Most people who’ve studied the history of nuclear energy at all know about it. While it’s seldom talked about (like most of the other accidents kept out of the news) SL-1’s not hard to learn more about, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1#Accident_and_response

wacky place

Not surprised! Would like to learn more about what’s become of it.

That’ll teach them to plan ahead!

Idaho! That’s where the first 3 people died from a nuke explosion!

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ebri-reactor-meltdown-1955-nuclear-power

Yep. The E.U. has allowed itself to be dominated for too long by the US megacorps. It has the talent, ideas, and manufacturing to tell US firms to bugger off … and the sooner, the better for us all.

A funny thing happened back in the middle 1800s. A man ran a 7-ton electric locomotive a mile and a half. The motor was powered by a storage device. In the late 1800s, people drove their cars around all day using a storage device. These storage devices became better and better, until they could power trucks and buses for hundreds of miles.

They are still getting better and better. Of course they can be depleted, and it’s good to havea backup methods to cover these cases and to keep the storage devices charged when there’s no sun or wind. Hydroelectric dams powered by water-storage are widely-used, and some flat places still burn fossil fuels to do that as well.

Offshore wind is one of the most environmentally destructive methods of power generation.

Interesting claim (as compared with coal mining and its fly-ash ponds, Canadian tar sands, hundreds of bankrupt and leaking well sites in New Mexico and the Gulf of America, rivers stripped by nuclear heat waste, etc). What exactly does most mean?

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The EU has plenty of talent and ideas. (ESA? RasPi? ARM?) It needs to liberate its people from dependence on US corps and create its own net economy, infrastructure and great sites.

Here in the US? time for these trillionaire monopolists to get their due. Good to see InternetArchive.eu get established!

Conservatives always -hate- deficit spending … or anything else … when someone else is doing it. Else it’s right and noble and good.

I guess there was nothing evil about GM and Ford supplying Nazis with vehicle parts (Henry Ford got a ‘golden eagle’ award from Adolf!) before WW2. Just good business, right?

Nothing evil about IBM supplying them with punch cards to keep track of the Jewish either, right?

But Brittania is still dear to our hearts, innit?

He used to have more taste, before the Borging.

Author’s diagram is about summer. Fall, winter, spring is about heating-degree days. If you’re heating your home with electricity, you’ll not get there with batteries.

So, working towards a solution, there are other ways to store excess energy than in batteries. One example is sand, which can be heated to very high temperatures. Insulate a sand container well and its storage can do a lot of home-heating.

Example: https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/a-scalding-hot-sand-battery-is-now-heating-a-small-finnish-town

We’ll need to put a lot of different methods into use. There are many practical ideas out there, and they’ll need to be tried.

That’s 18 minutes I don’t need to spend learning a minutes worth. (He starts out complaining about the lost time he’s invested…)

So it’s a race then, between AI’s killing us thru high-tech malice, and we killing ourselves thru the same old stupidity?

“And may the best man win!”

Wow, that 55 year-old movie “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project” is getting scarier to watch!

OK, thanks for that clarification. I was thrown off by ‘assessed as healthy…’

From the article: " All 232 men in the study were assessed as healthy when their biopsies were examined by pathologists. After less than two-and-a-half years, half of the men in the study had developed aggressive prostate cancer…"

HALF? I’d suggest staying away from that study … either they don’t know what they’re doing, or some AI made up that article…

SUCH a great movie

Wait 'til they come out (if ever), figure out the tech, make/buy a detector, pull your club out ur backpack …