Giga's Open Salon Blog

New Nuclear Designs

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:03:42 -0400

It's time we stop considering nuclear power based on reactor designs from the 60's and focus on modern walk-away safe designs.

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/advanced.html

Here is a list of new advanced reactor designs from the NRC.

Test

Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:04:33 -0400

Test, test, is this thing on?

New Urban Infrastructure

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:01:12 -0500

In the future we will have to redesign our urban infrastructure to make high density living more palatable. (Not finished)

Death to Common Sense

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:04:14 -0400

I constantly hear from pundits and average joes that the world would be better if we simply applied "Common Sense" to all our problems. I think the problem is that we have, and this sense has failed us.

Generally people consider Common Sense to be an understanding of the world held by most common people, not based on scientific or rigorous research. In an age of Science, we must learn to base our decisions based on facts, not gut instinct. This means we must research the problems and their causes, and use that information to guide our decisions.

Next time someone tells you that we need more "Common Sense", tell them we need less of it and more of "Factual Sense".