There's also, IIRC, no way to supply material for a nuclear arms program from thorium reactors. And if you're gonna, like, make people's lives better and not incinerate them...then I mean who cares.
That's a super good point and I wish I had thought to include it. Going to edit it in. The real reason is that you can't use the outputs from the nuclear program for the nuclear reactors with thorium power, you'd be going in a much safer, cleaner direction.
Regarding genius, and the theory that innovation is the product of many small minds accumulating many small insights...I challenge any proponent to merely glance at the works of Euler. Don't even open them, just look at how much space those tens of thousands of pages takes up on the shelf at your local university's library. Take them off the shelf and hold the weight of them in your hands. Then look the librarian in the eye and tell them, with perfect confidence, "this could just as easily have been me."
Some people are so good at certain things it has to be looked at as the expression of the divine. Maybe the fact that people like Euler exist is physical evidence that we are made in God's image. If we were nothing but a jumped-up ape where would such people have come from?
I think the primary radioisotope of coal (and used to malign it because it's released when burned) is thorium.
I've read we have enough thorium reserves to power the USA for 1000 years. If that's true, we could also refine the thorium from the coal, and use the Fischer-Tropsch process to to turn the coal into liquid motor fuels, making the USA energy independent for even longer, without the need for a dramatic increase in battery technology to enable transportation.
There's no reason why we have to live like we do now, except a foreign installation has taken over our country.
As I understand it, traditional nuclear fuel is very expensive, very difficult to refine and never occurs naturally ... whereas thorium is nearly ubiquitous, found in all sorts of natural sources (including coal) and barely takes any work to make ready for a reactor. Agreed were it not for interference in the market systems by malign players, we would likely have thorium powered reactors in automobiles by now in addition to everything else.
Household Thorium Reactors and Electroculture Gardens. I say things like this out loud to people who tangentially revolve around my orbit, and it may take them a while to filter back through. When they do, if they are real humans, there's always a second mention of it. These articles are fantastic, Tex, because you can judo jab them with rhetoric (some "crazy shit" I said) and then pivot to dialectic (let me show you this article about molten salt reactors right here fren).
Regarding decadence, I think people prefer to have slavery over automation not because it's economical, but because when you're a useless person it feels good to dominate people. We'd expect this in evopsych because it's easier to hurt the reproductive interests of other people in your group than to raise your own, relatively, within it.
A gigantic driver of cruelty!! Bad actors in biological game theory wear themselves out trying to damage the fertility of others rather than maximize their own. In this sense they are truly anti-life. It's not enough that they succeed at anything, others must be made to fail. This is a big problem with concentration of wealth because it tends to concentrate most in psychopaths. If you have 2 psychopath billionaires and 8 people who earned it, eventually you will have 10 psychopath billionaires and no people who made their money honestly. It is built in to all economic systems and communism if anything accelerates it.
There's also, IIRC, no way to supply material for a nuclear arms program from thorium reactors. And if you're gonna, like, make people's lives better and not incinerate them...then I mean who cares.
That's a super good point and I wish I had thought to include it. Going to edit it in. The real reason is that you can't use the outputs from the nuclear program for the nuclear reactors with thorium power, you'd be going in a much safer, cleaner direction.
Regarding genius, and the theory that innovation is the product of many small minds accumulating many small insights...I challenge any proponent to merely glance at the works of Euler. Don't even open them, just look at how much space those tens of thousands of pages takes up on the shelf at your local university's library. Take them off the shelf and hold the weight of them in your hands. Then look the librarian in the eye and tell them, with perfect confidence, "this could just as easily have been me."
Some people are so good at certain things it has to be looked at as the expression of the divine. Maybe the fact that people like Euler exist is physical evidence that we are made in God's image. If we were nothing but a jumped-up ape where would such people have come from?
I think the primary radioisotope of coal (and used to malign it because it's released when burned) is thorium.
I've read we have enough thorium reserves to power the USA for 1000 years. If that's true, we could also refine the thorium from the coal, and use the Fischer-Tropsch process to to turn the coal into liquid motor fuels, making the USA energy independent for even longer, without the need for a dramatic increase in battery technology to enable transportation.
There's no reason why we have to live like we do now, except a foreign installation has taken over our country.
For now.
As I understand it, traditional nuclear fuel is very expensive, very difficult to refine and never occurs naturally ... whereas thorium is nearly ubiquitous, found in all sorts of natural sources (including coal) and barely takes any work to make ready for a reactor. Agreed were it not for interference in the market systems by malign players, we would likely have thorium powered reactors in automobiles by now in addition to everything else.
Household Thorium Reactors and Electroculture Gardens. I say things like this out loud to people who tangentially revolve around my orbit, and it may take them a while to filter back through. When they do, if they are real humans, there's always a second mention of it. These articles are fantastic, Tex, because you can judo jab them with rhetoric (some "crazy shit" I said) and then pivot to dialectic (let me show you this article about molten salt reactors right here fren).
Regarding decadence, I think people prefer to have slavery over automation not because it's economical, but because when you're a useless person it feels good to dominate people. We'd expect this in evopsych because it's easier to hurt the reproductive interests of other people in your group than to raise your own, relatively, within it.
A gigantic driver of cruelty!! Bad actors in biological game theory wear themselves out trying to damage the fertility of others rather than maximize their own. In this sense they are truly anti-life. It's not enough that they succeed at anything, others must be made to fail. This is a big problem with concentration of wealth because it tends to concentrate most in psychopaths. If you have 2 psychopath billionaires and 8 people who earned it, eventually you will have 10 psychopath billionaires and no people who made their money honestly. It is built in to all economic systems and communism if anything accelerates it.