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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
A new yearbook photo has come out in Virginia
, this time showing Tim Kaine (who was Hillary's pick for Vice President).
It's absolutely horrifying.
It shows him sitting with other students as part of the.... friendship club
The friendship club? That's sick! You should have put that under a spoiler block!
this friendship club sounds like liberal code word for something disgustingly liberal
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverHonestly, it's kind of amazing that while Northam was being a disgusting racist in college Tim Kaine was being the human equivalent of a Care Bear or Pony from MLP.
It's just so ridiculously wholesome
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Feb 7th 2019 at 6:22:46 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangAOC is entirely on the right track regarding fission power at least, and I respect her more for it. I understand that people are misinformed on both sides of the issue. I recommend checking out Sustainable Energy Without Hot Air. It's well sourced and cuts right through the bullshit. To simplify, fission power is inefficient if you take the whole supply chain into account. It is also, in the long term, dangerous, and non-renewable.
Finally, the sitting president defunded the Department of Energy, which was in dire straits to begin with. It takes clever, conscientious, parsimonious people to handle this. The US govt. is not reliably any of those things.
Thorium's great, but since it can't be weaponized, that research gets no funding. And it's finite. Fusion remains a metaphor for itself, a literal pipe dream, a bubble of plasma that you need to spend huge energy keeping together, because it bursts at the slightest touch. And deuterium and tritium are also finite on Earth.
x5 If MLP has taught me anything, it's that Friendship is Magic and hence Tim Kaine is a witch!!
Edited by nightwyrm_zero on Feb 7th 2019 at 6:50:59 AM
Even if this is true (which is a big if, one poorly designed website isn't very convincing) that doesn't mean that we should move away from nuclear power right now.
Considering how the Vox article I posted rather clearly establishes that nuclear power is critical to pursuing 100% renewable energy in a (relatively) cheap manner, I'm going to have to repeat my position. I do not consider her stance on nuclear power to be wise.
Just because moving away from nuclear power may be a net-positive sometime in the future does not mean that it's a net-positive now.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Feb 7th 2019 at 7:03:20 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangAren’t the current generation of reactors significantly safer and generate sigificantly less waste than the older generation Light Water Reactors?
And to be fair, the amount of actual waste product generated by the standard nuclear power plant is actually significantly less than a standard coal plant.
Heck, we already have the technology to create reactors that can literally run on nuclear waste.
They estimate that if all 270,000 metric tons of existing high-level nuclear waste went into their reactors, they could produce enough electricity to power the world for 72 years, even assuming projected increases in global energy demand.
How can this be? Conventional reactors, fueled by pellets of solid uranium oxide, use only 3 percent or 4 percent of uranium’s energy so the waste remains radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. But because Dewan’s reactor uses uranium in a liquid rather than solid form, it extracts 96 percent of the energy.
The liquid fuel has another advantage. If a molten salt reactor loses electric power (as happened at the Fukushima plant following the tsunami), the fuel automatically drains into an auxiliary tank and freezes solid in a few hours. Hence, no meltdown.
Edited by megaeliz on Feb 7th 2019 at 7:31:54 AM
OK, hang one. First off, kudos on citing Sustainable Energy Without Hot Air by David Mac Kay, a very readable and useful guide on how much energy is available from various alternative sources of energy, relative to average energy consumption in Great Britain and other coountries (a much more accessable version is available for free here
.
However, I've read SEWHA, in particular his chapter on nuclear energy sources, and that is emphatically not what he concludes. He is in fact a proponent of nuclear energy, and documents that we have enough uranium and/or thorium to last us at higher than current consumption levels a thousand years if not more. Building and decommissioning nuclear facilities is difficult and expensive (it is by far more expensive across the lifetime of the reactor than the fuel itself), and the fuel does present a challenge in terms of storage and safety, but nevertheless he concludes that these barriers are surmountable using current technology.
That said, I dont fault AOC too much for leaving out nuclear energy. Right now the main priority is to gain public support for the idea of using sustainable technology to create jobs and grow the economy while protecting the climate (ie, the so called "Green Deal"), and the specific details will be negotiated later. True, alternative energy is not price competitive without either nuclear energy or importing large amounts of electricity from solar overseas (in which the main barrier is the lack of efficient storage technology), but that's a case that can be made later.
Edited by DeMarquis on Feb 7th 2019 at 9:09:39 AM
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
x2 Yeah, AOC's plan means that Air Travel within the United States will not be needed. Not a ban on airplanes, or a ban on air travel, especially outside the States (because you can't build a railroad to Europe or Japan from the USA, at least not without a lot of hassle with foreign, somewhat hostile powers).
As of right now, we do not have the technology to build commercial aircraft that can run on non-polluting power sources. Petroleum fuel is just too energy-dense for its weight: nothing else can compete. That may change in the future but for now, if we want commercial flight, we need gasoline.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"This is why we need to get a manned flight to Mars, so we can discover the Prothean cache there.
All joking aside, I like the idea of no longer needing current aircraft in order to travel long-distance around the US in a timely fashion.
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The Green New Deal sounds like the first half of what I want to see from next-gen politicians like AOC:
In a perfect world, those would be the responsibilities of liberals and conservatives respectively, but the Republicans are f*cknuts so Dems have to do it all.
She issued an exciting new proposal, and it's pretty cool but with an obvious stupid part. Now it's on the rest of the team to go "Ahem, I like it but let me explain to you why getting rid of nuclear power is counterproductive to the rest of this."
Edited by TobiasDrake on Feb 7th 2019 at 3:12:18 AM
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