John T. Reed’s news blog

Some are touting converting coal power plants to small modular nuclear plants to act as backup to the oh so virtuous solar cells and windmills because they do not work at night or when it is cloudy or at night. . That is stupid on its face. Since the nukes work 24/7 and produce no CO2, just build those and screw solar cells and windmills. You would only build solar cells and windmills if the power they produced was cheaper than the variable costs of operating the nuclear plant without any subsidies or mandates for solar/wind. Variable costs are those...

Another WSJ article today describes small nuclear reactors as an unproven way to deliver electricity. "Unproven?" So the Journal never heard of nuclear submarines or aircraft carriers---which have had no injury accidents in over 60 years? . Opposition to small modular reactors is know-nothingism per se. They do not explode. They do not melt down and burn a hole to China. There is no ionizing radiation escaping. We now have nuclear medicine in dentists offices and hospitals all over America. Those who oppose it now stopped having an open mind after nutty 1950s movies about giant crabs, Homer Simpson's employer,...

"Investor Sprawl Resisted" is the page 2 jump headline to a story about some homeowners associations trying to pass rules that make it harder for corporations to buy homes for the purpose of renting them out. 1. Generally, that takes a 2/3 vote. My HOA has never gotten 2/3 except once to stop a billionaire from building a home the size of a country club. And his lawyers intimidated the HOA board into capitulating on that. 2. The word "sprawl" is a dysphemism---opposite of a euphemism. Euphemisms and dysphemisms have no separate definition from the neutral word. They are dishonest...

WSJ headline is “Russia launches Offensive in East.” . By what right? He is murdering Ukrainians and getting so many of his own people killed that he is too embarrassed to say how many. . How can any nation abstain from condemning this? How can 83% of Russians support this? I know he controls the state media but 300,000 young Russians have left Russia because I'd the war. There are too many communications channels now for Putin to prevent people from knowing the truth. . Putin is pure evil and defeating him is the only option.

I just got suspended again from Facebook. I pushed the why button and they talked about a ban from a couple of months ago—for which they suspended me then. Around that time, FB announced that they changed their algorithm so people discussing the Ukraine war, as I was, would no longer be suspended..So I have no idea what the current suspension is about. The posts above are the ones. I expect my readers will not see any problem either.