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The whalebone hoop-skirt industry would like to vociferously disagree!

I was at Buckingham Palace watching The Queen's ghost welcome a diplomatic party of chupacabras from Jalisco. I didn't even take my phone with me. I'm that stupid.

You'll get no disagreement from me!

Yes, and in reality. When you charge more per item for goods and services so that healthcare is included, they cost more.

They settle out all of the heavier radioactive elements. They then dilute the remaining heavy water with additional water to drive the level of tritium to an acceptable level. It is then dumped into the ocean and rapidly mixes with the surrounding seawater. If you were to look at a map of ocean currents you'd see generally where it would go from there, but it doesn't really matter because tritium isn't really a significant concern. If they were dumping significant quantities of cobalt 60 you should care more, but they aren't, so you shouldn't.

The radioactive component is mostly tritium. As long as they get almost all of the heavy radioactive elements, the hydrogen isotopes are basically harmless in the quantities we're talking about here. The ocean is a very, very big place.

No, you'd leave the store having paid $120 for groceries with no wellness fee tacked on.

I think you know what he meant, or are you claiming that the "someone" was part of a secret US military program and died in action?

The alternative is that they just jack up the menu prices to accomplish the same thing. This is just the equivalent of pricing things at $19.99 because people don't understand that really means $20 which sounds like a lot more money.

Beyond just trying to maintain a reaction, we'll need a design that allows for the extraction of working energy. At present, all designs require tons of additional energy to keep them cool. We're very far from any design that is power positive in a real sense. Any time you ask one of the fusion fanboys about this there's a lot of hand waving, but I've never seen any actual proposals to extract working heat from the reactor. Any designs that require supercooling are especially problematic. It's really difficult to extract heat capable of turning a turbine through the supercooled magnetic containment.

Fusion will happen, but not before a whole lot more money and time (in decades) disappears into the money pit.

When websites start blocking clients that don't implement the wei handshake, you'll be forced to use one that does if you want to visit those sites. Firefox will either adopt it or become a second rate browser.

Ah, but this is on a different scale than in countries without a free press. The press in the US is free to ignore the government's information or to run a counter message. This happens every hour of every day.