ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

[Kinser79]

Bob,

I have no doubt that there will be advances in energy storage.  I just do not think it will be enough.  Hence why I believe that LFTRs are the way to go.  Thorium is plentiful (indeed it is a waste product from most mining operations.  It is fissable, and used in a LFTR pretty safe.  As for the waste products they emit alpha particles which is orders of magnitude less dangerous than solid state reactors, and being in liquid we can fissile most of the fuel rather than letting 80% of it go to waste as in solid state reactors.

As for the floride salts themselves to keep them in a liquid state they must maintain a temperature above 300c so if the power is cut for whatever reason the reaction can be shut down quickly and the fuel drained into a cool off tank.

I've posted Kirk Sorensen's Ted talk on this and the old forums a few times.  What is stopping us is EPA regulations, Department of Energy bureaucracy and stubborn Boomers who hear the word nuclear and immediately think mushroom cloud never mind they use nuclear technology every time they visit their local radiologist.

As to the capitalist system, yes it will come under major stress.  The problem is while we've solved the issue of supply we now have to solve the issue of demand.  If we are to have everything from bread to ishits made by bots we have to determine a method of distribution to the populace or production will grind to a halt.  I do not think socialism as it was conceived of in the 19th, 20th and so-far into 21st centuries will work.

We need to decide if we want to arrest automation in some way, or if we can find a new way to lubricate economic transactions.  Unfortunately I have no answers.

As to Red Vs Blue.  My point is that the new dynamic isn't one of left vs right but up vs down.  I think this image may help you'll probably have to click on it to blow it up to see it clearly.

   

If you look on the right hand side you'll see from top to bottom the following categories:  Conservatism, Progressivsm, Libertarianism.  Those three vectors of thought will likely be the main viewpoints of the next saeculum.  It should be further noted that more and more the Dim-ocrats are becoming the Party of Conservatism, and their brand of "progressivism" is also highly authoritarian.  We may retain the names of the Parties but by the end of the turning their dynamic will be permanently changed.

The elites are only interested in the left right divide in so far as it can be used as a distraction from the public.  The culture war is moving into a new phase, a media war.  New Media vs Old Media.  Old Media is going to lose though.  The genie is already out of the bottle.

I don't buy into the idea of privilege based on one's race or sex.  The evidence for that is sorely lacking in the modern era--and if one has to resort to black and white photos for evidence of it well then they're stuck in a time warp that would embarrass Cuba.  Class on the other hand has ample evidence.  Unfortunately it shouldn't be the place of the state to make the rich poor.  I think it is a conflict of view point.  I don't see "making a level playing field" as either possible or desirable (even if it were possible--which I doubt).  Rather the goal of government should be to clear the playing field and then let the individual citizens do what they do.  There will be some who win, and some who lose.  It is the natural order.  Without darkness there is no light, without night there is no day, without sadness there is no happiness.

As to Daddy.  We shall see.  I will say this though in the betting pools I've never lost money betting on him.  I was saying he would be elected Prez before the primaries were even over.