Nuclear Waste: Turning 1,000,000 Years into 800?

[Logic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHhEy7syrlc

Hmmm..!??
Beats putting it into an expensive, failure prone rocket and firing it at the sun!

[freebeard]

I was wondering how vitrification and Thorium would enter the picture.

The Thunderstorm Generator crowd are transmuting elements lighter than iron much more easily than these heavier elements.

Will it ever be built and terrorized? Berlin right now has no power, and the government (allegedly) evacuated the 'immigrants' and left the elderly and invalids in the dark.

[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

The Thunderstorm Generator crowd are transmuting elements lighter than iron much more easily than these heavier elements.

Possibly.
But I'm not going to go down that Rabbit Hole when plain old Pyrolysis and Steam Reformation etc cover the science without any 'Magic'.

(Funny you should believe this 'Tansmutation' thing, but reject BA, which is based on science and proof..?????!)

Originally Posted by freebeard

Will it ever be built and terrorized? Berlin right now has no power, and the government (allegedly) evacuated the 'immigrants' and left the elderly and invalids in the dark.

Ah yes; the EU isn't dead... yet...

[freebeard]

Funny you should believe this 'Tansmutation' thing, but reject BA

I don't even know what 'Tans'-mutation is. I hadn't heard that pyrolysis converts carbon and nitrogen into oxygen'

Whatismore, I don't reject BA. I think about plasma exhaust cleaners, but I'm not rushing out to convert the Superbeetle. (I did move it under a new canopy today (making romm for an FUV)) I am putting miles on the Metro, when it does act 'tired; it will be a candidate.

[Piotrsko]

Thanks for the update. Does tired mean it won't start on a cold day? (My criteria)

[freebeard]

Wear on the cylinder walls, for the Boric Acid to ameliorate.

[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I don't even know what 'Tans'-mutation is. I hadn't heard that pyrolysis converts carbon and nitrogen into oxygen'

Pyrolysis is generally associated with the heating plastics to get methane like gasses out of it, then condensing the gas into 'crude oil', which is separated into gas, diesel etc conventionally, with a Fractionating Column.
Perhaps Thermolysis is the better word.

Steam Reformations is the combining of the above gasses with steam, to form Hydrogen.
Byproduct is CO, which also burns, but very slowly/badly.
These Hydrogen factories use up to 90/10 water/HC vapour.

That's a hell of a lot of free fuel, if you ignore the heat etc required..!
The other big plus: Any HC that has not reacted, remains the fuel you/everyone was burning in the 1st place...

ie:
There are industrial processes, in use as we speak, to explain all the claims made by the 'Thunder-Pundits'

We have been through all this before..!?

Originally Posted by freebeard

IWhatismore, I don't reject BA. I think about plasma exhaust cleaners, but I'm not rushing out to convert the Superbeetle. (I did move it under a new canopy today (making romm for an FUV)) I am putting miles on the Metro, when it does act 'tired; it will be a candidate.

Glad to hear that!

Did you ever find out why you'd lost compression on one of your Beetle's cylinders?

If you add a squirt or 2 of oil to said cylinder, through the plug hole, just prior to another compression test:
A temporary return of compression means its rings, or piston/cylinder wear.
Whereas no improvement points to burned or sticky valves.

[freebeard]

Whether is rings or valves (I don't recall if that test has been done), the engine refresh and some bodywork need to be done before it's streetable. (driveable is not equal to streetable)

[Piotrsko]

Should be the cylinder under the oil cooler, I think #3. I has been 20 years since I owned one, forgotten much about aircooled volkswagens. Never had a valve issue after the first engine because I learned how to set them a thou or two sloppy

[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Whether is rings or valves (I don't recall if that test has been done), the engine refresh and some bodywork need to be done before it's streetable. (driveable is not equal to streetable)

Lets Assume it's rings.
ie: A squirt or 2 of oil to said cylinder, through the plug hole, results in a temporary return of compression.

Then BA treatment might be considered; "the engine refresh" you desire.
Just a hell of a lot quicker and cheaper! With nothing lost if ineffective.

I remember my (talk of) Mom's seized engine, 'fixed' just with a cylinder hone.
It worked there.