2009/11/11-30 [Science/GlobalWarming, Science/Physics] UID:53518 Activity:low | 11/11 Watch the History Channel today! It's got Oppenheimer and the atomic
bomb history. Did you know at one time 10% of the entire electricity
in the U.S. was used to refine U235 and weapon grade plutonium?
Holy jesus! I wonder how much energy is used to get plutonium fuel
that generates today's nuclear powered electric plant
\_ it talks about the 2 different methods for getting U235. So
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2009/5/19-25 [Science/Electric, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:53011 Activity:nil | 5/18 Does the new federal vehicle fuel-efficiency requirement specify how
efficiencies of plug-in hybrids will be calculated? Some plug-in
hybrids claims to have ridiculously high efficiency like 100mpg because
they're not counting the energy input from the electric grid. That's
not a good indiction of their actual energy efficiency.
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2008/7/16-23 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:50593 Activity:nil | 7/16 China burned 1.9 billion metric tons of coal in 2004. By 2020, predicts
the China Coal Industry Development Research Center, it will burn 2.9
billion tons a year. That increment alone will send as much carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere as 3 billion Ford Expeditions, each driven
15,000 miles a year. This puts into sobering perspective the meager
efforts of the U.S. to stave off global warming by improving gas
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2012/12/18-2013/1/9 [Politics/Domestic/SIG] UID:54562 Activity:nil | 12/18 "NRA member Sen. Manchin says Newtown shooting should open assault
weapons debate" http://www.csua.org/u/ypo
'"The massacre of so many innocent children has changed -- has changed
America. We've never seen this happen,"' Was this guy in a cave during
the Columbine High massacre?
\_ Don't keep your hopes high, though. It'll just be same-o same-o.
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2012/6/23-7/20 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:54421 Activity:nil | 6/23 Werher von Braun, Nazi, SS, overseer of Dora slave factory,
is an American hero because of his contribution to
Saturn V. What is wrong with America?
\_ Is this worse or better than Gerald Ford pardoning
Nixon for FuckYouAmericaGate?
\_ "Hero" is a strong word. "Useful" would have been a
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