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Comment Re:American made (Score 1) 141

I wish I had mod points. I live in Waterloo. Just down the street from their data center and everything. They just sold 5 of their office building to the university as a part of all this. More to the point. As long as the end to end is encrypted then the US shouldn't get their hands on any of the data. The concern is most Canadian internet routes run down into the States for the backbone. Very few Canadian internet service companies can say the whole route stays in Canada.

Comment Re:Nuclear: only interim solution, permanent waste (Score 1) 345

Your articles don't argue your point. The first one says we would have to double the current number of reactors to meet 2054 target of growth or 208 reactors. Not the 12844 (35*52*7+104) that you suggest. The second article dances on non prolif concerns and makes no calculations. Where did you get your numbers? As a rough exercise, Currently 104 reactors service 19% of the US power demand. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-T-Z/USA--Nuclear-Power/. That means 548 reactors to replace it all and an extra 104(using your first article) to meet growth for 2054. Assuming average generating capacity blah blah blah. That would be a reactor every 5 weeks for the next 50 years. And that would be all nuclear so it would be slightly less since renewable energy would still be used.

Comment Re:He's right, but wrongly. (Score 1) 537

I read an article mentioning that people are seeing bitcoins as a way of sheltering money that isn't gold. The people buying bitcoins think they are getting a steal cause they have no confidence in the value of the USD. You can't feed your family with bitcoins or gold without finding someone willing to trade for it. The same thing could be said about the USD though. Corn futures would be the smarter currency.

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