Joe Mac
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And also about the imminent probability of turning the planet into a flaming ball of fire.
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And also about the imminent probability of turning the planet into a flaming ball of fire.
An entire North Carolina police department resigned after a Black woman town manager was hired | CNN
The mass exodus of an entire police department after the hiring of a Black town manager in North Carolina has opened a conversation about public safety and race relations in a small town of just over 1,500 residents.
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A North Carolina city hired a Black town manager. Then its entire police force resigned.
Less than a week after the entire police department in Kenly, N.C. announced their resignation, citing a “toxic” and “hostile” work environment, elected officials from the town of about 2,000 residents have gone silent on a plan for law enforcement moving forward.
Someone needs to tell people that we can no longer consume the way we used to. This idea that we can switch 1:1 from fossil fuels to renewables with no disruption is ludicrous.
Dtknuckles
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Air Conditioning Will Not Save Us — TIME
Air conditioning is making the world more difficult to air condition.
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"Manchin's been taken to the cleaners" - Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey was all over Manchin and the democrats budget bill today.
Toomey says the bill does nothing to combat climate change (a bit focus of the spending of the bill), but rather provide tax credits for wealthy people to by Teslas.
When it comes to healthcare spending in the budget, this is what Toomey had to say.
Lol, I hate Toomey
Pat Toomey was all over Manchin and the democrats budget bill today.
Toomey says the bill does nothing to combat climate change (a bit focus of the spending of the bill), but rather provide tax credits for wealthy people to by Teslas.
When it comes to healthcare spending in the budget, this is what Toomey had to say.
- It extends Obamacare subsidies for the wealthy that were supposed to expire
- Prescription Drug Price Control is going to be very dangerous and prevent new drugs from being created
- The money for the veterans health / toxic fire pit funding is just a game. The democrats are using a hot button issue now to earmark money in the budget rather than funding this type of care like it's always been done in the past. This is so they $400 billion baked into the budget to go on a spending spree however they please when the budget gets renewed. It should not be part of the budget and a $400 billion spending spree is completely unethical.
Lol, I hate Toomey
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It was on the local news this evening that the cost of electricity is going up by 50% in MA and a few other neighboring states.
The reason? A large portion of our states electricity comes from Natural Gas power plants and the Russia's war with Ukraine is to blame for the price increase. I'm assuming because of tightening supplies of natural gas.
The reason? A large portion of our states electricity comes from Natural Gas power plants and the Russia's war with Ukraine is to blame for the price increase. I'm assuming because of tightening supplies of natural gas.
User190425
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If only there was a way to cheaply produce extremely clean, safe energy with almost zero carbon footprint capable of rapid scaling of output to meet demands.
(There is.)
Before the 2000's, most of our power was generated by nuclear power plants. However, since then they have been dropping like flies. Being decommissioned left and right as they reach 40 years in age. Very few remain.
The majority of our power generation now comes from liquified natural gas, what we have turned to to replace nuclear power.
User190425
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Every protest 40 years ago that prevented the building of a new nuclear power plant resulted in over 100,000,000 tons of CO2 emissions. That’s only if you count natural gas electric plants. If the power generation comes from a coal plant add another 240,000,000 tons to that number. Anyone who professes to support renewable energy and moving away from carbon-based energy production and is not full in on nuclear power is either a liar or an idiot.
Joe Mac
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Or has cottoned onto the fact that there is still absolutely no way to safely deal with nuclear waste?
Is launching it into space not safe? Or just to expensive.
Then again, if the rocket goes boom on takeoff that wouldn't be good...
Yes, what to do with the waste is something that absolutely needs to be solved. They don't even know what to do with it as they decommission power plants. Ultimately, it is left on site indefinitely these days until they figure something out. As as far as I know, that is nothing as of yet.
User190425
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This is factually incorrect.
Joe Mac
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So "safely" is using emergency tanks to contain contaminated water? I know this is a rare case but just look at the mess this shit can cause. Even under normal circumstances the strategy to "safely" contain nuclear waste is to bury in mountain bunkers for what, 500 million years?
More on price increase of electricity in MA. The fixed rate is being increased fix rate of electricity from 10¢ to 22¢ per kW.
Note that this is still the summer rate, the Winter rate will see further increases.
This may sound like our bills are more than doubling, but it's only a 50% increase per say because delivery costs are not going up, only supply costs. But for those who use a lot of electricity may see more than a 50% increase in their bill.
The same increases will be happening in several other states as well. Mostly New England.
The fix rate is usually only adjusted twice a year. Winter and summer rate. This is kind of unprecedented for them to adjust it in the middle of summer for an additional time.
Note that this is still the summer rate, the Winter rate will see further increases.
This may sound like our bills are more than doubling, but it's only a 50% increase per say because delivery costs are not going up, only supply costs. But for those who use a lot of electricity may see more than a 50% increase in their bill.
The same increases will be happening in several other states as well. Mostly New England.
The fix rate is usually only adjusted twice a year. Winter and summer rate. This is kind of unprecedented for them to adjust it in the middle of summer for an additional time.
User190425
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Nuclear produces very little waste contrary to the general perception. It isn’t like The Simpsons opening with truckload after truckload of radioactive sludge being hauled out on the daily. That amount of waste can be further reduced by recycling methods that have been around for a while now that also significantly reduces the amount of time that it remains radioactive. The opposition to nuclear energy and storage of the waste is almost entirely political in nature and not due to legitimate scientifically based safety concerns.
So too modify my earlier statement, there is a third category of people who are opposed to nuclear energy. It is likely the majority of the opposed. Those who have been sold and believed the lies of malicious actors and useful idiots. Natural gas industry and petro-state actors don’t fund anti-nuclear and pro wind/solar efforts out of a sense of altruism. Their inefficiency and lack of scalability requires backups to meet demand surges. The number one choice for that is natural gas.