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by WizWom
Thu Sep 13, 2012 5:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: A question about nuclear reactors and backup power
Replies: 3
Views: 2802

theoretically, nuclear plants are able to use low-quality steam from waste heat to power their low pressure turbines, thus providing local power needs. I've never heard of it actually being done, though. However, Fukushima Daiichi's trouble was not lack of power so much as the flooded power rooms, w...
by WizWom
Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Help ! I need disk recovery Key words for Google use.
Replies: 21
Views: 11536

Re: Help ! I need disk recovery Key words for Google use.

CD/DVD experiential life expectancy is 2 to 5 years even though published life expectancies are often cited as 10 years, 25 years, or longer http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/initiatives/temp-opmedia-faq.html I have perfectly fine CD-Rs written in 2004; I have no idea where they got their inform...
by WizWom
Sun Aug 05, 2012 2:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Help ! I need disk recovery Key words for Google use.
Replies: 21
Views: 11536

Personally, I've got an external Terabyte hard drive for backup and nothing else.
by WizWom
Sat Aug 04, 2012 5:19 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Help ! I need disk recovery Key words for Google use.
Replies: 21
Views: 11536

http://www.undeletedeletedfiles.com/ does a sector scan for deleted files
by WizWom
Sat Aug 04, 2012 4:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Help ! I need disk recovery Key words for Google use.
Replies: 21
Views: 11536

If you are lucky, the only true losses are the files which got overwritten, a file recovery program should find the directories, and be able to recover most of the files.
But if the format rewrote every sector, then you are hosed.
by WizWom
Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:22 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1334749

Well, I actually bothered to do the math after almost four years, and according to my calculations, 1e12 neutrons per second is about one part in 40 million of the neutron yield from a 100 MW D-T reactor. So it's a bit less than eight orders down - by number . By energy, it's billions of times smal...
by WizWom
Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:13 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Do thermonuclear weapons have infinite fusion energy gain?
Replies: 10
Views: 9999

Almost right, Dan. Except there is not time in an H-bomb explosion to breed anything; the shell is undergoing fast fission of the uranium. Any absorbed Neutrons, in a weapon, are considered lost.
by WizWom
Sun Jul 08, 2012 3:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Ron Paul Supporters not welcome in Louisiana GOP
Replies: 208
Views: 45690

If the power source (with no outside input) is not part of the masses apparatus, they are NOT performing a closed experiment, and are getting a local effect from moving mass in the system.

Like I said, Woodward's not a "respected scientist".
by WizWom
Sun Jul 08, 2012 1:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Don't Biatch Conservatives
Replies: 167
Views: 49388

delta charts... so very useful.
Yes, Bush's policies were not any better. Like I said, we have been in a depression since 2001.
Because everyone in Washington (except a few fringe people like Ron Paul and Rand Paul) is Keynesian, they will continue to do things which prevent recovery.
by WizWom
Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:00 am
Forum: General
Topic: Ahh secularism...
Replies: 195
Views: 34824

Sure, Satanists, Wiccans, Transcendental Meditation kooks, whatever, as long as its a 503b "church."
by WizWom
Sat Jul 07, 2012 2:37 am
Forum: General
Topic: Don't Biatch Conservatives
Replies: 167
Views: 49388

Once again: The unemployment rate peaked at almost 10% by the end of 2009, before the stimulus had any time to take effect! That is much higher than the original predictions were! Since then the unemployment rate has continuously gone down. That is a fact. Of course you can always twist and bend ev...
by WizWom
Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: For What Are You Willing To Be A Slave?
Replies: 60
Views: 18426

Then you understand that arguing that most federal social programs are in direct conflict with the enumerated powers. I dont necessarily see it that way. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence[note 1] ...
by WizWom
Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:13 am
Forum: News
Topic: Mach Effect progress
Replies: 2707
Views: 1465870

A lot of crap passes peer review, and is pickecd up after publishing as crap and retracted. None of this has been retracted. http://libra.msra.cn/PublicationList?srcType=4&desType=2&srcID=8408&desID=52679069 He's also, as you should note, not cited much. He's a fringe worker, working on a rather wi...
by WizWom
Tue Jul 03, 2012 5:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Don't Biatch Conservatives
Replies: 167
Views: 49388

Well, we've got 4 million fewer employed now than when Obummer took office. When Obama took office, the United States was losing around 750,000 jobs a month. The last quarter of 2008 saw an annualized drop in growth approaching 9 percent. This was the most serious downturn since the 1930s, there wa...