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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
U238 is not rare and the amount of Pu that comes out of LWRs is not really relevant. All reprocessing achieves is spilling Cs, Tc and other ILW into the ocean and creating a contaminated site which will cost the taxpayer billions to clean u
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Spilling fission products everywhere is definitely a thing real environmentalists would want, and not something coming from astroturfers for nuclear and cold fusion scammers. https://anthinst003.wpengine.com/innovations&#x2F
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
> a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer. So in any situation where a black male and a police officer encounger each other, the police officer
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Huh. I wonder how they might have become mentally ill, what could have been done about it and why they might have turned to drugs. Must just be some essential part of their character. /s
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Well we'll just include an entire summer worth of storage for nuclear then, shall we? https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/climate-events-are-t... Or alternatively we could acknowledge that using the
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
When every easily verifiable statement turns out to be a lie like this one, is it any wonder nobody believes you about the ones that aren't?
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
..same way as the steam generator, turbines, bearings, etc. etc. in a thermal generator need replacing. Except a quarter of the cost.
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
There's no point if you don't have energy to store. Only 1% of potential sites need to be developed https://re100.eng.anu.edu.au/global/ Probably won't happen because batteries will be even cheaper by th
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
> Nuclear is compact, and can really be built anywhere (may be consider earthquakes and don't build near tsunami zones). Therefore, a country that does not have suitable solar or win terrain would necessarily have to consider nuclea
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Adding even more moving parts and maintenance costs will definitely solve it. Yes. And naval reactors definitely are the cheap, simple energy source of the future. This is why noone has built anything else since the 50s. A non-modular demo
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
https://www.autoblog.com/amp/2023/03/22/home-charging-challe... EVs just charge whenever. Very few people use them like ICEs with regard to fuelling. The only thing needed to make them fit easily in the
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
I love how you put dispatchable fossil power -- ie. Gas peakers -- and coking -- one of the most promising avenues for replacing gas peakers with dispatchable loads and increased VRE production -- as two reasons for keeping coal long term.
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
SMRs 1) don't exist 2) aren't affordable even if you believe that projected costs will not increase in opposition to hundreds of prior cases where they did 3) still need a giant containment building which is going to involve knock
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Wheel and bottom-bracket mount mid drive motors are quite standard. Companies like Bafang and Tongsheng (not just these) sell motors that can go on any normal frame or in any normal (sufficiently strong) wheel and are compatible with standa
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
It's incredibly simple. If you can change a crank and plug in some wires you can install one. Buy tzd2. Undo bottom bracket. Put motor there. Screw battery on to carrier or bottle holder. The only hard bit is finding a trustworthy loca
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
A slightly wider strip of paint and some barnacles isn't a huge spend. Just widen one less road and it's paid for. Also I don't think you understand how ebikes are charged or serviced.
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
The torque sensor in the tongsheng makes the battery go further with less perceived effort and is just generally nicer to use. Hitting 25km/h feels like less of a wall.
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Sounds like a great reason to be happy that the leading brands aren't in Australia. Get a Bafang or a Tongsheng and be happy.
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
For the laptops you also get a level of control over the hardware not available anywhere else (except similar premium open firmware linux laptops)
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Easier to shift the blame for producing 10% of the world's emissions with 0.3% of the world's population that way. Plus doing anything else might see Australia benefiting from their natural resources. Last time a government tried
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Not directly upwind. Sails can't do that without tacking. But any airfoil will point beyond a reach. A ship has some lateral resistance even without having a separate part you specifically call a keel. The exact angle doesn't seem
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Nah buddy. It's your garbage claim. It's on you to show that they won't go prompt critical, you have a plan for fuel separation that actually works, you have a way of containing the fission products (including the gaseous one
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Think of it as assembly, support, well documented public service manuals, the cost of the well integrated operating system, and a good warranty. Similar to the intel macs and such. Quality is a little shy of a premium product, but overall n
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
It's the same way racing yachts can move significantly faster than the wind. Think of it from the boats point of view. If the wind has a mass of 1 unit and is moving at 1unit/s 20 degrees from headwind in the boat's frame, th
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
> You are getting a bit agitated. I don't want you to get a stroke or something. Maybe you should take a few deep breaths, count to one hundred, go for a walk. Ah, the song of the concern troll everywhere, projecting your own cult-l
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
>90% of the world's iron ore comes from very sunny places. Easier to just ship steel rather than iron ore and ammonia. For the last 10%, move the iron ore the other way (or still use local solar energy, because it is still cheaper t
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
If it were diluted to the same level it would be trillions of gallons, but this would be a terrible idea. The site is significantly too small because a long term SNF containment hole is about 100x as big as the spent fuel and needs to be se
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
The site is unsuitable for high level waste as proven by already having leaked once and not being properly isolated, and orders of magnitude too small to properly contain the quantity of material (including casks and proper separation dista
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
So a site that is to contain a quantity of transuranics (primarily Pu239 which is the least dangerous long lived transuranic) roughly the same quantity as a single 1GW reactor produces in a couple of decades and a quantity of fission produc
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by Schroedingersat 4y ago
The smallest bit of honesty and numerical literacy is not a particularly high standard, but you've limboed under it again. You just doubled down on the same facile comparison. The fission product yield of breeding 100 tonnes of Pu is a

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