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Re: Germany exploring a transition from nuclear power at a cost of at least $210 billion and want the rest of Europe to pay more for energy too

stewartm0205 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:33:42 -0000

The Europeans already depend on OPEC for their energy. Adding a few more countries won't make it worst. And at least this time if we built it we own it.

Re: Germany exploring a transition from nuclear power at a cost of at least $210 billion and want the rest of Europe to pay more for energy too

stewartm0205 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:08:23 -0000

It is not as difficult as people think it is. After the Arab Oil embargo a strong effort was make to reduce energy consumption in industries. There were substantial savings. One of the side effects of the savings is that production became cheaper and pollution was reduced. And American for a short while became less dependent on foreign oil. This also resulted in long term deduction in oil prices.

Re: Germany exploring a transition from nuclear power at a cost of at least $210 billion and want the rest of Europe to pay more for energy too

stewartm0205 — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:45:45 -0000

Like Russia is already doing. The European nations need to get other gas suppliers to counter-balance Russia. And so does the former Soviet bloc countries like the Ukraine.

Re: Germany exploring a transition from nuclear power at a cost of at least $210 billion and want the rest of Europe to pay more for energy too

stewartm0205 — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:43:36 -0000

Some of the countries are already stable like Morocco and Saudia Arabia. The others can be make stable by providing long term stable jobs to a good portion of the population. You can craft a long term lease for land with some revenue sharing agreements with certain tribal, political and religious groups. In simple terms pay them off to keep them happy and quiet. Have enough surplus generation that any one country can't blackmail you.

Re: Forecast of 1.8 billion tons of steel per year in 2015 driven by Urbanization in China

stewartm0205 — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:35:54 -0000

Put a wholesale tax on certain products. Then offset it by providing a tax break for each worker employed in America. Tune it to the desired result. If would be a tariff but it would have similar result.

Re: Germany exploring a transition from nuclear power at a cost of at least $210 billion and want the rest of Europe to pay more for energy too

stewartm0205 — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:28:32 -0000

Its a lot cheaper to conserve. By the way most of the nuclear power plants are close to their maximum life span, probable twenty more years max so they were going to have to spend the money anyway. The Sahara desert is available for wind turbine and solar plants, so is most of the Middel East. Run gas pipe lines and high voltage DC lines for the Middle East and North Africa across the Mediterranean Sea or thru Turkey into Europe. More than enough power.

Re: Seth Godin Marketing Guru Simplifies the Death per TWH article

stewartm0205 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:11:32 -0000

We can reduce the amount of coal deaths cheaply by installing air pollution control devices. One other thing we can do is install solar power preheaters for coal power plant where we have enough land space. It would reduce the amount of coal that needs to be burned.

Re: New Batteries for electric cars could charge in minutes

stewartm0205 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:06:41 -0000

We don't have to go to an all electric car right now. A pluggable diesel hybrid car would be fine for now. Or what might be better is pluggable hybrid that runs on natural gas. We might not want to melt the ice caps but I am not sure we want to go to zero Co2 either because it might get a bit colder than now.

Re: How to Rebuild Japan and More Economic Impact

stewartm0205 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:55:18 -0000

They need to build away from the water. Leave the land near the water as park land. Go to multifamily multistory reinforced concrete buildings. And try and build on higher land.

Re: Top Republican: Cut taxes by 10% … for the rich

stewartm0205 — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:07:08 -0000

They don't have a clue. Most of the money the rich have is "dead" money. It doesn't go to buy goods and services provided by workers. The more money they have the smaller the economy gets. And whats worst is that they use the excess wealth for speculation which creates the boom and bust cycles that quickly destroys an economy.

Re: LEDs microchip manufacturing methods could slash the cost of lighting from $40 LED bulbs to $5

stewartm0205 — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:12:19 -0000

Cost of LED bulbs must come down to about $10 a bulbs for them to replace the fluorescent bulbs. Led blubs are competive for certain applications were bulbs are on 24-hrs a day and are difficult to replace.

Re: Nuclear and Renewables Debate - Building Renewables Fast Enough ?

stewartm0205 — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:39:42 -0000

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Re: Kawasaki has 450 Kilowatt superconducting motor and development project for 3 megawatt superconducting motors

stewartm0205 — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:28:13 -0000

I would think that volume and distance would determine what's feasible or not. Siberia to Japan is not that far. Neither is Siberia to Alaska. Middle East and North Africa to Europe is doable. Venezuela to the USA would be mostly overland.

Re: Public health and nutrition determines a lot of per capita IQ which determines a lot of per capita GDP

stewartm0205 — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:19:55 -0000

Humans do have some instincts but they can be overcome by conditioning. So the "Blank Slate" is still true.

Re: Public health and nutrition determines a lot of per capita IQ which determines a lot of per capita GDP

stewartm0205 — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:43:46 -0000

You attacked me but you still haven't giving me an answer. Please state why you believe the "Blank Slate theory" is responsible for more deaths than the false believe that some people are born inherently superior to others. Please do provide details and real life examples. Continuing to attack me does not advance the debate. If just wastes everybody time.

Re: Over one ton of coal is burned for every person every year and several ounces of particulates pass through your lungs each year because of it

stewartm0205 — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:09:12 -0000

I don't like the fact that coal is burned to product electric power but it will take time to replace the coal fired power plants. What I find ridiculous is the lack of pollution control equipment on some coal power plants especially ones in populated areas. Especially when the equipment is almost free due to depreciation. It shows that the operators of these plants are sociopaths since theydon't care that their power plants are killing and sicking their customers.

Re: Three senators offer bill to build small reactors

stewartm0205 — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:01:42 -0000

The larger the number of reactors the higher the probability of a failure. Small reactors only make sense if they were self contained and inherently safe. No refueling. You drop them off and pick them up when they need refueling.

Re: More than 262 aftershocks over magnitude 5, over 49 over 6 and three larger than 7 in Japan

stewartm0205 — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:48:23 -0000

A magnitude 9.0 is a really large earthquake so the aftershocks are to be expected. What should also be expected are earthquakes in other parts of the Pacific.

Re: Kawasaki has 450 Kilowatt superconducting motor and development project for 3 megawatt superconducting motors

stewartm0205 — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:45:34 -0000

If natural gas become a major source of energy then it may be economical to build a world wide natural gas pipeline system instead of using LNG ships. Russia isn't too far from Alaska.

Re: Barry Brook of Brave New Climate on the future of Nuclear Energy

stewartm0205 — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:25:55 -0000

Efficiency gains does not really increase energy consumption. The basic problem in that increase in efficiency does not result in the energy savings that it should. It works like this. If you double the mpg for cars it will result in people driving more so they use almost as much gas as before. But we are in a special period now were global demand for gasoline will drive the price ever upward so we need greater energy efficiency just to maintain our energy budget.

Re: Public health and nutrition determines a lot of per capita IQ which determines a lot of per capita GDP

stewartm0205 — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:43:54 -0000

Thanks. The following are not comments on your answer which was informative. Just a rant. So members of the "Master Race" are born with memories? They can read and write straight out of the womb? I didn't realize that new born baby as a blank slate was debatable. Its like debating whether the world is flat or it's round.

Re: Public health and nutrition determines a lot of per capita IQ which determines a lot of per capita GDP

stewartm0205 — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:31:52 -0000

I know what it is and I never figured out that believing it was the cause of more deaths that the mistaken belief that some people are better than others so I want your spin on it since you brought it up.

Re: Public health and nutrition determines a lot of per capita IQ which determines a lot of per capita GDP

stewartm0205 — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:27:12 -0000

1. Not Hollywood. Real Life. Intelligence is important. Sperm viability is more important. A powerful immunity system is far more important.
2. Good looks as an indication of overall genetic fitness is probable more important that IQ.
3. Eugenics - USA - government programs that sterilized American Indians, Negroes, persons with low intelligences, women who object to been treated like shit. Agencies that advocated the sterilization of people on welfare in the 60s. In the 1930s there wasn't much differences between Nazi Germany and some parts of the USA.

And right now its starting to look like the 30s have returned.

Re: Public health and nutrition determines a lot of per capita IQ which determines a lot of per capita GDP

stewartm0205 — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:34:42 -0000

Bad ideas have a way of coming back. Better to nip them in the bud. The major problem with choosing "IQ" as a fittest criteria is that allow IQ might be good for the population it doesn't seem to be that good for the individual. "Hotness" on the other hand is a proven fitness criteria.

Re: Public health and nutrition determines a lot of per capita IQ which determines a lot of per capita GDP

stewartm0205 — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:31:24 -0000

What the heck is the "Blank Slate" theory?