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The dangerous fission products have a half life of about 30 years, so they need confinement for maybe 500 years. Concrete can do that easily. But when the fake environmentalists discovered nuclear power as their new cause around 1980, and
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> Nuclear... would require billions of investment and take decades to complete. As opposed to the cheap and quick Energiewende , which has been going on for a mere three decades by now, cost just 150 billion euro by 2015 and is expected
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> What is the part of nuclear reactors which takes so long to build? The red tape.
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Isn't it amazing how short politicians' memories are? It's been only 30 years since the GDR (German "Democratic" Republic, aka East Germany) collapsed. In the GDR, all rent was regulated to a "fair" lev
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Yes, some things have such a low marginal price that metering is pointless, for example unlimited coffee refills at a restaurant. That doesn't mean it's free, you still have to pay for the cup. And that was Rod Adams' take
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> John Kogut, a Long Island man who after an 18-hour interrogation falsely confessed How is this not considered torture? How is the confession of a sleep deprived and hence mentally impaired man even valid? Why are the feral cops who i
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No friends.
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Yes I am. Seriously, how is this even hard to understand? Imagine yourself in the situation: you are 20, you go to jail. You are 40, now exonerated. You have no friends, no skills, no job, no money. You are a failure. It's unfixa
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Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. The difference is small, though. But context matters. I'm really objecting to the weird notion that miscarriages of justice are sort-of okay, as long as they don't result in capital
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> Life imprisonment has the huge benefit of being undoable That's a blatant lie. If an innocent man ends up in jail at the age of 20 and it "is undone" when he's 40, his life is destroyed anyway: No career, no savin
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How do we know? Are you referring to the Borax experiments or the tests on EBR-II? How are they relevant to an AGR?
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Looks like this guy really wants to build a vapor core reactor, but hasn't found a suitable problem it would solve. If turning CO2 into graphite was a viable idea at all (it isn't, but that's besides the point), doing it pure
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> We need to reduce global carbon emissions really quickly... I've been hearing this argument for at least 15 years now, and it's always followed by the assertion that nuclear plants are slow to build while solar and wind are q
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It's nearly impossible to mine lanthanides in the west. The problem is that they are invariably associated with thorium, and thorium has been declared (in 1980 or thereabouts) to be a source material for nuclear explosives, even thoug
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The 80km (actually 50mi) evacuation requirement was made up by the complete idiot Gregory Jaczko, at the time, unfortunately, chairman of the NRC, but still stupid enough to think that zircalloy can burn in air. Yes, this stupid and corrup
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It's politics that prevents research into improved nuclear, and it's politics that prevents the waste problem from being solved. Politics, namely the structure of licensing fees, is also the reason why NPPs come in one size only,
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A ridiculous idea. The article doesn't go into technical details, but it appears this boils down to a compact proton accelerator. Those protons could be smashed into heavy metal atoms, which will release high energy neutrons. Those n
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It's more than hope, it's engineering. Future generations don't need to figure anything out, because the last two generations already did. The Integral Fast Reactor was a reality in 1994, including a reprocessing scheme and
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I'll repeat for the reflexive downvoters: Solar panels will work in moonlight if and only if you can make fire from moonlight with a magnifying glass. The answer depends on how good a mirror the moon is. It calls for a real experime
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> I can cover the entire surface of the earth with solar panels to harvest the moon light Are you sure about that? First off, take an off-the-shelf solar panel, point it at the moon in the middle of the night. You get a grand total of
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A "considerable amount", huh? Can you please verify it for us and put a number on it? How much is it over the lifetime of a typical family car?
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> but tries to provide many of the rights That's the rub, it doesn't. An honest statement would be: "We give you the source code not to grant you any rights, but just so you can fix our bugs for free."
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And rodents (that's rats and mice, you know, the critters cats hunt) with the extinction of 75 species, same source. Maybe it's complicated and pretending that pests and song birds are exactly the same doesn't help?
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> junk food - burgers, sliced bread, candy bars Sliced bread?! What isn't junk food in your estimation?
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Minerals (aka dirt) are not nutrients. Carbohydrates, fat and proteins are basic nutrients.
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> cats are a blight on ecosystems, killing countless [...] small mammals They do. Cats kill mice . And while domestic cats may have some difficulty killing rats, they definitely make life uncomfortable for rats. That's why the E
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Never mind iron; we'd probably find evidence of the mining of oil, coal, lignite, peat. More likely, we wouldn't find oil.
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Don't know if they are hiring, but they are certainly working on energy: http://flibe-energy.com/ http://moltexenergy.com/ http://www.elysiumindustries.com/
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You also don't have a right to not be arrested in America. Why would you think that? They can arrest you for any reason at any time if you are on their land. If you're outside America, you don't have a right not to be blown
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Open Source is not Free Software. It never was. Open Source is the development model where you open up your source so more people can see and debug it. In practice, it could mean you write commercially important software by employing a t

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