( Though I would buy a whole bunch of them ).Desolder the old switch solder in the new. Each keyswitch is rated at 50 milliion keypresses. You cannot find a more "green" keyboard then a mechanical keyboard. ![]() What does a keyboard have to do with anything? The RK-9000 is a mechanical keyboard made by Rosewill which is the inhouse manufacturer for NewEgg. My suggestion is to invest in Mountain-top real estate in a Northern latitude and live like Euell Gibbons. We're about due for another World War aren't we? We know it's on the horizon because we all can't get along on this planet and we'll never come to a consensus on wealthier nations changing their ways while allowing less developed nations a chance at economic growth. Well before we all burn up, we'll have wars over water and other key strategic resources. ![]() Of course if a volcano or two erupt here and there it won't help but neither is allowing for commercial deforestation and destroying watersheds. Fundamentally there will be two paths ahead, one which means controlling population growth and the second the upheaval of the worldwide economic engines both of which are driving the higher CO2 levels. Depletion of our resources is occurring at an accelerated rate all because of more and more people and the rush for economic expansion. To paraphrase a movie: "Climate Change is People!" There's too many people on this world, all wanting the same thing and that's what's causing this. Power and money is like water, it always gathers and concentrates. That's the tragedy of democracy and why it never really lasts long. Both situations are basically simple concepts in theory (global warming is built on the green house effect which is simple to demonstrate, the economy on interest and other high school math), but so many interests go in and muddle issues, that the average guy doesn't know what to believe, so even those with a modicum of forethought are stymied by special interests.Īnd the special interests want status quo. We react, many don't think too far ahead. I guess if there was a girl twerking in it, it might work.Īnyway, that's how it is. Look at the crisis building up with the US economy, national debt, and so on - something that could cause a whole generation to undergo a great depression yet nary a thought is given to it.įor example, on the economic situation, this guy was made the US's top accountant for over a decade, and appointed to posts by both R and D presidents and yet he makes videos that can barely garner 2k views about the situation (since September): Human minds just aren't made to react to something so abstract, so distant, so far away. They keep covering up accidents, they keep playing down potential risks, they keep deferring risk to the public (nuclear power plants are uninsurable: if - when - the shit hits the fan, everybody pays the price, in more than one way.) Whenever and wherever they're allowed to continue, not only do they keep the old designs online, the "new" designs never deliver on the promises either. The nuclear industry will always try to convince you that the solution to all nuclear power problems is waiting right around the corner, to convince the public that nuclear is still an option. This one was decommissioned after just six years due to the continuous repairs driving the costs up: Thorium High Temperature Reactor 300MW. This one had atmospheric releases of radioactive material, contaminated the ground and groundwater below it (complete with increased Leukemia rates in the vicinity) and is currently much more radioactive than planned so that deconstruction can't begin: AVR Jülich. Pebble bed reactors have their own problems. I mean it is better to conserve electricity, but I don't hear people championing the idea of creating a global energy surplus. It would be almost better if we used more power in the short term so energy could invest in itself and provide more power at lower costs down the road. Sometimes I even have the strange thought that energy conservation ideas hurt society's growth. ![]() ![]() I think for a better world, we should be aiming to create energy surpluses. I think this dream is often grouped up with a superconductor power grid idea which is unrealistic for the short term. So if we ramped our energy production up by 2-8x what we got now, people could charge their hybrid car at home for even less than they do now. Even if the country doesn't adopt some grand scheme of making a bunch of nuclear plants, making one here or one there would get our technology levels higher and create jobs for smart people.Ī lesser known situation is if you actually create an energy surplus, food costs, logistic costs, and transportation costs get cheaper. With Nuclear you at least have a chance of everyone being healthy. Coal is guaranteed to kill and hurt people. It's been what, like 50 years we've been using old tech? Nuclear is cleaner than coal barring an accident.
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