Schroedingersat

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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
The entire reason it's being done is the 3% of farmland which is sitting directly on interconnect is more than enough for all the solar that is needed and reactionaries keep having a hissy fit at the idea of replacing topsoil destroyin
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
That's because it's a purely imaginary problem shills invented. Vastly higher quantities of toxins and heavy metals come out of the tractor exhaust than will somehow teleport through glass and time-travel from obsolete chemistries
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Your anecdote is definitely better than all of the science showing quality and yield improvements.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
The shade can be controlled with tracking panels. Full shade at noon when photosynthesis stops due to heat to preserve water, less at other times. The PV can also perform a nitrogen fixing role via electrolysis and ammonia production. On a
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
The materials for a gwh/yr of solar are a strict subset of the materials for a gwh/yr of LWR with the exception of silver (which is about 4x). Except the solar is improving rapidly and doesn't need to be buried for decades at
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Thermal generation is much more constrained than PV via waste heat. LWRs also can't even match current world energy consumption for a variety of reasons. On top of that, energy isn't quality of life. Happiness indeces and life exp
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
You're right. Add the cost of storage or overprovision for demand fluctuation, add rapid dispatch, then planned and unplanned downtime to nuclear and the $150-200/MWh balloons even further.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
This is just another lie. Costs increased very nearly monotonically during the peak of construction in the late 70s and 80s. And during every other country's peak of construction including china right now.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
You're pretending option C "don't give the nuclear scammers more public money" doesn't exist.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Do that five times in one day then.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
A thermostat with a timer that starts running at 3pm and a small sodium ion battery that costs less than the air conditioner it is running.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
But they don't because even operating as often as they are able, the french fleet makes a massive loss.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Shutting down a third of something rather than all of it isn't "replacing nuclear" with it. France's nuclear fleet is designed to use imports and exports to the rest of europe for storage to be economical. Somebody needs
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
You sure are fixated on nameplate numbers for those renewables that replaced all of the nuclear fleet and a third of the coal fleet already.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Those are some very portable goalposts. UAVs have high C rates and high durability. EVs or even aircraft don't need anywhere near 40C.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Hard carbon anodes were one of these "exotic" new elements, but are now just standard. Silicon anodes will be the same. Sodium ion still has shills screeching about how it'll never come despite being last year's news. Li
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Cool. So when the nuclear industry offers a 40 year contract for all the energy a 1GW nuclear plant produces with no liability cap, fully funded decomissioning insured against bankruptcy, and fully funded cleanup of mines payable in full af
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Coal has decreased in germany since the beginning of the nuclear phaseout. The recent uptick (still less than it decreased by) has a lot more to do with decreased hydro and gas, as well as exports to replace missing nuclear generation elsew
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
If you nuclear plant is only competitive 1 week a year (as the total cost of solar + wind can outcompete its O&M costs the other 51 weeks), then it needs to amortise the capital over about 30 weeks of operation once you take a small dis
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Renewables have replaced every joule of nuclear and some. https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE... The recent uptick in fossils is largely to make up for the combined shortfall of hydro
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Energy and emissions wise it's still fine even using a filthy open pit mine fuelled by coal and diesel in Nigeria. An order of magnitude worse than the shills claim, but still fine. Much worse for locals than imaginary cobalt mines for
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
> Renewable energy is a drop in the bucket and cannot possibly serve the steady and sharp increase in load demand. That's a weird way of spelling "is serving the entirety of increase in load demand".
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Telling the same lies over and over again does.
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
You're now trying to pretend that having a few reactors extended (after expensive work which costs roughly as much as replacing them) means they don't typically shut down long before planned (usually after running at a huge loss f
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Not even slightly. Because most of the reactors that shut down at 0-30 years were claimed to last at least 40. Credulously believing the same lie again is just stupid. Especially when they are already uneconomic to run. All you are doing is
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
You see that's the thing though. From the nuclear stan's point of view nuclear is cheapest and best, and anything that contradicts that is wrong by definition.
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Ooh! I know! The vienna convention on nuclear power! :D
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/272139/age-distribution-... https://www.statista.com/statistics/517060/average-age-of-nu... https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStati
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
If you put any effort into power optimization you can get an r-pi under 2W at fairly high CPU load. r-pi like could also be one of the much more efficient single board computers that run under 1W
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/germany/coal-consumpti... Definitely going to shoot right back up any second now that it's financially unviable.

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