Posts by thurstjo

Large Hadron Collider turns up five new particles

Well if you slam anything together at such high speed you are sure to find hundreds of resonances that one could filter to justify saying that they have found new particles. There are now so many particles that it is clear that they don't have a clue what they are doing. In no way does it help to tie together quantum theory (stochastic) with relativity (causal). It's a massive waste of money. It's a make work program for physicists.

'Liberator': Proof that you can't make a working gun in a 3D printer

Dear Liberator, Wake up!!!

I guess in your mind, maybe the first PC should have looked like the MacBook Air?!? If you use your brain a bit, you'll realise that a few generations down the line, the guns produced by 3D printing technology will be far more sophisticated. I would have thought that someone who writes about technology would know that!

Now Windows 8 goes into the ring to face Apple's iOS

Another failure waiting to happen

It's performance will be underwhelming. It will only interest its installed base. Don't expect to see too many jumping off the Apple or Android bandwagon to join Microsoft.

Fukushima scaremongers becoming increasingly desperate

Things that make me go hmmm.

So according to you Lewis, the newspapers are fear mongering? Is not that a bit inconsistent with attempts by the nuclear industry to minimise the extent of the problem. I've seen interviews with "experts" on BBC who have called nuclear energy 'safe'!?!

My understand is the following: There was an error in the reading of radiation levels at reactor 2 (it was said to be 10 million times normal). The leak from reactor 2 is still leaking dangerous amounts from its core. There is a growing problem of what to do with the radioactive water building up in reactor units. The fallout from Fukushima (iodine-131) has reached China in Dongning, Hulin, Raohe and Wusu townships. Radiation levels of seawater (iodine-131) just offshore (around 1 mile) from Fukushima is in 1000 times above normal. Impact on available food and water is still not clear (but many reports of radiation levels being quite high).

Plus there are the things that the media haven't thought about. Consider that you have a reactor overheating (parts of the plant are made of metal or even concrete) and suddenly you drop massive amounts of cold water on it. Any person with a basic understanding of metallurgy would tell you that the plant is accumulating cracks in the metal!

You're more than welcome to go there and report on it from ground level. I will stay at home and get my information from those I consider reliable sources.