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by _ph_ 3y ago
Well, if you are serious, lets start with reasonable discussions, not with propaganda. It isn't the politics of the current government which is a disaster, it was that of the previous ones. They killed nuclear, they curbed the switch t
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Yes, but we are talking aobu tthe Raspberry Pi which comes with 4G of ram. For very small devices, other Lisps might be preferrable.
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Of course people want to close coal power stations too. One might argue about the relative timing, but the goal is to get rid of nuclear and coal. And while a safely operating nuclear plant is actually pretty low on radiation, we unfortuna
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If you claim the safety requirements were overzealous, do you have any data to substantiate your claim?
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Yes, we need a mix of technologies. But at the current state of things, nuclear shouldn't be something to invest into. Yes, existing reactors should be used for their full life time, but there is far too much speaking against building
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While in the long term we do have to achieve net 100%, the mid-term goal which is absolutely achievable with the current state of the marked is indeed 90%. While working towards that we can start to see which technology emerges to cover the
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France has a lot of water power which helps with balancing the grid and Germany never had more than 30% of nuclear in the mix, so basically little load following was required. Also, both countries, as most industry nations, tried hard to sh
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by _ph_ 3y ago
With electric cars, demand is that simple. They can be hooked up to the grid and charge whenever the prices drop down to zero. This is already done. And then it is an individual decisions to either just use the charge to drive or even put p
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Solar+battery isn't sufficient in all places indeed. But those places are usually great for wind. With solar+battery+wind+other renewables+grid, the solution becomes rather easy. Toss in some gas until the battery capacities have grown
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Gas plants have their main cost in running them. So if they only fill the gaps, their cost is reduced too. But yes, they are not to be considered "profitable" but rather as part of the infrastructure like powerlines. But as solar
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by _ph_ 3y ago
I am from Germany, and I am just replying for the record: You are just repeating right wing propaganda, which tries to paint black pictures about a policy they helped implementing. But the truth is, the current government was able to avoid
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You have to to be honest. They were able to push for stronger regulations not because politics mainly listens to hippies. Stronger regulations were prudent considering the safety levels of the earlier reactor design. Without those regulatio
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Then you probably shouldn't build large solar farms. Leaves still a huge amount of area open on top of roofs, parking lots, streets which could be used for solar without cutting down a single tree. Though it somehow didn't prevent
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by _ph_ 3y ago
I think trackers are a thing of the past. The cost of solar panels has sunken so low, they come essentially for free in installations. A tracker would be way to expensive. Here in Germany, people even start covering north-facing roofs with
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France is balancing their reactors with a massive amount of water power, so they are not doing it alone on the reactor side. But I think France is indeed one of the countries with the highest relative amount of nuclear in the grid. Germany
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No need for pushing as the coalition of CDU/CSU and FDP had decided to shut down the reactors in Germany and had set the date.
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Nuclear would be the worst technology for filling temporary gaps in the production of renewables. The ramping speed of nuclear reactors is limited, and they cannot be throttled below 40% output without shutting them down entirely for quite
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No one banned nuclear. But of course it is the only sensible reaction to such an incident to check your designs for faults and review all reactors under construction. And then decide whether it is prudent to continue with the construction a
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And it hast to be noted that the Apple Silicon has also a unified memory architecture. It should allow for some interesting gaming performance if any developer tries to fully optimize for it.
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Great! Lisp is great for interactive tinkering with the hardware and also using SBCL gives you excellent execution speeds, so that you can run even large tasks on modest hardware.
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by _ph_ 3y ago
But you are not telling the truth. Yes, some coal power plants have been reacted, but they are on standby in case we run out of gas or some other major energy shortages. Which hasn't happened. We managed to replace the Russian gas and
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Ah we have arrived at conspiration theories :) The prices of nuclear power are well known. Look to the UK what a new reactor costs.
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Yes, if typical operations license is valid for 20 years, the typical life span is obviously 20 years. Because after that time it is cheaper to build a newer and improved generator than to try to renew the license. That doesn't imply a
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by _ph_ 3y ago
If you had read my answers you would have spottet, that I wrote that the company continuned the mining due to profits. Not because it benefits the community or the envorionmen. That nuclear is cheap is a lie. It is that simple. And if more
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by _ph_ 3y ago
If nuclear was the one option to fight climate change, then by all means we should do it. But the thing is: it isn't and it isn't even a good one. First of all: you say we need fast changes. That already rules out nuclear. Setting
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No, you are mixing things up. The mining rights are old. It is not that someone suddenly decided to mine more coal. Quite contrary, all plans for coal usage are being cut down considerably, as it is replaced with renewables. That the wind g
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The reason we stop coal mining isn't that we "need the space" for wind generators, it is, that we don't want to destroy our countryside even more for company profits and of course climate concerns. Of course, both parts
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Well, the question is, how much does a nuclear powered grid cost vs. a renewable powered one. Price isn't irrelevant. Newest numbers for Hinkeley Point C don't look good. Also, while the weather isn't directly limiting the po
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Nope. The wind farm wasn't wasting space. However, the coal companies had gotten mining rights for that area long ago and now exercise them for profit. Coal power generation is on an all-time low in Germany. There is also no energy sho
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by _ph_ 3y ago
Most Germans are horrified by this. But this has neither to do with the phase-out of nuclear reactors nor by the state of the energy supply in Germany in 2023. When Russia cut off the gas supply to Germany, there were of course a few concer

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