I guess we need fuel cycles which are less able to breed plutonium. By the way, one of the bombs dropped on Japan was an enriched uranium bomb, that just needs enrichment facilities. Fast breeder reactors wouldn't build up plutonium in them. A Thorium fuel cycle would also prevent build up of plutonium.

The irony is that we just cleaned up cargo ships exhaust which was using bunker oil with sulfur in it. That's credited with some of the record warming we've seen in the past year.

My brother in law has a ford hybrid lemon too. He mentioned some of the problems, window popping out, door hinges rusting. I think it died in their driveway too, refused to start. He's getting rid of it asap.

I wonder if it's appropriate to make comparisons between Intel and GE. I also worked at Intel and was involved with their focal process. This process was directly adopted from GE, Jack Welch espoused the benefits of laying off the bottom 10% of employees every year. https://www.reuters.com/market... https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Might be a win win if we implement something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It is barely profitable, but it does bring nutrient rich sea water from deep down to the surface.

China's current rule can be compared to Mao Zedong's era. During that era they wanted to become the world's largest producer of iron. To achieve that, every school had a smelter in the back. People would be melting their cookware, and anything else they could found. It worked, but at what cost? My point is that the centrally planned economy frequently has these mandates. The quality of the results is probably lacking.

Maybe this automation issue is what is drawing out the UAW strike. It was part of the writer's strike. One of my professors automated a task in a steel plant. Later he went back to see how it was going, and noticed it was still being done by a person. He asked about that, and they said there was nothing wrong with his work, they were just waiting for the union guy to retire.

Interesting how Microsoft was the target of antitrust a little over 20 years ago. That antitrust case probably distracted Microsoft enough to allow Google to get started. I wonder if we'll see the same 20 years from now in the AI field.

That's when you need to do this. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/w... Show that you're not feeling subservient, and make them the ones that are uncomfortable.

https://youtu.be/WfTzJNO17Vc?t... Talks a bit about the corruption of grain supplies in China

It's several years old at this point, but I only recently became aware of it and watched it. It was entertaining and thought provoking. Kind of like the movie "Moon".

On just fuel costs, an EV is less than half the cost compared to an ICE. That's not even factoring in no oil changes, coolant changes, brakes wear out slower (due to regen).

I guess that policy has consequences. Same with outsourcing labor. This is what happens when the bean counters take over.

Spent 10 years at the company. Some of the other boondoggles, WiMax, Itanium, wearables (NTG), digital home (DHG), McAfee purchase, Windriver purchase, LCOS. Billions spent with very little to show for it. In some cases, the market segment didn't go away, it's just that Intel couldn't compete in it.

Or shut down after they have been built, but not yet started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...