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by nickik 5y ago
I think the potential for cost reduction in nuclear is far bigger. There is no inherent reason why a small reactor couldn't be mass produced. In a perfect world you would have a factory spitting out finished nuclear reactor every day.
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As for why nobody is building them. I would just point out that nobody is really building full solar with storage either. That is starting but barley happening. Utilities need to hit install some renewables and setting up some solar is easy
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Flow battery are fantasy right now. No company is actually close. Liquid Air or Liquid Metal batteries maybe. However I would argue LFP based Li battery will likely win the cost battle for quite a while. And we are getting to a point in the
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The companies doing serious work on molten salt right now, are mostly in Canada because of regulatory structure. They had to develop their project with very limited funds and totally uninterested governments (until recently in Canada). Yes
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This is not a great way to look at it. Modern nuclear wouldn't use the kind of steam turbines that are currently used. It would either use the same turbines gas plants. Some concepts use even more modern turbines but those are not comm
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The reason it sticks around in the popular mind has almost nothing to do with all of this great economic work. For 1000s of years overall global population and economic output was more or less flat, and then, something happened, and in the
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> Those local elites would have even more power if they were independent No they wouldn't. Because they would face both their internal rivals and external rivals most importantly the empire itself. > and imperial protection didn&
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> Agree to most of the point, but note that AQI predates the 2003 Iraqi war (founded in late 90s) That might be true but there is difference you could drive a container ship threw between the AOI of the 90s and the power they gained in t
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Not sure if you are just doing a joke reference, but this doesn't really hold up. In the Imperial period most infrastructure was build the empire didn't grow all that much anymore. Binding of territories to the Roman state worked
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The knowledge of space-race ear rockets wasn't lost, the money to build them was no longer available or going into other projects. For the cost of shuttle NASA could have recreated the J-2 and F-1. We unfortunate don't have good d
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Yes, fine, lets research that. However here is the thing. We figured out that fission thing in the 50s and still fail to use it.
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This is complete nonsense. Fear mongering about Peak-this or Peak that is has proven wrong in pretty much every single case for 250 years. If fuel were serious concern for cost, real searching for it would find much more. And even with curr
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> Idiotic reasons such as that nuke always turned out, on examination, to cost much more than alternatives. Nonsense. In the 60 they literally developed 100 of different types of nuclear reactor often for a tiny amounts of money. Any coh
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Defense companies also spend millions in lobbying both directly and threw a whole network of think tanks and people. People with very strong association with those very defense companies both inside and outside of government were very stron
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Google has done a lot of effort in that direction. The first ever chips have already been produced that are fully open source from the tools used to make to the complete tool chain need to manufacture them. There is a huge amount of great s
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This is nonsense. Germany was not 'asked to pay for WW1'. To cost imposed on Germany would only just cover repairing Northern France and Belgium. Even just including pentions for French war widows was not fully paid for. And they
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> made little impact on the Japanese military The military capability being broken was not the goal, and it also not what decided the war. > made little impact on the Japanese military That would matter if the goal of the bomb or impa
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Its more like 'if debt is treated like anything other then non-enumerated social glue' slavery and imperialism are the inevitable result. And it is incredibly unannounced because that is very clearly his view.
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I disagree. It the same principle as sending something to the outer solar system. Many of the scientist who propose those things and work on the instruments and so on have long left the field by the time the missions arrive and many will so
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WE already did that. Its called nuclear power. Fission energy can do almost everything fusion can do. The difference in energy density between fission and fusion is not that large compared to the energy sources we have. With all the investm
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> Because people (for the most part) aren't fools, especially on here. But even if it were true and those revenues wouldn't exists and Tesla would have 0 profit, it wouldn't actually change that much about the overall posi
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Maybe we don't disagree, but it just seems to me that is a very strange way of looking of analyzing things. There is so much talk about confidence and who believes what, both the state itself and the people and media. You point at some
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My point was not that anthropologies don't have good data, rather I was referring to some of the specific examples in the book for witch we don't have. > Beyond that, I don't see how the Carl Menger quote you cited is proo
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The book is so wide range and meta narrative with a bunch of really specific examples. Some of those have been addressed but nobody seem to want to address the book as a whole. The basic idea of the book is very old and not original. Social
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The US is not leaving Afghanistan because of 'loss in confidence' but rather because they are finally admitting what has been clear for more then a decade now (arguable for 1000 years). Its incredibly idiotic and nonsensical to oc
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Why are people so obsessed with picking some parts Tesla revenue and claim that what makes it profitable. What makes them profitable is all the ways that make revenue and all the ways they spend money. Bitcoin was relevant for 1 Quarter. An
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$1B? That gone last a year tops.
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> Tesla has had the past couple quarters be profitable They have been profitable for almost 1.5 years. > (though amusingly more on bets on Bitcoin than actual car sales) That is simply false.
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I would not really recommend Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber as a good source. While there are sometimes good historical nuggets, it mostly concerns itself with interpreting ever possible situation in the last 5000 years accordi
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In Switzerland the President has is just one of the 7 chief ministers who are in control of departments like military, justice, finance, The Federal Council. The person who is president get 2x the vote in case a vote is tied (abstention is

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