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by manfredo 7y ago
Yes but the point is converting coal plants to burn methane - even if fracking results in some leaked methane - is still a significant net gain.
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by manfredo 7y ago
Solar and wind needs to be coupled with a miraculous improvement in energy storage to be feasible. Currently, solar energy would be better called "natural gas supplemented by solar".
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by manfredo 7y ago
Institute carbon pricing and nuclear will be competitive. Solar can only deliver 40-50% of overall demand because the rest of the energy consumption happens at night. If the carbon costs are high enough, solar + gas will be more expensive t
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by manfredo 7y ago
This is a bit of a special case, though. The decision to relinquish the nuclear weapons was directly a consequence of the end of the apartheid regime. In a sense, the apartheid government didn't give up it's weapons, so much as it
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by manfredo 7y ago
> I'd like to know what kinds of societal discourse is being held back when there are laws prohibiting disparagement or intimidation of people based on their membership in a group This depends highly on what is being included under
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by manfredo 7y ago
This is not really that significant of a result, given that the measure of poverty they used is an income threshold. In other words, the study result found that supplementing income with direct cash payments reduced the percentage of people
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by manfredo 7y ago
> I’m saying that their effective tax, as a percentage of their wealth is, much lower than everyone else. Income tax is collected as a percentage of people's income , I'm not sure why you're referencing wealth here. And j
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Relative to their wealth, Rich people, effectively, do not even pay income tax. The bulk of income tax is paid by the middle class. Does that seem fair to you? Where are you getting this information? From what I can find, the top 20% o
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by manfredo 7y ago
The Soviets weren't the ones conducting the studies I'm talking about. The Chernobyl incident was one of thr most studied industrial disasters of all time, and many Western organizations also studied the disasters and Drew up esti
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by manfredo 7y ago
The Disney reboot retconned all the lore established by the decades of games, comics, and books of the extended universe. To be fair, the extended universe was a mess and had plotholes galore. On the other hand it makes it hard to empathize
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by manfredo 7y ago
The book consists of interviews with people who experienced the events. It's oral history, it even says so explicitly in the title. You have yet to address question: why is an oral history compiled by someone with a vested interest in
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So an oral history book written by a private author is more credible than the work of health experts?
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by manfredo 7y ago
You initially claimed that there are no effects of puberty blockers besides delaying puberty. This is not the case. You seem to be conflating support for the usage of puberty blockers with the idea that puberty blockers are safe and free of
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by manfredo 7y ago
You originally claimed that "All a puberty blocker does is delay the onset of puberty" and that they "have no permanent effects that require reversal". From the pediatrics journal I cited: > Pubertal suppression is no
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by manfredo 7y ago
And yet, most reports place the lives lost due to the Fukishima disaster between 0-200 people - which zero being the most common estimate. Ironically, the decision to close nuclear plants following the Fukishima meltdown likely lead to more
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by manfredo 7y ago
The figure of 1 million is given by Greenpeace which is not regarded to be even remotely authoritative. Even the figure of 6,000 is disputed. The WHO produced a figure of 4,000 [1]. In particular these estimates were projections about futur
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by manfredo 7y ago
The waste storage problem is solved: bury it underground in an area with no groundwater. The reason why no permanent storage has been built in the US (they have been built in Finland and in Asia) is because there's actually so little w
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by manfredo 7y ago
This isn't an issue with nuclear power, but rather a symptom of a political system focused on short-term goals when the nuclear industry fundamentally operates on the scale of decades at least. Furthermore the problems with nuclear pow
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by manfredo 7y ago
What even is "Big Tech"? I feel like it's a buzzword coined by news outlets to vilify the tech industry. "Big Tech" companies like Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook are in entirely different industries: Electro
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by manfredo 7y ago
No permanent side effects? Risks of puberty blockers include compromise bone development, underdeveloped genitals, and infertility. I don't know where you're claiming that they're the "opposite of unproved and ill-advise
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by manfredo 7y ago
Solar and wind beat out nuclear for generation without regard to intermittent production. If you counting the cost of actually replacing fossil fuels, that has to take into storage and retrieval costs which drastically increase cost well be
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Sure, but the problem is most demand occurs when intermittent sources do not produce energy. This plan really aims for about 40% green energy not 95% green energy. Hence why Germany's emissions have remained flat despite large increase
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by manfredo 7y ago
Planned obsolescence is not at all unintentional, it is highly deliberate. Every product needs to plan for it's intended lifespan, from phones to nuclear reactors. Planned obsolescence and what this contractor did are not on any sort o
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No they are not. One is intentionally, secretly, and illegally introducing flaws to defraud an employer. The other is managing tradeoffs based on technical constraints.
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I'm not sure I follow. You're counting nation-wide petroleum production of these countries against 1/20th of the oil production of one US state, which only produces a fraction of the 15 million barrels of oil produced daily i
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Deliberately introducing errors in one's work to defraud an employer is not remotely close to planned obsolescence. Planned obsolescence is not the deliberate introduction of malfunctions, it is the engineering tradeoff between longevi
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The point is, leaking any amount of oil is sufficient to exceed the petroleum leaks of many countries that have no petroleum production whatsoever. > Isn't your comment an equal slight of hand? The article isn't about total l
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by manfredo 7y ago
"Leaked more than many countries do in a year" is an interesting way of expressing the scale. Many countries have little to no petroleum industry. > Or, for another kind of context, the researchers point out that this Ohio well
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by manfredo 7y ago
This doesn't hold up to scrutiny, since the opposite situation would also occur. People are also nearly 3 times as like for all of your female bosses to have been good, and exclusively had bad male bosses. If fact, if 10% of bosses are
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Dictionary definition. There's no opinion about it. There are a variety of dictionaries with different definitions. Some of them define it as a country where the majority of political rulers are women. As explained above, some cou

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