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On 06/05/2018 8:19 PM, G Mann via Mercedes wrote:
"You have to pass it to see what's in it" only works with stool samples, not bills before congress.. Grant... Circa 2018 I raise the suggestion that Congress should have to pass drug and alcohol testing as well as mental competency testing, before every vote, and before taking the Oath of Office. On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 4:49 PM, Larry Turner via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:I worked on a pilot plant in Oak Ridge Tn which would have proved on a large scale that all that nuclear waste could be reprocessed/recycled and used to create even more electricity. After spending several Billion on equipment, more money on environmental lawsuits and much of the site prep and reactor mat, additional funding was before congress for a vote. We ended up with a incredibly expensive hole in the ground. Most of the equipment was unique (like sodium pumps) with little use outside the Breeder Reactor as it was called. One brilliant Senator from Tn with a last name of Gore, Sr., made a statement along the lines of ... we don't know what to do with the waste we have now, we shouldn't produce more... showing he had no idea what we were building. But that's typical of our current breed of politicians over the past 50 years. Vote on something vital for our nation and don't have a clue what's in the bill. But we can always find out what's in the bill after we vote on it.... LarryT Chester Va On 06/05/2018 2:55 PM, G Mann via Mercedes wrote:Great question. I live downwind of the last Nuke plant certified in USA [I think] Palo Verde Nuke plant west of Phoenix, AZ. The hoops required to keep it running are often discussed at the steak house [with cold beer] about 2 miles from the site, by engineers that work there. "I'm from the government and we're not happy until you're not happy." seems to fit quite nicely. It is a "regulation rich environment" at the plant. After several decades of nuke plant operation in USA, we have reached a problem with no solution. Nuke plants produce waste nuke material, with a handy 1/2 life of several thousand years, and..... we have no place to "dispose of it". The nuke disposal sites are now loaded to max... Sooooooooooo... Where? On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: I am curious. Are nuclear power plants really a bad idea or did we justscrew it up with government regulation? On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 11:18 Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Oh yeah, good points. We need to build more Nukes!------------- Max Charleston SC On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 11:10 AM, G Mann via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: OK, all good points, and I hear them. Just a "Little Question" however....that has to be answered first... Where are you going to get the power to charge all these electricvehiclesthat are going to "take over how the world drives"? The electric power grid is falling apart. There are elements of it thatareover 100 years old and patched together. First ice storm.. or windstorm..the grid goes down. What will power the new power plants necessary to support the grid loadofeven a few thousand electric cars plugged in overnight? What is thelead time to get approval for a new power plant, distribution lines? etc etc etal. Electric car/ hybrid is a grand scheme... but it's missing a whole lotof pieces to really make it work.On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 6:47 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: I'd never heard of that Honda Clarity either, but I think that concept(plug-in hybrid) will be the long term winner. Plug the car in athometocharge during the night, then use all-electric power for the shorttripto/from work. Gasoline (or better yet a diesel) engine that kicks into both drive the car and charge the batteries so the range is actually usefuland hurricane evacuation or a long road trip is possible. Now make them EMP-proof, un-hackable so the roosians or chinee don'tdomein, and designed so that if the battery pack fails, the car willstillfunction on fossil fuels, and it is a car that I might consider intwenty years or so.------------- Max Charleston SC _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com_______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com_______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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