[TheForge] OT biodiesel

[Todd Rich]

On Sat, 28 May 2005, schade at acegroup.cc wrote:

> What is GASFI?
>
Google As a Subsitute For Intelligence.  (sorry for messing up the 
acronym, I had a migraine when I replied.)

> Just because you can find it on Google doesn't mean it's incorrect.
>
Just because you can find it on Google means you can find it on Google, 
nothing more or less.  Popular, but incorrect ideas can be found all over 
the place on the internet.  Googling for a phrase means nothing in 
particular.

> Why would anyone google "time cube"? I mean what's the question?
>
Time Cube is a theory/web page written by somebody who has very little 
connection with reality.


> The issue of what to do with nuclear waste is not an issue of space. Who 
> cares how many shoe boxes it takes??
>
> The issue is the length of time the waste is hazardous.
>
Highly radioactive substances have a short half life, low level 
radioactive substances have a much longer half life.  Cobalt 60 is high 
level gamma emitter, and what they use to irradiate food to sterilize it. 
It's half life is 5 years.  After 40 years, there isn't much of it left 
except non-radioactive nickel.  U-235 is long lived, but it isn't that 
radioactive. But it is easily fissile, which allows it to produce heat and 
short lived - highly radioactive decay products. There are technologies 
that can deal with the waste.  We aren't allow to use them.

> DU? Not on the current list of things that are good for you.
>
Mild alpha emitter, non-fissile.  You skin stops alpha particles. 
The issue about DU relates to fine particles being inhaled.  Two likely 
sources of that are machining DU or being in a tank hit by a DU round.  If 
you are in a tank that has been it by it, you are probably already dead 
from the extreme heat produced when it burns, if not by the hit itself. 
The particles left over after it is burned can be a problem.

Tell you what though.  You buy me a pound of DU (painted, not bare as is 
standard for weights to avoid particle inhalation) I'll carry it in my 
pocket for a year.

> Bob

However, with this I'm dropping out of this discussion.  It isn't even 
close to smithing anymore, and I apologize for my part in topic drift.
 			Todd