Gates: "I love nuclear"; low density, intermittency are big problems for solar & wind (video)

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1. He wouldn't figure to have much interest

in a distributed system.

[kristopher]

2. 2 thoughts

Half of Germany’s 63,000 Megawatts of Renewable Energy is Locally Owned
John Farrell

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/germanys-63000-megawatts-renewable-energy-locally-owned/
Courtesy of Craig Morris and the Germany Renewable Energy industry, evidence that Germany’s renewable energy program remains people powered. Total megawatts represent wind and solar only.

RWE to close or idle power plants

German power giant RWE says it will mothball or shutdown some of its gas and coal-fired power stations because of an increase in renewable energy.

The company said a boom in solar energy meant many of its power stations were no longer profitable.

A total of 3,100 megawatts of generating capacity will be taken off line, representing about 6% of RWE's total capacity...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23692530

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3. I hope his reactor isn't controlled by Windows.

[FBaggins]

6. A whole new meaning...

... to "blue screen of death" ?

[Mopar151]

4. Oh, he's an authourity!

He lives upwind of Hanford, INEL/EG&G, and Rocky Flats, has never met a "leaper" in his life. His products are WAY too skeezy to operate anything nuclear. The consequences of systems failure in any uranium reactor is orders of magnitude worse than other forms of commercial power generation - the only thing that makes it financially viable is that the taxpayers are holding the bag for all but a tiny fraction of the liabilities of a major nuclear accident, or the true long-term storage of the waste.

It's a damm good thing that terrorists and end-timers are essentially idiots - there is talent and knowledge enough in my family, and enough poorly secured nuclear material handy, to bring about nuclear Armageddon, with little military hardware and a budget less than the cost of a Blackhawk, and I'll say no more about this, lest a fool get ideas.

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5. Yes, he is kind of an "authourity". His products run British nuclear subs AND ships.

"Windows boxes on Ethernet LANs are now in control of the UK's nuclear-propelled and nuclear-armed warship fleet."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/windows_for_submarines_rollout/

Must be the others in your family who got the knowledge.

[Mopar151]

7. You're a raeal adjective, you know that?

Noneof the mud you are throwing invalidates my earlier statement. Windows is a GUI, primarily, it is not a control program, The stuff that really matters is controlled at the ladder-logic level Using a very robust language suited to the task - like AutoLisp, or a compiler like C++. I'm not a computer guy, particularly, but I've massaged the hardware of some very sophisticated automated systems, and most of the names in nukes I've dropped came from my work orders, , or the resumes of my friends, acquaintances, and co-workers. The programmers, particularly, are wizards, and have taught me well about what works in control systems, and how to fuck 'em up, too. I'm very good at mechanical control systems. ( What do you think a race car IS? I build good ones.) Machine control was the primary task of computing devices until we hadda use an IC chip to flush the tiolet - Heard of a Jacquard loom?

My family rocks, never doubt it

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8. LOL ok

I don't care enough about your family to doubt it.

Now run along and massage your hardware.

[Mopar151]

9. Next time you see an Ethicon suture, think of me.

I worked on the automated production, inspection, and assembly equipment, for the new style of suture that works like a zip-tie.

You should pray - yes, pray - that my family is what I say it is. 2 BIL are nuclear power plant engineers, currently working.