EricE

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by EricE 4y ago
The fact that SMRs have made any progress at all *in spite of* the environment so strongly titled against them is, frankly, amazing. If half of the energy spend demonizing nuclear was spent on modernizing it, SMRs would be a long solved pro
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by EricE 4y ago
Storage is going to take more than hand waving. At some point you actually have to *deliver* cost effective energy storage at scale - right now. Otherwise shut up and start building more reliable base load from older tech; unless you want
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by EricE 4y ago
lol - overbearing policy restricts to the least common denominator with no opportunity for innovation. Solar and Wind have been the biggest suppressor for developing longer term base load. Why would anyone who is remotely sane take a risk
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by EricE 4y ago
You have cost effective storage? Why are you being stingy with it - share already!
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by EricE 4y ago
I was surprised to see the article specifically call out deficiencies at night as a major concern! Maybe they do maintenance at night and thats why they don't have excess capacity as one would normally expect?
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by EricE 4y ago
Yikes - never taunt happy fun ball (The Internet)
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by EricE 4y ago
Yup - 1Blocker is amazing and a mandatory install on an iOS device I use or provision.
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by EricE 4y ago
Why the eye roll? Is the information still not relevant/accurate/useful?
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by EricE 4y ago
"They cannot continue focusing on software running on general-purpose CPUs but must re-orient themselves towards specialized hardware." In other words, mainframes. This trend has already started in general purpose computing - just
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by EricE 4y ago
Excellent point - remote work/part time does throw a whole new wrinkle on this!
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by EricE 4y ago
I have a great bridge you might be interested in too. Cheap!
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by EricE 4y ago
Along the same lines he reminds me of one of my favorite youtubers: https://www.youtube.com/c/styropyro
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by EricE 4y ago
Way, way overdue! China has taken all of our research from the 50's and has been charging ahead. Very sad that politics and ignorance has severely kneecapped our nuclear industry :(
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by EricE 4y ago
What a sensationalistic piece of trash. It's time to voraciously naming, shame and SHUN publications who insist on selfishly fear mongering to get clicks.
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by EricE 4y ago
File under "water is wet". I loath touchscreen only controls.
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by EricE 4y ago
Many hospitals have enough radioactive isotopes to create some really nasty dirty bombs - yet you never see the same level of discussion around physical security for them; perhaps because most people don't realize just how frequently r
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by EricE 4y ago
What are you going about with new plants? If the just turned back on the plants they stupidly turned off that would make a HUGE dent in their current predicament.
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by EricE 4y ago
Yucca mountain failed due to politics. Whats even more nuts is we should be burning what we erroneously call "waste", not burying it. Why is it dangerous? Because it's packed full of energy! Energy that could be put to use
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by EricE 4y ago
>It costs more to operate nukes than renewables Citation needed. Also most of the prohibitive costs surrounding nuclear are artificial - bureaucratic overhead vs. real costs governed by implementing the technology.
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by EricE 4y ago
It still can't come from solar or wind. Even if we waved a magic wand and had infinite and free energy storage, scaling solar and wind for sustained base load support is still a pipe dream. We are struggling to recycle the minuscule
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by EricE 4y ago
Better hope China doesn't do more than build a test reactor. Cheap and abundant energy is what built the west. China is poised to severely lap the rest of the world while we continue to point fingers and argue :p
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by EricE 4y ago
again, the reason that stuff is so dangerous is because it's packed with delicious and useful energy (that can be utilized by plenty of reactor designs that were fleshed out in the 50's!) That we are still talking about burying us
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by EricE 4y ago
Waste handling? Burn it in newer, modern designs instead of (stupidly) burying it.
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by EricE 4y ago
to be fair, the real problem was the crappy hardware you tried to run it on - not OpenWRT :p
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by EricE 4y ago
No one (at least that I have found) has as mature/slick looking a controller as Unifi. And once I realized that I rarely changed settings for my core network, particularly on my AP's, I really started to broaden my search. A fri
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by EricE 4y ago
Just don't upgrade your firmware unless you have a damn good reason to and you will be fine with UBNT stuff. It's borderline criminal that automatic updates are turned on by default :p
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by EricE 4y ago
Every since they moved their firmware development to Latvia, the pace and quality has decreased significantly. I picked up a couple of Grandstream Wifi 6 APs to try and other than the gawdawful update process (that has thankfully improved -
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by EricE 4y ago
It doesn't help you but perhaps it will help others - I moved recently and had a bunch of "junk" books similar to your grandfathers. By pure happenstance I found out that recyclers love books because they get the highest pri
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by EricE 4y ago
Seems like a potential lost opportunity - if you really do have that many rare/obscure books there should be some organization that might want to at least have a first crack at them. I'm in a similar position - time to do some r
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by EricE 4y ago
I have helped a few friends kick start their kids love of cooking by sharing some free meal coupons from Blue Apron. It's a great way to ease someone into cooking who has zero experience since they provide recipes with easy to follow

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