> This has nothing to do with fissions and everything to do with degradation of contruction and practical egnineering skills - now it takes 30 years and 100 billion dollars to make a small railway in California. Victorian England or China could do this without much trouble.
Not to mention over-regulation driven by a general lack of political will. Its easier to win some votes by bashing nuclear than stand by it, even if it is the most likely alternative for baseload power in a carbon-free energy mix.
@elonmusk (asked about forms of government on Mars)
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"If society does not have a war and there is no cleansing function or garbage collection for rules and regulations then rules and regulations will accumulate every year. Because they are immortal. Humans die but the laws don't. So. We need a garbage collection function for rules and regulations. They should just not be immortal. Because some of the rules and regulations that are put in place will be counterproductive... Done with good intentions but counterproductive. Sometimes not done with good intentions. So if rules and regulations just accumulate every year, you get more and more of them. Then eventually you won't be able to do anything. You'll be just like Gulliver tied down by thousands of little strings. "
While i agree that property rights are usually excessive, i doubt the author has ever spent hours crafting their own artwork and had someone use it for their advertising without the courtesy of asking.
If anything is going to make a dent on climate change and provide a way forward for sustainable energy generation it would have to be scaling up the share of nuclear (to 25-50% of overall share) with new and safer reactor designs that move away from outdated cold war technology we are still using.
As much as i loved integrating Stripe before i have to say it is pretty expensive for micro-transactions in Europe (less than 5€). They charge a base fee of 0.25€ +1.4% so this pretty much kills the business margin. We went with a local payments company in Spain (paycomet) because they could offer a flat 17€ fee a month.
A family friendly card game for future founders. Running a tech startup has never been so much fun!