There comes a time where you have to stop accepting things you can't change, and start changing things you can't accept.
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Last Notes npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante France has shut down two of its over 50 reactors in order to meet regulations designed to prevent stress on the local ecosystem with a wide safety margin. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Aaaaaaand we've got a winner in #SarlaccPit! @npub194e…ld8k has the solution: https://mindly.social/@HippieScubaSteve/116705386531393702 npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Okay, S it is! It appears thrice, in positions 3, 16, and 43. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante The second time is the charm — L wins the toss after another tie in the #SarlaccPit. It appears 5 times, in position npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante This time in #SarlaccPit, we have two tied winners. So I tossed a coin: E wins this time! It appears four times, in positions 6, 10, 20, and 29. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante The third winner of this round of #SarlaccPit is the letter R. It appears twice in the solution, in position 9 and 26. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante The second winner of this round of #SarlaccPit is the letter Q. But sadly, it doesn't appear in the quote. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante The first winner this round of #SarlaccPit is the letter O. And it's quite a winner, appearing 12 times in the 47 letters of the quote. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Here comes a new round of #SarlaccPit, a #Hangman-like #puzzle #game with a #StarWars theme! npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Would it help if I got out and pushed? npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante I think you might have missed a D in the second-to-last word. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante and 40% the Russia war. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante TWh per year. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante I keep thinking about how one might /guess/ this missing digit to be the at first implausible sounding 7. I imagine that if it was an 8 (or later), it would be too late for some further context of the stone? npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Nuclear power is already scalable and non-experimental for decades. Why bet on something that /might/ become available in 10 years, and neglect the thing that already works, and which /must/ be started now if the other bets don't show massive results? npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Storage has still a long way to go until it (plus massive overbuild) can /maybe/ compete with the simple generation from nuclear power. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Wasn't there a library virtually implementing (i. e. no GUI) this, I think called "cells"? npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante That makes it sound as if it was somehow a very hard thing to do. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Apparently not really free — I got Access Denied, probably because I block all the fingerprinting and tracking. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante I wonder how many banks still have such anti-nuclear policies. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante I like this outcome, but I won't boost an image of the orange menace. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Huh, this wouldn't be the world's first, would it? E. g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fuel_cycle_in_France npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante [continuation] npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante TL;DR npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante »We are installing lots of solar panels« is obviously not half of the real story. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante The »world nuclear waste report« doesn't look like a serious source. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Is there a better translation somewhere, or the original? npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante I've seen some solar guy explaining that the inverters that create alternating current from solar (and wind, although that's more complicated) are very good at /following/ the phase and frequency of the grid, but in that, they /amplify/ disturbances. Turbines (hydro, nuclear, gas etc.) on the other hand have a lot of inertia, /dampening/ disturbances. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante This raises a question: why can't they keep themselves running? Why require a constant external power source that is probably much less reliable than they themselves? npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante What does »organic« mean in this context? npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Figuring out what? npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante 2/2 npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Here is the text, it is easiest to add as alt text on the actual images (because of character limits), so I'm repeating them here. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante To be honest, I think this is horribly overengineered. Also, you shouldn't make future fuel this inaccessible. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Yeah! npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante They just need to show Germany as a bad example. That should convince anyone. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Side note: nuclear power is also Europe's largest electric energy source (25%). npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante The problem is that these people /believe/ (as in religion, not as in science) that npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante 2 being built? npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante I think that »if only a small fraction…« arguments are in most cases bullshit. You just have to make the base magnitude big enough to claim anything. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Ugh. Preview shows Trump. Don't do that if you want me to share. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante No, in fact, it is quite fast in its reaction time. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante If it was only about total amount of energy, then yes, there are more pressing places than the north. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante I believe almost any design can do district heating. You just have to use the heat. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Something like a well-written and nuanced blog post on a specific question. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante I don't have time to watch it right now, but my impression is that Biden, Harris, and Walz were consistently pro-climate, pro-nuclear, while Trump and Vance etc. are only pro-profit and anti-science. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante The effectiveness of wind and solar is highly dependent on their penetration. At around 40% of direct electricity demand, the output peaks hit the demand curve. Above that, it gets /progressively/ harder because of the added need for storage, transmission, and overbuild. Given the limited timeframe due to their short lifetime, a »100% solar and wind« system seems effectively impossible. But that's OK, we have other sources, such as nuclear. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Sorry, that was probably too abbreviated to be unambiguous. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Political security (we will not make your investment worth negative billions in a few years), better financial modelling (reducing cost of finance, which makes up more than half of the building costs), building in progressive series alongside the supporting industry. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Nuclear plants usually get more powerful over time, due to those small improvements. And as for the big improvements, last I looked, there are currently around 70 companies worldwide with a wide spectrum of new designs. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante The same is true for nuclear power. It gets better all the time, and there is still a lot of untapped potential for small (e. g. better fuel usage, designs, materials, processes) and big (e. g. alternative fuel cycles, recycling) improvements. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Maybe, but a nuclear power plant has a lifetime of 60—100 years, while batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines are limited to 20—30 years. Every single solar panel, wind turbine, and battery block installed now will be gone by 2050 and needs replacement, and then again in 2080 etc. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante This is great news, as it means that we get a first mover on this new development, instead of the usual »yeah, we'll take the fifth run so that the first kinks are already ironed out«. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante It would be the job of the government to ensure that this clean capacity is not destroyed when the AI hype is over. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Consumer prices are not the entire truth, yes, but spot prices are much worse. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante That's spot prices, i. e. the cost of securing short-term missing supply. That's only a small part of the whole and has only very little connection to what the end user pays. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Funny to see the »oh noes, nuclear bad« sentences strewn into the otherwise entirely upbeat article. Is it cognitive dissonance, editorial demands, or tongue in cheek? npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante I don't see how having a vertically integrated direct and complete competitor is necessary for sanctions against Rosatom. Just sanction them. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Oh, that's right. Here is a different one: yewtu.be npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante They usually have a link to a different one or to an overview page with health info. I think they are often under attack/restriction by yt, so evading seems like the sensible thing to do. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Thinking about it, those 90% are probably not a key figure. Instead, they probably currently just don't /use/ much energy, but that will change soon as they lift themselves out of energy poverty. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante I think the Kenya situation warrants studying: they apparently already have 90% so-called renewables, and still see they need something else to get to 100%. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante What I'd like to see is a site that collects and reviews real studies about #energy, especially clean sources like #nuclear, #wind, #solar, and supporting tech like batteries, transmission, and synthetic fuels. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Yes, but again, that doesn't mean that current Gen III have excessive or problematic water requirements, or that uranium resources are somehow severely limited. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante That's good, but I think it should be made clear that already any Gen. III reactor is for all intents and purposes also safe and clean. This is just one example of interesting new developments that show that nuclear power is not standing still. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante That's not what you wrote. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante You do realize that that is not an argument at all, right? It's like a textbook example of a non-argument. Please allow me to refrain from congratulating you on that. npub1hnnyl28a35qd9cz7xjpxd57fls65s7vz0xef6j9a7am0sytle2uqu9uh9f Svante Certainly cleaner than any other energy source, because it is orders of magnitude less, and much more easily contained, and it decays.
