Thorium isn't as dangerous as plenty of other radioisotopes, but if it gets ingested / inhaled, it won't do you any good. Plus, if there isn't enough radioactivity to be dangerous, there definitely isn't enough emitted to generate power.

Yeah, they're a local phenomenon, but since they're so shallow, they're cheap and fast to drill, so there are a relatively large number of them. I've worked with rigs that could punch out one well every 20 hours, and they kept up pretty much that rate, except for a day or two for refit/repair every now and then, for…

A) You can weaponize any radioactive material with a dirty bomb type device.

Another thanks for the well-informed post. Though there are plenty of modern wells drilled to less than 4k feet - the Colorado Oil and Gas website sucks, so it's hard to link, but go here: [cogcc.state.co.us] and search for all permits for Yuma County. I've seen wells drilled to shallower than 1300 feet.

The confusion is probably due to the abuse of the "AGPS" acronym - it was used to denote the cell tower triangulation method (bad,) and the data connection assisted method of speeding up a real GPS lock (good.)

Half of this season's F1 races?

Well, it's not environmentally friendly, but I'm going to have to go with: brick on accelerator, over a cliff, into an ocean. If you can make it explode part way down, so much the better.

Wow, that guy is like every single kind of badass you can be... all while sitting on a children's toy car.

My favorite thing to hate about cats is how they require an oxidizing environment (the exhaust gas mixture,) which prevents modern direct-injection engines from running at super-lean levels to save fuel.

Also, as much as batteries suck at storing electricity, hydrogen storage is worse. Sure you get higher energy density, but the fuel will leak out through basically any material known to man, and, while it does that, it will weaken and embrittle most of the affordable ones. And it does the same thing to pipelines and…

I think you mean "Plus, you get to have a 6 speed manual." I drove a 2010 GTI with DSG for a year, and I wouldn't do it again. The best that can be said about the DSG is "At least it doesn't have a torque converter." In basically all other respects it's just another automatic, with the same issues.

I had 4 GTIs, years 2008-2011 (corporate 1 year lease ftw,) and granted I never put more than 25k miles on each, I only needed one unscheduled visit to the service dept, which was a loose connector somewhere in the ABS system. And, given the ABS light turned on while I was getting sideways (alright, sideways-ish,…

Why not a (slightly) modified tractor with three supercharged Hemis?