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Re:Toshiba makes a personal Nuclear Reactor. Available in th... by run4yourlives on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @05:46PM (#90922)
Joking about what?

$3000 says that regulatory hurdles are put up all over the place by governments before the first one gets installed. That will happen mainly for the same reason there are tons of regulatory hurdles in place for Hydrogen powered cars. There is a lot of power that will need to be shifted before this becomes a reality.

You can barely drive a segway on the sidewalk, you think you're going to be allowed to install a nuclear reactor in your basement?

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Re:Toshiba makes a personal Nuclear Reactor. Available in th... by Tichy on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @05:52PM (#90927)
Joking about the depression coming about because of a new technological invention.
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Re:Toshiba makes a personal Nuclear Reactor. Available in th... by run4yourlives on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @05:59PM (#90931)
Hmm, that wasn't my intent, but I can see how you read that.

I was looking at the depression from a social pov rather than economic, which made sense in my head at least.

Basically, the point is the kind of massive shift in power required here would need something many times more society altering than a depression to achieve anything meaningful.

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