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Comment Re:No actually not (Score 1) 257

Except both solar and wind would require storage. The same storage that could/would be used in electric cars. We don't have enough rare earth materials to product the batteries for the EV push as it is. The solution isn't to then try and spin up solar and wind that would then also compete for the same raw materials.

Pretty sure that dissipating huge amounts of heat could be used for good purpose if we wanted. Like desalination of water.

Comment Re:Unproven and will take too long (Score 1) 362

because you made an assertion that was either a lie or based in blatant, monumental ignorance

I think I'll pass on furthering a conversation that someone who can't read and who doesn't start off by calling people either liars or ignorant.

But using a sample size of n does not prove your point unless n is every reactor ever built.

I wish you a lovely day as well.

Comment Re:Unproven and will take too long (Score 1) 362

And what caused the Darlington cost overrun? Oh, Chernobyl, and the additional paperwork and review that were put in place... and this was over 40 years ago.

Hinkley had seriously trivial amounts of overrun. The EC estimated it would be 24.5b, and looks like it it will be 21-22b when completed. Of course others made different estimates.

That is the best you could do? Let me save you the trouble. So you are suggesting that Ross was correct when he said Plants ALWAYS take much longer to build and go way over budget? Really? Ok.

Comment Re:Pariah state (Score 2) 107

It takes 6 years to get a nuclear reactor up and running today. If they want to hit that 80% by 2030 they have to move really fast. That means picking sites, getting all the paperwork done and approved (including any NIMBY issues), and start construction in the next 19 months. Doable, yes. Not sure if that is very likely however.

Comment Re: Today's joke: (Score 4, Informative) 199

The president typically does have limited influence on the economy, but I would suggest this one is different. Biden enacted more executive orders in his first year than any presidency in recent history, and all ones that very do much stretch into (and arguably) beyond the original intended scope that executive orders were intended to have. Some of those orders directly harmed our ability to produce oil in this country which is a major part of the inflation index. He has appointed 6 new people into the Department of Commerce (Gina Raimondo, etc), 8 into the Department of Energy (Jennifer Granholm, etc), 8 into the Department of Health and Human Services (Rachel Levine, etc), 6 into the Department of Labor, and 7 into the Department of the Treasury (including Janet Yellen). Yes, those appointments have a significant impact on our economic policies.

Jan 20, 2021: "Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis", Section 4(b) made it illegal to drill for oil in Artic waters and the Bering Sea. Section 4(c) did similar to 1.5 million acres in northern Alaska. Section 6 killed the Keystone XL pipeline. Section 7 revoked (like EO 13783) or re-enabled a lot of the red tape that makes finding, getting authorization, and implementing new oil sites much longer and much more expensive.

Feb 17, 2021: "Executive Order on the Revocation of Executive Order 13801", effectively killing apprenticeships which allowed many Americans to get high paying jobs without incurring large education loans.

Feb 24, 2021: "Executive Order on the Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions", revoked EO 13772 which set the US financial system priorities, revoked EO 13828 which was about prioritizing getting people off welfare and into self-sufficiency (I guess prioritizing keeping people on welfare and dependent on government handouts was important to him). Revoked EO 13924, which radically changed the federal government's stance on COVID-19, and no longer prioritized economic recovery.

April 26, 2021: "Executive Order on Worker Organizing and Empowerment", encourages and promotes Unions, and dissolves the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board. This emboldened the unions at our docks, which lead to strikes, the inability to bring more people in to work the dock loader/unloaders, which eventually led to the backlog and supply chain issues that we now face, including the inability for building supplies so that new homes can be built, which led us into the current housing crisis.

I could go on. There are 12 more months of executive orders just like this that has had harmful repercussions on our economy, energy sector, inflation, housing and the stock market. Feel free to get informed. Then vote for honest change.

Comment Re:Wiki = one of most honorable institutions ever. (Score 1) 140

Seems you have an axe to grind with wikipedia. Apparently they didn't find your edits to be neutral or unbiased, and now you think they are the devil incarnate. I would suggest a simpler explanation is you are far left, and anything not that far left is not left enough for you.

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