What does nuclear fuel look like?

After being mined the uranium is transported to a uranium plant where it is ground down to powder. The uranium content is increased by various processes and the result is uranium concentrate in the form of yellow powder.


The uranium concentrate has to be further refined before it can be used as a nuclear fuel. It is therefore converted to uranium hexaflouride. The uranium hexaflouride is heated and enriched which means that it is processed so that the content of fissile uranium-235 increases to the approximately 3% required by nuclear fuel. Natural uranium contains only 0.7% uranium-235.


After enrichment, the uranium hexaflouride is cooled back to solid form and converted to uranium dioxide. The actual nuclear fuel is finally produced from the uranium dioxide in the form of small cylinders known as pellets.


The pellets are stacked in long rods, which are out together to make a fuel element. The fuel elements are used for about five years in a reactor before being replaced. A nuclear reactor contains about 15 million pellets.

• Nuclear industry is the only industry requiring worst case scenario. Why not use it for chemical transports aswell?


• A nuclear plant cannot explode like a atomic bomb since it does not reach a critical mass.


• Plutonium is toxic but not as toxic as the nuclear waste.


• In order to build a Plutonium bomb you need to enrich it out of the nuclear waste.


• In order to build a Uranium bomb you need enriched uranium-235 (.7% out of natural uranium).


• The information found on this page is not more deadly then the information found on how to use a gun.

References:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BHdsjo-NR4
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fuel_cycle

IRL visit at:
Ringhals powerplant

Study: Illegal downloads favor the music industry

According to a dutch study illegal downloads favor the music industry. The reason is that most people in The Netherlands buy the same music online.

Whole article in Swedish

Mystic light phenomena over Sweden

Why the Movie industry will fail on file-sharing

The subject is hotter then ever. Most I-countries are making laws to protect the business-model the movie industry has used for the last 70 years but will it succeed?

Top 5 problems of making laws against file-sharing:

• The likelihood of connecting an action conducted by a specific IP at an specific time with a person is extremely hard. The loophole will always be IP hijacking and anonymous networks like TOR. Will we have personal ip-numbers in response?
  
• The motivation of not paying full price will always be very high. Therefore the people creating the file-sharing networks will be just as smart as the ones against them(?).
• The difference in information is not defined. A certain combination of bits can mean different things depending on the coding used. Therefore a certain stream of information cannot be banned or blocked.
• The traffic of file-sharing websites produce a huge income in form of advertising.
• BitTorrent is a very robust and stable protocol, information can be encrypted and routed without any limits. The use of BitTorrent in other areas like digital television and cellphones will secure it's future.

My point is really that it's inevitable that file-sharing is here to stay. So how is it possible for the movie industry to adapt their business-model? From a few assumptions I will suggest my conclusion:

• The computation power of PCs will always increase, in a few years most PCs will have enough to render movies like Shrek on the fly. Don't think so? Then take a look at CUDA.
• In addition to the increase in computation power available it will be easier for smaller companies and even private persons creating advanced computer animated movies, just like people now are making maps for games or music. This will lead to an increase in the supply of movies. The need for studios, cameras and expensive crews in 50 years from now can therefore be questioned.
  
• The business model of Google and YouTube does obviously work so why can't it be used in other areas were the product is in any form digital information.
• With the Internet as a marketing and distribution channel good stuff will always come through. When everyone is plugged in 24/7 you can hit millions of people within your premiere hour!
  

My conclusion:

• We will have very few large movie companies in the future. Corporations? Don't think so.
• Internet is superior to any other distribution-system, every movie must be digital for it to be seen.
• If you putout $5,000 making a movie, you will need 5,000,000 pageviews with a eCPM of $1.00 to break-even. Plausible when India and China is hooked up properly? Yes! The model will work when enough people get Internet.
• The market for movie theaters, merchandise, product placements and premiere events will remain.
• Movies will be free or pirated!
  

January House Music Chart

Todays House Music chart:

1. Fuzzy hair & Alex d'elia - The sun (original mix)
2. The Attic - Flash In The Night (Henrik B Remix)
3. Ibiza Music United - Show Me Love
4. Yanou - children of the sun (r.i.o. radio mix)
5. Oh Laura - Release Me (the attic ext remix) (Maybe a bit old but still works!)

Enjoy 3 new songs and the rest just do it!

7 PHP IDEs review

After a recent format I was looking out for a new IDE to use with PHP. Some requirements were collapsible code, ftp-client and code intelligence. I came across a great list at ibm. I would like to share my conclusion.

• Eclipse - I've used this for Java. Pros: Stable and great features. Cons: Just too big and sometimes slow. Grade: B
• Komodo - Pros: regular expression debugger. Cons: Buggy, no code collapsing. Grade: C+
  
• PHP Designer - I've used it for 2 years. Pros: code intelligence. Cons: Buggy, no code collapsing. Grade: B-
  
• PhpED - Pros: Well integrated with PHP. Cons: None. Grade: A
  
• PHPEdit - Pros: Does the job. Good features. Cons: Integrated with their own site. Grade: C
• Zend Studio - Pros: Done by Zend. Cons: Not free, plugin to Eclipse so much like Eclipses own. Grade: C+

Conclusion: I will go with PhpED this time. My first impression is very good. Clean and functionall layout.

First post

This blog will be used getting some of my thoughts out to the world. Just like the title says they will include entrepreneurship, innovation and having fun. Pretty much what I like and do.

All comments will be greatly appreciated!