Posted on 12/01/2020 5:15:01 PM PST by george76
You should keep yours too, since we are talking about the monstrosity, not the semi. If you think the pickup can tow a 80000 pound trailer for any realistic distance... well, you shouldn’t be on car threads.
Such as your BS about gas stations. The first gas station in the US was built in 1905 three years before the Model T came along. Prior to that you could get gas at the general store, at a hardware stores or even the drug store among other places.
I get that you want to have your world run by electronics.
As this week should show, that is a dumb idea however I let fools do as they like. So you just go right ahead.
Well tell me which it was and why. Obviously you’re clueless since you can’t answer.
Do you even know what natural metal is? It is pure uranium, whose natural u235 component has not been artificially increased by enrichment. It does not mean rocks. The first us reactor had zero enrichment as well. It’s a lot cheaper, but CANDU reactors can do this feat as well, but much more safely.
The way I see it you are the one doubling down...
“Such as your BS about gas stations. The first gas station in the US was built in 1905 three years before the Model T came along. Prior to that you could get gas at the general store, at a hardware stores or even the drug store among other places.”
WRONG! We debunked you earlier! That was not a gas station. It was just a gas pump by the side of the road.
You are not Humpty Dumpty.
Words do not mean only what you pretend they mean.
I am sorry that reality is not your bag but it still exists.
“Well tell me which it was and why. Obviously you’re clueless since you can’t answer.
Do you even know what natural metal is? It is pure uranium, whose natural u235 component has not been artificially increased by enrichment.”
Sigh ....
Uranium in its natural state is an oxide, not a metal.
“That was a gas station little liberal.”
Prove it.
” They were suppose to go to 2% enrichment to help stabilize the design.”
Actually, they went to 2% so they could add more absorbing elements, later going to 2.4%
“Prior to that you could get gas at the general store, at a hardware stores or even the drug store among other”
Presently every building in the US has an electrical outlet ...
No, but in a day’s driving around there will usually be a gas station around that take 5 minutes to fill up at. Again, 30 minutes or more is just time I don’t want to sacrifice, especially on a weekend or 3-day camping trip where every second is an extra blessing from God.
Also, many of “our close spots” work out well on one tank of gas, this time in our Ford Explorer pulling a pop-up camper. Drive there, do a little driving / exploring while there / drive back / refill on next trip to town. Again, turn up a used electric Explorer in good shape for $10k-$12k with the same actual range on a “fully” (by Tesla’s recommendation) charged 5 y/o battery, and instead recharge upon return home: Works for me. They just don’t exist, yet, and may or may not by the time I get too old for such trips. Which may only be a few years if I don’t get out for such activities more!
So uranium is not a metal when in oxide form.I see. While the chemical properties are changed, uranium remains a metal.
But if you want to get technical, Chernobyl used uranium in oxide form, pellets. The Chicago pile used both the metal oxide and metal without oxide.
Finally, whether metal, oxide or no, unenriched uranium contains .7% u235. Rbmks were designed to run on non-enriched uranium.
So prattle on, please!
“Rbmks were designed to run on non-enriched uranium.”
Source, please ...
You could grind them up and use them as attic and wall insulation.......Or make pillows out of them.
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