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12-26-2013, 10:25 PM
This sounds like a terrible idea.
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12-27-2013, 04:17 AM
I think this would be more feasible if Thorium/Liquid Salt Reactors ever come to fruition.
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12-27-2013, 05:01 AM
Maybe one of the 700 intelligence/surveillance agencies who have flagged this thread can jump in and answer your question.
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12-27-2013, 10:51 AM
It's important to remember that you can't taste, smell, see, or directly sense radiation in any way. Therefore it's very easy to harm yourself or others if you don't know what you are doing.
Even trained scientists mess up.
If only you knew how bad things really are.
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12-27-2013, 10:59 AM
This thread is on the NSA watchlist.
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12-28-2013, 01:16 AM
LOL. Hypothetical guys. I have a math background but nowhere near the physics or engineering know-how to even start trying something like this.
Just wondering more of the logistical questions like:
1.) wouldn't even a small, tiny nuclear power generator give so much more power than one's house could possibly need?
Didn't think about the NSA angle though. Now they're going to find out all the weird porn I look at. Shit.
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12-28-2013, 02:08 PM
Not to mention the increased risk of cancer later in life.
I recall reading about thermoelectric generators built and used in the Soviet Union which were powered by heat from radioactive decay. They were used in things like beacons placed in remote locations, etc. They don't put out that much power, but after the collapse there was a big concern that these things could be all over the FSU and in the wrong hands would be material for a "dirty" bomb.
You would do much better with a wind turbine.
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12-28-2013, 03:55 PM
What's to stop some nutjob from pulling the nuclear power source out of his car and making a bomb out of it? Society isn't ready for technology like that.
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12-28-2013, 04:02 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2011/08/02/s...s-kitchen/
That boy scout is fucking weird. He tried to steal smoke detectors to get americium out of them.
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12-28-2013, 06:13 PM
Good food for thought guys. Here's something else to tihnk about: Steam Power. Apparently if we had spent the last 70-80 years developing steam engines we'd be emitting a lot more H2O instead of CO2 into the atmosphere. And by "steam" I mean you still need gasoline or oil to heat the steam, but you'd be using steam to move your car instead of a heat engine.
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12-28-2013, 07:33 PM
I used to run a reactor out of my basement to power up the lights, as staying on the grid costs too damn much. The light would flicker letting me know it was out of fuel, so I'd grab a pick axe and a pair of tongs to go digging in the back yard until I found another one of those warm rocks. They make a buzzing/cracking noise and glow a little, so they ain't hard to find.
Everything was good until a friend came over and thought I was bullshitting. He must've thought I'd poured the liquid from a chem stick on a piece of gravel or something, and picked it up with his hand. Dumbass. He starting freaking out, gained like 800 lbs, turned green, roared real loud, and busted through the wall and I've not seen him since.
And of course the Air Force and NSA came snooping around wanting to know where the big green dude went, and confiscated my reactor. Oh well.