Posted on 02/26/2011 1:38:34 PM PST by Squawk 8888
I am painting, Well I will be if you read this a little later, but if you read it after I quit it won’t be painting any more. I will be looking for a hour I lost somewhere.
I got it. Listened to the album about five times last night. Very good.
I didn’t mind eating it, but it gave me a horrible rash. And then I had to stay awake half the night after taking two Benadryl.
Didn’t like it all that much, anyway. They had salmon at the same meal which was much better.
What are you planning to do with it?
And then tomorrow you'll lose another.
You're killing a lot of time. You should try to be more productive.
I seem to be missing a lot. Not anyone’s Fault but mine. For now, I think I need to head for the euphemism called bed.
Maybe tomorrow will be better.
G’Night, all!
Can you do that again in english?
Ditto.
I was hoping to use it tomorrow morning. I did get a dog door installed. The dog doesn’t seem to quite understand concept yet. Somethings are best learned on an empty stomach.
You could fasten the door open, and then hang an old towel or something over the opening.
Soon the dog will learn that the obstruction is pliant, and will yield to his yearnings. After that, the more-substantial door will also be seen as a portal.
I fold.
Took Gorm Mor out for a freeway run today, to assess gas mileage. Same as in town, 11.7. Of course, "in town" is mostly cruising to and from town at 50 - 55 MPH.
What magnitude was it? 6.8
Have you heard any news about the people you know in Japan? No, but my only contact is his work email.
Wise man. And saying that, I’m off to bed with my sickie self.
Have a good evening!
Get well!
LoM found a video from my friends’ area. They got a pretty rough shaking.
There’s been at least one fatality in Japan’s nuclear troubles. But they have a well-coordinated emergency response going on. They’ll get through it.
Some of the reactor coolant has had to evaporate into the pressure vessel. It’s that that they’ve had to release because of the build-up of pressure. It includes a modest amount of radioactive material, but it isn’t anything on the scale of TMI or Chernobyl yet, even though numerous reactors are involved.
Reactors shut down at first opportunity, as per protocol. But backup diesel generators to run the cooling may have been taken out by the tsunami.
I think some site and procedure review will be in order once everything is under control again.
I believe some radioactive material has been released -- whether more or less than TMI I do not know. But this is not likely to be anything like Chernobyl -- VERY different designs, I gather.
Boric acid with the seawater is an effective reaction inhibitor.
It's ironic too. Boron may be an efficient fuel for fusion reactors once we learn how to get the temperature high enough. We'll be combining one proton and one boron eleven ion to produce three (count them!) ions of helium! Those are going to be some great power generators!
After my "freeway mileage run" I was looking at the fillup/mileage history and noticed one week during which I had much higher mileage than the others: 13.9 MPG as opposed to the generally around 11.8 MPG. Traced it to an "emergency" fill-up at a Shell station instead of the usual (rather lower-priced) Arcos.
Running the numbers to get miles/dollar, I bracketed the Shell fill by Arco fills because of changing prices, I got for three consecutive weeks: (arco $3.31/gal) 3.54 mi/$ -- (shell $3.47/gal) 4.01 mi/$ -- (arco $3.57/gal) 3.28 mi/$.
I didn't expect to see an 18% increase in miles/dollar across brands, but there it is. The more expensive gas might actually provide better economy. More tests are in order, and LoM will start feeding me numbers for Ealabhan, which she is driving now.
Try to watch, if you can determine it, the alcohol content of your fuel.
Ten percent ethanol may run cooler and have combustion advantages, but its energy content is lower than the higher octane gasoline.
NnBob, I am impressed. I have not looked at reactor physics in a LONG time.
But isn't part of the issue keeping the temperature high enough, or is that 1970s thinking? Did the Tokamak concept fail? I know they're looking at pulsed generation, but beyond reading about the construction of an immense laser "compression" system at Lawrence Livermore Labs at some time in the dim past, I know nothing.
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