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by Accujack 5y ago
Well, Great River Energy aren't tiny, although they aren't a huge company. They're headquartered near my home, and are big into renewables. If they're planning a pilot plant to bring online in the next two years, then
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by Accujack 5y ago
> because it is too expensive but also because confidence has been lost. The public were promised power too cheap to meter and ended up with a mess of unknown expenses and risks. 1) Newer reactor designs are less expensive, especially sm
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by Accujack 5y ago
That's waste from bomb making, not power plants. Different subject. We're not producing any more of that, or proposing to.
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by Accujack 5y ago
Interestingly, most of those ideas were far earlier than ST:TNG was. Roddenberry had written a lot of them down based on 1960s science fiction during the time he was working on the original series. He wanted to do the holodeck already bac
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by Accujack 5y ago
All sites in the US that I know of store spent fuel in cooling pools prior to it going to dry cask storage. That's how the system works - the radioactivity goes down/the rods cool in the pool, then when they're sufficiently
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by Accujack 5y ago
>Fukushima has dumped gobs of radioactivity into the ocean. You mean the Japanese government has. That aside, total radioactivity emitted by Fukushima's leaks stands at about 35 PBq if you count the amount released into the sea. Tot
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by Accujack 5y ago
No need to dig a big pit, either. Almost all the radioactive waste that exists is from bomb making, not from power generation. If you also create a good plan to recycle reactor fuel into new core assemblies, the total amount of waste drops
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by Accujack 5y ago
That's news to almost all scientists and many solar and wind farm companies. Do you have a peer reviewed paper or two "proving" this?
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by Accujack 5y ago
More power to them...and us, then.
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by Accujack 5y ago
I think this is an interesting effort, but I question their fuel source - despite common perceptions, there's not a lot of suitable material around that could be recycled in this way, and what is available is of non uniform composition
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by Accujack 5y ago
You're not wrong. Because Amazon's system is insane unless you realize it's designed only for the benefit of the corporation, not for any kind of fairness or quality.
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by Accujack 5y ago
>The norm today is auto-updating, pre-built software. Only if you define "norm" as what's prevalent in consumer electronics and phones. Certainly, if you go by numbers, it's more common than anything else. That&#x27
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by Accujack 5y ago
Except it won't go on a coffee run.
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by Accujack 5y ago
In general, this applies to most industries in the US these days. It's a reflection of the lack of value that employers see in employees at present.
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by Accujack 5y ago
...and up until today, we're still using reactor technology from 70 years ago.
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by Accujack 5y ago
Update your knowledge of nuclear power. Mining can be done cleanly or not at all, and nuclear power plants generate very little waste - most of the waste that exists is from bomb making. Newer fission tech has a lot of promise... if peopl
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by Accujack 5y ago
>Yes, this legislation either seems to have been written by people who just want overly broad powers they'll use in a technically sound way, or by people who have no understanding of computer forensics. Or both.
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by Accujack 5y ago
>if the government continues to print money, and the real wages of the existing wage earners who actually produce value for the good of society by working are eroded and redistributed to those who don't wish to work. I bet I can gue
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by Accujack 5y ago
>I think lots of myth and propaganda about work got blown up in the last year. Many years of corporations "boiling the frog" and slowly lowering flexibility and not improving pay have been reset. People hadn't noticed, an
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by Accujack 5y ago
More like "Found: an epigenetic change in sperm that seems to correlate with genes we know are involved in autism".
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by Accujack 5y ago
I've been playing since the same time. My favorite version on the PC was called I think something like "ultimate" angband... it had code to procedurally generate vaults - larger open rooms that were oval, round, or other non
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by Accujack 5y ago
Or, they have released a medical device with customized Linux software and not shared the source as the license requires because it's "proprietary information".
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by Accujack 5y ago
There's a decent chance you do and don't know it. A certain type of super capacitor is built with graphene, so you may have electronic devices with graphene in them.
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by Accujack 5y ago
>but about 100 years ago It wasn't really an issue for the most part until laws were changed in the early 70s - by Nixon. That was when for profit health care took over here.
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by Accujack 5y ago
The most critical issue was probably the reactor design's positive void coefficient. The RBMK design was created to use less enriched fuel than other designs, so it had to have performance characteristics that would permit a stable r
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by Accujack 5y ago
"Relaxation" of regulations has been sliding downhill since about the 50s, but it reached a fever pitch during the Reagan presidency. The "new conservatives" and religious fundamentalists found they had a president they
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by Accujack 5y ago
Even in the US this is the case. Government regulation has outlawed people building incrementally in most cases, so people who can't afford to buy a house generally have to rent forever. Building a house is usually more expensive than
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by Accujack 5y ago
Or just use non metallic rebar (basalt)
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by Accujack 5y ago
>much of the world is using older hardware with relatively smaller amounts of memory and storage. If you read Linus' email, you'll see that for most libraries it doesn't save any memory or disk space. What it WOULD do to l
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by Accujack 5y ago
The same code can be statically linked into the binaries for those programs, or the code can be loaded as shared objects (modules, essentially).

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