Try managing a project with too much risk and see what rewards you get. You will be labeled as a bad project manager. Only at higher levels of management can you do that and be seen as an achiever! NIF is an experiment, not an achievement!
NIF is a $5B experiment, not an achievement! When it starts suppling megawatts of power to be used in our homes I'll say it was worthwhile. In the meantime it's best for the tax payer to spend their dollars on facilities that'll give immediate return for buck.
LIFE is death for the lab. LIFE's claims to fame were actually solved by the molten salt reactor developed over 40 years ago at ORNL. We need to stop wasting money on the photon farm.
The article says the idea is not to have a blast but a controlled reaction. What if something goes wrong and there is a blast? How large are we talking? Enough to take out the LLNL site? or Livermore?
In light of LANL blowing up a building recently, I'd like to know NIF's potential risks once they fire full power.
" In the meantime it's best for the tax payer to spend their dollars on facilities that'll give immediate return for buck."
I can't believe this comment. With this thinking we'd never have gotten - Interstate highway system - Panama Canal - Trans-continental railroad - weather satellites
Well, that's the *short* list. I hope there are few people who take this sort of short-term focus.
Yeah and we knew all of these were going to work and actually going to serve a purpose just like our dams. NIF on the other hand is just a dream and a bad one at that. I'd have much rather seem the $5B spend on solar cell arrays on top of everyones homes giving then a surplus of power to be used ar credit during the summer when they need their AC. I wonder how many homes could have had their roofs covered.
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Try managing a project with too much risk and see what rewards you get.
You will be labeled as a bad project manager.
Only at higher levels of management can you do that and be seen as an achiever!
NIF is an experiment, not an achievement!
NIF is a $5B experiment, not an achievement! When it starts suppling megawatts of power to be used in our homes I'll say it was worthwhile. In the meantime it's best for the tax payer to spend their dollars on facilities that'll give immediate return for buck.
LIFE is death for the lab. LIFE's claims to fame were actually solved by the molten salt reactor developed over 40 years ago at ORNL. We need to stop wasting money on the photon farm.
The article says the idea is not to have a blast but a controlled reaction. What if something goes wrong and there is a blast? How large are we talking? Enough to take out the LLNL site? or Livermore?
In light of LANL blowing up a building recently, I'd like to know NIF's potential risks once they fire full power.
" In the meantime it's best for the tax payer to spend their dollars on facilities that'll give immediate return for buck."
I can't believe this comment. With this thinking we'd never have gotten
- Interstate highway system
- Panama Canal
- Trans-continental railroad
- weather satellites
Well, that's the *short* list. I hope there are few people who take this sort of short-term focus.
January 29, 2010 4:33 PM
Yeah and we knew all of these were going to work and actually going to serve a purpose just like our dams. NIF on the other hand is just a dream and a bad one at that. I'd have much rather seem the $5B spend on solar cell arrays on top of everyones homes giving then a surplus of power to be used ar credit during the summer when they need their AC. I wonder how many homes could have had their roofs covered.
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