Which means a couple dozen will be made, the price mark up will be double MSRP and they will spend more time in the shop with recalls than actually on the road.

If I was a truck buyer, something like a Ramcharger would make sense. A lot of truck usage is as a normal vehicle doing things that could be done with a SmartCar. Go to work, get groceries, come home, that sort of stuff. An PHEV makes sense for this. There is also a lot of truck driving that is trips with the family…

Does F1 have any night races? Because Ferrari is going to dominate those.

The thing to realize with doctors are most are specialists. If you go to a pain doctor, your back is a target for his needle. If you go to a chiropractor, your back is something to make interesting noises with. If you go to a surgeon, your back is a cutting board.

Easy out, re-tap for a size or two bigger and replace. I actually want to know why my doctor isn’t going down that path. Couple hour surgery, likely another week in the hospital, but not a reset of the recovery time period, since there is still hardware starting the fusion process in place.

These are supposed to be special grade titanium.

Real answer... All of them.

Oil leaks.

Look at the top 5. None are lookers.

Oh, I don’t think the extra power of chips will go to less electrical power required. My first computer was a VIC20. I think the power brick was something like 20W. Today, modern game computers have 1000W power supplies.

Nope. There are families of reactors that are similar, but none are standardized. Even with sister plants like Vogtle 1 and 2, there are variations in design between the plants.

A big fear for the new AP1000s built in Georgia was something like TMI. Sort of. The safety systems and training are dramatically more robust than all those years ago, but ultimately from a bean counter point of view, TMI-2 cost a fortune to build and was broken and unrepairable before they got much if any power out…

To be fair, that is a VERY easy shape to injection mold.  I’m guessing the spiky things are also cheaper than less dangerous looking alternatives.  

As a kid, I remember three things about TMI. Sort of.

3 Mile Island is what really broke the US industry. Literally. It changed how plants are financed and that dramatically increased the cost of construction.

Well, that fact simplifies the matter. She needs a DeLorean with the Mr Fusion Option. It wouldn’t be out of her price range either. Go ahead and take it for a test drive, and carry all the cash you can in your purse. Then go back to 1985 and buy Apple, Microsoft stock.  Come back the day before the purchase day and…

There’s a company right now looking for investors for a nuclear plant in a container.  5 MWe that can be parked in your neighborhood when the lights go out.   I think licensing for this would be a complete nightmare, but it’s very feasible.

A big thing that has changed is funding. Back in the 1950s, Eisenhower dumped a lot of money into “Atoms for Peace” and the result was Fision power plants that aren’t uncommon in the Northern Hemisphere now and can produce power cheaply and reliable enough to have a chance of competing with fossil fuels (although cost…

And here’s the thing people don’t realize. Let’s say we had a million % tariff on all foreign products and strict laws that nothing could be sold in America that wasn’t made here. Yeah, the economy would implode and all that.

How about Chrysler and Commodore International.   So, you can have a company doesn’t make cars and is associated with 20 year old + products combine with a company that doesn’t make computers and is associated with a 40 year old product.