Kon5ole

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by Kon5ole 3y ago
>Nuclear is by far the safest form of energy By the same logic, maximum security prisons have the safest interns. ;-)
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You may be right of course, but I believe the reason for the slow drop is mostly because most of the battery factories currently under production are not online yet and EV makers are still grabbing all the batteries they can get. VW just st
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A common issue with all predictions from a few years ago is that they failed to predict the 90% fall in cost of solar panels. We see a similar thing today when battery storage is dismissed as being too expensive. Unfortunately, current poli
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>Storage will never work. It already does work though, and it growing exponentially without any tedious political debates since just about anyone can do it at any time, at any cost and any scale. Companies store their own energy, countie
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>It's not zero, but the times where acceleration is the safest option in response to a danger are very much in the minority. It's not the actual acceleration though, it's the time it takes for the acceleration to begin t
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>Explicitly not what I, or anyone else, is suggesting. To be fair you hadn't suggested anything except "Billionaires shouldn't exist" yet, which is a sentiment that so far in history has only achieved dystopian result
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>We have a dystopia now with billionaires and their private space companies, buying newspapers, tracking our every move. We'd have LESS of a dystopia if we prevented them in the first place. History teaches us the opposite. The wors
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>No, this is highly dependend on the definition of "freedom". I'm talking about the freedom you, (as in you personally, not the billionaires) have today to buy things you want. Let's say it's a book. Should you b
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>What service, commodity, or neccessity one owns, one pays a billion for? Nobody has to actually pay a billion to make someone a billionaire. If you and three of your friends create a website that someone wants to buy one percent of for
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>Billionaires shouldn't exist; People want to own things even if they are not billionaires, and they want to value things freely even if they are not billionaires. Those two things combined make billionaires unavoidable if you think
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Quite the opposite, a car that reacts more quickly to driver input is obviously less dangerous, not more. If you are driving in such a way that the noise and delayed response from your car increases safety for others you should not be drivi
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>How do y'all get excited for EVs? For me it's the reaction to input. At normal traffic speeds, most modern EV's will react like when you pop the clutch in a high-revving sports car. It does so silently, in any situation,
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You should ask yourself why we still spend money on anything else but this. Using sunshine to create a gas that releases water when combusted is by a country mile better than anything else we have come up with. It's in fact hard to eve
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>Weather is regional. You could very easily have calm air in an entire region of the country for an extended period of time. Even if you had long-distance transmission, where do you get the capacity? You use the gas or battery storage th
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>> Any gas plant still being operational would be running all the time and be part of the base supply just like it is today. >Not if its purpose is to supply power during periods of low generation. The purpose is to convert intermi
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>The cost of storage isn't just the conversion losses. You also need the storage hardware That is also included in the estimates of course and solar+storage is still cheaper. Solar is so cheap that individuals are themselves paying
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>And this stance would be perfectly fine if the alternatives were better. I believe we passed the point where solar with storage is better. It's certainly faster and easier to deploy, but now it's apparently also cheaper per pr
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But the main cost of nuclear isn't the construction of the reactors. It's the management of the fuel, waste and the operation of the plants, the salaries of the people involved in keeping everything safe at all times, the repairs
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>It does not mean we should not pursue fission. But I'm a pro-technology guy. I can't easily understand how 80 years ago we got to the point of harnessing a source of energy ten million times more dense than fossil fuels, and t
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Spain has quite a few solar plants that generate power even at night.
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>>We don't have a way to store energy in massive ways, so in order to account for cloudy days, non-windy days and nights, we need something else. So we can build either energy storage or nuclear plants. Storage must surely be the
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The old Apple ad "think different" promotes the same perspective. People credited with notable changes throughout history are by definition "crazy" since sanity is defined by being the same as anyone else. Thinking that
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Googles entire business model is about showing you ads, which few users actually want. When all your money comes from doing things users don't want its difficult to remain a popular trusted company.
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>people in power don't want nuclear, and so the industry is regulated into its current quagmire. No other industry faces moving goalposts like nuclear does. I think it's the other way around. We only have nuclear today because
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>>Nuclear power is the safest form of power production we've ever produced. This is a common claim but it abuses statistics. By looking only at the one metric (deaths) it ignores the enormous enterprise required to keep nuclear a
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Storing hydrogen in vehicles has never seemed like a good idea to me. The risk is too high since the gas tanks can't be made indestructible and hydrogen goes boom quite spectacularly. But as a grid storage medium it could make a lot of
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About arms-length. No curve, I run it at 175% scaling which at 55" makes everything large enough that even the corners are easily readable. I used to run a 42" 4k monitor before this at 100% scaling, which made everything a little
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>If I could get one twice as tall pixel and physical dimension wise I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I can recommend using a 8k 55" TV as a monitor. They can sometimes be found for around 1000 USD and I am quite happy with mine after
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by Kon5ole 3y ago
>it is cheaper to build nuclear than to massively overbuild solar, wind, and grid level batteries. No nuclear power plant ever created has stopped costing money yet, even ones that have been closed for 30+ years. They are costing taxpaye
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by Kon5ole 3y ago
>Additionally, if there was a nationwide push to nuclear power, we'd have cheap, clean energy -- putting a sizable dent in both clean drinking water & climate change at the same time. Nuclear power is prohibitively expensive eve

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