Morning Ed: Energy {2016.12.21.W}

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1. Igor Kudrik of the Norwegian environmental group Bellona says there is even a risk that corrosion could trigger a nuclear chain reaction, in the worst-case scenario

   I would normally say, ‘no, that’s impossible’ – geometry precludes most nuclear designs from going spontaneously critical – but with the Ruskies who knows. They loved them some positive reactivity incursions en route to shut down. (i.e. Chernobyl)Report

2. Berlin’s most wanted: Police hunt ‘armed and dangerous’ Tunisian asylum seeker, 23, after his ID is found under lorry driver’s seat at scene of Christmas market massacre

   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4054140/How-German-police-bungled-hunt-Europe-s-wanted-man-Asylum-seeker-23-wrongly-blamed-Christmas-market-massacre-jumping-red-light.htmlReport

3. Why I love my job…

   http://www.siemens.com/customer-magazine/en/home/industry/manufacturing-industry/christmas-software-and-a-sleigh.htmlReport

   1. Stop the drag coefficient war on christmas.

      (btw, did ya ever figure out how that engine worked?)Report

4. So.

   There have been a number of hoaxed hate crimes since Trump’s election.

   I think that the hoaxers were responding to incentives.Report

   1. You mean like the vote trump black church arson? It was such a good example for liberals all over. Haha.

      Turns out it was a black member of that church

      http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/21/black-man-burned-african-american-church-painted-vote-trump-on-the-walls/Report

   2. Have there been any hate crimes since Trump’s election?

      If so, were any of the people who committed them responding to incentives?Report

      1. Any?

         Well, let’s go down this list:

         An 18-year-old Muslim woman who claimed that three men attacked her on a Manhattan subway this month and tried to pull off her hijab was charged on Wednesday with filing a false report, the police said.

         What made this crime particularly notable for me was not the whole “this happened!” but the part of her story in which she explained “this happened and other people on the subway did nothing!”

         The latter part was kind of slanderous against the blameless people on the train.

         A student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette fabricated a story that she was attacked and had her hijab rippped off, police said Thursday.

         The attack was one of several reported in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory.

         The hate speech posted to a whiteboard at Elon University? Written satirically.

         The Nazi flag being flown in San Francisco following the election? That was just a crazy person. A crazy person who was *PROTESTING* Trump by flying it, not supporting him.

         The OSU student who was tackled at a pro-Hillary rally? Well… that one is complicated. But it’s not complicated in the “hate speech” direction.

         The student who was allegedly attacked by three Trump supporters at Villanova? Withdrawn.

         The woman at University of Michigan who claimed that strangers threatened to burn her hijab? She admitted to fabricating that story.

         The hate speech in Malden? Well, that was an attempt to raise awareness.

         The church that was burned and “vote Trump” written on the side? Well, we don’t know if the person who burned the church was a Trump supporter or not. We do have reason to believe that he was a member of the church.

         The swastikas drawn at Long Island college? Drawn by Jasskirat Saini. In his defense, they were drawn backwards. Maybe they were attempts to draw a Gurung Yantra. The KKK isn’t quite so easily explained… maybe he was counting strikes during a baseball game?

         The Orlando kidnapping? Well, yeah. The cops said that the guy faked that.

         Dude.

         There are a *LOT* of these popping up.Report

         1. Do I condemn hate crimes? Of course. Absolutely.

            There are a lot of these showing up.

            They are doing a very good job of creating callouses where we should be more sensitive.Report

         2. You didn’t answer my questions.Report

            1. Have there been any hate crimes since Trump’s election?

               Ones that haven’t been proven to be hoaxes?
               I imagine that there must be some.

               If so, were any of the people who committed them responding to incentives?

               I suppose it would depend on the hate crime.Report

               1. Cool.Report

5. Man, I hate being right all the time:
   The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It’s Automation.

   Over time, automation has generally had a happy ending: As it has displaced jobs, it has created new ones. But some experts are beginning to worry that this time could be different. Even as the economy has improved, jobs and wages for a large segment of workers — particularly men without college degrees doing manual labor — have not recovered.

   If technology can churn out a superabundance of wealth far beyond human need or capacity to consume it, who owns the technology, and why?Report

   1. Sorry you aren’t right all the time. (cue the liberal smugness sound effect) You weren’t right about the fake vote trump church burning that I posted about above.Report

6. Toshiba appears to be in “cascading failure mode” as they have to take more big write-offs in their various operations. In particular, estimates for the write-off at their Westinghouse nuclear subsidiary are running as high as $5.4B. The question of whether Toshiba/Westinghouse will remain a going concern that can actually build the reactors for power stations under construction in Georgia and South Carolina is no longer silly.Report

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