Mystery Project at Epcot

Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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lazyboy97o said:
I thought you were going to say you play as Robocop. :(
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That would make for such a cool ride!

And if anyone tried to cut the line:

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Tim_4

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Admiral01 said:
Really? Is that supposed to be a joke, or are you really picking on the blue collar workforce who make an average of $50k-60k a year making cars?
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I don't think he was saying auto workers are robbers. I think the was saying that Detroit is a cesspool of humanity that likes to pride itself on blue-collar auto manufacturing but is really pit of crime.
 
Cosmic Commando

Cosmic Commando

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Tim_4 said:
People still cry themselves to sleep over fission power. I'm not sure fusion will be too popular with the greenies.

Fun fact: one of my college physics professors designed the locking mechanism on one of the ITER reactor doors.
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Fusion reactors would create radiation, but so does the Sun. ;)
 
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Admiral01

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Tim_4 said:
People still cry themselves to sleep over fission power. I'm not sure fusion will be too popular with the greenies.

Fun fact: one of my college physics professors designed the locking mechanism on one of the ITER reactor doors.
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The biggest mistake the greenies made in the 60s and 70s was lumping nuclear power in with nuclear weapons. They are totally different. Modern fission is a great source of power. The greenies hated nuclear everything, but also hate oil. In my opinion the lumping was a mistake, and you can't have it both ways.

Fusion would be a game changer that could mostly eliminate the need for energy sources that really pollute. I have high hopes, but I also recognize that for the last half century, fusion power was always 20 years away. It is still 20 years away. It is the power source of the future that may always be just out of reach. I hope not, though. Even with better power production, energy transmission and energy storage are still issues that need to be solved.

Power production in the modern era needs to be a collection of solutions - a system of systems. Fission should be a larger part of that. A few years ago in New Mexico (I think) the state decided that wind power would be their state's primary source, with coal power being the backup. Wind would produce what it could, and the coal plants would make up the difference. Problem with that is coal plants work best at the maximum production, at their most efficient and hottest burning state. They pollute when run at their most efficient rate, but they pollute a lot more when they aren't run at their max. Wind power as the primary source was a good plan, but in the end, using coal as a secondary source meant that the coal plants ended up polluting MORE than they had when they were the primary source. Nuclear, unlike coal, can be operated at a variety of output rates without polluting more. Gen 4 reactors are great. We just need to start building them.

ITER is a great experiment that I hope works as well as planned. I studied ITER while studying Nuclear Engineering at Purdue. It is really neat. At what university was your professor?
 
gonnichi

gonnichi

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With the MK getting the new parade in 2014, AK probably getting Avatar in 2017, DHS possibly getting new shows soon and a new land in 2018, does anyone have any new information on what is going to be happening to Epcot. Attendance numbers are coming out soon and I have heard that Epcot's numbers are not good. So what are the latest rumors about fixing Epcot. Does anyone know any new info on this mystery project.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Admiral01 said:
The biggest mistake the greenies made in the 60s and 70s was lumping nuclear power in with nuclear weapons. They are totally different. Modern fission is a great source of power. The greenies hated nuclear everything, but also hate oil. In my opinion the lumping was a mistake, and you can't have it both ways.

Fusion would be a game changer that could mostly eliminate the need for energy sources that really pollute. I have high hopes, but I also recognize that for the last half century, fusion power was always 20 years away. It is still 20 years away. It is the power source of the future that may always be just out of reach. I hope not, though. Even with better power production, energy transmission and energy storage are still issues that need to be solved.

Power production in the modern era needs to be a collection of solutions - a system of systems. Fission should be a larger part of that. A few years ago in New Mexico (I think) the state decided that wind power would be their state's primary source, with coal power being the backup. Wind would produce what it could, and the coal plants would make up the difference. Problem with that is coal plants work best at the maximum production, at their most efficient and hottest burning state. They pollute when run at their most efficient rate, but they pollute a lot more when they aren't run at their max. Wind power as the primary source was a good plan, but in the end, using coal as a secondary source meant that the coal plants ended up polluting MORE than they had when they were the primary source. Nuclear, unlike coal, can be operated at a variety of output rates without polluting more. Gen 4 reactors are great. We just need to start building them.

ITER is a great experiment that I hope works as well as planned. I studied ITER while studying Nuclear Engineering at Purdue. It is really neat. At what university was your professor?
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Very well put. One of the things that I find almost criminal is that there is no ability to recognize that not everything is immediately doable. I remember a big argument back when I lived in Vermont. We had/have an aging nuclear power plant that needs to be replaced in the near future. While searching for alternative the "green" folk didn't want to use oil, coal or wood because of pollution and using up fossil fuels and depleting forests. We surely couldn't use water power because damming rivers and streams would create a problem for some species of fish and in some cases cover what is currently dry land. Wind power...no way...line of site problem messing up the visual environment. All of these things are real and reasonable concerns, however, you cannot say no to everything and put our hopes on something that hasn't been invented yet to solve the problems and keep the lights on. One can just imagine what would happen if they went off, green or not.

Nuclear Power in one form or the other is the obvious thing that is going to supply our ever expanding demand. It's not going to get smaller. No one is willing to give up what electricity provides. And that's reality.
 
unkadug

unkadug

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themarchhare said:
I logged in for the first time in ages just to say that you should be permabanned for this comment.
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I missed that comment.
wdwfan22 said:
World Showcase is nothing more than a place to drink and eat. While I enjoy it, I hear families all the time complain that there isn't anything for the kids to do. I'm not saying that every attraction needs to have a character tie in, however the current attraction line up in World Showcase isn't enough and doesn't appeal to the majority.
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The majority of what? The people who are at the Magic Kingdom? That's not who the World Showcase was designed for. The World Showcase does fine. The people there enjoy it for what it is. If you don't like it then there are plenty of other areas that you can visit.

It's peoples attitude like yours that got Pleasure Island shut down. Everything at WDW doesn't need to revolve around what YOU like.
 

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