Arodex

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by Arodex 4mo ago
Have you read the comments?
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Switzerland unilaterally got out of negotiations with the EU, which also dealt with energy grid coordination. As such, as of now, the EU can shut down Switzerland without warning if the grid is overloaded and they need to avoid a blackout.
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by Arodex 4mo ago
>I don't doubt the Swiss could do it right technically speaking, as they do everything else https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucens_reactor
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by Arodex 4mo ago
See this long-form investigation: https://www.heidi.news/explorations/black-out-le-talon-d-ach...
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by Arodex 4mo ago
Then nuclear isn't it. Switzerland has no uranium and no strong relationship with an uranium-producing country. They also regularly antagonise the EU (especially the far-right isolationisz SVP/UDC, which is... pro-nuclear, of cour
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by Arodex 4mo ago
The funny thing is that people know more about what is happening in the neighbouring countries than in the other parts of Switzerland. The "national" media is very divided and only covers French-speaking regions in French, German-
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by Arodex 4mo ago
A long-form exploration of energy in Switzerland for those interested: https://www.heidi.news/explorations/black-out-le-talon-d-ach...
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by Arodex 4mo ago
Just look at any map of solar power potential, solar irradiance, hours of sunshine of Europe.
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>commercially operating And struggling, propped up by taylor-made laws and public money. >how have so many smart people and companies been duped into seriously considering SMR technology if SMRs apparently break the laws of thermodyna
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by Arodex 4mo ago
Thermodynamics are the reason why SMR aren't, and will never, be economical. A bigger nuclear reactor will always undercut your price per watt.
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Civil engineering, power equipment (ABB is a big firm in Switzerland), Energy companies (the market is Switzerland is a constellation of local monopolies, who have already announced they won't invest their own huge money reserves in nu
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by Arodex 4mo ago
Every SMR startup is failing. The more they progress, the more they revise their costs upwards. SMR make as much sense as space datacenters. You can gaslight investors, you can gaslight HN, you can gaslight a national parliament full of lob
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by Arodex 4mo ago
If storage is a thing, then solar makes more sense.
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by Arodex 4mo ago
>Thorium reactors The same reactors nuclear powers with decades of experience haven't deployed? We will get two or three revolutions in solar power and battery technology before a single thorium reactor is viable. You could invest a
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It is absolutely ridiculous: of all countries, Italy has totally the means to rely only on solar and batteries. You even have the industrial prowess to make it all in the country step by step, whereas nuclear reactors are such humongous eng
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Like the F-35 fighter jet, this is just another victory for lobbyists in the industry who will be able to siphon public money into over-budget, deadline busting white whale projects that will never recoup its costs. Especially nuclear. It i
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by Arodex 4mo ago
Few people want to live in sterile skyscrapers.
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These trillions that go to SpaceX and whatnot are trillions that aren't going to building more homes, nor increasing wages. Not even as a second-order effect.
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>The rich only buy so many homes Oh, don't worry, they also buy land to build luxury condos for the upper-upper class - that can't buy but can still pay rent. >But if there are 100 homes and 10 people, it doesn't matter
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by Arodex 4mo ago
But even if/when the law finally allows more building, you will have to compete with a richer, and richer, and richer upper-upper-upper class - both people and firms - who will price you out.
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by Arodex 4mo ago
Again seeing some blaming poor immigrants for this in the very first answers. Meanwhile, where do the money for OpenAI and the SpaceX IPO comes from? Who got hold of so much money? How did they got hold of it? And here's the killer que
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by Arodex 4mo ago
Positions don't have to be filled. Blank votes should be counted and, if the majority , throw the election; or, even better, the majority of people on voter's rolls, should be the condition to be elected.
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by Arodex 4mo ago
Russia is at war with Ukraine. Is Russia officially at war with the UK? If so, say it openly, so that we stop dancing around and send troops directly.
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Not everyone has a mentality of mercenary like you and your circle of "friends". > to think otherwise is NONSENSE. Is it, or are you just scared shitless to have had the wrong outlook on life all your life, and don't want
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Section 702 lapsed for the first time since 2008(axios.com)
4 points by Arodex 4mo ago|1 comments
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I title my submission from that fact in the body of the article rather than its title as it is the tidbits most relevant to HN. Sorry for the slight editorialization.
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When do they stop being immigrants? If you think people who waited more than a decade and paid a hefty sum to affirm their will to be citizens are second-class (or maybe even traitors!) compared to people who became citizen by making no eff
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Immigrants can't vote on federal votations, dumbass. And it takes more than a decade to have a chance at trying to get naturalized in Switzerland - a process that takes more than a year and thousands of CHF. And naturalized immigrants
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Pure bullshit. Even the Swiss tabloid don't invent "rumours" as ludicrous as your anti-indian lie.
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You can get housing, you have to trade money for time and commute with the (frequent and reliable) public transportation. Meanwhile the parlement and the anti+immigration far-right vote all the time to increase landlord rights and margins.

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