natmaka

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by natmaka 9mo ago
> if we had virtually unlimited That's outdated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter
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by natmaka 9mo ago
Strategically, if nuclear power experiences a resurgence, procuring uranium could become difficult because the superpowers (Russia, China, and the US) will want to reserve it for themselves, and corresponding efforts have already begun. The
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by natmaka 9mo ago
We must take into account the public money spent to build and maintain the electricity system. In France, for example, electricity is cheaper than in most similar countries, but nuclear power costs taxpayers a huge amount of money.
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by natmaka 9mo ago
In 2010 A. Merkel decreed a 12-year delay of the nuclear phase-out schedule ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany#Chang... ), then the Fukushima accident happened (2011), then public opinion did dema
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by natmaka 9mo ago
> Renewables plus nuclear is now at around 70% of all energy (by final consumption) that is produced in EU I'm probably misunderstanding because: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-source-...
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by natmaka 9mo ago
There are quite good explanation published at https://ourworldindata.org/energy-definitions and https://ourworldindata.org/energy-substitution-method
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by natmaka 9mo ago
> animals and plants Scientists are on the fence: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environmen... > Fukushima is more of a political issue A very, very expensive political caprice, if any: h
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by natmaka 9mo ago
NVIDIA wants to run on 100% renewable electricity and already does so: https://nvidia.com/en-us/sustainability/ OpenAI bets on SMRs (now an ectoplasm, check NuScale...) and solar arrays: https://cdn.ope
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by natmaka 9mo ago
Uranium requires mining and is recyclable at most once (solar panels components are way better). Recyclable wind turbines blades are appearing (RecyclableBlade, ZEBRA, PECAN...) and even existing ones (today, decommissioned blades are burne
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by natmaka 9mo ago
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-fossil-renewa...
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by natmaka 11mo ago
There is less and less real willing (<=> project starting on the field) to do so because finance likes predictability ( https://x.com/SustainableTall/status/1619246745074139138 ) and competitors are booming
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by natmaka 11mo ago
A machine that operates continuously is a perfect machine, and no machine is perfect. The greater the number and diversity of machines, as well as their geographical dispersion, the greater their availability. In this respect, a mix of rene
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by natmaka 11mo ago
Laziness leads us to conserve resources, and impatience to "save time" (which is a resource, but of a unique nature). Pride also leads us to make our work more robust, so that it "always works well." Thus, two fundamenta
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by natmaka 11mo ago
Maybe because they began to iron out problems and saw the TCO rise too much.
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by natmaka 11mo ago
IMHO the main difference between PostgreSQL and any 'competitor' is that in most cases a software developer will quickly find not only how to use it quite properly for his use case but also why some way he adopted isn't right
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by natmaka 1y ago
Character is destiny. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. -- Heraclitus
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by natmaka 1y ago
The book by Laplace is titled «Traité de mécanique céleste» (not "Méchanique Céleste").
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by natmaka 1y ago
Indeed, and it gets worse and worse for the SMR without any reason to hope: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182003
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by natmaka 1y ago
I already answered: Nope. Officially, industrial breeding is no longer pursued in some nations (France being one) because uranium is cheap, which is a poor excuse because, if that were the case, why have they been searching at great expense
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by natmaka 1y ago
> Germany valued its economic interests above all else This is your only solid assertion, and sadly there is no strong (nor even weak) counter-argument. Alas, it is true for nearly all nations. Moreover this shows that either Germany is
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by natmaka 1y ago
> Your ourworldindata links says nothing about current investments. It says clearly about the respective parts of renewables and nuclear in Japan gridpower, before and after Fukushima (which happened 14 years ago). If a sustainable massi
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by natmaka 1y ago
> China currently builds more renewables than nuclear. I said it is irrelevant. Those are different things No: nuclear and renewables are electricity-generating equipment types, and all the debate is about the proportion of renewables an
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by natmaka 1y ago
> An overview article that was obsolete even in 2016 when it was published. Declaring "obsolete" is, at best, a weak counter-argument. > "... the amount of uranium in seawater is truly renewable as well as inexhaustible
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by natmaka 1y ago
> In the last decade lithium ion battery prices have fallen 90% The price of batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades: https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline
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by natmaka 1y ago
The various estimations of "victims of nuclear" also neglect victims from such accidents. In 2011 2 workers died while working to build the new EPR in Flamanville, and aren't officially (nor AFAIK anywhere) counted as nuclea
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by natmaka 1y ago
I just sourced official reports, and for EDF I already answered (in French, sorry, if necessary a software translator does the job): https://sites.google.com/view/electricitedefrance/accueil#h....
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by natmaka 1y ago
Japan: no comment nor "someone sees something" changes anything to the (already stated) facts: since Fukushima (2011) Japan did not restart its nuclear reactors and is quickly building renewables: https://ourworldindata
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by natmaka 1y ago
> Wikipedia disagrees ? Please quote and source, or name a model of industrial breeder reactor ready-to-be-deployed. ((nuclear waste)) > Preventing people from killing themselves is not an issue per-se. "Wikipedia disagrees"
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by natmaka 1y ago
> Uranium is incredibly cheap. Prospecting is not worth it as there are enough reserves to exploit in the foreseeable future. A huge uranium bubble between 2004 and 2008, which triggered massive investments for prospection... and a ridic
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by natmaka 1y ago
You quote assertions. It doesn't proves anything about the nuclear industry. An indictment must specify who did what, when, and with what effect. > the irrelevant "but China is also building renewables". No, I state the f

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