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Here's a Gigabyte Z68 board with three PCI-E x16 slots, SATA 3 and USB 3 ports for $137. This is AU price but much the same as US these days. http://www.msy.com.au/product.jsp?productId=7859 Looks more than sufficient for a trading computer.

H series to use the integrated graphics and P series for overclocking - or something like that. Better than either is the Z68 chipset which seems to have no such restrictions. It doesn't seem to be any more expensive...

Spoken like a true believer.

The fastest route to gaining "respectability" would be to turn over a few of these gadgets to truly independent labs. Sorry, but all this secrecy stuff is characteristic of scams. We shall see in due course.

Nicely put in a comment over on NextBigFuture: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/06/defkalion-internal-tests-of-rossi.html#disqus_thread

It IS fear mongering. And baseless fear mongering. Anybody not living under a rock would know that there have already been evacuations. Unless there is some new unexpectedly severe event at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, there will not be any more evacuations. There is a lunatic propensity to...

Well, Areva would say that wouldn't they? The UAE reactors are Generation III+ APR-1400 units - an evolutionary modern design. Sth Korea has an excellent record of nuclear power operation with capacity factor exceeding that of (the very good) US nuclear power industry. Standardized design and...

It might even be the entire GDP of the planet - or not. This is ludicrous nonsense. The nearest comparison is the neighboring UAE where the contracted (mostly fixed price) cost with the Sth Koreans is about $3.8 billion per GWh. This is highly competitive with with all other forms of low...

They may go with the Russians, or the Sth Koreans, or the Chinese, or the Japanese. The Chinese will quite likely offer some derivative of the Westinghouse AP-1000 Generation III+ design for export in a few years time. They have IPR for it. If they go with the Russians it will be VVER which...

If this goes ahead it, they will probably go for French Areva EPRs and Areva will probably supply the fuel and take back the spent fuel. This is the arrangement the UAE has with the Sth Koreans. I'd bet the US will lean on them very hard for such an arrangement. The EPR is a Pressurized Water...

Err... where do you think the population of modern Australia came from - dropped from the sky?

"Saudi Arabia plans to build 16 nuclear power reactors by 2030 which could costs more than $100 billion, a Saudi-based newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing a top official." http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE75004Q20110601

No such thing as a "future proof" PC. Buy what you need to do the job and expect to replace it in a few years. If your requirements change and demand greater processing power, then buy what you need to do that job. One that that a PC isn't - an investment for life.

Another case of somebody simply not wanting to hear. The IEA and CCC cost estimates include decommissioning and waste management. But lets not address what somebody is saying, lets set up a straw man and attack that instead eh? [b] Now that's just not true. It will make no tangible...

I did and looking at the WNA database here: http://world-nuclear.org/NuclearDatabase/Advanced.aspx?id=27246 of the power reactors built after 1970 in the US, eight have been shutdown and 103 are operating. I don't know what you think your figures show or even where they came from. [B]...

Perhaps in the US at the moment, but not elsewhere. See this for a presentation on where Sth Korea thinks it's going: http://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/meetings/PDFplus/2009/cn176/cn176_Presentations/plenary_session_1/FRP-05.Choi.pdf

I'll try to be brief. Fission power required fissionable material (ie capable of sustaining a chain reaction) and pretty much the only usable naturally occurring substance is Uranium-235. If that was all we had to rely on, then yes eventually it would run out, though there are untapped sources...

Is this Andasol CSP power station in Spain? No it's Eqypt in 1913 where the first concentrating solar power plant was built - tracking parabolic mirrors no less! There is actually very little new in energy options. They have all been known for quite a long time. In that sense solar PV, solar...