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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>Most of it are fake costs due to regulation. Which costs are you thinking about here? Please be specifc, provide details about regulations which are not needed, why they're not needed, and what they add to the cost of a nuclear pla
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>They are so safe that nobody has ever attempted a terrorist attack against them since the first fission reactor (1941) Attempts are made regularly, and nuclear plants all over the world implemented additional security measures after 9&#
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>Nuclear disasters like Fukushima or Chernobyl are acute, immediate events. Not at all. Fukushima costs 7 billion per year now, after 15 years, with no end in sight. Boar with meat measuring over 30 000 bq/kg was shot 30 years after
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
Solar benefits from storage yes but it's not at all worthless even without it. If your solar panels generate 10 TWh per year, you have 10 TWh unused hydro, gas, even oil and coal that is stored instead of spent. You have saved the plan
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>- They are inherently safe, no need to worry about meltdowns. I don't worry about designed meltdowns, I worry about someone bunker-busting it, crashing a plane into it, detonating a convoy of trucks filled with fertilizer inside it
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
I ditched containers. After a few years it seemed like one of those things that FAANGs use because they need it, while most others are using it just because the FAANGs do. I'm sure I've spent more time writing and troubleshooting
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>this was done so he could park in disabled spaces That makes no sense to me. I can't think of a place Jobs would ever drive his car where it would matter if he could park at a disabled spot. He had his own spot at both Apple and hi
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>To take one example, the author speaks of using AI to chat with his favorite thinkers.Well I have favorite thinkers, so why don’t I chat with AI versions of them? Because I know it’s all fake. That's an uncharitable take of what he
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
I thought I had missed a new development here but it's still not a distro, it's a set of scripts to /configure/ a distro, just like Omakub. Which I actually prefer. Having it be "just scripts" leaves all of the
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Maybe so but none of those things replace the concept of a market, they are different ways to control a market, which is absolutely required and woefully neglected in many countries and many areas. But I don't understand the idea that
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>Maybe it's finally time we admit markets are a horrible way of allocating resources We need to distribute fish from fishermen and potatoes from potato farmers to hairdressers and carpenters and so on. What mechanism do you suggest
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That bugged me too! I decided that they actually meant "source of creativity" which made more sense.
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From the FAQ: > The plan is for the small amount of spent fuel [..] that comes out of our reactors at the end of their duty cycle to only be temporarily stored on-site until a federal repository or interim storage solution becomes availa
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>I don't understand what are you trying to say, coal plants always have proper maintenance and never caused price hikes, outages and fatal accidents? No no - I'm saying nobody pays 8 billion per year 14 years after a coal plant
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>Noone seriously calculated that nuclear waste would be orders of magnitude worse than coal per TWh Not sure what you mean here but I agree that nobody was able to predict what the cost of nuclear would actually end up being when they fi
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>My understanding is that every other form of energy production has similar or worse concerns You are suffering from a misunderstanding then. Maybe several, since Germany has cut their coal use by more than half since Fukushima. (262 TWh
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
Your implication is misguided, solar is in fact the most practical way to add more electricity for most countries. The US generated an additional 64Twh of solar in 2024 compared to 2023. To get the same amount from nuclear you would need to
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>I think this is all priced into the TCO of a nuclear plant, as they are very well known. Fukushima was not well known and is not at all covered by profits from selling nuclear power in Japan. Same for Chernobyl. See also Asse II in Germ
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>This comparison makes no sense at all since both factors: the huge delays for nuclear and small delays for solar are direct results of policy It's not policy it's physical logistics. Just building the roads to the site where y
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I guess you mean me, and I can't give a definite answer of course, it's complicated. I can mention some things I think should be considered. - Solar is bad in Finland during the winter, but good during the summer. Whatever other f
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>I agree that engineering in the UK is a mess, which explains a lot of Hinkley Point C, but just a technical point: people in these conversations often do what you've done and pick a "levelling" stat that elides all of the
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>Question to you. Why do you think Olkiluoto 1&2 took 5 and 7 years to build instead of 18? I can only speculate, but I suppose two major reasons could be that Europe had several companies that could and did build reactors back then,
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I think the main obstacles are the existing players in the energy space. They are huge organisations for the most part and take a long time to change, even if they were motivated to do so. Things have changed rapidly the past few years. It
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>I'd argue 50-60 nuclear power plants having the same energy output as millions (billions?) of solar panels is a win for nuclear - it's much higher energy density, much smaller environmental footprint, much smaller infrastructu
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Short term for self-reliance Finland can use natural gas (won't need much), wind and hydro. Since they are a nation with many friends they can also buy electricity from neighbors. To solve the variable production from solar and wind, m
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>Great comparison to use the most delayed neuclear power plant constrution in human history to extrapolate an argument. Really fairly done. Not as unfair as disregarding my points entirely just because I used the latest reactor built in
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I want to highlight two things as counterarguments - 1) nuclear waste is not comparable with solar panel waste and 2) Land use for solar is not comparable with land use for nuclear. Solar panel waste does not require army supervision to pre
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
The solar panels installed in China during the past 2 years produce as much electricity as all of their nuclear plants combined. Finland spent 18 years and 11 bn euros to get 1.6 GW of nuclear, the US spent 7bn in subsidies and got some 20
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>It's hard to think of any other major tech product where it's acceptable to shift so much blame on the user. I have the opposite impression! I find it's hard to think of any other tech product where users expect to master
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>To this day, I still re-read it every year or two, and it never loses its magic. And I can still describe what's happening on any given page although this has faded a lot. That's interesting! I have a similar experience but fo

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