Great film… and nobody but Robin could have done that scene so well. Phew.

In the big, big grocery store I use, there isn’t much choice about plastic. Over (I estimate) 80% of the products (outside of fresh fruits & veggies) either are containerized in plastic, or is boxed or canned food which is wrapped-in plastic (e.g. cereal) and covered with or wrapped-in plastic. We need to see a big turnaround in this situation.

I don’t see much recognition - from manufacturers or consumers - of how many tens of tons of tossed-away plastic are carried out of most of these stores every day. Consumers have few alternatives … no sign that food packagers give a damn … or that stores (most are corporate-owned) are struggling to make wiser choices.

It’s a lot bigger problem than what container we use to carry our purchase to the car.

Poor governor of Georgia, one more in a long, long line.

I learned much of what I know about how facts are misrepresented by reading advertisements by the industry. Like the full-page regional newspaper ad along the lines of "One myth about nuclear power is … instead the fact is this … " back in the 1970s. Or my all-time favorite fact, one of the earliest: Safe, clean, ‘too cheap to meter’, said AEC chairman Lewis Strauss, in 1954.

Maybe it was catching? But the facts, like those countless millions of escaped curies, were invisible. Convenient.

This 14-year-old Fermi story might help: https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-detroit-nuclear-20161003-snap-story.html

Way to start out with an ad hominem. Cheap too. Since you’re ‘certain’ (and I know very well that’s hard to come by for this sacred cow), your #1 reference?

Way to start out with an ad hominem. Cheap too. Since you’re ‘certain’ (and I know that’s hard to come by for this sacred cow), your #1 reference?

That’s thanks to the training (started with Rickover) and discipline and no shareholders. Commercial nukes don’t measure up, e.g. when it comes to leakages and knowing what to do in case.

Wouldn’t that be ‘ping’ ?

GOSH I’d like to see that be 2 times longer, and have some price-ranges.

What the US needed was a pull-out-the-stops wartime operation. What we got was a lot of hot air and heel-dragging excuses. After all of these years, it’s more than clear what side our ‘leadership’ is beholding to.

Ask the people of Vancouver, BC … they’ve had a 50-mile ‘Skytrain’ since 1985. The 2023 ridership was 141 Million.

“Works perfectly” huh? That’s better than most can claim before freezing! ACT NOW! for a BIG discount!

They don’t talk about it a lot, but. If it looks really bad, I suspect that what the grid operators will do is disconnect and shut down as much of it as possible and wait it out. Better to have no electricity for a week than for hundreds of transformers to be ruined …

The 2003 event produced the biggest-ever solar flare ever measured, an X45. That year, several BIG transformers exploded in South Africa. This event’s biggest so is 8.7. A lot depends on where it’s aimed at … but anyway , no, we are not prepared.

It should be called C02 capture (make the CO2 part specific). The carbon which was burned was already safely captured in the ground, where it should have stayed. Then it was burned and partly turned into CO2. Lots of it. Who is being -paid- to concentrate the stuff? and bury the stuff? And keep an eye on it? Who will pay that bill?

In Satartia Mississippi on February 22 2020, a CO2 pipeline broke because of a mud slide. 45 people were hospitalized after the 21,600 barrels of liquid CO2 rolled downhill towards their town. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2022/09/11/here-minute-details-2020-mississippi-co-2-pipeline-leak-rupture-denbury-gulf-coast/8015510001/

Once you’ve captured this particular form of carbon, you have to store it somewhere. FOREVER. Unlike nuclear waste, it’s only visible when it’s compressed. Does this mean you have to take someone’s word that it was captured? It -does- mean you have to accept that it’s safely and securely stored. FOREVER. ‘We promise.’

The whole thing is at best sketchy. The same money could be invested in real, tangible generation of renewable energy. Without having to take some sketchy industry’s word for it. And without potentially endangering the lives of the people who’ll have to live with it next door. Would you rather live near a windmill, or a hole with 36,000 tons of CO2 in it?

Let’s help the ‘world’s largest’ banks by making the decision for them. Take 1873 for example: that was a bad year for the banks , but given time, they got better. The risks from ‘clean energy’, whatever they are, will include more time.

Carbon capture is a joke. It’s another stall tactic. And a very dangerous one at that. Shut the damn things down instead, and watch how many things get done that -would- have taken until 2035 or 2050.

Underground CO2 is worse than nuclear waste. It isn’t just (very) dangerous, and have to stay buried forever, it’s also invisible. It’s also a way for the lying, conniving fossils industry to keep doing what it’s so good at doing. $12 billion would build A LOT of windmills, but they’ve got a lot of good buddies in Washington.

" We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." — von Goethe

They’re missing Uruguay … 2023. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/10/1211922036/uruguay-is-a-renewable-energy-utopia-how-did-it-get-there

Course it’s harder for countries like, the World’s Policemen.

Believe I read the other day that Uruguay is now using 100% renewables. Guess they just have what it takes. Doesn’t seem to have made any headlines, though. NIMBY I guess.