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How is Dominion going to charge more for electricity when once the plant is shut down they won't be producing any in Wisconsin?
How is Dominion going to charge more for electricity when once the plant is shut down they won't be producing any in Wisconsin?
No.
There is no demand for products which do not exist. Demand does not exist until the product does.
How much demand was there for an iphone before the iphone existed? Zero.
How many jobs as Apple created to make the iphone? Eleventybillion. Mostly in China, but that is besides the point.
You can't "base jump" out of the ISS unless you have a portable jetpack capable of decelerating you to deorbit. You need a delta-V of around 225 ft/s. If you step outside the ISS, all that will happen is that you will continue orbit the Earth with the ISS. You would starve to death before deorbiting solely due to atmospheric friction.
One interesting tit bit was that, when I came to USA as a student with F-1 Visa, I was scared by the EEE books I was bringing in. I used some 75% of my baggage allowance with books. I knew how serious copyright law was in USA. I knew my books are cheaper in India. I was worried the immigration officer would reject my visa and send me back! Seriously. I was worried about everything from the turmeric powder in my hand baggage to the loose staple on the sealed I-20 form issued by the university attached to my passport!
Welcome to America, the land of freedom!
So what is the exact number of books allowed to be imported for re-sale per unit time where by any additional books would constitute "prohibited mass exporting".
The conservative side produced citizen united which basically lets corporation give unlimited money to political speech.
No. Citizens United case lets people, including groups of people organized into organizations such as corporations or unions, SPEND unlimited money on political speech. In other words, you are now allowed to not only spend a little money on cheap leaflets, but you may spend large amounts of money for example publishing a book or making a TV show. Before Citizens United case, you COULD NOT PUBLISH A BOOK, OR MAKE A TV SHOW that was considered by the court to be political in nature, before an election.
Let me repeat. Citizens United had NOTHING to do with GIVING money to politicians. Citizens United was about spending money on speech.
So my numbers and facts are complete BS, because of you don't think 1,000,000 R/hr is a "VERY severe hit on your nervous system" based on watching Star Trek II? Really? Really?
While free neutrons are unstable, unless they are flying through empty space you would not notice. The mean lifetime of a neutron bouncing around matter before being absorbed is on the order of microseconds, while the half-life is 10 minutes.
Dose from an unshielded spent fuel bundle (or research reactor) is far greater than other typical sources - on the order of 50,000 to 1,000,000 R/hr. These kinds of doses can be instantly fatal. An HP tech explained to me once that if you placed a spent fuel bundle on a football field, and ran towards it as fast as you could, you would drop dead before you could touch it. If you swam to the bottom of a research reactor to try to touch the fuel you would most certainly become incapacitated by the time you got close enough to touch it.
If it's actually on fire, then YES.
If you pass a law banning the yelling of fire in a crowded theater, even when it actually is on fire, then what will the result be?
Our centrifuge controllers aren't on the internet, they couldn't possibly be affected by an e-mail worm.
--Iran
The concrete containment dome is akin to a dam - it should last 100+ years. The other big expensive component, the reactor vessel itself, can be annealed or possibly replaced.
This is a common misconception. Nuclear plants are not "designed to last 40 years". They have no designed lifespan. They are designed to last as long as possible given other safety requirements. The reason why they were licensed for 40 years is because the NRC (AEC at the time) figured that was the least amount of time the plant should be able to run without requiring a major overhaul. At the time, no one knew how long they would really last without requiring such expensive overhauls as to make it not financially worth it to maintain.
In the US, riflery and marksmanship used to be a national pastime. It was taught in public schools. High school students would bring their rifles to school for the shooting club. What has happened in recent decades can only be explained by social and cultural changes.
If 90% of the population just doesn't care than you don't have a democracy, you have an oligarchical dictatorship.
It's later than you think, the joint Russian-American space mission has already begun.