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AnthAmbassador14 karma

They will be looking back on us with disdain because of our disregard for long term resources. We are the trash generations.

On the bright side, with cheap energy, we can clean up anything. We might see productive fusion within a decade, and then we can start cleaning up our mess. Maybe it takes longer, but still, we can clean it up.

AnthAmbassador14 karma

It might be a pretty high yield per acre, but it's using orangutan land, why does acreage yield matter? We have lots of space to grow lower yield oil crops.

AnthAmbassador12 karma

Well nations were originally construed as language bound. The US used to have a lot of German, Yiddish, Italian, and to a lesser extent Gaelic, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (honestly not sure if it would have been Mandarin, Cantonese or both) spoken as a first language and english as a second.

This was essentially made illegal, as it was propagated in schools that were taught in those languages in those communites, and that was essentially outlawed in the US for some years.

My mother's math teacher spoke English with a heavy Pennsylvania Dutch accent, because when he was a boy, he went to school speaking Dutch, learning in Dutch. This was all over the US before it was clamped down on in the early 1900s, partially because of the sudden success of the Germanic states (Prussia in particular) and they were seen as rivals to the US, and an idea emerged that one can only think American thoughts in English.

AnthAmbassador10 karma

Tel Aviv is like 10 miles from the border of the West Bank.

I live "Just outside town," it's 10 miles away.

There is no way the Israelis are going to give up military control of any of the places they currently occupy, because the Arab Muslims in the area have proven over and over again that they don't respect the Israelis right to be alive in the area.

AnthAmbassador6 karma

How long will a reactor need to run before it can achieve economics like this? Obviously manufacture is the primary cost, running and fueling are pretty cheap. If you don't run it for a while, you won't even break even with conventional generation.

What's the break even time period, and what is the ten times cheaper time period?

Anyone know?