Didn't work. The highest prize for any president is appointing a SCJ from "their side".
Given that a president can serve 8 years, I'd say a fixed term of 16 years so that they can outlast a hostile president. On average a position would come up every couple of years with the current 9 seats.
After Peter has told the Bobs exactly what he does, i.e. nothing, the Bobs report back to Limburgh.
I'd like to move us right along to a Peter Gibbons. Now we had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
All you need to do is float in open water to know that extracting power out the water you're floating in is basically impossible. The water and you move as one. It's like putting a wind turbine on a balloon. Unless you're anchored you've got no chance.
It's not going to be steam pipes, but warm water. Maybe 60°C but lots of it. Warm enough for underfloor heating to be sure.
Biggest problem in my head is that you'd need to design buildings to take advantage of it, and I doubt data centres would be permanent enough to warrant the commitment.
You joke (I think) but community heating schemes off these places would be a good byproduct. Not enough to make them worthwhile, but it would offset their impact.
Doesn't really matter if you have local production if it goes on the global market. One global price set by global supply and demand. What happens in the middle east drives the price up in Michigan.
Yes and no. I wrote it in a blunt way, but to deregulate nuclear plants I want to be sure it doesn't impact safety.
Your story does nothing to convince me that the industry is regulated to "strangle" it. You don't say what the pipe did. It may have been part of a coolant loop in which case it's safety critical and having the wrong pipe might mean early failure of joints of connected components. Getting that right could be important and so it's right to be regulated.
The problem is actually that it took far too long to be sure what was right, and that's down to companies / people being far too dogmatic about how they work.
nuclear also comes from the way we manage energy utilities. When a solar farm is built, the builders can just sell it to the utility and walk away, no consideration for decommissioning or waste disposal or environmental considerations.
Well yes, because the site isn't a million tonnes of low level nuclear waste that needs to be dismantled in a controlled fashion, and specially processed. A solar farm might have some toxic metals in the panels when ground-up, but all are quite easily reclaimed. There's no special skill / process needed for anyone dismantling it. It just needs responsible disposal.
I'm not sure we have ways of concentrating energy enough to do this. Heat pumps let us move heat, but I'm not aware of anything that can get the target to 100+ degrees Celsius.
I thought it was a ghost