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by opo 10y ago
>"What is it with "capacity factors" that seems to confuse people? It's a relatively simple concept, but all over the net I see people turn it into big mystical numerological nonsense." Of course people are inter
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by opo 10y ago
>...That would be a really powerful argument for nuclear if people didn't already know that. Yes some people know that, but obviously many people don't or politicians wouldn't shut down all their nuclear power plants while
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by opo 10y ago
The world will need base load power for a long time. Yes, there is a lot of research into grid storage, but except for pumped hydro we are a long way away from that being a major component of the power system. (For example, Gates is inves
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by opo 10y ago
>Chernobyl was never state of the art... That is being pretty charitable. A plant like Chernobyl would have been illegal to build in any other country.
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by opo 10y ago
>...To be clear: nuclear is not the perfect solution, is not a renewable energy, and will have to be replaced by something else in the future. While we may want to replace nuclear with a different power source in the future, there is eno
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by opo 10y ago
Right now nuclear waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel: "...Fast react
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by opo 10y ago
There is little evidence for this except the word of Smedley Butler. Butler had been court-martialed by Hoover and after losing a senate race wrote and gave speeches about his book "War is a Racket". This was the person who wrot
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by opo 10y ago
>...In the U.S., I can't think of even a member of the cabinet being tried; It will be hard to beat the Nixon administration for convictions: 2 attorney generals, chief of staff, 2 white house counsels, undersecretary of transporta
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by opo 10y ago
"Coal plants are the nation’s top source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the primary cause of global warming. In 2011, utility coal plants in the United States emitted a total of 1.7 billion tons of CO21. A typical coal plant gener
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by opo 10y ago
No, anything that has residual radiation will be entombed in clay/rock/etc. The total amount of material and radiation from this will be trivial compared to coal waste. "...Nearly every major river in the Southeast has one o
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by opo 10y ago
No, even including Chernobyl (an inherently dangerous design that would have been illegal to build anywhere except the Soviet Union) nuclear has been far, far safer than coal. As mikeash pointed out in another comment, "Put another wa
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by opo 10y ago
I think you will agree there is no reason why we need to throw away 95+% of the fuel that is left in high level nuclear waste and bury it in the ground for thousands of years. There are better options. >...I am not an expert but many se
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by opo 10y ago
>...The industry has literally been saying this for more than 50 years. Yes a breeder reactor was one of the first electricity-generating nuclear power plants, but that doesn't mean we need to rush. We have enough storage capacity
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by opo 10y ago
The original poster was talking about the possibility of human error (particularly the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station) so it was not "a little dishonest" to focus on the deaths from power sources that one could attribute to
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by opo 10y ago
Right now waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of waste. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel: "...Fast reactors can &
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by opo 10y ago
>...That mistrust is based on historical facts What historical facts would those be? Historically nuclear has been about the safest form of mass power when looking at accidents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_
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by opo 10y ago
>…I've spoken to many right-libertarians, and they all self-identified as right-wing and libertarians, and don't reject it. This might be an American vs European difference. I have known plenty of libertarians and I can't
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by opo 10y ago
What is wrong with embiggen? It's a perfectly cromulent word.
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by opo 10y ago
>...It is a perfectly viable lable when you want to talk about "US-style right-wing libertarianism" - most people instantly understand roughly what that refers to, so the label serves its purpose. Obviously not. People have a
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by opo 10y ago
>...I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I thought I was pretty clear: "Those who talk about "US-style right-wing libertarianism" should realize that this is a too simplistic label as Rothbard tried to say de
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by opo 10y ago
No, it more accurate to say that the "Left and Right - A Journal of Libertarian Thought" was an attempt by libertarians to highlight the fact that the one dimensional left/right line is obviously a very incomplete model of po
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by opo 10y ago
There is a huge difference between top marginal rates and actual effective tax rates. Since 1950, federal taxes have consumed 17 to 20 percent of GDP in taxes. Most economists are opposed to very high marginal tax rates though due to the
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by opo 10y ago
An optometry program lasts four years, so that is equivalent to the schooling needed for an MD. (After schooling there is a state and national examination in order to get the license.)
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by opo 10y ago
>I never said anything about anarchism, fascism, communism, etc. I never said you did. What I said was "...Before attacking others beliefs as delusional (and then creating a ridiculous straw man argument) you might want to spend a
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by opo 10y ago
That is quite the combination of ignorance and arrogance. Before attacking others beliefs as delusional (and then creating a ridiculous straw man argument) you might want to spend a little time trying to understand how their beliefs differ
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by opo 10y ago
>...Bezos runs the business around cash flow while minimizing income. This is not really the full picture. For example: >...Project Goldcrest, which is still in place, uses a series of complex intercompany contracts to transfer intan
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by opo 10y ago
>...Except we completely stiffed Russia, “stiffed” would imply we didn’t pay a debt we had previously agreed upon. Obviously that is not the case. As to why the Soviet Union or eastern Europe was not part of the Marshall Plan: >...A
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by opo 10y ago
>...It's like the open plan office idea. Great in the academic literature, but terrible in practice. The open floor plans are terrible in practice, but is there actually any academic literature that says otherwise? For example: >
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by opo 10y ago
>...but in the US specifically domestic tax reform to shift the burden from upper income earners to lower-to-middle-income workers over time, particularly the enormous shift under Reagan, is more specifically the problem Simply not true.
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by opo 10y ago
>... (inventors of the mouse, GUI, and object oriented programming), Xerox PARC had a number of notable inventions and they created the Alto computer which had a bitmapped screen with the desktop metaphor, but they did not invent the mou

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