EricE

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961.
by EricE 5y ago
This. Really drives home the saying that character is what you do when no one is looking :p
962.
by EricE 5y ago
>I think it is a matter of scale Or in other words, economic viability :)
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by EricE 5y ago
Natural - if there ever was a more misused word! Breeder reactors utilize "natural" processes and create more fissionable material than they consume. Sounds pretty renewable to me.
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by EricE 5y ago
Uranium doesn't only come from mines. Sheesh.
965.
by EricE 5y ago
Uranium isn't only created by mining out of the ground - once again, you might want to look into breeder reactors. It's not the only substance that can be used in a reactor either - China is racing ahead with Thorium reactors; bas
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by EricE 5y ago
Current reactors do that - but there are more than a few designs that will burn what we today call waste. And then burn the "waste" from those.
967.
by EricE 5y ago
Much of that I was familiar with - the very end did throw me a curve ball: "Planck’s law doesn’t just stop at the maximum, so nuclear explosions also produce even shorter wavelength radiation, namely gamma rays. This is solely the radi
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by EricE 5y ago
I don't think many serious scientists would consider assumptions a valuable part of the scientific method.
969.
by EricE 5y ago
Science is never settled? Unpossible!
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by EricE 5y ago
This whole thread is a parody of the "I can't define porn but know what it is when I see it"
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by EricE 5y ago
Under what law?
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by EricE 5y ago
Why are you assuming passive monitoring from one and active from the other?
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by EricE 5y ago
Probably cascading failures - that's certainly an unhealthy pattern of loads. One part of the house of cards collapses putting previously unseen pressure on another part of the house of cards - that then promptly collapses - so forth
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by EricE 5y ago
Intel with decades of experience is barely "winning" against Apple's first desktop chip. Yeah, slight disparity there! And that's completely discounting the whole power thing. If Apple were ever to develop a desktop chi
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by EricE 5y ago
Why do people keep spreading this myth? There is NO magical memory compression. If you need 32GB on an Intel Mac you will likely still need 32GB on an Apple Silicon Mac. I wish it really did work that way or I'd still have an M1 MacB
976.
by EricE 5y ago
If you don't need more than 16GB of RAM the Air will more than likely be more than good enough for you. The only reason I returned my Air and waited for the MacBook Pro I'm typing on now is I made the mistake of loading some games
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by EricE 5y ago
Yup, disappeared because cabs thought they could do better on their own. If COVID didn't force their hand who knows if this would have still happened.
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by EricE 5y ago
Where does that $1m "value" come from? That regulatory arbitrage you seem to hold in esteem. Ugh. So glad Uber and Lyft were able to finally break that and force true competition.
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by EricE 5y ago
Given the politics around cabs, especially in NYC, it is indeed ground breaking. More like earth shattering. I had to read the article headline twice and my brain still tried to reject it. One family has controlled Taxis and limos in Vegas
980.
by EricE 5y ago
>There's no reason for nuclear reactors to be more expensive than a similar non-nuclear plant. No reason other than politics and stupidity (over regulation, emotional fear mongering, ignorant baseless assumptions, etc.)
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by EricE 5y ago
And if a fraction of the funding that was dumped on frivolous "renewables" in the last 20 years (Solara? Ha - tip of the iceberg for waste!) was instead spent on new reactor designs we wouldn't even be having this discussion
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by EricE 5y ago
That we are still arguing about burying viable fuel, instead of burning it in more modern and safer designs is what really boggles my mind. "Here's a nice loaf of bread. Let's bury it in a mountain!" Utter madness.
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by EricE 5y ago
CSP plants have never gotten beyond the prototype phase because no one has figured out how to make them economically viable. One near me in California just shut down because maintenance costs were skyrocketing. Batteries, in their current
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by EricE 5y ago
conversion has losses - if it was remotely economically viable people would be doing it ALL OVER the place. Energy storage is the magic bullet to make renewables truly feasible for base load support and if this was remotely viable AT ALL s
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by EricE 5y ago
lol - fraud isn't purely limited to gains. Where the heck did you get that from? Fraud comes into play any time someone intentionally tries to mislead - for whatever reason. And there has been plenty of fraud around energy reporting
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by EricE 5y ago
Well, they work fine if there is enough water for them. Quite a few people would take severe umbrage with the "minor environmental impact" view.
987.
by EricE 5y ago
Yup, nuclear fission and burning oil are EXACTLY the same processes. /s Your response would be hilarious if it wasn't so utterly tragic. Our civilization exists because of cheap, abundant energy - and there is no more cheap or ab
988.
by EricE 5y ago
Nuclear is expensive due to politics, not pure science or economics Nuclear is unpopular because it has been vilified and made an emotional argument. Plus you can't see, touch, taste or feel radiation - the ultimate boogyman to trigge
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by EricE 5y ago
China is charging ahead with Thorium - maybe after they embarrass the rest of the world people will get more rational and less emotional about nuclear? Not holding my breath....
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by EricE 5y ago
Not just producing that may solar panels, but maintaining them, replacing them, dealing with the waste panels (yes, panels do need to be replaced). You just don't chuck out a field of solar panels and ignore them. Modern reactor design

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