Recent content by Kiesel

It's really pretty simple IMO... In just about every first-person game I have ever played online. There are significant numbers of people who try to explore the limits of the level. People set up custom games in halo2 where the objective was to escape the playing field and reach inaccessable...

oh and btw, in response to some people's statements about the middle east and resources... yes those wars are economic in nature, but the economic problems are being caused in large part by religion... The only reason that the middle east/north africa/northeast africa are currently having...

I would say that while humanity would be better off without religion, It's just not possible. Even if you remove deity based belief structures such as christianity or islam, people will just find something else to turn into a religion. Just look at what happened to socialism, or oprah for...

and for the record... the companies that are mostly likely to be supplying the reactor designs and materials are not some giant mutinational arms dealing supercorporations. and neither are nuclear reactors considered "megaprojects" Hydroelectric dams are mega projects and require thousands of...

Here are some concrete reasons why I consider nuclear power to be the best choice to replace our fossil fuel burning powerplants. A. Wind and Solar energy are not an option because they cannot produce what is known as "baseline power generation". They cannot operate on a constant basis for...

just because a technology is old doesn't mean you cant make new designs. a modern turbojet engine runs on the exact same technology as a turbojet engine made 40 years ago. Its still a turbojet and it still shares the exact same benefits and drawbacks, even though it may be superior in every...

thank you limasol for repeating everything I said in a much more elequent and accurate fasion. Exellent summary of the situation. And sayvara... don't be so nitpicky, I was being dramatic about TMI just to emphasis how bad it was and still nothing happened. The british REACTOR did burn...

powering a hydro plant would require a reservoir... turning a linear canal into a giant V shaped lake with a dam spanning the wide end. kind of hard to grow crops in a lake. and saddly, even if we start today switching our baseline power generation capacity from coal to the only other...

just so you people know... Chernobyl, the only power generating reactor to ever explode... was brand new, and run by the cream of the russian nuclear engineers and technicians. They followed all their instructions and guidlines to the letter... and it still blew up. the reason Chernobyl...

typecast... australia is where most of the uranium mining and production currently takes place. the only other major sources of fuel are from decommisioning of soviet weapons stockpiles. the US only produces about 5% of its own fuel, with the rest coming from australia, the russians, and a...

also someone mentioned earlier that I was neglecting the deaths caused by the mining of uranium in comparison with mining for coal... the reason I did so is because it isn't worth mentioning. the scales are just so vastly different. a nuclear powerplant only requires a few pounds of nuclear...

its worth noting that a large percentage of the people here keep mentioning chernobyl or the risk of nuclear power... here is your answer... READ MY POST not all nuclear reactors are created equal. the ONLY western nuclear reactor to harm members of the public was an experimental...

hydrogen is actually a REALLY dumb idea... all commercially produced hydrogen is currently made from natural gas... and its made by burning off the carbon to make carbon dioxide... this means that it is actually WORSE for the environment to use hydrogen than to use straight natural gas...

also... nuclear waste as handled by european and american plants isnt so much of an environmental threat, as much as a national security threat. the stuff is welded into steel cans with thicknesses measured in feet and the plan is to put it so far inside a mountain in the middle of a desert that...

I did a 5 page paper on nuclear power vs other energy sources as a solution to the usage of fossil fuels for a logic & critical thinking course about a year ago... here's some highlights more people die each year working in coal related industries, than have been killed in the entire history...