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by erentz 7y ago
Yang is to be credited for stating he is open to all possible solutions to the climate crisis, and rightly pointing out that with a crisis of this magnitude no solutions should be taken off the table at this point. Something other candidate
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by erentz 7y ago
> In the U.S., reaching 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 will require an investment of $7.8 trillion. It will involve building 288,000 new 5-megawatt (MW) wind turbines and 16,000 100-MW solar farms... I know it’s a contentious topic
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Ohio gas well blowout leaked more than many countries do in a year(arstechnica.com)
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Nat. gas blowout in Ohio released more methane than many countries do in a year(cnn.com)
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by erentz 7y ago
Wife recently needed a CT scan of the chest. It was the correct imaging modality for the potential DX in question. An X-ray would be useless as it wouldn’t show the suspected issue. First insurance denied saying we had to have an X-ray firs
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by erentz 7y ago
This is a much better article. > Facing the prospect of not being able to deliver those airplanes, Boeing immediately appealed. FAA managers reversed the ruling exactly a week later... That is an amazingly quick review of an appeal for s
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by erentz 7y ago
It seems to be around the wrong way. We need the nuclear reactors providing constant reliable power day and night to the grid, whereas variable renewables such as solar are better for creating synthetic fuels since to be viable on a large s
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by erentz 7y ago
One of the serious criticisms against Brave was that they were collecting payments for sites and creators that had not signed up and who did not want to sign up. That is they were charging for other people’s content, that they don’t own, un
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Ford workers break their silence on faulty transmissions: 'Everybody knew'(freep.com)
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by erentz 7y ago
Actually I was spitballing 20% of $2b as an upper bound for the entire plant. Does 30% come from something? For the thought experiment I’ll take 20% of $2.8b though. So $560m. Not sure how shaft power is what we are considering here as this
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by erentz 7y ago
Parent is talking about load following. Nuclear power plants can absolutely load follow the diurnal predicted demand closely. Most power demand is forecast very accurately with only small amounts of new generation dispatched or load shedded
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by erentz 7y ago
Well I mean, one of the new submarines cost something like $2 billion. The reactor can’t be more than a 20% of the total cost. So no it’s not anything like 100 times more. It’s probably practically economically viable for civilian power as
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by erentz 7y ago
One option that was floated (can’t remember by who) is for Australia to lease new Virginia class submarines from the US. This would essentially mean the US would own the lifecycle aspects of the power plant. Don’t know if it’s a good idea o
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by erentz 7y ago
I wondered about this myself. As another commenter pointed out naval plants use a more enriched uranium which IIRC allows them to run the reactors for 20+ years without needing to refuel. One other way of thinking about it though is that th
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by erentz 7y ago
It’s one of the stranger things about the US. Electing not just judges but also coroners and sheriffs and prosecutors.
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by erentz 7y ago
Is this law only applicable to some definition of “online” companies? Why not a generic privacy law that applies to all?
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by erentz 7y ago
Say you’re the guy working at Amazon over this issue and some corrupted state agency starts trying to give you advice on how to limit your responsibilities, shift blame onto the worker, smear the worker, etc. The question is at that point w
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by erentz 7y ago
A really clear case of corruption both at Amazon and within the state labor departments. The fines are so small I’m not sure why Amazon didn’t just reject corruption like this and do things right. Really just speaks to a company culture com
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by erentz 7y ago
I wish the culture was to give an honest star rating everywhere. A 4 is an excellent rating to get and should be treated as such. Instead we’ve set everything up so that if you aren’t getting 5 stars you’re a failure. What’s the point of st
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by erentz 7y ago
Importantly you also absolutely can’t avoid giving your data to the government. And if you try to lie and create a fake “DMV profile” for yourself to keep your data secure you’re gonna end up in serious trouble.
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by erentz 7y ago
There is a history of it being very difficult access to TV and movies legitimately with only a few channels and shows often never coming or coming years later. This drove a lot of demand for piracy in NZ over the years.
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by erentz 7y ago
Nuclear fission would obviously be the sure thing. (As opposed to fusion.)
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by erentz 7y ago
Another thing that isn’t lasting so well with wind turbines apparently are the blades. Their leading edges get seriously chewed up by tiny particles in the air (salt, dust, etc).
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by erentz 7y ago
Yikes. My memory is faulty then. I will have to rewatch it. (He’s still a bit of a freak of nature though, that much I’m sure about. (At least I think I am.))
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by erentz 7y ago
Wim Hof is not a normal human, it’s not clear that there is anything about his “method” so much as that he has remarkable physiology. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6EPuUdIC1E
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Thousands face life-threatening floods from aging dams(apnews.com)
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Fukushima to be reborn as $2.7bn wind and solar power hub(asia.nikkei.com)
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by erentz 7y ago
Sadly not having any means to add programs to Windows sandbox makes it unusable for me. Every time I reopen it to do something it’s in a bare install state with a bad version of Edge that slams me with just incredible amounts of advertising
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by erentz 7y ago
That's an awesome thought :) but as you say, now we need to also get a few hundred GW of generating capacity out of the Hoover Dam and then we'd have something. Hoover Dam is about 2GW nameplate capacity IIRC, so if we could now s
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by erentz 7y ago
It looks like the study doesn’t have data that would enable them to determine that. The marathon event presents a known day where there is disruption, which they can see in ambulance transport times. They then can see in Medicare data patie

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