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Comment Re:Centralized Energy Industry (Score 1) 77

yet here you are on the global comm grid, but maybe running your computer on compost or pig manure methane, right?

Solar can supplement in most places in USA, not replace the grid.

Meanwhile 45% of Africans have no electricity at all. Will they get a power grid in the next half century? They mostly won't get solar either in the next 25.

Comment Re: in soviet russia we fail you! (Score 1) 111

lolz "rare attacks"... actually we're involved in a couple dozen proxy wars that most people could never name a third of. We're killing Venuzuelans that might or might not be cartel smugglers while war mongering.... even though Venezuela supplies less than 6 percent of narcotics to USA and the country with more and worse cartels supplying the bulk of our narcotics is our best buddy. But we press for regime change there...war for power and profit is what that's all about.

Afghanistan, yeah they did not attack us on 9/11 and so we spent 2 trillion dollars and 20 years to replace the Taliban with .... the Taliban. Then bugged out leaving billions in weapons to the enemy and getting our own and allies killed. Yay USA.

We gave our best buddy Saddam money and dual use tech to mass murder Iranians, then turned on him for power and profit. Sure he was an evil dirtbag, just like many of our other allies and value trading partners. That stupid war destabilzed the region and caused the creation of ISIL. Yay USA.

Just some examples, the epic stupidity always blowing up in our face and covering us with feces is of course a longer list.

Comment Re:Nuclear would have prevented this! (Score 1) 70

smarter countries like S. Korea and China build nuke plants at a third of the cost we do.

Nuclear construction is not just happening in China but India, Russia, South Korea, Egypt, UK, Turkey, UAE, Bangladesh, and Japan. Again, smarter countries than the USA.

Nuclear is for base load so the turbines can go full tilt, the rest can be renewables with cheap energy storage which should be very soon.

Comment Re: in soviet russia we fail you! (Score 0) 111

you're funny, USA has federal police keeping populace in line, acting against dissenters and tossing out unwanted racial groups. Invades, makes acts of war and occupies those that didn't attack it for power and profit. Keeps alternate parties off ballots. Covers for criminal operations that politicians are involved in, weaponizes government agencies against political opponents and both parties are guilty.

Comment Re:Developing AI to research biology is good (Score -1) 32

and worse it would provide 1 meal a day to those 42 million... not solving their hunger but keeping them from death or organ deterioration from starvation at best. A good solution would cost... twice as much? add medicine?

858 million are hungry in the world they say, and I believe them. Really things like massive canals, energy farms and other big projects would make lasting dent in world hunger. The cost might be trillion or over but that's being realistic at least. We could have tariffs on all well-off countries, that might be a solution that works. tariffs on stock and etf trades the world over, that might be another solution.

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