The nuke lobby has been touting decreased costs for 20 years. And then Votgle 3/4 doubled their cost projections to $14 billion and Areva wishes their EPR was doing that good. No one is interested in more rosy promises. Which is why no one is building nukes without complete government underwriting.

Maglites aren’t really flashlights so much as nightsticks that can emit light.

Maglites aren’t really flashlights so much as nightsticks that can emit light.

You seem awfully smug for someone who also seems awfully ignorant. I am not stating opinions. These are not my ideas. This is what is being built in America: renewables supplemented by gas peaker plants. You can argue with me about intermittancy, LCOE, or whatever you want, but it doesn’t matter, because (again) I’m…

You seem to not understand. Reactors are SO expensive, even when you average it out over 40 years you’re still better off doing something else.

Did you actually read that? Because I did and it doesn’t even dispute my statements, which are actual facts and come from reports from the USAF, not some blogger. Here’s some more facts, not opinion pieces, about the only time the A-10 went against someone with an actual army:

10 is okay with regular (every 6-12 months) steam cleanings. Anything beyond 10 years and the carpet will probably be showing wear in high traffic.

I think you need to reread his comment about Iraq trashing the C-27’s we bought for them. You’re really not looking good on this one.

Eh...sure, but I’ve never really been sold on this argument. The F-35B can’t carry Mk 84/BLU-109 based weapons internally, so it’s true it didn’t meet the original specs. However, how often do Marine strike craft carry such weapons? Heavy strike has never really been their role. I don’t see a situation where we…

The nature of the mission is is dictated by the abilities of the enemy as much as the capabilities of the platform. The A-10 is an anachronism.

For the record, more A-10’s were shot down in Desert Storm than any other aircraft. It’s losses per sortie are several times higher than any other aircraft. It is not survivable, and only slightly more expensive per flight hour than an F-16 (both run around $20,000/hour).

I’ve read a paper or two suggesting that a you’d HAVE to have a money-less society in a world like Star Trek. Resources are practically infinite. Resource extraction can be largely automated. And you pretty much need raw materials and energy (also practically infinite) because you have replicators to construct…

Japan is uncomfortable with people brazenly smuggling narcotics through their borders. They raided her whole office, which was owned by fucking TOYOTA the biggest company in the country, which is owned by a large number of old, influential men with ties to the government.

Decriminalization != legalization.

Actually, what’s doomed nuclear power isn’t the safety issues so much as the cost issue. Nukes are really, really, really expensive to build. So expensive that it outweighs their cheap operating costs. The interest expense, the opportunity costs, and the loan payments are enormous.

Yes and no. No, because the F-35 is actually a pretty good machine. Yes, because those generals are pretty lousy at controlling cost and schedule. I expect really good equipment for 50% more than we should have paid, 5 years after expected delivery.

We had 7,000 nuclear weapons forward-deployed in Europe at the pinnacle of the Cold War... In Asia, we had almost 1,000 deployed on the Korean Peninsula. About 3,000 total were in the Asia Pacific theatre.

Exception: The Su-27 is usually marketed as the Flanker, probably because the term is more flattering than most NATO codenames.

I wouldn’t call you a pessimist.

Better UI and it includes a decent PDF viewer. It also syncs with Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and a half dozen other services. Last time I tried Office it didn’t have any of that and the design was too minimalist for my taste.

Ehh...OfficeSuite is better.