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Comment Re:It is low CO2 (Score 1, Insightful) 135

Anyone saying nuclear is cheap needs to show their analysis. There are no examples of nuclear being cheaper than today's solar and wind power. Nuke plants have all been subsidized in multiple ways to make them viable. Todays and tomorrows taxpayers take the hit. Generations will be stuck with managing waste from shuttered plants along with taking on the debt handed.
Another issue is the timeline. By the time any new nuclear plant is operational we will be deep into climate change. Solar and wind can be deployed quickly. In order to delay climate effects we need green energy now.

Comment Re:Yep! (Score 1) 192

We got a PDP-8 in 1969 and had programmable calculators before that. We might have been the third. Before the calculators a group of us built a logic plugboard using relays, plugs, and switches from a friend's dad owned a small factory that supplied AT&T. I helped take gear to teacher's conferences for demos. Our DEC sales rep invited us to use demo machines at the regional sales offices. Myself and a friend visited several times and used a bunch of early PDPs. They had shelves of manuals and let us take any we wanted; which we devoured. Years later, got a job at DEC. I have a great deal of gratitude to the teachers that convinced the school board to fund this.

Comment Re:No surprise (Score 2) 152

You're right that alternatives are profitable and so the same applies to the USA. Their politicians at all levels should be doing all that is reasonable to support it. Instead they and are doing their country a disservice by selling out to donors in an expensive outdated fossil fuel industry. Their followers and NIMBYs are also blocking alternatives at the local and state level.

Comment Re:China got caught using slave labor (Score 1) 115

Slaves making EVs is made up troll material. Slave labor is limited to assembly of small products (e.g. phones). There are plenty of EV factory tour videos in China. Lots of robots and and clean room technicians; especially for batteries. The advantage they have over the USA is that they can make high performing LFP EV batteries. The only thing that will help is for the USA to step up its battery game; which is happening this year.

Comment Re:Expect bankruptcies (Score 1) 236

The land is more valuable than the houses. Individuals or the state can buy bankrupt land and replace expensive homes with low cost housing. That way if it burns again the replacement cost will be more reasonable than the true cost of insurance. People are already starting to do this in FL and CA on their own.

Comment Re:It's all of them (Score 2) 29

The USA needs CATL's best in class battery technology and they are willing to license it to Ford, Tesla, and others. Blocking them with sanctions and tariffs will not help the USA catch up in the race to develop an EV production capability. Instead the USA will continue to fall behind. This is just sad to watch.

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