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  1. Re:Yeah, blame China on Some Recycling Is Now Being Re-Routed To Landfills (wral.com) · · Score: 1

    actually, no. Northern Europe is doing things like Electronics correctly. Basically, they are burning items to completion, gaining electricity from it, while at the same time, having concentrated elements. The concentrated elements can then be separated.

  2. China did the RIGHT THING on Some Recycling Is Now Being Re-Routed To Landfills (wral.com) · · Score: 1

    What is really needed is for nations to start recycling their own goods and to do a lot less manufacturing offshore and instead, move it on-shore.
    Why? Because the pollution from just 16 of China's ships is more than what the world does with vehicles. Now that is pollution,not CO2. Still, we need to stop this insanity.

    Hopefully, the west will get smart about this. Just go into old mines and put the various sorted elements for future recycling. And as to the un-wanted elements, such as mercury, lead, etc, those will likely be wanted somewhere down the road. So again, stash them in old mines.

  3. Re: No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Show us the PA who claims that. There is none

  4. Re: No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, how many are shorting?

  5. Re: By the numbers on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok. Please show us how Tesla has hurt all American taxpayers.

  6. Re: No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How many ppl are actually doing the shorting?

  7. Re: No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Lol. The only thing somewhat true was that he was not nice to his wife. The PA thing is 100% false. Tesla did not hire the illegals. Sub contractors did. And the ex says he was harsh at first, but changed for the better until towards the end.

  8. Re: No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    While it is a mistake to outlaw shorts, I would have no problem with limiting shorts to institutional players, or anybody with the money to cover up to say 10x or even 100x, what you bet. I'm guessing that many shorts here can not cover what is coming shortly.

  9. Re: an anonymous reader on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, there are many ppl here that back musk. In fact, I would guess that the majority of us that worked Linux and had to deal with the fud from ppl like you , back him. So it could be rei or any number of none trolls.

  10. So when will amazon/ring clean up? on Severe Firmware Vulnerabilities Found In Popular Supermicro Server Products (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    Ring currently sends info to CHina. This has NOT been cleaned up. I would have thought that Amazon buying ring would force them to clean up their act.
    Are others still seeing their Ring send packets to china?

  11. Being in the ground is quite different than being spread via air ON the ground as well as into our waters.

  12. America's coal plants ran at 90% load, is only 30% of our source of electricity, while China's coal plants ran at 50% load, is doing 80% of your electricity. That is why China's air is so horrible and why your pollution and CO2 will grow as you switch to EVs.

  13. What greenies want coal converted to oil?
    Oil has much heavier use than the rest so of course it is at top. However, coal can not be cleaned up and oil can be. Adding to the pollution, Coal produces the most CO2 even under the best of conditions.
    This says checkmate
    Top of the list shows why your nation burning 80% coal for electricity, looks so bad but the west does not. Even nations like Saudi Arabia that burn large amounts of oil for electricity, does not look like your nation.

  14. Chances are good that I have forgotten more about Nuclear power/waste than you have known in your lifetime.
    The fact that you believe that nuclear waste is an issue or that you think that coal is safe, says that you really have no education about what you are talking about.

  15. Only an idiot like Porky/Red tide, thinks that the handling equipment is a real problem. We have plenty of places to bury it including WIPP, as well as on-site of each nuclear site. When I worked with nuclear material (for DNA sequencing and protein tracing), we had separate garbage that was sent to another site for burial.
    Sadly, idiots like you run around lying about stuff that you have NO knowledge of.

  16. Uh no. Coal does not produce miniscle amounts over the many 1000 years coal has been burned. And concentrated nuclear waste that is truely all used up is ideal for burying again. In fact, if we would use all that 'nuke waste' up, it could fit inside of WIPP, let alone yucca mtn.

  17. baseload is required. That is why after a certain point, wind/solar become expensive.
    And oil is MUCH cleaner than coal. Locks in the pollutants, and unless you convert coal to methane, or some other form of gas, it will ALWAYS be the dirtiest choice, bar none.

  18. no, you can't. Coal spreads radioactive products all over esp. in nations like CHina which refuse to apply their pollution controls to the max.

  19. battery back up is being used by utilities not to back up variable supplies, but to back up variable demands. the problem with this is that rechargeable batteries do NOT last months on end.

  20. LOL.
    Nuclear waste is all over. Plenty of it in the ground. BUT disregarding that, we can burn up nuclear waste, cut the quantity down to about 1/5-1/10 of the current amount, as well as make it a great deal safer.

  21. Yes. And and if we use up all of our nuclear product here in America, instead of 100,000 tonnes of waste that is bad for 200,000+ years, we would have less than 10,000 tonnes and safe within 200 years. Sadly, it is idiots that force us to have lots of bad waste.

  22. no. neither is a good baseload. They are both dirty and coal is the most expensive form of energy going.

  23. If china is not stopped from adding new coal plants all over the globe and in china, then it is like doing CPR on a patient without a heart.

  24. Re:One problem with the direction we're going on The World Set a New Record For Renewable Power in 2017, But Emissions Are Still Rising (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    EIA is bad are future casting, but they have all the numbers for current and past usage. He has that about right.

    What is not shown is that coal is being replaced by a mix of wind/nat gas while solar is up&coming on own. Geothermal really can be upgraded quickly, and nuclear SMRs are coming. First one will be NuScale in 2021.

  25. Re:One problem with the direction we're going on The World Set a New Record For Renewable Power in 2017, But Emissions Are Still Rising (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    btw, keep things in context.
    Coal at under 30%, is dirty. Even in the BEST of conditions, the CO2 that emits per BTU is so high that we really need to kill it off quickly.
    OTOH, the nat gas is a very low emitter / BTU. Coal is something like 2.5x as much CO2 per BTU vs. nat gas. In addition, nat gas can be started/stopped again for turbines, small boilers, etc. Coal really can not.

    The real issue is that we need to kill coal ASAP, stop building out new nat gas plants, and then replace these with nuclear SMRs.