Ah, making fun of innocent people in Texas who are now dead. Very impressive. Do you get extra pleasant reactions to know that the death toll is rising, and best of all, that many missing are children? Your hate really isn't a good look.

Mr Dollar Ton, hates America so much he finds joy in innocent people including little children are dead in flash flooding.

Sad - I recall having some interesting conversations with you, now you are beneath contempt. Do have a wonderful carefree day.

What happened to the Mr Dollar Ton who used to write some insightful stuff? You might not appreciate the irony, but your attitude is pure 1941 Japanese imperial navy. You prove at least the first half of my point.

Right now you sound like I gave you booboo feelings,

Gweihir just enjoys disagreeing with me. He thinks I am _ignorant_. The under slashes are apparently important.

One does not have to be a NucE to understand that there is an issue that happens when you push materials to their limits. Part of safety should be not doing that.

And one of the issues with pushing things hard is the contempt that some have with regulations. The human factor. The pushing hard and contempt combo makes for issues.

It is my considered opinion that if there is going to be a future for nuclear generated electricity, it will be with reactor designs that are more akin to Toyota Corollas than Top fuel dragsters -to use a car analogy.

Yes, is there some reason you think I don't know the economies of scale. Most respectfully, I've spent a number of years working with NucE's, working with research reactors, did the whole daily dosimeter thing, and while you might think I have no idea of what I'm talking about, they respected my reasoning, if not all agreed with it. I can let the ones who agreed with me, know that despite their degrees and personal knowledge, they are as you put it _ignorant_ .

What I was doing was flow visualization to study what happens if cavitation causes an interruption in cooling fluid. Which by the way, becomes much more important at large scale. But you already knew that, amirite?

As I recall, Iraq had the 4th largest standing Army in the world at one point. And many thought they were going to decimate the weak lazy 'Murricans.

Cheeto is not the military. But there is a non-zero chance that the US is not the cowards you think we are. We do really need to differentiate between Orange Jesus and the military.

History is full of groups who believed we are lazy indolent cowards. They LOLe'd for a bit. They started wars with us, but the war was finished by the lazy indolent cowards.

And if we ever go to war with China, those Dozens of Nuclear reactors will have a lifetime of however long it takes to reach out and touch them.

I supported the paradigm of smaller reactors since about forever, while most people extolled the virtues of reactors for power being as big and centralized as possible.

Which makes for an irresistible target. I want my adversative to go that Big freaking reactor route - much cheaper to irradiate their land and take out as much power with as little expenditure as possible.

Now, looking at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnric.inl.gov%2Fdome%2F. that thing has a strong SL-1 vibe.

Now, micro-reactor also has a mental image of a little room with a tiny reactor in it, in real life it will have some size to it.

Other strange things though. The one unit is claimed to have a 5 year life. If you have to replace the reactor at that short an interval, just use it full time, and cut ties to the grid. They promote it as emergency power. Starting and stopping the reactor based on the grid just seems weird.

The other thing is we have to remember that just because it has micro in the name, it is still a lot of energy trapped inside a small space. Micro sounds like a tiny thing, safe as can be.

One of the issues with these things is people - sometimes the manufacturers and contractors - get pretty complacent, and often hostile to regulations. See the recent issues in the Virgil C. Summer nuclear expansion project in South Carolina.

It's still an energetic genie we have trapped in a containment vessel, despite the cute name.

I've also said it is feasible to build very safe nuclear power plants - just an engineering issue. But the Engineers aren't the ones pulling the strings here, it is bean counters and MBA's. Can they be held at bay? I often think that while the plants can be safe, it's only if humans aren't involved.

I guess we'll see here, I've probably pissed everyone off with my analysis! 8^)

The dollar being the reserve currency of choice is one thing, what really matters is that oil is traded around the world in dollars. That effectively expands the dollar economy by trillions, and is what allows more dollars to be printed without affecting inflation. Once countries stop selling or paying for oil in dollars, that's when the currency will crash and burn for real.

Are you like disagreeing with me or something?

Yes - Texas is in the United States, although every time a Democrat is elected president, they threaten to secede. It takes a bit of the wind out of their sails when the reply is "Okay by us!" Perhaps I need to explain a little deeper.

It is pretty obvious that especially in 2016 to 2000, that Mexico was not on Trump's Christmas card list. Remember how he was going to force Mexico to pay for his big beautiful wall, the wall that was going to keep the USA illegal immigrant free, as part go Making America Great Again? Keeping the Mexicans who are rapists out?

You do know that the screwworm issue caused the US to stop importing beef from Mexico? Seems like making that permanent would. be a great way to get back at those retreads from Mexico.

Yet here we are working with an "enemy" to allow them to export beef again.

Anything else?

We're living in something interesting when an effort that started in 1962 is attributed to Orange Jesus.

It's a reboot of the "Thanks Obama" meme, when everything was blamed on Obama.

It's how people like me can hold both Democrats and Republicans in utter contempt. Because they deserve that contempt.

The TDS conspiracy theorists have Old Orange Jesus running his fascist government decades ago when we started using this method to control screwworms.

I lay even odds that they'll be out protesting in a "Save the Screwworms" wave soon.

It is very strange too, that we're helping Mexico, so we can import Mexican beef again?

The profit margins when half of White collar America will be incredible.

Perhaps the CEO's might ask themselves "Who is going to buy our product?" People with no money don't buy very much. Ands is the .1 percent going to buy hundreds of thousands of your product?

Productivity did soar, by rather quite a bit. But companies did not use that increase in productivity to offer the same stuff with fewer employees, they used it to offer ever more complex products and services, while keeping them affordable.

While I'm not offended by the word, constant use of the word "fuck" tells us about both the fuckutterer's personality and their inability to frame a cogent argument.

What really is fascinating in these China discussions is how instantly they get swamped with people trying to shift the discussion to how the US is worse, or general posts desperate to change the argument.

All that said, I need to get Amimojo's take on this.