Gwypaas

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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Of course you can. I have about a hundred options for hourly pricing here in Sweden. One company a few friends are using is Tibber. https://tibber.com/
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Europe rebuilt the entire supply chain of fossil gas from the beginning of the invasion, while at the same time half the French nuclear reactors were out of commission. [1] If having a few expensive months is the worst outcome of the larges
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> It takes China 6 years to build a reactor, and they build them in parallel. China have a foot in the nuclear industry, but they are betting on renewables. Also, do you want to have a Chinese reactor in your backyard? Try the nimbyism f
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
This shows why taking 15-20 years from decision to operational status, like nuclear power in the west does, is hugely risky. The world has moved past the need. Add on another 20-40 years to turn a profit and the prospects are laughable. &gt
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
The COLREGs are clear, WIG (wing-in-ground-effect) vehicles needs to keep clear of everyone when not in displacement mode. Rule 18 (f) (i): A WIG craft shall, when taking off, landing and in flight near the surface, keep well clear of all o
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Why would I ever go to mall? It is an awful experience. At most, when it would be too cumbersome to bring on public transport, I rent a car.
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
It truly is amazing that the entire world is in cahoots in a conspiracy against the nuclear industry. At the same time huge on-shore, off-shore and solar PV projects gets built on budget to little fanfare displacing existing fossil and nucl
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
There has been more near misses in the nuclear industry than tsunamis. After Fukushima about all plants in the west had to install independent core cooling because the regulators realized the risk was systemic, even though the cause was spe
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
South Korea also had a scandal with faked documents. If that is what is needed to build profitable nuclear then we might as well let the nuclear industry continue its self inflicted slow death. > In November 2012 it was discovered that o
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
But it was windy in Ireland, Portugal and the Baltic sea. https://www.windy.com/?100m,50.958,4.345,5
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Burn some fossil fuels from a "national emergency reserve". Perfect is the enemy of good.
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Yep, and the Götheborg have hand spun tarred hemp for all the running rigging so using that as a towline is a no go.
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Capitalism fixes that if the product is something consumers demand. Is the material too expensive then more production are brought online and alternatives are found, like cobalt being replaced in batteries. The mineral reserves figures usua
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
For commercial vessels like Götheborg they usually bring many hundreds of meters of mooring lines. Easy to get 20-30m runs on several lines when mooring.
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Here is a read on the horror of building a sodium cooled reactor. Makes Vogtle look like a walk in the park. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monju_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
The white blob on the mizzen mast is a satellite antenna. To have the vessel sail in A3 areas the common choice is to have satellite communication, and it is used for their social media and outreach. The navigation radars is actually quite
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
You would never tow so close that it would become a risk unless manouverering the disabled vessel in close quarters, and then it usually is preferable to tie the vessels alongside each other. You can see the distances they chose in this par
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
True, the fixed costs are $20-35/MWh. Deduct that from the figure before doubling. Not that it matters. Running a pure nuclear grid will never get 90% capacity factor. That relies on only taking the base load and offloading the actual
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Hinkley is the fourth time, still no dice.
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Is not the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Hinkley Point C, started 12 years later, is going swimmingly I hear! Going to cost the consumers ~$150/MWh and it is starting to look likely that EDF even at that incredibly high price takes a loss on it. > Since construction began
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Assume a capacity factor of 50% then to handle peak loads? Now the nuclear costs $240-440/MWh. That is ridiculous costs, worse than Europe during the last winters Russian war induced gas crisis. https://www.lazard.com/r
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Until the outage of half your nuclear plants is similarly borne by the grid. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/business/nuclear-power-fr...
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
This is the nuclear industry's third attempt at "SMR". It is what they bounce to when the large-scale reactors get too expensive. "THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF SMALL NUCLEAR REACTORS" https://spectrum.ieee.
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
At a Vogtle like cost of $120/MWh. The project is looking incredibly shaky. https://www.wired.com/story/the-dream-of-mini-nuclear-plants...
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
In a fantasy world of infinite resources it is not a zero sum game. In a world where we have prioritize the use of limited resources 5-10x the impact goes a long way.
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
And we get 5-10x the people using electricity instead of burning either traditional biofuels or fossil fuels using renewables. What are we optimizing for here? Impact or through any means possible justifying nuclear?
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Now you are being disingenuous. Everyone reputable separates "traditional biofuels", which include poorer people cooking over open wood fires, from modern biofuels. Traditional biofuels are being replaced with renewables at an inc
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> I would like to just remind everyone of safety context, where the WHO is currently estimating 7 million premature deaths per year from particulate emissions from fossil and biofuel combustion energy sources. Great that the alternative
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/133c59u/michaelshee...

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