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My learning curve has risen steeply over the past few days. I’ve come across great teachers among the so-called internet strangers.
And certainly l’m learning about the internet and open source.
That is a misleading title for the article as written, but the editor’s footnote explains it:
Editor’s Note (12/30/08): In response to some concerns raised by readers, a change has been made to this story. The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from “In fact, fly ash—a by-product from burning coal for power—and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste” to “In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant—a by-product from burning coal for electricity—carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.” Our source for this statistic is Dana Christensen, an associate lab director for energy and engineering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as well as 1978 paper in Science authored by J. P. McBride and colleagues, also of ORNL.; As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage.
It’s interesting that less radiation is emitted by shielded nuclear waste than fly ash, but the word “shielded” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I’d also expect nuclear waste to be a lot denser than coal ash, but that might even out with the relative quantities produced.
There was another user earlier claiming that more people had died of radiation from coal power than nuclear power, and while I couldn’t find any concrete evidence, this plus the ubiquity of coal power made the claim seem at least credible.
It’s not a joke ???
While pill bugs are great at eating decaying plant matter in a garden, they will also wreak havoc on plants if the soil is kept too wet. It’s difficult to find a balance with plants that require a lot of water to grow.
I had 5 luffa plants in my garden that had to be cut down yesterday because pill bugs ate through a good chunk of the stem. I was sad to cut them down, but I still have 4 more that are potted. I just have to keep the snails away from them.
luffa is a plant I would really like to grow. so neat.
I really recommend them, they are pretty easy to grow. Last year, I I grew one plant in a large pot and I ended up with 10 sponges. They are such a fun plant.
It seems like it may be possible if I start them indoors for their growing season. Besides being way up north I have an east facing though and my suscpicion is its really unlikely they would go the distance from what I read. To few days with too little sunlight. Im still tempte though because being vines it sounds like I could do a decent sized pot and let them just climb on the balcony rails.
The shorter days could make it harder. I’m in Zone 10b/11a with lots of sun through the summer. My plant got a ton of harsh sunlight and held up well, while some of my succulents burned.
Last year, I grew it in a large pot, then used an upside down tomato cage for it to vine on. I used garden staples to hold the tomato cage in place.
When large ships sink they create intense vortexes that suck everything down with them.
The Lusitania was a ‘four stack” passenger ship that was sunk by being torpedoed by a German U boat during WWI and it is major reason why the US entered WWI.
The ship sank 18 minutes after it was torpedoed.
Here is the interesting parts.
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It sank in relatively shallow water so as it was sinking it sort of settled/stopped so a number of passengers thought it was safe to stay on the side of hull of the ship. Unfortunately it ended up completely sinking.
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A women on the Lusitania jumped off the ship as the ship sank and she was sucked into one of the exhaust stacks. As she was getting sucked under the ocean a boiler inside the ship exploded and she was shot out of the stack very much like a circus clown cannon and was thrown clear of the wreckage. She was one of the few who survived!
Jesus, number 2 is a rollercoaster.
Cool stuff
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Saw that yesterday. Steve Mould seems like the coolest guy ever. Positive, yet chill.
Interesting
They made little clay bird skulls that they would put in pies back in the medieval times. It would whistle when the pie was hot. This is said to be the origin of “Four and Twenty Blackbirds, baked in a pie” line from a nursery rhyme. There are other theories as well, besides this.
Pretty interesting. Like a tea pot for pies.
About Carpenter Blut’s Italian Disco Zombie
I’ve recently learned through experience that the temperature of brewing in my stovetop affects flavours of coffee so much that depending on the beans I have to adjust my breakfast routine.
I’m struggling not to get caught up into coffee brewing nerdery now. I have enough expenses and things on my mind already.
There are a ton of variables to tweak to alter the flavour of coffee. I’ve recently gotten into coffee, but want to do the bare minimum to get a good drink and not go down a rabbit hole. If you enjoy that then go for it. If not then it has worked well for me to find a good coffee brand/blend/roast that I like and use an aero press to get a consistent good drink without spending much at all.
A small fun fact about Switzerland and currency exchange. The CHF-EUR exchange rate when Euro was established was around 1.6… today it is 0.916. A personal observation when in the country: dividing the price of everything in Switzerland by 2 seems to make price levels somewhat about on par with the other Western European countries
