OkieMon's Comments (4229)

“No, they haven't ruled on that case yet.”

“Ans: No. Corporation were given personhood through a supposed mistake that a SCOTUS clerk made in a ruling on the subject. Companies used to have to renew their charter periodically and to have to prove that they existed for the betterment of the community, among other things, to get renewed. Corporations can't vote, get drafted, d|e, have children, or even speak in the normal sense. That they have the status of a person is ludicrous.”

“When would you propose limits on free speech?”

“The crazy thing is that the WingNutz don't think their ideas have damaged the country............ The Mainstream Media is no help at all”

“True indeed!”

“New concept - the sun doesn't shine at night and is dimmer in the morning ,evening, and winter. Peak to average is is 25% for the American Southwest. Its about 15% for middle America.

Yes solar boiler is more efficient than rooftop PV but only desert areas prone to fog beside the ocean have enough water to keep them going.

Here are the real numbers

Sq miles = (700/640) *15000000/(600*.25) = 110K sq miles the entire land area of the state of Arizona.

Cost = 840*15000000/(600*.25) = $84 trillion without storage,+ $50 trillion grid upgrade to carry the load north + $100 trillion storage for foggy/cloudy days, sandstorms and winter

$10 trillion buying 10000 nukes worldwide is well within our industrial/financial capacity to build within the next ten years. It is paid for by and ends fossil fuel use, saves millions of lives every year from toxic radioactive waste from coal plants and ends global warming. Reasoning Democrats (most I hope) and almost all Republicans and Deniers will go along with it.

Or

$250 Trillion in solar boiler and plant not a chance Republicans or Deniers would go for it. Thirty years from now, if those silly scientists are right, most of the worlds coasts will be flooded, the gulf stream will have stopped, billions are dead and starving from toxic radioactive coal plant emissions flooding and bad weather. Europe and eastern North America will be frozen solid.

You pick.”

“You must be talking about Obama who would love nothing better than see the cost of oil go up to support his scheme to of enriching himself and his buddy Gore with Green technology. They both have secret stashes of caulking to pay off with his cash for caukers bill.”

“He's an effin crook, and he profited for 8 years.”

“M y dad was an old union organizer , he taught me to never give up”

“Voted Gore , then Kerry I even worked for Kerry”

“Ask Saddam if pre-emptive war failed. Just because you don't support a war, doesn't mean it's failed.”

“I was banking it during the Bush years.

You didn't get paid?

Maybe you need a makeover.”

“So beleive the system worked?”

“Correction it is way to expensive to use spent nuclear fuel to extract plutonium. Much easier to use a special reactor.”

“Let's see some data to back up you nonsensical claims. Some of us deal with this stuff for a living you know. The energy density provided by solar panels and the energy conversion efficienty of solar cells based on singl photon process are nowhere near to back up your claims. While I am in favor in implementing different kinds of clean energy technology whenever appropriate, I am not delusional about it. News flash: There is no substitute for fossil fuels. If you need a lecture as to why that is I'll give you one. All we can do is to extend the lifespan of the world's oil reserves. In addition, you seem to have forgotten that it takes energy to fabricate anything and everything, including solar panels. You don't think that semiconductors fall down from the sky, do you?”

“Dude. Get educated first before you utter another word on this matter. You were just lectured.”

“Does this information answer the question....

"It is necessary to supply a fast reactor with "fertile" material, but there is enough of that available in the nuclear waste piles that we are babysitting to last many centuries . Fertile material that can be burned in fast reactors is contained in by-products of past weapons development programs as well as in the waste from light-water reactors. The US is presently storing about six hundred thousand tons of uranium hexafluride, a by-product of nuclear weapons production. A reasonable assessment of the value of this material as fuel, if fast reactors were deployed as the energy source for power plants, is about $50 trillion. Yes, trillion. But it will take a thousand years to use all that fuel.”