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Wyoming has selected billionaire Bill Gates's company TerraPower LLC and Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway's owned power company PacifiCorp to build the nation's first Natrium reactor. As reported by Reuters:
TerraPower, founded by Gates about 15 years ago, and power company PacifiCorp, owned by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa.N), said the exact site of the Natrium reactor demonstration plant is expected to be announced by the end of the year. Small advanced reactors, which run on different fuels than traditional reactors, are regarded by some as a critical carbon-free technology than can supplement intermittent power sources like wind and solar as states strive to cut emissions that cause climate change.
"This is our fastest and clearest course to becoming carbon negative," Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon said. "Nuclear power is clearly a part of my all-of-the-above strategy for energy" in Wyoming, the country's top coal-producing state.
The project features a 345 megawatt sodium-cooled fast reactor with molten salt-based energy storage that could boost the system's power output to 500 MW during peak power demand. TerraPower said last year that the plants would cost about $1 billion.
[...] Chris Levesque, TerraPower's president and CEO, said the demonstration plant would take about seven years to build.
"We need this kind of clean energy on the grid in the 2030s," he told reporters.
Also seen over at ZeroHedge.
(Score: 2, Touché) by HammeredGlass on Thursday June 03 2021, @08:34PM (15 children)
And we're golden.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Thursday June 03 2021, @08:53PM (14 children)
Insightful observation. What well-networked billionaire do you propose could take his place?
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 03 2021, @08:57PM (9 children)
Soros kekekekekeke
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 03 2021, @10:53PM (8 children)
Soros has zero interest in advancing science, or improving the human condition. Gates is a dirtball, and he's still a hundred times better man than Soros is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 04 2021, @08:49AM (4 children)
While Soros has zero interest in advancing anything, Gates has everything in his power to worsen the human condition (and continues to doe so). What is not evil about him?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 04 2021, @01:35PM (3 children)
So does Soros. His funding is directly responsible, among other things, for the elections in America of district attorneys who refuse to prosecute crime which IS THEIR JOB. In America as a direct result we are enjoying a crime wave since the elections are nobody is being put in jail.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Friday June 04 2021, @03:48PM (2 children)
I don't know what you're talking about, but prosecutors have been refusing to do their jobs for decades without Soros' intervention. Any case they don't think they can win, they don't take, because the voting population incentivizes win rates over taking every case. Sexual assault in particular often goes unprosecuted, even in cases where they probably could win, because prosecutors are scared of losing.
Of course, if you want to make some case about sanctuary cities refusing to enforce federal immigration laws or cooperate with federal agencies, I've got only two words for you: states' rights.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 04 2021, @05:44PM (1 child)
The Soros-funded DA in my state won't take on cases he could EASILY win. He doesn't believe in prosecuting crimes, even violent ones. He's "reimagining" criminal justice.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Friday June 04 2021, @06:07PM
What is the alternative though? Why should it matter whether the case is easy to win or not? If your argument is that prosecutors should prosecute every crime they can, then it is just as valid to refuse to prosecute certain crimes for ideological reasons as it is to refuse to prosecute certain crimes for electoral reasons. In fact, if the prosecutor ran on a platform of not prosecuting certain crimes for ideological reasons, there is literally no philosophical difference.
The only difference is what crimes aren't being prosecuted. The question I have for you is, why do you care so much about punishing homeless people for getting into fistfights, but you don't seem to care at all about punishing rapists?
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday June 04 2021, @03:56PM (2 children)
The reason you lot hate him is specifically because of his activities in those areas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 04 2021, @08:42PM (1 child)
Soros, as part of the billionaire class, can buy political influence, shape the narrative, and sway politics more than millions of individual voters. I hate the guy because he thwarts democracy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 05 2021, @11:32AM
A lot of butt hurt billionaires hate Soros because he wants to educate the electorate and encourage dialogue. But there is a large clique of billionaires that view this as very dangerous and they want to keep the unwashed masses stupid for easier manipulation in the future. The entire discussion here is proof that idiots are getting brainwashed by the anti-Soros fascists.
Where are but in America would people willingly vote to lower taxes on the richest while they themselves are fucking poor, living on wages that can be lower than for same labor in Mexico or some 'African shithole country'? The only answer is brainwashing.
As for Soros, the government in power in Hungary hates him because they are corrupted by power. So they shut down a liberal university funded by Soros and in its place open a Chinese one while letting Hungarians pay for it!
It's a telltale of fascism and anti-democracy when you hear the lies against Soros. But yeah, idiots are easily swayed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#Political_involvement [wikipedia.org]
If one is not a rabid brainwashed idiot, one can read such a page and come to a conclusion that Soros is not some weirdo but a normal guy with honest and righteous views. On the other hand, multilateralism that Soros preaches, are a real pain in the ass for the scammers and manipulators and other criminals. And you know, one needs an enemy and a scapegoat to retain power, but that Soros or Gates or whoever else that does try to do something positive with their wealth.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 03 2021, @09:14PM
Hooray for our all powerful billionaire class. Now back to mindless serfdom and Wellness(tm) training to
cope withtreat the mysterious depression.(Score: 1) by HammeredGlass on Thursday June 03 2021, @09:26PM
None.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 03 2021, @10:37PM
Trump?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by PartTimeZombie on Friday June 04 2021, @01:25AM
I want to hear about how this will help power Bill Gates' adrenochrome harvesting operation.
The article doesn't mention how Hilary Clinton's pizza shop is involved, but you can bet it is somehow.