I've been against the Liberals in Ontario since the election where the Harris Conservatives got the boot. Something about them says to me they don't really have any idea how to do this. Actually, it was an instance of Maguinty saying he'd use the power company basically as a debt sink, and the guy in power was like "You idiot, you can't do that..."
Anyway, I live in an even worse province now(Manitoba == welfare and natives to the max! Nobody has to work in this province!), but back when I was somewhere sensible, I tried to keep silly things from happening and failed.:)
I'd say biofuels are popular because most people don't want to give up their cars, or can't afford to. I know myself, I can't afford to drop 100k and 20k every 3-5 years for a vehicle. I'm pretty sure the earth doesn't like massive lithium mines needed to put a new car in every driveway either.
It's odd that you mention all those countries, becuase the US has pulled out of it's non proliferation treaty commitments so it can develop the first new nuclear weapons in half a century. Doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy? I know that Iran is the country I'm worrying about. I mean, they're the only country to ever use a nuclear weapon in wartime over a civilian population, right?
Environmentalists criticize themselves, they don't need help. I mean, who else in the universe would knock hydroelectricity, a limitless, virtually emmissions free source of gigawatts of electricity whose infastructure can last for centuries with relatively little maintenence, because it drains a lake bed and causes a bit of terrain to get flooded?
You really -- REALLY ---- REAAAAAALLY should have defined Negawatts in the FIRST paragraph you mentioned the term in, rather than the second. I figured out from context what you meant, but I figured you just misspelled Megawatts, and took your entire message with less respect than if I had known you were using a different term in the first place.
I'm laughing with you, but I have to admit that I'd love to see widespread use of RTGs for various things. I mean, imagine having an object that you know will be self-powered until you retire. Imagine if we had RTGs for use as automobile power supplies, so you'd have a car you could drive, day in and day out, for 30 years, and hook into the electrical grid at night?
I know, it's slightly off topic, but concerning what that guy was talking about, it reminded me of RTGs, which use the thermocouple effect to extract electrical potential from a piece of radioactive material with a relatively short half-life.
And as another aside, I'm not a nuclear physicist, but I recall that when I was reading about the discovery of the process which enables nuclear fission, but I remember the unit which resulted in the end was an electron volt. Obviously, fission creates enough to cause a scary energy release, but I wonder if the grandparent wasn't correct, that there'd be some way to harness that potential directly, rather than using it to heat the fissionable material, which would heat a liquid, which would heat water, which would drive a turbine, which would create electricity?
Oh, and a lot of land not near NIMBYs, who for some reason will find a reason to be scared of everything.
Aah! Natural sunlight! Get it off, GET IT OFF!
Actually, covering thousands of square miles with these things would basically destroy a huge amount of wildlife habitat. You'd have to cut down all the trees in the area and use chemicals to make sure everything stays dead, too.
Solar sounds good in theory, but it's not efficient, and to create the sort of power we need, it'd basically mean raping the earth in order to get a few terrawatts of power.
Shipping hydrocarbons from Titan and firing carbon sinks into space would be a pretty good way of creating an essentially carbon-free method of running the world. The only issue there is there's a HUGE time lag involved with getting that first shipment. Firing the rain forest into space should be quick though.
Actually, there's a way to deal with nuclear waste which turns it into new nuclear fuel, but regulatory agencies are afraid of it because it results in the creation of nuclear fuel which could be used in bombs.
People are morons. Just about anything in industry could kill a million or two people. The only thing stopping it from happening is that it's not that easy to walk away with some of the most important products in a plant.
Still, there's the little problem regarding massive holes in the earth from mining and megatonnes of industrial waste from the production of thousands of square miles of solar panels. What the hell are we going to do with it?
The bad news is that if history is any indication, they'll just lie in court and intimidate children into giving false testimony about you. Remember, no shame?
I don't even bother stealing their music. I just don't listen to it. They can go die in a cave for all I care.
IANAL, but "securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries" seems to explicitly spell out that congress doesn't have the right to give exclusive right to someone else as well(Making it a somewhat less exclusive right).
As much as I'd love to be able to get all the abandonware I want simply by paying a modest fee to some company, I think treating all IP as a common resource the government can dole out like that smacks of communism.
I can't help but think that you're going to end up pulling more power off the grid to power the solar panel warmers than you'll get back from them in winter months anyway.
Oh, that's great. The debt your generation never intends to pay back is well within regulations. That's just super. When your great grandkids are speaking chinese (living nomadic lives travelling perpetually to the night side of antarctica), I'm sure they'll appreciate your efforts.
But that's not what they'll use the money for. They'll use the money to build tanks and guns and bombs and destroy people in a war they'll treat like a football game to distract people from the fact that our way of life is killing our mother earth.
Bad news. We life in a world where we're literally fucking our children with government debt. They're going to have to become chinese sex slaves when the country finally runs out of money in a few decades.
This world is going to end. Sustainability simply isn't something we can deliver on. I hope we can get to a new planet before this one kicks us out.
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I've been against the Liberals in Ontario since the election where the Harris Conservatives got the boot. Something about them says to me they don't really have any idea how to do this. Actually, it was an instance of Maguinty saying he'd use the power company basically as a debt sink, and the guy in power was like "You idiot, you can't do that..."
:)
Anyway, I live in an even worse province now(Manitoba == welfare and natives to the max! Nobody has to work in this province!), but back when I was somewhere sensible, I tried to keep silly things from happening and failed.
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I'd say biofuels are popular because most people don't want to give up their cars, or can't afford to. I know myself, I can't afford to drop 100k and 20k every 3-5 years for a vehicle. I'm pretty sure the earth doesn't like massive lithium mines needed to put a new car in every driveway either.
Actually, that's a good idea. Cover the black pipes in glass. The capital costs are more expensive, but you can automatically see the benefits.
Canada has developed it's own nuclear power plants, but does not have a nuclear weapons program.
I don't disagree, but I just felt like a counterpoint was useful.
It's odd that you mention all those countries, becuase the US has pulled out of it's non proliferation treaty commitments so it can develop the first new nuclear weapons in half a century. Doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy? I know that Iran is the country I'm worrying about. I mean, they're the only country to ever use a nuclear weapon in wartime over a civilian population, right?
Right?
Environmentalists criticize themselves, they don't need help. I mean, who else in the universe would knock hydroelectricity, a limitless, virtually emmissions free source of gigawatts of electricity whose infastructure can last for centuries with relatively little maintenence, because it drains a lake bed and causes a bit of terrain to get flooded?
Environmentalists, that's who.
You really -- REALLY ---- REAAAAAALLY should have defined Negawatts in the FIRST paragraph you mentioned the term in, rather than the second. I figured out from context what you meant, but I figured you just misspelled Megawatts, and took your entire message with less respect than if I had known you were using a different term in the first place.
I'm laughing with you, but I have to admit that I'd love to see widespread use of RTGs for various things. I mean, imagine having an object that you know will be self-powered until you retire. Imagine if we had RTGs for use as automobile power supplies, so you'd have a car you could drive, day in and day out, for 30 years, and hook into the electrical grid at night?
I know, it's slightly off topic, but concerning what that guy was talking about, it reminded me of RTGs, which use the thermocouple effect to extract electrical potential from a piece of radioactive material with a relatively short half-life.
And as another aside, I'm not a nuclear physicist, but I recall that when I was reading about the discovery of the process which enables nuclear fission, but I remember the unit which resulted in the end was an electron volt. Obviously, fission creates enough to cause a scary energy release, but I wonder if the grandparent wasn't correct, that there'd be some way to harness that potential directly, rather than using it to heat the fissionable material, which would heat a liquid, which would heat water, which would drive a turbine, which would create electricity?
Oh, and a lot of land not near NIMBYs, who for some reason will find a reason to be scared of everything.
Aah! Natural sunlight! Get it off, GET IT OFF!
Actually, covering thousands of square miles with these things would basically destroy a huge amount of wildlife habitat. You'd have to cut down all the trees in the area and use chemicals to make sure everything stays dead, too.
Solar sounds good in theory, but it's not efficient, and to create the sort of power we need, it'd basically mean raping the earth in order to get a few terrawatts of power.
Shipping hydrocarbons from Titan and firing carbon sinks into space would be a pretty good way of creating an essentially carbon-free method of running the world. The only issue there is there's a HUGE time lag involved with getting that first shipment. Firing the rain forest into space should be quick though.
Actually, there's a way to deal with nuclear waste which turns it into new nuclear fuel, but regulatory agencies are afraid of it because it results in the creation of nuclear fuel which could be used in bombs.
People are morons. Just about anything in industry could kill a million or two people. The only thing stopping it from happening is that it's not that easy to walk away with some of the most important products in a plant.
Apparently. For the first time in a generation, George W. Bush has put money towards the development of new bombs in the nuclear arsenal.
I'm so glad Americans keep voting him in. He just makes me feel so SAFE.
Still, there's the little problem regarding massive holes in the earth from mining and megatonnes of industrial waste from the production of thousands of square miles of solar panels. What the hell are we going to do with it?
I wonder, if EVERYONE outsourced their spies to India, would any Indians rat on their coworkers/counterspies?
The bad news is that if history is any indication, they'll just lie in court and intimidate children into giving false testimony about you. Remember, no shame?
I don't even bother stealing their music. I just don't listen to it. They can go die in a cave for all I care.
IANAL, but "securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries" seems to explicitly spell out that congress doesn't have the right to give exclusive right to someone else as well(Making it a somewhat less exclusive right).
As much as I'd love to be able to get all the abandonware I want simply by paying a modest fee to some company, I think treating all IP as a common resource the government can dole out like that smacks of communism.
The singer also released a single "I'm not Rico Suave", lamenting the fact that he'd been typecast by his one hit.
Sounds to me like America is filled with a bunch of Red communists.
Ironic, isn't it?
I can't help but think that you're going to end up pulling more power off the grid to power the solar panel warmers than you'll get back from them in winter months anyway.
I guess we're shooting lolipops and licorice in Khadahar then?
Oh, that's great. The debt your generation never intends to pay back is well within regulations. That's just super. When your great grandkids are speaking chinese (living nomadic lives travelling perpetually to the night side of antarctica), I'm sure they'll appreciate your efforts.
But that's not what they'll use the money for. They'll use the money to build tanks and guns and bombs and destroy people in a war they'll treat like a football game to distract people from the fact that our way of life is killing our mother earth.
Bad news. We life in a world where we're literally fucking our children with government debt. They're going to have to become chinese sex slaves when the country finally runs out of money in a few decades.
This world is going to end. Sustainability simply isn't something we can deliver on. I hope we can get to a new planet before this one kicks us out.