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There's a reason I'm super happy about this. . .

That's kinda his own marketing spin, though. Dyson didn't even actually invent the cyclone vacuum cleaner, which dates back to 1913; he was simply the first to *effectively market* a compact consumer-grade vacuum cleaner which combined cyclone operation and a bagless design. (Also, Dyson in the...

Those people are still ideologically neo-luddite; they just think that *they* deserve to be the exceptions because they're rich and important and "deserve it". They still fundamentally think that humanity needs to economize, they're just selfish hypocrites who think that means *everyone else*...

Nuclear power *is* green. That's the thing that pisses me off the most -- nuclear power is the safest, the most reliable, the most scalable, *and* the most eco-friendly source of power there is, it literally has *no* downsides other than up-front cost, and most of that cost downside is...

Cost-benefit analysis is not exclusive to private companies, but private companies in Texas' isolated market uniquely have a motive to *intentionally* skew their cost-benefit analysis short because they can not only reduce their ongoing maintenance costs, but actually *profit more* from inducing...

Texas chose to embrace maximum free market, and they are now living with it.

The recent power blackouts in Texas are being heavily blamed on "green power", but ERCOT's figures show that out of 45,000 megawatts of power that went offline causing the blackouts, two-thirds of the lost power was from natural gas plants and only one-third from wind turbines. Coal plants also...

Because the green political movement is heavily neo-Luddite, and they see minimizing and downscaling human technology as a moral imperative. The idea that we can actually solve ecological impact through *more and better technology* is anathema to them.

Big oil outright bankrolls the anti-nuclear green movement because they are extremely useful idiots.

I think it's more accurate to say that nuclear power is the only viable long term source of base load energy, period. The fact that it's reasonable and that it's green are merely the frosting on top -- in the long term, humanity's need for power continues to grow exponentially and nuclear power...