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by evilos 4y ago
You might want to look at figure 26.10 of Scenario F. We still hit mineral constraints. The author says outright the report is not an attempt at simulating a realistic transition because it's asking first order questions: along the lin
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by evilos 4y ago
Because mines take 10 years to open on average from minerals found to minerals being moved out of the ground. 1% of surveyed mineral deposits become mines. Because for the better part of a decade, the green transition plan has been to move
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by evilos 4y ago
I think you need to reread the previous comments. The question is: do we have enough minerals to switch to a solar/wind plus batteries energy system as a species? There is a controversial report from a mining professor who says the ans
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by evilos 4y ago
That's production. We were talking about global reserves. Which hasn't even doubled in 10 years.
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by evilos 4y ago
It hasn't even doubled in the past 10 years. At today's global lithium mining rate, it would take 220 years to get today's known reserves out of the ground. Nevermind 4x. And then there's the human and environmental impa
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by evilos 4y ago
> To scale from existing operating breeder reactors to powering the world would require increasing the number of such reactors by a factor of 5000 That's a very silly way to frame it because there's only like 3 commercial breed
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by evilos 4y ago
> It's not like fossil fuels where it is plausible that there are limited amounts. Elements are created by the same processes that formed the universe. This is a non sequitur. There is a limited amount of anything on Earth. The pert
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by evilos 4y ago
Good thing we only extract 10% of the energy from the Uranium today. Also, you wouldn't go 100% nuclear with today's PWRs. Gen 4 reactors will be much more responsive and efficient with the fuel.
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by evilos 4y ago
The report doesn't even mention price. That is a whole other level of analysis. The fact is, the known global reserves of several minerals (not just lithium) needed for a primarily wind/solar grid are insufficient for today's
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by evilos 4y ago
Sounds great until you remember you're not get even half of that nameplate capacity. Capacity factors of solar/wind is between 10% and 30%. Offshore wind can be as high as 45% but your link says it's only 5% of wind capacity
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by evilos 4y ago
I think this is a bit different from a tic though that's an unqualified opinion. This happens to me as well, but usually I just kind of mutter 'damnit' under my breath or 'ugh'. Maybe shake my head a little.
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by evilos 4y ago
Same. Thought I would get at least 75% honestly.
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by evilos 4y ago
I don't think we should be moving in the direction of insulating our dwellings less at this point since we are actively trying to reduce energy/emissions and heating/cooling is a big factor in that. But maybe concrete structu
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by evilos 4y ago
How many gigawatt hours is 6 hours of storage though? Also is this just to cover current electricity demand or total primary energy?
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by evilos 4y ago
EDF is 85% owned by the French government. They were forced to "privatize" by the EU but are now planning to be nationalized again. Nuclear infrastructure that is already paid for is being neglected and paracitized to pay for new
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by evilos 4y ago
This guy had 3 billion dollars in stolen crypto and didn't flee the country? Insane.
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by evilos 4y ago
It is specific to the nuclear fleet: https://www.magnuscmd.com/the-arenh-regulated-access-to-fran... So nuclear plants are forced to sell energy below cost and they must buy a certain amount of renewable energy at inflated
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by evilos 4y ago
Essentially these plants are forced to be unprofitable via energy laws. For example, the nuclear plants are forced to sell their energy to energy traders at unprofitable low rates but those traders are never required to buy the energy and i
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by evilos 4y ago
I just saw a great interview of Robert Parker that touched on some of this. Highly recommend the "Decouple" podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4mGbTiRC8U
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by evilos 4y ago
IMO fission is already plenty for our current/near-term energy needs. We should definitely continue the pace on fusion but it's not strictly necessary. We should prioritize deploying proven technology ASAP.
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by evilos 4y ago
France decarbonized (up to 90% ish) their electricity generation in the span of 10 years, back in 1985. Unfortunately they've been sabotaging their nuclear power plants for years now, in favor of renewable energy.
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by evilos 4y ago
While I don't disagree with the sentiment, you have to factor in the fact that room/board is included in the military and it certainly isn't in Seattle. That's probably around a minus 8/hr for the Dick's job.
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by evilos 4y ago
You should be careful with phrases like "never works" because it makes it trivial to refute your argument. For example, the only way I've ever lost weight was to simply eat less with no set diet at all. I lost 30lbs this way.
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by evilos 4y ago
Powered by hot leaf juice.
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by evilos 4y ago
My interpretation of the "spectrum" comment was that, out of a number of predictions by different papers, the one cited is on the outer ranges of given values. That seems like an objective statement by itself.
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by evilos 4y ago
Doesn't mean it is the intended setting. Almost certainly a test unit.
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by evilos 4y ago
So... you're saying someone could (but not necessarily will) save us using RISC-V. Seems like a necessary precondition to it.
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by evilos 4y ago
> That's a great way of saying 'I believe the capital and operational costs for nuclear are 5x as much as renewables and will stay that way'. Yes, and it still ends up being a better energy source IMO because you don'
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by evilos 4y ago
Framework, I will give you so much money if you release an AMD version. I'm begging you.
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by evilos 4y ago
I think in this context, these protocols just makes\ it so that multiple private "bluesky"s can exist and interact. Users can move between being hosted on bluesky or redsky or whatever. So it's like mastadon but with better s

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