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You're very wrong about that.

Eliminating "the need" for overhead wires seems like a terrible trade off when you're adding "the need" for expensive batteries and charging infrastructure.

You might be interesting in looking at the Lima programming language: http://btetrud.com/Lima/Lima-Documentation.html . It has ideas that cover some of these things. For example, i…

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I still don't see you making any constructive comment. If you're going to, make it your next one please. If you want an answer to your original rhetorical-looking question. The ans…

I'd be very surprised if you could convince me that solar or wind could eliminate the need for the majority of our electricity to be generated by base-load systems like hydro, coal…

Your question was full of self righteous snark and your response to my question was as well. Trying to tell me you were just "curious" and "asking for clarity" is 100% bullshit and…

> enough of them How much is enough? A von neumann machine shouldn't need to be that big. You can send a single one to a solar system and let it replicate itself indefinitely. A si…

I'm sorry but if you think the US had a "free market" for nuclear power, you're an idiot.

Thanks for the info. I did some more research and found out that Nuclear Power was indeed not subsidized from 1985 to 2000, but after 2000 some nuclear subsidies seem to have been …

You're an idiot, goodbye.

Was the basic research funded by governments? Yes. Is subsidization necessary or even done for nuclear powerplants to be built and profitably run given that basic research as an al…

No it doesn't "turn out" that way. It is a self fullfilling prophesy where a government either grants a monopoly to a private company or to itself. There is almost nothing that wou…

Sounds like you're ignoring my whole post. I guess this conversation is over then.

> turns out when you grant a for profit company a monoply they take advantage. every time without fail. Yes. Granting anyone a monopoly (a corporation or a government) is always a …

No one was talking about France. angiosperm snarkily implied that Nuclear only works if its subsidized. He's clearly wrong. The fact that France does subsidize it isn't relevant. N…

Solar doesn't. Wind doesn't. Hydro does (usually). You know he was talking about solar and wind. Why are you being a turd? Hydro is tapped, we can't build significantly more hydro …

I'm not sure why you think that Exelon didn't consider regulatory risk as one of the things that made it not make sense for them. It was certainly a large factor. The idea that exi…

Pointing to the best run government power company says nothing about the average government run power company. And I don't know why you think cheap rates for a government power com…

I'd like you to concede that your snarky comment about subsidies implies things that are incorrect. Nuclear is not subsidized and has never been widely subsidized. https://world-nu…

> Perhaps space travel isn't easy or fast at all Except we have excellent knowledge about lower bounds on how easy and fast space travel can be. And its plenty fast enough to explo…

> it does not seem inevitable The belief that intelligent life isn't inevitable is not inconsistent with the belief that intelligent life usually will happen from any life given en…

I got so tired of dealing with Google's AMP so I switched to Firefox just on mobile. It's fine, tho the url bar doesn't work as well as on chrome. Other than that I've gotten used …

?? How does that show a failure of the free market??

Are you blind? The only reason we have so much solar and wind is because of massive subsidies.