Kon5ole

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by Kon5ole 2y ago
Once you decide to run nuclear power in a country you have centuries of unavoidable costs no matter what the next government, or next ten generations of citizens decide to do. This is a unique cost consideration for nuclear power, which IM
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Are the costs of this 13 years and counting expense tab added to the cost of electricity generated by nuclear power plants in any way? Seems to me like it should, so that generations-long decisions are not made from overly optimistic number
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Real estate is just a small piece of the puzzle. The larger issue is that millions of people commuting daily is big business. It drives a large piece of demand for the auto industry and causes literally and figuratively tons of fuel to be c
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
>Except when it was for 2 years and the economy boomed, you know? It wasn't a boom, it was a bust. During the pandemic most governments paid through the nose to keep the economy going. The US even paid every American hundreds of dol
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
Commuting is probably pointless for a large number of individual office workers as well as their employers, but the busywork of commuting generates so much economic activity and value to society that it can't be killed overnight. Havin
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
Bummer - some TV's are tremendous value for money as computer monitors (Small 8K tv's that sometimes sell for sub-1000 usd) but they tend to only have HDMI. I got 8k/60 working in Linux using an nvidia card and a dp-to-hdmi a
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
>The thing is we do know it can't happen. We had Chernobyl. >It's the worst case for a runaway reactor. No it was not. The worst case would have been that anyone involved with Chernobyl ran for their lives and abandoned the
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
This is a common argument in discussions about nuclear power but it doesn't work. You can't claim that nuclear is safe based on history, you have to consider the potential. A gun is dangerous even if it hasn't killed anyone y
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>Existing nuclear reactors are already extremely safe The perceived safety is the result of being operated by highly trained and vetted personnel 24/7/365 for decades on end. In actual fact nuclear reactors are extremely danger
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>Seems to me that the frogs notice the water boiling, now. I think this is spot on. When even Gruber complains openly you know it's bad. See also DHH lately. Warren Buffet recently sold half his AAPL holdings. When he got them he me
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
Rogue One and Andor seem to me to be perfectly adjusted SW stories for the fans of the originals who are now 40+ years older. I hope Andor gets to stretch its legs fully story-wise, there is immense potential in the buildup so far!
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
Nothing at a global scale is without downsides, but solar has fewer problems than any other energy source. It is cheap, easy to deploy anywhere, can reuse existing “ruined” land (buildings, farmland, bodies of water) without needing any new
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
Single digit would be bad but it's much higher. From wikipedia: "current best processes for water electrolysis have an effective electrical efficiency of 70-80%,[36][37][38] so that producing 1 kg of hydrogen (which has a specific
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
That is a worthy goal to be sure but we already know how to do it, in a way that's much cheaper and way less dangerous - synthesizing hydrogen from solar electricity. Unlimited, clean, predictable energy. If we had spent a few billions
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
>they just got a few luck hits on the way down. They're 10x bigger by market cap than they were when the essay was written. If that's failure, what counts as success?
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
So DHH converted to Linux very recently and has already documented, scripted and advocated his personal config to a level where it almost feels like a new Ubuntu-based distro. :) Very cool, I'm both impressed and inspired!
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
>Finding a public space to sit down and write this article was a struggle. Is it a third place if you perform work there? Seems to me that the "second place" has increasingly leaked into both the first and third places, making
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
I see LLM's as next-generation search. So much of everything created on the internet is useless, outdated, false or just irrelevant to the thing you want answered. It gets increasingly harder to find what you need to get your job done.
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
They did not revert to coal: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germanys-coal-power-pro...
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
One thing to consider is that when you run outside because you get a tip about northern lights, your eyes need about 20-30 minutes to fully adjust to darkness. If you do things like look at a phone display or camera display while waiting, t
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by Kon5ole 2y ago
I think AI copilots are great for coding. The IDE and compiler are a second source of truth so you can quickly eliminate AI generated nonsense and figure out what kind of problems it is good at solving. To me the effect seems similar to goi
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by Kon5ole 3y ago
>in Virginia I pay 13c.Quick search shows at least 80% of my power comes from nuclear and natural gas, so it's not like we're putting out rediculous emissions over here. But at 13c you are also not paying what your power costs.
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by Kon5ole 3y ago
It's flat on all sides though. https://www.tvo.fi/en/index/news/pressreleasesstockexchanger... Nuclear makes for square supply curves which are kind of hard to handle, especially if you have a large perc
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by Kon5ole 3y ago
>most of the cost comes from building the plant in the first place, not from the fuel. I don't think that's correct. The costs of handling spent fuel is ongoing for an unknown amount of time. Eventually the running costs add up
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by Kon5ole 3y ago
>The best part about using nuclear for fuel generation The main point of this operation is to utilize free surplus energy from solar and wind to store fuel for days where solar and wind can't produce enough. Free-as-in-beer surplus,
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by Kon5ole 3y ago
"TL;DR: The future of energy is solar+batteries+synthetics." Basically infinite energy with clean water as a byproduct, and all signs point to it being financially viable compared even to fossil fuels. It's like a dream. I ca
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by Kon5ole 3y ago
For most of the established car brands, the electric transition has been the most expensive projects they have ever undertaken. I think the problem is that they're trying to get that money back too quickly by setting prices way too hig
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by Kon5ole 3y ago
>Nuclear power has nothing to do with nuclear arsenal That's not true. Once you have the expertise and infrastructure to handle nuclear fuel and waste you can also relatively easily reprocess the fuel to create weapon-grade material
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by Kon5ole 3y ago
>Solar and wind still have no path to stability. There are several paths, they just need to be walked. Gas is a known method to spread heat and electricity, hydrogen is a gas that is entirely downside-free from a eco-fuel perspective. We
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by Kon5ole 3y ago
Energy production is a huge moneymaker that also happens to be government owned/taxed to a large degree in many countries. Solar panels and batteries are at the point where they will completely disrupt this entire industry. Many incumb

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