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| | educatedguesswork.org
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| | [AI summary] The article discusses the challenges of nuclear weapon disposal, focusing on the difficulty of safely managing and destroying plutonium pits, which are essential for nuclear weapons. It highlights that disassembling weapons and storing parts is a common practice, but this poses security and safety risks because the pits can be reused to build new weapons. The article also mentions the logistical and technical issues with converting plutonium into mixed-oxide fuel for reactors, which is a potential disposal method but not very effective. The piece critiques the current approach to disarmament, suggesting that while the U.S. has plans to reduce excess plutonium, they have not succeeded. The article concludes by emphasizing the need for better secu...
| | judithcurry.com
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| | by Russell Schussler (Planning Engineer) Part I: Renewable energy as a grouping lacks coherence This series will look in depth at the inherent and emerging flaws within the renewable/nonrenewable framework for classifying generating energy resources. It may have made sense 50 years ago to speak in terms of renewable and non-renewable resources when thinking of...
| | christophepocharienergietechnik.com
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| | A Revolution in Structural Engineering: The Rise of The Pure Tension Tower Author: Christophe Pochari, Christophe Pochari Energietechnik (Mazères Propulsion), Bodega Bay California, 707 774 3024 If you are interesting in developing this technology, please email at christophe@christophepocharienergietechnik.com Short introduction The earth's polar equator thermal gradient is a powerful heat engine that is a free...
| | scottaaronson.blog
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| So, Part II of my two-part series for American Scientist magazine about how to recognize random numbers is now out. This part---whose original title was the one above, but was changed to "Quantum Randomness" to fit the allotted space---is all about quantum mechanics and the Bell inequality, and their use in generating "Einstein-certified random numbers."