my english teacher told me the radiation from fukushima is wiping out ocean life all over the pacific and millions of people will die from it
which global warming, caused by burning fossil fuels, is already doing but
I'm probably going to get an F because this paper im turning in today is about how we need nuclear power, and details in lay terms how much safer gen 3 and 4 reactors are to reactors like fukushima, and even if there was a fukishma disaster every 2 years it wouldn't be anywhere close to the damage wrought by fossil fuels - disregarding global warming
once you add global warming to the ledger the only hindrance is the cost of nuclear power
I read something recently which claimed that, whatever its utility, nuclear power is not really a substitute for other renewables, on the grounds that new plants are extremely expensive and will take a really long time to get online. So, the claim was that even bracketing concerns about safety and waste storage there's not really any realistic scenario where nuclear power can take over in even the medium term, given that nuclear plant construction is a behemoth project that even when done to spec will involve massive capital outlays and most likely substantial cost and scheduling overruns.
I feel like that's because policy in general tends to be against building new nuclear plants due to the fear of more reactor meltdowns impeding progress and not even giving safer, newer tech a chance but that's just a gut reading based off of my very occasional updates of my knowledge re:nuclear power
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
apparently the BIG boss in DC saw my coworker sleeping and said something about it on the call and he still went back to sleep, and that was when my boss told me to go wake him up lol
my english teacher told me the radiation from fukushima is wiping out ocean life all over the pacific and millions of people will die from it
which global warming, caused by burning fossil fuels, is already doing but
I'm probably going to get an F because this paper im turning in today is about how we need nuclear power, and details in lay terms how much safer gen 3 and 4 reactors are to reactors like fukushima, and even if there was a fukishma disaster every 2 years it wouldn't be anywhere close to the damage wrought by fossil fuels - disregarding global warming
once you add global warming to the ledger the only hindrance is the cost of nuclear power
I read something recently which claimed that, whatever its utility, nuclear power is not really a substitute for other renewables, on the grounds that new plants are extremely expensive and will take a really long time to get online. So, the claim was that even bracketing concerns about safety and waste storage there's not really any realistic scenario where nuclear power can take over in even the medium term, given that nuclear plant construction is a behemoth project that even when done to spec will involve massive capital outlays and most likely substantial cost and scheduling overruns.
From what I read years ago, nuclear power plants require a huge early investment but their maintenance cost is low. so overall it doesn't end up being that bad
but you have to be willing to take the risk on having one long term so that the initial cost gets balanced out by less cost down the road.
which is a big risk to take, and it's prohibitive for a lot of places where they just can't pour that much money into infrastructure.
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the charts I got here for Fukushima radiation spread shows the entire western united states getting 750 rads of radiation
God I remember that
When 100 million Americans died from radiation poisoning
That was a rough week
(for those wondering 400 rads is the LD50... so that number is either wildy inaccurate, or best coast is now supermutant coast)
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
my english teacher told me the radiation from fukushima is wiping out ocean life all over the pacific and millions of people will die from it
which global warming, caused by burning fossil fuels, is already doing but
I'm probably going to get an F because this paper im turning in today is about how we need nuclear power, and details in lay terms how much safer gen 3 and 4 reactors are to reactors like fukushima, and even if there was a fukishma disaster every 2 years it wouldn't be anywhere close to the damage wrought by fossil fuels - disregarding global warming
once you add global warming to the ledger the only hindrance is the cost of nuclear power
I read something recently which claimed that, whatever its utility, nuclear power is not really a substitute for other renewables, on the grounds that new plants are extremely expensive and will take a really long time to get online. So, the claim was that even bracketing concerns about safety and waste storage there's not really any realistic scenario where nuclear power can take over in even the medium term, given that nuclear plant construction is a behemoth project that even when done to spec will involve massive capital outlays and most likely substantial cost and scheduling overruns.
China seems pretty keen on throwing up a bunch of much smaller nuclear plants that take less time to build
All of this is reasons why we should have started building many new plants a decade ago, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't start building more now
It is an argument in favor of wind and solar, though, given that their up front capital cost is much lower, their efficiency has only been improving, and they're ready to step in to cut carbon emissions now rather than in several decades after the first new nuclear designs are approved, locations are found, capital is raised, ground is broken... etc.
hm the nearest MD to my place (health services apparently doesn't open til a few weeks from now) has really good google reviews
BUT
one of the reviews says
He is not one to write unneeded prescriptions, and I am especially grateful for his sensible guidance about vaccines for my kids. A+.
*squints*
Why is that automatically a bad thing?
Maybe they just wanted to know more about the vaccines and the doctor helped them understand why they are safe and a good thing?
Seems weird that it stands out so much to you.
really? Have you ever encountered an anti vaxxer?
They usually aren't the doctors!
Doctors can be just as stupid as the rest of humanity.
Being a Doctor doesn't make you immune.
I mean yeah, Ben Carson proves that
but it does usually make you pretty on the ball when it comes to medicine, even if you're a drooling lunatic outside of that
a doctor being an anti-vaxxer would still be surprising because it would mean that a doctor was dumb when it came to the thing that they studied relentlessly.
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
no I guess that's backwards, rads is the new one, rontgens is the old ones nevermind they're all old, I dunno
I thing Sieverts is the SI one you'd use to talk about radiation poisoning.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
The Metric version of Radiation is The Grey or Gy, One joule of energy per kilogram of matter
metric huh?
we don't need your shit metric system
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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Doctors definitely aren't immune to stupid. In fact, we're infamously terrible with money—we spend a long time being relatively poor and learning a ton about non-money stuff, then suddenly have a salary explosion and do some pretty dumb thing with the cash. There was a hilarious article a few years ago where some well-meaning doctors accidentally created a pyramid scheme. Yes, accidentally, and they were not only shocked that what they were doing was illegal, they were shocked that what they were doing was not actually a viable way to enrich large numbers of people.
But doctors are, by and large, smarter about medicine than the average population. We spend a lot of time having that drummed into us. We'd better know a thing or two about it. There are idiot doctors, of course, but there are fewer medically idiot doctors than medically idiot non-doctors, proportionally.
There's a fair-sized controversy among pediatricians about what to do about parents frightened of vaccines. If you are willing to bend the standard immunization schedule you're probably putting children at additional risk. If you refuse to you're risking driving the parents away and leaving the kids at even greater risk. This is part of why I couldn't be a pediatrician (or do child psychiatry): kids are great to work with, but far too many of the problems come from parents, and they're not your patients and you have no leverage with them.
Good doctors can take the time to explain to parents why vaccines are given when and how they are, and why deviating from that is not a good idea, and go through all the vaccine literature. But let's be real, appointments are so short there's barely time to get the medical work done unless you have a concierge doc that you're paying out of pocket to take the time. But yes, I think there are a lot more nervous parents than die-hard anti-vaccine nutjobs, and there probably are a fair number of parents who would write good reviews for a doctor who took the time to explain why vaccines are good and why the kids should get them instead of just shouting, "ANTI-VAX IS EVIL AND YOU ARE STUPID GET OUT OF MY OFFICE YOU LOWLIFE SCUM."
You pro-vaccine types just prove how effective the mind control Chem trails have been.
Wake up sheeple!
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amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
Man I just want to watch Suicide Squad and see Joker and Harley and Affleck and the other guy with the boomerangs and the lady with the sword and the witch lady and will smith and gun guy from The Killing and the fire guy and the crocodile rock and mean boss lady.
are YOU on the beer list?
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HonkHonk is this poster.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
I'm in a facebook group for liver disease and there were some anti-vaxxers there that in the end had to be kicked off. Nobody was being preachy to them or anything, just getting them to stop being dangerous influence on others. All the while their demeanor is some sort of smug inner circle winking to each other like "yeah... we know, you and I, we know the real truth". They are in every sense exactly the same in the head as fundamentalists. There is nothing I despise more than willfully ignorant people.
There was also one poor guy who was going to cease all treatment and let god cure him. He went so far as to saying he would never even go to check-ups because that would not be placing enough faith in his healing. He will unfortunately die there are no two ways about that. Though maybe he would have either way, and in that case I can't see any real issue with going out in the way that is most comforting to you.
my english teacher told me the radiation from fukushima is wiping out ocean life all over the pacific and millions of people will die from it
which global warming, caused by burning fossil fuels, is already doing but
I'm probably going to get an F because this paper im turning in today is about how we need nuclear power, and details in lay terms how much safer gen 3 and 4 reactors are to reactors like fukushima, and even if there was a fukishma disaster every 2 years it wouldn't be anywhere close to the damage wrought by fossil fuels - disregarding global warming
once you add global warming to the ledger the only hindrance is the cost of nuclear power
I read something recently which claimed that, whatever its utility, nuclear power is not really a substitute for other renewables, on the grounds that new plants are extremely expensive and will take a really long time to get online. So, the claim was that even bracketing concerns about safety and waste storage there's not really any realistic scenario where nuclear power can take over in even the medium term, given that nuclear plant construction is a behemoth project that even when done to spec will involve massive capital outlays and most likely substantial cost and scheduling overruns.
China seems pretty keen on throwing up a bunch of much smaller nuclear plants that take less time to build
All of this is reasons why we should have started building many new plants a decade ago, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't start building more now
I think the argument is that we can't get nuclear power up and running fast enough to replace fossil fuel before it's too late/we run out of it.
whereas a switch to wind/solar can be achieved relatively fast.
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DemonStaceyTTODewback's DaughterIn love with the TaySwayRegistered Userregular
Testing out my newly earned ribbon~~
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
Doctors definitely aren't immune to stupid. In fact, we're infamously terrible with money—we spend a long time being relatively poor and learning a ton about non-money stuff, then suddenly have a salary explosion and do some pretty dumb thing with the cash. There was a hilarious article a few years ago where some well-meaning doctors accidentally created a pyramid scheme. Yes, accidentally, and they were not only shocked that what they were doing was illegal, they were shocked that what they were doing was not actually a viable way to enrich large numbers of people.
But doctors are, by and large, smarter about medicine than the average population. We spend a lot of time having that drummed into us. We'd better know a thing or two about it. There are idiot doctors, of course, but there are fewer medically idiot doctors than medically idiot non-doctors, proportionally.
There's a fair-sized controversy among pediatricians about what to do about parents frightened of vaccines. If you are willing to bend the standard immunization schedule you're probably putting children at additional risk. If you refuse to you're risking driving the parents away and leaving the kids at even greater risk. This is part of why I couldn't be a pediatrician (or do child psychiatry): kids are great to work with, but far too many of the problems come from parents, and they're not your patients and you have no leverage with them.
Good doctors can take the time to explain to parents why vaccines are given when and how they are, and why deviating from that is not a good idea, and go through all the vaccine literature. But let's be real, appointments are so short there's barely time to get the medical work done unless you have a concierge doc that you're paying out of pocket to take the time. But yes, I think there are a lot more nervous parents than die-hard anti-vaccine nutjobs, and there probably are a fair number of parents who would write good reviews for a doctor who took the time to explain why vaccines are good and why the kids should get them instead of just shouting, "ANTI-VAX IS EVIL AND YOU ARE STUPID GET OUT OF MY OFFICE YOU LOWLIFE SCUM."
Which happens.
um i think the people have heard enough from the experts thank you very much
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
I'm anti everything.
Hell I routinely stop breathing for a minute several times a day just to stick it to biology.
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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ChelleYeahMrs. LudiousLiving it up in Cinderella's CastleRegistered Userregular
I'm in a facebook group for liver disease and there were some anti-vaxxers there that in the end had to be kicked off. Nobody was being preachy to them or anything, just getting them to stop being dangerous influence on others. All the while their demeanor is some sort of smug inner circle winking to each other like "yeah... we know, you and I, we know the real truth". They are in every sense exactly the same in the head as fundamentalists. There is nothing I despise more than willfully ignorant people.
There was also one poor guy who was going to cease all treatment and let god cure him. He went so far as to saying he would never even go to check-ups because that would not be placing enough faith in his healing. He will unfortunately die there are no two ways about that. Though maybe he would have either way, and in that case I can't see any real issue with going out in the way that is most comforting to you.
if the only person you're killing is yourself, and you're going to die a pretty painful death either way, i have a hard time faulting your dumb opinions if it makes you feel better
my english teacher told me the radiation from fukushima is wiping out ocean life all over the pacific and millions of people will die from it
which global warming, caused by burning fossil fuels, is already doing but
I'm probably going to get an F because this paper im turning in today is about how we need nuclear power, and details in lay terms how much safer gen 3 and 4 reactors are to reactors like fukushima, and even if there was a fukishma disaster every 2 years it wouldn't be anywhere close to the damage wrought by fossil fuels - disregarding global warming
once you add global warming to the ledger the only hindrance is the cost of nuclear power
I read something recently which claimed that, whatever its utility, nuclear power is not really a substitute for other renewables, on the grounds that new plants are extremely expensive and will take a really long time to get online. So, the claim was that even bracketing concerns about safety and waste storage there's not really any realistic scenario where nuclear power can take over in even the medium term, given that nuclear plant construction is a behemoth project that even when done to spec will involve massive capital outlays and most likely substantial cost and scheduling overruns.
China seems pretty keen on throwing up a bunch of much smaller nuclear plants that take less time to build
All of this is reasons why we should have started building many new plants a decade ago, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't start building more now
I think the argument is that we can't get nuclear power up and running fast enough to replace fossil fuel before it's too late/we run out of it.
whereas a switch to wind/solar can be achieved relatively fast.
Who said anything about replace?
Thinking of energy in terms of a single technology providing all the things is a really simplistic view (nuclear is one of the only options that can actually do that, but it would take 50 years and trillions of dollars or some shit)
my english teacher told me the radiation from fukushima is wiping out ocean life all over the pacific and millions of people will die from it
which global warming, caused by burning fossil fuels, is already doing but
I'm probably going to get an F because this paper im turning in today is about how we need nuclear power, and details in lay terms how much safer gen 3 and 4 reactors are to reactors like fukushima, and even if there was a fukishma disaster every 2 years it wouldn't be anywhere close to the damage wrought by fossil fuels - disregarding global warming
once you add global warming to the ledger the only hindrance is the cost of nuclear power
I read something recently which claimed that, whatever its utility, nuclear power is not really a substitute for other renewables, on the grounds that new plants are extremely expensive and will take a really long time to get online. So, the claim was that even bracketing concerns about safety and waste storage there's not really any realistic scenario where nuclear power can take over in even the medium term, given that nuclear plant construction is a behemoth project that even when done to spec will involve massive capital outlays and most likely substantial cost and scheduling overruns.
China seems pretty keen on throwing up a bunch of much smaller nuclear plants that take less time to build
All of this is reasons why we should have started building many new plants a decade ago, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't start building more now
I think the argument is that we can't get nuclear power up and running fast enough to replace fossil fuel before it's too late/we run out of it.
whereas a switch to wind/solar can be achieved relatively fast.
Can renewables alone meet current and projected demand? If they can, let's go for it.
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I feel like that's because policy in general tends to be against building new nuclear plants due to the fear of more reactor meltdowns impeding progress and not even giving safer, newer tech a chance but that's just a gut reading based off of my very occasional updates of my knowledge re:nuclear power
hahahahahahahahaha
i'm a fan of 100mil / you must build a boat
Yeah I thought it was rem and rontgens or something like that?
From what I read years ago, nuclear power plants require a huge early investment but their maintenance cost is low. so overall it doesn't end up being that bad
but you have to be willing to take the risk on having one long term so that the initial cost gets balanced out by less cost down the road.
which is a big risk to take, and it's prohibitive for a lot of places where they just can't pour that much money into infrastructure.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
(for those wondering 400 rads is the LD50... so that number is either wildy inaccurate, or best coast is now supermutant coast)
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
It is an argument in favor of wind and solar, though, given that their up front capital cost is much lower, their efficiency has only been improving, and they're ready to step in to cut carbon emissions now rather than in several decades after the first new nuclear designs are approved, locations are found, capital is raised, ground is broken... etc.
DUDE!
I saw them last month. That shit was ABSOLUTELY BONKERS.
If you get the chance you want to see them. You will dance until you're dead.
Like holy shit. I listened to non-stop Major Lazer for like a week afterwards because it was such a great show.
the 80s are hot right now
I died, man. Show some respect.
I mean yeah, Ben Carson proves that
but it does usually make you pretty on the ball when it comes to medicine, even if you're a drooling lunatic outside of that
a doctor being an anti-vaxxer would still be surprising because it would mean that a doctor was dumb when it came to the thing that they studied relentlessly.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
I thing Sieverts is the SI one you'd use to talk about radiation poisoning.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
metric huh?
we don't need your shit metric system
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USA
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USA
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"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY7jSesdxl0
But doctors are, by and large, smarter about medicine than the average population. We spend a lot of time having that drummed into us. We'd better know a thing or two about it. There are idiot doctors, of course, but there are fewer medically idiot doctors than medically idiot non-doctors, proportionally.
There's a fair-sized controversy among pediatricians about what to do about parents frightened of vaccines. If you are willing to bend the standard immunization schedule you're probably putting children at additional risk. If you refuse to you're risking driving the parents away and leaving the kids at even greater risk. This is part of why I couldn't be a pediatrician (or do child psychiatry): kids are great to work with, but far too many of the problems come from parents, and they're not your patients and you have no leverage with them.
Good doctors can take the time to explain to parents why vaccines are given when and how they are, and why deviating from that is not a good idea, and go through all the vaccine literature. But let's be real, appointments are so short there's barely time to get the medical work done unless you have a concierge doc that you're paying out of pocket to take the time. But yes, I think there are a lot more nervous parents than die-hard anti-vaccine nutjobs, and there probably are a fair number of parents who would write good reviews for a doctor who took the time to explain why vaccines are good and why the kids should get them instead of just shouting, "ANTI-VAX IS EVIL AND YOU ARE STUPID GET OUT OF MY OFFICE YOU LOWLIFE SCUM."
Which happens.
EDIT: since the theme seems to be environmentalism
Well I will walk five hundred miles and slap my ten inch hands that weigh half a stone each in your 37°C face
Wake up sheeple!
There was also one poor guy who was going to cease all treatment and let god cure him. He went so far as to saying he would never even go to check-ups because that would not be placing enough faith in his healing. He will unfortunately die there are no two ways about that. Though maybe he would have either way, and in that case I can't see any real issue with going out in the way that is most comforting to you.
the world is overpopulated and miniature coffin makers have been suffering for business since the early 1900s
I think the argument is that we can't get nuclear power up and running fast enough to replace fossil fuel before it's too late/we run out of it.
whereas a switch to wind/solar can be achieved relatively fast.
um i think the people have heard enough from the experts thank you very much
Hell I routinely stop breathing for a minute several times a day just to stick it to biology.
Primus sucks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAKxOw6qtRA
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
When I was a teen my dad tried to tell me chem trails were real. In all seriousness.
Wouldnt be surprised if he still believes it.
if the only person you're killing is yourself, and you're going to die a pretty painful death either way, i have a hard time faulting your dumb opinions if it makes you feel better
but when like parents do that to their kids
burn it all down
Who said anything about replace?
Thinking of energy in terms of a single technology providing all the things is a really simplistic view (nuclear is one of the only options that can actually do that, but it would take 50 years and trillions of dollars or some shit)
Can renewables alone meet current and projected demand? If they can, let's go for it.
I think there is a case for WhyNotBoth.jpg