They're different in about every way imaginable.

You're literally posting this on a social media site that works as an echo chamber. If 60% of people feel a certain way it means that opinion is 100% of what you sew because the other 40% will be down voted to the bottom (or even just banned on a lot of subs).

Because deathmatch is a crappy and boring multi-player style. That's why people made these mods like Team Fortress and Counterstrike because they wanted actually teamwork.

The point is we haven't transitioned from coal to renewables, we've transitioned from coal to natural gas. Renewables are still a small percentage of the overall market.

The thing that always kills me about economics is how much of a self-fulfilling prophecy it is. A lot of companies are doing fine and are still laying off workers just based on the fear of an economic downturn that may or may not come. Of course if those layoffs spread enough then it creates the very downturn everyone was afraid of. It's all just a mind game.

It's not just labor costs. There's also a lot of regulations in the US which increase costs.

That's not saying nearly as much as it used to since most coal plants have been closed down over the last 15 years.

It's pretty simple; the US can't manufacture these chips as cheaply as Asia. So you either have to commit to tens of billions in subsidies a year ad infinitum or accept that the production will all end up overseas.

You basically nailed it.

For 4 reactors that's pretty darn good. If we could build a new reactor for 5 Billion there would be a dozen under construction right now.

Not really. The UAE built their new reactors quickly and cheaply. Japan used go build reactor incredibly fast, but unfortunately has turned sour on nuclear.

Nuclear costs would drop significantly if we would let them. Renewable and batteries won't drop forever as well. Regardless, it's vitally important to have diversity of supply. The more sources of power you have the more resilient your grid will be.

Uhh, no. There's Billions spent to engineer better solar panels. The cost of solar 20 years ago was 10x what it is now.

>I live in Bavaria and our mushrooms are still radioactive.

Everything is radioactive my guy. If you brought a pallet of bananas into a nuclear plant it would have to be disposed of as nuclear waste due to the radiation level. Regardless, Chernobyl killed less people than coal plants do every day. And it's much less an indictment of nuclear as it is Communism and the Soviet Union. No reactor like that is currently operating.

The specifications for a naval reactor are completely different than a power reactor. It simply wouldn't work well for this application.

1. Just because a regulation exists doesn't mean it actually improves safety. Quite frankly a lot of nuclear regulations DECREASE safety. They're not really about safety at all, they're just a way to increase costs. Most of the cost isnt new safety decices, it's just mountains of extra paperwork.

2. The perception of risk regarding nuclear is just completely askew. Thousands of chemicals we use are also known carcinogens and can be handled with minimal regulations. Chemical leaks are a daily occurrence to the point they rarely make the news. The regulations against radiation are thousands of times stricter than those against most chemical carcinogens. Even the worst case scenario with nuclear you're talking tens of deaths. Lots of chemical spills have killed thousands and they kill hundreds of thousands in terms of long term exposures. Global warming will kill millions or even tens of millions. The risk from nuclear is miniscule in comparison to the alternatives.

That's not really true at all. Lots of nuclear plants were built in reasonable time frames and budgets. A new nuclear plant used to only cost a Billion dollars (yes, that's adjusted for inflation. The problem is that anti-nuke forces took hold in many governments (especially after TMI and Chernobyl) and they made the regulatory environment completely untenable. Plants that were virtually complete had to be torn apart and rebuilt, many were just abandoned because the cost of the new regulations was more than the cost of the original plant. No industry can ever survive that way. And that was the whole point. The people who make these regulations don't want nuclear to survive. It was just a backhanded way of killing nuclear without an outright ban.

https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/historical-construction-costs-of-global-nuclear-power-reactors

The problem here is that any first of a kind technology is going to cost a huge amount of money. If you're actually serious about a technology then you've got to be willing to endure a lot of cost overruns and schedule delays on the first few plants. If you're just going to cancel the whole program because the first plant is a cluster fuck then don't even bother.

>You're arguing for the principle of freedom of speech, but the moment any principle causes more harm than good, that principle should be immediately abandoned.

If you abandon your principles as soon as its convenient then you don't actually have any principles. Besides, wearing a mask wasn't going to kill anyone to begin with so your hypothetical is kinda useless.

Sorry, but if your argument is that people who speak the truth the government doesn't want to you to hear should be silenced and government propaganda should be praised then we will never agree. Perhaps you would be more at home in Communist China? That sort of attitude is exactly WHY the Supreme Court needs to defend freedom of speech.

I could not possibly disagree more. Mindless obedience to authority in the face of contradictory facts is a massive problem. The government wasn't just wrong; they knowingly lied.

>The amount of things that got people throttled or banned but ended up being true in the past three years is unacceptable.

For instance I got banned from r/coronavirus for saying people should wear masks back when the government was saying they shouldn't. A few weeks later you'd get banned for saying they shouldn't wear masks because the government flipped positions. There were multiple rounds of mass banning in that sub for similar issues where the government or new cycle flip flopped.

I mean this is a far left media outlet saying something positive about a right leaning court which is certainly interesting.