Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

On 9/07/2024 5:47 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 11:33:12 +1000, Bill Sloman wrote:
 

On 8/07/2024 3:15 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 20:34:45 +1000, Bill Sloman wrote:
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On 7/07/2024 7:58 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 06/07/2024 15:23, Martin Brown wrote:

On 05/07/2024 16:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 05/07/2024 15:34, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 5/07/2024 10:18 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 05/07/2024 12:36, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 5/07/2024 8:08 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 05/07/2024 10:38, Martin Brown wrote:

On 04/07/2024 17:18, Jethro_uk wrote:

On Thu, 04 Jul 2024 14:11:54 +0000, Smolley wrote:

On Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:55:59 +1000, Bill Sloman wrote:

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That's what I have been saying. Stuff with a half life of a few
hundred years is the problem, and a pyramid that works for 5000 years
is plenty good enough.

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And you happen to be completely wrong, as usual. Stuff with a short
half life is a particularly horrible threat, but you don't want
environment contaminated with any of the longer lived stuff either -
right out to Iodine-129 with it's 15.7 million year half-life.
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Only an ignorant yokel like you could fail to see it as a threat.

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I think you misunderstood what he said (as usual) Bill.

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You usually do. You don't understand much, and imagine that your own
defective understanding justifies quite a bit of off-target rudeness.
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The kind of exposure is also highly relevant.

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The problem with the longer-lived radio-nucleotide is that they will
still be dangerous long after our current civilisation is dead and
forgotten. We can't predict who or what will get exposed to our
radioactive waste, or how they might get exposed.
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Burying it deep in some kind of geologically stable structure is the
best we can do, and we still aren't actually doing it, some seventy
years after we started generating high level radioative waste.
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Most notably ingestion as opposed to simple proximity to the source.
You are aware - I assume - that different modes of radiation (eg.
alpha, beta, gamma etc.) have different penetrative qualities and
whilst lead is required to screen out some types, others can't even
make it through skin.

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Obviously. I've had a technical education that does explicitly include
that kind of information. I've even worked on electron microscopes which
rely on beta-particles (electrons) as their illuminating mechanism.
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If you knew what you were talking about, you'd know that, rather than
having to "assume" it.

 Jeez, Bill. I was only trying to be kind to you and you're attacking me
for it!

Pull the other leg. You were trying to be patronising about your own imagined technical expertise, and got what you deserved.
I don't think I'll ever understand you Communists.
Since you can't even identify them correctly, that isn't any surprise.
If you are trying to label me as a communist, you are being remarkably stupid, even for you. From time to time I get to remind the qroup that I'm a democratic socialist - while Communists are autocratic socialists, and got slung out of the International Socialist movements in 1871, when Karl Marx's silly ideas about "the leading role" of the party were rejected.
Mikhail Bakunin's famous quote dates from that period
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/801264-if-you-took-the-most-ardent-revolutionary-vested-him-in
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