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Just a question as I'm uneducated, I thought most fossil fuel was actually very (very) old algae that was slowly "cooked" over time to produce crude oil. Is the positive of this research to show we can get oil out of algae but without adding trapped (underground/contained) carbon into the cycle?
Isn’t part of the reason it’s deplorable is legal and political due to how you can use perma culture at a large area and regenerate water and ecosystems. Like the wests water in us to some extend is due to this
When I was invited to a by Invite only MIT engineering conference my MIT colleague Dr. Mitchell Swartz said I should pursue x-rays on hafnium ideal for a Lockwood valveless pulsejet engine able to configure to a pulse detonation engine since deuterium is restricted while beryllium is toxic essential for a Helmholtz coil focused cosmic ray muon catalyzed fusion rocket engine I described for my peer reviewed MIT Presentation I gave on how Noguchi of early 1940s Hungnam Hamhung Hamgyong had perfected muon catalyzed fusion credited to Alvarez only after peacekeepers had returned from such WWII ruins. Why it is important is I had designed a solid fueled jet engine based on a Tesla fluidic rectifier only a Dr Xing Zong of Tsinghua University and Yang Xiao of Chengdu Sichuan showed interest in electroforming of how I proposed a jet powered land skimmer induced hovercraft road vehicle with hysteresis conveyor skids for parking so average citizen could burn waste or use almost any heat source for fuel. While at MIT I also proposed a carbon fusion lamp to permanently convert exhaled CO2 carbon dioxide into molecular oxygen where a molecular sieve is placed around a cryogenic pyroelectric crystal fusor patent of by Naranjo & Putterman of UCLA only for lamps able to remove CO2 and not a powers source.
My MIT colleague Ruby Carat of Eureka California shares my interest in extraction of raw materials such as minerals, chemicals, metals, and isotopic fuels from sea water so congratulations on of a job well done.
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If you're near the testing phase you should team up with Ukraine. They have prior nuclear experience. Plus they have experience with what happens when things go wrong. Not to mention you might be able to get permission to do your test a lot easier then you can get them scheduled in the US. This could save you years.
I've been an IBEW journeyman for over 40 years. Metal fish-tape into a live panel? No way! If you have no other choice, then a rated electrical insulating / isolation sheet should have been clipped in place so the fish-tape could never make contact with live parts of the panel interior. This is why nylon fish-tapes came into being. It's much better to learn from training than through a bad experience like this. I'm so sorry this happened to this gentleman. Live and learn.
What makes it more dangerous is the law regarding drugs, because they're not evidence biased but politically based. Same in UK 🇬🇧 where drugs like mdma are demonized despite being relatively safe, while alcohol 🍸 the biggest killer of all drugs gets a free pass
Any org ending in “national laboratory” is a NATO world government project. You’d be best to treat this as extremely hostile information. The jangly guitars and dorks in glasses nonwothstanding. And earthquakes are 100% predictable. I was warned about the NYC quake on 04/02. Americans just hate to read. Sorry not sorry 🤷♀️
Me and my father would work at their house we have been there for a long time we created this bond together but its been a long time since Ive seen him, “i miss you nate”
0:31 Assemble this AI e- microscope in the dark without looking/that's the electron gun, is she installing an adversarial particle or cation packet zoom component? It's a MS / MS / EM / MiniLIGO? Does it turn around select samples for device-wise OOB analysis like beamline XPELS, go argue for the LIMS (data and sample storage etc.) with someone in (PhD) Program Facilities? Where my p-color keyed images and schematic mockup at? (Good to have 'I don't see any of these samples goading publication' 1000 lab member hours ahead tho!) That does look like a [dry flyover country] worth of B&W images otherwise. (ObControversy; each sample of interest should have a Gatcha character of the (candidate) first authors' ages, and it follows the field / ground should be littered with dead or undead younger and older characters. Maybe dried plants for racemic species and shabbier stage materials!? )
My industry (marine offshore oil and gas specifically) also considered digital twins. In fact, this is almost word for word the same sales pitch that we had. Same projected benefits. Reduced downtime, lower maintenance costs, etc. And the graphics look so impressive. Except, from my experience, it doesn't work. Unless the hydropower industry is creating their own custom software, a digital twin isn't some magic software. It's many different software packages combined, all designed to create different computer simulations for different physics. That introduces several problems. 1.) The software is expensive. Very expensive. And so are the engineers who run it. The costs are only justified if you use the software 70-100% of the time. That translates into hydroelectric assets that experience nearly constant major construction. 2.) The software never plays nice together. I have seen many sales engineers tell me that they have seamless integration, and it works like magic. It never does. There are always considerable bugs that require extra time and money to solve. 3.) Physics is too complicated to easily create a digital twin. For many of these physics simulations, we need to calibrate the simulation with extensive data from the real world. Far more sensors than you expect, and those sensors are not cheap. Because we are not modeling a perfect hydroelectric dam. We need to capture the years to maintenance, degradation, and repair. All that builds into the model before you get the real advantages of a digital twin. It takes a huge effort to incorporate all that history into the model. Usually, the effort is not justified. So those are the three major challenges I see with digital twins. If hydropower can create an implementation that avoids those three pitfalls, then digital twins hold a lot of promise. Just approach it with a lot of skepticism. Don't believe the sales pitch on face value.
Great video! But...I think a disservice to both the public and other professionals when the selling point was made about long half-lives vs. short half-lives. Do you mind also explaining that those billions of year half-life isotopes are already in the ground around us all over and the short half-lives are the real issue because a short half-life isotope releases its energy more quickly and thus results in more radiation dose. So according to this selling point, Cs-137 and Sr/Y-90 are not as harmful and are easier to manage than U-235/238. Also, does this mean that ALL of the fertile Th-232 is burnt up? Fantastic video aside from this one disappointing comment.
