Well, yeah - that's what I am aiming at. You are absolutely right that besides the point of rationality I was talking about, complete information on both sides, in a symmetric manner, is quite essential to free markets to work. Obviously, that is not the case either.
It's just the standard capitalist optimization process - find the lowest-cost solution - and thereby lowest quality - that people are still willing to endure, then run with that for best profit. The market does not optimize for best quality, but for the best quality/cost ratio that will be tolerated. Which, to no big surprise, mostly ends up being utter crap. The basic failure of the whole free market theory is that it assumes rational actors. People at large are not rational actors, though.
Meh, alien blasters. Those are positively UNAMERICAN. Take the true Fallout approach - Duster, Sherrif's hat and a six-shooter! Your ideological purity leaves something to be desired, citizen.
You fail to acknowledge that Sr in particular and to a lesser amount Cs is bioaccumulating. Sr is of particular interest, because it accumulates in bone and therefor tends to mess with the blood building system in bone marrow. Your dosage comparison is by no means valid - you are arguing against basic biochemistry. The expert in question is probably from the bavarian LFU - their calculation that yields "less than a transatlantic filght" was done for a contamination at the legal limit. However, the point is that lots of samples of mushrooms, especially in the parts where I live - a huge fallout zone after Chernobyl - are way beyond the limit due to heavy rains when the cloud passed us.
Also - overall beneficial results? That would be the radiation hormesis thing, I guess. I have yet to see a serious paper showing it in any halfway rigorous manner.
And here we go again. Comparing external irradiation like on a flight with ingestion of radionuclides does not make any sense. The cosmic rays on the flight pass through you, while the Cs and Sr from the shrooms stays inside your body for a prolonged time. Before trying yourself in sarcasm, you might try getting an education first.
No, a HVDC mainline grid for Europe. They did that calculation and it does work with current technology. Not PV, but solarthermal, though. The DESERTEC people are quite serious.
There's nothing really standing in the way of dynamic demand control in a fundamental way. We do not have the infrastructure for it yet, but given that they phase out their plants over at least a decade, there is ample time to build the infrastructure.
Agreed, since you chose to get into a fit of righteous indignation instead of answering the initial question, it's indeed not worth the time "discussing" with you.
Nice diversion. So you have no proof at all that this 40% cannot be replaced, but stated it as a fact despite of this. Then you call yourself being named a liar an insult? Nice one. Besides, after the discussions of the last weeks, I lost any respect for you nuclear apologists. You have no basis in facts, but an endless bag of deliberate lies. And then you dare to act insulted when being called a liar. Sure.
The numbers that say that renewables can't replace those 40%? That's in the article? With solid proof? Wait, no, it actually isn't. It's just another lie made up by you. Show your colors, shill.
Obviously... you don't care to even research the slightest bit about how modern technologies work. Why should you - nuclear is king, and any research that would endanger your opinion is better skipped. Let's just spout bullshit instead. The majority of nuclear proponents around here operate at such a low intellectual level that this alone could be construed as argument against the technology.
And you get that number by what? Anal extraction? Well, keep fapping about your reactors, while the rest of the world moves on and leaves you at third-world standards once more.
I do envy you... It's about 10 years now since I last made it to iceland. I need to get back there. Since then, i picked up fishing... so those salmon up there do increase the urge by quite a bit:D
Dude, the raptors are steak snobs. You are to anoint yourself with a light dose of salt - fleur de sel - and pepper - freshly ground - and stay the hell away from steak sauce, or else it will get REALLY painful.
Which reminds me - anyone heard of Dawkins today? Not me. Guess you haven't either. This leaves only the conclusion that Dawkins alone has been raptured. In other news, Hitchens is furious.
It's been stated multiple times now, by me and other posters. I am not going to repeat myself for the 3rd time. Why am I suspecting that I am in the troll feeding business here?
I stopped respecting denialists that trot out "criticisms" that have been debunked for more than a century a long time ago. Besides, it's a paraphrase of a rather commonly known quote. But go on in your righteous indignation, thereby ignoring the actual science that has been presented a million times. Truth is, you are not remotely interested in it, because it might interfere with your opinion.
You are fabulously good at trolling. One of the finest non-sequiturs in recent history. What in blazes does the temperature in downtown Moscow this morning have to do at all with the global radiation equilibrium? You keep bringing up local effects - temperatures in certain places at certain times, which are not a part of the equation at all. It's like denying that you have a fever because we just measured your body core temperature, but can't predict what the exact temperature of your left nut will be tomorrow afternoon.
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Well, yeah - that's what I am aiming at. You are absolutely right that besides the point of rationality I was talking about, complete information on both sides, in a symmetric manner, is quite essential to free markets to work. Obviously, that is not the case either.
It's just the standard capitalist optimization process - find the lowest-cost solution - and thereby lowest quality - that people are still willing to endure, then run with that for best profit. The market does not optimize for best quality, but for the best quality/cost ratio that will be tolerated. Which, to no big surprise, mostly ends up being utter crap. The basic failure of the whole free market theory is that it assumes rational actors. People at large are not rational actors, though.
Walkman? Anti-Skipping? Young Padawan, if you put a shiny silver disc into it, it is NOT a Walkman... Now get off MY lawn, if you please. ;)
Hmm. Haven't thought of that angle...
Meh, alien blasters. Those are positively UNAMERICAN. Take the true Fallout approach - Duster, Sherrif's hat and a six-shooter! Your ideological purity leaves something to be desired, citizen.
None? Never really got that American obsession with the "sanctity" of the flag.
This might be a candidate. Never played it myself - I stick with ARMA II.
WIth the amount of American debt held by China, it's rather a state of economic MAD, than an alliance, I'd say.
You fail to acknowledge that Sr in particular and to a lesser amount Cs is bioaccumulating. Sr is of particular interest, because it accumulates in bone and therefor tends to mess with the blood building system in bone marrow. Your dosage comparison is by no means valid - you are arguing against basic biochemistry. The expert in question is probably from the bavarian LFU - their calculation that yields "less than a transatlantic filght" was done for a contamination at the legal limit. However, the point is that lots of samples of mushrooms, especially in the parts where I live - a huge fallout zone after Chernobyl - are way beyond the limit due to heavy rains when the cloud passed us.
Also - overall beneficial results? That would be the radiation hormesis thing, I guess. I have yet to see a serious paper showing it in any halfway rigorous manner.
And here we go again. Comparing external irradiation like on a flight with ingestion of radionuclides does not make any sense. The cosmic rays on the flight pass through you, while the Cs and Sr from the shrooms stays inside your body for a prolonged time. Before trying yourself in sarcasm, you might try getting an education first.
No, a HVDC mainline grid for Europe. They did that calculation and it does work with current technology. Not PV, but solarthermal, though. The DESERTEC people are quite serious.
There's nothing really standing in the way of dynamic demand control in a fundamental way. We do not have the infrastructure for it yet, but given that they phase out their plants over at least a decade, there is ample time to build the infrastructure.
Agreed, since you chose to get into a fit of righteous indignation instead of answering the initial question, it's indeed not worth the time "discussing" with you.
Nice diversion. So you have no proof at all that this 40% cannot be replaced, but stated it as a fact despite of this. Then you call yourself being named a liar an insult? Nice one. Besides, after the discussions of the last weeks, I lost any respect for you nuclear apologists. You have no basis in facts, but an endless bag of deliberate lies. And then you dare to act insulted when being called a liar. Sure.
The numbers that say that renewables can't replace those 40%? That's in the article? With solid proof? Wait, no, it actually isn't. It's just another lie made up by you. Show your colors, shill.
Obviously... you don't care to even research the slightest bit about how modern technologies work. Why should you - nuclear is king, and any research that would endanger your opinion is better skipped. Let's just spout bullshit instead. The majority of nuclear proponents around here operate at such a low intellectual level that this alone could be construed as argument against the technology.
It's colliding with is precious pro-nuclear worldview. That, obviously, can not be, so it has to be biased. Oh, that damn dirty swiss hippies....
And you get that number by what? Anal extraction? Well, keep fapping about your reactors, while the rest of the world moves on and leaves you at third-world standards once more.
I do envy you... It's about 10 years now since I last made it to iceland. I need to get back there. Since then, i picked up fishing... so those salmon up there do increase the urge by quite a bit :D
Dude, the raptors are steak snobs. You are to anoint yourself with a light dose of salt - fleur de sel - and pepper - freshly ground - and stay the hell away from steak sauce, or else it will get REALLY painful.
Most prophecies don't make complete sense until after they happen,
You mean not until they find something that loosely fits their bullshit after the right amount of retconning?
Which reminds me - anyone heard of Dawkins today? Not me. Guess you haven't either. This leaves only the conclusion that Dawkins alone has been raptured. In other news, Hitchens is furious.
It's been stated multiple times now, by me and other posters. I am not going to repeat myself for the 3rd time. Why am I suspecting that I am in the troll feeding business here?
I stopped respecting denialists that trot out "criticisms" that have been debunked for more than a century a long time ago. Besides, it's a paraphrase of a rather commonly known quote. But go on in your righteous indignation, thereby ignoring the actual science that has been presented a million times. Truth is, you are not remotely interested in it, because it might interfere with your opinion.
You are fabulously good at trolling. One of the finest non-sequiturs in recent history. What in blazes does the temperature in downtown Moscow this morning have to do at all with the global radiation equilibrium? You keep bringing up local effects - temperatures in certain places at certain times, which are not a part of the equation at all. It's like denying that you have a fever because we just measured your body core temperature, but can't predict what the exact temperature of your left nut will be tomorrow afternoon.