so expensive stuff like solar panels and wind turbines aren't gonna have a long lifetime there.
Solar panels are not expensive
They are dirt cheap, since years.
If your country was not run by Yahoos, you had factories that chum them out and you would sell them in Africa, instead of China.
An 850W panel costs about THB1000, that is roughly $28.
A 4kW mini installation is 5 panels and roughly $125 - $135.

There are people who run DC appliances directly from the panels, no inverter or batteries involved. For example a pool pump.

Solar panels are expensive in your country, because:
1) they are shipped around half the planet - hint, oil costs
2) some moron thought it is smart to put a high import duty on them
3) there are probably a-hole rules how to set up a small plant

Many solar things are appliances ... for example a street light, with a square foot of solar on top and a battery. It is cheaper to set up than to pull extra power lines and have "normal" lights. Most modern lights are all LED ... so the power cost is insignificant, the battery has 30years warranty. Or the G5 repeaters in the village ... of course they are all Huwei :P

P.S. there are half a dozen new solar technologies getting ripe for the market. However all the technologies to produce them, do not exist in the USA ... because the only thinks you can do are some processors, macs and fighter bombers. Just as if you are not interested in "technology" anymore. If you had not that Eloi, USA had probably no high tech at all anymore.

We are a republic for this reason. And the electoral college is part of the checks and balances. We need them today just as we did 250 years ago.
Historically the electors where needed because you could not expect all the voters to go to Washington.
So people went to the states, and declared "you tell me how to vote, and I promise, if the guy looks decent when I meet him: I vote as you said". That is where the "electoral college" comes from. However: the elector could vote how ever he wanted.

In our times: they are bound to vote how their state decided the election.

That means: they are completely superfluous. There is no check and balance what so ever ... it only gives the "switch states" irresponsible power.

The USA probably have the wort democratic system of the planet ... and the one that is most resistant to change :P

The popular vote should be for a person and not a party.
Look for France for example.

The point in your system is, third parties have no chance at all ... and the amount of votes they get is a rand note in the news.

Wearing a mask is not supposed to protect you from COVID (albeit it does a little bit), it is supposed to prevent you from spreading it, in case you have it and don't notice it. You remember: asymptomatic spreading, right?

When you started the war, it was not called WW2. And the US at that time was isolationist. Ironic, Japan forced our entry, and Germany felt the need to declare war against us as well. But we didn't start the war.
You did start the war in the pacific by putting an oil embargo on Japan.

To say it simple without insult: you have no clue what was going on at that time.

And my "previous rant" was about what USA did after WWII, and what it is doing today ... not about which war action was started by whom.

The winner writes history, that is why it is written that Germany started the war. Which it actually did not. The war in North Africa was started by Italy, and the war in the pacific was started by Japan ... ooops.

You wage war against Iran, why?

You deposed the Shaw because he refused to sell oil "for USD only" ....

You misjudged and instead of "actually I do not know which revolution army you favoured" - the "islamists" won the revolution. What actually would have been the difference if the "communists" had won? Oh, we had peace now, as ALL communist countries converted into navel observers that do not do anything outside of their country. Because: they farking do nor care about other countries.

So, what is the fight in Iran about? Oil again.

US exports more oil than it imports. Higher oil price, win win win.

The only people in the US that suffer are gasoline customers ... the oil industry wins big time with higher oil prices.

We also had frogmen blow up the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour but that was in the '80s
that where French a**h*les ... I think no ne got killed, but I am not sure about that.

The french also like to kill African presidents that like to have their own country to have their own currency.

Except for the fact that you do not want weapon grade plutonium floating around, you would not make "MOX" anyway.

Lets just agree that the whole idea is retarded from about 30 angles of viewpoints ...

Unicorn as in Narwhale?

You lost me somewhere ...

Thanx for the info!

I never heard about Germany versus Brasil.

I guess if one digs deeper, you find everywhere a WWII spot where something bad happened :(

Thanx for the info.

If you say "axis" does that imply it is unknown who placed it? Considering the war with Japan in that area, that is most likely from a Japanese boat. On the other hand considering that German U-boats where nearly everywhere (mostly single boat missions) could be German, but also Italian.

As I said: google it.

And it is not "Thorium Salts".

It is natrium salt with Thorium as a fission material. At least in general it is natrium, but lets google that :D

Oh, they are actually mixtures of sodium and flurite salts .... why do you call Natrium Sodium, makes no sense ...

Sorry, you have to google it your self "what salt is used in molten salt fission reactors".

The answer is not easy to copy/paste here.

You do not need to "re"-process it into fuel. It is already weapon grade plutonium, what would there to reprocess? It is basically as clean and pure as semiconductor silicon.

You just make fuel from it. Which in best case means: you do nothing.

Supposed you have an atmosphere like on earth, by magic, over night: on Mars.
It would take half a billion years to deplete so much that Mars would become inhabitable. Probably a billion years.

Regarding magnetosphere: you put a satellite into L1 Langrange point between Mars and Sun, that provides an artificial magnetic field.