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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (836136)	2/12/2015 1:28:23 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 1575535

Hollywood Movie to Kill Obama... The First Hollywood Movie to Kill Obama Kingsman: The Secret Service features a big movie first in the vein of The Interview, and comes courtesy of President Obama’s biggest critic: Rupert Murdoch. [Warning: Spoilers] British action-adventure Kingsman: The Secret Service features Colin Firth as a dapper, tailored super spy, Samuel L. Jackson as an evil billionaire with a Russell Simmons lisp, and slick shenanigans that’d make James Bond jealous. It also boasts a controversial moment that rivals the explosive, hacker-baiting money shot that earned Sony’s The Interview the ire of North Korea. (Warning: Spoilers ahead.) In a sequence that should get tongues wagging at distributor 20th Century Fox’s sister network Fox News (also owned by Rupert Murdoch), the cheeky comic book movie from Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn makes history—not for reinventing the spy genre, but for being the first major studio film to kill President Barack Obama. Cont...

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (836136)	2/12/2015 1:38:52 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575535

"solar isn't economically viable. Nuclear has never been economically viable. Nuclear Power: Still Not Viable without Subsidies (2011) February 2011 The nuclear power industry requires government help to stay afloat. Download Full report Executive summary Government subsidies to the nuclear power industry over the past fifty years have been so large in proportion to the value of the energy produced that in some cases it would have cost taxpayers less to simply buy kilowatts on the open market and give them away, according to a February 2011 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists. The report, Nuclear Power: Still Not Viable without Subsidies, looks at the economic impacts and policy implications of subsidies to the nuclear power industry—past, present, and proposed. How would you like your subsidy? Nuclear power subsidies vary by type of ownership (public or private), time frame of support (legacy, ongoing, or new), and the type of cost (or “attribute of production”) they address—from startup capital to decommissioning and waste disposal. Subsidies can take many forms, including tax breaks, accident liability caps, direct payments, and loan guarantees. While the exact value of these subsidies can be difficult to pin down, even conservative estimates add up to a substantial percentage of the value of the power nuclear plants produce—approaching or even exceeding 100 percent in the case of legacy subsidies and subsidies to new privately-owned reactors (see chart). Subsidies prove addictiveSubsidies were originally intended to provide temporary support for the fledgling nuclear power industry, but the promised day when the industry could prosper without them and power from nuclear reactors would be “too cheap to meter” has yet to arrive. It is unlikely to arrive any time soon, as cost estimates for new reactors continue to escalate and the nuclear power lobby demands even more support from taxpayers. Piling new subsidies on top of existing ones will provide the industry with little incentive to rework its business model to internalize its considerable costs and risks. Subsidy impacts: Public risks and hidden costsNuclear subsidies effectively separate risk from reward, shifting the burden of possible losses onto the public and encouraging speculative investment. By masking the true cost of nuclear power, subsidies also allow the industry to exaggerate its economic competitiveness; consequently, they diminish or delay support for more economical and less risky alternatives like energy efficiency and renewable energy. RecommendationsThe report concludes with a dozen recommendations for policymakers, including reducing subsidies to existing reactors, adopting market-oriented approaches to uranium mining royalties and waste management financing, and incorporating the costs of preventing nuclear proliferation and terrorism into economic assessments of new reactors. ucsusa.org Renewables, OTH,... Solar at Grid Parity in Utah, A Coal State With No Renewable Standard Utahns could soon be paying less for solar than for coal. greentechmedia.com

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (836136)	2/12/2015 2:56:11 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575535

I'm concerned about the cost of constructing many square miles of solar panels and the maintenance thereof. That's pretty significant. There is huge growth and growing capacity...which is why prices have dropped so much. Anyway, It is not THE solution for all of our energy needs...it is a component....the third most important one in terms of renewables. Have you heard of thin film solar? Roll to roll manufacturing... cleantechnica.com But the truth is that solar isn't economically viable and probably won't be unless energy prices rise drastically. Sorry...you are wrong. Al