In my world travels I have come to realize that Americans and Chinese can’t be trusted with nice roads. Both groups are full of assholes that ruin it for everyone else.

They look kinda like the original tires and they last a lot longer than some ultra soft compound.

Show about suicide = bad

It’s an interesting conflict we have in our country:
Regressives want to save fetuses and kill criminals
Progressives want to kill fetuses and save criminals

I’ve never understood why pitchers don’t want to wear some sort of head protection. It doesn’t take much to reduce the impact to nonpermanent amounts of force.

The top 150 worst albums made by women list is just everything Yoko Ono has ever done repeated until you reach 150.

That’s between you and your lawmakers. The power companies are going to the absolute minimum in order to maximize profit. Government incentives for renewables inflated that market, and might have fostered some amount of change had the US not lost its mind in the last election.

A dozen people were injured in Times Square today by unknown flying debris generated by a group of sports car enthusiasts. Police are investigating the incident.

Seeing as sarcasm relies on inflection to be communicated, it doesn’t translate well as text. My apologies.

My house has 8" rebar & concrete walls, coated double pane windows, double seal doors, LED/fluorescent lights throughout, HE appliances, and individual ACs. My previous place had all that plus a solar panel roof.

Japan’s roads are meticulously maintained. It impresses me daily how well they take care of their infrastructure.

Dude, Japan is a decade ahead of the US in terms of home efficiency already.

I’ve explained in detail elsewhere, but TL;DR: Nothing that encroaches on their fisheries is going to be tolerated.

The problem is that they invested in the cheaper, quicker option of a steam reactor instead of the (at the time) more costly liquid salt reactors that were designed for use aboard ships and include…

The recent liberalization of Japanese power production also removed the government incentives to build solar systems like you describe. At market rates it is not a commercially viable system as of yet. Margins are thinner when you’re talking about areas that have stacked residences since they add more consumers…

Cool story, bro. However, that isn’t the truth in Japan (https://www.wsj.com/articles/japans-shift-to-renewable-energy-loses-power-1473818581). As it turns out, coal and natural gas are far cheaper, which incentivises the newly liberalized power market to invest in that infrastructure. And, the population doesn’t want…

LFTR is my choice simply based Thorium’s radiation characteristics. It only radiates Alpha particles, which makes every step of the process an order of magnitude easier, cheaper, and safer. LFTRs produce much less waste, and that waste has a mere 300 year half-life. Thorium is so abundant and under utilized that most…

And yet, there aren’t wind farms covering every coast in the world. It would seem that the politics and the technology have yet to mature to the point that profit-seeking drives the market towards renewable sources.

Also, there’s the LFTR reactor design that is highly efficient, runs on much safe thorium, and is…

Yeah, I just posted about LFTRs in other response. Hindsight being 20/20, nuclear power was fielded before the technology was ready.

Should the Japanese public ever allow another plant to be built, you can rest assured that it would be an inherently safe and highly efficient Gen IV reactor. One type is the LFTR, which is the new hotness (puns!) in the nuclear world.

Cool, are you signing up to live under a 10MW turbine? Yes? Go stand under one for real, then answer that question again.

Japan’s topography is rough, which is a hindrance to widespread wind harvesting. The coasts are the most predictable place for wind, but salt damage is a major problem for a system that relies on…