Accujack

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by Accujack 5y ago
It sounds like they're just comparing total power required by the countries with the power produced on average by the reliable grids. But you can't manage a grid like that and not get brownouts. You need to account for two numbers
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by Accujack 5y ago
It's being outserviced for the reasons you mention, although you can still replace bottles in existing systems with gas from the used market.
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by Accujack 5y ago
For that modulation to be reflected in the detection array, the beam would have to be accurately targeted on the submarine?
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by Accujack 5y ago
I work for the company that bought them. Oddly, no one has made a joke along those lines, even though the name is used to refer to those parts of the company daily.
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by Accujack 5y ago
I'm going to say it's used in the "derogatory shorthand for everyone who isn't like me" sense.
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by Accujack 5y ago
It's possible to detect neutrinos with a scintillation chamber, but in general only a tiny fraction of neutrinos passing through would be observed. They really don't interact with regular matter much. However, it's the trans
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by Accujack 5y ago
Not really... the OP101 was priced at about $26k in 2021 dollars. The Apple I was priced at about $3250, which meant it was affordable for hobbyist purposes. It was also mostly complete out of the box, didn't need to be programmed vi
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by Accujack 5y ago
I'll take this. They don't need to store the waste anywhere other than their own land, there's not going to be that much of it.
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by Accujack 5y ago
>We're moving towards a state where simplicity and privacy is the province of the affluent. No, not really. The problem of the wealthy being inherently unequal in the US at least is a consequence of our corrupt government. The law i
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by Accujack 5y ago
Yeah. Tesla is pretty much the apple computer of the electric vehicle world, and they've set a bad precedent for ownership of electric cars. I think if market forces are allowed to decide fairly (they won't be) that consumers wil
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by Accujack 5y ago
I enjoyed Neon Genesis Evangelion despite the characters.
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by Accujack 5y ago
Legally, they can not directly use the river. Diversion of federally protected rivers in any amount is surrounded by a huge amount of paperwork and even more transparency requirements and public comment periods than what they're trying
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by Accujack 5y ago
And as mentioned elsewhere, this is an apples and vaguely apple-like fruit comparison.
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by Accujack 5y ago
*edit: I did just realize, however, that the floor plan for this dorm might make an excellent layout for a large number of bedrooms in a game of Dwarf Fortress. -------- Agreed. His assumptions seem questionable... the whole design is bu
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by Accujack 5y ago
Uh.... drilling horizontally into the caldera isn't going to set off an eruption. Doing that is actually beyond human technology.
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by Accujack 5y ago
>"&c" is the archaic form of "etc", the ampersand being a ligature of "et" - Latin for "and". "etc" is an abbreviation for and contraction of "et cetera", Latin for "an
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by Accujack 5y ago
>causing us to live in a time of renewed labor unrest rather than a second great depression. So far, it's showing signs of being both. UBI is a non starter for at least the next three or four decades except in limited cases. Educa
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by Accujack 5y ago
1) They're trying to create a billionaire tax that will somehow pass the corrupt mess in the US Federal government and also not permit loopholes for tax evasion. I think it might be just a dog and pony show since there's little c
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by Accujack 5y ago
> If he's great at his job I presume shareholders would want to keep him on as CEO and would compensate him handsomely in cash money. This really isn't how the real world works. It's easy to design rules that would work
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by Accujack 5y ago
I think the 300C target is to support the article's assertion that geothermal could replace e.g. nuclear plants. Geothermal for heating can work well with a lower approach temp, but industrial processes/power generation needs a
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by Accujack 5y ago
I have an antique book printed just after the fire. It actually has a diagram of the barn showing the position of the lamp, the cow, and straw on the floor.
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by Accujack 5y ago
The question is... would creating something like this cause an increase or decrease in the profits of large media corporations?
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by Accujack 5y ago
>Renewables can, in fact, meet our needs with already mature technology. No, they cannot. Industrial processes require far more power at all times than can be delivered by renewables. For example, aluminum refining.
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by Accujack 5y ago
This is completely incorrect. Solar and nuclear power are NOT interchangeable. Solar can displace coal for some uses soon, and it will, but ultimately both renewables and nuclear are needed.
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by Accujack 5y ago
Not quite similar, depending on reactor design - less plutonium production for one thing, and less transuranic waste, too.
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by Accujack 5y ago
I'm not saying the designs lack problems. Rather, I'm saying that they have addressed the problems you're talking about and are potentially considerably safer than old reactor tech. >In the near future, storage will compe
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by Accujack 5y ago
At the time we got the head start, no competition existed.
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by Accujack 5y ago
Like what? And have you researched new generation reactor designs, like molten salt reactors? They address most of the problems with existing reactors, which are for the most part 50 year old technology.
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by Accujack 5y ago
>Good luck transmitting it to where you need it, though... True, but the scale of the problem we're dealing with makes it worthwhile to consider locating certain industries near nuclear plants to take advantage of low cost/free
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by Accujack 5y ago
>Invest in small-scale, distributed breeder reactors. Store waste (the little amount that there is) in old oil wells/mines. I believe completely that nuclear power is the way forward for us, but your assumptions here are just bonker

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