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muthas

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About muthas

Engineer, Entrepreneur, Conservationist. Located in Midwest USA.

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    Comment #41887321

    I've found a mixed approach works best, given the dev inventory I run: - a good supply of passive SMT books from the usual suppliers (mainly the "notebook" style ones with cut tape…

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    Comment #33971699

    Fascinating stuff: > ...but at that time we were mostly worried about whether the reactor was still working. That is, was it generating short-lived radioactive isotopes... > ...the…

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    Comment #32311692

    I wonder to what extent nuclear would be an option, given the relative abundance of previously-enchriched fuel now sitting around as waste, and an post-apocalyptic willingness to e…

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    Comment #26417482

    After a recent discussion with our home heating oil provider, seeing this post got me thinking - could a similar system be applied to the exhaust of a household furnace that is bur…

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    Comment #22226660

    I don't know if I'd agree its something you can't make useful, but trying to use inflation as a means of macroeconomic policy - rather than an indicator of the success/health of th…

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    Comment #22226616

    I heard an interesting podcast a little while back that conjectured the typical way to get inflation going (so-called "helicopter money" to the spending population) is far and away…

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    Comment #21693795

    I support a group called ERDG (Ecological Research & Development Group, https://www.horseshoecrab.org ), which focuses on improving the state of the four remaining Horseshoe Crab s…

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    Comment #21640433

    A couple items to note here: - while agreed that a trap should help contain gasses, in order to cure the resin involved they have to inject high-pressure steam into the piping... p…

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    Comment #20346745

    Based on how we humans use melanin, I would believe that this is a case of having these environmental-stress-reduction "tools" basically already in play (to deal with UV, free radi…

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    Comment #20346676

    ...with the corresponding scientific name would be "Brucea Banneriolus".

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    Comment #20207494

    To put it another way - from an "immediate risk" point of view, the largest danger from critical-capable amount of fissile material is the prompt radiation emitted during a critica…

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    Comment #19982668

    This is fascinating to me, because if the primary use of fossil energy at these plants is in process heating... why use electricity here at all? Seems to me like there are a variet…