integer42

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   by integer42 6y ago

   Its a nice appeal to simplicity to say nuclear is just 'heating water and spinning a turbine', I could also say the sun is a very large carbon-free maintenance-free opex-free reactor in the sky and we just need to design a seconda
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   by integer42 6y ago

   Nuclears not some secret unexplored concept at this point. If it were competitive it would be competing. Its costs are too high, not due to regulations due to the sheer amount of resources involved in mining, refining, and operating. Not to
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   by integer42 6y ago

   I agree we can't predict the future, so why hydrogen is the only synthetic fuel being discussed. There is a laundry list of contenders. Each with different properties, some exceeding hydrogen in terms of energy density, ease of storage
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   by integer42 6y ago

   This is another problem that would simultaneously be solved with simpler tax. Government pays for things by paying for things, and also effectively pays for things by giving tax breaks hidden in the 50,000 pages of tax code that now simulta
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   by integer42 6y ago

   When 4g/LTE was new, a coworker was an early adopter of whatever cellphone that was one of the first to support it. They were getting somewhere ~250 mbps on speed test. Fast forward to everyone having 4g phones, now in practice I see l
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   by integer42 6y ago

   Or you're just a regular person who can detect silicon valley flavored self help platitudes