And while those fears are certainly founded — Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile all spent a significant amount of time in the news — they can also illustrate how safe the power source is. While Chernobyl had and still has a massive effect on the terrain and a reported fatality count of 40 people, almost all of the damage was due to a denial of the problem and a lack of accountability. This is proven by the Fukushima Daichii disaster — a disaster on par with Chernobyl — that was handled as it should be. As a result, there were no deaths or increase in miscarriages, stillbirths or physical and mental disorders in babies born after the accident according to the World Health Organization. The Three Mile Incident serves to further solidify this point — a total nuclear disaster occurred with no deaths, no increase in miscarriages, stillbirths or physical and mental disorders in babies, and a relatively short clean-up time. As a point of fact, nuclear energy has the lowest number of deaths per terawatt hour of energy production at 0.01 due to accidents.
Nuclear power is the one of only two renewable energy sources capable of matching the energy demand created by the industrial civilizations of today. To match the energy output of a single modern reactor, it would take approximately 400 miles of the most modern wind turbines — nearly the distance from Chicago to Pittsburgh. That’s not to say that wind, solar, and biofuels power will have no place in the future — the technology behind those sources of energy is constantly evolving. However, they simply cannot shoulder our current energy burden. On the other hand, nuclear energy is already shouldering one-fifth of the total energy burden in the United States and nearly 11% of world electricity according to the World Nuclear Association. The only renewable energy source to provide more is hydroelectric energy — whose dams can cause ecosystem flooding and affect the reproduction of endangered species.
We must start relying on nuclear energy now — it is our only way to safely and effectively handle the climate crisis with the time we have left. //
What was supposed to be a luxurious urban development for wealthy foreigners has become an eerie half-finished ghost town in Turkey
Imagine a rolling landscape of towering, pristine castles almost as far as your eyes can see. It sounds breathtaking — and it is — just probably not in the way you'd think. These Disney-esque villas are in a Turkish housing development called Burj al Babas, and it's completely abandoned.
As Biden finished his remarks and tried to exit the stage, he couldn’t find his mask. Now remember that he’s outdoors and just told everyone earlier this week how you didn’t have to be masked outdoors with vaccinated people. So why was he looking for it to begin with? But he still wasn’t able to keep track of it.
Then he stepped in it again, saying he would be “in trouble.”
Biden wasn’t able to find it, so someone finally come up behind him to slip him a mask, just as Biden finds it, finally, in his pocket all along. This is the guy with the nuclear codes.
So once again, as we asked earlier in the week when he said if he took a question from the press that he was “going to be in trouble,” isn’t this guy supposed to be the most powerful man in the world? With whom is he going to be “in trouble?” Who exactly is pulling his strings?
For starters, Sen. Scott did something that most on the left would not expect from a black conservative: He acknowledged the existence of racism and even discussed his experiences. Moreover, he did so without pretending that Neo-Nazis are systematically murdering scores of unsuspecting black men every single day. //
Secondly, Sen. Scott gave them an argument that he knew they could not adequately debunk. If they disagree with the senator about the prevalence of racism in America, they have to prove that it is an overall racist nation in 2021. This is quite a gargantuan task, given that the vast majority of all Americans are not racist. For this reason, the so-called progressive crowd is lying about his remarks – they are unable to counter his assertion.
Nielsen now reports that an estimated 26.9 million people tuned in to watch President Biden’s inaugural address to a Joint Session of Congress. //
By comparison, Trump’s first address to Congress brought in 47.7 million viewers. Even his final State of the Union hit 37 million viewers. Biden trailed those totals greatly, bringing in a heavily partisan audience to boot (MSNBC was the top cable news network for ratings). //
laraffinee
2 hours ago
Yes, the reality is laughable. Just like the so called "80 million" that "voted" for him. Pathetic sock puppet. //
tomferal
2 hours ago edited
Biden has an IQ (est. 72) half of Trump's (est. 144), so if he got half the audience Trump did, that seems pretty copacetic to me. The Ying and the Yang of the Universe remain in balance.
Human Progress, a project that provides evidence from individual scholars, academic institutions, and international organizations, took issue with Frizzell’s basic premise, saying dramatic improvements in human well-being throughout much of the world.
“Children do not strain the world’s resources,” the organization said on Twitter. “In fact, the opposite is true: each new child is correlated with an increase in resource abundance.” //
Gad Saad
@GadSaad
I apologize to @GretaThunberg, to @AOC, and to @JohnKerry for having had children. I will try to starve them to offset their carbon footprint. Again, my apologies. I’ll do better. @voguemagazine
The 855 Big Cam is regarded as one of the last true variable timing mechanical engines on the heavy duty side before electronics came into play with the N-14. The engine was first introduced in 1976 and mass produced up until 1985. After ’85 the engine was engine was still supplied by Cummins up until 2000, with engineering supersessions from 1988-1991. The Big Cam 855 replaced the Small Cam 855 of the 60s and in fact was the first engine designed to meet the new updated mandates of the Clean Air Act of 1976.
Old school truckers and farmers all loved the Cummins 855 Big Cam because of its simple design and reliability all the while producing some major horsepower and torque to get the job done in the field. The over the road truck application is designed to run for 700,000 before a major overhaul.
Notable aspects of the design is the demand flow cooling system which only cools parts of the engine when needed. This saved energy is this used at the crankshaft to deliver more horsepower to the task at hand. This additional horsepower is what made the engine so popular over the previous smaller cam models. A larger camshaft diameter and larger top stop injectors really pushed up the HP on these engines. Top-Stop Injectors are all mechanical but are designed to using a zero lash setting on the base circle on the cam injector lobe. This zero lash setting became known as the Inner Base Circle or “IBC” and increased fuel flow significantly over the small cam models.
Reaching 400+ HP was now attainable and stable without having to do any performance upgrades to the fuel pump. The drawback to the fuel injection system is the lower 2,200 psi it runs at which negatively affects power to the oil pump, water pump, variable timing system and valve spring pressures. In cold climates the engine can be difficult to start. However this can be remediated with block heaters or oil immersion heaters. Overall, you’re not going to have a whole lot of issues with this classic diesel engine.
Long block 855 Engines (1/2 - 3/4 Assembly) are suitable replacements for existing engines that have experienced catastrophic failure, but the ancillary components are still in good working order. If you spun a bearing, threw a rod through the block or dropped a valve a long block is more cost effective alternative to a more complete option. Check the turbo, fuel pump, manifolds, fuel lines and accessory drive components are undamaged before looking at a long block option. Metal shavings and lack of oil pressure can oftentimes leave unseen damage. Long blocks are a good option for both on-highway and off-highway industrial use. 855 NTC, NTA, NT, NH versions can be built to spec either as an extended long block or long block option to an ESN and CPL Number. Check with your sales representative for lead time and availability for custom engine orders.
This engine has gone through a complete overhaul and has been remanufactured with roughly 90% new Cummins parts 10% aftermarket.
Engine comes complete and includes starter, alternator, flywheel, flywheel housing which ship separately.
Build Sheet and Run Test Video available upon request.
AUSTIN, TX– The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing to institute more measures to safeguard black lives by banning products they like. After it was announced that the Biden administration would prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes, officials are looking at other ways the government can save the black community from itself.
Only days after the menthol ban was announced, the FDA declared that it was pushing full steam ahead with its effort to rescue the black community through what they refer to as “strategic race-based prohibition.” An FDA official explained that the fried fowl and grape-flavored cola – also known as “grape drank” – must be banned because “these hopeless negroes don’t know how to act.”
“Preventing black people from killing themselves by banning certain products is the least we can do given the level of oppression they have endured in this country,” said a high-ranking member of the Biden administration. “This is why fried chicken and grape soda have to go.”
Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
Starting today, I no longer accept money from any corporate PAC.
I urge my GOP colleagues to do the same.
For too long, Republicans have allowed the left & their big-business allies to attack our values & ship jobs overseas with no response.
No more. //
Yes! Corporate America has put Americans last. They ship our jobs to China, mock middle America’s way of life, try to control our speech and run our lives. It’s time we stood up to them. I won’t take corporate PAC donations & I’ll fight to break up their monopoly power https://t.co/BXZ5DWzrzl
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 29, 2021
Why would I go talk to a hunter about the Second Amendment? That’s like talking to a hairstylist about surgical work because both fields make use of scissors. Yes, hunting is an assumed use of firearms under the Second Amendment, but it is not at all the reason for its existence. And what does magazine capacity have to do with body armor? A long-barreled rifle chambered in any normal hunting caliber that holds only five rounds is typically going to penetrate body armor better than a .223 Remington round from an AR-15. Biden is just spewing anti-gun ideas that aren’t even congruent. //
The Second Amendment was created so that ordinary citizens could keep and bear arms, thereby being able to organize into militias to fight threats, foreign or domestic. Hunting wasn’t even on the radar (though, it was assumed because it was such a normal part of life), and bringing it up shows a profound ignorance of the topic at hand.
As to why someone needs a 100-round magazine, the answer is simple: Because they want one. Any more questions? //
disintelligentsia
an hour ago
The Second Amendment is about hunting tyrants, not deer. //
wmeyer
an hour ago
The root problem, of course, is that the Democrats consider the Bill of Rights to be a set of (limited) rights granted to the people by a benevolent government.
Nonsense is what that is.
The founders knew no government is benevolent, and wrote the Bill of Rights as a set of limits imposed on the government to prevent it encroaching on these natural rights which flow from our Creator.
Get vaccinated if you want
@jtLOL
WHAT TIM SCOTT SAID: "America is not a racist country"
WHAT LIBS HEARD: "Racism doesn't exist in America"
They're not the same thing. All you have to do is think about it for two seconds, which is clearly too much work. Don't blame Tim Scott for being smarter than you.
During an interview with Todd Moore, VP Open Technology at IBM, Moore made it clear that IBM has over 80,000 employees who are trained to contribute and participate in open source. The company has processes, classes and mentors who aid in this training. Employees can certify in contributing to open-source projects and IBM encourages this. According to Moore, IBM made 19,000 commits to open source projects last month alone.
"We respect our developer's need to be individuals, and their open source code contributed under a personal ID represents them and their resume" said Moore. "Often our contributors will have a personal GitHub ID and an IBM GitHub ID. We use tooling to track contributions under both IDs to ensure everyone gets credit towards our recognition program."
IBM has a program called IBM Developer, which is a technology-based resource, where developers can discover ways to get involved with open source. The company also introduced the Call for Code global challenge (in conjunction with the Linux Foundation) which takes projects and assists them in getting to market.
What is it with white liberals believing they have the right to levy racist attacks against black Republicans? That happened again last night from several corners of the left after Tim Scott delivered his rebuttal to Joe Biden’s boring, yet surprisingly dangerous address to Congress.
Keith Olbermann mocked Scott, claiming he had “Stockholm Syndrome,” for example. You know, because a black man can’t possibly think for himself. He needs a white savior like Olbermann to dictate to him.
Keith Olbermann
@KeithOlbermann
Sen. Scott insisting America is not racist but our healing from racism isn’t finished and he’s been called racist names.
Incidentally, Senator, anybody calls you the N-word is a friend of Trump’s. We progressives refer to you as a victim of Stockholm Syndrome. //
I’m going to watch Senator Tom Scott’s speech later. I guess it was good if the reaction is the Left doubling down on being racist towards him.
— kaitlin, super mega RINO (@thefactualprep) April 29, 2021
Roughly half of viewers, 51%, fell in the “very positive” reaction category. A chart showed that is a lower figure than was recorded for former Presidents Donald Trump in 2017, Barack Obama in 2009, and George W. Bush in 2001, whose “very positive” scores in the same poll were 57%, 68%, and 66%, respectively.
That was even with the watchers who “overall leaned Democratic,” CNN’s Manu Raju admitted. Yikes.
SpaceX aims to resume launching satellites for its Starlink internet network with the liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday night at Cape Canaveral, and company founder Elon Musk says SpaceX will use the sizeable backlog of Starlink missions to keep pushing the envelope and find the Falcon booster’s reuse life limit.
“There doesn’t seem to be any obvious limit to the reusability of the vehicle,” Musk told Spaceflight Now in a press conference Friday after the launch of SpaceX’s third crewed flight to the International Space Station. //
SpaceX officials have previously said the most recent version of the Falcon 9 booster can make 10 flights with only inspections and minor refurbishment in between missions. With an overhaul, the Falcon 9 boosters could fly 100 missions, SpaceX said when the new Block 5 booster design debuted in 2018.
Musk said Friday that SpaceX plans to keep reusing Falcon 9 boosters until they break, likely exceeding the 10-flight milestone.
“We do intend to fly the Falcon 9 booster until we see some kind of a failure with the Starlink missions, obviously, just to have that be a life leader,” Musk said. //
Last year, a SpaceX manager said it costs less than $30 million to fly a Falcon 9 rocket with reused parts, such as the booster and payload fairing, the clamshell-like aero-structure that protects sensitive satellite payloads during the climb through the atmosphere.
Although SpaceX has proven it can safely reuse first stages, payload shrouds, and Dragon capsules, the Falcon 9 rocket’s upper stage remains a single-use component. None of SpaceX’s competitors in the commercial launch industry have successfully re-flown an orbital-class booster. Some companies, like Blue Origin and Rocket Lab, plan to eventually recover and reuse their rocket boosters. //
SpaceX says it can deliver payloads of more than 100 metric tons, or 220,000 pounds, or low Earth orbit.
“With Starship, we’ll hopefully reuse the whole thing,” Musk said. “This is a hard problem for rockets, that’s for sure. It’s taken us, we’re like 19 years in now. I think the Starship design can work. It’s just, it’s a hard thing to solve, and the support of NASA is very much appreciated in this regard. I think it’s going to work. I think it’s going to work.
“I’d say it’s only recently though that I feel that full and rapid reusability can be accomplished,” Musk said. “I wasn’t sure for a long time, but I am sure now.”
President Joe Biden claimed during his first State of the Union address that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.”
Moments after the transcript of the speech’s opening went public before the address, Washington Examiner chief congressional correspondent Susan Ferrechio tweeted out a photo featuring devastation from the 1983 Senate bombing. //
Rachel Bovard
@rachelbovard
I lived through 9/11. My grandfather was sent to war after Pearl Harbor. Stop disrespecting the memories of the dead you absolute hack.
Michael Beschloss
@BeschlossDC
Joe Biden is absolutely correct in saying tonight that January 6 was “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” //
Nearly 3,000 died on Sept. 11, 2001, and more than 2,400 at Pearl Harbor. Only five died who were present at the Capitol on Jan. 6 this year, four of whom passed from natural causes, and one from a gunshot fired by a Capitol Police officer.
New York Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York helped secure clemency for the left-wing terrorists who bombed the U.S. Capitol decades earlier, granted by President Bill Clinton.