[underTaker]

In the case of the end of the world, some of generations must be god gamn invicible... i've counted like 5 end of worlds or so and i'm still alive and well.

[Jeff]

From an energy perspective though, there is this thing called geothermal which basically uses the warmth of the Earth (below the surface) for energy. Although it's mainly used for heating purposes, AFAIK. Don't think you can use it to fuel your car or anything. There's probably other solutions for that.

[Hendricks266]

The "ultimate" solution to energy is nuclear fusion (safe and clean, using seawater for fuel) on a large scale in tandem with increasingly efficient solar panels. Cars can utilize this effectively limitless supply of energy by devoting the free energy to splitting water into hydrogen fuel for cars. (This would effectively convert power grid energy into breaking the chemical bonds, a much better idea than toxic batteries.)

I know a bit of chemistry, trust me on this one.

[High Treason]

Problem is the amount of (likely coal fired) energy required to produce such a power source makes it pointless - it actually uses more energy to produce those than they can ever give back in their life. As for solar energy, that's a joke, in the UK at least, assuming you clean the panel every month, it will take 100 years for it to even pay for itself and I can't even see it lasting that long = useless. Though, yes, assuming everything else was in place, it would be a good idea.

Nuclear Fission is the way to go for the time being, it's safe, reliable and has a somewhat controllable environmental impact. I was amazed to discover how deeply people around where I live feel about nuclear power, they absolubtely despise it.

Nuclear Fusion is probably the future, we need to keep trying to develop that. I don't know much about it though, but someone told me it involved quantum physics. I have strong opinions on quantum physics and their very existence so I am rather skeptical that this thing will ever work, at least within my lifetime.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

High Treason, on 21 September 2012 - 09:33 AM, said:

Nuclear Fission is the way to go for the time being, it's safe, reliable and has a somewhat controllable environmental impact. I was amazed to discover how deeply people around where I live feel about nuclear power, they absolubtely despise it.

Because when you ask the ordinary person about nuclear power, there are four words in the back of their mind that prevent them from any further thought:

"Chernobyl" and "Three Mile Island".

[Yatta]

I'm getting record spam in my Duke4.net inbox. Hooray for Google's excellent spam filter, but I'll still have to disable the "catch all" function for the domain because I still get one or two e-mails a day addressed to recipients like "eDjIobZEvk@duke4.net" that make it to my inbox.

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[underTaker]

I got no idea what is that ADP Benefit Services but they spam as hell o.O. If i remember correctly there is filter that let you to delete addresses with specified name, or move ones with another to specified folder. I also use Gmail, but i'm not sure if it allow use of regular expressions? That'd be really helpful.

[Mikko]

High Treason, on 21 September 2012 - 09:33 AM, said:

but someone told me it involved quantum physics. I have strong opinions on quantum physics and their very existence so I am rather skeptical that this thing will ever work, at least within my lifetime.

Oh plz... Quantum mechanical models are maybe the most accurate in the history of science so cut the crap.

[LeoD]

High Treason, on 21 September 2012 - 09:33 AM, said:

Nuclear Fission is the way to go for the time being, it's safe, reliable and has a somewhat controllable environmental impact.

It could be. But companies increase their income at the expense of security. (Greeting from Fukushima.) Plus there's the atomic waste. (Most of the time) I think that humanity deserves to exist for some more thousands of years and we should not pass all this radioactive shit to our descendants just to save some bucks. Atomic energy would be much more expensive I we would have to pay the real costs nowadays.

High Treason, on 21 September 2012 - 09:33 AM, said:

Nuclear Fusion is probably the future, we need to keep trying to develop that. I don't know much about it though, but someone told me it involved quantum physics. I have strong opinions on quantum physics and their very existence so I am rather skeptical that this thing will ever work, at least within my lifetime.

If we had a prototype of a commercial fusion power plant right now, this would have a giant, maybe disastrous, impact on the world's economy (and then politics) which no one could predict. Therefore the interest in a quick solution does not seem very big, unfortunately. My guess is that the stellarator concept will surpass the tokamak although the latter is much better funded.

[Fox]

High Treason, on 21 September 2012 - 09:33 AM, said:

Nuclear Fusion is probably the future, we need to keep trying to develop that. I don't know much about it though, but someone told me it involved quantum physics. I have strong opinions on quantum physics and their very existence so I am rather skeptical that this thing will ever work, at least within my lifetime.

So you don't believe in sub-atomic particles? Electrons and stuff?

LeoD, on 21 September 2012 - 12:25 PM, said:

It could be. But companies increase their income at the expense of security. (Greeting from Fukushima.) Plus there's the atomic waste. (Most of the time) I think that humanity deserves to exist for some more thousands of years and we should not pass all this radioactive shit to our descendants just to save some bucks. Atomic energy would be much more expensive I we would have to pay the real costs nowadays.

You can choose being passing to your descendants a few barrels of toxic waste buried kilometers underground, or tons and tons of harmful components in the air.

Jeff, on 20 September 2012 - 06:31 PM, said:

Yep. I wanted to use a new iPod Touch app, but in order to do so I basically had to buy a new iPod which is around $300 or so. I was saying to myself, "but the one I have works just fine". Unfortunately, I think that has something to do with planned obsolescence. Some environmentalists claim this is kind of what's causing all the stuff that winds up in landfills. If people only had to replace their iPods every 10 years versus almost every year, then there would be much less waste in the landfills. Of course, that's probably true for any electronic device. We do have electronics recycling programs here where I live, so it helps a bit.

I know, it's all about the money, but that's kind of partly to blame for the way our world is right now. I mean 100-200 years ago, the Earth was in much better shape. It's only in the last 100 years or so that it's seen a mass decline in the environmental and other issues. I'm not sure if it's fair to attribute that to money itself, but it had some part to do with it. Maybe it's this whole mass consumer consumption. I don't know, I'm not an expert. Just some stuff I've noticed.

[Mikko]

Radioactive material stored deep in the ground will not be any kind of a problem for future generations so long as it's stored properly in geologically stable location. And stable locations tend to be, well, stable for many many millennia to come. Some countries could turn this into a business.

LeoD, on 21 September 2012 - 12:25 PM, said:

If we had a prototype of a commercial fusion power plant right now, this would have a giant, maybe disastrous, impact on the world's economy (and then politics) which no one could predict. Therefore the interest in a quick solution does not seem very big, unfortunately.

Any single producer with a head start would benefit immensely so the incentive is huge. However, fusion is not quite yet within our grasp (technical feasibility is still many decades away, although there's always the chance of a breakthrough) so investments are at a low level. This is just rational behavior.

The "problem" is that fossil fuels have turned out to be even more abundant that what people have been expecting for the past several decades. Even the United States has huge amounts of recently-discovered shale gas. This will keep the price of fossil fuels competitive for a very, very long time.

[Micky C]

Achenar, on 21 September 2012 - 09:41 AM, said:

Because when you ask the ordinary person about nuclear power, there are four words in the back of their mind that prevent them from any further thought:

"Chernobyl" and "Three Mile Island".

I don't know about Three Mile Island, but my class did a case study on Chernobyl as an engineering disaster. The technicians had to do an experiment involving a reactor, and it would have been easier if they could take conditions outside of normal safety parameters. They thought "come on, this is never actually going to blow, the safety mechanisms are just there to make us feel better, nothing will happen if they're off for a few hours". So in their infinite wisdom, they took a lot of failsafes and stuff offline, then intentionally pushed the reactor into temperatures and rates of reactions which it was never supposed to handle. They did several checks of conditions along the way, and although each time the results showed huge potential danger, they always chose to continue. By the time they realized things were actually going wrong, it was too late.

Chernobyl was the result of huge, huge stupidity on the operators' side. If the reactor was run even remotely how it was designed to, and how they were instructed to operate it, it never would have gone into meltdown like it did.

[Mikko]

Yeah and Fukushima was an old reactor design but even so it withstood pretty well one of the most destructive tsunamis in the history of mankind.

[Jeff]

My mom finally got a new kitty. Cat's name is Darby. She's 12 year old and a gray tabby. Quite friendly, but she doesn't like children that much.

[Hendricks266]

Looks like a nice kitty. That page makes me sad though, there are a lot more kitties still without a home.

[Hank]

Yatta, on 21 September 2012 - 11:19 AM, said:

Hooray for Google's excellent spam filter, ....

[sardonic]Google and Yahoo are one of the top spam host providers via their email accounts, no wonder why they are so great defending from their own crap, [/sardonic]
I worship Bitdefender, since we use them, life on the net improved like 80%
http://www.bitdefend...k.html#Overview
(not sure if this works for you)

[Kathy]

New version of flash plugin is outputing sound in all channels available despite most videos being stereo. And no option to change that behaviour. At least you can downgrade to a previous version without this stupid shit.

[underTaker]

Ahh i love 650ml beer! This is the best felling in the world when you drink 500ml glass of beer, and think "aww, it's gone ;< " and then you realize you still got a little bit more in the bottle! Little things, but makes me happy!

[Inspector Lagomorf]

AHh rum and cokhe is the greatest i am not even lying otu you now lol

TOTALLY not drunk guys. K?

Edit: ^^^ Did I really post that last night? Shit.

[underTaker]

Achenar, on 23 September 2012 - 06:37 PM, said:

AHh rum and cokhe is the greatest i am not even lying otu you now lol

TOTALLY not drunk guys. K?

Edit: ^^^ Did I really post that last night? Shit.

Damn, because of you i want coke with rum now!

[Mark]

Damn those substitute referees. They blew a call big time on the final play of the Greenbay Packers game so they lost. AAARRRGGG!!!

[Jeff]

So with my birthday coming up in around 3 weeks or so, as usual, I can't seem to decide what to get.

[Kathy]

Can't you get something on a regular day?

[Ronin]

Jeff, on 24 September 2012 - 11:52 PM, said:

So with my birthday coming up in around 3 weeks or so, as usual, I can't seem to decide what to get.

You should get a Swedish made penis pump enlarger, then you can wear it to work and be trendy.

[Jeff]

Burnett, on 25 September 2012 - 12:18 AM, said:

Can't you get something on a regular day?

Perhaps, but aren't birthdays about someone buying you a gift?

[Kathy]

Perhaps, but do you need a birthday to buy yourself something?

[Jeff]

Burnett, on 25 September 2012 - 02:47 PM, said:

Perhaps, but do you need a birthday to buy yourself something?

Nope, I bought myself a hard drive a few weeks ago because I needed the space.

Trouble is finding what I actually want. Maybe I should look around my place and see if I'm missing something.

[Kathy]

Maybe you don't need anything.

[LeoD]

Jeff, on 25 September 2012 - 03:27 PM, said:

Trouble is finding what I actually want. Maybe I should look around my place and see if I'm missing something.

Instead of piling up useless items go wine and dine. If there's money left afterwards you can still buy a Chinese penis pump.

[Micky C]

Jeff, on 25 September 2012 - 03:27 PM, said:

Nope, I bought myself a hard drive a few weeks ago because I needed the space.

Trouble is finding what I actually want. Maybe I should look around my place and see if I'm missing something.

Last night I downloaded team fortress 2 and found out I had like 5mb left on my 500gb hard drive. I do some research and I've got about 180gb worth of iMovie HD files. That program was so, so inefficient with its file saving...