natmaka

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by natmaka 5y ago
1/ "Not industry ready" while (AFAIK) being researched for at least 4 decades is a real problem 2/ Superphenix had numerous non-'political' problems/challenges, see https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
902.
by natmaka 5y ago
In many cases the very reason why some places aren't populated is that living there is difficult (lack of water/arable land, weather conditions...), and in many cases they are useful (as forests, grasslands...) for living beings t
903.
by natmaka 5y ago
The first part of this piece seems weird because this is not anymore about developing "nuclear vs fossil" but about developing "renewable sources or/xor nuclear".
904.
by natmaka 5y ago
> if we are to believe the likes of the WHO and the UN This is central. Incidentally: WHO is an UN agency, they aren't really two sources and work the same way. There are many studies about the amount of deaths related to nuclear a
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by natmaka 5y ago
Labatut's approach seems similar to part of James Burke's work, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_documenta...
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by natmaka 5y ago
Lazard’s annual Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis seems solid: https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2020
907.
by natmaka 5y ago
Albeit I agree with the author on nearly every point, some challenges seem neglected. "Write. Things. Down." may let a a competitor obtain some company's efficient ways/tools, especially such information is shared among
908.
by natmaka 5y ago
I doubt so. A nuclear plant would let Morocco more dependent (expertise and combustible). Multiple intents to obtain uranium (either by mining it, as early as in the 1940's, or as a by-product of phosphate mining) aborted. Selling c
909.
by natmaka 5y ago
Some real costs are hardly predictable: hot waste long-term management, decommission (see the UK case) and especially any boo-boo (Fukushima cleanup costs will be in the ~500bn USD range) do threaten the financial model. https://
910.
by natmaka 5y ago
True, however AFAIK this is less distorted between similar nations such as (here) the UK, Germany, France and Switzerland Directly comparing data from Switzerland and Pakistan, Tuvalu or Rwanda is indeed too risky.
911.
by natmaka 5y ago
Indeed, in France the 'nuclear success story' led to a state law (2015-992, from 2015, the "loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte") stating that the part of nuke-produced electricity must fall
912.
by natmaka 5y ago
As far as I understand because it is politically unfeasible in Germany. They officially prefer renewable sources since 2000 and nuclear was to be used as a bridging technology, however they decided to phase it out ASAP after the Fukushima
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by natmaka 5y ago
The challenge for renewables isn't to produce an aggregated sufficient amount of power, but production intermittency. In Europe wind alone has many times the capacity (see https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/media-centre
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by natmaka 5y ago
In such a case smart other nations may only buy with a complete technology transfer, just like China did and does.
915.
by natmaka 5y ago
Lysenkoism was a fully political distortion: a politician (Stalin), not the scientists community, decided (for political reasons). The RBMK wasn't an horror, it was simply meant to exploited in a certain way, and containment was integr
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by natmaka 5y ago
In China (I live there since 201708) the nuclear program is winding down (the most recent nuclear plant, Taishan, started 14 months ago and already has one reactor stopped after a leak). Nuclear plants produce less than 5% of the gridpower
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by natmaka 5y ago
This keeps coming back, albeit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301436 And this sort of ordeal may be way more of a concern with a nuke plant.
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by natmaka 5y ago
As far as I know and saw in Switzerland the army doesn't give ammo anymore to militiamen (maybe because some over-used it, or maybe due to long-term storage issues) but they are able to buy it, and many do. Moreover there is a mandator
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by natmaka 5y ago
Doesn't 'strict control' imply that few legally detain guns? Gender Inequality Index: #1 (best nation) is Switzerland. This country is shock-full of firearms, there is an assault rifle in many (most?) homes (a weird way to &
920.
by natmaka 5y ago
The 'War Nerd' take on this: http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-glory-to-the-french/
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by natmaka 5y ago
On a related perspective zswap (Linux) is surprisingly efficient if the system isn't CPU-bound. It is "a Linux kernel feature that provides a compressed write-back cache for swapped pages, as a form of virtual memory compression.
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by natmaka 5y ago
s/technocracy/jacobinism/ , maybe(?) Centralization and a bureaucracy applying a decision upon a large territory is a good recipe for disaster if the decision is a bad one. Any "overnight flip to" anything is often
923.
by natmaka 5y ago
Indeed. This is a political (since 2018) and mainly financial crisis, and an attempt to adopt some organic practices is one of the effects. http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2021/07/sri-lanka-manufactur... https:&
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by natmaka 5y ago
I would love to be able to "nice" queries, a high "nice" attribute meaning, for the engine, "work on this whenever it does not slow down anything else", especially on the I/O side (à la Linux "ionice&
925.
by natmaka 5y ago
Does "more traditional locking" mean that the clients request locks? Isn't it already offered by PG with table-level and row-level locks, and also in an extremely flexible way (letting the client developer define the semanti
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by natmaka 5y ago
AFAIK nearly all work (besides "protection") was done by women.
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by natmaka 5y ago
This is so opaque even the Cour des Comptes wrote in an official report that their is no clear accounting of nuclear investments. https://ccomptes.fr/sites/default/files/EzPublish/Rapport_th... (page 270
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by natmaka 5y ago
Indeed. This 'success story' led to a state law (2015-992, from 2015, the "loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte") stating that the part of nuke-produced electricity must fall to less than 50
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by natmaka 5y ago
Nearly all of us have been exposed to this because P. Glass composed some well-known movie scores (music), and because scores composed by H. Zimmer (who authored much more) often lay on very similar style.
930.
by natmaka 5y ago
AFAIK this also was the approach adopted by the Mongols, as early as during the 13th century (Golden Horde khanate).

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