That's not soviet propaganda though. That's UN numbers.

Maybe if you weren't such a fucking moron you'd be able to look into it yourself.

No I rely on the UN numbers.

Battery storage and connecting grids together (which we do already) doesn't even come close to solving our energy needs. And no it can't be built way faster. We cannot have worldwide, practically unlimited, cheap battery storage right now.

Don't get me wrong, I really, really want to live in your fantasy world, but for now, that's all it is.

I don't think that's true at all.

When the UK was in the EU, UKIP was their largest party. For France, Le Pen's National Front party was the largest. And they aren't alone. There's a number of right wing EU parties.

And it's due to get worse, if we bring data into it. Many countries in the EU are swinging to the right. Polling is indicating right wing parties will have a solid majority in the EU parliament this year.

Newer ones don't. They're usually dead in 2-4 years.

Tbf if you actually look into Mozilla's "AI" plans, it's for stuff like better offline translation, better screen reader and image description functionality for disabled users, finding alternate sources for articles, and so on.

It all runs locally, is trained on open source models with ethically sourced training data, and doesn't send your personal information to Mozilla.

I don't think it should be treated in the same way as Google or Microsoft's AI implementations. People should actually look into things before they assume they know everything.

Nuclear plants are designed to withstand a passenger jet flying into them, as well as minor direct missile barrages.

And with modern reactors, they can't really have Chernobyl-style meltdowns — if the cooling system fails, the fission stops by itself with no active involvement required.

I.e. you have to actively keep modern fission reactors going otherwise it stops on its own, as opposed to actively keep it cooled and safe, like the reactors of the 60s/70s.

Nuclear energy has, by a staggering margin, the lowest death toll of any form of energy generation per kW produced. And almost all of these come from Chernobyl, where 31 people died due to the explosion, then a further 46 died due to radiation poisoning from the cleanup.

By far the biggest issue with modern nuclear is the cost and them taking 7-12 years to deploy, as opposed to safety. SMRs are supposed to help with that aspect, but not enough have been rolled out to get a very good picture of that.

Really we have two choices, because renewables can't provide 100% of our energy mix yet:

• build out nuclear as a base energy load and massively decrease fossil fuels in the short term

• ignore nuclear and temporarily build out more fossil fuel plants, hoping that planet-scale energy storage will become cheap and extremely ubiquitous in a very short timeframe.

Bottas: I'm gonna get to turn one way before all these losers

The "Green" Party rejecting low-carbon energy production. Name a more iconic duo.

The green party candidate in my constituency stood on a platform of scrapping plans for a local wind farm. Unbelievable. NIMBYism is a disease.

Yeah. He explicitly stated that the only thing stopping them flipping the switch were those damn pesky road laws

It's obvious that Miles farted in a turbolift, which Riker had to endure for 15 decks.

Those raktajinos really cook up a nasty stench, too.

Every once in a while I'd watch Discovery and think oooh this part of this episode is good, they're hitting their stride! They're figuring out what works and what doesn't!

And then it just collapses back into mediocrity or annoyance.

At least SNW has been almost entirely excellent, IMO.