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OH, and happy birthday, Rob...but I thought it was last week?

That's one shit-chain of events, for sho. Heal up soon, man!

You need to go for the troll-owned business tax credit.

As well as tellin' dem bitchez to take shorter fkn' showers!

Providing further incentives for passive solar space and water heating in new and retrofit construction would do a hell of a lot towards reducing energy consumption, as well.

We also need to invest up to 60 B in rebuilding the grid itself to more efficiently get intermittently generated power to far off users. More efficient long distance DC transmission lines and higher voltage AC transmission would significantly reduce losses while load balancing the system nationally. Electric or compressed air vehicles, typically charged at night, would help level the load to take better advantage of intermittent renewable sources. In the end, thought, I think Victory in Afghanistan is much more important, however.

LOL

Hey Bill, where do I fall on the issue?

We have a winner!

It would appear that something French was thrust down that poser's pie hole shortly thereafter....

feel free to enligthen me then - i've heard the term before but don't know much, other than that they're supposed to penetrate body-armor - what is such ammo, how is it different from other types, and why/why not shoudl it be banned? PM sent LOL

As much as I love to insult you at times, you do come up with some fuckin' funny shit....

Fair enough.

Read the responses to any news story about the shooting. Tea baggers are not only completely unapologetic; they rail against even the slightest criticism of their violent rhetoric and actions to date. Inability to be influenced, even by extreme events, is a reliable diagnostic indicator of sociopathy.

Victory for the locals

Still replying to this nobody's every post LOL.

How does Chernobyl speak to the future of nuclear power? The lesson that we should not build reactors like Chernobyl or TMI, for that matter, has been well learned at this point.

If you think I'm going to defend the clusterfuck that was the American nuclear program.... Fortunately, we have at least one functioning model that we can copy. I don't have a bullshit scale for comparison, but suffice to say that the anti nuke movement has been no slouch in the misinformation department. BTW, 20% of the American grid is supplied by nuclear. It never went away.

Probably about as much as you two hang on and respond to my posts, and sheeit, and I'm not even famous or good looking.... "Where's my COP KILLER answer!!!!!!??????" LOL

Oh...OK, Chernobyl was 'covered up'. My recollection was that it's been one of the most scrutinized, studied, and publicized industrial accidents, if not THE MOST, in history. The 'huge areas' claim is pure crap. Sorry. TMI produced...no cancer deaths. None. The New Yorker has a very good article (within the past year) on the evacuation and closure of Uravan, a U mining town in CO, that covers a lot of the mis information put out there by the anti nuke movement.

Think Palin's a nobody? Well, that nobody (despite her not having a snowballs chance for any nomination) probably just handed the presidency to Obama in 2012. This political assassination, quite rare in American politics, particularly against congressmen, will loom large in voters minds during the coming months. That is my prediction. We'll see.

Gang-rape is always smart and funny, right? Democrat violent rhetoric = Smart and funny Republican violent rhetoric - Mui Mal! UM, Sandra is an comedian, not a politician or political pundit. That you're calling her a Democrat highlights the complete lack of GOP condemnation of Palin's lunacy. Both side should be condemning Palin's antics. Only one side is, however. Palin's a vote getter...sociopathy and fascism are apparently OK with the GOP as long as they get some votes. And yes, that statement when applied to Ms. Palin is funny. It's classic political satire - turning Palin's brand of bullshit back on her. I realize that such parody isn't picked up by people afflicted with conservative brain syndrome, however. I'm just glad I don't have to spend my life walking down that narrow, poorly lit intellectual corridor. Oh, and you can do your own googling on cop killer bullets, you fucking lump.

Did you even bother to read the article? I wasn't implying that was a chief reason - one of many. But yea - it is a factor because the French have folks in leadership positions who actually understand the technology and can discuss it with their people - and the people appaear to appreciate and respect folks with knowledge about the subject. Thus they understand the tradeoffs and are making fully informed decisions. OK, sorry. The French do seem to have a far superior public policy making process, considering the undeniable superiority of both their grid, public transportation, and health care system over our clusterfuck attempts at the same.

the French program is no cleaner than anybody else, except the Russian program of course. The French haven't had a major problem but they had numerous small leaks that were hidden from the public, like everybody else. In term of the centralization needed to control the risk involved in a a nuclear program, civilian programs have little to envy to military programs. Climate change is not a valid reason to develop a nuclear program that entails risks much greater than renewable energy like solar, wind, hydrothermal, etc ...Especially, that nuclear centrals need river water to cool, which was notoriously a problem during the 2003 heat wave when river waters became so warm (due to heat wave and cooling reactors) as to threaten river ecosystems. Since summer heat waves are supposed to ~double in frequency over the past, it seems to be something we take into account. Finally, the costs involved in nuclear (including liability) are likely greater than that of clean energy programs as shown by having few private investors willing to invest in developing plants. Considering that TMI and Chernobyl, the worst nuclear accidents in history, could hardly be classified as major disasters, what have been the actual consequences of these 'numerous small leaks?'. I'd wager...little to nothing. Legal costs for nuclear are an American problem related to our combined commercial/military program and are completely solvable. Not an argument against the technology, sorry: the French have proven that already. Intermittent power generation is fine, but only if combined with a steady power source. When one considers the life cycle cost of wind generation, it's far from 'free' - windmills last less than 20 years and have an enormous amount of embodied energy, particularly when one considers decommissioning them (they are typically left up to rot, of course...taking up a valuable land and wind generation space in addition to being an eyesore). Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it. Distributed passive solar water and building heat is awesome, PV is pretty much bullshit when you consider the life cycle and resource limitation of the materials involved to make the panels. It's great for wealthy off the grid homes, remote weather stations, and satellites, and calculators, though. That leaves hydro - yeah, we needn't go into the environmental/life cycle issues there at this point, I hope. This is all assuming a robust, comprehensive conservation program, of course. Visiting the oil sands pretty much sold me on nuclear for life. We need transport powered by the grid, plain and simple.

Yup. Obviously, the 'prestige of engineers', and easily measureable and repeatable...um...would that be a quantity or quality?...anyway, I'm sure that's the only reason why 80% of French power is generated by nukes. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the efficacy of that choice, in terms of efficiency, cost, and environmental concerns. It's all about how the French 'admire engineers more than lawyers'. If engineers weren't as respected, France would clearly be burning coal. Yor posts are usually be less of a stretch than this, Jim.