Comments on: Sticks and warships will break my will? https://thenewneo.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:16:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Lee https://thenewneo.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33454 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:16:46 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33454 Thank the nazi alarm clock(Gary) for “waking us up”.

]]> By: Gary Anderson https://thenewneo.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33383 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:21:13 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33383 This is the problem folks. The neocons supported blood for oil in Iraq, and now they want us to go into Iran just at the time the housing market is tanking. When gas goes to 7 dollars a gallon Bush will be overseeing the greatest economic meltdown in the history of the world. Push on neocons.

BTW, the neocons want Iranian oil traded in American dollars, as that is the real goal. You don’t see them getting bent out of shape about North Korea and their REAL nukes. Wake up neocon lovers. They are unamerican and greedy.

]]> By: Don https://thenewneo.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33376 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:26:45 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33376 Sometimes I really hope that G W Bush would prefer to go down in history as a warmonger and “worst president ever” than take any chance on Iran deploying nuclear weapons, whether upon missiles or to bandits such as AQ. I too work in problem prevention, and as in foreign policy, the greatest successes are invisible, and only the mistakes make the news and history books.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33309 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:27:37 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33309 It’s actually interesting that a water/steam system is the most efficient way to transfer heat from a heat source (nuclear reactor, coal fire, or whatever) to a turbine (whether the turbine is driving an electric generator or a ship’s propeller).

It is not so much the most efficient way, as the only productive way to transfer heat to mechanical energy, through the use of hot air to move turbine blades.

The most efficient way would be almost theoretical, but technically it would be a Carnot Engine.

There are other gases you could heat up, say combustion engines with Wankel rotars or just piston chambers. But that explosion is incredibly fast, it burns very fast. Nuclear energy has almost limitless heat, so it goes back to the old technology simply because humans have no way currently to transfer direct radioactive energy or heat energy to mechanical energy or even electrical energy. We have to do two transfers. Heat to mechanical, and mechanical to electrical.

A lot of inefficiency going on there, a lot of wasted energy.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33304 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:22:01 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33304 [ADDENDUM: Charles Krauthammer excoriates the useless EU and Security Council. He points out that these institutions have made it more difficult, not less, to get together to solve such matters, by appearing useful (and necessary) when they are actually worse than useless. So, once again, it’s up to the US–and don’t expect a lot of thanks for it.]

Don’t expect anybody to pay a tax or a toll tribute to help maintain our gigantic Navy either.

Free ride people, ride it all the way to hell.

]]> By: harry https://thenewneo.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33270 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 06:07:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33270 Well you see Neo, nuclear reactors aboard ship heat water and converts into steam and…um, um,

Oh, I see its been covered already…

Nevermind.

]]> By: s1c https://thenewneo.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33240 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:35:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33240 Was going to comment about the reactor making steam, but I see that Oceanguy and others have covered that pretty well. I agree with Richard, that this should make fools of the UN loving etc crowd but as usual, they will just shrug it off or more than likely try to make their ineffectiveness a “it’s the fault of Bush”.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33222 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:23:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33222 This ought to, but probably won’t, make fools of the folks, mostly dems, who insist on subordinating our foreign policy and national security to supra-national organizations.

]]> By: James968 https://thenewneo.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33185 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:41:28 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33185 Oops, point already made.

One point that hasn’t been made though, is that the British press has picked up and is running with the news that Iran is also supplying weapons and explosives to the insurgents in Iraq. (Maybe the US press will start cover the story too).

]]> By: James968 https://thenewneo.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33184 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:37:06 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/04/06/sticks-and-warships-will-break-my-will/#comment-33184 Actually a Nuclear Powered ship uses the reactor to generate steam, which drives the ship.

So it is steaming to the gulf. (We have come full circle)

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