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We had a Nuclear engineer for president, How did that work for you? :-) But yes, it would be desirable if we had some scientific knowledge applied to certain problems rather than political settlement.

Mikek

From David McKay.. clicking on the link he wrote this,

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The problem here is that they should use real units, not that joke that yar ds, feet, etc. are :D

Bye Jack

Submarine Officer != Nuclear Engineer :p

Michael

Can't we all just... *twitch* get along?

Michael

He was a nuc-u-lar engineer who moved up to be a peanut farmer.

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Thanks for the info, Bad 40 year recall + poor media explanation = I don't know what I'm talking about. Mikek I'll need to look into the rabbit and the oar story. :-)

Well worth it. It is aimed at the UK, of course, but I don't think the physics and chemistry vary much around the world :)

What's impressive is that /everyone/ from greens to big energy say this book is a good starting point for discussions.

A few teasers...

We often hear that Britain?s renewables are ?huge.? But it?s not sufficient to know that a source of energy is ?huge.? We need to know how it compares with another ?huge,? namely our huge consumption. To make such comparisons, we need numbers, not adjectives.

I?m concerned about cutting UK emissions of twaddle ? twaddle about sustainable energy.

?Please don?t get me wrong: I?m not trying to be pro-nuclear. I?m just pro-arithmetic.?

?I don?t want to feed you my own conclusions. Convictions are stronger if they are self-generated, rather than taught.?

Unfortunately MacKay died last month; decent newspapers carried his obituary, but The Guardian's is particularly techno-literate.

Do the units matter when computing area?

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Can't say. I don't know any.

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Yes.

The only acceptable units are "football pitches". For volume it is, of course, "olympic size swimming pools".

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nanopools, micropools, minipools, centipools?

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Michael

Sure, abstract things like money could do that, as long as you don't expect to be able to exchange it for atoms at a fixed rate.

Not all things can grow exponentially. Some time before the number of people on earth exceeds (mass of earth) / (mass of person), a problem occurs.

Similarly, when the output of a mining company grows exponentially, sooner or later it will have to dig up and pulverise the earth's mass every year, then every six months, and so on. Meanwhile the entire mass of the earth got converted into humans (see above) so that gets messy.

Of course exponential growth would have to go on for a long time for the above situations to be predicted, but the point is that it will stop one day, before those things happen. If people could accept that then they could start thinking about the more useful question: At what point on the curve would it be most comfortable for the curve to flatten out? But, if one were to accept that certain metrics of growth might stop, that would make people have to think thoughts that they don't like, so they pretend not to understand. Either that, or they have worked out that they will not live long enough to see the problems, and don't care about their descendents.

I'm waiting for the arts graduates to trumpet the volume of a new aircraft carrier in an "accessible fashion" by defining it in terms of olympic size swimming pools.

When I'm feeling awkward, I'll occasionally refer to time in nanocenturies. Not difficult to calculate on the fly when you realise that pi seconds = 1 nanocenturies.

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Around 800 Olympools? (Hey, a new non-SI unit of volume!)

I'm not sure what "beam" is but I'm assuming it's the width.

Why are you expecting an Arts graduate to calculate this number, btw?

Michael

My gripe is inconsistency:

1mcg is 1 microgram in the medical world.

I would read it milli-centi-gram or 10ug ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Sounds good, I ordered a copy.

I had high hopes for the US and nuclear when Steven Chu was named secretary of energy. Didn't work out, and our energy policy continues to divide along (mostly irrational) party lines.

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What should we call 1024 mL, or 1048576 mg? :D

Michael