doikor

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by doikor 5y ago
Not really much NIMBY arguments in Finland as the storage site is right next to the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant.
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by doikor 5y ago
Not yet. The trials should start next year with actual usage planned for 2025 currently. https://www.posiva.fi/en/index/news/pressreleasesstockexchan...
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by doikor 5y ago
> By comparison, bloody Concorde transported up to 128, with a crew of 3, in 3.5 hours, at lower prices. Pretty sure the crew of Hindenburg included a whole bunch of waiters, cooks, etc. just like the Concorde had flight attendants on to
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by doikor 5y ago
Flying low does not mean "scraping trees" but for example Glass G airspace (uncontrolled basically) is everything under 1200' not near airports etc. For a lighter than air craft 1000 feet off the ground is quite a big margin
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by doikor 5y ago
Just fly it close to the ground and the only controlled airspace is near airports (and some big cities, military stuff, etc). Should not be that hard to stay out of those for the most part if you are transporting stuff like windmill parts t
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by doikor 5y ago
If your device runs a somewhat modern browser and you have a reliable internet connection you can just stream from the cloud.
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by doikor 5y ago
> but this is bad news for anyone who plays games on Playstation, Linux/Steam/Proton, or Nintendo platforms. Microsoft has been releasing their PC games on Steam the same day they do on their own store for a few years now.
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by doikor 5y ago
Playstation has also bought (and closed) a lot of studios (and one publisher) over the years. A lot of the Playstation 1st party studios were not built from ground up but instead bought.
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by doikor 5y ago
Not really. Just a prediction about the future and as the infrastructure takes years to build out better to start early than late. Bandwidth usage globally has been growing at around 30% per year for a long time now with nothing showing it
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by doikor 5y ago
I think the idea is to do it only run such plants when there is massive overproduction from solar/wind that makes the price of electricity zero or negative. Basically storing what can't be used at that moment. It does not matter i
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by doikor 5y ago
Also Finland with OL3 that just finished building (currently going through testing) and plans to build a new nuclear power plant site in Hanhikivi.
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by doikor 5y ago
Here in Finland they innovated a long time ago by building/owning more electricity production capability than they use and selling to themselves "at cost" instead of market rate when it makes sense. This also ties into the n
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by doikor 5y ago
There is a lot of industrial processes that take hours or days to ramp down or up and sudden loss of electricity breaks equipment/infrastructure. Yes they have local batteries/generators for backup but those should not be used dur
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by doikor 5y ago
The AC unit can do heating if you just run the pump in the opposite direction. It is just a feature the manufacturer did not bother to install/wants extra money for (it is literally a single $20 part for the valve). Obviously they are
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by doikor 5y ago
A wok with a flat bottom is wok with a flat bottom not a normal flat bottom pan. As for heat my 11kW induction top has never failed to keep any wok/pan hot enough for stir frying. According to this convertor I found online https:&#x2F
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by doikor 5y ago
> But this all falls apart near and below freezing temperatures. There are heat pumps designed for cold climates that work well into the -30C range or so still holding a COP of 2 or more. Here are some test results from Finland from a fe
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by doikor 5y ago
Heat pumps are used all over the Nordics and work just fine. Air one can get quite expensive to run during the coldest days but ground heat pumps literally do not care how cold it is outside (the ground temperature will stay the same anyway
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by doikor 5y ago
> Induction doesn’t get hot enough, and it’s not possible to heat a wok on one anyway. You can make a stir fry in a pan This is not true at all. I have been cooking with my wok for years using induction. Only real requirement is that you
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by doikor 5y ago
For the record most (all?) induction cook tops have a glass surface too. Also induction ones are not that much more expensive. Here in Finland the price difference is ~50e when compared to a ceramic ("glass") one. And as for cooki
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by doikor 5y ago
Nobody is using gas to heat anything in Finland. District heating is pretty much all some combination of waste heat from some other industrial process (including electricity production), coal, wood or peat. Some district heating scale heat
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by doikor 5y ago
Well at the moment this is not true. Sweden can't even saturate the existing transmissions lines between Finland and Sweden as the national grid in Sweden is not in good enough shape and will most likely take over a decade to be proper
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by doikor 5y ago
Yeah the risks are really low. Basically you would have to dig down there for any risk. The risk simulations they did for it are hilarious to read This is the worst case scenario they thought about > Posiva on arvioinut ydinjätteiden pah
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by doikor 5y ago
Finland also has the unique problem of most of the imported electricity having to come through Sweden and the national grid of Sweden is not up to the task (one of the reasons for really high electricity prices in Finland at the moment)
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by doikor 5y ago
Again none of the electricity from OL3 is sold directly to consumers so there is no strike price to think about. Instead the investors pay whatever the "at cost" price happens to be to run the plant. Also TVO does not have that mu
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by doikor 5y ago
In Finland (and a lot of other places) building the reactors as pairs is not that necessary due to large fluctuations in the power consumption over the seasons. Basically you just do all the maintenance/refueling during the time of the
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by doikor 5y ago
For solar you would have to build something like 100x or more overcapacity to get enough power for winter in Finland. Solar is effectively useless in Finland as it produces effectively nothing when we need it most (winter). Wind can work bu
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by doikor 5y ago
The few numbers for the loans that have been public have been somewhere between 2 and 3%
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by doikor 5y ago
The monthly average spot price in Finland has not been that low during the winter in Finland in any of those years. Also there is no way OL3 actually costs that much to build. Lets say it runs at 90% of max output on average it gets you ~14
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by doikor 5y ago
Also the project taking this long caused further delays. For example Siemens finished their work on the turbines a long time ago but had to basically rebuild the whole damn thing because it just sat there for more than a decade. This is due
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by doikor 5y ago
Also Finland has for the most part solved our nuclear waste problem. A couple km down the road from Olkiluoto is Onkalo which is basically ready with now going through final checkups and to be put into use in 2023. https://en.wik

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