There are a few reasons. The same guy who invented the design for the PWR that all commercial power plants are based on invented it to power submarines. The AEC liked it because it could produce plutonium as a byproduct and they needed plutonium. When they started making big versions of it to power cities, the guy who…

No problem, I'm always happy to spread the word about thorium. If you are interested in learning more, I suggest starting with Kirk Sorensen's TED talk or the tech talk he did at Google. Google will help you find these videos. I haven't watched this mini documentary that this Gizmodo article is talking about, but I…

Correction: for the next thousand years. There's a lot of thorium around. Also, while a uranium PWR "burns" about 1% of their fuel leaving the rest as dangerous waste, a LFTR burns very nearly 100% of its fuel and whats left over are useful and valuable radio-isotopes.

What architecture would you have them use instead?

Uranium is about as rare in the Earth's crust as platinum. Thorium is about as common as lead. Further, every "rare earth" mine also produces thorium as a byproduct. For the most part, it's currently discarded.

You might be able to support your argument if there were only two varieties, say for instance, Scotch whisky and Irish Whiskey; but that's not the case. There are countless varieties. If we were to stick with the colors metaphor, it would be like me asking you "would you like me to paint your house red or would you…

So, you're saying that the iPod "calssic," the iPod touch, and the iPod nano are all iPhones? You aren't making any sense.

Yeah, it was a new and fantastic idea, so now other people are copying it. This is not the original.

It was suggested that I make a venn diagram, so I did. See my reply to that other post.

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It's made in the style of Scotch whisky and has famously won blind tastings in Scotland. You can't call it "Scotch," but it's fair to call it award winning scotch style whisky.

Is color a different thing from colour? How about grey and gray? Humor and humour? (From some of the comments I'm reading, I'm guessing that some of the people reading this thread might not be familiar with that last one, but that's a discussion for another time.)

Take out the "almost" and you've nailed it.

God damn it Gizmodo... Scotch is whisky, as is Irish whisky as is bourbon as is rye whiskey as is Japanese "scotch" as is - shudder - Canadian whiskey...

Being FORCED to do something of a sexual nature that in other circumstances the girls might have chosen to do is actually pretty similar to rape. In fact, that could be used as a general definition for just about any sexual assault.

Oh man... You just made me have scary flashbacks to the coffee we had on the ship in the Navy. It's possible that it's better than Army coffee in the field, but if so it can't be by much...

Come on now, not all counter-top brewers are bad news. If you get a cone brewer with good temperature water that has a diffuser for the water and a thermal carafe instead of a hotplate, what you're doing is pretty similar to a melita or chemex.

No, I don't chew them up and swallow them. After they get too small I spit them out to avoid the mess. If you like coffee, give it a try exactly as I described with some good beans. It's a good way to know what you're in for if you're going to buy some whole bean coffee; though, tasting them like this actually gives…

Flavored beans are notoriously the beans that had some problem or another, so instead of throwing them away, the roaster adds chemical flavoring to cover whatever problems the beans had. If you do it the way I described, it just tastes of rich coffee. You certainly would want to spit them out before chewing them into…

I've been sucking on roasted coffee beans for more than ten years. Maybe even twenty. I just put 3 or 4 coffee beans in my mouth and let suck on them until they lose most of their flavor. After that, I bite them in half and suck on them some more until they lose their flavor again. Then, I bite them in half one more…