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What We Learned About Nuclear Safety from Fukushima

@jjs  @Spicoli  @jamaeolus All western style light water moderated nuclear fission reactors are designed to both shut down on a loss of electric... (read full comment)  

Posted on March 8, 2012 at 5:07 PM EST

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EU Is Overrating Biofuels Benefits

Soma: A little background reading for you so that you can understand why breathing doesn't accelerate the global warming: ... (read full comment)  

Posted on September 23, 2011 at 11:18 AM EDT

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Small Nuclear Reactors Get a Customer

A gas turbine runs on the Brayton cycle and rejects its heat directly up the stack -- no condenser required. A nuke, or any other plant that makes... (read full comment)  

Posted on June 22, 2011 at 10:54 AM EDT

An App to Stop Tracking

From the article above: "For now, WhisperCore only works on Nexus One and Nexus S phones, but Marlinspike wrote that there are plans to adapt the... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 6, 2011 at 10:15 AM EDT

A Cheap, Portable Way to Monitor Unborn Babies

Good and Bad Good: Brings new monitoring solutions to those who need it. Will allow laboring mothers more freedom of movement in hospitals where... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 20, 2011 at 9:51 AM EDT

Fukushima's Spreading Impact

Re: Death Rates from various kinds of power generation Kevin, Roof-top solar is more dangerous than Chernobyl: ... (read full comment)  

Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:24 PM EDT

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Facebook App Reveals Your Social Cliques

Broken? When attempting to access this app, I get a continuous, circular reloading result and no content ever displays... (read full comment)  

Posted on February 18, 2011 at 9:03 AM EST

Self-Induced Panic And The Financial Crisis

Because those algorithms are programmed to buy or dump at certain triggers without human intervention, so when humans intervene in the larger... (read full comment)  

Posted on February 17, 2011 at 8:39 AM EST

Leaving Facebook

Um, Firefox overtook IE as the most popular browser back in January 2009. (read full comment)  

Posted on December 17, 2010 at 1:56 PM EST

Subway Trains to Generate Power for the Grid

Relative to SEPTA "That power can already be sent back into SEPTA's power distribution system and used to help another train accelerate--but only... (read full comment)  

Posted on September 10, 2010 at 10:38 AM EDT

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