You've got to factor in Seasonal Affective Disorder. Norway is far from the equator, so they have a large amount of that compared to countries closer to the equator.

Not sure how important that is, as there are now reasonable ways of treating it. (I don't know the details, but it's largely bright, wide spectrum lights...so not too difficult to do if you've got electricity.)

If you've got access to plenty of water, closed loop cooling is much more expensive.

I *think* his point is that the water it still water. Which is correct. It may be contaminated or otherwise have fewer uses. It will certainly be a lot hotter, and had BETTER be cooled before being placed back in circulation.

If it's being dumped in the sewer, that will cause many additional problems. Sewage treatment systems are not free.

Actually, this isn't even a state. This is a municipal water district. This is more like "cities rights!"...which often *should* be cheered. And perhaps should be cheered this time.

OTOH, NIMBY is a real problem sometimes. We still don't have a place to put spent nuclear fuel.

Treason is defined in the Constitution, and I don't think that qualifies. I think malfeasance would be more applicable.

I disagree that "even if we count the part of the current Chinese output for export as "China", which it manifestly isn't" is correct. I would, instead, claim that it clearly *is* part of their "contribution", as local choices and controls decide how much CO2 gets emitted for that part of their economy as well as for other parts.

OTOH, if you want to claim that the recipients of the exports should ALSO be dinged, I'd accept that.

You seem to be assuming that all areas of cities are equally polluted. This is false. Wealthier people usually choose to live in parts of the city that are less polluted.

IIUC, the Thorium reactors are still a "work in progress". And I thought they required a bit of enriched uranium as a starter.

Yes, but...
1) The major polluters are not attending.
2) Most of these conferences don't yield visible positive results.
3) When goals are announced, they tend to be ignored in actions.

I hope they are able to come up with solutions that they can use, but I have doubts that even if they do it will have measurable effects except locally. (Yeah, even local effects are desirable, but don't expect global effects.)

In a way you're correct. I believe that "people of color" is used here as an easily measured substitute for "poorer people". There *is* actual racism, but I believe that most nominal racism is actually saying "Wealthy people are better than poor people.".

While it's definitely true that things were worse in many areas in the past, that doesn't mean they don't need improvement now.

It will happen. The question is "Will it continue to be legal?".

Why would I want a workalike of Windows? (I haven't used it for over two decades now, so I'm not sure. Linux is superior to the MSWindows that I remember...and it doesn't force updates at their convenience rather than mine.)

You don't have a solid sphere, you have collectors in multiple orbits differing not only in height, but also in angle WRT the plane of rotation of the star. You build it piece by piece, and it's working from the time the first piece is put into orbit. But I really prefer topopolis, which is also built piece by piece, and is easier to get around in. (In the Dyson sphere variation all the pieces need to be separate...which is a real problem. Of course, one could do a cross between the two, and have multiple topopolis instances in slightly different orbits and at slightly different angles.)

In both cases the trick is to use a design where you can start with just one piece, and expand from there.

What's the population size that these 10 are extracted from? In an above post it's claimed that one was a guy that studies meteorites, and another was a nuclear physicist, so if the that's the range, it implies a pretty large population size.