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by opo 5y ago
This video of Lukashenko complaining in an interview that Putin had promised to make him a colonel in the Russian army is pretty strange. The interviewer can't stop laughing and Lukashenko starts getting upset: https://www.
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by opo 5y ago
>...It "goes back" to Nixon needing a tool to criminalize the anti-war and racial justice movement. The alleged Ehrlichman quote is brought up every single time drug prohibition is mentioned but it should be taken with at least
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by opo 5y ago
China is also planning on building about 228 nuclear plants to provide 250 GW of power. It looks like they are very serious about de-carbonizing their grid. https://www.energymonitor.ai/sectors/power/weekly-data-c
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by opo 5y ago
>The overwhelming problem is the outrageous cost, The cost of consumer rooftop solar is as high or higher than nuclear, do you also think that cost is outrageous and we should abandon it? >...and that they don't start displacing
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by opo 5y ago
>...We’re self sufficient in the sense that we produce more power than we use. It is probably a bit more clear to most people to just say that you produce more power than you use, rather than say you are fully self sufficient. >...you
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by opo 5y ago
>Our home is fully self sufficient using rooftop solar, How much battery storage do you have? What does that cost these days?
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by opo 5y ago
Just a friendly note - both you, and the person you are responding too, are breaking the guidelines of this site: >Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that"
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by opo 5y ago
For typical nuclear power plants the land usage isn't anywhere close to what you claim: >...A typical 1,000-megawatt nuclear facility in the United States needs a little more than 1 square mile to operate. NEI says wind farms requ
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by opo 5y ago
>The cost of solar is now much better than hydrocarbon. Kind of misleading to make a blanket statement like that since it obviously depends on what you are comparing. Consumer rooftop solar was, is, and will likely continue to be much m
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by opo 5y ago
>...it still goes down a lot either for servicing (planned or unplanned) or because of lack of cooling water Unclear what you are basing that on. Nuclear energy has by far the highest capacity factor of any energy source and its not eve
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by opo 5y ago
>...not an admission of wrongdoing. The admission of wrongdoing came from the CEO: >...Two days after the incident, Munoz issued an additional statement, apologizing and promising that such an incident would never again occur on a Uni
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by opo 5y ago
>Settling doesn't mean they were in the wrong. I'll take the CEO's word on this one: >...Munoz issued an additional statement, apologizing and promising that such an incident would never again occur on a United aircraft
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by opo 5y ago
>...Either those hold true and for some reason these people who have invested heavily in ice distribution are for some reason deciding to stay home on a day of the highest demand because they can't increase the going rate more than
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by opo 5y ago
>...but instead the Iranian revolution and Iraqi invasion of Iran The US suffered much more in 1979 from the disruption of the oil from Iran than other countries that also relied on this oil. It would be wrong to ignore the role the gov
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by opo 5y ago
>...so I'm not sure shortages and hoardng are fair to ascribe to the policy. Before all these price gouging laws, in natural disasters there used to be marginal producers (people with a pickup truck etc.) who would load up on some s
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by opo 5y ago
>...It is a concept in capitalism Throughout all recorded history those who have been well connected with those in power have unfairly benefited from that. This isn't something that only came about in modern times. It is only in m
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by opo 5y ago
In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can be recycled (as it is in France) which would reduce the amount of waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste Newer reactor designs would also make it possi
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by opo 5y ago
>...Seems like if the market just naturally achieved efficiency, you'd grow water intensive crops in places that were not constrained on the resource. What does preferential treatment by the government have to do with the market? I
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by opo 5y ago
The alleged Ehrlichman quote is brought up often but it should be taken with at least some skepticism. The surviving members of his family don't believe he made the quote: >...Multiple family members of Ehrlichman (who died in 1999)
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by opo 5y ago
>...It is really only a tiny minority that actually practically need privacy rights Just about everyone needs privacy rights and most care about those rights for themselves. Unfortunately many are very willing to sacrifice other people&
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by opo 5y ago
>...At the time, interracial marriage was still illegal in most of the south. Not exactly - by the time the movie came out the anti-miscegenation laws had recently been overturned. The decision in Loving v. Virginia was announced on June
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by opo 5y ago
>- Ronald Reagan For those unaware, the quote is actually from Stalin.
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by opo 5y ago
>...(not sure, but Trump also probably signed an extension of the "PATRIOT" act, and Biden is next.) No Trump did not extend it: >...After President Donald Trump threatened to veto the bill, the House of Representatives issu
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by opo 5y ago
>...However, employment contracts still stipulate things like any and all intellectual property created by the employee on company equipment is automatically owned by the company. Some contracts are even more restrictive and give compani
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by opo 5y ago
>> In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can be recycled >Waste is not "recycled" it's reprocessed. Recycling is what you do with materials from renewable energy sources. There is no need for you to try and
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by opo 5y ago
In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can be recycled (as it is in France) which would reduce the amount of waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste Soon it will be possible to use most of the wa
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by opo 5y ago
Cost should always be a consideration, but when you see people conveniently ignore some costs and focus on others, it does a disservice to the goal of decarbonizing the grid and it isn't clear what they are really trying to accomplish.
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by opo 5y ago
With the supply chain problems, prices have gone up - sometimes quite a bit. I saw this article: >...Container shipping rates from China to the United States have scaled fresh highs above $20,000 per 40-foot box as rising retailer order
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by opo 5y ago
Back in college (undergrad not grad school). Even if you aren't currently attending college, these days there are plenty of universities who put courses on-line (MIT Open Courseware, etc.)
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>...economics is mostly about justifying current systems and getting paid by the wealthy. My advice would be to take an economics class.

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