Nuclear won't be economically viable IN THE US, ever

FTFY

In China they're seen as such a good investment that they're building more right now than the rest of the world combined has since the 1970s, and exporting them. The primary issue building them in the US is lawyers.

This has been done for years around the world. It's only new to the US because our government health protection programs are almost nonexistent.

Sucking blood and causing the death of millions? Politicians are their primary competitor.

Then you don't know the US healthcare system very well, something inexpensive, effective, and easy to implement is anathema to the insurance cartels which control it.

The ones they know about . . .

Your ignorance is rather impressive in a way. If you'd like to educate yourself as to the actual technological progress in he world the journal of the International Electronics and Electrical Engineers Association is a good place to start:

spectrum.ieee.org

So you're happy to just ignore the fact that millions of people around the world are happily making this work already and instead pretend that your objections are somehow going to stop deployment of renewable energy in the Third World. That's a, well, "unique" attitude.

All of your pseudo-'concerns' are being dealt with, by whatever method is most appropriate for the locality.

As far as solar panels in Tornado Alley, go ask the operators of the giant solar and wind farms being constructed in Texas. Besides, there's nowhere in Africa which gets tornadoes or hurricanes like the southern US anyway.

One of the issues with integrating renewable energy into the North American grid is the 'sunk cost' of all that cruft of installed hardware. Another is the accounting/tax requirements, and yet another is the organizational structures of the US energy system. Transformers are expected to last 20+ years for example, no executive is going to forgo their quarterly bonus by replacing "dumb" transformers that haven't been fully depreciated for "smart" ones that can deal with variable energy flows.

There aren't any of those obstructions in Africa. Much of the continent is essentially "green fields" construction, which is always an order of magnitude easier to deal with.

*head bangs in approval*

Oh, forgot to link the dry density for you: here you go. 341kcal/100g. Aka 3,41kcal/g.

Which, like I said, should be obvious, since they're almost entirely carbs (~4kcal/g) and protein (~4kcal/g), and they're, as noted, dry (12-16% moisture). It would be quite the trick indeed to get something that is dry and and is almost entirely comprised of things that are 4kcal/g to be 1,38kcal/g! ;)

Just in case you need help:

Your calculation: 195g (dry weight) × 1.38 kcal/g = 269 calories per pound of cooked beans.
Correction: Because you used 1.38 kcal/g (the cooked density) as if it were the dry density, you essentially diluted the calories twice.
The Actual Math: 195g of dry beans * 3.4 kcal/g (actual dry density) = 663 kcal.

When those 195g of dry beans absorb water to weigh 454g (1 pound), they still contain those same 663 calories (since water has zero calories).

Canned beans are ALREADY COOKED. *facepalm*. You can eat them straight out of the can.

which is waaaay more than I would want to eat at a sitting.

I can't think of a single ingredient - any ingredient - that I would want to eat exclusively as my diet, so this is a really stupid argument.

In general, "damping pleasure" is not most people's experience with GLP-1 agonists. What it does is more like separate pleasurable experiences from having an urgent need to continue doing them.

I'd believe the Iceland numbers. I had a doctor once who wanted to get me on antidepressants, and got mad when I didn't want to, and completely ignored my pleadings of "But I'm not depressed", "I enjoy life", "I'm probably the least depressed person you'll meet", etc. He just really liked his patients to be on it. The Icelandic medical system is very into anything that "medicates symptoms" rather than treating diseases. For example, during COVID, it was essentially impossible to get drugs like paxlovid, but they made parkodín (tylenol with codeine) over-the-counter.