Kon5ole

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by Kon5ole 4y ago
But you will be aware that you are being hurt. And only you will be hurt. A single fuel rod can kill millions without them even knowing why they are dying. Your daughter will not die from playing with a burning stove, she will burn her fing
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
Just in case you didn’t know - Ego has a 2-stage snowblower in their system as well. (I’m guessing everyone who has one Ego device is interested in more tools to defend the investment in batteries. Like myself.) ;-)
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
it fits fine, it's only about 4ft/120cm wide. I can touch both sides with my hands when sitting normally in front of it. Basically most of my field of view when working is available retina screen space, it's really nice. :)
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
I got a 8k 55" tv for just under 1000 usd a while back and can't imagine spending a cent on anything less now. Maybe a 2x2 grid of 27" 4k's but I'd be annoyed by the bevels being right in the middle of my view. Unfo
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
The model name of mine is LG 55NANO956. Sadly it seems to be discontinued and all replacements are larger and/or more expensive. :( I can understand that actually, I don't think 8k at 55" makes much sense for TV content since
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
Wireless ANC earbuds. (Airpods pro or similar) Having high quality silence and/or music available in my pocket at all times was definitely more of a game changer than I expected. Using a 8K 55" tv as a monitor. I usually run it sc
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
"A calorie is a calorie is a calorie" is true once the calories are in the bloodstream of your body, and that's clearly what "the hackers diet" means. Every pound of extra fat on your body comes from a calorie surpl
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
For me it's not an engineering problem but a human one. Since the waste from a single power plant during one year of operation is enough to kill hundreds of millions of people we have to ensure no madmen get their hands on the waste fo
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
I'd consider Earth to be hard mode too, since it's already in production and riddled with irrational users who run their entire business on the memory leaks you want to patch. ;-)
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
It sure isn't a business plan, you're right! :D But knowing the potential is a first step, wouldn't you agree? You don't build the mine before the geologists have determined that there is indeed gold to be found, so to s
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
A valid point for sure, this is indeed a problem. Luckily it seems like it can be solved and that people are trying to do it. The first european solar panel recycling plant opened just 2 years ago: https://www.livingcircular.veol
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
I agree about hypotheticals, and sadly I find that is usually the problem with this topic. Some people "know" why some thing will definitely work because they ignore problems, and others "know" why something will not wor
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
Not sure how to read your comment but basically yes, we'll have to store the energy of course and we know how to do that in many ways. Of course we need to build things, that goes without saying, but it's not "unknown imagina
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
Earth gets hit by 170 000 TW of sunshine every hour. That's more than the yearly global consumption of energy. If we could capture only 1% of that, we'd have 80 times more than we need, from just the sunshine reaching earth. This
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
Sure - Creating the fuel for molten salt reactors requires a series of steps where highly radioactive materials will have to be handled, stored, transported and controlled by humans. As shown with the examples given earlier (which are just
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
Better reactor designs that can’t basically self-combust through accidents or operational errors are an improvement of course, but I’m not aware of any design that eliminates the need to produce relatively large quantities of waste. That i
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
Hey first of all thanks for the constructive replies, much appreciated! "Attempts to understand this risk by looking at historical data are flawed" is a good summary of my main point, you got it. Basically I think we can't ig
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
I understand your argument but disagree about Chernobyl being the tall risk. This is basically the the same logical errer again, Chernobyl is only the worst incident that has happened /so far/. It is well documented that Chernobyl
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
A fair point, but I feel that we are making good progress towards being able to solve the energy supply without nuclear. If we develop solar and wind (and other things such as battery banks, pumped storage etc) to a point where installation
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
I believe you are making a logical mistake. The chart only shows what has happened, which has no relation to what might happen. To make a simple analogy - No matter how many times you walk blindly into a busy street without getting hit by a
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
I just found out you can actually run slackware under wsl: https://github.com/Mohsens22/WSLackware
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
But nuclear is also the reason why it's still an ongoing expensive issue 10 years later.
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
I don't see "the sun isn't shining at night" as a good argument, yet it always comes up in these discussions. We have a lot of ways to store energy. Molten salt, pumped storage, hydrogen gas from water just to name some.
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by Kon5ole 5y ago
Your comment really clarified some vague ideas I've been thinking about lately. I found it inspiring. Thanks for writing it!
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by Kon5ole 6y ago
This was a good summary of my thoughts on this topic as well, thanks for adding it to the discussion. It seems to me the only sensible option is to have all the nuclear power contained in one huge reactor, and keeping that reactor some 150
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by Kon5ole 7y ago
Answer from one European individual - USA of course. It doesn't even require a split second of consideration for me. The major and decisive difference between USA and China is not what they have done, are doing or might do. It is simpl
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by Kon5ole 9y ago
I am one of the "panicky" ones and I want to explain my point of view. When I was a kid, living in the equivalent of Kentucky, a nuclear accident in the equivalent of the Bahamas made it so we couldn't eat wild berries from t