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- Comment on 7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change 4 days ago:
According to the World Health Organization, about 7.1 million people die from air pollution each year, with more than 90 percent of these deaths from energy-related combustion. So switching out our energy system to nuclear would result in about 93 million people dying, as we wait for all the new nuclear plants to be built in the all-nuclear scenario.
No one is proposing we stop building renewables while we build more nuclear. This is a bad faith argument and just dumb. Stop building oil and gas plants build renewables and nuclear. The best thing to do is build nuclear on top of existing coal or gas thermal plants.
- Long Time Lag Between Planning and Operation This is a fair criticism but it’s fundamentally misunderstanding the reasons it takes to long to build. Construction takes to long and costs to much because every plant is custom and we don’t have people with experience building them. It’s we start building new ones we will gain that experience and improved modularity.
- Cost Cost is a factor but the LCOE of renewables depends on batteries which they don’t factor in or existing fossil fuel plants to provide peaker and base load.
The clean up costs are exaggerated by first generation designs. I’m currently eating dinner in Fukushima prefecture and I have no fear or concern over contaminated food. The reactor designs the have melted down did so because they did not have passive safety systems which all modern designs include.
Storage of waste is also overblown. All the high level waste the United States had created would fit in a modern NFL stadium. And only 5% of that is actually waste. 95% is firtile fuel and could be recycled and put into a breeder reactor. We only generate this much waste because we never invested in breeding or recycling.
Lastly with waste it does not need to be long lived isotopes like cesium or plutonium. Recycling and breeding can turn these actinides into fissile fule reduces the half-life down to hundreds of years not thousands or millions.
- Weapons Proliferation Risk
This is true, historically governments wanted weapons with their power so the designs we invested in were only ever dual use. Modern designs are much harder to turn into weapons. This was a deliberate choice and we don’t have to make it again.
- Meltdown Risk
Chernobyl was not a meltdown but something worse as it went prompt critical and created a super critical steam explosion. Had it not flashed both is moderating and coolant instantly it would not have melted down. That design was a cost savings choice without concern for the outcomes.
TMI was a meltdown. And it was due to a lack of passive safety systems and lots of procedural issues that were resolved. There have been no meltdown in the United States since TMI because of those changes. Most running reactor could suffer the same type of failure but don’t because we changed the procedures to prevent it.
Fukushima is perhaps the most valid criticism of “modern” as they decided not to build the sea wall high enough and put the backup pumps and generator on a lower level. It could have been avoided and should have been but humans are not great at evaluating risk.
- Mining Lung Cancer Risk
This is true of all mining and the best argument for recycling our waste.
- Carbon-Equivalent Emissions and Air Pollution
I think they said things but the arguments seem to be renewables create less CO2 which ignores storage and reliance on existing fossil plants. Again no one is suggesting that we don’t keep building renewables only that we stop building fossil plants.
- Waste Risk
Waste is currently a choice not an inevitability. We could choose to recycle, we could choose to breed, and we could choose to use the thorium cycle but we don’t because dumping is cheaper. same with coal ash and gas emissions, we didn’t actually calculate the cost of being responsible. If we did I would expect nuclear to end up costing far less than fossil fuels.
- Comment on Who gets all the tariff money about to be collected from US citizens buying products from Canada? 4 days ago:
The rich when tax cuts go into effect. It’s always been a mass transfer of wealth and the plan from the beginning. It’s why we always knew any bargaining was bull.
- Comment on Trump’s Economic Revolution: How His Plan Could Create 20 Million New American Millionaires 1 week ago:
It’s easy to create 20 million new millionaires. All you have to do is loot the federal government and put 200 million people into poverty.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 1 week ago:
Load side here essentially means end of the chain. So Breaker ---- anything else ----- GFI - Bidet ----nothing else.
When you put a GFI receptical on a line there are two ways, either in series or parallel, if you do it in series then everything down stream of that outlet is protected by GFI. One thing you dont want to happen is two GFI on the same line, so if you have GFI breakers in your box dont add a GFI outlet on one.
Good luck, its easy enough to install because its the same as really any outlet, you just need to know where it is in the chain.
- Comment on Do you find this compelling evidence to doubt the result of the election? 1 week ago:
Are there any sources for this, or are we just supposed to take a random AM radio station and random website that lists its executive board without real names, links to other verifiable profiles, or any way of proving its legitimacy?
- Comment on Do you see what's going on yet? 2 weeks ago:
There are no poor Republicans only financially embarrassed ones who will be rich again as soon they don’t have to compete for jobs.
- Comment on Are conservatives mad about trans people or they just mad they get walk around out of the closet while they have to leave the white sheets at home? 2 weeks ago:
If only there was a left wing maybe they would have voted…
- Comment on DOGE Deep-State Demolition Path Evident In Soaring DC Jobless Claims 2 weeks ago:
Only fictional characters can offer credible news in today’s media.
- Comment on 6,000 IRS employees to be fired as DOGE continues sweeping slashes 2 weeks ago:
No you get audited but they don’t have to pay taxes.
- Comment on Has America Reached Its Tipping Point with Ignorance? 2 weeks ago:
Lol no we can get so much dumber!
- Comment on US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan 2 weeks ago:
Also because we dont have the construction experience of building FAB’s, and we have different building regulation and standards.
25% tariffs on steel also wont make it any cheaper.
- Comment on DOGE needs to 'cut deeper' and must ‘keep slashing’ to succeed, says Kevin O’Leary 2 weeks ago:
I am not tying it directly to Trump, but the stated goal has been to disrupt every federal system, service, and person and the FAA was probably the closest to breaking before the regime change, so it sure seems like it could be collateral damage.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Older printers often require more maintenance and old software. If people struggle to set the clock on their microwave how do you expect then to plug in and use an old printer with Windows XP drivers.
- Comment on DOGE needs to 'cut deeper' and must ‘keep slashing’ to succeed, says Kevin O’Leary 2 weeks ago:
Succeed at what? Three major Air accidents in 4 weeks?
- Comment on Why hasn't the deep state stopped trump? 2 weeks ago:
Deep State was always projection at best. Real Deep State is the oligarchy, and Musk now has his control.
- Comment on How often do you run backups on your system? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the application. I run a nightly backup of a few VM’s because realistically they dont change much. I have containers on the other hand that run critical (to me) systems like my photo backup and they are backed up twice a day.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
if its really important then talk to a lawyer.
- Comment on Democrats Blocked From Entering Capitol Building Due to 'Push' Door Labeled 'Pull' 3 weeks ago:
Republicans unable to get up in the morning because it’s woke.
- Comment on The eye-popping amount of money Elon Musk has already slashed from the Education Department as staff melt down 3 weeks ago:
Lol don’t be fooled this costs way more than any “savings”. And it’s factually illegal.
- Comment on Why are headhunters or recruiters so laser focused on getting my resume? 3 weeks ago:
often yes, they need to bring a number of candidates to the company that they are working for to get paid. So having your resume lets them stuff open jobs with “valid” candidates.
- Comment on Do they make a TV device or dongle to connect quickly via a number of types of inputs? 3 weeks ago:
www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/atemmini
tvone.com/products/video-scalers/c2-2755?ic=1
www.analogway.com/products/quickvu-4k
So all three of these are AV Professional units, the Black Magic is a bit more live event/live venue focused. The TVOne is more conference room focused. The Analogway is kinda hybrid of the two but much more expensive.
- Comment on Do they make a TV device or dongle to connect quickly via a number of types of inputs? 3 weeks ago:
Is this for home or professional applications?
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that part pisses me off to no end. If they lock up even one Citizen in gitmo…
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 3 weeks ago:
I am, there saved them the trouble.
Come screw with my first constitutional rite, and my iron clad citizenship.
- Comment on Septic clean out cap 2 months ago:
ABS is probably the best since it’s more resistant to UV light.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I reject the premise. Sexuality at its core is not, and in in my opinion cannot be perverted. Kinks may have social implications and be less preferred, but outside of overtly illegal acts and non-consensual harm suggesting something is perverted only acts to shame people for natural desires.
- Comment on Dell sales team told to return to office 5 days a week, starting Monday 5 months ago:
Probably not but there’s literally no reason to have sales in the office it’s not like they have a storefront.
- Comment on Home Depot 5 months ago:
Once again the minivan heavy portfolio pays.
*The damage to the drywall was like that from the store it was 75% off and being used to make some patches and fill a small renovation.
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 5 months ago:
Simple answer is stop buying products that require OEM software to function or an app.
Keyboards with QMK/VIA support are open and configurable on nearly any OS and for nearly any OS.
Some mice are even QMK/VIA enabled.
Mice are harder so checking for openrgb support is a good idea as well as mice that can be configured and operated without software.
- Comment on The mark 5 months ago:
