Can we also talk about the way they chose to manipulate the perception of the data by their choice of states
TURKEY POWER
Submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ToothpasteSundae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
LOL, it’s a reverse population map. Works on the stupid because “lots of orange!”
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There are states with populations higher than 30 million. Like yea that’s a lot of people, but the cherry picking of states is annoying
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 months ago
AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Rookie Numbers.It only uses elecitrical power generated. Why not cook turkeys in heat destined for cooling towers ? Gotta push those numbers way up.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Or just toss all the turkeys into the reactor
eldain@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Restricted sous-vide basin
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Turkey control rods
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The fun part of this is this is true of any 1GW power source. We have been deploying solar+battery arrays in that range recently for much less money and much faster than nuclear.
Thanks nuclear power for pointing out useful large scale solar+battery is too!
janus2@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I thought this was going to be about how many turkeys you could cook directly using the reactor heat
my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
Dohnuthut@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Glad to know I’m not the only one!
passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I really don’t get this ackshually business about nuclear power, we’re absolute idiots to not employ it more. Everywhere there’s been a focus on nuclear power generation we’re seeing reliable results over a long long timespan
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lemmy keeps telling me nuclear power is stupid. I’ve been screaming for more going on 30-years now. 🤷
Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Maybe because we still don’t have a solution for the waste which kills people generations after your death?
toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
2.5 Million Turkeys… and 500-5000 cubic meters of impossible to store basically forever radioactive nuclear (LILW) waste😋😋😋
source: this study
Morphit@feddit.uk 5 months ago
1500 cubic meters
Did you really pick the figure from the RBMK reactor type?
For PWRs, 250 m³ of LILW per GW annum is 28.5 m³ of LILW per TWh.
2.5 million turkeys in a 2.4 kW oven for 3.5 hours uses 0.021 TWh.
So 2.5 million turkeys and 0.6 m³ total low and intermediate wastes generated. Most of this can be released after ~300 years with negligible activity over natural background. That is a long time but not “basically forever”.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m not sure where they got those numbers.
All nuclear waste produced to date isn’t 500-1500 cubic meters.
As to storage. Just bury it again. We dug it up, we can bury it. There are a few places that are currently doing just that.
Or, here a wild idea. Just burn the waste. It’s something like 90% unburned fuel, just reprocess it and burn it.
toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
The source for that number is the International Atomic Energy Agency aka the nuclear fusion control agency. As for the rest of your ideas, its sadly not that easy. It has to be stored somewhere where it cant contaminate the environment, water cant get to it, tectonics are stable, etc. No permanent storage location for the waste has been found, to date.
And to burn the unburned fuel you would have to breed the material, which is a process that requires the most dangerous reactors and is extremely costly.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Just burn the waste
Wouldn’t that like… eradiate our whole fucking atmosphere? O.o
jlow@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Yeah, what about the waste, gonna eat that with your Turkey?
wasabi@feddit.org 5 months ago
How is this a meme?
C126@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I’d like to see this redone using energy instead of power. E.g is 2,400 watts during the initial heatup or when the oven reaches stable temperature? They’re not taking into account the time change either.
Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Now calculate how many generations of turkeys will be eaten till the waste stops killing people
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
How many people has all the waste we’ve produced kill up to now?
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
If people didn’t all turn their oven on at the same time but took more of a staggered approach this would supply a lot more people.
hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
No, it’s already wrong even for realistic staggered dinners.
I think they are using an arbitrary GW-day of energy instead of power, so it can’t even come close to making as much turkey as claimed.
Morphit@feddit.uk 5 months ago
They’re over by a factor of 6 which would add up to 21 hours, not 24. I don’t know what they’ve done to get 2.5 million, it should be 417 thousand with those numbers.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Time zones probably help with that!
Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
NuraShiny@hexbear.net 5 months ago
The real question is how many nuclear reactors a turkey could cook.
Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 5 months ago
A typical turkey feeds 12 people? Doubt. Perhaps enough for 12 portions - but that isn’t the same as 12 people get fed off this one bird.
yournamehere@lemm.ee 5 months ago
in a country where half of the presidents cant even pronounce nukular…and the only usecase for nukular is make some machines like openAI work cheaper. go eat the nukular waste george.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 5 months ago
if they claim a 15lb Turkey feeds 12, how am I supposed trust any of the other numbers?
hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Or how 1 GW/(200 W/person) came up with a number that started with a 3 instead of a 5. Like 5 million people, not 30 million.
Ropianos@feddit.org 5 months ago
But it only takes 3.5 hours per turkey and a day has 24 of them. So if some people get up at 3am it works out!