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by mimixco 7y ago
HN is very one-sided on a number of topics and in no way represents the sum total of the world's knowledge.
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Is It Finally the Year of the Linux Desktop?(m.slashdot.org)
14 points by mimixco 7y ago|10 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
It has to be stored and cooled because otherwise it kills people.
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by mimixco 7y ago
Heavy metals can't hurt you unless you ingest them. Proximity or handling doesn't hurt people. Radioactive materials, however, vomit particles everywhere in an untraceable way. Radioactivity cannot be removed from contaminated mat
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by mimixco 7y ago
Metals can be filtered out of water. But nothing can remove nuclear subatomic particles from the Earth. Once something is radioactive, it continues to emit particles which fly off into the environment and contaminate their surroundings. Hea
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by mimixco 7y ago
Great point! When I attended the NRC hearing over the proposed new nuclear plant for Turkey Point (FL), a local mayor produced evidence that Florida Power & Light could put solar panels and Tesla batteries on every home in their market
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by mimixco 7y ago
This is typical transhumanist nonsense, redolent of billionaires who are totally disconnected from the reality of regular people on this planet. The last cost estimate I saw for sending something to the moon was on the order of $50K per ki
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by mimixco 7y ago
In case anyone is interested, just one example will make the point. Solidity requires every machine on the network to run untested code that you can't see (without some difficulty). That code can branch to anyone else's code (wh
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by mimixco 7y ago
Ethereum's dirty little secret is that the Solidity virtual machine is poorly written and full of security holes. The reason the most popular app on the platform is Cryptokitties is because you'd have to be nuts to trust Solidity
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Fukushima Nuclear Waste Mess is by No Means Solved(nuclear-news.net)
8 points by mimixco 7y ago|7 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
You don't get to claim "carbon free" when the uranium cycle uses heavy equipment (dozers, loaders, trucks, trains, etc) that use fossil fuels. So please stop spreading that falsehood.
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by mimixco 7y ago
^^ This
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by mimixco 7y ago
Neither does the guy who proposed it, lol!
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by mimixco 7y ago
Reprocessing isn't clean. It creates its own waste which is worse than the spent fuel you started out with. Reprocessing plants (like every part of the uranium cycle) are dangerous places to work and live near.
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by mimixco 7y ago
Hanford and Rocky Flats are two of the most polluted places on Earth. Hanford has polluted the Columbia River, a tragedy in itself. Nuclear is like the insolent child who refuses to clean up his room. There isn't any cleanup, really.
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by mimixco 7y ago
Ah, yes, decommissioning, that dirty little word no one in the nuclear industry likes to talk about. Decommissioning can take decades and cost billions, usually passed on the ratepayers. These costs are never mentioned when the industry d
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by mimixco 7y ago
Reprocessing is its own nightmare and, I think, only France tries to do it. All of these processes (the "uranium cycle") are terribly polluting in their waste outputs and dangerous places for the people who have to work there and
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by mimixco 7y ago
And, as far as deaths go, you can't get numbers for something you didn't count. No real accounting has ever been made of the number of people who got cancer and/or died from nuclear activities, starting with the activities at
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by mimixco 7y ago
"Carbon-free" is a standard industry lie. Uranium mining and processing produces massive amounts of carbon and pollutes the earth with tailings. The nuclear industry externalizes their costs so that they don't ever hit the ba
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by mimixco 7y ago
This is a start... https://nuclear-news.net/category/1-nuclear-issues/business-...
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by mimixco 7y ago
Yet, in practice, the two are the same. It's like Uber saying "Never mind, we're not profitable. We'll make flying taxis!" The reasons that thorium reactors don't work aren't because people don't li
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by mimixco 7y ago
I appreciate that and I often do. However, nothing I said was controversial. Many nuke plants in the US have closed and all others (but one) have been cancelled. This is stuff you can see on the evening news. I don't really have to tim
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Nuclear Isn't Needed for the Green New Deal(jacksonville.com)
2 points by mimixco 7y ago|4 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
Google is your friend! Only one nuke plant in the US was shut down over protests (San Onofre) and that took 20 years. The press releases from plant owners who closed or cancelled their plans all cite negative economics as the reason.
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by mimixco 7y ago
Since there is no working thorium reactor at scale, it would be more accurate to say that it is true today and some people hope that we could escape the uranium cycle with thorium. So far, no one has.
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by mimixco 7y ago
The simplest source is the closure of many existing nuclear plants and the cancellation of all but one which we're planned for the US. It's not well known that the industry requires billions in government subsidies to even exist t
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by mimixco 7y ago
Radioactive materials are dangerous because their subatomic makeup is unstable, meaning they emit dangerous particles as the atom degrades from the inside. So it would seem that, in order to fix that, you'd have to re-populate the inn
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by mimixco 7y ago
Nuclear energy has its advocates—it spews little by way of emissions and is produced relatively cheaply. Nuclear is anything but cheap. It's a net negative energy source, meaning the the electricity costs more to produce than it can
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by mimixco 7y ago
A comprehensive study (not Russian) recently showed that there are several potential risks with 5G, not only from the higher power transmission which it requires but also by the proximity to users. A cell tower could be miles from you but
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by mimixco 7y ago
Well, a few years ago I might have agreed with you, but even MS knows that Linux and open source have won the server. This is a company that open sourced .NET and sends people to Unity (not their product) for game development. The issue is,

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