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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9772 on: April 22, 2024, 09:45:52 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on April 22, 2024, 09:38:26 AM
Warren Buffet when asked why he wasn't doing more for green energy went on a rant about the government regulations and red tape that required a great amount of time to get anything done.
I assume this is most of the reason it takes so many years to build and start a new nuclear plant

Warren said if we really want to make meaningful progress to meet goals, a unifies effort such as the country's response to WWII would be needed.  Automobile plants turned into assembly lines for tanks and such.  Government getting out of the way or better yet, helping to get things done.
Getting out the way would be good. Having the government help would not be good.


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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9773 on: April 22, 2024, 09:48:30 AM »
For nuclear plants, one factor may be we don't have a common design that can be copied elsewhere.  I've read each new plant is largely different, which means more regulatory review (and costs).  If we could lock in on a single basic design, by one vendor, it would greatly aid this issue.

The two new Georgia reactors are way over budget and delayed for various reasons, including having the primary contractor pulling out midconstruction.  That nearly killed the project.  The last one is just now starting to come on line.

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« Reply #9774 on: April 22, 2024, 10:07:01 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on April 22, 2024, 09:48:30 AM
For nuclear plants, one factor may be we don't have a common design that can be copied elsewhere.  I've read each new plant is largely different, which means more regulatory review (and costs).  If we could lock in on a single basic design, by one vendor, it would greatly aid this issue.

The two new Georgia reactors are way over budget and delayed for various reasons, including having the primary contractor pulling out midconstruction.  That nearly killed the project.  The last one is just now starting to come on line.


Really, the only true variable is site conditions. Sites can be manipulated to accommodate almost anything, but I wouldn't advise just buying land willy-nilly. Transmission can also be complicated, from a right-of-way or easement standpoint, especially if there are a lot of landowners in the path. All it takes is one holdout to kill the whole project.

A due diligence report must be completed. We do that for all of our development clients, before they actually close on a deal.
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9775 on: April 22, 2024, 10:10:56 AM »
regulatory review, right-of-way or easement standpoint, especially if there are a lot of landowners in the path. All it takes is one holdout

these types of time consuming issues could easily be eliminated 
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9776 on: April 22, 2024, 10:25:50 AM »
$$$$$$ talks.
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« Reply #9777 on: April 22, 2024, 02:50:38 PM »
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area has started construction, officials said Monday, amid predictions that millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028.

“People have been dreaming of high-speed rail in America for decades,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement released to coincide with a ceremony at the future site of a terminal to be built just south of the Las Vegas Strip.

Buttigieg predicted the project will bring “thousands of union jobs, new connections to better economic opportunity, less congestion on the roads, and less pollution in the air.”

Brightline West, whose sister company already operates a fast train between Miami and Orlando in Florida, aims to lay 218 miles (351 kilometers) of new track between Las Vegas and another new facility in Rancho Cucamonga, California. Almost the full distance is to be built in the median of Interstate 15, with a station stop in San Bernardino County’s Victorville area.
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9778 on: April 22, 2024, 03:09:54 PM »
Union jobs …….
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« Reply #9779 on: April 22, 2024, 03:11:03 PM »
it's the only way to save the country
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9780 on: April 23, 2024, 08:14:03 AM »
What to know about the pivotal UN plastics negotiations | The Hill

I'm guessing this ends up with some verbiage.
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« Reply #9781 on: April 23, 2024, 08:20:21 AM »
I'd fly private to the meeting.
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9782 on: April 23, 2024, 08:46:40 AM »
IMHO, the UN is "good for" pointless" verbal "agreements" at best, often without any enforcement and usually vague in terms of compliance.
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« Reply #9783 on: April 23, 2024, 09:57:40 AM »
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« Reply #9784 on: April 23, 2024, 10:51:10 AM »
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« Reply #9785 on: April 23, 2024, 11:01:51 AM »
I did at the place I worked for 23 years

haven't from home
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