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Comment Re:It's a start, but ... (Score 1) 50

Dumbass. It isn't about clinging on to old technology. It is about usability. Having a choke knob reduces usability as those matters can be handled invisibly without your intervention. The climate control can not be handled invisibly. My car has "automatic" climate control and it is pretty damned good; however, it is also nowhere near perfect. I still need to fiddle with it from time to time... and, I have actual knobs and dials to do it with, so the lack of perfection is not so annoying.

Comment Re:Why aren't we doing that? (Score 1) 104

It's like a no-brainer to double down on solar. The government should just offer all unemployed people a job making solar (panels, batteries, installation etc).

Nobody gives a fuck for the unemployed. People only care about money and profit. There is no obscene profit in manufacturing those things here, so they will not be manufactured here. You are dead and your country has fallen. You just haven't realized it yet.

Comment Re:I prefer solar (Score 1) 104

When we look back in 30 years time at what caused America to fall, energy prices, spending too much on nuclear, and failure to compete in renewable energy is my best guess.

Your best guess would then be wrong. The reason America is falling is because nobody in power wants to adhere to the spirit of the US Constitution, so they keep violating it be varying degrees until legal arguments can be made that the Constitution does not actually say what it says.

Comment Re:We already know what the cause (Score 1) 195

Trump slashed staff to FEMA and other emergency alert systems which delayed the response.

This had nothing to do with reduced funding. Take your stupidity elsewhere. Noem insisted that any action that requires an expenditure of more than $100k to be signed by her and only her. She got around to signing it after her weekend was over and she dragged herself into the office Monday morning.

The sirens were rejected previously, not due to lack of money, but because a democrat, Biden, had offered it. The locals rejected the money for the sirens because it came from a democrat.

Everything is working as chosen. All of those people died because of choices that either they had made or someone they had chosen had made for them.

Is this REALLY a tragedy? In one way, the loss of life is always a tragedy. In another way, everyone but the children got what they deserved from their own choices.

Comment Re:Pretty soon they will take away your electricit (Score 1) 108

Water? wtf? The only place with a serious water issue is California

I guess you forgot about Arizona. But of course you did since you are just flapping your gums. Ever hear of the Central Arizona Project?

Many of the western states are having issues, including Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, etc.

Comment Re:Make them pay (Score 1) 108

Energy prices in the UK are high because we are still using too much gas and nuclear

You realize the vast majority of cost in nuclear is in the construction, yes?

ROFLMAO. Yeah, the UK is paying high prices because they have been building so many nuclear plants. Do you even hear yourself?

"The last nuclear power plant completed in the UK was Sizewell B, which began operating in 1995. It was the only Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) plant built out of a planned series of four. Construction on Sizewell B started in 1987 and it was synchronized with the national grid in February 1995, according to Wikipedia."

So one small nuclear plant build almost 40 years ago is raising your rates far beyond what everyone else is paying.

I will resist from calling you a moron and a rube... but your insistence on absurdities is making that VERY difficult.

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