Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

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

On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 20:34:45 +1000, Bill Sloman wrote:
 

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.

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

You usually do. You don't understand much, and imagine that your own defective understanding justifies quite a bit of off-target rudeness.

The kind of exposure is also highly relevant.

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.
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.

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.

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.
If you knew what you were talking about, you'd know that, rather than having to "assume" it.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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