Kon5ole

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by Kon5ole 4y ago
>The carbon released by your normal power plant doesn't vanish as the plant closes. It actually does, the forests in the US alone absorb carbon equivalent to the emissions from over 100 average coal plants per year. The lifetime emi
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
>The same is true for a regular taxi. No, for "regular taxis" you just stop paying after you have closed the plant. Meaning, again, that if a normal power plant operator goes belly up, you can just leave the power plants in pla
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
>I'm using the very same definition you used. >If we take one example I gave, there is $0 in the cost a taxi ride provisioned to pay for insurance losses related to climate change, current or future. That is not the same definiti
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>That's true for any kind of power and, more generally, for any kind of human activity. You're thinking philosophically perhaps? :) I mean what you have to pay, financially, to be clear. In the sense that when you don't wa
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That may be true but they would still have the advantage that if the operator goes belly-up you close the doors and the costs stop. You don't force hundreds of generations to pay for the decision, which is what we are actually doing wi
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
>Nuclear is fundamentally cheaper than nearly any other energy source. It is not, the main costs are simply not included in the calculations. Operators are legally protected from most liabilities, and even setting liabilities aside they
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
All estimates for the cost of nuclear power are based on limiting what you actually pay for to a small fragment of the true cost and leaving the unknown to future taxpayers. This is even formalized in international agreements. ( https:&#x2F
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>The money they save from buying components from Intel is sunk into development of the processors. They also have to pay for manufacturing and logistics. I am not convinced. Most of the development cost for Apple Silicon is already cover
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>FWIW, macs are high quality and last a long time. That was also true for older macs, which were cheaper. I believe that the Apple Silicon macs are the highest-margin macs Apple has ever made, since they no longer have to pay Intel for t
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
>I don't really understand the advantage of rooftop solar I see many advantages, among them: - You don't have to find new land; roofs are ideal for solar. - No need for a huge project, financing, bureaucracy. Done in weeks. - C
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
What I find most interesting about chatGPT is that it correctly parses what I tell it. Even if it generates a BS answer from time to time at least it understood what I was after. That in and of itself is monumental and will surely at the ve
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
In my opinion the interesting point is c). Simply put, humans failed and caused a catastrophe. If you have c), a) and b) don't matter. And we will always have c). Humans are currently failing by waging a war around nuclear power plants
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
>a worst case scenario like Chernobyl Chernobyl was not a worst-case scenario, it is just the worst scenario that has happened so far. If it hadn't been handled by humans sacrificing their lives to stop the chain of events, it could
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
In the scenario you are replying to synthesized fuel is the storage solution and there is no peak demand.
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Merkel did not have supreme power over Germany and was also supported by officials that do have term limits. The bundestag is re-elected every 4 years and could end Merkel’s chancellorship if she went nuts, and even if she went nuts she cou
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
China was arguably a democracy of sorts before they changed their constitution to allow unlimited terms. Before that, they had two terms. Even though the next leader had to come from the same party, having a party with several million membe
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
Mostly sympathetic statements but the problem with any statement from a nondemocratic country is that it can change after a bad lunch by the dictator in charge. The problem addressed by the statement from China is entirely caused by Russia
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Gasoline is a transport mechanism for solar power just like green hydrogen is. The difference is only that oil was stored by nature millions of years ago while green hydro is stored by humans today. The important point is whether or not the
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
We can call hydrogen a source or a transport, but it is just semantics. If we call green hydrogen a transport then oil is also a transport, and if oil is a source then green hydro is also a source. It takes more energy to create oil, gas or
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
The main problem is that nuclear is too expensive. You make a commitment that lats for centuries, which makes the actual cost of the energy way more expensive than most anything else. Our children for generations will have to pay for the &q
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
Dogs killed an estimated 30 000 people in 2022. There are only about 5000 tigers left in the wild. ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/448169/deadliest-creatur... ) But the examples are not the point. The point is
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
You describe the feeling very well. I feel exactly the same way and have to actively make an effort to avoid getting distracted. All "bad habits" I've been able to combat has been with some mechanism where I can stop the temp
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Such comparisons will also indicate that tigers are safer than dogs and guns are safer than cars.
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The kind of damage a few malicious or negligent individuals can cause in an afternoon from nuclear operations can't be matched by fossil fuels. Fossil fuels have caused damage through the effort of billions of people over centuries. Th
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I have also observed that the intensity of someone's opinion is often mirrored in the intensity of their opponents contrary opinion, and if they argue about it long enough both of them will soon drift towards irrational fanatism on eit
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
The goal for Tesla has always (at least officially) been to make a cheap electric car, but when their expensive cars sold out at almost any price it made sense to keep the price high and invest in production capacity. From what I can gather
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The argument fails since the prosperity we want to share via UBI is in fact not like the air sucked up like in spaceballs. it is instead the result of generations of hard focused work, which has not been replicated under any system except t
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by Kon5ole 4y ago
The point of higher resolutions is bigger screens with the same quality. I was able to snag a 8k 55" tv for USD ~1000 a couple of years ago and it's absolutely glorious as a monitor. Basically it functions as 4 4k monitors in one
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I believe you are correct, but that leaves several possibilities for the drugs to be effective. They could work by either causing you to lose interest in food/improving impulse control so that you eat less, or by increasing your calori
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Nuclear disasters are not localized. Geographically the radioactive release travels large distances with the wind and causes severe radiation effects hundreds of miles away. Chernobyl was basically a prevented disaster (the worst we have se

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