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It is currently 60 degrees in central Ohio on Dec 3 and global warming is still a myth.
Solar power gets cheaper and the price is on a downward slope.
A link in honor of Mike Rowe since the dirty b******s at Discovery Channel cancelled Dirty Jobs. Who says you can’t learn from poo?
Since the Higgs is now boring, the LHC created something new to play with.
Did you hear that the radiation levels in Fuku #3 near the containment hatch have doubled over the last year? Containment hatch failing, maybe? The levels would kill a human within an hour. But not nearly hot enough for the melt to be anywhere the containment hatch. The links in that story are worth clicking as well.
More data supporting my belief that the melts are outside the buildings. It takes a lot of neutrons to make even a little bit of tritium.
Campfires are complicated.
Something to annoy those who don’t accept evolution. Also, the Creation Museum is running a contest. I presume everybody is already entered. The first comment is a classic.
Slime has memory but no brains. No, this is NOT about republicans.
FDL has been REALLY negative on fracking. Turns out we were optimists. Note the references to this published peer reviewed study. Warning: 27 page PDF!
This points out some of the issues with Fusion energy. Primary issue: It has no chance of succeeding in my life time as long as it’s organized as it is. The tech issues, other than disposal, are solvable in time IMO. But I still say we’ve already got a fusion reactor, with a multibillion year history of perfect operation and a few billion years left on the warranty. Just plug in.
We are all New Orleans. This is a report about gulf oil spill damage…in Minnesota. I’m sorry, were you under the impression that the blowout was done leaking? Silly you! I don’t think anybody was under the impression that the disperents helped, but just in case. Bottom line: MUCH worse than the oil. Unless your goal is to keep the damage away from court jursidiction.
This could be a major step forward in battery tech.
Excellent munchie:
1 package center cut bacon
1 can whole waterchesnuts
Ketchup
Sugar
Tabasco
Wrap each chesnut with 1/2 strip bacon. Secure with toothpick.
Place on FOIL covered cookie sheet WITH RIM. If you don’t foil, it will be the last time you use that sheet. If if has no rim, the mess at the bottom of your oven will astound you, assuming it doesn’t simply catch fire.
Place in 400 degree over for about 30 minutes. Remove when the bacon is crisp to your liking. The pan will be full of bacon grease, you did remember the rim, right?
Make a dipping sauce consisting of 3/4 ketchup and 1/2 cup sugar and tobasco to taste. You could probably use any BBQ sauce with a high sugar content or you can just add sugar.
Dip the chesnuts into the sauce and return to oven. when the sauce is glazed on (it shouldn’t drip at all), remove. The bacon will not get any crisper once sauced, so don’t worry.Let the sauce harden thoroughly before you remove the foil from the pan, you’re life will be much easier.
Give ‘em a moment to cool. If you can. :-)
Boxturtle (If we banned Mondays, Tuesdays would suck).
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I consider myself pretty much lost in time, my friend, but…even my laptop says it’s Monday, so I’m going with that. ;~) Some good links it looks like.
Yeah, I hit the wrong button and then couldn’t figure out how to undo what I did. Had to get Kit involved (Thanks, Kit!) to clean up my mess.
Hopefully, this is posted as normal now.
Boxturtle (But you’re probably sleeping peacefully now)
Thanks, BoxTurtle, Mondays are okay especially if you’re Marion in Savannah, and it’s First Retired Day. Wow!
Since the global warming is a scam, this is not just Tuesday, it’s also May.
Good morning, BoxTurtle! I went to a neighborhood holiday party (our neighbors and 100+ of their closest friends) and had an hors d’oeuvre very similar to the recipe above. It was teh yum.
It is going to 65º today here in NW Indiana. Climate change? Whazzat?
Good Morning, BT
I have to admit that at 5 o’clock on Monday morning, sometimes the science stuff makes my eyes glaze over. But, you put together a pretty fabulous list and you remembered to share a recipe. Kudos to our shelled friend.
Ooooo, me, pick me. That’s Professor Irwin Corey. Science may make my eyes glaze over, but I’ve got a fairly good memory. Not as good as Dakine’s, tho. :)
Apologies for lack of a foodie post yesterday, hadda take the day off.
Thanks boxturtle. Great job this morning!
Good morning all you early rising dinerzens.
Some may notice that recipe is very similar to Rumaki, only water chestnut instead of chicken liver. I hate chicken liver.
Don’t worry about the 65 degrees. Ruth figured it out, the problem is that our calendars are faulty and this is actually May.
Boxturtle (that explains a lot. KoolAid, anyone?)
I figured you were out in your monster truck doing donuts in the mud. Oh, that’s right, you’ve got no mud. I, however, have plenty. I could ship you some, or you could come visit me. (We still have to do that.)
S’up, Pop?
You’re new ‘puter doing alright?
No,no,no.
Don’t glaze the eyes, glaze the waterchestnuts. Eyeball wrapped in bacon isn’t going to be NEARLY as popular.
Forgive me if sometimes a link gets a little longhaired.
Boxturtle (Physorg is a good source, but they sometimes wander into rather evil math)
Very Good. The world’s FOREMOST authority.
Boxturtle (And the only science comedian, AFAIK)
Something about monster truck is not easily translated into fancy tricks. And yes, we do.
Gotta make Silver Rush – The Comstock or some such fucking drivel. Mike Rowe as one of the best hosts on television. Damn.
This is too cool. New matter? Awesome!
Controllable variable discharge times. That would solve a lot of storage problems.
Thanks for the links BT. Good morning everyone.
I love the links, BT, but I have to confess I didn’t remember Prof. Corey. And I watched a LOT of those guys. Too many cobwebs in my nearly 70 year old cranium, I guess.
In case I haven’t share this with you pups, recently I watched Bill Nye the Science Guy explaining that without science, you don’t have autos, and clocks, and things that are working because we study and apply scientific facts. At the end of his intelligent presentation, the CNN pundit said; And there you have Bill Nye’s Opinion.
And the show moved on.
I once had the privilege of asking him a question. I asked him why my cans of coke always exploded at opening, yet others do not have this problem. I got a 10 minute explanation, along with two direct hits from his seltzer bottle.
Boxturtle (the answer involved the the theory that the Universe just hates some people)
Seems to be great. I even spent some time at the LLN Saturday night/ Sunday morning when I hooked it up.
Ha! Maybe other people don’t shake them up first. Hmmm?
Haha.
Opinion.
I don’t think that means what CNN thinks it means.
I saw that and am glad you’re connected to the real world again. I do wonder sometimes if I’m too attached to the internet. But, it’s so easy to research information. A whole library on my desk. Wow.
Why, you even sound high tech!
Morning people.
She has an appointment with an ice covered parking lot if she makes it up here in the snow. She says she’ll just walk thank you. Bwrahahaha, makes chicken sounds here,___________________.
Last week boxturtle put up a cool diary about navy nuclear reactors going off to die. On that thread I got into a discussion about a project I had worked on some years back. I got some drawings and such out to refresh my memory. It was VERY high tech. So I used to be high tech. Not so much anymore.
Science deniers are stoopid. The comments are pretty funny. “I’m from the UK. Could I still win?” And here I thought Europe had better public education than we do.
LOL, yes, “hooked it up,” another high tech phrase to ponder. You are starting out the week very well, dear.
Courting accidents is not my idea of fun, no. Sorta like your mom’s view of eating chicken with a bit of pink still around the bone.
Making do with ‘high’ … well, I had to go the route of the bad joke, this is Me.
It’s Bgawk.
My better half is driving us to Utah, up in the mountains, Pleasant Valley, for end of/ beginning of another year. He just asked me if we should rent chains.
Visiting my childhood friend Winnie who’s turning 60 on Dec. 30 and will be her and her guy’s 10th wedding anniversary, and our 9th. Big time fun.
If I’m not ALL CAPS I’m in good form, of course.
That was a spur of the moment thing. I read that story about how the reactors are basically chucked in a deep trench and wondered how many other people didn’t know that.
The post is here.
Boxturtle (shameless blogwhore)
Good morning Boxturtle et al.
Yes, I do remember Professor Irwin Corey.
Courting accidents is prezactly why you have this appointment. Pa ain’t Texas.
Good morning pups.
Gonna be 65 degrees here today as well.
Ruth, look who’s here. Ya better put your clothes back on and get down off the table.
What worries me is the number of school groups that go to that museum. They ought to be required to post a disclaimer outside “Contents are for entertainment only”.
Boxturtle (Creationists under whatever name still have not managed to get published in a peer reviewed journal)
Anyone with sleep problems? Teddy had some scientific advice at LN last night, well worth a read.
http://firedoglake.com/2012/12/02/sunday-late-night-sleep/
Can I keep the lampshade on?
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. – Dalai Lama
But, I want to see your face, and that smile, it’s to die for.
Morning, Ma’am. You’re up early, thanks for stopping by!
How do you feel Over Easy is doing?
Boxturtle (Don’t sugar coat it, we can take it)
Thanks, nonquioxte. Probably better than hitting myself on the head with a frying pan.
The world is coming to an end, Pat Robertson says the earth isn’t just 6K years old
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Htf9ylcwQc
There’s got to be a nickel hiding in there somewhere for him.
Awww.
You and Ruth attended the same school?
I spent some time under the tutelage of an honors graduate alumni years ago.
I will have to go read. I didn’t sleep well last night, and for no apparent reason. No worries, no stress, just wakeful.
Thanks for good company, got a bit that has to get done, now. Bye, she says, tossing the lampshade.
You don’t know it, but I’m in easy driving distance of Ringling, OK.
Now really, see you all again at a later date.
We do like to yuk it up.
But, in truth, Ruth went to the same school as eCAHN, Wellesley, IIRC.
That puts him ahead of the Chairman of the House Science Committee.
Boxturtle (And Smith is an improvement)
I just read Teddy’s article. My son snores (so do I, probably) and his doctor advised him to lose weight (he was far from obese but had put on a few). My daughter in law says his snoring has improved but he still snores. I wonder if he had a sleep study?
I hate the thought of wearing a mask to bed every night.
Am working my way through the links, and somehow skipped this tab.
This measurement is actually quite terrifying. The long-term environmental impacts of what this measurement points to are staggering. Hundreds of years of danger.
Yes she did. And Hillary received the benny’s of Ruth’s first writings. Graffiti for the younger freshman class. How cool is that? Heh
Morning msmolly, had my tonsils out at age four. Big write up in the local press as my parents had all three of us ages, 2, 4 and 6 in on the same weekend.
I recall it took six nurses to hold me down to administer the anesthesia. Apparently I kept swallowing my tongue during the procedure and had everybody worried for awhile. Thankfully no lasting ill effects (imho anyway). ;-)
Mornin’ all. Thanks for the links, boxturtle! Pansies were blooming in the tall timber windowboxes this weekend. Global warming? Pshaw….
Tres cool.
And, now I’m going to take my leave as well.
See you all tomorrow morning for Kris’s Activism.
Hugs.
Thank you for the very fine post, BoxTurtle.
I am happy to report that my scientific background memory informed me of the LHC and I knew what the acronym stood for. I will check out your links as I can today. A rather large list of chores and two meetings to attend in person are on the schedule. Thanks again.
It’s not like it’s a lot of tritium, but the differences in the numbers between #3 and everything else tells me that somewhere in that area there is a very powerful, exposed neutron source. The mean free path for a neutron in compacted dirt is probably less than 2 meters. So the water had to pass roughly that close to the source.
And the source would have to be very intense or the water would have to move slowly or both.
Boxturtle (Thinks Tepco is playing a high stakes game of “Where’s Waldo?”)
But it can still apply, can it not ?
Today NASA will hold a press conference concerning Curiosity’s mission to Mars.
Unfortunately, it appears there will be no discovery “for the history books” announced.
Friday NASA poured cold water on today’s presser.
If you need a good laugh this morning, check this out!
Heh.
Boxturtle (Remembers “Curl Up and Dye” beauty parlor)
Science *and* a bacon recipe. Well done, BT.
BoxTurtle, thanks for the post and host for Monday. Things to do outdoors so out I go. Later.
Ha! 12 Step Liquor.
Ya made me grin. Thanks.
Thanks, BT, and the Gang, for a particularly lively and amusing and informative morning roundup. I come by for a read….. and leave with a smile on my face. If I ever become an early riser, I’ll happily join you in real time.
Well, as always, I am very late to the morning party. anyone coming by for a lunch break?
Very interesting links and discussion this morning.
I’m not alert enough to deal with so much science and thinking (stayed up way too late, still feeling tired from trip, maybe), but hope to read the links later. They look important.
My trip and the car repair a week or so before have just about wiped out the small nest egg I had planned to use to start up my new office, so will have to work on finding cheap alternatives and scariing up some income pretty quick. That’s my task for today, and probably tomorrow and the rest of the week.
*sigh*
ITER and similar tokamaks ≠ the state of fusion power research. Even the founders of the ITER program have admitted that there were and are better paths to pursue.
But after the PTB realized that tokamaks were not going to threaten carbon fuels any time soon they locked toks in as the only approved form of fusion power research.
ITER = The PTB’s ideal form of fusion research. And there’s a reason for that.
The article is pretty out of focus, and the concept that ITER is stealing money from the renewables only shows just how shockingly underfunded all non-carbon energy research is.
There are several fusion startups that use various ways to work around the faults of tokamaks but they are not PTB-approved, are severely underfunded and even a few years ago being seen as not toeing the tok line was a career-ending move… literally.
As for a “solar uber alles” approach? Well, there’s a lot that’s overlooked in that simplistic approach but I’ll leave you with this:
One success by one of the fusion startups will literally save hundreds of millions of lives that will otherwise certainly be lost in the oncoming catastrophes. Lives that can not be saved if you’re just waiting for solar to ramp up fast enough.
… BTW and just FYI, the article proper is paywalled and not everyone who might be interested subscribes to SciAm…
Hey pastfedup, if you are around…
Thanks you *so much* for the help!! I’ve just confirmed my ticket to Tampa to pick up Nagi. I’ve just asked Om to pass your email along to me so I can thank you personally. Woohoo!
66 degrees Chicago Box Turtle and last year the roses did not die during the winter St Patrick’s day my beer got warm before I could finish drinking it.
But of course Global Warming is a myth. Just ask the idiots fracking for natural gas who need a cold winter to raise gas prices above the break even point that are lossing their shirts. :)
Could the old radioactive material be getting to hot and be getting more radioactive? I agree the containment is failing.
What containment?
They do not even know where the core melts are… and that was and is a deliberate choice on the part of the elites.
Again, what containment?
uh good point the plant is in ruins however if the radioactive material is not kept cool then it will over heat burn off the water and get exposed to air then some of it will become airborne.
Once airborne the radiation spreads. But yes right now the plant is like a one wall outhouse.
It got up to 70 degrees today chicago BoxTurtle just checked.