Yeah...who would ever drink that much...that would be horrible...

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Cancer rates in the exclusion zone are not outside the norm. So, according to the WHO, no higher a percentage of people are “very slowly dying of cancer” there than anywhere else. This isn’t all that surprising considering much of the exclusion zone has lower background radiation levels than a high altitude city…

I could be wrong but I was under the impression that cancer rates among that population, when studied, weren’t outside the norm. Other than that, as far as I know you are correct.

“A lot” is relative but you’re right. They mainly serve to demonstrate that the area is not anywhere near as dangerous as the public largely perceives. More relevantly, a 40 mile commute from outside the zone wouldn’t actually be unreasonable. It’d be a hell of a lot more productive than any solar plant you could…

Actually, a lot of people live in the exclusion zone.

Herr Asshat (Love that btw) never really had a chance of bringing coal back. people love to talk about “Obama’s war on coal” but the truth is that what’s really killing coal more than anything else is cheap fracked gas, and given the GOP’s willingness to give the oil and gas industry anything it wants, Coal is pretty…

How the hell did they get Rob Lowe and Danny Glover?

He was an over-glorified IT guy who leaked some documents. Whether those document’s needed to be leaked or not, that doesn’t remotely qualify him to speak on...pretty much anything.

Question: does it have some kind of torsion spring on the brake to add resistance as it gets to the end of the line? I hate it when the dog takes off running and no matter whether i hit the brake or he gets to the end of the line it ends up with his neck and my arm both being jerked violently.

Question: does it have some kind of torsion spring on the brake to add resistance as it gets to the end of the line?…

We’ve all been there.

I...don’t think I mentioned either of them...either way, I’m still working my way through. maybe these last to seasons will impress me yet.

Everything you’ve said is valid. Still I’m making my way through the Capaldi seasons now, and am not a fan. Granted, that has much less to do with the acting than the writing.

Can I rename it Jarvis?

Okay THAT is true. A lot of the time people argue that renewables are all you need to go low carbon, which I think you and I agree is often not true because you need dispatch-able energy sources to fill in when your variable sources aren’t meeting demand, and while in some regions you can do that with…

Sure but wind and solar still need massive assets, whether concentrated into a central facilities or not. The fact that fossil fuels and nuclear power can be located near major power customers is a key advantage relative to power sources that must be co-located with their resources, as transmission infrastructure is…

No, I completely agree, and Wind and Solar tech is making impressive strides (One has to wonder where the ceiling is on wind since there’s the Bentz limit, and you can’t really reduce the amount of material needed, but still, it’s impressive). Me skepticism tends to stem from the lack of concrete progress in …

Great article. Enjoyed reading it and it served well to support your point. However there are two important points to consider: one is that Sweden has a ton of hydroelectric power, which helps a lot (And I think should be our first choice in building power assets whenever viable sites are available) and also, as noted…

Who said anything about “reversing” climate change? If carbon emissions contribute to a greenhouse effect, resulting in climate change. If you reduce emissions, you are combating the prime cause of man-made climate change. if you can acheive specific targets, you can stop climate change from reaching certain…

Well there’s no shortage of better places and ways to get the stuff than we did decades ago. Plus I can’t imagine the reparations we’re gonna end up paying for the abuse we’re letting the fossil fuel industry heap on people right now. Even with every incident accounted for, per watt, Nuclear is the safest production…