Turbine blade recycling is a thing now. Perhaps there is still room to scale, but it exists.

Oddly, one of the most cost effective methods is to grind the blades up and feed them into rotary kilns used in cement processing. The resin burns clean providing supplemental heat reducing fuel use offsetting emissions, the glass fiber melts and becomes part of the silica for the final product, and any metals are fully recoverable.

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> 300 gallons PER TURBINE! That's a lot.

It really isn't. That's roughly one full tank of diesel for one semi truck.

> so little fuel most plants still keep all their spent rods on-site

They keep the spent rods on site because they are FORCED to. it takes a few years before the self-heating from radioactive decay lowers enough for them to be handled without active cooling. Until then, they are kept first in water pools (which also shields the radiation) for 3-5 years and then moved to air cooled steel canisters inside concrete casks.

> Your 20~30 year claim seems to be the first result and also in AI-generated answers. It goes against what I've heard from farmers and ranchers.

"AI-generated answer versus personal anecdote which isn't even personal because I'm actually just citing a podcast." Except the 20-30 years is not "AI-generated" but documented standard for planning and evaluation purposes.

If your concern is wasting/laundering money, then that's the nuclear industry in a nutshell. Tens of billions of dollars per plant, with billions in cost overruns, over decades of construction.
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Please provide any credible relevant citations to support your assertions on the 1% and 200x claims. My understanding is watch hours is the time spent watching a given platform not some arbitrary undefined subset of content on each platform.

Netflix and YouTube are known independently to have roughly similar watch hours.
https://www.digital-i.com/news...

Your claims and understanding of what is being counted seem to not even be plausible.

This is the most embarrassing non-sequitur I've heard anyone make in at least a week.

According to Nielsen it is 19.2%
https://www.nielsen.com/data-c...

39% is the LAW, not a rule or suggestion.

Your conclusions are based on assumptions that are fatally incongruent with reality.

A statement easily proven wrong.
https://www.nielsen.com/data-c...

This is really just pointless posturing by partisan hacks. The FCC is assured a loss in court.

Let's stop and think for a minute. It isn't "That rule was..." but actually "That law was...".

If you don't like the law... Perhaps you think it is outdated or backwards you can petition lawmakers to vote to change the law. You don't get to do as you please just because your name is Trump or anyone else.

According to the law..

"the total number of television households in the Nielsen Designated Market Areas (DMAs) in which the relevant stations are located divided by the total national television households as measured by DMA data at the time of a grant, transfer, or assignment of a license"

Yes, broadcast television is better than it has ever been. There was a huge spike in broadcast viewers years ago when cable started imploding.

Technocrats at the FCC have no authority to countermand the law. The law is explicit not just about license grants / mergers ..etc on the front end but also what happens once you've exceeded it.

"(e) National television multiple ownership rule.

(1) No license for a commercial television broadcast station shall be granted, transferred or assigned to any party (including all parties under common control) if the grant, transfer or assignment of such license would result in such party or any of its stockholders, partners, members, officers or directors having a cognizable interest in television stations which have an aggregate national audience reach exceeding thirty-nine (39) percent.

(3) Divestiture. A person or entity that exceeds the thirty-nine (39) percent national audience reach limitation for television stations in paragraph (e)(1) of this section through grant, transfer, or assignment of an additional license for a commercial television broadcast station shall have not more than 2 years after exceeding such limitation to come into compliance with such limitation. This divestiture requirement shall not apply to persons or entities that exceed the 39 percent national audience reach limitation through population growth. "

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cf...

A US Honda Ridgeline beeps incessantly. When the system detects road lines, when it loses road lines, when it detects a car in front, when it loses the car in front. There are times when it beeps and I have no idea why...

How can the claim copyright on reruns ? There hasn't been a "new" TV show in decades. They just reskin the same skits and call it new. This is about ensuring our corporate overlords get to keep squeezing the same fruit.

Ludus Latrunculorum was popular for a while.

Ding dong you're wrong. The first approved use of the mRNA platform were the covid vaccines.

I think it is entirely appropriate to question why an unproven platform like mRNA was pushed so heavily as a solution given the total initial lack of infrastructure to produce at scale, crazy cold chain requirements and lack real world experience...etc when normal protein analog vaccines the Indians could scale and produce enmasse for basically free went ignored and unfunded.

Novavax for example had human trials at about the same time as Pfizer. Even the tiny island nation of Cuba was able to produce an effective protein vaccine. Yet it was wall to wall mRNA everything. Why? If not for Omicron millions of people throughout the "rest" of the world would have died as a result of people playing these stupid games.