If it went almost to the top of the case it must have been a SFF system, because Slot 1 and Slot A processors alike were less than half the height/thickness of a typical ATX case.

It's unrealistic because the market doesn't get to decide. Logic doesn't decide on the supply side OR the demand side. On the supply side, the market is controlled by regulations which were put into place because power companies proved they couldn't be trusted to function without them. On the demand side it's limited by physics, power has to get to places before it can be used.

In the USA for example power companies are really only able to profit from new generation projects, so they are motivated to produce the most wastefully expensive projects because when they cost more, they can pocket more of the costs. That means nuclear whether it makes sense or not. And while everyone complains about solar requiring grid improvements, so does nuclear. It represents a large amount of production in one place, so you need a large grid connection to that place. And they are typically not built near other things for obvious reasons, so there's no synergy.

And then of course there's the fact that it's already a requirement to pay the expected decommissioning costs up front, but it's never enough, so The People always wind up paying.

This has been studied and it's not that simple. First you have to get it there, then you have to ensure it doesn't break open and spread before it gets subducted. I had the same idea, it just turned out to not be a good one.

It's never one thing, it's never one group. It's always a cartel or conspiracy, there are always multiple goals being pursued, usually by individual participants let alone the aggregate of the groups.

This is a serious plan for greenwashing. Brazil is allowing forest to be cut down primarily to benefit foreign investors, which means they could just not be doing that already.

Waste from a molten salt reactor should be fairly stable. Put it in the center of a glass brick and use it as a low level heat source. (Actually, that's what I think they ought to do with most reactor waste except the stuff that's too hot for glass to hold. And you might need a couple of barriers within the glass. Glass would stop alpha and beta cold, but some gamma might need a lead foil screen.)

Yes, there's a paper saying that given enough centuries the waste will slowly leach out. But the level of the radiation emitted would be less than the rock it was concentrated from. The only problem is the rate of release, and if you dilute it enough the problem disappears. (Either that, or nobody should live much above sea level.)

Scale *will* have its own challenges. So will maintenance. This is an "always true". They may well but soluble, but that sure isn't guaranteed.

Wow, there actually is one! I'm amazed, and encouraged.

Now if we can just prevent more we'll really be accomplishing something.

Guess what? Everything I said above is verified fact.

That's why I got downmodded. Cuckservatives hate facts.

Irrelevant to the discussion at hand, where no otto cycle engines are involved.

It doesn't. That's why TCO on a HFCEV is far higher than a BEV.

Jimny engines would have to pass emissions acceptance and then the vehicle would have to pass crash testing. It's difficult for a small vehicle to survive the partial offset crash test and we actually make light trucks do that here. Finally, as a light truck it would be subject to the chicken tax. It's three major hurdles to cross and then no, I don't think they would sell "like crazy" here, though they certainly would sell. But Suzuki left the US market already so they would also have to implement a dealer and spares network again, so that's a fourth impediment.

So no, it's not as simple as "regulations bad". Suzuki was already making the post-Samurai Jimny for other countries when they left the US auto market in 2012, and if they thought it would have been a contender, they no doubt would have stuck around.

Every American president since Carter has been a war criminal.

If you're expecting accountability, revise your expectations.

What's happening is that the Republican plan for decades is being fulfilled. During the Reagan administration they began compromising education in order to produce low-information voters, the actual phrase was they were trying to eliminate the "educated proletariat" and they succeeded. Now enough Americans are dumber than dogshit for them to sell fascism as freedom. We've maintained our technological advantage until now by importing educated people from other countries, but now that we're abusing anyone who's not whiter than white, they don't want to come here as much and they're looking for other homes. Also, whether they want to come here or not, the goal is to get rid of the brown people.

Yes, but the people making the decisions are in their sunset years and can also afford to leave the country.

IIUC, they're talking about turbines, so probably not fuel cells. (And fuel cells have their own problems, which is why they aren't more popular.)

Not really. It might not be technologically apt, but if you think of the gas as a "battery that can hold a charge for a really long time" it makes sense. The question is more "is this a reasonable approach with our current technologies?", and I don't know the answer to that.