Finally got my allocated CERN bike. Whee. Off we go. But now can’t morally drink before biking home. See recent entry.
Daily Archive for July 26th, 2004
And one rantlet more. Or maybe two.
Hello, Hollywood, this is for you: Fusion energy is not renewable energy. Allow me to restate that: Fusion power is not a renewable form of power. Once the tritium or deuterium is spent, it’s spent. You’ll have to get some more. There’ll be a limited (albeit vast) amount of deuterium in the ocean, and some atmospheric tritium, though it’s probably easier to make your own. To summarize: Vast fuel supply != renewable energy source. Got that? Fusion power is not renewable power!
One could say, of course, that nearly all the power we use comes indirectly from stellar fusion: The Sun’s radiation drives the rain and the wind, and feeds the plants we burn for heat, eat to live or leave to rot for sixty million years before burning as oil or gas. Uranium is forged in supernovas. But that’s not relevant. See above paragraph for point. Mindwandering will now halt.
Can now claim moral victory over self, having turned down free beer on grounds that person driving me home would also have been drinking.
Went to Annecy with a bunch of people. Nice lake, very nice, very crowded market along narrow streets, nearly warm water in the lake at the beach with the very sharp rocks. Got my back quite red. Ouchie. But still fun. Jokes along the lines of “Where’s Juan?” will be funny for a few days.
