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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a
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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:40:57 -0400
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D wrote:
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> 
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2024, William Hyde wrote:
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>> D wrote:
>>>
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>>> On Wed, 25 Sep 2024, William Hyde wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (Two-for-one for now, because we're behind on electric
>>>>> generation capacity, and if we're going to have electric cars,
>>>>> we'll need a lot more electricity to charge them.)
>>>>>
>>>>> The adamant opposition to nuclear power by the people who
>>>>> are most gung-ho on the "Global Warming" thing unalterably
>>>>> convinces me that they do not belive it themselves.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Actually I am strongly pro-nuclear power, as are most climate 
>>>> scientists I know.
>>>
>>> Hmm, we agree on something. This scares me. ;)
>>
>> Surely we both agree that the rat is black's best defense against 1e4?
> 
> Never played that... lately I've been playing the scandinavian. I will 
> meditate deeply on this!

I do like the Scandinavian, especially the gambit variation.

But I see videos on youtube of Magnus playing the rat.  If it gets 
popular I'll have to abandon it, perhaps for the Great Snake, 
Pterodactyl, or Hippopotamus.

> 
>>
>>>
>>>> Circa 2000 a group from Princeton came up with a plan to limit the 
>>>> warming to 2.5C which did not involve nuclear, but also did not 
>>>> involve catastrophic economic decline.  But even if we accept that 
>>>> this was possible then, it isn't now.  Nuclear is a must, at least 
>>>> for a few decades.
>>>
>>> As a scientist, do you thing SMR will see hte light of day or remain in
>>> the darkness of research projects for another decade or two?
>>
>> I do not have expertise in this field.  I cannot speak on this as a 
>> scientist but as a lay person.  Answer:  I don't know.
> 
> Don't be so "scientist". ;)

I'm afraid that's central to our discussions.  One shouldn't be dogmatic 
from a position of ignorance.

William Hyde