I didn’t think the American system allowed for early elections?

I don’t remember one. There was a TNG episode where it fell into the thinking that it would get cold.

Ok. What’s your point? Did I argue that nuclear was unsafe?

Just because it’s safe doesn’t mean it’s the best we have right now.

• It’s massively expensive to set up
• It’s massively expensive to decommission at end of life
• Almost half of the fuel you need to run them comes from a country dangerously close to Russia. (This one is slightly less of a thing now that Russia has bogged itself down in Ukraine)
• It takes a long time to set up.
• It has an image problem.

A combination of solar, wind, wave, tidal, more traditional hydro and geothermal (most of the cost with this is digging the holes. We’ve got a lot of deep old mines that can be repurposed) can easily be built to over capacity and or alongside adequate storage is the best solution in the here and now.

How quickly would the crew boil alive without active cooling?

You’ve got

• Lots of electrical equipment
• Lots of body heat
• A fucking matter anti matter reactor
• Secondary fusion reactors.

On a ship with no physical radiators.

Especially as in PROD Murf was able to fire torpedoes with their ass.

Climate doomerism is the new climate change denial.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q5D0t6ejcGE

Maybe that’s the tactic, force Ukraine to divert food and resources to feeding thousands of Korean deserters.

Did someone say magic tree house?

https://malazan.fandom.com/wiki/Azath_House

Ice cold water with a slice of lemon.

I think if the issues with russian gas have shown us anything it’s that energy security should be treated as being much more important than it has in the past. So maybe it should come from tax payers money and be thought of as part of a broad national defence strategy.

3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible.

Haha I’d missed that.

On a side note I thought it ended ok. Not great not terrible I’d probably give it 3.6.

The calypso ending was massively tacked on. Instead of putting the tech in the black hole they should have had to have Discovery itself have to hide with it. Then emotional goodbyes under pressure rather than dragged out.

And Stamets. Though, thinking about it I’ve not seen them about much recently.

I’d argue it’s not even that we don’t have a solution.

It’s we need to implement the solution. There’s absolutely tonnes to energy storage solutions ( batteries, storing it as heat, storing it as potential energy) that would work well on grid scale, just need to have their implementation catch up with generation capacity.

Oh goodness, yes you do.

Today I learnt.

As a Brit I never thought of anything other than one of these stupid posh kid boats

Does punt mean kick in American or something then?

Yeah if your desk is stuck just in one position that’s obviously going to be bad. Most ‘standing’ desks are actually height adjustable. You can spend some time standing some time sitting. But maybe even more important, you can adjust the desk to the right height rather than just adjusting your chair.