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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 24005" data-attributes="member: 126"><p>Re: hyper inflation in the USA?</p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>I agree, that one sentence postscript to a long post was unkind to any who identify with and support those policies. I have deleted it. </p><p></p><p>For the record trolling is making inflammatory comments to stir up arguments, for the sake of argument. I don't intentionally do that but I guess I have crossed a line and struck a nerve. Political discussion gets ugly when it gets personal, people attacking people not attacking ideas. I'm sorry if it looks like I am attacking people here, I am genuinely angry about policies that IMO hurt the very people they are supposed to help. </p><p></p><p>This thread taking off in multiple directions other than the original topic can be considered evidence that either A) these are topics that multiple people feel strongly about that need airing out, or B) we need to pretend this stuff doesn't matter and keep this discord buried to fester in the dark only informed by partisan voices from one side or the other. I guess it doesn't matter that i don't consider myself overtly partisan (i am critical of all politicians). I apparently appear partisan to some. </p><p></p><p>I appear to have developed a special relationship with Pascal who has voiced his opposition to me on multiple forums (you can't win them all). I wish he could ignore me too, I bear him no personal enmity. </p><p></p><p>I broke my own rule to not speculate about things I can not know (like people's intentions) so mea culpa. </p><p></p><p>Finally i will leave most of the new offshoot responses unanswered since I don't want to wear out my welcome any more than I already have. </p><p></p><p>I feel the situation in Japan that is still unfolding deserves some more comment. The earthquake and tsunami there were once in a lifetime events and worst in their history. Experiencing a 6.0 aftershock is remarkable for any other country, but their building standards anticipate that level of seismic activity. The earthquake in Haiti (7.0) was almost two orders of magnitude (8.9) less powerful than Japan's. So the earthquake in Japan was nearly 100x greater, and Haiti lost over 200,000 souls. While japan is a massive tragedy it appears they will not suffer the loss of life that Haiti did, even with the far more damaging tsunami. </p><p></p><p>Onto the nuclear plants. At least one of them was running on re-purposed nuclear weapons material, IMO a much better use of those old bombs the world build in a crazier time. These power plants were 40 year old designs so while head and shoulders better than Chernobyl regarding robustness of a containment structure, there seems to be a failure in surrounding infrastructure, i.e. cooling pumps, battery and generator systems that were inadequate for the duration of this event, and/or damaged by the tsunami. It is still too early to assess the final outcome. Pumping corrosive sea water into the overheating plants, means a complete write off of that plant for future use. It is still a developing situation so I will leave my crystal ball covered this one time. I remain hopeful that he more robust containment building of this design because of what this is and where it was built will prevent a Chernobly (china syndrome) like event. They have already eclipsed 3 mile island for atmospheric venting. This is not the first nuclear industry accident in japan so they are aware of the dangers and accept them, in the future probably not as much, but they have some 50 commercial nuclear plants there, I don't see then shuttering them all. Ones that are several decades old, might benefit from upgrades to emergency cooling. I believe there are newer designs that use control rods between the fuel rods, to quench the reaction instead of just using water to cool and prevent meltdown. The world will learn from this event and re-evaluate safety of all the operating plants everywhere. </p><p></p><p>The don't expect real life to live up to the scary headlines being generated over this event. The loss of life and damage from the tsunami is enough of a disaster for japan to absorb. </p><p></p><p>Sorry if I offended anybody,, It was not my intent. </p><p></p><p>See you later.. maybe... </p><p></p><p>JR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 24005, member: 126"] Re: hyper inflation in the USA? I agree, that one sentence postscript to a long post was unkind to any who identify with and support those policies. I have deleted it. For the record trolling is making inflammatory comments to stir up arguments, for the sake of argument. I don't intentionally do that but I guess I have crossed a line and struck a nerve. Political discussion gets ugly when it gets personal, people attacking people not attacking ideas. I'm sorry if it looks like I am attacking people here, I am genuinely angry about policies that IMO hurt the very people they are supposed to help. This thread taking off in multiple directions other than the original topic can be considered evidence that either A) these are topics that multiple people feel strongly about that need airing out, or B) we need to pretend this stuff doesn't matter and keep this discord buried to fester in the dark only informed by partisan voices from one side or the other. I guess it doesn't matter that i don't consider myself overtly partisan (i am critical of all politicians). I apparently appear partisan to some. I appear to have developed a special relationship with Pascal who has voiced his opposition to me on multiple forums (you can't win them all). I wish he could ignore me too, I bear him no personal enmity. I broke my own rule to not speculate about things I can not know (like people's intentions) so mea culpa. Finally i will leave most of the new offshoot responses unanswered since I don't want to wear out my welcome any more than I already have. I feel the situation in Japan that is still unfolding deserves some more comment. The earthquake and tsunami there were once in a lifetime events and worst in their history. Experiencing a 6.0 aftershock is remarkable for any other country, but their building standards anticipate that level of seismic activity. The earthquake in Haiti (7.0) was almost two orders of magnitude (8.9) less powerful than Japan's. So the earthquake in Japan was nearly 100x greater, and Haiti lost over 200,000 souls. While japan is a massive tragedy it appears they will not suffer the loss of life that Haiti did, even with the far more damaging tsunami. Onto the nuclear plants. At least one of them was running on re-purposed nuclear weapons material, IMO a much better use of those old bombs the world build in a crazier time. These power plants were 40 year old designs so while head and shoulders better than Chernobyl regarding robustness of a containment structure, there seems to be a failure in surrounding infrastructure, i.e. cooling pumps, battery and generator systems that were inadequate for the duration of this event, and/or damaged by the tsunami. It is still too early to assess the final outcome. Pumping corrosive sea water into the overheating plants, means a complete write off of that plant for future use. It is still a developing situation so I will leave my crystal ball covered this one time. I remain hopeful that he more robust containment building of this design because of what this is and where it was built will prevent a Chernobly (china syndrome) like event. They have already eclipsed 3 mile island for atmospheric venting. This is not the first nuclear industry accident in japan so they are aware of the dangers and accept them, in the future probably not as much, but they have some 50 commercial nuclear plants there, I don't see then shuttering them all. Ones that are several decades old, might benefit from upgrades to emergency cooling. I believe there are newer designs that use control rods between the fuel rods, to quench the reaction instead of just using water to cool and prevent meltdown. The world will learn from this event and re-evaluate safety of all the operating plants everywhere. The don't expect real life to live up to the scary headlines being generated over this event. The loss of life and damage from the tsunami is enough of a disaster for japan to absorb. Sorry if I offended anybody,, It was not my intent. See you later.. maybe... JR [/QUOTE]
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