That's a lot of claims. Do you have any cites for any of them?
The article say thorium does NOT have to be enriched. A quick look at the the isotopes of thorium wikipedia article confirms that Th-232 is the only isotope of any real abundance. That's a bit of a major error on your part, and casts doubt on the reliability of the rest of your post.
The fan spends four years in production. The film is screened in New York and L.A.
Sounds like they did it about exactly right. They finished the film, had it shown in at least two major cities, had it up for online distribution for a month, and now there's a story about it in one of the best places to advertise.
So you REALLY think they should have tried to approach a company as large as Nintendo and alert them to the fact they're trying to make a movie that would make Nintendo essentially zero dollars and Nintendo would have zero input on? It might have worked, but I wouldn't bet on it. It would be tough enough to just get an ANSWER from them. The most likely scenario is you'd get a letter from legal telling you how they'll sue you if you release the movie. Why bait the sharks?
It's an interesting solution (I wasn't aware there was such a system before). It sounds like you need a drainage point though (one that won't piss off your neighbors as you dump a lot of water). How efficient is the system? i.e. for each gallon of city water out, how much sump water does it drain?
Forget crush (It's not that difficult to armor the batteries)... What happens when you short one out?
It also wouldn't be that hard to put a circuit breaker or some sort of relay in the battery itself to protect against this kind of failure. Trip the circuit in the event of a crash. I'm actually surprised it isn't already in these hybrid batteries since they're such high-voltage. Don't forget, safety is always a trade-off.
EVERYTHING is a trade-off if you put it that way. Eradicating smallpox was a trade-off between saving millions of lives, and people not directly experiencing the tragedy of plague spreading across the world. Is that really a "trade-off" in any conventional sense of the word?
You make it sound like we're always losing something of value whenever something is safer. That's just silly. It's important to understand the effects you have whenever you make a decision, but if you look at it from a limited perspective you're always going to be able to twist your decision into something it's not.
The idea of sitting atop a massive lithium-ion battery pack makes me far more nervous than I've ever been about a tank of gasoline.
Unfamiliarity often makes people nervous. I don't exactly agree with your assessment of old=safe. You might want to look into some sense of scale.
The average US home uses about 30 KW/h of electricity per day site. A gallon of gasoline has the energy equivalent of 33.4 KW/h site. 7 days is 210 KW/h. 210/33.4 is a little over 6 gallons of gasoline.
That's a decent amount of energy, but we already keep equivalent amount of energy in far more dangerous ways (you think that 5 gallon cheap plastic gas can you have in the garage is very safe? How long have they been around?)
So while I'd want to know what kind of safety systems this kind of system has, I also wouldn't reject it out of hand simply because the technology has "only" been around for around 30 years. Of course, why I'd ever need an entire weeks worth of backup power I don't know. It might be nice to have a day or two of backup power though for emergencies, or sudden power outages in the depths of winter.
I'm not saying there's proof to say that, just that I believe it to be possible.
Maybe, who's to say? All we have is a few words from a journalist who's never actually talked to the man.
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As he stated pretty clearly, you don't need a special tool to do the brakes.
As stated pretty clearly, he had to make the special tool. Every car I've ever owned or worked on you could either just use a flat headed screwdriver to drive the caliper back, or just use a C-clamp. A tiny disadvantage, and a pretty big advantage -- a proper disc handbrake. Well worth an extra couple of minutes work every few years.
I guess I don't see the advantage. Why should I care if the handbrake is a disc or not? You'll find that pretty much every car will need a special tool to do something
For normal maintenance tasks? I've had or worked on Nissans, Chryslers, GMs, and Hyundais over the years, and NONE of those have required make/model specific tools to do routine maintenance tasks like setting the valve clearances, or changing brakes.
As for your comment regarding turning, that's just ridiculous. Every car needs a slightly different cornering technique at RACING SPEED.
Who said anything about racing? I didn't, the GP didn't, the GGP didn't. You just seemed to pluck that out of the air.
I guess I have to be more than a little skeptical of the opinion of someone who's only built up a view of someone based on hearsay. Trying to spin this like it's an advantage is at best self deception. Maybe it's an advantage because you get to make more stuff up, but it's certainly no advantage in actually trying to understand the person, or honestly convey who they are.
I don't really blame the guy for not wanting to talk to journalists. With few exceptions, journalists don't represent the interests of the truth, (and most certainly not YOUR interests). Generally they're trying to sell some eyeballs, and you're the bait. Gessen talks about how the when you interview someone you're always fighting their own perception of them self. That may be true (though I'm not sure it's exactly a negotiation as much as it is an integration). When you read a journalists biography, you're constantly fighting what the journalist might have thought was the most interesting story to tell, (as opposed to the most accurate one).
The first article is actually rather good. It focuses on what most of us suspect is the larger architectural challenge, the database,IO, and scaling components not originally designed for a much larger scale. Lessons learned are avoiding joins, reducing IO requests, avoiding DBs for static data, etc. PHP is mentioned as the presentation layer, and optimizations are architectural, not switching languages. Criticisms of PHP are not ones of performance, but ones of maintainability, programming practices, and integrating with C++ code.
I can't read the second article because it's slashdotted, but the summary of it leads me to believe the author either completely ignored the first article, or didn't understand it at all. I won't re-hash the "Where the fuck did 10:1 come from?" arguments everyone else is very correctly bringing up. But I would like to point out that the author of the second article doesn't sound like he/she has a good grasp of what the first article says.
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Heh.
So except for the fact you required 3 special tools to complete what most cars don't require special tools for (including a BRAKE JOB which I've done quiet easily on 4 different cars over the past 20 years), and "other cars have similar steering design flaws" which requires a specialized way of TURNING.... it's a great car? Are you sure this isn't a sarcastic reply?
You really prove the point of the GP quite nicely. I'm very glad I never owned one of these cars.
What a horrible story. A few years ago I thought about buying a Saab someday, but then I looked up the reliability on Consumer Reports (generally poor). That and the price tag killed any thoughts about Saab.
I think the lesson learned from your story (apart from not buying a 1.0 version of anything) is to not import a car into a country where it's not normally sold. I'd bet a lot of your negative dealer experiences can be explained by just this one simple fact. The mechanics don't know anything about it, the sales guys don't give a rats ass about it's reputation, the support people don't know anything about recalls, your local dealership doesn't see any loyalty towards you since you didn't buy it from THEM, and the regional office finds it easier to just ignore you since your model doesn't even show up under magnification.
The interpretation must be rather broad, since Students for Sensible Drug Policy IS registered as tax-deductible (which you can find here
So I guess I'm about as confused as you are. I certainly understand Chase's position on the whole thing, but whoever set this thing up at Chase was an idiot for not pre-approving or having some control over the list of charities you could vote for. As someone else pointed out, Chase doesn't care about charity one bit, the whole thing is just an attempt to make Chase look better during a time when they look BAD for reasons I don't have to explain.
I've had to re-write too much stuff because a java built in function relied on native libraries, which did not act the same (regular expression handling in 1.4 and earlier, is a good example
Your standard for cross platform is rather high. If you expect it to be 100% perfect in every way, cross-platform will never exist.
There's plenty of people that run Java cross-platform every day with minimal issues. There's MANY OSS Java projects that work just fine on multiple platforms. My understanding of.Net is that it's nowhere even near this level of cross-plaform. Even Mono only supports an older version of.Net (and I'd wonder how well it works at that). Raising the bar of what you consider cross-plaform to some very high level to make Java and.Net appear similar is simply deceptive and dishonest.
Most universities have at least one library which has a Ricoh scanner that does exactly what his does, i.e. it writes out a PDF onto your USB stick. I don't know where he's a graduate student, but I bet if he looked in his library he could have saved himself $300.
Except most scanners take on the order of tens of seconds to scan a page, and force you to pick up the book, turn the page, and put it flat again. This arrangement takes a picture and the book is in its normal orientation, so page turning is easy. With that kind of arrangement I don't doubt you can scan a 400 page book in 20 minutes.
What's the power density? If you need a dozen phonebooks worth of paper to store 100wH, never mind...
To power a car, sure. If space is ample, or energy requirements are minimal, then this could be very useful. What's the ink made of? Oil? If so: never mind.
Where does this come from? If you think we're going to eliminate oil derived products anytime soon, think again. Oil isn't going away as a feedstock for the chemical industry. If your requirement is that nothing is ever tied to petroleum, just give up now. You won't get very far.
validate your SQL inputs before posting them against an Internet-facing database.
Or simply use prepared statements (or whatever the equivalent term is in your language of choice). Prepared statements are far safer and easier than trying to validate all the current potential and future potential for breaking out of a SQL statement. It won't protect you from people putting in their own parameters into your SQL statement (like say someone elses userID), but that's a different class of vulnerability.
If IBM hasn't opened up, the two big players duking it out for the PC market would be Commodore and Apple. Without the "clone makers" (wow does that sound like an archaic term) the PC would never have taken the market share it did. Without them and Microsoft, Commodore and Apple would have mopped the floor with IBMs slow innovation pace.
"IT people" for all the computer-centric jobs, whether hardware, software, or support; eg, "lawyers" whether they're finance, liability, or contract.
Bullshit. Software developers have completely different training and skills than a help desk person. It would be like having a term "law guy" that you lump lawyers, legal secretaries, court reporters, bailiffs, and judges.
The distinctions you're talking about are the differences between application developers, operating system developers, embedded developers, SQL developers, etc.
So the supposed big gossip site Juicy Campus folded in February after existing for a whole year and a half. CollegeACB is some site run by an English Major out of his dorm room. If you actually GO to the site, you'll see a lot of old, outdated posts mostly people asking for gossip and very few actually providing gossip. So this is supposed to be the big problem Colleges are worried about?
This is just another lazy journalist creating a story out of nothing.
You don't seem to realize how crazy a figure of zero deaths is in a major industry like nuclear power.
You don't seem to realize that the whole worker death thing is a red herring. Are you really trying to tell me that it's the only metric that measures safety and maintenance? (You may also note that the scope was limited to these few particular named incidents, there are certainly workers who've died in the nuclear power industry)
Well, the beams have the energy equivalent of 87 KG of TNT. Your statement implies that standing in front of the beam would cause you to explode, which I very much doubt.
I am curious as to what actually WOULD happen. The beams themselves are very narrow (on the order of a millimeter according to http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/beam.htm ). With such a tiny size I might guess the beam would quickly cut a hole straight through you.
I'll start off by saying the article presents a lot of spin and fear, but not a lot of facts. Some of it is troubling though. You'll note that of the "shocking" lapses in power plant operations, ZERO led to significant releases of radioactivity. ZERO led to any worker deaths or major injuries.
Are you seriously suggesting that the only time for concern is AFTER we get the significant releases of radioactivity, or worker deaths?
The worst of the bunch, the "six inch deep hole" in the Davis-Besse pressure vessel head, wasn't caused by lax regulation -- it was caused by deliberate fraud.
WTF? You think everyone in the world is honest, and "regulation" doesn't involve actually going out and doing inspections? The article also claims the other plant failure was due to lack of maintenance due to incorrect records. (Possible fraud, but it can't be proven). But hey, as long as everyone is honest and forthright it'll all be OK.. everyone is honest and forthright, right? Just ask The Peanut Corporation of America Forty years of operational experience has demonstrated to everyone but the most anti-nuke environmentalists that there is sufficient safety margin to operate safely for another twenty years.
Everyone? Seriously everyone? I'm not convinced, but then I don't actually know anything about reactor design, embrittle, nuclear plant regulations, etc. 40 years of something operating with few incidents doesn't convince me it could operate for another 20 years, why would it? (Oh, and I'm hardly "the must anti-nuke environmentalists").
The article is a lot of spin and fear mongering, but your response is about equally so. It's so dismissive of what may be some legitimate concerns that it makes me more inclined to believe the spin-filled article.
there is a real energy crisis looming. Simply because people won't plan ahead, the oil will start to run out roughly when all the fission plants have to go offline do to safety reasons.
People also don't understand the fuel sources for our electric generation. Oil accounts for a tiny percentage of 1.6% in the U.S., so running out of oil would be a tiny dent in production capacity. Most electric generation comes from Coal, Natural Gas, and Nuclear power.
Oh, and wind turbines are being built all over the country. Yes, there's some opposition, but there's always some opposition to anything, including building a Wendys, or a softball field.
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That's a lot of claims. Do you have any cites for any of them?
The article say thorium does NOT have to be enriched. A quick look at the the isotopes of thorium wikipedia article confirms that Th-232 is the only isotope of any real abundance. That's a bit of a major error on your part, and casts doubt on the reliability of the rest of your post.
The fan spends four years in production. The film is screened in New York and L.A.
Sounds like they did it about exactly right. They finished the film, had it shown in at least two major cities, had it up for online distribution for a month, and now there's a story about it in one of the best places to advertise.
So you REALLY think they should have tried to approach a company as large as Nintendo and alert them to the fact they're trying to make a movie that would make Nintendo essentially zero dollars and Nintendo would have zero input on? It might have worked, but I wouldn't bet on it. It would be tough enough to just get an ANSWER from them. The most likely scenario is you'd get a letter from legal telling you how they'll sue you if you release the movie. Why bait the sharks?
Die of thirst? On a fucking plane? Really?
I take it you're new to the concept of hyperbole? Do you get similarly upset at people who suggest eating horses do to hunger?
Seriously? A Horse? You couldn't possibly eat an entire horse! Please cite references of actual horse eating incidents!
It's an interesting solution (I wasn't aware there was such a system before). It sounds like you need a drainage point though (one that won't piss off your neighbors as you dump a lot of water). How efficient is the system? i.e. for each gallon of city water out, how much sump water does it drain?
I have a city-water siphon pump backup. No battery needed.
What happens if the sewer is non-functional?
Forget crush (It's not that difficult to armor the batteries)... What happens when you short one out?
It also wouldn't be that hard to put a circuit breaker or some sort of relay in the battery itself to protect against this kind of failure. Trip the circuit in the event of a crash. I'm actually surprised it isn't already in these hybrid batteries since they're such high-voltage.
Don't forget, safety is always a trade-off.
EVERYTHING is a trade-off if you put it that way. Eradicating smallpox was a trade-off between saving millions of lives, and people not directly experiencing the tragedy of plague spreading across the world. Is that really a "trade-off" in any conventional sense of the word?
You make it sound like we're always losing something of value whenever something is safer. That's just silly. It's important to understand the effects you have whenever you make a decision, but if you look at it from a limited perspective you're always going to be able to twist your decision into something it's not.
The idea of sitting atop a massive lithium-ion battery pack makes me far more nervous than I've ever been about a tank of gasoline.
Unfamiliarity often makes people nervous. I don't exactly agree with your assessment of old=safe. You might want to look into some sense of scale.
The average US home uses about 30 KW/h of electricity per day site. A gallon of gasoline has the energy equivalent of 33.4 KW/h site. 7 days is 210 KW/h. 210/33.4 is a little over 6 gallons of gasoline.
That's a decent amount of energy, but we already keep equivalent amount of energy in far more dangerous ways (you think that 5 gallon cheap plastic gas can you have in the garage is very safe? How long have they been around?)
So while I'd want to know what kind of safety systems this kind of system has, I also wouldn't reject it out of hand simply because the technology has "only" been around for around 30 years. Of course, why I'd ever need an entire weeks worth of backup power I don't know. It might be nice to have a day or two of backup power though for emergencies, or sudden power outages in the depths of winter.
I'm not saying there's proof to say that, just that I believe it to be possible.
Maybe, who's to say? All we have is a few words from a journalist who's never actually talked to the man.
As he stated pretty clearly, you don't need a special tool to do the brakes.
As stated pretty clearly, he had to make the special tool. Every car I've ever owned or worked on you could either just use a flat headed screwdriver to drive the caliper back, or just use a C-clamp.
A tiny disadvantage, and a pretty big advantage -- a proper disc handbrake. Well worth an extra couple of minutes work every few years.
I guess I don't see the advantage. Why should I care if the handbrake is a disc or not?
You'll find that pretty much every car will need a special tool to do something
For normal maintenance tasks? I've had or worked on Nissans, Chryslers, GMs, and Hyundais over the years, and NONE of those have required make/model specific tools to do routine maintenance tasks like setting the valve clearances, or changing brakes.
As for your comment regarding turning, that's just ridiculous. Every car needs a slightly different cornering technique at RACING SPEED.
Who said anything about racing? I didn't, the GP didn't, the GGP didn't. You just seemed to pluck that out of the air.
I guess I have to be more than a little skeptical of the opinion of someone who's only built up a view of someone based on hearsay. Trying to spin this like it's an advantage is at best self deception. Maybe it's an advantage because you get to make more stuff up, but it's certainly no advantage in actually trying to understand the person, or honestly convey who they are.
I don't really blame the guy for not wanting to talk to journalists. With few exceptions, journalists don't represent the interests of the truth, (and most certainly not YOUR interests). Generally they're trying to sell some eyeballs, and you're the bait. Gessen talks about how the when you interview someone you're always fighting their own perception of them self. That may be true (though I'm not sure it's exactly a negotiation as much as it is an integration). When you read a journalists biography, you're constantly fighting what the journalist might have thought was the most interesting story to tell, (as opposed to the most accurate one).
The first article is actually rather good. It focuses on what most of us suspect is the larger architectural challenge, the database,IO, and scaling components not originally designed for a much larger scale. Lessons learned are avoiding joins, reducing IO requests, avoiding DBs for static data, etc. PHP is mentioned as the presentation layer, and optimizations are architectural, not switching languages. Criticisms of PHP are not ones of performance, but ones of maintainability, programming practices, and integrating with C++ code.
I can't read the second article because it's slashdotted, but the summary of it leads me to believe the author either completely ignored the first article, or didn't understand it at all. I won't re-hash the "Where the fuck did 10:1 come from?" arguments everyone else is very correctly bringing up. But I would like to point out that the author of the second article doesn't sound like he/she has a good grasp of what the first article says.
Heh.
So except for the fact you required 3 special tools to complete what most cars don't require special tools for (including a BRAKE JOB which I've done quiet easily on 4 different cars over the past 20 years), and "other cars have similar steering design flaws" which requires a specialized way of TURNING.... it's a great car? Are you sure this isn't a sarcastic reply?
You really prove the point of the GP quite nicely. I'm very glad I never owned one of these cars.
What a horrible story. A few years ago I thought about buying a Saab someday, but then I looked up the reliability on Consumer Reports (generally poor). That and the price tag killed any thoughts about Saab.
I think the lesson learned from your story (apart from not buying a 1.0 version of anything) is to not import a car into a country where it's not normally sold. I'd bet a lot of your negative dealer experiences can be explained by just this one simple fact. The mechanics don't know anything about it, the sales guys don't give a rats ass about it's reputation, the support people don't know anything about recalls, your local dealership doesn't see any loyalty towards you since you didn't buy it from THEM, and the regional office finds it easier to just ignore you since your model doesn't even show up under magnification.
In what ways are these charities? I thought charity is about giving to people in need, not supporting political organisations.
Tax deductible charitable donations are a little broader than that. The IRS defines it here: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p526/ar02.html#en_US_publink100049599
The interpretation must be rather broad, since Students for Sensible Drug Policy IS registered as tax-deductible (which you can find here
So I guess I'm about as confused as you are. I certainly understand Chase's position on the whole thing, but whoever set this thing up at Chase was an idiot for not pre-approving or having some control over the list of charities you could vote for. As someone else pointed out, Chase doesn't care about charity one bit, the whole thing is just an attempt to make Chase look better during a time when they look BAD for reasons I don't have to explain.
Actually, I'd argue Java is also only in theory.
I've had to re-write too much stuff because a java built in function relied on native libraries, which did not act the same (regular expression handling in 1.4 and earlier, is a good example
Your standard for cross platform is rather high. If you expect it to be 100% perfect in every way, cross-platform will never exist.
There's plenty of people that run Java cross-platform every day with minimal issues. There's MANY OSS Java projects that work just fine on multiple platforms. My understanding of .Net is that it's nowhere even near this level of cross-plaform. Even Mono only supports an older version of .Net (and I'd wonder how well it works at that). Raising the bar of what you consider cross-plaform to some very high level to make Java and .Net appear similar is simply deceptive and dishonest.
Most universities have at least one library which has a Ricoh scanner that does exactly what his does, i.e. it writes out a PDF onto your USB stick. I don't know where he's a graduate student, but I bet if he looked in his library he could have saved himself $300.
Except most scanners take on the order of tens of seconds to scan a page, and force you to pick up the book, turn the page, and put it flat again. This arrangement takes a picture and the book is in its normal orientation, so page turning is easy. With that kind of arrangement I don't doubt you can scan a 400 page book in 20 minutes.
What's the power density? If you need a dozen phonebooks worth of paper to store 100wH, never mind...
To power a car, sure. If space is ample, or energy requirements are minimal, then this could be very useful.
What's the ink made of? Oil? If so: never mind.
Where does this come from? If you think we're going to eliminate oil derived products anytime soon, think again. Oil isn't going away as a feedstock for the chemical industry. If your requirement is that nothing is ever tied to petroleum, just give up now. You won't get very far.
validate your SQL inputs before posting them against an Internet-facing database.
Or simply use prepared statements (or whatever the equivalent term is in your language of choice). Prepared statements are far safer and easier than trying to validate all the current potential and future potential for breaking out of a SQL statement. It won't protect you from people putting in their own parameters into your SQL statement (like say someone elses userID), but that's a different class of vulnerability.
Heh.
If IBM hasn't opened up, the two big players duking it out for the PC market would be Commodore and Apple. Without the "clone makers" (wow does that sound like an archaic term) the PC would never have taken the market share it did. Without them and Microsoft, Commodore and Apple would have mopped the floor with IBMs slow innovation pace.
"IT people" for all the computer-centric jobs, whether hardware, software, or support; eg, "lawyers" whether they're finance, liability, or contract.
Bullshit. Software developers have completely different training and skills than a help desk person. It would be like having a term "law guy" that you lump lawyers, legal secretaries, court reporters, bailiffs, and judges.
The distinctions you're talking about are the differences between application developers, operating system developers, embedded developers, SQL developers, etc.
So the supposed big gossip site Juicy Campus folded in February after existing for a whole year and a half. CollegeACB is some site run by an English Major out of his dorm room. If you actually GO to the site, you'll see a lot of old, outdated posts mostly people asking for gossip and very few actually providing gossip. So this is supposed to be the big problem Colleges are worried about?
This is just another lazy journalist creating a story out of nothing.
You don't seem to realize how crazy a figure of zero deaths is in a major industry like nuclear power.
You don't seem to realize that the whole worker death thing is a red herring. Are you really trying to tell me that it's the only metric that measures safety and maintenance? (You may also note that the scope was limited to these few particular named incidents, there are certainly workers who've died in the nuclear power industry)
Well, the beams have the energy equivalent of 87 KG of TNT. Your statement implies that standing in front of the beam would cause you to explode, which I very much doubt.
I am curious as to what actually WOULD happen. The beams themselves are very narrow (on the order of a millimeter according to http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/beam.htm ). With such a tiny size I might guess the beam would quickly cut a hole straight through you.
I'll start off by saying the article presents a lot of spin and fear, but not a lot of facts. Some of it is troubling though.
You'll note that of the "shocking" lapses in power plant operations, ZERO led to significant releases of radioactivity. ZERO led to any worker deaths or major injuries.
Are you seriously suggesting that the only time for concern is AFTER we get the significant releases of radioactivity, or worker deaths?
The worst of the bunch, the "six inch deep hole" in the Davis-Besse pressure vessel head, wasn't caused by lax regulation -- it was caused by deliberate fraud.
WTF? You think everyone in the world is honest, and "regulation" doesn't involve actually going out and doing inspections? The article also claims the other plant failure was due to lack of maintenance due to incorrect records. (Possible fraud, but it can't be proven). But hey, as long as everyone is honest and forthright it'll all be OK.. everyone is honest and forthright, right? Just ask The Peanut Corporation of America
Forty years of operational experience has demonstrated to everyone but the most anti-nuke environmentalists that there is sufficient safety margin to operate safely for another twenty years.
Everyone? Seriously everyone? I'm not convinced, but then I don't actually know anything about reactor design, embrittle, nuclear plant regulations, etc. 40 years of something operating with few incidents doesn't convince me it could operate for another 20 years, why would it? (Oh, and I'm hardly "the must anti-nuke environmentalists").
The article is a lot of spin and fear mongering, but your response is about equally so. It's so dismissive of what may be some legitimate concerns that it makes me more inclined to believe the spin-filled article.
there is a real energy crisis looming. Simply because people won't plan ahead, the oil will start to run out roughly when all the fission plants have to go offline do to safety reasons.
People also don't understand the fuel sources for our electric generation. Oil accounts for a tiny percentage of 1.6% in the U.S., so running out of oil would be a tiny dent in production capacity. Most electric generation comes from Coal, Natural Gas, and Nuclear power.
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=electricity_in_the_united_states
Also, Nuclear is about 20%, not 50%.
Oh, and wind turbines are being built all over the country. Yes, there's some opposition, but there's always some opposition to anything, including building a Wendys, or a softball field.