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Actually, both parties have done a magnificent job...

Don't be so anal. Calling someone a "speculator" or "manipulator" is just a matter of perspective. They're two sides of the same coin and that coin has nothing to do with an entirely different coin of the structural/fundamental variety.

Bearice, you are living proof that God has a sense of humor.

Oil went from $50/bbl in 2007 to over $145/bbl in 2008 and then all the way down to $30/bbl by 2009. Are you trying to say that "this time is different?"

In the scheme of things, having a plurality vote is the least of our problems.

That's misleading, battery life is dependent on the technology, quality and the user. First and foremost, a lot of laptop users are complete idiots when it comes to the battery inside their laptop. If there's one section that every laptop owner should read in the user's manual it's the one...

Poor??? It's friggin' non-existent, they simply don't care. It's bad enough that we socialize losses and privatize gains in the financial sector. But, they don't have anything on the nuclear industry who's managed to socialize construction, privatize gains, localize waste and socialize...

It's true... Accumulating fission product poisons This is the reason that nuclear reprocessing is a useful activity: solid spent nuclear fuel contains about 97% of the original fissionable material present in newly manufactured nuclear fuel...

It's not the technology, it's the business and politics behind nuclear that's led us to where we are. It's a program that's now over 50 years old and there still isn't any system in place for the long-term, safe and secure storage of spent fuel. The fact that we're not even looking into fuel...

Uh, nice try there, sparky... Fact of the matter is that 5% background radiation was the actual fallout of above-ground thermonuclear testing. A thermonuclear device is typically 90-95% efficient in matter to energy conversion since it's a two-stage, fission-fusion device. In other words...

Technology does not cause a reduction in the workforce at these plants. Nor does it lower the competence of the remaining workforce and it certainly doesn't cause spotty maintenance and continued use well beyond reactor design life. All of those, over time, is what leads to these disasters...

I'm well aware of that report. PBS Frontline ran a show on 2008 that broke it down as I stated in my last post. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/etc/worldco2.html Say what you want, fact remains that nuclear power creates a much longer term problem for the planet and many...

So, you "save" money by turning it off during the low-peak hours, when energy costs the least and turn it on during the high-peak hours when energy costs to most. And, during those high-peak hours it has to run longer in order to cool down the contents again. You're such a friggin' dolt...

"Useless?" As in, all the useless posts that you've "blessed" us with? If so, then I'm all for starting the next culling of the herd with you at the front of the line.

NUCLEAR POWER: Still Not Viable without Subsidies Union of Concerned Scientists February 2011 In total, we estimate the value of legacy subsidies to nuclear power were at least 7.5 ¢/kWh—equivalent to nearly 140 percent or more of the value of the power produced from 1960 to 2008. In...

For every KG of CO2 produced by power plants there are 3kg produced from sources that nuclear power will not affect. Worse, 20 years from now China by itself will generate more CO2 than the world combined does today and you're still going to be faced with the same 3:1 ratio. Nuclear power...

Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Trash Heap Deadly for 250,000 Years or a Renewable Energy Source? Scientific American January 26, 2009 Finding an alternative or figuring out how to make Yucca Mountain work—there is already so much nuclear waste in the U.S. that, according to NRC, if Yucca were...

The remains of reactor unit 4 will remain radioactive for some time. The isotope responsible for the majority of the external gamma radiation dose at the site is Caesium-137 which has a half-life of about 30 years. It is likely that with no further decontamination work the gamma ray dosage at...

One report is anecdotal. You need to confirm it with several other observations. The show you're referring to is probably from about 5-6 years ago. More recent studies don't paint as good a picture on the real conditions around the reactor at Chernobyl. (One of, if not the first piece on...