Posts by andy k O'Croydon

Think like a millipede

"She's got legs up to here!"

Re: Electric should be cheaper, gas more expensive

Unless you recycle it in fast burner reactors, which sorts out the energy problem and the nuclear waste problem.

Re: Where does the hydrogen come from?

Nuclear cogeneration would definitely be a majorly beneficial source, seeing as it can be done concurrently with electricity production.

Related report for those interested - Missing Link to a Liveable Climate: How Hydrogen-Enabled Synthetic Fuels Can Help Deliver the Paris Goals. Pg 55 gives a good indication of the spatial requirements for the predicted amount of energy.

Re: Been there - on a Nuclear Power Plant

"...what to do with the waste, and what happens to the waste while we're trying to figure out what to do with it."

You do the same thing as every other kind of waste, you recycle it.

Re: Just because they called Dr. Frankenstein crazy

When I was growing up and my parents repeatedly played a tape in the car that featured Peter Sarstedt's Where Do You Go To My Lovely, I always took that as a literal interpretation.

Re: Too true

A lot of castles and cathedrals are still standing. So are a couple of pyramids.

Re: Unions... double edged sword.

I'd avoid the DLR then. Personally I like it because you can sit at the front and pretend you're driving. Yes, I am legally classed as an adult. And yes, pretending to drive includes miming a steering wheel, despite being on rails.

Re: Typo? Or me being dense?

That's not boring. I'd say it's pretty cool.

Re: 20MW

It sounds like the timeline is similar to when the US and Canada are looking to start deploying micro-reactors (not sure on the Russian and Chinese timelines). So a couple of these may also do the trick (typically these are specced around 10MWth, so around 4MWe). The spare heat capacity could also, potentially, drive heat engines to drive the cooling systems, although that's probably looking a bit further forward.

Re: no one has to care what appears on Trump’s Twitter feed ever again

People forget the original meaning of the word twitter, as defined in Roger's Profanisaurus. However, your definition lends itself nicely to referring to the most popular social media channels collectively as twatface.

Re: Space dust, 2020, Japanese

It'll be needing its towel then.

Like non-priest's socks

Never buy black socks in a normal shop, they'll shaft you every time.

That's not true

The Turd Sandwich is also a viable candidate.

As with most places that people like to say are shit, I think most of its detractors have never been there.

"But I've been there and it's definitely shit!"

Thank you, hypothetical commentard. I suppose anyone can be biased enough to like any place if that's where all your friends and family live though. Me, I think the post being in Croydon is the only reason to take the job!

Re: password 88888888

It wasn't Dark Helmet who had that combination on his luggage, it was President Scroob!

Molten Salt Reactors

For those of you interested, there is a UK design in Molten Salt Reactors which, unlike the LFTR, uses existing nuclear qualified parts and doesn't involve pumping radioactive salt through heat exchangers. It also uses heat storage which would justify deployment of renewable energy sources by acting as a backup reactor. Currently would run off spent nuclear fuel, although in the long term could be developed for thorium.

http://www.moltexenergy.com/

I''d be interested in them scrutinising Will Smith's claim that he never made a whack jam.

Re: 360° badger sett simulator

I hope this is something he's seriously considered before rushing Headlong into it.

To be honest I was expecting to see more Innuendos by this point.

For some reason it made me think of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP0H_a7Ihtk

Re: Take notes

Me too. It's also a lot easier to draw a free-body diagram (or indeed any diagram) by hand.

Re: Freud a GoGo

That's because the engineer there has his hat hard on.

Sorry, I meant his hat hard on... I said it again!