Gwypaas

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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Arnold Schwarzenegger hade an obese BMI in competition trim. Outliers does not invalidate a generic measure, they are outliers. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Arnold_S...
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Is not this common knowledge? It works for population measures and mostly everyone not exercising at a very high level. In other words, 9x% percent of the population can not excuse their BMI by "muscle mass", it is simply due to a
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> The risks of nuclear power going critical are far smaller than the benefits from not having to use coal for example. That is a strawman argument. Coal has generally been uneconomical since the advent of combined cycle gas turbines wher
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> You're imagining an act of god that does precisely so much damage that the difference between catastrophic failure and a non-event is this one cracked pipe. That was, please note, detected and fixed before failure. Take the severe
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
You can, have a read. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Which is why I treat my computer as a thin client unless it is in the Dropbox folder. For example, every single line of code is simply a scratchpad if I don't sync it to a remote git instance.
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Or Dropbox and choose "online only". For my off site backup I have a computer which syncs everything to local storage. I guess I don't defend against malicious intent or "delete it all" software bugs but that tends
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
You have to differentiate between paid off nuclear plants nearing end of life and new built ones. Take for example Hinkley Point C, that costs €0.15 per kWh for the consumers. How does that compare? https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> “Nuclear reactor design has evolved, but key additional safety features have not been included at Barakah, with the chief executive of Areva, the French nuclear cooperation, comparing the Barakah reactor design to, quote, ‘a car withou
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost... > The same argument according to which solar panels and such will become cheaper as demand increases (because of economies of scale and technical impro
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> I'm not really clear what this means? All power plants require financing for their construction cost which is pretty definitionally the market cost of construction. It is hard to finance a plant when you will on average sell the p
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> Not to mention nuclear is also the safest technology out there so far (read up stats on the deaths per each technology, per megawatt) Let's remove all laws where the public bear the cost of accidents then? Should be fine since it&
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
With reduced safety features that would not be acceptable in the west. Then sprinkle middle eastern style guest workers and a dictatorship on top. Will not be repeated in the west.
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Is there any public information about the financing? The recent nuclear plants constructed in the west requires something like $5-15B above the market price in subsidies, of course depending on size. Would be interesting to know how they in
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Of course nothing is forever. But why can't we celebrate the win that BEVs are?
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
In my experience async drop is a nice to have, not a must. Futures::block_on is good enough for the happy path in low stakes scenarios. When dealing with async operations they tend to end up at a network boundary and thus the service enters
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Through a SPAC after their application to license their design was denied by the NRC, and the responses seem very immature. Does not inspire confidence. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/nrc-denies-oklo-powers-plan...
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Locking up capital for 70 to 80 years? Do you know about the time value of money? [1] What you are proposing is FDR and Churchill sitting at the Casablanca Conference at the height of the second world war in 1943 [2] planning out economic i
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
In Sweden the grid connection for off-shore wind farms have been said to be in the 15-30% range of total cost. On the other hand, the question is where the grid ends and a power plant begins. Previously when the grid owners and power genera
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
I agree the stance is old-fashioned, but nuclear is not the solution in 2023. We correctly attempted it in the 2000s, it did not deliver, lets learn from that experience. Who would finance another Flamanville [1] or Vogtle [2] today? The re
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Bunker barges/tankers are standard everwhere, although not underway but docked or at anchor. Docking at a certain place simply to bunker just doesn't happen on larger vessels where utilization factor is everything. https:/&#
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Exactly as I said. Nuclear was the right choice in the 70s. At that time the climate as a question did not exist, it was only about energy independence. Today the equivalent choice when rebuilding our energy systems are renewables. Case in
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Such a success story that their nuclear company, EDF, had to be nationalized and is so indebted that they can not finance new nuclear without state aid. >(Montel) French utility EDF is unable to self-finance the construction of new nucle
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Or simply build adequate infrastructure. Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can) https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
I recommend you read the short linked article before making strong statements. > It would be wrong to assume that rich countries have only achieved this by offshoring manufacturing overseas – which would simply mean that other countries
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Many advanced economies have decoupled energy use from economic growth. https://ourworldindata.org/energy-gdp-decoupling
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Let's stop subsidizing their accident insurance then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
>> After 70 years of trying we haven't built an economic traditional nuclear reactor. > Are you saying that was a true statement? As the op, yes. See: The limited liability vs Fukushima cost of at least $150B. https:/&#x
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
After 70 years of trying we haven't built an economic traditional nuclear reactor. Even less a breeder. It is like saying we have infinite fossil fuels because we can use renewables to create it from water and air. The interesting part
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> You can see here [1] that on a time frame of 2000 to 2022 Germany is yet to replace reduction of nuclear generation (Kernkraft) with renewables Which is another misrepresentation of statistics given that we use less electricity today t

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