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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    Utter nonsense.
    Chernobyl, Fukoshima.... I rest my case!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daily Bread View Post
    Freaking idiots . No honor - no integrity
    That's not really what's happening.

    The four coal-fired plants are aging-out and the best way to replace them is with clean nuclear power. I'm not a fan of either Gates or Buffett but this is a good idea for Wyoming, and it would be a positive move for other states.

    The eco-freak trend is to power-down coal and replace it with wind. Problem is, wind is intermittent, so we watched more than 100 people die in Texas in February when the polar vortex rolled through, froze the wind turbines, and the few remaining coal and natural gas plants were unable to take up the slack. Someone really ought to be executed over that fiasco.

    The US already derives more than 20% of its power from nuclear--it's safe, it's clean, and most of all--it's reliable, unlike wind and solar.

    Most power plants are already privately owned, and the energy industry is highly regulated, so there's not really a risk--in my opinion.

    Gates has talked in the past about the inability to develop batteries on the scale necessary to store intermittent energy--and he's right about that. Nuclear is the answer, in my opinion, and if Gates is going to start a trend, I'm all for it.
    ""A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" ~George Bernard Shaw

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    Quote Originally Posted by invictus View Post
    Chernobyl, Fukoshima.... I rest my case!
    You don't have a case.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


    I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    That's not really what's happening.

    The four coal-fired plants are aging-out and the best way to replace them is with clean nuclear power. I'm not a fan of either Gates or Buffett but this is a good idea for Wyoming, and it would be a positive move for other states.

    The eco-freak trend is to power-down coal and replace it with wind. Problem is, wind is intermittent, so we watched more than 100 people die in Texas in February when the polar vortex rolled through, froze the wind turbines, and the few remaining coal and natural gas plants were unable to take up the slack. Someone really ought to be executed over that fiasco.

    The US already derives more than 20% of its power from nuclear--it's safe, it's clean, and most of all--it's reliable, unlike wind and solar.

    Most power plants are already privately owned, and the energy industry is highly regulated, so there's not really a risk--in my opinion.

    Gates has talked in the past about the inability to develop batteries on the scale necessary to store intermittent energy--and he's right about that. Nuclear is the answer, in my opinion, and if Gates is going to start a trend, I'm all for it.
    It solves another problem. It uses spent fuel rods from other nuclear power plants, so it acts as a re-purposing facility.
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    Quote Originally Posted by invictus View Post
    Chernobyl, Fukoshima.... I rest my case!
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    Meenwhile at Bill Gates New Nuclear Power Plant....


    "Hey guys lets run a test real quick "

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    " No not again, it just hangs at this blue screen "
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    The end....
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