Non-IT News Thread
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Nuclear power produces a ton of energy, but also way to much extremely volatile waste. I'd happily throw out $800 million to not build another reactor.
Those of us that grew up in a nuclear evac zone then once went to full emergency evac with a pending meltdown have a different perspective than most of the country. NY with its near miss and PA with its Three Mile Island know better.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
I'm not sure how I feel about this.
Agreed.
Not sure that I see this as a bad thing. The senate has consistently battled to keep nuclear waste where it was created, rather than disposing of it in a safe mountain somewhere. Which was a big part of the "keep it there" initiative. States not wanting truck / trains going through their states with millions of pounds of nuclear waste.
Since when do they try that? When I was in high school I helped the EPA to fight against the trucking (and training) of nuclear waste into NY for a central dump site. We lost and they had miles of trucks bringing nuclear ash to NY because they specifically didn't want it to be kept where it was.
That's how we ended up without school a few times due to nuclear ash spills.
It's been well known that many people in congress and the senate fight against the trucking of nuclear waste, it still occurs of course.
But the better alternative is just don't produce it.
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
I'm not sure how I feel about this.
Agreed.
Not sure that I see this as a bad thing. The senate has consistently battled to keep nuclear waste where it was created, rather than disposing of it in a safe mountain somewhere. Which was a big part of the "keep it there" initiative. States not wanting truck / trains going through their states with millions of pounds of nuclear waste.
Since when do they try that? When I was in high school I helped the EPA to fight against the trucking (and training) of nuclear waste into NY for a central dump site. We lost and they had miles of trucks bringing nuclear ash to NY because they specifically didn't want it to be kept where it was.
That's how we ended up without school a few times due to nuclear ash spills.
It's been well known that many people in congress and the senate fight against the trucking of nuclear waste, it still occurs of course.
But the better alternative is just don't produce it.
Then we lose all of that teamster revenue!
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Y'all forget about WIPP down in Carlsbad, NM where they ship trash from nuclear Dept of Energy sites by truck across US highways.
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T-Mobile to pay your Netflix bill.
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@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
I'm not sure how I feel about this.
Agreed.
Not sure that I see this as a bad thing. The senate has consistently battled to keep nuclear waste where it was created, rather than disposing of it in a safe mountain somewhere. Which was a big part of the "keep it there" initiative. States not wanting truck / trains going through their states with millions of pounds of nuclear waste.
Renewable energies should be implemented as often as possible. All sky scrapers should have solar panels installed on the tops.
Wind turbine tech should be developed into new sky scraper construction so as to generate additional power.
Sea turbines with wind and solar combinations should be built.
Nuclear power produces a ton of energy, but also way to much extremely volatile waste. I'd happily throw out $800 million to not build another reactor.
And I'd throw out 10x that amount to get proper re-use and recycling of nuclear waste, and sensible designs put in place rather than the current crop of old Fukushima type plants. Done correctly, only 1% is actually waste. Even that still produces heat, which can be used to provide smaller amounts of power for decades.
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Sweet Jaguar electric car upgrade...
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/09/jaguars-restored-this-old-e-type-with-an-electric-upgrade/
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
They made it. I don't think a rocket sitting on the launch pad would deal so well with a hurricane for some odd reason.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
They made it. I don't think a rocket sitting on the launch pad would deal so well with a hurricane for some odd reason.
I say just shoot the rocket to the west coast and have a boat waiting for it over there, but I'm also not a rocket scientist either.
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GrubHub seems to have a pretty solid case building against its gig worker looking for employee benefits while touting the benefits from not being employed.
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Hurricane Irma pummels Turks and Caicos islands
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-41194959 -
Mexico hit hard. Quake, hurricane and possible tsunami.
Earthquake of magnitude 8 strikes off Mexico's Pacific coast
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-41197831 -
Up to an 8.2 - strongest in a century
Mexico's strongest quake in century strikes off southern coast
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-41197831
