evilos

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by evilos 3y ago
They've come a looong way. I often find myself surprised at how long my girlfriend's brand new iphone takes to do basic things. I know Apple's A series processors are leagues ahead of what's in my mid range android phone
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by evilos 3y ago
My brand new android phone cost me $50, no plan attached or anything like that. Granted, that was a steal but I've never paid more than ~ $300 for my phones and I use them for 3 to 4 years.
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by evilos 3y ago
Because the cost of the waste these throw-away phones generate isn't priced in. There is a societal cost that isn't being paid by the firm or the consumer. Honestly, it probably only adds a few bucks to the BOM and the consumer wh
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by evilos 3y ago
These phones have been made before at scale, I'm sure we could manage: https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s5-6033.php > What is the point of replacing a battery when the charging port, headphone jack, physical
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by evilos 3y ago
I must say, your sole sourcing via wikipedia is not confidence inspiring. At least link the sources directly from the footnotes. We're not going to 100% nuclear energy, at least not in the foreseeable future so the concerns of Uranium
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by evilos 3y ago
I don't think you've grasped the sheer amount of energy storage that is necessary.
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by evilos 3y ago
> The whole nuclear industry knows since the 1950's that breeding is the only way for nuclear to really gain momentum Breeders were being researched back then because it was thought that Uranium was much more scarce than it actually
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by evilos 3y ago
> Can you name a single battery factory that has seen delays of cost overruns like nuclear regularly has? Can you point to a single investor that's willing to back new nuclear in the US like they are backing new battery factories al
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by evilos 3y ago
That specific part is not in the piece, you're right. I believe it was in an interview I listened to recently, I'll see if I can find it. However, it is true that Votgle had already applied for a COL prior to the ruling being made
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by evilos 3y ago
Past data does not predict the future, especially since we're expecting changes to the climate remember? Even if you're right "most" of the time, even a tenth of a percent system failure is terrible for something like th
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by evilos 3y ago
Even if we really could ramp up those factories and the corresponding mines for all the battery materials, those batteries will last maybe 10 ish years. Then they need to be recycled and we have basically no capacity for that today. A nucle
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by evilos 3y ago
> Like I said, over a large enough area and with storage, it averages out Maybe, it's literally impossible to say. That's terrible design for something as critical as the national grid. People die when the power goes out.
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by evilos 3y ago
It doesn't literally need to be a desert. Just somewhere with low population density. This isn't a final disposal site. Just a central monitored place to hold the waste in a warehouse before the fuel is recycled or buried. The cas
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by evilos 3y ago
? The BN-600 and BN-800 are operating commercially today and they are looking to expand the design to the BN-1200. Also, there's little need for breeders today because the overall percentage of energy we get from nuclear energy is low.
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by evilos 3y ago
It was one of many factors of course. There's plenty of blame to go around. Votgle is still a net societal good and will provide clean energy for 60 to 80 years. They specifically asked the NRC if the new rule would apply to Votgle and
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by evilos 3y ago
The solution to nuclear waste is simple. Build a single warehouse in the desert somewhere and keep it there until we use it as fuel later in breeder reactors. The waste is already in concrete casks. You basically just need a concrete pad fo
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by evilos 3y ago
It definitely won't be more resilient, that's silly. In no way will a weather based energy system be more resilient than one based on dispatchable energy sources. The best you can hope for is it to be only slightly less reliable.
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by evilos 3y ago
Why would your eyes be drier? If anything they'd be more moist because there's less air movement around them right?
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by evilos 3y ago
1.4B doesn't even offset the 2B they paid to the NRC to certify their technology. This is boring old PWR reactors too. It's ancient tech. Fast construction is basically the point of SMRs so we will see if that pans out. Not that I
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by evilos 3y ago
Let's say it was faster, simpler, safer, cheaper. I find the idea of making your energy systems entirely dependent on weather to be an odd choice when we are expecting global climate change now and in the future. At the very least, it
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by evilos 3y ago
Casually suggesting we add the equivalent of our nation's supply of grid battery storage to get the equivalent of a single nuclear plants worth of energy is a new one.
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by evilos 3y ago
Here's a specific complaint about the application of a new and unnecessary airplane strike rule to an already approved design: https://atomicinsights.com/nrcs-imposition-of-aircraft-impac... Personally, I think what wi
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by evilos 3y ago
I was sure you were going to refer to u/shittymorph of reddit fame.
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by evilos 3y ago
Richard L Garwin, the author of the first hydrogen bomb design, says that midcourse and terminal missile defense is easily overwhelmed by deployable decoys: https://www.garwin.us/mirror/030605nmdp1.pdf
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by evilos 3y ago
"Being homeless is not always bad!" is not a take I was expecting to see today. I'd bet 99.99% of homeless people would extremely prefer not to be.
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by evilos 3y ago
Things like this is what makes the internet feel so human sometimes!
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by evilos 3y ago
It's not public. We only know revenues. So you should back up your claims with sources.
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by evilos 3y ago
As other poster mentioned, each nuscale module is fully self contained. Not only that, but they've modeled every module having a simultaneous scram in a 12 module plant, and modeled that the water level was lower than nominal. Still wa
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by evilos 3y ago
Which SMRs don't have a full scale containment vessel?
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by evilos 3y ago
> You ignore the fact that alpha emitters (like literally anything else) can crap up their surroundings with micro-particles What on earth are you talking about? You realize you are full of alpha emitters? > As stated above your 600 y

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