The Gaming Den

is it really that big of a crime if they don't have much of a chance of moving to the upper quintiles? Yes. Firstly it suggests a rigged game. Secondly the lack of potential movement/risk of loss quashes effort. Thirdly it leads to 'calcification' of the upper classes/power structure, making it les...

you say "can i haz it, cauz themz delicious!!!!"

You hear songs for free on the radio, how does that effect profit? "Pirating" content is far more about exposure and not at all about theft. If most pirates had to pay for content they saw, the distributors would actually lose money, because most of them would demand most of their money ba...

DSMatticus; Thanks for this discussion. Honestly I was gently worried I would be eviscerated in typical TGD fashion. Your last analysis has for more specificity than mine, which I appreciate. The time horizon we are discussing is far off into The Haze from my point of view, so I did not think it pro...

The amount of Plutonium that is created varies upon the process. All The US weapon grade Plutonium come from uranium breeder reactors, and it is hella more created that the tiny fraction you suggest. Also note that we DO NOT REPROCESS, because we do not want to harvest the Plutonium, which suggests ...

That isn't how nuclear power works. The fuel becomes less radioactive as it decays, not more. Eventually it decays all the way down to lead and you can't get any more nuclear power out of it. what? what the what? I do not have the skill of other denizens, so I'll go Socratic... What do you think nu...

No its more like Magic. Nuclear power is FUCKING RAPING conservation of energy, by violating conservation of matter, right? It is consuming matter, and using some of the released energy to put OTHER matter in a state where we can pull a shit ton MORE energy out of it than we could before. It CONSUME...

As I understand it, it is fucken magic! You literally you put in a rod of 4% 238 and you get a rod with more fuel, albeit of a different type, than you started with. The US has a huge stockpile of "Nuclear waste" that we could reprocess and, according to some estimates, not really need any...

I believe that the thing you are responding to is about there being no power future in Nuclear. According to actual boosters of Nuclear Power, there are five million tonnes of Uranium in the world, with a plurality of it in Australia. That will last the world about a century. If we made a big inves...