sunkenvicar

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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Humans are irrational. And it’s hard not to laugh at wind and solar. But you are right. I would downvote if I was wrong and laughed at.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
What are the severe environmental impacts of hydro?
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Hopefully before China eats our lunch.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
He’s downvoted because he’s bringing on-the-ground facts to a political discussion about solar and wind.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Seems like nuclear heat and electricity can substitute for hydrocarbons. Abundant heat and power within the atom to compensate for lower efficiency.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
I am concerned now because covering the world in solar panels and wind turbines is unsustainable. Each siting location by definition is worse than the one before. The vast land area required will cause tremendous societal and environmental
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
I’m referring to energy density. Because civilization requires ever-increasing amounts of energy to grow and prosper. Solar, even concentrated desert solar, is no good at all. Wind is a distant derivative and much, much worse. Hydrocarbons
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Wind is a second-order force. It’s even worse than solar - hard to believe!
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Climate change is already solved with nuclear power. You just don’t know it yet.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
This is what I meant.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Unreadable on mobile.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
He’s the most efficient tourist I’ve come across.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
He shows wind energy has horrifically low energy density. He also shows the immense infrastructure required for one wind turbine. A comparison with nuclear is left as an exercise for the viewer. Perhaps it is made explicit in the full video
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Why build Gen 3 plants when they are on the cusp of commercializing Gen 4?
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Industry, the backbone of modern civilization, requires cheap unlimited power 24/7. Renewables in Europe are killing growth and driving jobs overseas.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Everyone can drive an electric car with the Green Nuclear Deal.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Scott Adams’ law of slow-moving disasters continues to predict the future.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Nuclear is needed to generate the energy stored by Hydrogen.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Fake solutions for an imagined problem. The unused uranium from a reactor fits neatly into a few parking stalls. Security, transport, and storage of this valuable resource are already solved. Let’s put this material to use!
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
An invasive species under attack by human “urbanization”. Sounds good to me.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
This story omits the most important information. What happens to plant and animal life if we raise the river temperature? And what happens if we instead burn more coal in Germany to compensate?
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
A valid explanation of the trade-offs between safety and usability. But it seems like HN doesn’t like guns or gun analogies. Too bad.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
I am surprised at the skepticism in this thread from tech people. Dozens of startups recognize the limitless opportunity and inevitability of nuclear power. We’ve already seen two successful Green New Deals - France in the ‘70s and Sweden i
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
I skimmed the article and didn’t see a single mention of nuclear. The article can be safely ignored - nuclear is the only feasible solution regardless of your position on global warming.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
So much waste. We’ve built a mountain of bullshit while the world burns. California and Germany spent 680 BILLION dollars on renewables. If they’d spent that much on nuclear power instead, they’d have unlimited carbon-free green energy TODA
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
This is better than nuclear? How?
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Thorium (U-233) is one way to solve the proliferation risk.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Nuclear could really clean up the shipping industry and provide numerous other benefits.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
Haha. I must have been hallucinating.
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by sunkenvicar 7y ago
iOS 13 supports the 6s and the SE. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.

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