re: #251 Targetpractice

Chaff, that’s all it is. Throwing out these “green energy wonders” that were “killed” on the orders of some green energy cabal, rather than because the actual experts looked at the figures, looked at the steps involved, and shit-canned the whole thing. I’ve heard similar accusations that nuke regulations passed under Carter that effectively killed new reactor production was pushed by green tech companies, rather than public reaction to the very real dangers of Gen-2 nuclear reactors.

The great thing about these ‘plans’ is that they never had to deal with reality. For example, on SPS there’s the issue of cost to lift all the hardware to orbit. Proponents (and this Nansen reads as a guy who got his Cheerios pissed in and never got over it) will say, “Economies of scale! It wouldn’t cost nearly as much as was projected!”, for example.