Other countries are acting and changing their policies, for example Germany. Even China is beginning to invest heavily into renewable energy. It's mostly the US with a republican dominated congress and their policy of denial that is doing business as usual. And many developing countries won't even think about going environmentally friendly as long as the US doesn't take the lead.
My god. 99% of scientists agreeing that climate change is real and that humans are the cause. And yet still a large part of the US population believes its a socialist conspiracy.
This is the handy work of the Republican party and their network of buddies in big oil and certain "fair and balanced" news networks. Scary how effective propaganda can be when you have an ignorant, gullible audience. This is exactly what this topic is about.
And the pinnacle of all this ignorance that has been spread over decades is the people flocking towards the likes of the Tea Party movement or Donald Trump. What a freaking disaster for the world.
You realize there's this thing called "renewable energy"? It can come from the wind, the sun, or from water currents, so you don't have to burn up anything. Quite amazing, I know.
Well, I disagree. Workers die from accidents all the time, which is tragic, but I don't see that as a valid reason to stop building windmills. We don't stop building bridges or skyscrapers either.
The long-term damage causes by radioactive fallout to the environment and to humans, such as cancer, birth-defects and other deaths and illnesses are a good reason not to build nuclear though. Everybody always says "they are much safer now". Like Fukushima was built to withstand an earthquake. Then bad things happen anyway. Nobody expected a magnitude 9 earthquake followed by a tsunami. And nobody truly expects terrorists to crash a 747 into a nuclear plant. Nobody truly expects an insider with psychological problems to sabotage a power station. Nobody truly expects a general power failure and backup generators failing at the same time... but at some point, the next event will happen, like Fukushima happened. Read that carefully, Fukushima happened, despite all the safety precautions. And Fukushima will happen again. The only hope is that it doesn't happen in a densely populated area, because, despite what you say, a nuclear meltdown is worse than 100 windmills exploding. It can cause many deaths over the long term, displacing families from their homes, causing severe emotional distress, and costing the taxpayer billions to clean up the area, if it is to become inhabitable again any time soon.
The point is, I would much rather live next to an exploding windmill than next to an exploding nuclear reactor. As should you.
Whenever humans and nature are involved, mistakes and catastrophes will happen at some point. Now imagine a mistake or catastrophe with a windfarm, vs. a mistake or catastrophe with a nuclear plant. The latter is simply intolerable, unthinkable. With the reactor above, it could displace tens of millions and make the entire state of New York uninhabitable for decades. It's just not worth taking the risk. Why take the risk when there are much safer options available? The next mistake or catastrophe will happen at some point, that is a statistical certainty.
Please read the "Environmental Concerns" and "Safety" sections of the Indian Point Energy Center for a good allround insight into the "safety" of nuclear energy.
I'm sceptical about these numbers, because of how deaths are attributed to their cause. Certainly, if a worker trips and breaks his neck while mounting a wind turbine or solar array, the blame will be put squarely on that kind of power source. But accidents with nuclear energy and radiation almost never cause death directly. Death will occur years later by illness, usually cancer, and I wouldn't be much surprised if many of these cancer deaths are not blamed on nuclear energy. Due to the random factor involved, nobody can tell for sure.
Also, considering the millions of deaths from respiratory problems and lung cancer, the 10.000 deaths for coal sound way too low for me, confirming my suspicion that these kind of illness deaths are not factored in.
Then there is the problem of resource acquisition. With nuclear power you have the same problem as with fossil fuels. At some point the resource runs out and becomes harder and harder to mine. Mines in third world and developing countries also have an abysmal safety record.
And I stand by my statement that a nuclear chain reaction is inherently unsafe. As are the waste products. You can never achieve 100% safety, and my personal gut feeling tells me I would feel much, much happier in my life living next to a solar array or wind turbines rather than a nuclear power plant. Corporations are very good at talking about safety, but very bad at actually implementing it, since they are interested in keeping costs as low as possible. Simple truth is, they can't be trusted because they are mainly driven by profits.
Interesting that you think nuclear is the savior. Just yesterday there was an article in the main German public news channel about how nuclear power has never been cost-effective, due to the long term costs of dismantling old plants and dealing with the toxic waste.
Also, considering nuclear power "safe" stands on shaky ground at best. A solar array is safe. A wind turbine is safe. Radiation is inherently unsafe, and there are always unforeseeable factors, like natural disasters, plane crashes or terrorist attacks.
There are many benefits to renewable energy even if you leave global warming out of the equation. Such as better health, reduced pollution, and less financial support for autocratic governments like Saudi Arabia and Russia.
Moving away from fossil fuels to renewable energy is worth the effort, regardless of climate change.
AI taking over my job as a Software Engineer is the -last- thing I'm worried about. The developers who are afraid of such a thing must have no idea about AI. Developing complex programs in the -last- thing an AI will be able to do. They will be able to have conversations, walk, drive, bring your kids to school and pretty much do everything else before being able to write a typical, high complexity software program.
If that point is ever reached it means we have reached the "singularity" wherein an AI is able to program a better version of itself, exponentially increasing its own intelligence.
Latest little known fact: Mr Trump's secret agenda is actually to build a wall in order to keep Mexicans -in- not out. Mr Trump fears that as soon as he implements his neo-conservative policies of tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits and raising taxes on the poor, most Mexicans will want to get the hell out of the United States. Obviously Mr Trump wants to preserve the slave workforce that his own companies depends on and if necessary has drawn out plans to implement slave labor camps to intern Mexicans trying to escape the US.
Germany is never wrong, just misunderstood. Little known fact is, Hitler just wanted to visit the beautiful city of Paris, like everyone else. Take a picture with the Eiffel tower, take a nice walk among the lovely boulevards. But he didn't receive any invitation from the French government. So he applied German pragmatism to solve a problem.
Don't be finicky. If you can't tell the difference between voicing your opinion in valid arguments or telling people to fuck off and die burning in a fire, you need your head examined.
And do you think Putin the Powerful is any good for his people? With the international sanctions, the crash of the oil price and the tumbling Ruble, the Russian economy is going down the drain while Putin is playing power politics in the Ukraine and Syria, investing what little money he has left in tanks and submarines.
Once I thought Putin was an intelligent leader, but it is becoming more and more obvious that he is a backwards thinking narcissist and nationalist who is only concerned with his standing in the world.
You can vote Trump if you so much desire another "strong leader" for the US.
That has probably to do with the fact that in the US most people consume processed foods almost exclusively. And thanks to radical, free capitalism there are almost no regulations on what kind of shit to put in there, so your food is stuffed with stabilizers, preservatives, flavors, colorants, antibiotics, emulsifying agents, sugar, salt, caffeine, and cojones extract of mutant cows from outer space.
So once your eat normal food from mother nature, your immune system goes bonkers. If it doesn't contain any of those chemicals you're used to, it must be poison!
I have a considerable collection of LEGO's at home, which is perhaps the reason why I had to read that headline thrice in incredulity before getting it.
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Other countries are acting and changing their policies, for example Germany. Even China is beginning to invest heavily into renewable energy. It's mostly the US with a republican dominated congress and their policy of denial that is doing business as usual. And many developing countries won't even think about going environmentally friendly as long as the US doesn't take the lead.
My god. 99% of scientists agreeing that climate change is real and that humans are the cause. And yet still a large part of the US population believes its a socialist conspiracy.
This is the handy work of the Republican party and their network of buddies in big oil and certain "fair and balanced" news networks. Scary how effective propaganda can be when you have an ignorant, gullible audience. This is exactly what this topic is about.
And the pinnacle of all this ignorance that has been spread over decades is the people flocking towards the likes of the Tea Party movement or Donald Trump. What a freaking disaster for the world.
You realize there's this thing called "renewable energy"? It can come from the wind, the sun, or from water currents, so you don't have to burn up anything. Quite amazing, I know.
That's more than they paid for Sun in total. (Sale price was $7.4 billion).
With that kind of money Oracle could have bought Star Wars. Twice. A surefire cash cow.
I'm sure there's an excellent joke around there somewhere with Oracle, Sun, Java and Star Wars.
CO2 emissions per capita
1. The EU has not been "increasing their CO2 output every year".
2. The US has more than double the per capita emissions of the EU. Double the emissions of heavily industrialized nations like Germany and Japan.
3. Clean up your shit
4. Shut up in the future
Yeah... maybe Nvidia should learn to release stable drivers on Windows before going on a Linux adventure.
"Nvidia display driver has stopped responding---" *crash*
So you're one of those assholes who likes to do the "-1 Disagree" mods.
Well, I disagree. Workers die from accidents all the time, which is tragic, but I don't see that as a valid reason to stop building windmills. We don't stop building bridges or skyscrapers either.
The long-term damage causes by radioactive fallout to the environment and to humans, such as cancer, birth-defects and other deaths and illnesses are a good reason not to build nuclear though.
Everybody always says "they are much safer now". Like Fukushima was built to withstand an earthquake. Then bad things happen anyway. Nobody expected a magnitude 9 earthquake followed by a tsunami. And nobody truly expects terrorists to crash a 747 into a nuclear plant. Nobody truly expects an insider with psychological problems to sabotage a power station. Nobody truly expects a general power failure and backup generators failing at the same time... but at some point, the next event will happen, like Fukushima happened. Read that carefully, Fukushima happened, despite all the safety precautions.
And Fukushima will happen again. The only hope is that it doesn't happen in a densely populated area, because, despite what you say, a nuclear meltdown is worse than 100 windmills exploding. It can cause many deaths over the long term, displacing families from their homes, causing severe emotional distress, and costing the taxpayer billions to clean up the area, if it is to become inhabitable again any time soon.
The point is, I would much rather live next to an exploding windmill than next to an exploding nuclear reactor. As should you.
Whenever humans and nature are involved, mistakes and catastrophes will happen at some point. Now imagine a mistake or catastrophe with a windfarm, vs. a mistake or catastrophe with a nuclear plant. The latter is simply intolerable, unthinkable. With the reactor above, it could displace tens of millions and make the entire state of New York uninhabitable for decades. It's just not worth taking the risk. Why take the risk when there are much safer options available? The next mistake or catastrophe will happen at some point, that is a statistical certainty.
Please read the "Environmental Concerns" and "Safety" sections of the Indian Point Energy Center for a good allround insight into the "safety" of nuclear energy.
I'm sceptical about these numbers, because of how deaths are attributed to their cause. Certainly, if a worker trips and breaks his neck while mounting a wind turbine or solar array, the blame will be put squarely on that kind of power source. But accidents with nuclear energy and radiation almost never cause death directly. Death will occur years later by illness, usually cancer, and I wouldn't be much surprised if many of these cancer deaths are not blamed on nuclear energy. Due to the random factor involved, nobody can tell for sure.
Also, considering the millions of deaths from respiratory problems and lung cancer, the 10.000 deaths for coal sound way too low for me, confirming my suspicion that these kind of illness deaths are not factored in.
Then there is the problem of resource acquisition. With nuclear power you have the same problem as with fossil fuels. At some point the resource runs out and becomes harder and harder to mine. Mines in third world and developing countries also have an abysmal safety record.
And I stand by my statement that a nuclear chain reaction is inherently unsafe. As are the waste products. You can never achieve 100% safety, and my personal gut feeling tells me I would feel much, much happier in my life living next to a solar array or wind turbines rather than a nuclear power plant. Corporations are very good at talking about safety, but very bad at actually implementing it, since they are interested in keeping costs as low as possible. Simple truth is, they can't be trusted because they are mainly driven by profits.
Interesting that you think nuclear is the savior. Just yesterday there was an article in the main German public news channel about how nuclear power has never been cost-effective, due to the long term costs of dismantling old plants and dealing with the toxic waste.
Also, considering nuclear power "safe" stands on shaky ground at best. A solar array is safe. A wind turbine is safe. Radiation is inherently unsafe, and there are always unforeseeable factors, like natural disasters, plane crashes or terrorist attacks.
There are many benefits to renewable energy even if you leave global warming out of the equation. Such as better health, reduced pollution, and less financial support for autocratic governments like Saudi Arabia and Russia.
Moving away from fossil fuels to renewable energy is worth the effort, regardless of climate change.
AI taking over my job as a Software Engineer is the -last- thing I'm worried about. The developers who are afraid of such a thing must have no idea about AI.
Developing complex programs in the -last- thing an AI will be able to do. They will be able to have conversations, walk, drive, bring your kids to school and pretty much do everything else before being able to write a typical, high complexity software program.
If that point is ever reached it means we have reached the "singularity" wherein an AI is able to program a better version of itself, exponentially increasing its own intelligence.
Obvious troll is...
wait for it...
jupp, you know what's comin'...
obviously,
obvious.
Me? I am not scared whatsoever. Fukushima is not going to go kaboom or Chernobyl anyday
- Tepco Engineer
Latest little known fact: Mr Trump's secret agenda is actually to build a wall in order to keep Mexicans -in- not out. Mr Trump fears that as soon as he implements his neo-conservative policies of tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits and raising taxes on the poor, most Mexicans will want to get the hell out of the United States. Obviously Mr Trump wants to preserve the slave workforce that his own companies depends on and if necessary has drawn out plans to implement slave labor camps to intern Mexicans trying to escape the US.
Germany is never wrong, just misunderstood. Little known fact is, Hitler just wanted to visit the beautiful city of Paris, like everyone else. Take a picture with the Eiffel tower, take a nice walk among the lovely boulevards. But he didn't receive any invitation from the French government. So he applied German pragmatism to solve a problem.
You would have done the same.
Don't be finicky. If you can't tell the difference between voicing your opinion in valid arguments or telling people to fuck off and die burning in a fire, you need your head examined.
And do you think Putin the Powerful is any good for his people? With the international sanctions, the crash of the oil price and the tumbling Ruble, the Russian economy is going down the drain while Putin is playing power politics in the Ukraine and Syria, investing what little money he has left in tanks and submarines.
Once I thought Putin was an intelligent leader, but it is becoming more and more obvious that he is a backwards thinking narcissist and nationalist who is only concerned with his standing in the world.
You can vote Trump if you so much desire another "strong leader" for the US.
Who cares. It certainly looks like a badass laser cannon. 8)
That has probably to do with the fact that in the US most people consume processed foods almost exclusively.
And thanks to radical, free capitalism there are almost no regulations on what kind of shit to put in there, so your food is stuffed with stabilizers, preservatives, flavors, colorants, antibiotics, emulsifying agents, sugar, salt, caffeine, and cojones extract of mutant cows from outer space.
So once your eat normal food from mother nature, your immune system goes bonkers. If it doesn't contain any of those chemicals you're used to, it must be poison!
I have a considerable collection of LEGO's at home, which is perhaps the reason why I had to read that headline thrice in incredulity before getting it.
You do realize that God's real plan is to cover up the whole dinosaur thing by making us burn all the evidence?
You're such a pawn.
It's -no longer- a planet.