Posts by Nitpicker 2 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Nov 2013
What thievery do you accuse Gates of? Apple's GUI? Digital Research's CPM? IBM's reputation (and resources)? Usability in favor of being attractive to corporate buyers instead of users? Or something even less well known? Too bad he gave away the valuable company to a co-founder who took it down by making employees compete instead of collaborate. Perhaps his successor will have more sense.
Ah, but there is a walk-away-safe molten salt nuclear reactor design that can all run for many decades just burning up the high level waste from those unsafe high-pressure water and solid fuel rods reactors that we made just because the military wanted more plutonium to make more bombs. Our biggest problem is to cut back our overused military, but it you worry about energy, and nuclear energy in particular, just invest quickly in WAMSR technology. Low pressure Waste Annihilating Molten Salt Reactors can burn up almost all of that waste that we have no way to safely store for tens of thousands of years. They run hotter so create electricity more efficiently and desalinate water too, solving another major problem. Carbon dioxide is proving not to be the huge threat that the fear mongers pretend, but the (radioactive) particulates from burning coal do kill lots of people and we should stop doing that as quickly as possible. Perhaps China will help us out if our own nuclear regulators take decades to do the right thing.
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