Or they were blinded by the fact that McCain/Palin would have been a complete fucking train wreck for this country after 8 years of Bush/Cheney.
Obama did drop the ball on many very important issues, which he specifically campaigned on. And for that, I can't really say that I am a happy customer with my votes. But when I think about how things would have gone with President McCain, holy fucking shit we dodged a bullet.
grant money to build thorium at GA or mPower
That would be a bad idea and just a way to burn money unless they bring in some existing expertise due to the differences. A university or similar with the people who have already been working on such technology associated with GA, mPower or whoever is a different story. There's no point giving money to develop a new technology to the same people that squashed it last time - they have no real incentive to succeed and they do have an incentive for it to fail since it would compete with their existing products.
Hmmm. I think I should have worded this differently. The idea is that the company like filbe does the R&D, engineering, etc work, BUT, the final construction of it goes to either GA or B&W. With this approach, it is one line of computers, one line of generators, one line of cooling, etc. that are fully debugged. The only real difference would be the reactors.
But, yeah, I agree with you on having them do the work. I will say that GA already has done throium and does NOT want to kill. Look up ft. st. vrain.
Wow. I really wish people would stop conflating "counts per minute" measurements of radiation exposure, with alpha and beta nucleide contamination. There's a lot of Cs137 and Sr90 contamination in the soil all over the place near Pripyat (and Fukushima), and just because you can walk through the area and get a few sieverts of decays on your skin, and no net harm, doesn't mean anyone can safely live there. Those contaminants get into dust, and you inhale it, or ingest it in your food, and they remain active inside your body for decades. It's not the same as either an x-ray, or eating a banana.
Yeah. Running Ubuntu? It was probably Amazon that notified Tesla that he was modding his car.
lol. I'm a VW owner, so my mods are just to keep the fucker running.
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