Especially since college age students are among the least likely to adhere to guidelines meant to impede the spread. Vaccination would cut off a large transmission vector.

Well, it sounds promising and I'd be willing to eat it.

Yikes.

I was mostly talking about regular potatoes, but sweet potatoes are nice too. I just feel they don't offer any advantage nutritionally unless you're short on vitamin A.

Well first I recommend you look at the "thorium as nuclear fuel" and ""thorium myths" sections of the site.

https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium.html

https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html

When people gush about the benefits of "thorium reactors" they're mostly describing the benefits of molten fuel fast breeder reactors, which don't necessarily run on thorium.

Furthermore, Thorium can be used as fuel in many existing reactors. It's just more expensive to do so.

"trash" for most mines, where they pile it up at the entrance because they don't know what to do with it.

It's not that we don't know what to do with it, it's just not economical to use. Uranium is so cheap that it's also mine trash. Phosphate mines have uncountable amounts of uranium as a byproduct just sitting in the open.

No one has to take care of a deep geologic repository. We know this is safe because of the natural fission reactor in Oklo, Gabon.

It is estimated that nuclear reactions in the uranium in centimeter- to meter-sized veins consumed about five tons of 235 U and elevated temperatures to a few hundred degrees Celsius.[4][8] Most of the non-volatile fission products and actinides have only moved centimeters in the veins during the last 2 billion years.[4] Studies have suggested this as a useful natural analogue for nuclear waste disposal.[9]

Sink the spend fuel thousands of feet into the earth, it's not going anywhere and you don't have to worry about illiterate collapse survivors getting to it. Anyone with the technology to dig thousands of feet into the earth is going to recognize fission products.

Yucca mountain is a safe final resting place for spent waste. It's ready and waiting to be used when we finally decide to stop letting NIMBY's trump reason. Finland is building the Onkalo deep geologic repository to store it's waste.

Waste is more of a political problem than anything else.

That said I'm against permanently storing spent fuel for now. The spent fuel has 95% of the energy it did when it was new. the US alone has enough fuel sitting in dry casks to meet our current needs for about a century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor

Breeder reactors don't existe yet.

But they do, and have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Development_and_notable_breeder_reactors

The BN-600 and BN-800 reactors in Russia, the Fast Breeder Test Reactor in India and a Chinese fast breeder reactor remain in operation today.

Also the Soviets had a submarine powered by a breeder reactor.

Lol@ extracting 0.001 ppm uranium from sea water lol

It's completely possible, just not economical today. We wouldn't have to resort to that for a long time though.

Besides wheat, rice. And while potatoes aren't grains they mostly fill the same dietary niche and I can't recommend them enough. Potatoes are wonder food!

Good god man, get a cookie deleting add on or something.

Yeah

Rooftop solar rapidly falls off in any housing denser than single family. It can reduce the need for dedicated installations but not eliminate it.

Got my first covid shot. The Moderna one. My arm hurts worse than the last Tdap shot I got and I had a mild fever last night. Otherwise, so far so good.

The two orders are to "tighten restrictions" on pistols braces and ghost guns.

They're don't elaborate on what they mean by that though. Pistol braces seem silly to me and I have no idea how they're going to enforce background checks on self made firearms.

I don't think either of these orders is actually going to prevent any gun violence.

https://local.theonion.com/preemptive-memorial-honors-future-victims-of-imminent-d-1819594660

I'd imagine the reaction would be the same here in the states. Which is really silly given the state of our school lunches.

I'll never understand peoples obsession with smart devices and the internet of shit overall.

Really? that's interesting.

That and the fact you're paying for water to be shipped cross country with liquid soap is why I mostly stopped using it.

Seems like history is a lot less serious than people like to portray.

What? is that real?

I've finally got a vaccine appointment!

It doesn't need to be frozen apparently. Will probably be helpful where infrastructure is lacking.

VLC.

It's snowing as I type this.

2020 edition of the national electric code.