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by natmaka 3y ago
I don't think nor wrote that it "had the better governance", and merely proposed an explanation for what we know (acts of the governments, reaction of most citizens).
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by natmaka 3y ago
Isn't Chinese history the elephant in the room here? IMHO most Chinese citizens remember that whenever they fight each other (civil war...) disasters happen, and therefore the most important mission of the government is to squash any g
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by natmaka 3y ago
AFAIK in China there is no real 'dictatorship' related to economics, companies... The government listens carefully to top bosses describing in which way it can help them. The major challenge is for them to align their various pla
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by natmaka 3y ago
Right now it isn't very useful as there is only one pertinent criterion (swimming pool) (therefore this isn't very selective) and the database isn't shock-full of properties (therefore there isn't much 'noise'
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by natmaka 3y ago
True, however continental-scale grids interconnecting more and more interdependent nations/states are needed whatever the type of energy source used (even nuclear), and at least as exposed to terrorism as long-haul (U)HVDC lines.
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by natmaka 3y ago
A continental-scale mix (wind, solar...) is an efficient way to reduce the impact of intermittency on electricity production, and therefore storage ( https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-...
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by natmaka 3y ago
This. And this is generic: since the first oil shock (50 years ago) many Western nations were nearly always bathing into some economic crisis, therefore many think that experience shows that any attempt, on any front, leads to a new downtu
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by natmaka 3y ago
Negating a selection criterion ('no swimming pool').
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by natmaka 3y ago
This is all a matter of balancing constraints. I wrote "you know that when you will need it you probably won't have time to invest into migrating this component.". I didn't wrote "always go for the more scalable&q
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Decisions are rarely made upon a single criterion, and such a criterion isn't usually formulated explicitly.
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Another point is: you don't need scalable now, but may (or even hope) to need it later, and you know that when you will need it you probably won't have time to invest into migrating this component. Also: you may think that you may
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by natmaka 3y ago
This! I don't know those bikes but here is my hypothesis: older engines required more experience to be fully exploited, as they had 'holes', that it to say revving ranges or global state leading to unsatisfying performance (
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Source?
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by natmaka 3y ago
> What war in Ukraine has proven is that no one is eager to shot at nuclear plants I don't see any real 'proof there, especially about everyone not being eager to... Moreover whenever a weapon is used there is a risk of hitting
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by natmaka 3y ago
Electric bikes will catch up, it will be quick. The value of some ICE bikes will then skyrocket, as the usual nostalgia picks up: we remember those old bikes as 'full of character', even if quite objectively these 'character
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by natmaka 3y ago
The author mentions a 'blue ocean' and this may not be a coincidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
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by natmaka 3y ago
Indeed! According to Hannah Ritchie: - The world has enough lithium for our electric vehicles, decades into the future. - The world is currently not producing enough of it to keep up with demand. This could be a major bottleneck this decad
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by natmaka 3y ago
Moreover recent turbines burning natural gas can be retrofitted to burn hydrogen, which will be 'green' and therefore produced by renewables, typically while over-producing electricity... providing for part of a clean backup.
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by natmaka 3y ago
Schools may present the set of validated (consensus among pertinent professionals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_who_work_with_... ) explanations/guidelines to each adequate target (from children t
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by natmaka 3y ago
A non-negligible part of this coal is burnt in order to produce things exported to North America (among others), therefore by buying less...
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by natmaka 3y ago
Will you propose tools to easily import existing stacks (Mnemosyne, Anki...) of flashcards?
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by natmaka 3y ago
Before the N4 there is no question, read page 12 (first paragraph) and 13 (first paragraph): https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%... The N4 double containment is a mainly quantitative change, as
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by natmaka 3y ago
> They're not the same buildings Not exactly the same but same generation, architecture and design (Westinghouse), slightly (not fundamentally) enhanced. Stating that new features add such a large amount of work (relatively to the
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by natmaka 3y ago
In the team managing the Fukushima plant there probably was someone absolutely sure of what we can manage, and of his ability to predict and therefore dislike spending money for some useless higher wall... Yanosuke Hirai's ways seem mo
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by natmaka 3y ago
> Decentralization can be about delegating decision making. Yes, indeed. > Hopefully to the people closest to the problem This is the principle of subsidiarity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity
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by natmaka 3y ago
Sorry, I didn't expose it clearly. Yes, I considered the long-term experience gain (columns, not lines: from 65 to 151 and from 60 to 104). The first nuclear plants were theoretically the most difficult to build as the local industry w
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by natmaka 3y ago
I have no idea how a speedup appears to you. On the graph it is quite clear that, with time (and therefore experience), the average amount of time needed to build one is raising.
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All this was known before starting the building process, and the builder planned to deliver the reactor in 2012. It is late (right now: not delivered) mainly because project management and quality insurance were abysmal: https:/&#x2F
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by natmaka 3y ago
I agree, and would add "(nearly)-no software regression" (no "a feature that has worked before stops working"), and never twice the same one.
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by natmaka 3y ago
> No NIMBY lawsuits in there; plenty of screw ups and back and forth lawsuits among the participants though. This is also true for the French project (Flamanville-3, an EPR). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36258182

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