Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors

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Quite the androgynous Andy this cat, he'd make a better looking woman-
Uhhh, small-scale modular fusion reactors....DUUUDE. Frikkin' nuclear power.

It's guys like this so excited about the work and the science that scare the holy shit outta me. Nuclear power is going to end up being one of the biggest fuck-ups we ever decided to embrace....already is.

Love that diagram of the reactor under the house-Does anyone else immediately imagine ground water toxicity and the end of all mammalian life on earth?

'out of tolerances', 'dump tank' , drain the core....duuuuude!!

Put your nuclear dream into orbit or meta-galaxial and get excited about something else, please. (and his TEdtalk ends with the economic efficiency of it all....please.)

Methinks you need to study up on nuclear science Chinga. ^^

Funny, I was subconsciously waiting for Thiel's name to pop up in this, sure enough...

What has the sexuality of this brilliant young man got to do with anything, you insulting troll?
And, whilst he will be remembered as someone who strove with his intellect, foresight, and imagination to better the lot of humanity, your contribution will be what? Oh yes; "chingalera, we remember him for his gift of being able to send out to humanity his ignorant comments which, at least, helped us appreciate our own intelligence."
I will not respond further so, please, just be quiet DUUUDE.

When they make a biopic about this kid, Michael Cera will inevitably be cast for the role.

So these thingy-dealies won't contaminate ground water if they gusplode? (He really would make a lovely he-she though, and Chloe with a flapper-cut, a fettishing boy)

Someone's physical androgynous characteristics has nothing to do with their sexuality, does it? merely an observation...similar to the one I made based in my 'ignace' of nuclear power, and all her fucked iterations.

I've been anti-nuclear from the git-go, always will be-
I also must maintain that the power that will push the planet into the next exponential blast (if numb, distracted peeps don't let asshole humans turn the place into a dystopian shit hole) won't come from an energy source that uses radioactive anything-It's gonna be something else that creates the energy needed for whatever sustainable future awaits.

my instincts is all I'm going on, but this cat's gonna get snatched-up by insect-keepers for profit and mayhem...Or fuck me, maybe he's gonna be another Nicole Tesla-(pun-intended, the kids cute)

sexuality my ass.....

...but I want a PIP-Boy.

Is Fallout good fun Payback (had to ref yer reference)? The only v-games I ever finished were the 1st 2 Ratchet & Clanks, GTA 1, and Destroy All Humans-None of which involved nuclear power of any kind....except DAH, whose antagonist's ship's power source I speak of here so....intelligin..intella

might be inclined to agree.

a wee bit of age and experience has taught me that humanity thoroughly believes it is incredibly intelligent....
however, on the whole, humanity has demonstrated over and over again that it is fucking retarded and irresponsible in all things.

Having a bright idea is one thing, getting a bunch of talking monkeys to make it werk, is quite another.

This idea that we can merely steer our gluttonous use of the earth's resources towards a nuclear solution is troubling indeed.

It's a shame that fukushima has tainted the idea of safe, clean nuclear power. There are some really cool, safe modern designs out there that create orders of magnitude less waste, can't melt down and of course produce no carbon emissions. But they are just not politically viable in most western countries. This is probably another area that China will dominate in the future.

Well I'm humbled enough to admit that I know as much about nuclear energy production as a primary schoolboy. Extant history of large-scale operations leaves a foul taste for everyone, or should. How many European countries ditched the idea of ever using nuclear energy? How many phaseouts planned?

Out with the old if it's not a potential ELE (extinction level enterprise).

LD just made the scariest prediction considered all morning and begs the question, "Does the planet really need China playing around with tinker-toy nuke power plants considering their track-record for building ginormous engineering disasters?" They may have a 1000-year-plan for empire but their characteristic program of increase as their world economic status grows seems a, 'many trials, many errors' approach.

That their success in economic influence has been accomplished through producing sub-standard plastic bullshit consumer products, sub-standard textiles, etc. with indigenous slave-labor to sell the bullshit to robotic consumers like U.S., Mexico, (insert non-Asian nations here) while cornering the market on raw materials for their machine should be of preeminent concern beyond that of how humans will get the power they need to continue turning the planet into something ugly.

Look at what they accomplished in space just the other day with their launching of that satellite-grabber. Here's another new level of paranoia I can agree with;
"In March 2013, a new law that "prohibits anyone from China setting foot in a NASA building" was passed."(wiki)

China in space
What a frightening concept.

So this is Tony Start IRL.
+Don't feed chingalera.

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I'm curious: What's the universal definition of troll and why should I give a fuck?

hey @chingalera
dag hooked me up to this form if nuclear power.
http://videosift.com/video/The-Thorium-Dream
pretty impressive stuff here.
of course anybody who can make cheap,safe and abundant energy will find themselves either 1.dead.2 marginalized (see:tesla) or 3.co-opted into the giant de-humanizing machine and put to work destroying our very life-sustanence provider all in the name of 'profit".

he's copycatting the "Radioactive Boyscout" who built a reactor in his backyard in 1995
http://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scout/

it leaked radiation and he was picked up and his back yard was dug up, garage and all, and put into barrells and taken to nuclear waste area. The EPA were all in "space suits" in his yard, and he had tricked the nuclear regulatory agency and several places into providing him with info by faking his age and making fake letterheads.

the wild thing is the boy scout actually made a breeder reactor, but it was leaking a lot of radiation the EPA was registering radioactive material all over the yard and into neighbor yards.

Maybe you should understand something better then before declaring the experts in it are wrong and nuclear will render us all extinct.

By example: "He/she said something insulting to me/us instead of actually saying something germane to the subject."

Although, the more people who say it, the truthier it gets. Trollism is somewhat subjective. If everyone (youtube, reddit) act that way, is it really trolling?

and as for Why? Honestly, I don't see why you would even if it were required.

ps. You don't fit my interpretation of a troll, as you don't attack anyone here personally and exclusively. Ad hominems, etc. Unlike ShinyB, who is a troll.

What Taylor built though was a fusor though, not a breeder reactor. A fusor is basically a vacuum chamber with a high voltage wire run into the center and a place to puff in a bunch of fuel gas. With a fusor you get a short term burst of radiation, but nothing before or after is contaminated. With a breeder reactor you start with a bunch of dirty material and make more even dirtier material.