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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Nuclear power isn't a feasible option in much of the world.
Statistical anomaly.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Tidal could more than meet our demand alone.Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
There's no need for nuclear when there are perfectly green technologies that can meet demand, like wind, solar, and tidal. Nukes produce a poison we have no way to safely dispose of.
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While not directly linked, I think we can take care of a good deal of our energy needs by solar. I used to be very skeptical about non-subsidized solar, but we're going to be hitting some cost sweet spots for thin film solar in the next several years.
Here is a fascinating presentation by Mark Pinto of Applied Materials about how they see this playing out. They hope to put solar power on the LCD panel cost trajectory. It was compelling for me.
See, especially, starting at ~ 35:00.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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Originally posted by Kuciwalker
You think the power loss over 1 mile of wire is greater than the cost of powerful cooling equipment along that entire mile?
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Originally posted by DAVOUT
It could change. The world as it is today was not anticipated by many 20 years ago.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18233/
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Originally posted by Kuciwalker
The "dangers" of nuclear are mostly luddite scaremongering.
... which is countered by the fact that nuclear is very heavily subsidized and therefore appears much cheaper than it actually is.
But when we run low on oil, it won't seem so expensive.
The economy will take a major hit when we start running low on oil without a doubt.
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