₦airaland Forum

ugo4u:

We can, we'd save money and lives in the long run; cordon some relevant forests and build barriers along some problematic highways too. Concerning some of these highways, for me, clearing bordering bushes and trees isn’t desirable as an environmentalist when laying barriers looks far better, infrastructurally, in addition to safeguarding travellers. Barriers would make manoeuvring in and out just that much more awkward and inconvenient for the miscreants. Highway barriers also has precedence world wide. We can build these things, we just don’t want to possibly for misjudged cost reasons.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=203wWeAbE4M

film3four, posted this on Nairaland. At approximately 0:20, simple cheap barriers appear along both sides of the road. Thicker, reinforced versions of this type could help along some highways on which terrorists and bandits regularly ambush civilians and military…



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAv5Ql34yk0

I s this guy Nigerian, with that mouth ? He dont look too Nigerian at all!

West Africa is rich in mineral resource ripe for the taking in the shadow of conflict. Nigeria has stood in the way and consequently Nigeria had to go, which is the root causes of Nigeria’s current problems. With Nigeria occupied, West Africa is showing signs of falling apart. Those in West Africa happy at Nigeria’s situation will eventually understand their own stupidity. There’s a Jamaican saying that goes ‘wetin sweet you go soon sour you!’.

No border control, no Nation.

Why China is developing a game-changing thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor

Yahoo News
France 24
Why China is developing a game-changing thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor
12 September 2021, 16:16
China is poised to test a thorium-powered nuclear reactor in September, the world’s first since 1969. The theory is that this new molten-salt technology will be “safer” and “greener” than regular uranium reactors, and so could help Beijing meet its climate goals. Yet is the country's investment in this also geostrategic?

A new page in the history of nuclear energy could be written this September, in the middle of the Gobi Desert, in the north of China. At the end of August, Beijing announced that it had completed the construction of its first thorium-fuelled molten-salt nuclear reactor, with plans to begin the first tests of this alternative technology to current nuclear reactors within the next two weeks.

Built not far from the northern city of Wuwei, the low-powered prototype can as yet only produce energy for around 1,000 homes, according to the scientific journal Nature.

But if the upcoming tests succeed, Chinese authorities will start a programme to build another reactor capable of generating electricity for over 100,000 homes. Beijing could then become an exporter of a reactor technology that has been the subject of much discussion for over 40 years, according to French financial newspaper Les Echos.

Lower accident risks?

The Chinese reactor could be the first molten-salt reactor operating in the world since 1969, when the US abandoned its Oak Ridge National Laboratory facility in Tennessee.

“Almost all current reactors use uranium as fuel and water, instead of molten salt and thorium," which will be used in China’s new plant, Jean-Claude Garnier, head of France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), told FRANCE 24.

Yahoo News
France 24
Why China is developing a game-changing thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor
12 September 2021, 16:16
China is poised to test a thorium-powered nuclear reactor in September, the world’s first since 1969. The theory is that this new molten-salt technology will be “safer” and “greener” than regular uranium reactors, and so could help Beijing meet its climate goals. Yet is the country's investment in this also geostrategic?

A new page in the history of nuclear energy could be written this September, in the middle of the Gobi Desert, in the north of China. At the end of August, Beijing announced that it had completed the construction of its first thorium-fuelled molten-salt nuclear reactor, with plans to begin the first tests of this alternative technology to current nuclear reactors within the next two weeks.

Built not far from the northern city of Wuwei, the low-powered prototype can as yet only produce energy for around 1,000 homes, according to the scientific journal Nature.


But if the upcoming tests succeed, Chinese authorities will start a programme to build another reactor capable of generating electricity for over 100,000 homes. Beijing could then become an exporter of a reactor technology that has been the subject of much discussion for over 40 years, according to French financial newspaper Les Echos.

Lower accident risks?

The Chinese reactor could be the first molten-salt reactor operating in the world since 1969, when the US abandoned its Oak Ridge National Laboratory facility in Tennessee.

“Almost all current reactors use uranium as fuel and water, instead of molten salt and thorium," which will be used in China’s new plant, Jean-Claude Garnier, head of France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), told FRANCE 24.

Watch: Are We Getting Closer to Thorium Nuclear Fuel?


These two "new" ingredients were not chosen by accident by Beijing: molten-salt reactors are among the most promising technologies for power plants, according to the Generation IV forum – a US initiative to push for international cooperation on civil nuclear power.

With molten-salt technology, "it is the salt itself that becomes the fuel", Sylvain David, research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and nuclear reactors specialist, explained in a FRANCE 24 interview. The crystals are mixed with nuclear material – either uranium or thorium – heated to over 500°C to become liquid, and are then be able to transport the heat and energy produced.

Theoretically, this process would make the installations safer. "Some accident risks are supposedly eliminated because liquid burning avoids situations where the nuclear reaction can get out of control and damage the reactor structures," Jean-Claude Garnier added.

There's another advantage for China: this type of reactor does not need to be built near watercourses, since the molten salts themselves "serve as a coolant, unlike conventional uranium power plants that need huge amounts of water to cool their reactors", French newspaper Les Echos noted. As a result, the reactors can be installed in isolated and arid regions… like the Gobi Desert.

China's plentiful supply

Beijing has also opted to use thorium rather than uranium in its new molten-salt reactor, a combination that has drawn attention from experts for years. This is mostly because “there is much more thorium than uranium in nature”, Francesco D’Auria, nuclear reactor technology specialist at the University of Pisa, told FRANCE 24.

In addition, thorium belongs to a famous family of rare-earth metals that are much more abundant in China than elsewhere; this is the icing on the cake for Chinese authorities, who could increase its energy independence from major uranium exporting countries, such as Canada and Australia, two countries whose diplomatic relations with China have collapsed in recent years.

Beijing’s investment is also a long-term one. “For now, there is enough uranium to fuel all operating reactors. But if the number of reactors increases, we could reach a situation where supply would no longer keep up, and using thorium can drastically reduce the need for uranium. That makes it a potentially more sustainable option," Sylvain David explained.

A 'greener' nuclear energy?

According to supporters of thorium, it would also a "greener" solution. Unlike the uranium currently used in nuclear power plants, burning thorium does not create plutonium, a highly toxic chemical element, Nature pointed out.

With so many positives on their side, why are molten salts and thorium only being used now? “Essentially because uranium 235 was the natural candidate for nuclear reactors and the market did not look much further," Francesco D'Auria added.

Radiation, corrosion and... nuclear weapons

Among the three main candidates for nuclear reaction – uranium 235, uranium 238 and thorium – the first is “the only isotope naturally fissile”, Sylvain David explained. The other two must be bombarded with neutrons for the material to become fissile (able to undergo nuclear fission) and be used by a reactor: a possible but more complex process.

Once that is done on thorium, it produces uranium 233, the fissile material needed for nuclear power generation. That then becomes another problem with thorium: "The radiation emitted by uranium 233 is stronger than that of the other isotopes, so you have to be more careful," Francesco D'Auria warned.

The feasibility of molten-salt reactors is also questionable as it creates further technical problems. "At very high temperatures, the salt can corrode the reactor’s structures, which need to be protected in some manner," Jean-Claude Garnier explained.

The stakes are clearly high for the Chinese tests and they will be watched very closely around the world in order to see how Beijing hopes to overcome these obstacles. But even if China ends up claiming victory, they should not rejoice too quickly, Francesco D’Auria said: "The problem with corrosive products is that you don't realise their damage until five to 10 years after."

Moreover, the expert claims there is no reason to celebrate a nuclear reactor that not only produces energy, but also uranium 233. "This is an isotope that does not exist in nature and that can be used to build an atomic bomb," pointed out Francesco D'Auria.

As such, China could end up revolutionising the nuclear industry but, at the same time, they might once more alarm supporters of non-proliferation around the world.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/why-china-developing-game-changing-151648213.html

youghs:
Foot patrol?? Do you think borno is some kind of a community or a local government. This guys patrol 30km and above, how on earth do you cover that on foot. The dreaded Maiduguri-monguno road is almost the same In distance as lagos-ibadan expressway.

No one expects patrols to cover all of Borno State, I for one thought that patrols are held in areas the military believe the enemy is extraordinarily active. For long stretches of roads, as you describe Maiduguri-monguno road that is presumably flanked by concealing vegetations, why would military vehicles prowl slowly along it, especially unprotected military vehicles and given the history of ambushes in the area?

Ajeyo:
I AM NOT SURPRISED ALL THE IGBOS HERE SUPPORTED THE TYING,PLEASE IGBOS,STOP THIS DO OR DIE ABOUT MONEY,NA ONLY UNA KNOW MONEY?

Oh, here we go, the bigots are arriving to spoil everything.

ccollins:
When people say you Nigerians are barbaric and uncivilized, I now understand better.just look at the nonsense evil that u are spewing and chomping from your words

I’m curious, which people say, 'you Nigerians are barbaric and uncivilized'?

What is the flaw in conducting only foot patrols in the bushes (pick up and drop off points on open ground) and when not on patrols but heading for distant basess in vehicles doing so at speed as someone has suggested on an earlier page?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0xfVJ1WTf4

Occurrences in Nigeria that result in significant national interest or controversy never seem adequately investigated or indeed investigated at all. Why weren’t the Coper or soldier interviewed and their views aired?

Corper Ezeiruaku Ifeyinwa Dehumanised By Chika Viola Anele, Leaves Cross River by Islie

Is this an excuse not to interview her in order to get to the truth of the matter? That entire episode looked staged but then I’ve only casually looked at a part of the video and nothing more.

yuping:
Everyday killing and bombing Boko Haram and yet they still remain what is their population gan.

Their population is that of all wretched Muslim youths throughout West Africa, from Mali to Burkina Faso; Niger, Chad to Cameron and immoral type unemployed youths up and down Africa. There’ll never be an end to them unless Nigeria deters them by turning Nigeria into their Killing/Dying fields or and relevantly secure the borders.

Is this Nairaland? Such measured tones and compassionate responses, as should be expected of normal human-beings in the face of tragedy?

Well, forget black-power, white is power.

Should thorough background checks be made, before application for their release, I’m confident a significant numbers won’t be Nigerian in the first place.

QuickStandard:
Export, while there's food scarcity in the country. Ok

Cash-crops.

Reflect7:
You that hate Nigeria, what are you doing on this NIGERIAN froum?

Get out of here and go start your tribal forum, you and the other asshole traitors here.

Repulsive elements and parasites.

Repulsive is an understatement. There's no word to discribe a bunch of people trying to turn ethnic bigotry into a virtue, they are even possibly working for the interest of France yet will be the first to accuse those opposed to their views of turning Nigeria into Disaster Investment area of being in the pay of government.

mauchiz:
if ipob has money to share to people, they should start sharing it, if you're telling people to sit at home, while ipob members are receiving money in dollars from abroad.

Undeniable point there...

In other words, what provision are being made for people asked to sit at home when doing so begins to impact on their ability to keep afloat when conditions before were described as precarious.

Michigan set to have first wirelessly charging road in US.

Even the most extended range electric cars can be a real pain to charge. The amount of time it takes to replenish battery power is still far greater than the time it takes to refill a fuel tank, though several new EVs are getting closer.

Michigan will become the latest government entity to try and remedy the issue. Governor Gretchen Whitmer opened the Motor Bella auto show in Pontiac, MI, yesterday, announcing that the state would begin testing wireless charging roadways.

The state joins Indiana and several international organizations, including governments, with similar plans.

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Whitmer said that a one-mile stretch of road would be chosen for the Inductive Vehicle Charging Pilot, but it's not clear where it will end up.

Earlier this year, the Indiana Department of Transportation announced that it would begin testing wireless charging highway pavement.

Its tests will take place in phases, beginning with testing and validation of different types of pavements.

Phase three is when actual testing starts, though the location and timeframe are not yet defined.

The Michigan plan would move the state ahead of Indiana by going directly to the road test phase. Other tests are underway, or will soon be underway, in Israel and Norway.

Wireless car charging finally on the horizon
One big question is implementation. It's not possible to plug-in a car while driving, so both the car and the road surface have to be capable of wireless charging.

In 2018, Sweden began testing a system that used an electrified rail that could charge vehicles through a retractable arm, kind of like a street trolley in San Francisco, but there aren't any EVs on sale in the US with that kind of hardware today.

There are, however, EVs coming with wireless charging capability, including the upcoming Genesis GV60.

As more vehicles adopt the technology and become more efficient, a charging highway could be a massive step forward for charging times and range anxiety issues.

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/charging-your-electric-car-wirelessly-while-you-drive-has-taken-a-major-step-forward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCL9dyBZaxY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whHbN8-E5Lg

If you haven’t seen before or are ignorant of the events, you will not regret watching this.

Femeto:
Your team na best in the world abi?

You stated, "Na Southafrica dey always discipline us. "

South Africa national football team (Men): record v Nigeria

10 Oct 1992 Nigeria v South Africa L 4-0 FIFA World Cup
16 Jan 1993 : South Africa v Nigeria D 0-0 FIFA World Cup
10 Feb 2000 :Nigeria v South Africa L 2-0 Africa Cup of Nations
31 Jan 2004 :Nigeria v South Africa L 4-0 Africa Cup of Nations
17 Nov 2004 :South Africa v Nigeria W 2-1 International Friendly
01 Jun 2008 :Nigeria v South Africa L 2-0 FIFA World Cup
06 Sep 2008 :South Africa v Nigeria L 0-1 FIFA World Cup
14 Aug 2013 :South Africa v Nigeria L 0-2 International Friendly
10 Sep 2014 :South Africa v Nigeria D 0-0 Africa Cup of Nations
19 Nov 2014 :Nigeria v South Africa D 2-2 Africa Cup of Nations
29 Mar 2015 :South Africa v Nigeria D 1-1 International Friendly
10 Jun 2017 :Nigeria v South Africa W 0-2 Africa Cup of Nations
17 Nov 2018 :South Africa v Nigeria D 1-1 Africa Cup of Nations
10 Jul 2019 :Nigeria v South Africa L 2-1 Africa Cup of Nations


South Africa [Women] National Team » Record against Nigeria

https://www.worldfootball.net/teams/suedafrika-frauen-team/nigeria-frauen-team/11/

Cousin9999:
Afghans are not white.

In the eyes of whites they are white enough when it comes to certain choices. Native Americans, South American Indians, Indians, San Bushmen, Hottentots, Ethiopians, Original Tutsis and so on are whites in certain instances of comparisons and preferential treatment when it come to these choices.

Femeto:
We no get squad. Na Southafrica dey always discipline us.

Evidence too many Nigerians don’t seek evidence but rely on assumptions and sentiments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PraDOusY87g

Lokojatoofar:
Wow.
Some people will use this info to sneak into the forest to hunt them down. Nigerians can destroy their fathers house for morsels. They will pluck out their mothers eyes for 10 pieces of silver, They will behead their neighbours child for a loaf of bread talkless of an animal in the forest.

What Nigerians destroy their fathers’ houses for morsels? Are you referring to the same Nigeria where fathers houses abounds everywhere and you cannot move for fathers houses impeding upon your line of sights in towns and villages? The Nigeria I grew up where people work or hustle very hard daily to create Fathers Houses legacy for their children or travel to all sorts of godforsaken foreign countries to work so they can send money back to their loved ones and extended families?

Please, if you’re a Nigerian and you experiences have been ones of depravity, own up to your misery by personalising your personal suffering. If you or your relations destroy and murder yourselves for morsels, I’m sorry for you. If you’re not Nigerian then stop expressing as facts what you don’t know or don’t superimpose the depravity you’re accustomed in your country on Nigerians, we’re not the same as you. Africans are not all the same.

We need not only learn how to maintain developments but also how to build upon them. The area around the structure now could do with better roads, some parks, restaurants etc if possible.

Facemask:
Cyprus is not abroad

Heh, heh, heh

The difference is black and white...

[img]https://img.rasset.ie/00182f79-800.jpg[/img]

[img]https://media.blacknews.ro/wp-content/uploads/1-14078-640x446.jpg[/img]


https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8EAE/production/_119962563_img_0084.jpg

The Interchange requires beatifying around the edges. If the design aims at creating an austere, rigid utilitarian-modern complex, playing with the idea of industrial architecture i.e. the steel frames, rivets, struts, metal cross beams and lattices then replacing those dirty earthy areas with stainless steel plates of some kind will improve the area greatly and uplift the entire infrastructure. On the other hand, improvements could aim for sophistication, in wich case areas around the Interchange requires tress, shrubs, pebble fountains and bright colours or several self-contained gardens with linking path ways.

BlackyOne:
The reporter is very beautiful, I wonder if she's single and would like for us to go on a date

Your relation?