And it would be child's Play for us to build enough wind and solar to power every single car in the country. As well as every single house in business.

The reason we don't is because of low effort posts like yours. You're either a bot or you're somebody who has been manipulated by bots. Either way that's a sad way to spend your life son.

I'm talking about the 10 years during which the city was evacuated because of the high radiation levels. A tsunami doesn't cause that. People move back in and rebuild. You can't do that when the radiation levels are elevated to the point where they are likely to cause cancers.

And Jesus mother fucking Christ telling me that people lose everything so I should be okay with losing everything is just fucking insane. What the hell happened to make you this obsessed with nuclear power?

Again you need to answer the question, how do you propose stopping billionaires and other skeezy businessmen from moving in and profiting by cutting back on necessary maintenance like they did in fukushima. As soon as I can tell your solution is to pretend that didn't happen.

It's the same nonsense I get from you guys every time. When reality doesn't fit with the world you want you just pretend reality isn't real.

So answer my question. How do you stop businessmen?

I am pretty damn sure you don't have an answer especially one that fits in with your preferred worldview. Feel free to throw some more misdirection and some more straw man on the fire

You don't have to pay for things that generate more value than they cost. Giving everyone in the country access to free electricity generates more value than the cost of doing it.

The exact same thing goes for healthcare. It's cheaper to give everybody healthcare. According to the Congressional budget office we could save half a trillion a year by giving everyone healthcare. If you ever want to pay off that national debt Medicare for all is how you do it.

You have a scarcity mindset that was put into your brain so that Elon Musk can be a trillionaire and you can wonder when if ever you're going to be able to retire or if you'll have enough time in the day to do the day trading activities needed to stop guys like muskrat from stealing that retirement...

Don't you ever get tired of indulging and comforting lies? Don't you ever want to grow up? Reality is coming for you whether you like it or not. If you aren't going to be dead in the next 10 years you aren't going to have a retirement you're just going to be homeless or crashing on one of your kids couches.

What's your favorite flavor of cat food? Because in 10 years if guys like you keep winning you're going to find out. You better pick a dry option too because you're not going to have enough money for the fancy wet food everyday

I'm American. There's 57 nuke plants here. They're useful but obsolete. And every year more regulations get repealed and more bureaucrats get replaced by cronies.

it's always abject poverty. Can you think of any other solutions besides making everyone poor? Typical right winger. You guys can't cum unless a child goes hungry.

What political leaders are doing is begging people to share better, and that's democracy
What the feds are doing is written in the large users' contracts, so it isn't communism, it's the market..

Large customers such as manufacturers often have contracts in which they agree to cut usage or power down when told to by their power provider under certain conditions. Among the conditions is FERC declaring an emergency. The manufacturer gets a large discount under normal operating conditions.
Often those plants have their own generators so they don't actually have to shut down, but those generators cost much more per kWH to run than what the utility charges under normal contract conditions. But when spot prices hit $2,000 a MWH, putting your workers on treadmills sounds like a good deal. (It's not)

Some utilities have agreements with homwowners in which a device is placed on their AC units that allow the utility to cut power to the AC during times of stess. The contracts I'm familiar with have some sort of time limits on how long each cutoff lasts, but still, that's the market speaking.

Of course, only for the unwashed masses. The Epstein class and the other 1%ers will be just fine.

That is because you do not understand how this game works.

I have no problem with some (!) QC research being done. I have a massive problem with large amounts of money being spent on it and the proponents lying, lying and lying some more.

The "serious evidence" is very, very clear and does not need any more examination. Those that claim that this stuff will deliver an useful QC anytime soon are delusional or lying. Period.

Are you an idiot? I did cover the only case that certification is required. It is NOT universally required. Incidentally, the FSF may well go after getting that.

They aren't more realistic they just don't give a rat's ass if there's a meltdown because they don't have to live near it.

I have yet to see anyone explain to me how you prevent businessmen from coming in and skipping all the maintenance so they can pocket a shitload of short-term profits.

Every time I bring this up somebody inevitably just says but oil and gas kill more people. Okay I don't give a shit because I don't want to be alive in America without property and the people of Fukushima lost all their homes and property. Look it up.. America does not treat people without property well. So you can stop right there with your talking points about number of deaths.

I think people who make that talking point are making the mistake that because I'm a left winger I don't have any survival instincts. Honestly I can't blame you for that based on what my fellow left lawyers have been doing for the last 10 years. I have yet to see a single inkling of fear out of them even though nine people just got sent to prison for life because they were in a protest... Oh and we were literally one vote away from turning the US Constitution and all of its protections in the toilet paper.

So I don't think folks know how to respond to me when I have a survival instinct and I recognize that there's no reason for me to be hung up nuclear when wind and solar is right there anyway.

I would love to see someone though take a honest crack at explaining to me how they are going to prevent businessmen from cutting corners at nuclear power plants while our entire regulatory framework is in the process of being dismantled and has been since Reagan...

It is something old nerds are weirdly obsessed with, like Ayn Rand books...

Nuclear power requires a large complex regulatory body that isn't at risk of being interfered with for profit and we burned that bridge to the ground in the last election. The bridge itself was already on fire because it was made of wood from the 1940s...

Meanwhile as long as the country has plenty of land there is absolutely no reason why you can't build out wind and solar and here's a thing that's going to blow your fucking noodle there's no reason why the government can't do that and just give everybody free electricity.

Well there is the Epstein class. They're not going to let you have electricity anymore. There is no amount of money that they are content with and no amount of power that is enough for them. They will not be happy until we are all living in dirt occasionally being blown to pieces by drones if we get too uppity or start building a civilization that could challenge their godhood.

The only place nuclear power makes sense is a handful of countries like Japan that have severe land shortages. Even then I'm not so sure it makes sense especially with their rapidly declining population. Oh and military installations. Basically heavily space constrained places. Even then again we saw what happened in Fukushima when the regulatory framework breaks down and businessmen roll in with dollar signs in their eyes.

You need to explain to me how you stop businessmen from taking over and then skipping all the maintenance. If you can't do that and absolutely nobody here can then there is no way in hell anyone is going to sign off on nuclear unless it's for a giant AI Data Center and then it's going to be poorly built and poorly regulated. Because those companies are already losing money hand over fist and they sure as shit aren't going to spend the money it takes to build a nuclear power plant safely. There is mathematically no reason to because they could just build out solar farms if it wasn't for the fact that the oil companies don't want to let them.

The fact that there are so many old nerds obsessed with nuclear when we could move our grid to wind and solar in no time if we would just stop voting Republican here in the states is why we can't have nice things...

What about corporate profits? Okay just checked those are still going through the roof. Are we still automating all the jobs away while eliminating all the social programs needed to address mass unemployment?

Or rather obviously, running AI agents productively is a _really_ bad idea at this time. But a quite large part of the human race has no active intelligence and needs to get hurt before they stop doing the stupid thing.