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Nuclear waste is extremely dense and therefore extremely heavy. It would cost an incredible amount of money to launch it into space, let alone the sun. The corollary is it's also really valuable since it still contains an incredible amount of energy, our current reactors only burn 5% of it where as future reactors will be able to burn all of it. An analogy I often use is we're burning just the kindling and our 'waste' is the hard oak that's harder to burn.

Hey Lars. Thanks for working on this! I used to work at Westinghouse and had a very similar concept of using thorium as the primary system and hooking it up to existing coal secondary systems. I really hope you find a way to easily get the material for the initial core.

Instead of shipping containers, my thought was on using the existing rail systems, although that's very US centric.

What's the next step? What can the HN community do for you?

Bummed about lack of battery talk but there was at least one picture of the watch with water in it and a mention of sealed internal components. Believe waterproofing is a must

Guessing that a lot of people are going to read the name as no-one.

I've been using a 1 liter nalgene for about 8 years now for almost all my drinking. Which is only water anyway. I'd love for an automated way to track the water consumption instead of measuring by hand.

It was mostly Frick

Thanks for that!

I absolutely love wirecutter. If they're not already making ends meet then I'd happily donate for this kind of honesty and quality reviews.

You'd think the companies behind creating this technology would welcome the never-ending arms race. They get to keep releasing products while their old ones get cannibalized for them.

What are the limiters to creating new, stronger antibiotics to beat the resistant strains?

You may be thinking of Artsicle [1]. Art.sy on the other hand has always had their sights set on a Pandora model.

1. http://www.artsicle.com

I think the main reason for this is that there's no 'convention' to profiling a gem. No one's built something that's super simple, off the shelf and easy to use. If someone did, and it got enough traction, it could be as much a part of the gem building process as bundler or jeweler is right now.

Feel free to find an http://Artsicle.com artist anywhere in the world and send them a photo. I'm sure they'd be happy to make you a painting out of it. That way you can choose your style and have direct contact with the artist.

Matsumoto Yashamoto from memory. I'm probably off a few letters.

EDIT:

Yup I was way off. It's Yukihiro Matsumoto haha

Yup. Matz immediately came to mind. Also, to the question of english but not native would be Salvatore of Redis fame.

Cost of travel is directly proportional to how fast you want to go. You can get by very cheaply if you have no deadlines. Hitch hiking and teaching English classes leisurely can pay your way.

Having deadlines and taking flights, being picky about lodging - this is what costs money while traveling.

Interestingly enough, flight attendants wear a lot of dry-cleaned clothes which has been directly correlated to breast cancer.

http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20100209/dry-cleaning-chemi...

Apologize for off-topic, but what's wrong with target="_blank" in an anchor?

I noticed this a while ago that it doesn't load with https. Can't believe they still haven't fixed that.

I must have gotten mixed up. The wiki page has enough info rectify it. 5 year half life beta emitter is definitely serious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt-60

Linked failed. Repost please.

Yea. And unlike cobalt 60, mercury doesn't decay. Hard to get that stuff out of your system.

I was surprised as well that they said they would die. I find that very unlikely without more details.

Ahh but that was Cesium 137. Much much more dangerous

Cobalt 60 isn't particularly dangerous. I remember holding it in my bare hand in chemistry lab (encouraged by the teacher). Also, I'm never worried about when this stuff goes missing because it's so easy to detect to the smallest measurement - which means it's usually found quickly as was the case here.

Now if this was Cesium 137 that would be a wholly different matter

A simple rule I go by: This brain is for processing. Not storing.

Didn't Learn or Didn't Listen ? :P

That's the TL/DR/didn't watch I was looking for

Point of reference. A chipotle burrito is about 2000 mg of sodium as well.

I've been enjoying PictureLife. Allows you to use your own S3 bucket too