Agreed. I will however, comment my disagreements on their political posts, because people should be able to defend the stances they take.

Giz? Listen. I love ya, and Theil is indeed a jerk, but you talking about him is like badmouthing the girl who cheated on you. Everyone knows what she did, but everybody’s not just gonna stop hanging out with her friends just because she screwed you over, and your continued attempts to try and paint her as too evil…

I feel like this is something a Gizmodo writer penning an article about this should know.

Yeah except red states, for all their fiscal responsibility, largely spend vastly more federal tax dollars than they produce. They talk about “seceding” all the time but if they ever did they’d be a 3rd world hellhole within the decade.

Oil companies are largely also Natural Gas companies. Seeing how Wind and solar are completely dependent on natural gas to meet demand, and that most so-called environmentalists are terrified of nuclear energy (Even though it is, statistically speaking, our safest energy source) I’m guessing the oil companies will…

Convenient all of the arguments you “can’t be bothered” to refute.

Fukushima had reactors from bot GE and Toshiba, none of which would be considered remotely modern technology today, in particularly their depressingly outdated reliance on active cooling. Temperatures in the spent fuel pools rose in the aftermath of…

Not bad. but nothing beats that fan trailer cut to Sabatoge.

he forgot about Zardoz.

Wow. poodletime, poodletime, poodletime...your information is so bad it’d be funny if it wasn’t so depressing.

Your understanding of what happened at Fukushima Diachi is particularly bad. The spent fuel pools, situated on top of the reactor, were breached by the rupture of the reactor vessel beneath them. Spent fuel…

Sounds to me like by “justified” he meant “legally” and not “Ethically”. Especially given the last sentence of that post. As far as the porn comments...Hey...Don’t judge.

Yep. well if SMR’s end up being anywhere near as cheap as they say they’ll be, and if you combine that with a carbon emission tax or other disincentive, SMR’s will be too attractive for utilities to ignore, regardless of public opinion...Cross your fingers.

What a compelling argument! I see like most of the anti-nuclear crowd you don’t seem to consider facts or even valid arguments necessary to support your position.

A Bagel is like a piece of scaffolding. It’s pretty useless on it’s own. the reason to have it, is to put shit on it.

I agree completely. I’m of the opinion that small modular reactors like Nuscale are how we’ll do it. with nuclear, since almost all the cost of the power is from costs paid up front in plant construction, and operating costs are comparatively minor, a substantial cut in the cost of building nuclear plants, leads to…

Any “plan” for cutting carbon emissions that starts with cutting the largest carbon free energy source in the developed world (Nuclear) isn’t a real climate protection plan at all. It’s Wind/Solar fanfiction.

Nuclear heavy france is currently meeting per capita emissions targets that their oft championed “green” neighbor of Germany is hoping, but not on track, to hit by 2050. Germany closed down nuclear plants and built coal backed wind and solar in their place. know what happened? both the cost of power and emissions…

nope, such an infrastructure project would be too expensive even if it weren’t dependent largely on technology that didn’t exist yet. That’s why nuclear power (which is laughably underrepresented in the article) is pretty much the only option.

well the French went from 12% nuclear to 75% nuclear in the space of 15 years, but that involved a decided effort that we’re unlikely to scare up today. if we just got rid of all subsidies and enacted an aggressive carbon tax, we might pull of something similar.

Still, nuclear really is the only way to actually…

For when spending less on better bluetooth earbuds that don’t fall out all the time just isn’t “thinking different” enough.

Fair point. I’ll admit I’m just speculating. I’m not expert. Either way, I think we’re all glad to hear that it turned out that this wasn’t the actual plan for the film.