Actually when I was 5 years old I was allowed to play outside unsupervised, as long as I didn't cross any major streets and came back if my parents blew the whistle that they used for the purpose.
Children below age 8-9 don't even really get the sense of "right" and "wrong"
That all depends on if they were taught to have one or not.
The brain is a very plastic organ and while there are physical limits to how quickly it can develop the current conventional wisdom is nowhere near those limits.
In general, if a child is expected to behave responsibly and this expectation is backed up with both positive and negative reinforcement that child will become more responsible at an earlier age than a child that does not receive that reinforcement.
If you give a child an excuse for irresponsible behavior, regardless of what the excuse is, the child will very quickly learn to milk that excuse for everything it is worth and then some.
There is no space for accidents, so somebody got to hang, that's when it comes to small girls. But when you talk about serious crimes like foreclosure fraud and the wall street fraud then they don't press charges because 'they might find the culprit'.
It's very simple: there's one set of rules for the peasants and another set of rules for the aristocracy.
If I would have intentionally rammed my bicycle into anyone at the age of 4 years and 9 months I would have received, at a minimum, corporal punishment.
Of course today that would probably get my parents sent to jail.
Because there's ample evidence that spending more money creates better results. That's why children are 3 times more educated than they were back in the 1950s.
When the summary said "For school districts with deep pockets..." it really meant "For school districts that are able to reach deeply into the pockets of the local property owners..."
How times they have changed. These days I could see protective services taking you away because Mom left you guys in the car unattended.
This happened in the mid 1980s. The roving bands of pedophiles lurking around each an every corner just waiting for any possible opportunity to steal children did not materialize until cable TV became ubiquitous closer to the turn of the century.
Her biggest mistake was not being familiar with the car. She'd never driven a car that would shift out of park without the key in the ignition so would never even imagine that we'd be able to move the car without her.
Something very much like this happened to me back when I was about 5 or 6 years old.
I was in the car with my siblings and our mother drove to the grocery store. She parked and ran inside for just a few minutes to buy something and my younger brother started playing with the steering wheel, pretending to drive.
This car was a 1962 Chevy Bel Air and the shifter did not have an a key interlock so as he was flailing around he bumped the car into neutral and it started to roll backwards towards a busy street.
Some guy who was getting ready to pull out of the parking lot saw what was happening and drove behind us so that the car t-boned his truck instead of rolling out into the street.
It's one thing to talk about using technology X to generate all the electricity we need but electricity is only a small fraction of the energy consumed. Replacing fossil fuels will require massive amount of energy.
If there are any more objecting questions I don't know what to think, except maybe you object to geothermal. Maybe because you own shares in nuclear power but not geothermal. Me, I don't own any shares but if I were to buy energy shares I'd buy geothermal, solar, or wind but not coal, natural gas, or nuclear power. At that, I'd try to buy shares in Chinese manufacturers, maybe Brazilian, Indian, and or Russian. BRIC.
I don't own shares of anything but I work for a company heavily involved in wind power.
The reason I advocate nuclear power is because I believe it is the only one that can be ramped up quickly enough to replace fossil fuels at a reasonable cost and without significant disruption.
That will only solve a small portion of the waste problems
I don't know how you can call burning all the actinides only a small portion of the waste problem. Those isotopes are the ones that make nuclear waste take so long to decay to safe levels and in this reactor they never leave the plant.
That looks an awful lot like it's about the molten salt reactor project we've known about since the 1950s.
The thing that offended me the most above was the laid back "don't worry about waste kids it's not a problem" attitude which has been the cause of it taking so long for anything to be done about the problems in civilian nuclear power. Even if fusion takes another 100 years it will still be before Westinghouse gets off it's arse and builds something more modern than TMI painted green.
The thing that offenses me is the fact that we invented the solution to most of the concerns people have with nuclear power nearly 50 years ago but so far it's gone exactly nowhere.
You are correct that it can be done, but it will be much more expensive and use two orders of magnitude more land area.
To start with you'll need at least three times more wind turbine capacity just to account for the variability of the wind. Some wind farms are only manage to run at 10% of rated capacity.
Then you'll need to add even more towers to compensate for the losses created by the extra energy conversion.
All this will take up a massive amount of space compared to LFTR and comes with problems of its own.
You said that LFTR and wind both have the same price per installed kilowatt.
If you build 500 MW of wind turbines then you could build 500 MW of LFTR for the same price.
But geothermal is.
How many geothermal plants would the US need to produce 100 exojoules?
If we extracted geothermal energy at that rate how long would it take to deplete the extraction sites and how many new wells would we need to drill every year?
And if only 10 5 Megawatt wind turbines are erected a month, for 10 months, wind could add 100 megawatts in 2 years. In the 5 years for LFTR 500 megawatts could be added.
Here's where your math fails: That 500 MW LFTR will produce it's nameplate rating all day, every day with over 98% uptime over the 5 or 6 decades that it operates.
Your 500 megawatts of wind towers won't even come close.
Nuclear power appeals to state planners, not market actors.
There are plenty of private companies who have tried to break into nuclear power but there's not a single government in a country with a large enough market to make the investment worthwhile that doesn't micromanage every aspect of the energy industry.
When the government goes around shooting people in the kneecaps and then handing them crutches it's not particularly enlightening to call those people "addicted to crutches".
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There are no more perverts now than there were back then. What we have more of is paranoia.
Pain avoidance is innate. Children can understand "...or else" long before they can understand reason.
Actually when I was 5 years old I was allowed to play outside unsupervised, as long as I didn't cross any major streets and came back if my parents blew the whistle that they used for the purpose.
That all depends on if they were taught to have one or not.
The brain is a very plastic organ and while there are physical limits to how quickly it can develop the current conventional wisdom is nowhere near those limits.
In general, if a child is expected to behave responsibly and this expectation is backed up with both positive and negative reinforcement that child will become more responsible at an earlier age than a child that does not receive that reinforcement.
If you give a child an excuse for irresponsible behavior, regardless of what the excuse is, the child will very quickly learn to milk that excuse for everything it is worth and then some.
Actually they probably would have spanked me even if it was accidental just to emphasize the point that I shouldn't have done that.
The 80s were such a cruel time to grow up.
It's very simple: there's one set of rules for the peasants and another set of rules for the aristocracy.
Guess which group you fall into?
If I would have intentionally rammed my bicycle into anyone at the age of 4 years and 9 months I would have received, at a minimum, corporal punishment.
Of course today that would probably get my parents sent to jail.
Because there's ample evidence that spending more money creates better results. That's why children are 3 times more educated than they were back in the 1950s.
When the summary said "For school districts with deep pockets..." it really meant "For school districts that are able to reach deeply into the pockets of the local property owners..."
"It's not our fault that we falsified 103,000 notarized documents, committing an act of perjury each time. It was information overload."
This only works if you can use government power to either force people to buy your products or outlaw alternatives.
What do you think you're doing? They need you to keep voting to preserve the illusion of consent.
Big Corp wants nothing to do with capitalism or free markets.
Big Corp wants Big Government around to regulate their competitors out of existence and bail them out when they get into trouble.
A few months of actual free market capitalism would destroy most of the big corporations.
Note that, rhetoric to the contrary, neither major party has done anything to shrink the government in at least the last quarter century.
This happened in the mid 1980s. The roving bands of pedophiles lurking around each an every corner just waiting for any possible opportunity to steal children did not materialize until cable TV became ubiquitous closer to the turn of the century.
Her biggest mistake was not being familiar with the car. She'd never driven a car that would shift out of park without the key in the ignition so would never even imagine that we'd be able to move the car without her.
Something very much like this happened to me back when I was about 5 or 6 years old.
I was in the car with my siblings and our mother drove to the grocery store. She parked and ran inside for just a few minutes to buy something and my younger brother started playing with the steering wheel, pretending to drive.
This car was a 1962 Chevy Bel Air and the shifter did not have an a key interlock so as he was flailing around he bumped the car into neutral and it started to roll backwards towards a busy street.
Some guy who was getting ready to pull out of the parking lot saw what was happening and drove behind us so that the car t-boned his truck instead of rolling out into the street.
I'd like to know if other users of Google Voice will get SIP access, or only mobile users.
I hope the US reaction is to de-fund the UN.
I mean 100 exojoules.
It's one thing to talk about using technology X to generate all the electricity we need but electricity is only a small fraction of the energy consumed. Replacing fossil fuels will require massive amount of energy.
I don't own shares of anything but I work for a company heavily involved in wind power.
The reason I advocate nuclear power is because I believe it is the only one that can be ramped up quickly enough to replace fossil fuels at a reasonable cost and without significant disruption.
I don't know how you can call burning all the actinides only a small portion of the waste problem. Those isotopes are the ones that make nuclear waste take so long to decay to safe levels and in this reactor they never leave the plant.
It's exactly like that.
The thing that offenses me is the fact that we invented the solution to most of the concerns people have with nuclear power nearly 50 years ago but so far it's gone exactly nowhere.
You are correct that it can be done, but it will be much more expensive and use two orders of magnitude more land area.
To start with you'll need at least three times more wind turbine capacity just to account for the variability of the wind. Some wind farms are only manage to run at 10% of rated capacity.
Then you'll need to add even more towers to compensate for the losses created by the extra energy conversion.
All this will take up a massive amount of space compared to LFTR and comes with problems of its own.
You said that LFTR and wind both have the same price per installed kilowatt.
If you build 500 MW of wind turbines then you could build 500 MW of LFTR for the same price.
How many geothermal plants would the US need to produce 100 exojoules?
If we extracted geothermal energy at that rate how long would it take to deplete the extraction sites and how many new wells would we need to drill every year?
I don't think you understand how Bitcoin works...
Here's where your math fails: That 500 MW LFTR will produce it's nameplate rating all day, every day with over 98% uptime over the 5 or 6 decades that it operates.
Your 500 megawatts of wind towers won't even come close.
There are plenty of private companies who have tried to break into nuclear power but there's not a single government in a country with a large enough market to make the investment worthwhile that doesn't micromanage every aspect of the energy industry.
When the government goes around shooting people in the kneecaps and then handing them crutches it's not particularly enlightening to call those people "addicted to crutches".
Because they planned and started building out their reactors before we invented that technology.