OT: Gas shortage

Gas shortage? Oh, you mean the one caused by stupid people filling up every empty can, bottle, and jar they have. They made a minor inconvenience for a few a major ordeal for many.

Wouldn't be a problem for me. It's fully charged every morning.

Hm.. There's only one US nuclear reactor currently in orbit. SNAP-10A.

DARPA is working with Lockmart on the Draco project to test a new reactor design in space for military satellites - it will use HALEU (High-Assay, Low-Enriched Uranium) rather than the HEU (Highly-enriched Uranium) in the Draco test reactor.

"The demo system won't operate in an orbit where it has any - even a remote - chance of coming back to Earth."

Might as well wish for a car powered by a Mr. Fusion device.

This research could have been done decades ago using the Trillions of dollars that have been spent to kill nuclear energy. The whole Manhattan project took about 5 years. Think what could have been done in those 70 years with those trillions of dollars. What a missed opportunity.

You mean people like these?

I can't speak for the validity of the trunk full of bags.

If the trunk is filled with plastic bags full of petrol, we most likely will be reading about the newest Darwin Award recipient, and maybe the most deserving of them all...

Close enough. Can you say Karma?

No lines here!

You can thank the media for string the s*it. Had the media not made such a big deal of it I would wager no one would have noticed.

Now that is funny. Hopefully those bags don't melt!

The truck will probably bread down before he burns that gas.

Maybe those were bags of piss that he filled while waiting in line. ;~)

My thoughts precisely. I did a stupid thing recently, I was draining the gas from a small motor and use a plastic picnic cup. It fit into the small space and was working perfectly until the bottom dissolved.

I wonder if those base area gasoline soluble?

Absolutely. Our gas comes by ship to the port, not the pipeline. Yesterday most of the stations were dry though.

You would notice if you lived here in South Georgia. Not a station in town has any gas. It was down to the Super High Priced tanks then they ran out. A friend who does lawn care is out of luck, and a job.

Of course not. But we don't have oil wells or refineries here.

"Trillions of dollars" aren't going to make fusion happen. Every time they think they've got all the problems solved, they find a new one. Fusion is going to happen when one day they think they've got all the problems solved and their new test reactor _doesn't_ find a new one.

I was not thinking of spending trillions for fusion. I was thinking of cleaning up and reusing the spent nuclear fuel; This seems like a chemistry and physics problem. Improving the reactors and the control systems them self. The development of small portable high efficiency nuclear reactors.