Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: William Hyde Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:40:57 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: <20240913a@crcomp.net> <3ace1b93-9c34-9abb-844b-c83a66d767d5@example.net> <6b1d3595-9da4-bd56-ba8a-082b8a10e825@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 01:41:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d22d1c53751d7448683a12ffd69e686f"; logging-data="974607"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/wfMe/+LrwW1p3AJ34GlPh" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.19 Cancel-Lock: sha1:2HtVcOaM9g9SDjrBqNTHbwfg+GU= In-Reply-To: <6b1d3595-9da4-bd56-ba8a-082b8a10e825@example.net> Bytes: 3320 D wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2024, William Hyde wrote: > >> D wrote: >>> >>> >>> 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