andyburke

You don’t have to convince me, if you think it’s such a great power source with such low costs you should pitch some investors.

I would think you would be the one trying to understand why nuclear plants aren’t being built if their costs are lower and benefits are higher. 🤷‍♂️

Show me the line items for long term handling of the waste, please. I am curious how much they allocated.

All of which ignores lots of real world factors that aren’t being included in the costs the commenter outlines.

Again, if nuclear were cheaper, you wouldn’t all be here downvoting my comments, you’d be discussing all the great new nuclear being onlined.

Renewables have won. They’re cheaper and easier to deploy, they’re distributed rather than concentrated, and they have lower impacts on the environment.

FWIW: I thought thorium reactors might have had some legs in the 00s, but it became clear those didn’t make fiscal sense, either.

How long does that waste need to be safely stored and what are the projected costs there? How do they compare to solar that you can deploy today?

We are not running out of space to put power generation, but we definitely need to worry about costs.

Now do the math on the cost of that uranium and the facility you need to turn it into power compared to the cost of the solar.

If you think cost isn’t the primary factor in all energy production … 🤷‍♂️

Edit: not to mention all the essentially free developed space we already have in spades to deploy solar to: rooftops.

If any of that were actually true, we wouldn’t be net negative on nuclear reactors onlined over the past couple decades.

Starting to think the nuclear lobby has been pushed by the fossil fuels industry to delay renewables adoption.

Why should any underdeveloped nation want to build more expensive nuclear plants that come with tons of issues when they can now install solar, wind and batteries for less?

We are installing gobs of distributed, cheap, safe solar and batteries to smooth load and nuclear proponents will still be running around advocating for expensive centralized nuclear reactors that generate either long-lasting radioactive waste or nuclear bombs.

🤷‍♂️

Timelines change based on interest.

Servo is a new browser rendering engine in Rust - seems interesting and gathering steam.

Don’t be too fatalistic - every time the corpos have come for the internet they have been circumvented. I don’t see it stopping now - especially since people like us are tired of this brand of bullshit.

These people think we don’t see them. We do.You don’t get to steal elections in this country. Stop whining and get active.

Don’t look behind the curtain! It’s totally not all bullshit stats all the way down!!

Bad people with money in developed nations use that money to radicalize and direct people in less developed nations. 🤷‍♂️

I never gave a timeline, I don’t think. All I see is fewer links and major investors writing down their investments. 🤷‍♂️

Why exactly is this headline presenting this as a problem?

The future isn’t one big town square. The future is lots of interconnected communities.

I, for one, have no interest in the corporate internet.

bits and pieces and … bita and pieces and …

We are all just fighting entropy for a while. How you got into the alive club? That shit don’t matter. You’re here. You’re one of us. You don’t need a permission slip.

It will be interesting to see where it ends up after the election, one way or another.

If you think X is getting linked at anything approaching the level Twitter was back in the day … where have you been? That platform is slowly bleeding out his billions of investment (well, some of his, but lots of other peoples’ money I don’t mind seeing burn, either)…

No, you see, they project about everything.

They absolutely hope they are “normal.”

Their whole ideology is based on group conformity.