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by beat 7y ago
But will it suffer from the problem of monetizing user data? That seems to be the big thing it's designed to avoid.
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by beat 7y ago
Am I the only old fart around here who immediately thought of the old BOFH (Bastard Operator From Hell) series?
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by beat 7y ago
Yep. Watch what capital does, and don't make excuses about "regulations" or "politics". The capital is flowing into wind/solar, because the capital smells money. People fall in love with the idea of nuclear
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by beat 7y ago
What we think of as startup-style capital, the kind that goes into software, is a hard sell for firearms manufacturers, because it's very difficult to get an edge, compared to software. Manufacturing is expensive, with a lot of up-fron
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by beat 7y ago
Small startups doing expensive manufacturing in the face of existing industrial-grade competition will always have a hard time finding funding, because the risk/reward ratio sucks.
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by beat 7y ago
Not so much NIMBY/regulation as lack of good sites onshore. Low efficiency sites effectively increase the cost. Additionally, a lot of densely populate coastal areas are populated quite a ways inland. You need open space around the big
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by beat 7y ago
Why is nuclear the only option? NYC just made a deal with Quebec to buy hydro power.
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by beat 7y ago
The main problem is cost effectiveness. If it costs twice as much per unit of power for a building-level installation vs utility-level, then it's a hard sell. Cheaper to just buy utility-grade power from the grid. It's also a ques
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by beat 7y ago
Why is spending money on a sure thing, in the face of a global emergency with a ticking clock, "nuts", relative to wasting a decade and a trillion dollars on fantasy tech that may or may not work at all?
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by beat 7y ago
We have huge wind farms here in Minnesota and Iowa. They're in the middle of crop fields. No problem at all.
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by beat 7y ago
I was wondering how they did this, since the original Ford GT40s and Shelby Cobras are worth millions, and shooting would probably cause a lot of wear and tear. I figured they'd be doing fiberglass replicas on modern chassis and drivet
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Replica Race Cars in Ford vs. Ferrari(latimes.com)
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by beat 7y ago
I've worked with a lot of them over the years. Big/breaking codebase changes without consulting anyone, not waiting for requirements to work out, not playing well with others, not being willing to mentor less experienced team memb
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by beat 7y ago
China has been building nuclear plants for decades. They have a huge body of practical experience. I don't think "same level of nuclear technology" is the issue, because plants tend to be built with proven tech, not raw resea
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by beat 7y ago
This is the sort of thing that gets me ranting about how 10x programmers are actually vampires, sucking their life out of the rest of the team with their loose-cannon behavior.
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by beat 7y ago
Have you read a paper saying we can't scale those solutions? Can you think of a rational reason they can't be scaled? The problem isn't "can't". Storing energy is trivial. The problem is cost. How much storag
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by beat 7y ago
I'm not at all convinced that "regulation" is the cause of high nuclear power costs. I'll note that, per someone else's attempt to rebut me, I learned that nuclear power is cheaper in the US than it is in supposedly
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by beat 7y ago
Is cost a factor, or is cost not a factor? Pick one. You asked if there was clean, consistent renewable, I gave you solar thermal, and acknowledged it's still cost-prohibitive. But I also expect its cost to plummet as experiments turn
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by beat 7y ago
China is one of my reference points for the cost of nuclear. After all, they don't have democracy's built-in resistance to unpopular ideas (no fear of anti-nuclear activists), and a strong ideological drive toward nuclear, in addi
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by beat 7y ago
When something is true, saying "it can't be true" doesn't make it not true. This is happening to existing nuclear plants in the US. Not plans for plants, not plants in construction. This caught my eye when a nuclear pl
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by beat 7y ago
Don't talk like a religious zealot. What is the cost of gas in Korea, vs the cost of gas in the US? We're the largest producer in the world. They have almost no gas of their own, and must import. addendum: I find it striking that
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by beat 7y ago
France isn't building plants, though. (Technically, they're building one...) And they're life-extending the plants they have now, but that won't work indefinitely, and it isn't free.
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by beat 7y ago
Math matters. Nuclear energy is not substantially cheaper in other countries than it is in the US (feel free to provide cites otherwise) - even countries like China where environmentalist rabble-rousers can find themselves in prison. This s
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by beat 7y ago
Solar thermal is zero carbon and 100% uptime, but it's still expensive. Costs are dropping rapidly, though. And as stated earlier, solar + storage or wind + storage also meet your requirements, and are technically viable. It's jus
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by beat 7y ago
And there's a good reason that separation of duties is in every compliance standard...
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by beat 7y ago
France is no longer building nuclear reactors. Nobody is, really, certainly not at "do something about greenhouse gasses" scale. The problem is economic. The vast bulk of the cost of a reactor is up-front construction, amortized o
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by beat 7y ago
And is hydrogen cyanide not used in nuclear plant construction?
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by beat 7y ago
Market forces do not care if the power source emits carbon or not. We have to deal with that, and I don't like it either. Despite my surface appearance of being anti-nuclear because I point out the irrational, emotional nature of pro-n
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by beat 7y ago
And we should have bumpers on rowboats, too. "Same safety standards" is nonsensical, because the failure modes and risks are completely different.
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by beat 7y ago
Cite? Have fun with the googling. Feel free to check out the toxicity of plutonium (separate from radiation) while you're at it.

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