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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View PostThen rather than commenting on the failings of others, admit your own.
I will wager that many of you deem yourselves saved regardless.
The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostI'm a crusty old fart that doesn't pretend to be righteous, and am full of fauts.
Fortunately, I will be pronounced righteous, not by my own deeds, but by the Righteousness of Christ.
Jude 1:241Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
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Scripture before Tradition:
but that won't prevent others from
taking it upon themselves to deprive you
of the right to call yourself Christian.
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Originally posted by tabibito View PostAnd therefore need to put in no effort at self purification?
A statement that must be considered unlikely.
Jude 1:24
The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
I'm a crusty old fart that doesn't pretend to be righteous, and am full of fauts.
Fortunately, I will be pronounced righteous, not by my own deeds, but by the Righteousness of Christ."It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by eider View PostBut I was telling CP my truth. Christians who have tangled up politics with their faith certainly are a strange people.
CP seems to think that this forum is all for Conservative Christians. I wonder about Liberal Christians or Conservative Atheists.
But obviously an Independent Deist could be disbarred in his world.
Tweb would not even exist without different sides and religions discussing thing together. That's it's purpose.
But I was referring to this part:
Originally posted by eiderHa ha!
Poor Cow-Poke!
It really isn't a bright idea to mock anybody
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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
Complaint: An expression of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
If you are going to quote someone quote them accurately do not paraphrase what they wrote.
Note the difference. That is a question. It is not a "complaint".
That is a statement that contains an observation It is not a "complaint"
Once again my observation that you really need a dictionary is shown to be accuratethere you go again HA. Arguing definitions. No wonder nobody but eider seems to even pay attention to your whining and trolling any longer.
I once again wonder if you are autistic. You seem to have an inability to be flexible on concepts and language. Or perhaps as CD says, you merely use being literally wooden regarding language as a method of trolling.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Post
there you go again HA. Arguing definitions. No wonder nobody but eider seems to even pay attention to your whining and trolling any longer.
I once again wonder if you are autistic. You seem to have an inability to be flexible on concepts and language. Or perhaps as CD says, you merely use being literally wooden regarding language as a method of trolling."It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View Post
I repeat my advice. Get a dictionary and use it.
In order to communicate with persons from other regions of the world, it's very helpful to learn how they use words, idioms, phrases, sentence structure....
We don't live by the dictionary in every day language.
When somebody says "I'm riding shotgun", do you imagine an actual physical shotgun in their hands?The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Juvenal View PostYes and no and feel free to double-check with our other resident source on nuclear power if you don't trust me to give you the straight skinny.
Some of this I had to google, like current prices:- Reactor construction cost is between $5k and $8k per kw. Wind turbines come in at $1k to $2k per kw. That's assuming you were thinking about the economic efficiency for the build out. Solar power costs are comparable to wind power. So as far as initial investment, nuclear plants are a distant third.
- Nuclear plants aren't clean. Starting with the mine tailings and ending with fuel rod disposal, the whole process is dirty and dangerous. Not as dangerous as Hanoi Jane would have it, but dangerous.
- Fusion power would be better.
- You can't burn nuclear waste in a reactor.
- All nuclear plants produce radioactive waste products.
I can't even hazard a guess where you got most of that, but some of it looks kinda sorta like it has some relation to actual facts.
It's possible to reprocess standard spent uranium hexafluoride fuel rods to separate out the plutonium. That's what's used for nuclear bombs. And it's also possible to turn that plutonium into more fuel rods to power what's called a breeder reactor, as in: breeds its own fuel. That's my best guess at what you muddled and misremembered and well, kinda pulled out your patoot.
Plutonium is just one of the radioactive byproducts of a uranium-based power plant, and all three isotopes of uranium are radioactive. There's still a whole lot of radioactive fission products after that, bouncing down the periodic table heading toward the sweet spot where fission and fusion both stop producing energy — one going up, one coming down.
binding energy per nucleon.jpg
If you're thinking straight, you might be wondering if that means there are radioactive waste products from fusion, too. Yeah but, not even close to the same scale, because hydrogen-hydrogen fusion pretty much stops at helium. Only the heaviest and hence most rare radioactive helium isotopes travel further up the table to lithium, but when they do, they do it really fast. Half-lives are less than a second. They produce lithium by beta decay where a neutron gets replaced with a proton.
Lithium has radioactive isotopes as well, but at that point the decay chain has attenuated far enough to ignore any resulting irradiation.
And if it'll make you feel better, the librarian is wrong about the ultimate need to use less power, too. I did a calculation a few years back for a TWeb thread and it came out that with contemporary solar panels, it'd take a solar farm about 10 mi on a side to power the entire US. CSP plants are even more efficient per square mi. We've got a whole lot of parcels that size in the desert southwest. The only real barrier is transmission and storage, at which point we'd be talking about powering the species using solar farms in Saudi Arabia and the Sahara.
That's before we talk about Pournelle's ideas for putting solar farms in orbit, or haul out Freeman Dyson to tell us how it should really be done.
There's no theoretical reason to think we won't be able to expand energy expenditure indefinitely, or at least for many generations to come.
And as far as burning nuclear waste yes, I was referring to breeder reactors, I linked to them earlier in the thread.
One such is the CANDU
Even better than LWRs, CANDU can utilize a mix of uranium and plutonium oxides (MOX fuel), the plutonium either from dismantled nuclear weapons or reprocessed reactor fuel. The mix of isotopes in reprocessed plutonium is not attractive for weapons, but can be used as fuel (instead of being simply nuclear waste), while consuming weapons-grade plutonium eliminates a proliferation hazard. If the aim is explicitly to utilize plutonium or other actinides from spent fuel, then special inert-matrix fuels are proposed to do this more efficiently than MOX. Since they contain no uranium, these fuels do not breed any extra plutonium.
So there are still improvements to be made but nuclear power is a better and more efficient energy source than solar or wind. Heck just compare the footprint needed for a nuclear power plant and what the equivalent land needed for a solar farm creating the same amount of electricity. Solar is great as a supplement but not as a very efficient primary power source for a city.
PS I won't be holding my breath waiting for HA to tell you:
Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View PostA rather interesting response.
The topic is highly complex and neither of us is re competent to make pronouncements on the the technicalities of these reactors. So please stop posturing and affecting some detailed understanding.Last edited by Sparko; 05-06-2024, 11:41 AM.
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Also this is an interesting info-video from the WEF regarding a compact molten lead reactor
https://www.weforum.org/videos/newcl...or-waste-fuel/
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
It's kinda like Americans who take Castilian Spanish lessons to be able to communicate with our friends to the South who do not speak it.
In order to communicate with persons from other regions of the world, it's very helpful to learn how they use words, idioms, phrases, sentence structure....
We don't live by the dictionary in every day language.
When somebody says "I'm riding shotgun", do you imagine an actual physical shotgun in their hands?
However, the word "complaint" is neither a saying nor an idiom.
I therefore made no complaint when I asked the question:
Now you are a nuclear physicist?
Neither was a a direct question that contained an observation a complaint.
The topic is highly complex and neither of us is re competent to make pronouncements on the the technicalities of these reactors. So please stop posturing and affecting some detailed understanding."It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by Juvenal View Post
That's technically a mistake because the Sabbath is technically the Jewish holy day, which runs from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. But to be fair, it's a mistake most Christians would make, too, because most Christians think of it as just another word for holy day.
Most Christians don't really know much about their own religion, and ironically enough, even less about most Christians.
Or the 2016 remake of Whisky Galore where, as the islanders are about to row out to the doomed freighter SS Cabinet Minister with its precious cargo of whisky, James Cosmo as the pastor shouts just as the clock strikes midnight "Tis the Sabbath"!"It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so."
Sportin' Life
Porgy & Bess, DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin
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Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria View PostI understand many English sayings/idioms including your example as a modern reference to sitting beside the driver of a car but which harks back to the individual who sat, with a firearm, next to the driver of a stagecoach and who would use that gun in the event of an attack.
However, the word "complaint" is neither a saying nor an idiom.
The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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