Comments by "Michael Lenczewski" (@kayakMike1000) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. Tomatos. Ohio grows lots of tomatoes.
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  2. Why is the semiconductor industry "weird" What do you mean by weird? Business guy thinks he knows what the hell he's talking about. Design is something that anyone can do. Arm, intel, TI, stm, nxp, atmega, mororola, raspberry pi, broadcom, apple, samsung, Qualcomm.... So many more design their own chips. Pretty much only people who make chips is TSMC, intel, samsung, and gf make xhips.
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  3. No. They are too big and keep going in different directions.
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  4. Carbon free, you say? Did the underpants gnomes mine it out of the ground with an ox drawn cart?
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  5. ​ @mikegoodie7905  you picked shitty energy sources that work great when you don't really need energy.
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  6. No... No no no... Thorium energy is good. Thorium is fertile l, not fissile. It gets neutron activated into protactinium233 then decays into U233. Protactinium is hella radioactive, try to walk off with any of that and your hair will fall out by the time you start your get-away car. You'll be pretty easy to track too. Any way, theres some complex chemical cycle that dumps U233 back into the reactor core (during normal operation) and just about all designs do this with the liquid floride salts so the reactor core is pretty much in permanent meltdown, prolly around 800 °C at the very most. You CAN refine the U233 to make a nuke, it's just not very easy. There's going to be some U232 in there and that's like a nuclear wet blanket. Too much of the wet blanket and your nuke is more like a nuclear water balloon than a bomb. Well, instead of water it's a splash/spray of melted nuclear metals. Not particularly effective. Now... About that plutonium from a U233 fission cycle.. Not really. You're using neutrons to make more protactinium AND to fission more of that U233. Fission products of U233 are actually MUCH easier to deal with as far as waste goes... They're only radioactive for a few centuries rather than tens of thousands of years.
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