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Wasn't it the greenies and their anti-lead crusade that gave us
MTBE?
Thanks,
Rich
What, you prefer leaded gasoline?
M
Wasn't it the greenies and their anti-lead crusade that gave us
MTBE?
Thanks,
Rich
What, you prefer leaded gasoline?
Wasn't it the greenies and their anti-lead crusade that gave us
MTBE?
Wasn't it the greenies and their anti-lead crusade that gave us
MTBE?
On tv last night I saw a researcher tie removal of lead from gasoline withRichard the Dreaded Libertarian said:This is a non-sequitur. I was only saying that it wasn't "the big
agri-industry" who "pushed MTBE on us", it was the anti-lead greenies.
But, it is true, I do believe there's way too much hysteria around lead.
Cheers!
Rich
Jim Yanik said:One has to remember that this is just the REACTOR,and not the heat-
exchangers and generators necessary to convert the heat to electricity.
They left out a lot of details.
--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net
Robert Latest said:Martin said:
"The [...] reactor is engineered to be fail-safe and
totally automatic and will not overheat."
Hey, that's great! A safe nuclear reactor at last. Also note the welcome
change in marketing language, quite different from the "Prone to failure
by
human error--non-negligible risk of contaminating large populated arteas"
that we got so used to.
robert
amdx said:We pay billions of dollars for oil to people who vow to kill us.
Is that a good plan to protect our health?
rate. Rich, why the small font lately, did you get new glasses?
As far as I know, all I'm sending is plain ascii text, which has no
font of its own - that's determined by your computer. (or should be).
I even just went and looked at my preferences, and there isn't even
a control for that.
I did just install Slack 12.0, with a new version of pan (0.131);
but that shouldn't have any effect on the ascii itself.
Does somebody want to check and see if I'm sending some kind of
weird invisible HTML or something?
Your font size on my computer #10 everyone elses is #14.Rich Grise said:As far as I know, all I'm sending is plain ascii text, which has no
font of its own - that's determined by your computer. (or should be).
I even just went and looked at my preferences, and there isn't even
a control for that.
I did just install Slack 12.0, with a new version of pan (0.131);
but that shouldn't have any effect on the ascii itself.
Does somebody want to check and see if I'm sending some kind of
weird invisible HTML or something?
Thanks,
Rich
Your font size on my computer #10 everyone elses is #14.
I don't know why.
Me either - not only do I not have any kind of setting to send
anything but plain vanilla ASCII, but my own display is set to #12.
I have three computers that I use regularly, I'm sure two of them ( and IHal Murray said:Your headers say:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I suspect either of two things:
The receiver doesn't have a 14 point font for that charset
so his system substitutes a 10 point font that it does have.
The receiver's UI has options to display different type
fonts in different sizes and he has UTF-8 set for 10 point.
Your headers say:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding:
8bit
I suspect either of two things:
The receiver doesn't have a 14 point font for that charset
so his system substitutes a 10 point font that it does have.
The receiver's UI has options to display different type
fonts in different sizes and he has UTF-8 set for 10 point.
"The [...] reactor is engineered to be fail-safe and
totally automatic and will not overheat."
"The [...] reactor is engineered to be fail-safe and
totally automatic and will not overheat."
The design I heard about a few years back was a telephone pole sized
core to be dropped, encapsulated, in a hole in the ground. The
composition and fuel density of the core was such that a reaction was
not possible. To make a reaction go, a sliding reflector had to be in
place around the outside of the core. With the reflector in place,
the core would run, but not so fast that the containment would fail
even if coolant were to be lost (it may be that coolant was also
needed as a moderator, don't remember). Eventually, the fuel in the
region covered by the reflector would be spent, and the reaction would
stop. To keep it going, the reflector was designed to very slows
slide down the core over the life of the unit. If it stopped sliding,
the reaction stops. If it slides to fast, it simply gets to the
bottom too soon and the life is shortened.
The idea is that they designed out any risks they could think of.
The question is what risks they didn't think of.
Theft and use in a dirty bomb.
"The [...] reactor is engineered to be fail-safe and
totally automatic and will not overheat."
The design I heard about a few years back was a telephone pole sized
core to be dropped, encapsulated, in a hole in the ground. The
composition and fuel density of the core was such that a reaction was
not possible. To make a reaction go, a sliding reflector had to be in
place around the outside of the core. With the reflector in place, the
core would run, but not so fast that the containment would fail even if
coolant were to be lost (it may be that coolant was also needed as a
moderator, don't remember). Eventually, the fuel in the region covered
by the reflector would be spent, and the reaction would stop. To keep
it going, the reflector was designed to very slows slide down the core
over the life of the unit. If it stopped sliding, the reaction stops.
If it slides to fast, it simply gets to the bottom too soon and the life
is shortened.
The idea is that they designed out any risks they could think of.
The question is what risks they didn't think of.