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Thanks for that positive thought. And life is a crapshoot. But I am trying to be a little more positive about solving problems.

Because I think being a lineman or mining coal could be pretty dangerous.

Chernobyl was a huge disaster and how much has really been released by the old USSR about what happened. IIRC some of it was faulty design and safety systems. Well I am a democrat but I also have studied a lot of science. These newer type reactors which were based on some of the first...

I think you are correct. A guy I graduated high school worked in the Palo control room a long time ago

Actually, many of these molten salt reactor designs use up older nuclear wastes as fuel helping to eliminate those nuclear waste stockpiles. One of the most common types is the Lithium-Fluorine as the main salt and used uranium-fluoride salts mixed into the main salt. And as the uranium is...

Very good thougths. Nice reply. And I heard about the carbon free electricity period in Cali which is very cool. Maybe these molten salt reactors can get some type of insurance or some liability item as many of these reactor designs have proven to be very safe, much safer for two reasons...

Why did we end up building and using less safe and much costlier liquid water reactors? Well remember Admiral Hyman Rickover, the chief proponent and father of the nuclear navy? Well he pushed for the LWR on subs and other ships. GE, Westinghouse, and other big companies got the contracts to...

Oh, check out the molten salt nuclear ship "Thor" at https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ulstein-touts-nuclear-concept-for-decarbonising-cr And the company Ulstein.

You may have never heard of them. They were actually the first reactors built in the late 1940's thru mid 1950's. Two of these working reactors were built and ran a long time. Very safe designs. They can use existing spent nuclear waste as fuel. A lot of people like James Hansen of NOAA and...

I forgot to mention that after WW2, much of the industrial base in Europe, USSR, Britain, and Japan was totally demolished. The US and Australia were unscathed and for at least 30 years, until the mid-70's, the US had free rein to have the great economy, GDP, etc. By 1975, Japan was starting...

I agree with most of what you said. WW1, WW2, and the Korean War were the types of conflicts which had the potential for global spread and conflagration. It is a damn good thing the US got into WW1 and especially WW2, thanks to Hitler's total blunder [one of a bunch he made] of declaring war...

That is a pretty good spot for jNW being ahead of Nebby. haha I suppose these are wins or loses against an opponent's end of year record but maybe not their record when the games were played. Iowa fares pretty well against tough, winning teams. Good for the hawks. And OSU has been the...

I heard a sports reporter somewhere mentioning a lot of the conference and NCAA people are now or will be meeting to look at these collectives and other rules because they know they opened Pandora's box and what came out is like all the nasty spirits from the Ark at the end of Indiana Jones #1...

I saw several installation videos where they say use a low expansion spray foam insulation. I was unaware there was low expansion. Several years ago I bought just one Pella wood interior, aluminum clad exterior to replace in the bathroom. The humidity in that room hit that window hard. I...

Thanks. I agree with you on Renewal by Andersen (RBA) as we have 17 window units, two of which are a picture window with double hungs on each side. To give you an idea, the largest picture window unit with 2 double hungs had a quote from Pella Store of $5600, but RBA was $15,000+ for that one...

Ike was right, way too much money, power and profit in killing in each under the guise of whatever ideology you want to throw out there. Vietnam was a sick exercise prompted by a failed domino theory. Vietnam could never hurt the US much then which is like Ukraine could never really hurt...

We do not always know all the metrics and categories the Labor Dept uses for these reports, etc. If a person wants to know they can find that info but I am with you that I wish they would define the numbers better. I can see why a lot of people do not want to climb poles in all kinds of...

I see HyVee is eliminating about 57 more corp office jobs. Those people may move on but at least there might be a lot of jobs for them to seek since they are already in the Des Moines area. I think I will go back and look at the Baltic Dry container index like I used to follow a long time ago...

Yeah, the stock and bond markets are a crapshoot. Several rich people can start buying or selling stocks and really move the needle. I always had about 75% in medium to mid-higher risk mutual funds (never had the time to dedicate to individual stocks), I might take a flyer with some money on a...

The report was just released. Jobs added totaled right at 430,000 and unemployment remained the same at 3.6%. Those are both really good numbers. I heard on another news outlet a few days ago that there are still many millions of open jobs. Which leads right into the news mentioned I heard...