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by effie 6y ago
These "concerns" show lack of understanding of current nuclear industry capabilities and realistic undestanding of real and potential disasters. > Lack of a proper handling of nuclear waste "Nuclear waste" handling
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by effie 6y ago
It's not about money, but about replacing the coal and gas power plants. Renewable sources can't do that alone, they need massive energy storage facilities (which so far do not exist).
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by effie 6y ago
Please define you acronyms. What is TMI and PA?
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by effie 6y ago
50% of german electric energy production is from high availability sources (nuclear+fossil fuels) and Germany's network is connected to the continental network, so of course the network is stable. It will be hard to get these sources d
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by effie 6y ago
Yes but their safety could be improved, new containment system can be built etc. Governments should step up and change the incentives to keep the good plants in operation. Being unprofitable is not a good reason to decommission a nuclear pl
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by effie 6y ago
> The overall sentiment is that they were let off the hook easily and the total cost will be much higher. Even if it is more costly, who cares. It's national infrastructure that serves everybody, high costs are acceptable in light
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by effie 6y ago
I'll bite, what's up with those zero prefixes?
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by effie 6y ago
The trio WHO-China-Daszak is the last source we should trust on this. Former CDC chief says "most likely" cause of coronavirus is that it "escaped" from a lab: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-lab-
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by effie 6y ago
Unfortunately CCP would probably destroy evidence and censor information either way. They are so damn consistent I don't think this behaviour shows what really happened.
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by effie 6y ago
Mr. Daszak has obvious conflict of interest (EcoHealth Alliance financed coronaviruses enhancement in past) and has already been recognized in pushing convenient disinformation narratives for him and his work by his scientist peers. [1] ht
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by effie 6y ago
You are right, they are probably controlled by China. Maybe they still have credibility on things like best practices in dealing with COVID. At least in places where local governments push unscientific overly restrictive policies.
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by effie 6y ago
Evidence points to China government trying to cover up details. https://www.axios.com/timeline-the-early-days-of-chinas-coro...
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by effie 6y ago
It is not realistic to power current developed societies using only solar and wind power. For simple reason - we can't store energy well. Stop throwing up and shooting down strawmen. Nuclear energy was never going to replace all energy
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by effie 6y ago
West had the money and the will, I think that was a dollar well spent. US irradiated large areas of Pacific Ocean and atmosphere (US) with its testing program, harming people living there and contaminating whole world with radioactive isoto
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by effie 6y ago
Sending waste to space is a very dumb idea. First, rockets explode quite often. Second, sending things to space is very expensive, much more than storing them in storage facility. Third, nuclear waste will be very valuable in the future, so
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by effie 6y ago
What else do you propose as replacement for coal and gas power plants? Who expects nuclear energy to fix our CO2 problems? In the following decades, it is supposed to slow down CO2 buildup, not "fix our CO2 problems".
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by effie 6y ago
Russia has a lot of uninhabited space, so the contamination does not seem to be a big problem for them. Lots of countries behave this way, UK and US included.
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by effie 6y ago
Isn't the same possible now with mount spaces in Linux?
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by effie 6y ago
So what is your estimation of simplicity of using video compression there? Is it possible?
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by effie 6y ago
You are seriously overestimating the needed throughput in practice. 60fps 1080p can be streamed with good quality over 16Mbps channel (2MB/s). The real problem is lack of good open source software that will eliminate the annoying laten
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by effie 6y ago
I think there is a correlation between the most powerful (politically) and the most capable (being able to make the right decisions for the country) but I agree that is not a universally accepted argument. You seem to be familiar with China
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by effie 6y ago
Yes the system is not meritocratic, some people have it much harder and can't do much about it. That sucks for the individual, but it "works" in the sense it is a hurdle/disincentive from the population overconcentrating
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by effie 6y ago
Yes there is a privileged class. But that is the case everywhere. And it is most probably very corrupt too. However, what the China system has and the western systems do not have, is the absolute power of the party to set the policy and exe
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by effie 6y ago
Who is "we"? Of course, many people want to move, work and live in the big cities. But it is not clear it is preferable to let all of them do that and leave the rest of the China depopulated. The hukou system seems designed to kee
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by effie 6y ago
How so? The oligarchs in China seem to be under control of the state/party, not the other way around.
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by effie 6y ago
We are already looking at it, in China. The communist party is probably the only force preventing capitalism there from devolving into a thinly veiled oligarchy with the problems you mention we have in the west and in Russia. They seem to b
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by effie 6y ago
Regarding "bigboy stuff", it is really a simple argument, let me repeat in simpler words. Extreme data reliability beyond RAID6 is important for some specific deployments where loss of data is unacceptable, say for a unique experi
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by effie 6y ago
> In a large enough system, over a long enough time, even rare failure modes become inevitable. Of course rare failures and loss of data do happen. There is no storage strategy that prevents these with certainty. Data loss and performanc
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by effie 6y ago
OK the above isn't exactly correct in the last sentence. If there is URE due to medium error then we get a bad stripe and repeating rebuild will most often achieve nothing to remove it (although see SpinRite which can sometimes recover
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by effie 6y ago
I think UREs due to problems with medium (magnetic layer) can be eliminated to arbitrarily small rate with more and better ECC. However I think (probably small) part of the total URE rate are randomly occurring errors due to intermittent me

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