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by bob29 6y ago
Actual experts have studied this. Full decarbonization by 2050 with <2% GPD spending per year. No new, and phasing out existing nuclear. Overprovision renewables and produce carbon neutral synthetic fuels with excess power production. Nu
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by bob29 6y ago
Hmm I wonder if there’s a link between the fish in the river being fine and the regulators preventing the reactor from boiling it in the summer ?
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by bob29 6y ago
Easy, there’s many: 1) Solar + transmission lines. It’s always sunny somewhere 2) wind + transmission lines, always windy somewhere 3) use some energy produced by hydro to manufacture some concrete river beds and reservoirs 4) use some of
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by bob29 6y ago
So you can build nuclear in a tsunami zone? in a seismic zone? in an area without cooling? So you can mine and enrich uranium without carbon? Nuclear does none of the things you fantasize it to do really.
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by bob29 6y ago
https://apnews.com/article/2fef5c6a978b4fd5a79596020f0bac8a
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by bob29 6y ago
Great by the same logic you should use a commercial reactor over a naval reactor, you should also just use a different power source over nuclear.
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by bob29 6y ago
If nuclear isn't subsidized by military uses its energy negative when you factor in mining, enrichment, and operation.
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by bob29 6y ago
>The US has a pretty squeaky clean record when it comes to nuclear safety and storage protocols. One single nuclear site is consuming 10% of the DoE's budget, and its still leaking. https://www.tri-cityherald.com/new
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by bob29 6y ago
Is there an analog for regenerative braking in the flying EV world?
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by bob29 6y ago
Emissions free uranium mining. Emissions free uranium enrichment. Emissions free refueling. Where are they?
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by bob29 6y ago
I'll say it, that user reguritates rhetoric and talking points that happen to be aligned with a multi-billion lobbying industry, but they're always packaged in social media comment sized appealing package. Very few on HN actually
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by bob29 6y ago
Recently the author of "Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon" Jenny Chase was on the Energy Transition Show podcast [0] discussing the growth of solar. The discussion got into some of the technical reasons solar was able to grow
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by bob29 6y ago
I can promise you the energy industry knows about both CapEx and OpEx and has incredibly in depth models on them for all relevant energy technologies. And on the topic, I can also promise you that they do in fact know about the concept of c
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by bob29 6y ago
Aren't those weird submissions with no comments that show up on here ads? Actually, the last one I saw was for "Substack is hiring talented engineers to redefine the way people read and write things on the internet"
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by bob29 6y ago
This and sibling comments make good points about improvements it has made. I edited my comment to be less universally judgemental. My experience is based on a pretty generic unknown low drama instance, that doesn't really block or get
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by bob29 6y ago
The Fediverse is an interesting social experiment testing the hypothesis of whether the ad revenue/profit motive of twitter, and the subsequent algorithms that maximize engagement, are the primary source of toxicity and other negative
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by bob29 6y ago
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my hn comment: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Yes, the thugs [0
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by bob29 6y ago
DOWNVOTED FOR TRUTH
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by bob29 6y ago
Fracking profitability is going down because they aren't able to operate at as high of a capacity factor, because their operational costs aren't as low as renewables.
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by bob29 6y ago
Don’t forget the diesel, petrol, and propane. The dirty secret of most “off grid”.
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by bob29 6y ago
I like the part where the fossil fuel industry gets bullied around by the uber powerful environmental groups. Its funny because besides being the scapegoat for every failure of the fossil fuel/nuke industry, these environmental groups
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by bob29 6y ago
How much does it cost to handle and transport these tiny pellets? How much energy goes into the materials needed to manufacture the containments? How much energy goes into mining and refining the ore and bringing it to the reactor?
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by bob29 6y ago
Detecting radiation isn't the hard (or expensive) part https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article225... Its not nuclear vs oil and gas. Renewables are an alternative with lower cost and lo
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by bob29 6y ago
Its already Here and its not necessarily industrial scale either its called EPSCrete [1] Yep no need to transport your styrofoam to a recycler and buy back some insulation product when you can make it yourself [2] [1] https://en.
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by bob29 6y ago
is taht why you just repost the same comment on HN over and over again hyping tesla products? Instead of penalizing change, why not encourage it? When you work from home, you don't put anywhere near the carbon into the atmosphere tha
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by bob29 6y ago
This was Target not Walmart and I say that not to nitpick but rather highlight that arguably Walmart is somewhat an upper tier tech company. If this is what Target does in 2012, Amazon in 2020 not only inserts plausible deniability to optim
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by bob29 6y ago
There was a Toyota and Tesla partnership in 2010, producing a small number of RAV4 EVs, combining Tesla's battery pack and electric drivetain with Toyota's chassis. I haven't found many details outside of wikipedia, not sure
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Small scale solutions would only create jobs for individuals and small enterprise, not corporate profits. Alternatives to consumerism is NOT welcome on hacker news.
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The first one.
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by bob29 6y ago
“Without backdoors” wow, shots fired at Moxie “federation won’t work” Marlinspike’s secure honeypot Signal.

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