BBB

[CO. Hoosier]

Like we did with military bases, we need to get politics out of infrastructure planning and funding. Yes, we need infrastructure projects. No, we don’t need political and trendy fashion projects.

Conspicuously absent from BBB is nuclear energy. We can’t make enough juice for all the electric transportation without it. Solar and windmills won cut it.

We need more highway capacity, not just fix existing.

Human infrastructure? Birth rates are wavy too low. Time to pay couples to raise families. Stop all this pussyfooting with ECE and other programs. The best program is mom, dad, and kids.

Stop talking about “good paying union jobs” while allowing, encouraging and supporting unrestricted illegal and uncontrolled immigration.

Stop talking about expanding good college educations while allowing and encouraging polically powerful international companies to use foreign educated and lower priced talent within US.

More senior citizen independent living support is excellent. But get red tape out of the way and provide vouchers for ride sharing and home services like cleaning, laundry, shopping, cooking and skilled nursing.

 

[i'vegotwinners]

nuclear power is the energy equivalent of gain of function.

it's only a matter a time before something goes horribly wrong, and the benefit doesn't justify the risk.

plus there's the yet unsolved, and probably unsolvable, issue of dealing with the waste.

that said, i have no idea why hydro isn't pushed more.

as for birth rates being too low, is not enough people on earth really the problem?

reality is, less people though family planning world wide is probably the most sensible answer to earth's numerous problems, despite the reality that no one wants to go there publicly other than China.

 

[nugget_release_lever]

nuclear power is the energy equivalent of gain of function.

it's only a matter a time before something goes horribly wrong, and the benefit doesn't justify the risk.

plus there's the yet unsolved, and probably unsolvable, issue of dealing with the waste.

that said, i have no idea why hydro isn't pushed more.

as for birth rates being too low, is not enough people on earth really the problem?

reality is, less people though family planning world wide is probably the most sensible answer to earth's numerous problems, despite the reality that no one wants to go there publicly other than China.

Why we should use nuclear energy:

 

[TommyCracker]

Like we did with military bases, we need to get politics out of infrastructure planning and funding. Yes, we need infrastructure projects. No, we don’t need political and trendy fashion projects.

Conspicuously absent from BBB is nuclear energy. We can’t make enough juice for all the electric transportation without it. Solar and windmills won cut it.

We need more highway capacity, not just fix existing.

Human infrastructure? Birth rates are wavy too low. Time to pay couples to raise families. Stop all this pussyfooting with ECE and other programs. The best program is mom, dad, and kids.

Stop talking about “good paying union jobs” while allowing, encouraging and supporting unrestricted illegal and uncontrolled immigration.

Stop talking about expanding good college educations while allowing and encouraging polically powerful international companies to use foreign educated and lower priced talent within US.

More senior citizen independent living support is excellent. But get red tape out of the way and provide vouchers for ride sharing and home services like cleaning, laundry, shopping, cooking and skilled nursing.

Seems like the real issue with juice isn't how it's created but how it's transported.

Supposedly wind and solar can produce enough but from certain spots in the country, mainly the plains for windfarms.

Transporting that power from Nebraska to New York is an absolute nightmare issue because our current grid is what, 80 years old and has more than outlived its expectancy (several of the wildfires were caused by 80 year old clamps that gave way, dropping live power lines into a tinderbox of dry woods).

Upgrading, rewiring the grid involves federal, state, county and personal cooperation (since lines go through multiple states) and in today's current climate it will take a miracle to coordinate.

I'm 100% with you on nuclear, particularly the advances of using Thorium instead of Uranium, but it sounds like generating juice isn't the problem....its being able to generate juice on location since transporting it is the real issue, which is why fossil fuels is still the king.

No one wants to live next to a nuclear plant.

Anyway, Oliver just did a piece on it last Sunday.

 

[Spartans9312]

 

[outside shooter]

Getting drugs to cross the BBB, the blood-brain barrier, certainly is certainly an everyday concern in drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases. I didn't really expect a thread on it, though!

 

[jsig]

This is not the 1970's. Nuclear energy is the way to go. Of course if you put a plant on the San andreas fault something could go wrong.