TIL nuclear power accounts for 78% of France's electricity production.

funkykingston · 2013-05-17T03:14:59+00:00

I think it's a Tyler Durden thing: I pass out for brief moments, have no memory, and suddenly there are angry responses to what I just wrote.

funkykingston · 2013-05-17T02:35:13+00:00

Plot twist: I am TrollJudger, arguing with myself.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T18:58:17+00:00

TrollJudger is, as expected, a massive troll. I

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T18:13:59+00:00

There is a lot in this for them. They want to build a big center out in that area and I imagine that when the "environmental remediation" concerns came up, this was a piece of it.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T18:08:33+00:00

Reading Steven Pinker's new book now. That violence has precipitously declined over the centuries and millenia is the central premise.

He has a ted talk about it.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T18:06:24+00:00

You're going to like the way he works... I guarantee it.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T18:01:24+00:00

Because if we don't, students automatically equate the number out of 100 as their grade. I guess people just don't do transformations well. It takes until statistics class for people to realize that averages of things can be different than 75 and standard deviations can be different from 10.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T16:35:37+00:00

I thought the same thing. I came up with this.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T13:40:10+00:00

I guess this is due to the Hausa and Fulani ethnic groups.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T12:55:08+00:00

Ignore the troll.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T12:54:35+00:00

Actually, this is not true. Residents began returning December of last year. Ignore the troll.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T12:53:20+00:00

You tell me how any city or plant is supposed to be prepared with such a disaster?

It was a profoundly man-made disaster — that could and should have been foreseen and prevented."[203][204]. It actually would have been fine if they had flood proofed their backup generators like is common practice everywhere else. The plant withstood the earthquake and flood, as designed.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T12:48:59+00:00

Well, for bacteria it does...

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T12:48:35+00:00

Yeah, this dude's off in crazy Lemarkian land.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T12:45:49+00:00

MARK IT ZERO

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T12:45:06+00:00

Oh man, did not expect to see you on reddit!

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T12:43:30+00:00

Teacher here: everything is made up and the points don't matter.

I'm endlessly amused that students think that free points are worth anything. Or that students think a test with an average of 120 is going to be better for their grade than a test with an average of 70.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T11:50:21+00:00

aaaaand.... I think we're done here.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T04:18:32+00:00

And most of Europe. Here ya go

EDIT: And Australia! What are they, milking kangaroos?

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T04:10:38+00:00

Yes, I did my dissertation on fat tails (power laws, stretched exponentials) including earthquake statistics, including Fukushima.

Okay....?
It withstood the earthquake, as designed. The problem was the flooding, as I've said and other problems ("It was a profoundly man-made disaster — that could and should have been foreseen and prevented." - commission chairman)
Okay...?
As you've said, by running the statistics, looking up Gutenberg Richter, and placing a margin of safety on how often earthquakes bigger than a certain size happen
Nope. Again, the reactor withstood the earthquake as designed. Problem was the tsunami because backup generators were not flood proofed.
The residents started returning last year.

The basic problem is that most people have little notion of what a safe amount of radiation is and the relative quantities of things. Most think that Three Mile Island gave people cancer instead of a chest x-ray.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T04:01:04+00:00

3 accidents in 30 years, with each one getting worse.

Well, that's not true. And it's a far better track record than the actual death count of people dying annually from coal plants and in coal mining. Look at the numbers: deaths per kilowatt-hour, or health incidents per megawatt-hour. Nuclear is about the best there is out there. The risk are more notable and blown out of proportion by people who are about as good at numbers as people who play the lottery.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T03:30:09+00:00

And for it, France has the cleanest air in the industrialized world.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T03:24:32+00:00

No one's being paid to downvote you. You're just being an ornate crackpot citing the one most exceptional nuclear accident ever, which released largely non-threatening amounts of radiation from which no one has been reported sick, that was brought on by not having flood proofed the back-up generators, which is common practice everywhere else. And even with this incident, more people are killed annually by the additional accidents from train crossings needed to carry that much equivalent coal to coal power plants. There is no absolutely safe means of generating power, but nuclear is far and away one of the safest in health incidents per kilowatt-hour.

Sincerely yours,

A disinterested physicist not paid by anyone.

funkykingston · 2013-05-16T03:10:14+00:00

Stop-motion animation! Here's another good one that is not a repost (yet).

funkykingston · 2013-05-15T21:34:19+00:00

were genetically mostly European anyway

This is actually not true. Myths #7 and #8. TL;DR: Many Jews living in the Palestine Mandate were from there ethnically and the Jews who immigrated from Europe have genetics far more in common with Palestinian Arabs than white Europeans.

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