Realistic climate plans are always unpopular with people who have decided that mass wind and solar is the only acceptable solution.

Roughly 100 nuclear plants built over about 20 years, today provide roughly 20% of our electricity. At a conservative $10 billion apiece for another 400, that solves the emissions of our power sector for $4 trillion. More importantly this is a solution that we know works because unlike mass wind and solar, it’s…

Most candidates polling above him have come out as strongly anti nuclear. Given that it’s our biggest source of low carbon energy, our safest energy source, and has, thus far, always been replaced by fracked gas when plants are shut down, I would argue that, having come out supporting nuclear expansion, he's one of…

You’re attacking a guy for living with his widowed mother in part of a house he bought her...I think you’re just a bad person.

Agreed, but I reserve the right to roll my eyes and say "fucking boomers" in an exasperated sigh.

Wow. If you think nuclear power is dangerous (as measured by casualties per watt), I have bad news for you about every energy source other than nuclear power (including wind and solar).

Thank you. Im so tired of seeing trace levels of radiation that barely eclipse natural background levels (newsflash people, you’re never not getting a dose of radiation) by an amount that can be measured in bananas being treated as some major issue because people think of it as magic science cooties.

That’s pretty much exactly how the Linear No-Threshold model works.

By what measurement? While it’s true only a tiny fraction of accusations are ever proven false, is it not also true that only a very small (though still larger) portion are proven true adequetly to result in conviction?

Read the damn flag code. The only reason you think this is any more ‘disrespectful’ than anything else done with a flag by the NFL is because you want to.

Well...these are the weirdest blue balls I’ve ever had.

Not to mention that dosage is a thing. Everyone loves to jump on ‘x material found in trace amounts in food is a carcinogen” and it’s like “yeah, if you ate a brick of it”. Roundup is less hazardous than some of the pesticides and fertilizers approved for use in the organic food industry. (For those of you who thought…

Pesticide is a broad term that includes both herbicides and insecticides, among other pest deterrents.

Two problems with that. First, over a vast system you may be able to reduce instability of supply but that’s only half the problem. The key challenge of the grid isn’t just “make a bunch of power”. It’s generating and distributing that power at time of use. In our current system the biggest challenge is dealing with…

There is something truly magical about hard ass men getting to roughly that age and just ceasing to give any fucks. I personally can’t wait.

TIL Hentai is just as gross and weird when women do it. Good to know.

I can’t speak to anyone else’s experience but I actively avoid crapping in public bathrooms. oobviously not always possible, but I much prefer doing that at home. (if for no other reason than better toilet paper)

The problem with the Xbox 1 is that as a consumer it just doesn’t feel necessary to have one yet. I love my 360 (which miraculously has yet to red ring in the entire time I’ve owned one) and have a decent library.  If backward compatability had been better, I might have picked one up by now just to be ready for any…

but you should really get a stick and throttle first. In my experience, it doesn’t play well on a keyboard.