Posts by ScottDrysdale 5 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jul 2015
All of us Engineers now who graduated from UNB Fredericton, New Brunswick in the mid 70's took Fortran as well as Watfor then Watfiv..
Many of us working in western Canada's Oil and Gas Industry are being forced to retire due to lack of O&G engineering related work so would be willing to help out.
I had 2nd thoughts regarding the free Win 10 upgrade but not until I got to the "accept" "decline" agreement screen.... So I selected "decline"..... but Win 10 did not want to stop exactly.... At this stage a lot of Win 10 file downloading had already started in the background. So after Win 10 loading stopped I rebooted.
And that is when all the big headaches started.....It continually tries to re-install. So I went to the MS help center to look for a fix...... Attempts to rename GWX.exe and GWXUXWorker.exe failed due to TrustInstall restrictions regardless of my Admin access.
So then I tried the RegEdit method as recommended and that failed! In this case the Gw subdir under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies|Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ does not exist...... that leaves me with absolutely no path forward now.....
Anyone else out there in the same situation and able to fix the issue ..... please let me know how....
Yes thorium would be excellent for the long term but engineers always support "field proven" solutions to meet cost/schedule deadlines while minimizing risks...... and will walk away to protect their reputation if necessary. At this time several of the SMR technologies have been properly "field proven" in mines, ice breakers etc.
Some favor Toshiba's 4S. But I am not sure if Bill Gates travelling wave reactor is ready for prime time just yet. Windturbines and Solar panels are all the radical, non-technical environmentalists tend to push because they don't know any better and do not want to go against Greenpeace strategy to demonize all forms of nuclear power.......
Bill Gates is correct..... Sadly the wind turbines and solar panels can't keep up with demand in time to get FCVs and BEVs successfully launched in a manner timely enough to stay ahead of climate change issues.
The only viable option for high volume, "neat" hydrogen production is SMRs, i.e., the new super safe and clean small modular reactors. The vast majority of the world's engineers are very much in favor of SMRs which are the best "fit-for-purpose" solutions that are also "FIELD PROVEN"..... and that is extremely important...... no time to allow for the roll-out and ramp-up of unfinished R&D concepts that are destined to fail en-masse.
Newer SMRs are super safe and clean (to hell with Greenpeace - they don't want solutions) too busy building their empire which is threatened by good solutions.Check out chapter 38 of the book "Smelling Land" by Phd Engineer/Professor David Sanborn Scott" for solid information.
BTW.... CAR WARS has begun! Toyota's new FCV Fuel Cell Vehicle becomes available to the public within the next two months providing powerful incentive to build and/or extend the hydrogen refueling infrastructure immediately!
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