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Commence Plasma Core Insertion... Target: Garbage... FIRE!!!!
on: September 10, 2006, 06:08:11 am
http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71757-0.html

Read the whole article, it's quite fascinating. This paragraph especially caught my eye, however:

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Sludge from the county's wastewater treatment plant will be vaporized, and a material created from melted organic matter -- up to 600 tons a day -- will be hardened into slag, and sold for use in road and construction projects.

A couple of things come to mind: "Va-Poo-Rize", and "This highway's full of sh*t." :D
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Re: Commence Plasma Core Insertion... Target: Garbage... FIRE!!!!
Reply #1 on: September 10, 2006, 07:20:43 am
How about a military use of a prototype able to shoot high-temperature thunderbolts?
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Reply #2 on: September 10, 2006, 07:27:53 am
How about we stick to making the world a better place with new technology, k?
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Re: Commence Plasma Core Insertion... Target: Garbage... FIRE!!!!
Reply #3 on: September 10, 2006, 08:05:45 am
piece of sh*t => *ZAP* => construction materials + energy.
Nice.. Sounds too good to be true, but nice :)
 

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Reply #4 on: September 10, 2006, 08:54:50 am
Uhhh... okay...

How on earth do you generate "120 megawatts per day"???

I think whoever gave that quote might be an alcaholic, either that or the plant is expected to produce energy at a quadratic rate...
actualy, mabye not.
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Reply #5 on: September 10, 2006, 09:33:10 am
33686MW. Thats the demand for power in the UK for the last 24 hours according to the national grid website. Now tell me its unrealistic for a plan to output 120MW in a day.
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Reply #6 on: September 10, 2006, 09:36:42 am
I thought Watts were joules-per-second.

So how the **** would you get 120MW/day?
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Reply #7 on: September 10, 2006, 10:22:03 am
You've got me thinking now you bastard.
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Reply #8 on: September 10, 2006, 11:23:23 am
I think what they meant was that this installation is able to produce 120 MWh a day.

Physically illiterate people often get confused between Watts (Joule/second; unit of power) and kWh (with appropriate prefixes), which is an unit of energy.

120 MW power plant would produce energy quite a bit during a day; E = P*t = 120 MW * 24 h = 2880 MWh = approx. 2,9 GWh.

Shame, now it is unclear what the power of the plant actually is; if the produced energy is indeed only 120 MWh per day, the output power of the installation is only 5 MW...
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Re: Commence Plasma Core Insertion... Target: Garbage... FIRE!!!!
Reply #9 on: September 10, 2006, 11:25:50 am
Well if it's diverting 1/3rd of it's power to having big ****ing energy weapons destroying garbage, I'd say it's simply a constant 120MW flow.
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Reply #10 on: September 10, 2006, 11:28:53 am
From Wikipedia:

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Nuclear power plants are base load stations, which work best when the power output is constant (although boiling water reactors can come down to half power at night). Their units range in power from about 40 MWe to over 1000 MWe. New units under construction in 2005 are typically in the range 600-1200 MWe.

I'd say it's definitely a 120MW constant.
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Reply #11 on: September 10, 2006, 06:22:52 pm
Nope not reading it, cause now I can't get the song, "Circle of Poo" out of my head...  :lol:

   
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Re: Commence Plasma Core Insertion... Target: Garbage... FIRE!!!!
Reply #12 on: September 10, 2006, 06:41:31 pm
Quote from: an0n on September 10, 2006, 09:36:42 am
I thought Watts were joules-per-second.

They are joules-per-second.

Quote from: vyper on September 10, 2006, 07:27:53 am
How about we stick to making the world a better place with new technology, k?

This reminds me Michael Jackson.
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Reply #13 on: September 10, 2006, 07:16:59 pm
How relevant and nice. My point remains - we're talking about a technology that could solve major waste disposal problems and what do you want to do? Kill folk with it. Nice.
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Reply #14 on: September 10, 2006, 08:43:06 pm
The thing you're missing is that most people would consider the brutal murder of vast swathes of society and the world population to be 'making the world a better place'.
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Reply #15 on: September 10, 2006, 09:44:31 pm
Quote from: vyper on September 10, 2006, 07:16:59 pm
My point remains - we're talking about a technology that could solve major waste disposal problems and what do you want to do? Kill folk with it. Nice.
That's actually a good idea. We could chuck homeless people in there! We'd be cleaning the streets of trash both literal and human! For once the homeless can really contribute something back to society after taking so, so much. :)
 

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Reply #16 on: September 11, 2006, 01:54:17 am
Quote from: vyper on September 10, 2006, 07:16:59 pm
How relevant and nice. My point remains - we're talking about a technology that could solve major waste disposal problems and what do you want to do? Kill folk with it. Nice.

Technology has traditionally advanced more quickly to the demands of killing people and breaking stuff then in any other direction. Although frankly battlefield application of this seems unlikely.
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Reply #17 on: September 11, 2006, 02:18:51 am
Quote from: Mefustae on September 10, 2006, 09:44:31 pm
That's actually a good idea. We could chuck homeless people in there! We'd be cleaning the streets of trash both literal and human! For once the homeless can really contribute something back to society after taking so, so much. :)

You're lucky the homeless probably don't have internet access, or they'd get all Derelicte on yer ass for that comment.
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Reply #18 on: September 11, 2006, 02:30:36 am
Quote from: Sandwich on September 11, 2006, 02:18:51 am
You're lucky the homeless probably don't have internet access, or they'd get all Derelicte on yer ass for that comment.
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Reply #19 on: September 11, 2006, 06:58:03 am
good way to dispose of a corpse :D
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