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by ncmncm 4y ago
Who is building new coal plants? Who does not have plans to close coal plants? Who is exploring for new coal reserves?
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Coal is being phased out. There is no point in talking about coal.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The overwhelming problem with nuclear reactors is not safety, but extreme cost to build and to operate. An inherently safe reactor design might be a little cheaper to operate, but might be even more expensive to build. Or might be a little
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by ncmncm 4y ago
If by "good company" you mean bad company, sure.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Nobody said "nuclear is an existential funding threat to renewables". You made that up from whole cloth. Stop doing that.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Thanks. I had read of success infecting tumors with virus, that the immune system will control only outside the tumor. But I didn't hear any more about it. What happened with that?
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Michael Levin is an astonishing breath of fresh air.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It should be easy to mitigate any environmental impact. A long, leaky pipe for effluent, and extracting only a fraction of the water pumped in before exhausting it, would eliminate any problem. Probably they planned to cheap out and just du
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Last I saw, the water for almonds and pomegranates was stolen. Growing alfalfa is as bad, and there is probably more of it. That could be banned.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The question was too vague to guess what it was about, if anything. It presupposes there is some resource used for renewables that is scarce and for which there is no viable substitute. Without identifying any, it is just trolling: there mu
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Nobody is choosing between backing a fusion startup or a coal mine. They are, instead, choosing among forward-looking long shots, such as perovskite PV, battery chemistry, ammonia synthesis catalysts. Any of those have a chance of producing
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by ncmncm 4y ago
That is what they tell their pigeon investors. But they don't say there is not enough tritium to operate commercial reactors, or that no material has been identified that can hold the structure together after bombardment with hot neutr
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by ncmncm 4y ago
By the time much storage is being built, renewable power will be the cheapest choice, by far. So, you are worried that somebody up the line will choose to use expensive fossil-generated power instead of cheap renewable power. Just by prefer
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Differences would be about staffing. For any given specialty, having C++ skills too is common. Finding somebody with needed skills and also Rust experience will be impossible, so you would either need to plan on training up some Ruster on t
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by ncmncm 4y ago
General Motors became a finance company that sold cars on the side.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Offshore wind is turning out to be a lot easier to sell. Unfortunately, the skills involved in deploying on land don't transfer very easily to sea work. Doing anything at sea is a specialty of its own. So, people with long sea experien
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by ncmncm 4y ago
They are not who is consuming the $billions.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Bombardment is with hot neutrons. Period.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It could all be dual use. There is no need for any of it not to be. If you have some ground you are not using for anything else, and is convenient to a grid tie-in, it is harmless to just put solar on that. I can't see that as using
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Hydrogen will be one storage medium, mostly stored underground where geology favors it. Tanked anhydrous ammonia will be common, with more ordered from tropical solar farms when local tankage runs low. Underground and underwater compressed
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Nobody gets a price break on their power bills when they make panels or batteries, and nobody pays for it and fails to pass on the cost. Every single kWh that goes into making any piece of kit, whether battery, wind turbine, solar panel, e-
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by ncmncm 4y ago
If you do try, you never get there. But you also never get to the other thing that actually has some prospect of working. Look up "opportunity cost", "sunk cost fallacy", and "good money after bad". Victorian
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by ncmncm 4y ago
There is no such "threat". Investors are being defrauded. Money that could be going for important, useful research is being diverted to pockets of fraudsters promising sky castles.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I have seen plenty of land foolishly wasted on single-use solar farms. That does not make it smart. In the future those will find themselves undercut by dual-use farms that continue doing what they did before solar was added. Rooftops will
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by ncmncm 4y ago
There is still a great deal to be learned about plasma fluid dynamics. Probably the only good that will come out of all the work is a few generations of plasma fluid dynamicists. Pray they can find something else to do when the whole projec
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by ncmncm 4y ago
As Hamlet says, "It's as easy as lying."
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Millions.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
1. A fusion plant would be extremely expensive to build. The most optimistic estimates are 10x per GW vs. fission. But we really don't know how to build one; nobody has identified a material that would work. 2. It is extremely expensiv
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Some of the time. Not this summer, e.g.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
This is the only fusion project that could conceivably have a future.

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