Nuclear Nerd

You're clearly a fucking troll, no thanks. Kindly fuck right off.

Decommissioning is built in to the cost. Every nuclear plant is required to pay into a fund that can ONLY be used for decommissioning. What do you mean? I'm not glossing over shit, I've been an operator and I'm currently in NSSS at a nuke plant. I see the costs every day.

I have bad news for you about climate change and who pays for it.

Right, but the problem with 1 to 1 comparisons is that nuclear is, as far as I know, the only industry that forced to be responsible for all of its 'external costs' such as environmental damage, waste holdings, and whatnot. If we made every energy source do this nuclear would rein supreme overnight

I was excited when I found out they were asking for volunteers to transfer to TMI, but less so when I found out it's for LLM bullshit. Hopefully the contract ropes Microsoft into funding it for those 20 years even if their "ai" gamble blows up in their face.

Scientist vs. scientist: an escalating fight over renewable energy Can the US electricity grid run on wind, water, and solar energy alone by mid-century? Scientists who disagree on the answer may be headed to court.

That's certainly the case today, and I'm very much hoping the political landscape regarding nuclear changes at a rapid pace.

Again my brain is foggy but this mess was a big eye opener for me back then:

thebulletin.org/2017/11/scie...

I do still contend that nuclear is our most likely path out of this crisis, even if it's only a 300 year pause. But I still do some research when I'm not turbo sick. I'm only in the social media tailspin because I'm bedridden.

Perhaps I overstated my case, apologies. I have very distinct memories of doing this calculation for lead, but I guess I didn't do it for lithium because I assumed the cost was far too much. I'll have to dig into it again to have a proper response because preliminary googling agrees with you.

Next quarter thinking is a blight on society. We need to think of solutions that last hundreds of years, not hundreds of days.

So yeah, it's not financially possible, but like, why do we care about that if the alternative is collapse?

But yeah, we're looking at CC damage today and they still deny

I think the solution with current technology is boiling water reactors running at around 60% output on recirc, they are very capable of load following with changes in recirculation rpms, no control rod movement needed. On the flip side you can run some at near 100% and rapidly down power on recirc.

Grid scale capacitors are certainly required, and batteries can certainly further smooth out longer blips. But beyond perhaps minutes of backup, chemical batteries are unlikely to be useful at grid scale.

I'm not here to be a "but sometimes" kind of guy,but with current technology we cannot hope to build chemical storage at the scale needed. We will run out of lithium and lead before we reach a meaningful fraction of generation, barring an unforeseen breakthrough.

The solution for today is nuclear.

I'm not trying to say any of it is impossible, but I am saying that if we just act like France in the 70s we could more or less be good for hundreds of years.

We can't wait for a breakthrough, we must choose good enough if the alternative is waiting an unknown amount of time.

The problem with grid level barriers is that chemical solutions are nearly a non starter barring an unforeseen breakthrough. Pump hydro is pretty reasonable but it's geography dependent. And beyond that it starts to get pretty exotic or scales poorly.

The units themselves are actually pretty cheap, but the installation certainly will not be, especially for a bypass version.

My house has a forced air version that just needs a square hole in the return duct, a water line, and a drain.

I ain't 'fraid of no sleep.

a man with a mustache is looking at a washing machine with a small , medium , and large button . ALT: a man with a mustache is looking at a washing machine with a small , medium , and large button .

Oof

Why on earth would they use a lead acid battery when they don't need massive cold cranking amps? Lithium iron phosphate would be much better suited and you can drain those into oblivion without much degradation.

At least when there's a new comment it's at the bottom where you expect it. Reddit requires multiple rereads for me before I fully understand the sequence of events.

Everyone just wants tubers and misdemeanors, it's a basal instinct.

Everyone loved it during COVID when 2x4s were $11 each.

I think there's a joke here and I'm too thick. Hyundai is Korean.

@smartereveryday.bsky.social hey Destin, just wanted to give you a correction for your nuclear video. U235 has a much higher probability to fission from a thermal neutron, which has much less energy than a fast neutron. I wrote a longer explanation in the youtube comments because it wont fit here.

Just a reminder that people pretending this isn't what it is are lying to you.

@techconnectify.bsky.social I needed to notify you that my dirt cheap landlord special heat pump was keeping my poorly insulated house warm until it was around 10 degrees freedom the past week.

Had to kick on the heat strips yesterday because it just couldn't handle it.

Sadly our 3rd parties are more or less just the same shit as the other two but with little sprinkles of garnish. Jill Stein isn't different enough to move the needle even before the weird conspiracy shit.

When I hear DDR cross over this is what I'm thinking of...

You better stop comparing again. I'll make you watch that whole damn video you made.

Experiment of The Month Magnetic fields are generally produced by magnetic dipoles, using either permanent magnets or current-carrying loops of wire. This is different from the usual method of producing an electric field, us...

It seems like a monopole would theoretically be inverse square, but no such field has been observed. From all I can tell dipoles follow inverse cube.

www.millersville.edu/physics/expe...

Turns out the Walmart brand one that's like $25 is pretty decent. I've been using it for a few weeks thanks to @techconnectify.bsky.social making a video about the miniature convection ovens.