The Strange History of Fusion
and the Science of Wishful Thinking
by Charles Seife
Posted on 11/01/2015 6:39:50 PM PST by BeauBo
"On why the free market won’t develop new forms of energy fast enough: ...Without a substantial carbon tax, there’s no incentive for innovators or plant buyers to switch."
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
The left tried to regulate nuclear power right out of the market.
Fossil fuels will probably be the cheapest option for the next several centuries without it.
find a new source of energy and the energy companies will transform their business in order to compete. if they don’t... they’ll go out of business.
no new taxes required.
Bill Gates apparently cannot see that the Sun is the dominant factor in climate change.
He should stick to computers and computer technology instead of venturing out and looking foolish.
Oh wait! HE DOES!!!
What would you call sub $ 2.00 gasoline/gallon?
$ 1.85 in the Houston area.
Below 180ppm plant life starts to die, below 150ppm is ballgame. Since life began the historic range is 200 to 2,000 ppm. The current CO2 level of 400 ppm, which is on the low side, is nothing to worry about.
I’ll listen to BG about GW when he takes his homes off the grid and installs windmills and treadmills for power.
I occasionally ponder blaming Burke Breathed and how he wrapped up Bloom County — what with Donald Trump, Bill the Cat, brain transplants, Trump Dumps, and all that — for The Donald getting into Presidential politics (he has to do at least as well as Bill did).
Of course, Breathed poked fun at Gates too, what with him asking a girl of a date, refused, but then accepted with “no kissing” after he confessed he’s a billionaire.
I guess if Gates someday runs too I’ll wonder then as well....
Also, don’t get me wrong, I have no issue with the uber rich enjoying their wealth or living in opulence ... I just wish they’d spend less time lecturing us Americans, the merely rich or well off by world standards, about how we need to be coerced into making decisions that they agree with.
Gates has plenty of dough to help foster and invest in exactly the kind of innovation he thinks proper ... let him do so, bring his solutions and products to the market, and leave the rest of us unmolested!
Now there you go!
Why, next you’ll be pointing out that warm has been proven to be good for subsistence agriculture civilizations, and thereby all of nature as cultivated plants don’t grow well if wild ones aren’t growing well too. That they created all sorts of wealth and great works of art and architecture, indeed culture itself, in such warm periods.
For shame! Suggesting that warm is good and cool is bad!
(I live in Texas)
IIRC, the last time I saw 99 cent a gallon gas was 1997-ish. Possibly a few years earlier.
Adjusting for inflation that would be nearly a buck-50 in today’s “Dollar”.
You forgot to mention that he helped bring the fly-then-fix mentality to code writing. Pushing money from writing good, tight code into marketing and thereby outsell companies trying to do things right.
Now, it was probably inevitable that someone would get the idea to push things out the door ASAP and then sell updates, but someone just happened to be Gates and company.
Did you ever see the video where the guy says that Gates made “control-alt-delete” famous?
Bill Gates, prince of the NWO crony corporatist/fascist fools may know about computers, but he is a dumb-ass Leftie nevertheless. He deems to LECTURE us, and also use his billions, to force us into socialist slavery. I am so enraged, I have to stop typing as my head is about to explode over the power this idiot has.
Hey Bill, we have the most economical source of energy
available now, it’s called “oil”.
"On why the free market won't develop new forms of energy fast enough: ...Without a substantial carbon tax, there's no incentive for innovators or plant buyers to switch."And zero population growth is a must. Just be glad he's not some pro-homo-marriage, pro-abortion limo lib. /s
Thanks for the ping.
If you apply the typical life cycle costs to our current law decreed nuke plants, they are not a good investment. There is better tech out there, but we are not able to use them.
The biggest issue is what to do with the waste. Nuke plants make a huge amount of deadly waste that needs to be stored forever. That makes them a poor bet for most places.
Full discloser, I like nukes. The life cycle costs are just really, really, high.
Why not just drop it off in the Marianas Trench?
PR.
Try to sell that and not have people and nations attacking your ships hauling it out there.
That's a stupid reason to sit shivering in the dark.
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