Actual solution not just weather trivia - small nuke certified 15

[JoshPlumSE]

It's the pure volume of horse shit emanating from your posts combined with the posting arrogance claiming to be doing everyone a service by posting that is making everyone hate on you. Personally, it's reached the point that I believe you're simply purposely trying to be the biggest asshole possible.

Come on Lionel. We know that you're better than this kind of post.

I haven't seen much from brimstoner that is on-topic or helpful to any thread that he's posted to. So, I understand why he gets under your skin. And, seems to bother a lot of others on this forum. But, please try to keep it a bit more civil.

Brimstoner -

What was the purpose of your original post "try to stay on topic"? If you could clarify that then maybe we'd see some purpose to your 8 posts on this thread. Most of these postings seem to be to defend your honor, call into question other people's intelligence or insult their nationality. I do not see a valid reason for your doing so.

I think a post about a smaller nuclear fission plant is totally relevant to the Climate Change Engineering Solutions forum. Unless you don't realize that nuclear power does NOT produce CO2, or you don't believe that human production of CO2 is a significant driver of global warming.

One thing I have learned over the years is to try not to let a discussion you've had on other threads affect the way post on the current one. I get that we can get annoyed with someone on one thread and that makes us a little biased against them. But, when someone comes to this thread and sees immediate anger / frustration from someone then that person comes off very poorly. Since none of us know you all that well yet, that's how you're coming off.

 

[Guest102023]

Since it seems only to have been obvious to myself, I’ll spell it out:

“…not just weather trivia” comes off as a snide, possibly bitter, gratuitous dig at members uploading evidence of extreme weather events and catastrophes. Not easy to go off-road that quickly.

That clear things up? (Seriously, get over yourselves and move on).

Small nukes - yes! Excellent topic for discussion. The topic.

"If you don't have time to do the job right the first time, when are you going to find time to repair it?"

 

[TugboatEng]

One could say that "weather trivia" is entirely off-topic on this forum. The forum is called "Climate Change Engineering Solutions". It is not called "Weather Trivia".

 

[GregLocock]

Climate != weather

This is a climate forum, not today's scary headline forum.



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[LionelHutz]

You'd think that climate does not equal weather would be obvious to engineers.

 

[CWB1]

As amusing as this post is otherwise (and yes, I dug through the cupboard for popcorn), I thought I'd share an article I saw on the original subject.

https://alaskapublic.org/2021/10/21/eielson-to-receive-air-forces-first-nuclear-microreactor/

 

[Guest102023]

You'd think that climate does not equal weather would be obvious to engineers

Well obviously!
There’s no relationship whatsoever.

"If you don't have time to do the job right the first time, when are you going to find time to repair it?"

 

[TugboatEng]

It's like comparing temperature and heat.

 

[dik]

Sin tax is a bad idea... the harm is cumulative, therefor the financial penalty has to be cumulative, too. Best to just stop selling them and encourage public transit.

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[rb1957]

"low hanging fruit" ...

always makes me think of the joke ...
Q Why did the elephant paint his balls red ?
A So he could hide in apple trees.
Q How did Tarzan die ?
A Picking apples.

"Hoffen wir mal, dass alles gut geht !"
General Paulus, Nov 1942, outside Stalingrad after the launch of Operation Uranus.

 

[CWB1]

Sin tax is a bad idea...

They're also entirely subjective and often illogical. Charging extra to "discourage" me from enjoying the occasional tobacco product is rather ridiculous given the fact that the air quality in Detroit and many other US cities is worse for humans than chain-smoking. Charging a large family extra to own a large vehicle is similarly idiotic, its judgment devoid of facts, but yet we do via "gas guzzler" taxes stateside.

 

[dik]

With tobacco and alcohol... it was a manner that the government could gain revenue, making it sound like a 'good thing'. Smoke and Mirrors 101.

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[Guest102023]

Sin taxes do work, and are fair because they align with a ‘user pay’ philosophy.

Smokers put an added cost on the healthcare system that should not be borne by nonsmokers.

Why should folks electing not to own a vehicle subsidize folks who do, in so many ways?

While we’re at it, billionaires should start paying tax. Warren Buffett says he’s in favour.

"If you don't have time to do the job right the first time, when are you going to find time to repair it?"

 

[Guest102023]

occasional tobacco product

That is a very rare thing.

"If you don't have time to do the job right the first time, when are you going to find time to repair it?"

 

[TugboatEng]

Why should folks who perform work that requires their vehicle have a box attached to the back be punished? Ideas like that are short sighted and harmful.

What kind of vehicles do contractors use to service wind farms?

 

[JoshPlumSE]

I may lean libertarian in many ways, but "sin tax" is a reasonable thing to me most of the time.

We don't want to get the the point where we have a 'nanny-state' telling us what food we can consume and can't consume. However, I am very much in favor of tying taxes to the effect of those taxes whenever possible.

If you force all funding for the highway system to come from gas taxes, then that better reflects the cost of those systems. Right? If you use 10x as much gas (because you drive a semi) then the cost you incur is more in line with your usage of the thing you're paying taxes for. That makes perfect sense to me.

Similar things for Alcohol and Tobacco. If you're using the tax on those products for abuse prevention programs then you're tying the cost of those programs to the product that is necessitating those costs. Maybe even throw in some of the cost associated with dealing with DUI's, or public health services related to alcohol or tobacco related illnesses.

We can do similar things with CO2 emissions for power. Add taxes on power plant based on their CO2 emissions and use those taxes to pay for any "clean air" alternatives. Be it expanding hydro, nuclear, solar, wind. Maybe even projects to re-build forests, research Fusion research. Make the "sin" pay for the measures we use to treat the sin.

If the costs go up so high that people are objecting then at least they have an understanding of how much money is being spent on these other projects.

 

[GregLocock]

More on micro reactors -

https://www.westinghousenuclear.com/energy-systems/evinci-micro-reactor

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[rb1957]

thx greg !

"Hoffen wir mal, dass alles gut geht !"
General Paulus, Nov 1942, outside Stalingrad after the launch of Operation Uranus.

 

[Guest102023]

Tug,

It must require sensational effort to misrepresent my words so consistently badly.

And that bogus reason you keep throwing up for not creating green infrastructure stretches credulity to the breaking point. I guess I should quit my job at the renewables factory because my commute produces carbon - that’s basically the logic. And we should just keep ploughing investment into FF infrastructure and subsidizing Big Oil to the tune of billions.

"If you don't have time to do the job right the first time, when are you going to find time to repair it?"

 

[TugboatEng]

Why single out pickup trucks with such ire? They don't make up the majority of vehicles on the road and they don't emit exponentially more CO2 than typical cars.

The list you produced seems to target people for being productive and not for polluting.

Renewables factory? Would you be willing to let us know what types of renewables you are involved with?