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The house is staying right around 71, with the front door shut. I closed the door to the upstairs as well. It seemed to be getting colder. Windows are still holding pickles. Well... ajar. Upstairs and down. It was warmer but started cooling, so I shut a few things down. It's almost spooky. June? 19th? 71, inside, cooler outside? Winds, clouds, the possibility of more rain? I know, I know. I keep being surprised. But I... keep needing to be surprised. Just because one sees, knows, doesn't mean one has experienced what one sees and knows. Well, and in spite of seeing, one can always hope otherwise.
I am wondering just how fast they can put a safe nuclear plant up? Because I don't think, initially, they will be able to dig enough coal, fast enough. Did I say plant? Make that plural. Though, too, they will have to build coal burning plants as well. Not... a few. Many, of each. If that is even possible, these days. The only way they can do those things is to return to the patriarchy and destroy multiculturalism. Choices. Simple choices.
And, actually, it isn't a choice. It will happen in time to allow the civil to save themselves and much of what was obtained. Or that will fail, and they will impose what made civilization possible in the first place, heteronormative reality. Those who don't, can't, belong, will be cast out. Not gently. If... they are given an opportunity to flee, they best take it. Won't be given twice. And there will be no police or military or courts to intervene.
Baby, it's cold outside. Winter is coming. And, if you can't handle it, best to... keep on moving. Funny thing is, it will start in the cities. They will take it too far, one way, until they reverse it. Then, the country cousins will catch up. Realizing the world has finally changed, for one of two reasons. I'm telling you, if your minority status is on the side of minority statuses? Be prepared to leave. You will no longer be welcome, en masse, whole hog. It doesn't matter what you, personally believe, think, or how you act. It won't matter if you have received a free ride, or been protected from reality for your failures. If your group is part of the left, be prepared to leave or die.
Oh, believe me, it is something I have to consider, as things stand. And, very possibly, if it comes down that I am considered what I am not but may be considered? I may well not be welcome. Even if I am considered what I am, if in halves? Both sides are actually problematic. I'm not warning you, from the side you may assume. I am warning you from the side that may be getting what it deserves.
Funny how the currently most woke will turn the quickest, and most brutally. I think, currently, they simply feel outnumbered. And, in the city, some places, they may be. And, certainly, their police and politics, is against them. They must feel up against it. But, at some point, when the levy breaks... damn! It'll come down. I'm not sure I will make it, to see that. Though I hope so, even if it sweeps me away with it. I'll... just be glad to see the possibility of a people not being removed from the face of the earth. For, that is the choice. One group, or another, will be gone. Either Americans will claim, then reclaim, their nation. Or they will lose it, and cease to be. I am... hoping they make it. But... who knows. And, it could happen any day. But, a mini to full on ice-age would definitely... hasten the choices.
To see is to... just that... see. I can only see so much. Up to the choices that haven't been made? Sort of. I can see what could happen, from then. But... And, I can roughly do probability, likelihood, crude odds. Funny else? If they lose, I will lose. If they win, I have a better chance of remaining to my natural end. I do have to laugh. And hope. Later.
"I am wondering just how fast they can put a safe nuclear plant up?"
ReplyDeleteAccording to my research, four years is the average.
I occasionally ask myself the same question, but it involves water desalinization plants.
Good to know. Now, the question is, how much can they push that? Can they cut it in half, with top people, and still have it safe? As to coal burning facilities, if they strip them of much of the modern "requirements", they can probably have those up in a hurry? Though, really, two years would probably be pushing it too? The main problem, at this point, is obtaining coal. Put up thirty plants, or fifty... just one in each state, and coal... becomes a problem.
ReplyDeleteNot so much with nuclear, especially if they use non-uranium enriching methods. Some are much safer. Well, and don't allow union workers. Those two things alone, if done legitimately, would put it up more safely and faster. Well, and make it so even a general contractor would take a hit if something goes wrong. As in prison time.
Things have to change. And will. No choices, really.
I . . . would really feel uncomfortable about cutting corners with regards to putting up nuclear power stations.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt about that. My only suggestion is that the time taken is often artificially exacerbated. I'm curious how much that can be cut. Some could be cut, some couldn't. The thing is to get the right people to do these things.
ReplyDeleteAdmiral Rickover, a modern variant, would be who I would be looking for to initiate, and arrange, and codify nuclear civilian plants, possibly all energy production. The problem with both major corporations and unions is, as always, greed. Though, in both cases, there is a certain amount of hatred which makes each dangerous.
As well, once a good plan is crafted, it shouldn't be that each plant is devised differently. Standardization should both, over time, reduce the complexity involved, but also costs. I do think nuke plants could be built much more quickly, and reliably, and safely if done correctly. These double and triple over initial estimates, and troubles even then with the plants, and the longer build times... really has to be forced to stop. We are being robbed, and still not getting quality.
"Admiral Rickover, a modern variant, would be who I would be looking for to initiate, and arrange, and codify nuclear civilian plants, possibly all energy production."
ReplyDeleteHeinlein made a similar suggestion in one of his later stories when he had a future President decide to cut through a lot of bureaucratic nonsense and assigned a Navy admiral to head the nation's nuclear power program.
Rickover's been something of a hero to me.
Aye, one of mine as well... within certain limits. To be honest, being from submarines, to this day, makes you hated by the Navy in general. Everything from being able (and most of us willing) to ignore rank and do things the right way, to being given that sort of... not just opportunity, but responsibility, so goes against the army-like nature of the surface fleet.
ReplyDeleteIt was Adm. Rickover who created that whole line of thinking, from officer to enlisted. It wasn't a want, it, for him, was a requirement. And, it started, didn't stop, there. Honesty, loyalty (of the better kind), and some other things were required, right down to the enlisted ranks.
Further, he didn't allow bureaucracy, for it's own sake, nor graft, bribery, or other things, to interfere with creating a safe but economical nuclear sub force. Which... really did create a lot of enemies for him. Thankfully, the people at the top, if quite willing to let him take the heat, also made sure he was given full sway. They did cover for him, hugely, if completely in the shadows. He had to take the heat, if he wanted what he wanted. But... if he could, they allowed it. Nothing more. Thankfully, he was a rock.
Thankfully, if he is a favored of yours, you probably know some or all of this. I actually wonder if part of the reason I was not rightly diagnosed, when they knew what the problem was, was because I was from submarines. You honestly have no idea how much parts of the Navy hate submariners. It's... pretty serious.