nickpp

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by nickpp 3y ago
Profit is exactly how we make sure individual and societal interests are aligned. Otherwise, how do we know what "benefits humanity"? Who decides? One says "let's feed the poor". Another "let's explore spa
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Waste is a non-problem. Just burry it in a mine (that's where it came from anyway), put warning signs around and maintain them. Furthermore current reactor designs use and reuse fuel and irradiated materials. But it's beyond weird
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Funny enough I was born, grew up and I currently live in the Eastern Europe. I could tell you so much about our history and relations with Russia. From my own experience before '90, from my parents' during communism horror years a
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That irrational response was heavily fueled by fear mongering from environmental activists and financed by oil producing hostile countries. In the 70s and 80s leftists couldn't much keep pushing socialism (like they are now) since the
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> But having 20% too many regulations is far preferable than 20% too few. The problem is when that extra 20% regulation makes the technology so expensive the world chooses to keep burning coal, oil and gas thus poisoning and killing mill
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But the millions killed each year by pollution created burning gas, oil and coal would strongly disagree - if they were still alive.
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Biomass boasts 155 times more deaths per unit of energy produced compared to nuclear, while hydropower only 43 times [0] but at the same time is a methane (potent greenhouse gas) emitter and a general ecosystem wrecker. The others seem to b
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Oh, I have no illusion politicians can (or even want to) solve this problem they created, even if the solution is staring them in the face. The current reaction to anything new and optimistic is fear and denial. See how news about AI were r
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I am willing to take that chance. We already had two nuclear “apocalypses”. The result? Less than a few thousand dead and a bunch on lost land. Nothing compared to the millions of deaths carbon pollution causes every year. And how about the
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So... your proposal is to not change anything because something could go wrong? Keep things as they are because corporations wanna make money (who doesn't)? This mentality is exactly how we sleep-walked into the current Climate Change
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So what exactly are you proposing?! Who is supposed to generate all that energy we are using instead of "megacorps" and how?
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Ask me what I think about the solar panels on my house late at night or when it's winter-dark outside.
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The reason nuclear is so expensive and slow to build is overregulation. It also slowed R&D so much that we haven't created and tested the reactor designs that were safer, smaller and easier to run. It's like when inventing the
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> How much do you trust giant Energy megacorp to do the right thing Just as much as I trust any giant megacorp to do the right thing?! Which is to say slightly more than my government and slightly less than my neighbors. Everything aroun
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All regulation! The proof is in the ridiculously low rate of deaths per megawatt. When you have such a complex tech made as safe a solar panels but takes decades to build and costs more than going to Mars - it's clear overregulation is
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That is the total energy of a Kg matter according to E=mc2, if I'm not mistaken. How exactly are you planning to convert that matter into energy? Do you have a Kg of antimatter laying around your house?!
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> still major issues to be solved here around baseload and storage So maybe this is why China is still building those nuke plants?! We can have both, you know. But we keep burning gas, oil and coal while arguing how dangerous nuclear i
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Stop with all the nuclear fear mongering. No industry is perfectly safe. Nuclear has the lowest number of deaths [1] per megawatt produced, other than Solar. It's so expensive because it is ungodly regulated. [1] https://our
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Nuclear is has the lowest number of deaths per unit of energy produced [1], except Solar. At the same time it's also the heaviest regulated. These two, are, of course, connected. Isn't it logical that we shuld search for a middle
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The legal weed? Not judging, just observing this at friends that are now consuming daily. The chronic lack of sleep? Doom scrolling at 2am is so common in the post-pandemic world. The continuous notifications and distractions coming from ou
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This is not true. Plenty of people already changed their consumer behavior due to Climate Change info. For example Solar deployment is quite impressive around the word even if it's not always the best strategy financially (governmental
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In that video, it looks like the 8gb starts swapping when running blender and processing photos Lightroom?! Those are the very definition of tasks requiring a memory upgrade, IMHO. The 8gb model is meant for web browsing, communication, wat
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> The black swan big disasters We had 2 huge ones. They resulted in a few thousand deaths and some uninhabitable land. Nothing compared to pollution damage. > accepted by society [...] socially acceptable I'd rather decide based
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I am referring to everything . Even wind has more deaths per unit of electricity produced. Only solar has less.
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There was another government that tried to create an Internet: France's Minitel. It eventually failed miserably in front of the assault of private sector pushing the US Internet, even if it seemed as a good thing for a while.
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There is a looong way from a University Communication protocol to my ISP giving me gigabit connection for 50 bucks a month to connect to Pornhub. Private sector delivered the Internet. Academia researched and established standards. What the
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When a government is a regular client (even if one with a very fat wallet and lots of requirements), it is the private free market that researches and develops the solutions and products, not the client.
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Don't you think we should regulate more the energy industries with most deaths per produced megawatt?!
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There must be a name for the fallacy when one is focused on avoiding a single risk while completely ignoring much larger and closer dangers. Nuclear energy has a minuscule list of total casualties throughout history. Casualties per megawatt
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> How is it that we've become so bad at building? Regulation. No matter how you find it (a drag, useful or even life-saving), one thing is certain: it significantly increases costs and time to build. Do you know how Golden Gate or t

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