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Old 04-22-2020, 04:34 PM   #5331 (permalink)
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Can you say a bit more about this? I'm not sure what you mean.
Necessities like food, housing, healthcare, and power can and does outpace what would benefit consumers. I don't trust the market to correct itself when it comes to things with a built-in clientele.

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Are you saying that the manufacturing emissions net-net might out pace oil? If so, I'd be shocked to see it but I'll dig in.
It wouldn't outpace it, but revising our power infrastructure to use solar instead of coal, gas, etc. would still generate problematic amounts of emissions.

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Nuclear has two or three major issues for the US (given that we're the 2nd biggest emitter).

1. Because we stopped making plants after 3-mile island, the US currently lacks the experience and knowledge to build them well. Easily fixed but a hurdle none-the-less

2. The upfront overhead capx costs are insane. You'd need to make a crazy push to get that passed, funded, and to provide MW at a cost comparable to renewables. Maybe this would work in deregulated markets, but admittedly I'm not an expert on this.
Agreed. It'd be difficult, but it'd be worth it.
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Old 04-23-2020, 08:06 AM   #5332 (permalink)
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re: the energy conversation. This is a pretty decent analysis of American energy. It seems like a general historical overview.

https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2...ecksandbalance
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Old 04-27-2020, 01:17 PM   #5333 (permalink)
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Old 04-27-2020, 01:23 PM   #5334 (permalink)
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Old 04-27-2020, 01:28 PM   #5335 (permalink)
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It's not like they're going to diddle him.
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I'm not on team trump, but if he wins I won't be sad
I won't try to guess your motivation behind these statements, but from over here it feels like the most callous calculation I could hear in 2020.


Only in the fiction where Obama "wasn't much different" than Trump can you excuse what's gone on in the past almost 4 years. I'm not going to rehash old arguments, but there's a level of detachment you need to have to not understand the gutting of American society that's going on here.

In my view, you can only believe Obama, Biden, Clinton, and Trump are the same when you stay on the surface and don't get into the details.
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Michael Moore produced a film about climate change that’s a gift to Big Oil
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Old 04-28-2020, 05:04 PM   #5338 (permalink)
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Yet, the film Moore backed concludes that population control, not clean energy, is the answer. This is a highly questionable solution, which has more in common with anti-immigration hate groups than the progressive movement.
lol

Sorry that the truth doesn’t fit their political outline. Fewer people is the ONLY way. It’s some incredible **** that anyone who has ever been outside doesn’t understand this.
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Old 04-28-2020, 05:06 PM   #5339 (permalink)
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This reminds me of the people who complain about how famous the Kardashians are without realizing that they're the only ones who care enough about the family to sustain their fame.

I doubt the film will have much impact, Moore isn't relevant anymore and I'm pretty sure he's widely recognized to be more concerned with an entertaining product than accuracy.
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What film has he made that wasn’t totally dead on?
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