tad more than that. No harm, Pratchett was clearly not up for much authorship. But they didn’t, I suspect, think through the implications of the idea. Result : Tedium.
He still lives in the white picket-fence, red-caped-gnome-in-the-front-yard Australia that died in the early 70s.
You are so predictable- I was waiting for the disparaging remark about the white picket fence. ‘Sheeple’, ‘white picket fence’- nasty and condescending. Funny thing is, there is a yellow picket fence across the road from me. I must be awful being so brilliant with all those awful sheeple who don’t appreciate you. I’ll repeat- nasty and condescending.
The Aussie beardo on PBS SpaceTime goes into bat for thorium:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElulEJruhRQ
Hybrids have much better price stability than ordinary shares.
They are always going to float back towards face value at maturity.
Keep in mind liquid salt reactors can also be used to dispose of current spent nuclear waste and are very hard to weaponise.
Sell them to Iran.
“Atoms for peace”
Fishing for the indolent.
Buy a house.
Wait.
By the way, ‘kindly fuck off’ is not an argument.
Yuck. Carp bloody stink. Foul, dank fish.
Apologies for the semi-literacy just now.
I was watching The Big Lez Show with the heir to the empire, and doing choomah impersonations.
Some years ago, a British paratrooper was sentenced to life, for ” illegal use of excessive force.” He had shot at a car that had run a Para road block. Four of Her Majesty’s learned legal minds spent two days, reviewing the Yellow Card – the regulations for the use of force – before deciding that excessive force had, indeed, been used. Clegg’s legal representative was chastised for pointing out that they had two days to make a decision Clegg had two seconds to make…..
Wasn’t there outrage when it was mooted that a non-lawyer might be appointed Federal A-G by the Libs?
I can’t recall the exact details.
Read like a normal transmission to me.
I will shit a brick if your son is called Quinton.
Watching the Iranians trying to run a MSTR with all the corrosion and materials issues would be most entertaining. I suspect there’d be a mysterious occurrence of very radioactive virgins in Paradise courtesy of quite a few glowing martyrs.
Cruise has been one of the biggest stars in the world for decades. Although he is just over 5’7 in height, he has established himself as a major action hero in films like Top Gun … but Reacher is described in the books as a huge and hulking 6’5 towering presence who physically intimidates all those he meets.
He also played von Stauffenberg, who apparently was quite tall.
Islam being Islam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k01r8LURtok
Ha, and this is the character that loves to lie I have no sense of humour.
TP is a writer who has readers come into a room and say, between attempts to catch their breath, “You gotta hear this.”, reading the passage that sent them into gales of laughter and then finding they can’t return to their quiet reading because their audience wants to hear more.
No one said he’s, ‘God like’, but the ability to lift people’s spirits & minds with stories, is a gift to thank God for.
Yes but I bet you eat food nearly every day and also have your oil changed in your car, or the radiator changed if needed.
Having cheap and safe, reliable power in abundance is not handwaved away by spurious arguments about minor ongoing overheads.
Watching the Iranians trying to run a MSTR with all the corrosion and materials issues would be most entertaining.
Not really, Iran is chock a block full of engineers. Pretty much every Iranian I know is an engineer.
Rita Panahi?
Cruise is more like Jack Reacharound
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Nice one-liner by Clegg’s brief, however when someone is running a checkpoint in a motor, the decision time regards opening fire is (inclusive of the time needed to bring firearm to bear) more like 1/4 of a second, maximum.
Tom Cruising?
Was meant to be a smiley face
Tom Cruise. I’ve nothing against the 2 x Jack Reacher movies. They’re excellent thrillers.
The first one is one of the better thrillers ever made.
Cruise is many things (especially off-screen) however he is a very good actor, plus he has star quality.
The movies, excellent thrillers though they be, are not specifically Reacher, they could be anybody.
The Amazon series is very like the book. One of the better translations ever, of the feel of a book onto the screen.
The bloke playing Reacher looks like a gym-rat, rather than a well built brawler, and he looks like he spends plenty of time in the beauty salon. His voice does not have a ring of authority to it.
A young Robert Mitchum (say) would be an excellent Reacher.
This can be got past. The actor has a face & demeanour that says he is a “very nice guy”
The only unrealistic parts of the series are the occasions where a featherweight stares at Reacher & says something like “Back off Asshole”
In real life pint-sized don’t speak that way to 6’5″ blokes who has a chest the size of a 44-gallon drum & arms like ham legs.
😀
We destroyed a whole Inconel bath reactor with molten salts. I had a project done with some Hall-Heroult experts on magnesium in molten caustic soda, it ate all their equipment. The photos were fun. I’ve accidentally dissolved quite a few lumps of titanium and stainless in halide systems myself over the years.
“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” – Thomas Jefferson.
He’s not, but I call him Quinton when the vibe and occasion merits it.
As in just now, when I was preparing a feed and I said ‘Quinton! Quinton, where are all the forks in this house? Eh? EH?’
He got it, to his credit.
‘Running a checkpoint’ in Northern Ireland wasn’t quite the same as barreling over a few traffic cones at speed.
The ones I remember had considerable barriers in the approach. Like barrels full of concrete arranged in a very tight chicane.
You would effectively be doing a standing start at the final barrier from about 25 metres away, tops.
Test
rsrsrrr:
Of course you have a sense of humour.
Look at all your @spacebunny posts. I laughed and laughed.
Of course, the ‘running the checkpoint’ story is pure fiction.
It would just be one lot of MI-5s shooting at another lot of MI-5s.
Ed says so.
Good luck to them. Unexpected issues with materials and corrosion chemistry in a highly radioactive molten salt system would, I think, qualify them for a spot with their 72 virgins quite efficiently. Really isn’t a forgiving area of metallurgy.
You can’t use frozen salt as a protection like the aluminium guys do because you are producing a shedload of heat in the salt from the fission reaction. And you have to extract that heat via a heat exchanger to produce steam for a generator. So you have to use direct contact materials. The aluminium guys have been playing with resistant materials as long as I’ve been in the business. Forty years or so. Nope, nothing works, not boron nitride, nothing.
Another book character vs movie actor
From the 1940s onward, the character became closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart, who played Spade in the third and best-known film version of The Maltese Falcon. Though Bogart’s slight frame, dark features and no-nonsense depiction contrasted with Hammett’s vision of Spade (blond, well-built and mischievous), his sardonic portrayal was well-received, and is generally regarded as an influence on both film noir and the genre’s archetypal private detective.
Too.
Many.
Tabs.
Not.
Much.
Sleeeeeep.
Wow!
Are we saying not everything in the movies is as it appears?
The fact that Tom Cruise is 5’7″ is not, of itself, a concern.
But it does mean he couldn’t see over the dashboard of his F-14.
So.
He wasn’t flying those stunt sequences at all, was he?
When “A Bridge Too Far” was released in Perth, the local “Red Berets” Association issued a Press release, pointing out that the film might be a very good war drama, but was largely fiction..
I think you mean ‘poisoning another lot’.
And one would probably be right. Why would the PTB risk themselves and theirs with a lethal virus when they can simply inject the proles with whatever they like? Remember the differences between batches? We are being experimented on in real time.
Vox Day
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Joe Rogan is just embarrassing himself. What sort of tough guy curls up into a fetal position, crying and apologizing, because someone didn’t like what he said?
And to apologize on demand in 2022 is remarkably stupid. To SJWs, an apology is just a guilty plea.
A little bit has been said about the ahistorical misrepresentations in “Bridge on the River Kwai”
Particularly about the near utopian benign manner in which the movie implies the Japanese treat the P.o.W.s
Depends on what sort of checkpoint, operation and location.
Permanent checkpoints like the sort you are describing Sancho, are heavily fortified single entry/exit points for security purposes.
Military operations in low-medium security areas may also dictate the use of snap/temporary checkpoints for interdicting enemy movements, couriers, catching high-value targets on the move and so forth. The only variable is the degree of preparation and stores involved- A snap checkpoint could be set up with a single Infantry platoon or Light Cav troop with their vehicles partially blocking the road, and be set up in mere minutes. A temporary might be in place for several hours to days, and have traffic cones, barriers, search areas and staff rest and rotation areas.
All are equally at risk from nefarious persons trying to smash through them, ambush the checkpoint troops or detonate a VBIED or worse.
Here is an example from Prizren, Kosovo in 1999. the Serb paramilitaries went to light up a German checkpoint in a Lada. And lost a fight with a Leopard 2. Incredibly, one of the folks in that cae was pulled out alive.
* NSFW warning for folks who may find this disturbing viewing. *
From someone who continues to lie about me at every opportunity.
What’s with thinking liking Terry Pratchett books makes you extraspecial, and that isn’t unique to you, spacebunnylover, I mentioned I knew others who’d recommended them with gushing enthusiasm.
Trains are delayed due to vent violent so I’m having a grande.
BREAKING: Ottawa Police Seize All Fuel and Propane Tanks From Freedom Convoy Trucks, Cut Off Supply Route For Protesters
Apparently a sense of humour is now confined to liking Terry Pratchett books and rushing out to bore others with reading aloud the ‘funny bits’.
‘Course not!
But the actors were in the back seats at times.
I mean, why engage the US Navy and then not use their actual Top Guns as well as their planes?
The censoring of Joe Rogan is a tactic right out of old Soviet Union
All their tactics are.
One – time Father in Law was one of the POW’s who built that bridge. He said it was built by Dutch and Australian Prisoners of War, and there wasn’t a “whistling Pommy” for many miles.
It was the only war film he ever watched post 1945….
Leaked video shows the moment $100m US F-35 stealth fighter crash landed on aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson before careening into the South China Sea
Fuck me … milt’s finally made a point
BREAKING: Spotify CEO apologizes to staff for continuing to host Joe Rogan, says he will continue contract while investing $100M in artists from ‘marginalized groups’
They can invest all they like. The question is, do people actually want to listen to them?
100 mn USD.
Hardly anyone knows who Vox Day is so he will not be censored.
Freedom Convoy Address to the Nation.
Rex, that Prizren footage was shown on evening TV news here at the time.
You could see afterward the blokes inside were still alive, though probably wishing they’d not been subject to a good brassing up by the Kraut army.
Fascist scum action in Canada:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JgAL3Lahn0
Snap Indolent!
Rita Panahi?
No, Iranians in Tehran and Melbourne.
Children and Vaccination. Office of National Statistics accidentally reveals the true situation:
https://lorphicweb.com/official-data-shows-children-are-up-to-52-times-more-likely-to-die-following-covid-19-vaccination-than-unvaccinated-children-the-ons-is-trying-to-hide-it/
Fifty thousand trucks in Ottawa with no fuel?
Um, I don’t think that’s going to work somehow.
And apparently honking horns is now terrorism.
Trucker protests: Ottawa mayor declares state of emergency over ‘serious danger’ as demonstrations spread (7 Feb)
There’s that word again.
Can you imagine how confident the NTDPP would be feeling considering the not guilty verdict in the WA police shooting?
Not. Thought. Through.
50,000 immobile trucks. In and around one spot.
Go long on Ottawa heavy towing.
Mmmyes it’s just hopeless.
Just pay the overhead costs bucko.
It’s not as if ICE engines and even bowsers aren’t broken down by unburnt and burnt fuel.
A verdict, criticized, because there were no Aboriginal people on the jury..
a wheelbarrow full of fuel sequestered by the Bolsheviks is going to cripple the blockade?
is anybody stupid enough to believe the optics?
the RCMP are now little better than the influencers on Married at First Sight
how do you get the smell of diesel outta hiviz?
This close to nearly jumping on the train to Bordeaux by mistake (not really). One thing I know how to ask.
Yep.
You don’t know much about materials do you Dot?
The answer is the standard fuel element design, which segregates any materials problems into single zirconium clad units, which can be pulled and replaced. You get a dud fuel element you can replace it easily. In a MSTR if you get a point failure, eg on a pipe elbow, you have a hundred tonnes of glowing molten salt on the floor. Not an easy problem to deal with.
Ottawa Police Services board Chair Diane Deans described the crowds as “terrorists” and warned that they pose a “threat to our democracy”, reported CBC.
1. Police services board, with a Chair? What sort of pooftah-pansy outfit is this?
2. It may be a threat to your democracy, Mz Chair, but not of others.
Conservatives Must Stop Tolerating Commie Nonsense
How would you know?
The Canadian truckers would know that this is their last chance to rescue Canada from the fascists.
Back down now and the country is lost.
I expect Trudeau will soon order violence be used against these “terrorists “.
YES BRUCE
YOU FUCKING REPLACE THE NECESSARY PARTS
What is the cost of the electricity diverted to cool a major coal fire power station through pumping water in from a source?
Do you give up because it costs “a lot of money”?
Dot – you’re not an engineer / scientist, are you…
That’s right- I didn’t quite trust the memory on that one when I posted.
The 7.62mm NATO made an utter mess of the engine block. If it had been an M1, the commander’s .50 cal would probably have cleanly overpenetrated the car and probably halfway across the mext suburb.
And a 120mm canister round would have left the car as shredded confetti and blood spatters.
They were mighty lucky the panzertruppen only used coax…
So what Tony – not building a failure point is an engineering problem.
The only thing that matters at all when it comes to cost is scaling.
RCMP weren’t used- Just Ottawa police.
And chatter from the Gateway Pundit linky suggests the confiscated dieso was red-dyed ‘offroad use only’ stuff. Probably donated tankloads from farming communities along the way*
The propane is a bugger- But wherever there is propane and propane accessories on sale (Stop That!), it is not impossible for folks to smuggle them in…
* Struth will be upset- How dare those folks not pay their fuel excise!
bespoke, I don’t no nuffink
I do however, know an ‘influencer’ of national tv stardom
he’s thick as a brick, but pretty to look at
chicks like that sort of thing
“And to apologize on demand in 2022 is remarkably stupid. To SJWs, an apology is just a guilty plea.”
Like Sorenson says – there are so many ways to do nuclear, TWR, pebble bed, sodium salt.
Everything is subject to thermodynamics, worrying about maintenance or overhead costs is handwaving; all that matters regarding cost per kWh to wholesale is scale. Eventually an ICE engine just stops working without a massive overhaul but it doesn’t mean we stop using them.
All heat exchange comes with maintenance, part renewal etc costs.
“Adam Bandt will demand that Anthony Albanese impose a blanket ban on all new coal, gas and oil projects until November’s COP27 summit in Egypt, with the Greens […]”
The World’s End (2013) Ending Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6J_MfqfjZU
“Everyone remembers where they were when the lights went out …”
Funny, for all the soothsayers out there, it’s amazing how much more on point, re: things to come, are the likes of The Clash, Simon Pegg … mostly Brits for some reason … seems they never could quite quit crowing over all those wars over Europe that went the Brits way before Cook was finally allowed to be The Discoverer of Oz, oh, and swapping the Dutch, Nutmeg for Australia … may have a bit to do with why some of their better plans go tits up these days, very cold deserts and all that … but I digress, so I’ll come back around to that very old story –
“[…]
It’s an unfinished story, but it’s more than just begun
And I know more than one thing, but not more than two or three
An I’ll tell you if you’ll listen, and I’ll tell you for free
[…]”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evJ3stz9KU0
P.S. that song is genius, but I’ll leave it to the PhD chasers to explain why.
sulfamic acid might help
I’m really down on this handwaving stuff because an old manager of mine reckoned nuclear used too much carbins in all of the concrete shielding.
That’s an absolute joke; you can’t use earthen barriers or civil construction either?
I also thought there were well known and cheap shielding materials for different radiation types that could be used in a fixed asset.
Nope, gigatonnes of concrete apparently.
Oh you git.
LoL
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Things that make you go hmmmm:
Trucks engulfed by large fire on Eyre Highway amid surge in SA-WA road freight
Weird how the rail link has been cut before but hasn’t resulted in protracted food and grocery shortages. And the road was open but for this fire, which apparently was not photographed, even though it would be a pretty spectacular spectacle.
The supply chain is really taking a beating at the moment. It’s just one Act of God followed by a freak inferno gumming up the works. I’m sure this just bad luck and not something like a lack of capacity due to not enough trucks on the road, for some reason.
Dot
When you get a chance, could you whip up a design for a feasible fusion reactor please?
And, if you’re worried about anything shitting itself, YOU FUCKING REPLACE THE NECESSARY PARTS.
Sometimes the science will tell you what might be possible, but the engineering (in partnership with good scientists) is where the problems are solved.
To determine costs, you need to know what can go wrong. With new technology, this is not always obvious. With a nuke plant, making a few hundred square miles of land glow of a night is bad – and that is a cost that needs to be factored in.
Replacing those rooted parts can be a problem – in a car, replacing spark plugs or injectors is easily understood and generally easy to do. So with new technolgy (nuke plant), do you look at every conceivable failure mode and allow large factors of safety and redundancies and plug-out & plug-in repairs? Starting to get real expensive. And still may fail in unexpected modes.
If the materials do not exist, then you need the engineer/scientist collaboration to invent new ones. Works – eventually or maybe not at all – still expensive. The first atom/fission bombs were an enginering problem, not a science problem as it was already well understood (for the time).
I know it’s good to sit back and bark orders – but the engineers have many sleepless nights over various design issues. If something I design fails & someone dies, there is a big and thorough investigation to find the cause. Then I’m liable to be Big Bubba’s playmate for a few years.
So we engineers tend to be anal so we don’t get anal – without the reacharound.
Fats
How often do nuke reactors get turned off like for long periods of time because engineers don’t know what’s wrong with the plant? They certainly go offline for maintenance but otherwise I’ve never heard of reactors being turned for extended periods of time because the engineers don’t get what’s going on.
Also, I think the new materials thing is a bit overdone.
Yep you leave theoretical science and join the real world of applied science. It may be scary but then that’s why you get paid the big bucks. 🙂
JC says:
February 8, 2022 at 12:59 am
Fats
How often do nuke reactors get turned off like for long periods of time because engineers don’t know what’s wrong with the plant? They certainly go offline for maintenance but otherwise I’ve never heard of reactors being turned for extended periods of time because the engineers don’t get what’s going on.: Chernobyl?
Also, I think the new materials thing is a bit overdone. Depends….
Question: If you were given a bull dozer (or similar) that is normally sold up here and it had heating for fuel & driver installed to suit, would you use it in Antarctica through the winter?
It may be scary but then that’s why you get paid the big bucks. ?
The bucks aren’t that big, especially when considered as $paid/hours worked.
I only do it cos I like it – and since I’m a bit of a cranky prick, people leave me alone.
Would I? I’d ask the maker if it would tolerate the cold and if not then what modifications could be made and if they make them.
But more realistically, no, I wouldn’t using using it in Antarctica because I wouldn’t be going there in the first place. 🙂
Get a load of this. Get a load of just how calm the dude on the left of the vid is as he causally moves away from the shooting.
You really want to get the fuck out of there quick because the bullets a flying thick and fast.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/wild-west-shootout-in-harlem/
Would I? I’d ask the maker if it would tolerate the cold and if not then what modifications could be made and if they make them
It’s a very simple materials problem – the normal steels used to construct the machine become very brittle at those temperatures. Effectively, the machine would need to be made from special alloys – along with special welding techniques etc.
Stainless steel – everyone thinks it’s the bees knees for any use. It’s not though – chlorides attack it (seawater) and there are plenty of steel alloys much stronger.
With materials, what is suitable for one environment may not be suitable for a different one. High temperatures weaken all steel & similar alloys – plus corrosion from whatever is running through the pipes.
Aluminium is a good example – alloy 2011 is a high strength bar for machining components. It has a strength similar to plain carbon steel but you can’t weld it. Other aluminium alloys strengths can be adversely affected by heat.
The thing with materials, the more specialised and hostile the environment, the narrower the range of suitability for any material. Exotic materials are like exotic women – expensive, troublesome & with a very narrow range of abilities.
Bed time. Good night JC
I have arrived in Perpignan, much of the train ride was across salt pans with quite a few not particularly pink flamingos hanging out in the bird ankle deep water, snow capped Pyrenees in the distance to the right.
I thought Perpignan was the fifth stop but it was the first so a hasty exit was made.
The area around the gare was a bit “iffy” but I am staying in the old town two doors from the Musee d’art.
The down side of that is I am in a third floor walk up studio which I wouldn’t mind if the second and third flight of stairs didn’t distinctly lean down to the right. Disconcerting. The foyer has mosiacs on the walls and an oval artwork in the centre of the ceiling, probably not by Caravaggio. I’m guessing at one stage was an l’hotel particular’.
I’ve only explored a little but at this stage the town has a little bit of a Bologna/Santiago De Compostela feel with a colonnaded covered footpath on one side of the main street. One building on that street appeared to be renaissance era.
When I arrived the windows were propped open with kitchen sponges underneath, now removed, I’ve closed them as requested but they seem to have a mind of their own.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Morten Morland.
Parick Blower.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Patrick Cross.
Thanks Fats.
I understood nickel is added to steel as a strengthener – is that correct?
Apparently Craig Kelly has committed to investigate the ‘Heffernan claims’ if he gets reelected. When will this bs get put to bed?
Ron Dunn speaks
ooh and he gives Reiner Fuellmich a shove as well
Improvised weapons of Myanmar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f04YXtRQ4U
Violence is the only language bullies understand. It took violence to be rid of Hitler, it took violence to get rid of Pol Pot.
Are you going to be on the front line Razey, or safely behind a keyboard?
I’ve been reading the responses to my comment about how Boris is responsible for his own actions, and that blaming his wife is ludicrous. He chose her (and she him), they are married with two small children.
Some of the responses mirror my original complaint. For example, one fool condescendingly explained to me that I probably don’t know that now and then, men think with their dicks. I won’t regale readers with my personal history, but that fact has not escaped my attention.
I repeat what I said earlier – the notion that this is all about lust is absurd. Boris has been a philanderer forever, and to this day there will be plenty of attractive young ‘research assistants’ (h/t Sir Les) who would jump in the cot with him in a heartbeat.
Then, others mentioned the ghastly Cherie Blair, Tony’s wife, as an example of the evil woman manipulating the puppet syndrome.
Au contraire, it proves my point. They are still married, she is exactly what he wants, as whatsername is to Boris.
Why are you blokes so keen to make excuses for him? Why is he, and only he, not responsible for his actions?
In case this has not been covered earlier, Dr. duk is in the pokey in Canberra. This video outlines what’s happened to him. Best of luck, Dr. duk.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/hSJcXIHxAqK1/
Today in “No Evidence of Voter Fraud 2020”:
Here’s a summary of ten of the methods used to rig the vote across at least six states.
Former German Chancellor now on board of Russian gas company!
Pesky Russkies learning Chinese methods.
Breitbart London
Apologies – I posted these in the wrong thread at first. Must be more careful about selecting current open thread from sidebar!
Oh joy, a nation of hypochondriac Karens.
Two-Thirds of Americans Have Become ‘Germaphobes’ Since the Pandemic Began (7 Feb)
Neuroticism and fetishism is off scale. And Hitler was a germaphobe; there’s so much similarity with the othering of perceived “dirty” groups, then and now.
I should have said – his choices and his actions?
Not always, Bruce. It has been reported numerous times that Trump is a bit of a germophobe.
But, your larger point is true. It is the equivalent of other societies where evil spirits and token objects were capable of causing disease and death.
Primitive stuff.
We had a chemist and an engineer argue in favour of PWR nuke over LFTR nuke because of “safety, materials and Chernobyl”.
You anti science retards.
It’s echoed again in Morten Morland’s cartoon, Joh. Only double the trouble.
The men have character flaws. Everyone does. But somehow, either by birth or political manoeuvring, they have positions of great power. The person they choose to share their lives with will usually echo their own world view, otherwise why would they choose them or stay with them? In Boris’ case, the two former wives were not a match. This one probably won’t be quite what he wants either, but her star has risen while he occupies No10. Charles is a bit different because his original choice was a forbidden one.
These are not youthful, star struck Romeos, prepared to go to any length to keep their Juliets. They’re hardened, cynical hacks, as are their wives.
And they do what pleases them until it is expedient to change course.
I hold Boris responsible for his choice of partner, Johanna.
Dot says:
February 8, 2022 at 7:25 am
I’m neither, but following the links, I’d tend to leave molten salts to the solar storage guys.
No glowing in the dark residue there if things go wrong.
Maybe later for LFTRs eh?
bespoke says:
February 8, 2022 at 7:34 am
Nah, we all make mistakes, but I hold him responsible for hairstyle.
Or is it his barber who does it to him to humiliate him?
Dot – I’ll remind you that the Japs had to shut down their breeder reactor because they couldn’t prevent molten sodium leaks. Molten fluoride salt is at a similar temperature and also is producing energy continually from fission reactions and daughter product radioactivity. And it’s very likely to be more corrosive than sodium coolant, which is just a coolant not a fuel.
I wouldn’t be worried about being on the front line. I assume you would be in rear with the gear ? 😉
Johanna, my methods of determining what a man believes is to look at his significant other. I am not sure though which is the cause and which the effect. Did she influence him to change his philosophy or did he choose her because she fits his philosophy and he lied to the rest of us.
I’m wondering what gyrations the BOM will have to do about this Summer.
It was below 10C here last night, and scraped just over 23C yesterday. Not that I’m complaining, sure beats 40C with hot westerlies and bushfire smoke.
Maybe they will do the ‘in the town of Servicestation in the outback somewhere, temperature records were smashed at 3 pm on December 14’ routine. Maybe they will give the homogenising hamsters another shot of adrenaline mixed with speed (h/t Hunter Thompson).
That ‘study’ Bruce linked to yesterday about how all coral reefs would be dead if temps rose 1.5 degrees is so absurd, one wonders about their grip on reality.
Gabor, the hairstyle is to signal how he is really youthful, just one of the kids.
I know all of this theology talk bores people to death and you don’t have to believe what I believe….please though, no “Pullmanning”…
All of the church teaches has a biblical foundation.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/how-to-defend-the-immaculate-conception
All right. I’ve read through this a couple of times. Got up, walked away, did something else, came back and read it again. I have no idea – none – what this regurgitated thing from overnight is supposed to be about:
No I did not click on the accompanying link. Obviously.
Crossie says:
February 8, 2022 at 7:45 am
I don’t think it’s working.
After calling horn honking a terrorist act yesterday, the fruity mayor of Ottawa is at it again today:
Childless Ottawa Mayor: ‘Disturbing’ to See Kids in ‘Bouncy Castles’ Having ‘Fun’ at Protest (6 Feb)
Sending in the army to fight terrifying bouncy castles really does outdo Monty Python.
Crossie, in our world, moguls often have SJW wives. The Murdoch boys, the Masters of the Universe in tech – check them out – they choose wives who can greenwash their businesses and perhaps assuage their personal guilt. I dunno about their motives.
The point is, I am fed up with this lazy and misogynistic tactic of blaming the other party for what the party of the first part is doing. If people are saying that someone who has climbed the greasy pole to the top is actually an easily manipulable puppet, they have lost touch with reality.
Like I said, so what though?
Like Sorenson points out (again) – there are as many ways to do nuke as a designer can imagine.
Pointing out a technical challenge is not a reason to abandon progress and it reeks of the precautionary principle.
LWNJ’s don’t like people having fun. They want us all to be scared of the covid.
And Tojo, Hirohito and the Sohei warrior monks.
By who, and why?
So you asked me of what I was thinking
In the bar of a small town hotel
I was thinking of a padded cell
With a black and white TV
To stop us from getting lonely
People who are panicked by 5G – is it particular to 5G? How is it different to 4G? Or did 4G cause sniffles?
I think you are missing the point Johanna. Talking about Boris being led around by the nose, or other appendage, by a sjw partner is not critical of the partner but of the weak, shallow and valueless Boris.
The differences are minuscule Johanna. Either way it reflects on his judgment.
If you are targeting those that think women are the root of all evil then I agree. They are losers.
British Medical Journal gets fact checked by Facebook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMf-Zq7xJcY
Have we reached peak retard yet? Probably not…..
Enjoying your travel posts as ever, rosie…
That rarest of birds. Apropos of Boris, and also a segue into random internet scribblings:
It seems that Charles and Camilla is actually a love match, grotesque as they both are. HM has recognised that by allowing her to be called Queen Consort.
Not seeing a lot of publicity for the fact that EIIR has just broken the record by being the first English monarch to rule for 70 years. Not sure what mineral they are using, diamonds, gold etc being already used.
People who are panicked by 5G – is it particular to 5G? How is it different to 4G? Or did 4G cause sniffles?
On a serious note a friend with an aviation background says there is some concerns with 5G interfering with the radio altimeter. Be something they’ll have to work out by engineering I suppose.
Dot – There is a safe alternative which is off the shelf. It is the conventional fuel-element design, which is pretty well debugged by now – especially knotty sleeper issues like radiation and hydrogen/tritium embrittlement. You can even buy a thorium reactor off the shelf: the CANDU design.
My main fear is when a MSTR has a big spill, which is inevitable especially in the development and scaling up phases, the current risk-averse and hysterical political environment would cause the whole area to be abandoned. Which would be a shame.
The Chinese may be able to do it because of their watertight secrecy and close political control, but not in the West where even conventional nuclear reactors are being shut because of politics.
johanna:
Adenochrome. It was Elizabeth II’s Adrenochrome Jubilee.
Wikipedia, but seems a fair summation of MSTR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor
There are materials problems but they are being worked on.
Lotsa pix of the Ottawa protests – including a bouncy castle or two and a sauna….Daily Mail
miltonf says:
February 7, 2022 at 9:32 pm
You are so predictable- I was waiting for the disparaging remark about the white picket fence. ‘Sheeple’, ‘white picket fence’- nasty and condescending. Funny thing is, there is a yellow picket fence across the road from me. I must be awful being so brilliant with all those awful sheeple who don’t appreciate you. I’ll repeat- nasty and condescending.
A really original thinker. Attack the person but not the argument.
BTW, who said anything about appreciation?
Learn some logic and comprehension.
Trust me, it will help you.
Beta titanium -gold alloys:
https://betati3au.wordpress.com/beta-ti3au-metal-alloy/
Buy goldmining shares.
Inflation is smashing everything except gold. I wonder why.
MatrixTransform says:
February 7, 2022 at 10:35 pm
‘kindly fuck off’ is not an argument.
Fuck me … milt’s finally made a point
MT gets it.
Just looked up Adenochrome.
What say you srr?
Interesting stuff. The implication from the presence of some free titanium in the alloy is that the Ti3Au is miscible or bondable with ordinary titanium. That would allow the gold ally to be used for surfacing implants rather than having to make it all of the alloy.
In our acid plant we used to use Ti-Pd heat exchanger plates because of the high corrosivity. Titanium alloys are neat stuff.
On the other hand palladium in catalytic converters is in big demand and lots of cat converters are cut out and stolen. It would be a bummer if some thug held an oldy down and cut out his hip replacement for the gold content.
Doing the sums for my finances this year – how young persons without a parental or other legup are ever going to move upwards and perhaps buy a home is a mystery. And now, they’ve got a trillion dollar debt to pay down via taxes.
It used to be relatively easy – I bought a home in an unfashionable suburb and quadrupled my money in 15 years. But, to do that today, you would need the deposit on at least a half a million dollars. That is the very bottom of the market. We can joke about smashed avocados and all that, but when house prices are rising a thousand dollars a week, a smashed avo on toast looks good.
Interesting ‘should’.
Was the mayor referring to some legal or regulation that was not enforced? Or was he saying that despite there being no basis for stopping them they should have been stopped without a legal basis.
He is a lefty so I will assume the latter.
And now, not only is there no legal reason to stop them he wants to bring in the military to enforce his whim.
It is scary how often lefties want to bring in the military to solve their civil problems – but as has been the case everywhere socialists have got in there is no distinction between military and civil – just the state – and the military exists to combat the state’s enemies be they without or within the state.
Or, perhaps more accurately, socialists see their party and its apparatus as the state, and all the other people are merely foreigners who reside within national borders.
Guardian Essential poll: voter anger cooling at Morrison government handling of pandemic
Just another poll, but an interesting direction:
The Albanese ALP easing back from 50% to 43%, with 8% undecided.
The poll was taken from Wednesday to Sunday last week – so it doesn’t take full account of the Beetrooter’s contribution to Coalition stability.
It also appears that jabbing, masks, and arbitrary rule by CMO is fairly popular.
Takeaway:
• The Australian political mood is all over the place;
• The political payoff from Covid is that a significant chunk of Australia will vote for Govern Me Harder;
• Fat Bastard is probably about to spend $80 million to come in behind Informal;
• The Greens are poised to impose control on a ‘buggins turn’ minority ALP Government;
• But Morrison could well Bradbury his way into a third term;
Sudan is looking like a good bet. Property prices in Khartoum are very reasonable.
Joh, the only way to do it is to leave the big, expensive centres. That is what I’d advise my children to do. Many young ones must have discovered remote working by now. Even so, there are opportunities for enterprising young people here.
The other tragedy for the mayor of Ottawa, although its significance will spread further and wider, is the stark difference between left wing protests and right wing ones.
Left wing protests are destructive, masked noodle-armed youths running around aimlessly under cover of night, venting all the pent up rage of all manner of psychological issues, violence, rape, and arson. Afterward looks like a warzone.
These protests are orderly, healthy people of all ages and races, polite, and while angry at the government the people are respectful of each other and the communities they pass through. And that is an important thing. They are welcomed by communities that they are like them. No boarding up windows or standing on the roof with guns to protect livelihoods here.
Better yet. ‘Remote working’ on a tropical paradise. I doubt employers would like that haha/