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Fusion researchers endorse push for pilot power plant in US(news.mit.edu)
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by baking 7y ago
They are not downloadable. They are available for online viewing. Check the "Only show content I have access to" box.
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by baking 7y ago
"The Physics of Energy" by Jaffe & Taylor is definitely on my list. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/physics-of-energy/7FE67...
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The terms "limit order" and "market order" are more than a little bit dated. A limit order is just an order to buy or sell at a specific price or better. It's like going on e-bay and bidding at a specific price,
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by baking 7y ago
> Circuit breakers, like many finance regulations, are intended to address the emotion-driven aspect of prices as perceived by humans, but should not be necessary as trading becomes more algorithmic and less superstitious. I was under th
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I'm not sure how big of a gamble that is. If he gets Starship into orbit he can start getting serious revenue from Starlink. Then he needs to transfer fuel in orbit to send cargo to the moon and mars. At that point he can send peopl
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by baking 7y ago
400 Starlink satellites per Starship launch costing $2M is $5,000 per satellite per launch. Basically nothing compared to the eventual mass-produced cost to make each satellite which might be $100,000. https://youtu.be/Exd1
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by baking 7y ago
As a counterpoint, I would suggest "Voodoo Fusion Energy" by Daniel Jassby, PPPL, from April 2019: https://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/201904/voodoo.cfm But he does say: "This discus
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Five Big Ideas for Making Fusion Power a Reality(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by baking 7y ago
The irony is that building 20 was torn down to put up that monstrosity. The day of my high school visit, the campus was plastered with posters for "The Asbestos Cork Award." http://www.catb.org/jargon/html&#x2
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by baking 7y ago
Sure enough, as soon as I post it I find it.
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by baking 7y ago
Either I'm an idiot or this is a bug: https://imgur.com/KjGvAlz
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by baking 7y ago
Anyone who regularly browses their Youtube recommendations knows that the algorithm changed dramatically a few months ago.
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"full ride" <> "able to go anywhere you'd like" Unless the one school that offers you a "full ride" is the one that you wanted to go to.
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My biggest issue with it was that you are in the "too well-off to get aid but not well-off enough to pay cash" gap, then you should be expanding the number of schools you are applying too, not reducing. In-state and out-of-state
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by baking 7y ago
Do what you love, but first decide if what you love is writing code for others or for yourself. If you think it's the former, by all means stay in CS, your skills will always be needed. If it's the latter, then find a field that
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by baking 7y ago
This obviously depends on your age and the reliability of your income.
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by baking 7y ago
I have a problem tying wealth to consumption. I always look at menu prices but I'm a lot better off financially than many people who don't seem to care how much they spend. Maybe because I do look at menu prices. Other than that
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by baking 7y ago
That accusation seems a little extreme. The 30 day claim was published in January 2012 in response to the Fukushima accident: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.13182/NT12-A13556 Also, in "NuScale Te
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by baking 7y ago
True, but maybe with slightly better margins. ;)
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by baking 7y ago
I don't know enough about the process to make comparisons, but NuScale currently expects to be producing grid power in 2026. Nothing against Terrestrial Energy or molten salt reactors which is certainly an interesting tech. NuScale i
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by baking 7y ago
Agreed. I think one way of looking at it is that building factories does not scale in the same way as building plants. You can build a plant that produces 1GW base and it can start generating when you turn it on. An equivalent factory ma
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by baking 7y ago
No one is building new capacity (with current tech) because existing factories are operating at a loss. As for new tech, 1366 Technologies has built a factory in Malaysia and was expected to ramp up their kerf-less wafer production in Q3 20
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by baking 7y ago
Plugging in the numbers and running a linear programming model is not the same as building factories and installing generating capacity and transmission lines.
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Global Solar PV installations are forecast to flatten out at 125GW (peak) annually throughout the early 2020's. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/global-solar-pv... Figure 20% of peak for 24/7
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by baking 7y ago
I had to look this up. The CNSC is the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. Their Pre-Licensing Review is an optional process intended to streamline the eventual license application. ( https://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/re
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The pool is for passive secondary cooling if the primary fails. It is outside the containment and is intended to boil off over 30 days if there is a complete blackout. 30 days is all you need for the decay heat because after that air cool
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by baking 7y ago
Think of the term "Economies of Scale." In one sense, it means building a larger steel mill, oil refinery, aluminum smelter, etc. to lower production costs. Applied to nuclear reactors, you get large, one-of-a-kind designs, tha
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https://everydayastronaut.com/stainless-steel-starship/ Edit: "So in summary. SpaceX chose stainless steel over carbon composites because it’s about as light, it can handle higher temperatures which means less hea
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It needs to be Pu-238 which is not a typical component of nuclear waste. https://neutronbytes.com/2017/03/05/nasa-re-starts-pu-238-pr...

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