johnmorrison

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by johnmorrison 7y ago
Yeah, I agree with you completely. I think we will probably get fission to like 4/5 of the world energy supply and 95% of electricity within our lifetimes. Solar panels are a great thing to have on your house if you can afford them and
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by johnmorrison 7y ago
You're absolutely right, U235 reserves are only enough to last a couple hundred years at current consumption and exploration. We could probably sustain a long time with burner LWRs but it will require massive investment. Breeders howev
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by johnmorrison 7y ago
· Liquid fueled MSR, safety is best of any other source. So, we think regulators will lower barriers over time as we prove this. · Waste management is easier since our waste will be ~5x less mass per kg fuel (~500x less mass per kWh energy)
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by johnmorrison 7y ago
Hey, I work at a nuclear fission company. We think we can get our electricity prices to around $0.0025 / kWh by around 2045. This represents a ~20x reduction from off-peak cost in Ontario where I live, and ~150x reduction from average
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by johnmorrison 7y ago
Solar panel efficiency does not have an analogue to Moore's law, and their efficiency physically cannot double two or more times. Solar cell record efficiency is 46%, that only gives room for 1.12 doublings theoretically, and thermodyn
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by johnmorrison 7y ago
Fiat currency is not backed by gold, in fact, it is not backed by anything. Also, gold is not inherently valuable. It will become a regular common metal once we shift extraction to the asteroid belt. The truth is there really isn't muc
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by johnmorrison 7y ago
In the online world, it seems like there are two big things happening right now: - Neural networks / ML (eg GPT-2) Definitely nowhere near its potential for being applied to a wide variety of areas. Find a niche you like and apply ther
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by johnmorrison 7y ago
All money is fake money, the notion of a currency is a value fiction shared among a group of people. Most governments are very young, and do not last very long historically. Central banking is a handful of decades old, cryptocurrency is one
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by johnmorrison 7y ago
Also South African here, I don't think it would be the same set of problems. Seems like less of an incompetence/malice thing and more like a long history of bad strategies with grid infrastructure and power generation. California