Scott Adams usually has his analysis of the news, but today he notes that a famous investor is investing in a company making fusion electricity by 2024.
this article discusses the company that has this in it's plans.
Fusion (plus the newer nuclear tech, e.g. salt reactors) should calm down the anti fossil fuel civil war. And if cheap, it could help us in poor countries, or in places like China, where demand for electricity is huge and who know the green technology is a big sluggish (something few pc westerners want to admit).
------------------------------- in a follow up on the new medicine that might make Covid a curable disease, which if true should calm down the vax vs anti vax civil war:
the ability to treat the disease means that the hysteria and fights over limiting people's freedom vs stopping the disease by mask/quarantine/mandatory vaccines should calm down.
True, the anti capitalism/anti big pharmy types will still hyperventillate that the drug company will make oodles of money with the medicine (never mind it will save lives),
and the conspiracy types will get angry that now a big powerful drug company have the power to push approval through the bureaucrats, and will find a minor side effect for them to say hey it's dangerous so don't take it,
On the other hand, one does wonder if the reason that cheap medicines like Ivermectin (70 percent prevention/treatment success) were pooh poohed,. was that there was no big money benefit behind the medicine for anyone
Sign.
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my take on green stuff:
Pollution is bad, and much of the deforestation and damage from mines and petroleum ignores that their proposals to elimiate such stuff kills people. (get rid of corruption, place laws that limit damge, and voila, both people and environment benefit).
Pollution is bad, and much of the deforestation and damage from mines and petroleum ignores that their proposals to elimiate such stuff kills people. (get rid of corruption, place laws that limit damge, and voila, both people and environment benefit).
Take Illegal logging: Bribe the government officials, bribe the company to do it in a shoddy manner, don't replant to stop erosion. And of course, the poor people there who are desperate for jobs and money to feed their family will willingly work for you. (for very low pay of course: no unions to check for safety or decent wages).
But eliminate logging, then the poor people starve, or migrate to the big cities looking for work. Voila, slums, people who lose their family ties, lots of unemployed and street kids who take drugs to get high or make a buck, etc. etc.
Sigh.
In other words, A lot of the worse environmental damage here in the third world is because corruption allows it.
Capitalism has lifted 80 percent of the world out of poverty over the last 100 years: so stop bashing capitalism per se and teach the necessity of morality that allows trust, something that is necessaary for capitalism to thrive.
And as for those people who say give money to poor countries to help them fight climate change: Uh, you know that the money will be stolen.
I wish the Pope would push honesty and to stop the corruption instead of trendy green memes that have little or no benefit to anyone here in poor areas, but will make the rich first world activists feel self righteous and richer.
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