Quoting Ed on nuclear topics is like quoting RFK Jr on vaccine related topics.

There may yet be valid reasons to be bearish on TerraPower but this hack’s reasons are not among them

Liberalism is a radical idea of universal liberation, even if most of its modern-day adherents are squishy opportunists who are simply echoing what they perceive as the prevailing ideology of their friends

Liberals were the OG radicals.

Bluesky has a lot of leftists that think only leftism counts as radical.

Specifically things like low cost (but not FPV mass like Ukraine front lines) attritible mass or golden dome/missile defense (MD is not just nuclear, war over Taiwan would need to have defense against conventional ballistics and hypersonic aimed at the carriers).

I mean this entirely in good-faith: is there a knee jerk reaction in left-defense community against things that seem to have salience in this Trump admin and/or SC crowd - perhaps to the detriment of being clear eyed about where we are headed?

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I am truly attempting to engage in good faith here but I am poking at what seems to be a reflexive knee jerk response against this.

So because missile defense has never worked before it can’t now?

Deterrence is only and can only be nuclear and not additional capabilities?

Look I get rolling eyes at this admin and also the SV defense tech bros but at the same time are we being contrarian for contrarian’s sake?

Plan Commission unanimously approves changes to the TOD overlay district including allowing 4-plex construction, some bans on auto sales, stand-alone parking lots, more restrictions on drive-throughs, ban on car washes - but amends to allow auto rentals.

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Is that why fighters from the failed revolutions of the 1840s saw the American civil war as liberties last stand?

Is that why Europe looked to US to preserve freedom when all lights went out?

Is that why revolutionaries from Bolivar to Ho Chi Minh quoted Thomas Jefferson?

Shove it tankie

I would simply reform the interconnection process to allow RE + BESS proliferation. Guess I’m built different.

Thing is you need a lot of energy for the former- so either way you place your bets you’d favor China - because they are still going hard on AI including offering power rate subsidies to AI companies on top of their already cheap power

My parents came from a part of the world where mob/vigilante “justice” and kangaroo courts were how things were settled.

These revolutionary LARPERs don’t know what they are advocating for.

Is there a way to set up a tracker for new development approvals specifically allowed by the upzoning?

Very interested in tracking that against historical rents.

Depends on if they have eventual plans to in-source portions or all of their mfg - could be a smart way to scale initially to build credibility before undertaking capital intensive mfg buildouts

I think we need more people like you teaching the youths. This would be very noble.

lol

GOD BLESS YOU

Is there a chart that shows Biden’s tenure vs Trump?

Tbh to me I’d probably pay more for that than I’d ever pay for a car.

I’d finance that up to 50-75k. Maybe more. Assuming that it would work with routine maintenance for 15-20 years.

Need to do all. Create good, repeal bad, amend/improve the things that work but can work better.

quick clarification: all of Africa’s imported solar WOULD be equivalent to 60% of Sierra Leone’s generation IF all of those imports went to Sierra Leone, they didn’t.

It’s a slightly useful comparison for scale I guess but also such a weird metric.

Yes because in all of human history, we weren’t allowed to make any progress in any field until all current ones were solved. That’s clearly how things work.

Many times those that claim they support social housing are actually NIMBYs in action - but this seems to be the contrary.

Excited!

Is she less NIMBY than Harrell?

Opinion | 845,000 dead on U.S. highways. Why not address the main cause? We need to ramp up the standards for road tests and train people to be better drivers.

“94% of car crashes involve some form of driver behavior like speeding, distraction, failing to yield or DUI identified as a contributing factor, although this doesn’t mean the driver is always solely responsible —“

Remote communities in Alaska that currently run on Diesel, certain defense/emergency systems where LCOE is not the priority and nations are willing to pay the premium for always on electricity, etc

But by & large, yeah most civilian utilities in most locations should be focusing on what you list

Remember when Cuomo & RFK jr teamed up to shut down a perfectly functional nuke plant in NYC and then emissions shot up.

I still get mad thinking about it.

I think RE/storage is the future broadly.

I dont think ghat means we shouldn’t build nuclear too.

China is doing all of the above & they are arguably the leader in the energy transition.

There are going to be specific edge cases where certain tech wins out - why not use every tool available?

The West’s inability to build w/o getting in our own way is what is allowing China to “pull ahead” (if you view it as 0 sum) - in some cases its good environmental reasons but mostly its just this insistence that everyone and their mom should “have their voices heard” on every development project