Morphit
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- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 1 week ago:
Infrared lasers aren’t visible. They’re still higher frequency than radio waves. To say that visible light is visible radio is to say that the sky is green, just that it’s predominantly blue coloured green.
- Comment on After ‘coding error’ triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work 2 weeks ago:
I would say don’t give DOGE any ideas but I think that’s less bad than some of their own.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 month ago:
I don’t quite understand what the backlash is here. The article is about FAQs on the Mozilla website. It seems reasonable that some people might interpret “sell” to be accepting money to set the default browser to Google. Clarifying that on their site seems fine. The FAQ was surely never legally binding.
Their ‘Terms of Use’ document is new as of Feb 26 AFAIK. Is that what people are upset by?
- Comment on The Perfect Pi Pico Portable Computer 1 month ago:
Doom is one of the examples for the PicoVision. It might need some hacking to get the keyboard to work since I think he used I2C to connect it instead of USB, but it can definitely run Doom.
- Comment on Microsoft hypes another generative AI model but doesn't really explain how it'll help [game] developers 2 months ago:
They look like they need to tighten up the graphics a little bit.
- Comment on Introducing Pi-hole v6 2 months ago:
Ah, I saw another comment about this. The free plan is 300,000 queries a month. That’d last me almost a week before it stops working.
- Comment on Introducing Pi-hole v6 2 months ago:
That says it will only function for 300,000 queries per month. Based on my last 24 hours from pi-hole, that wouldn’t even last a week. Are you using a paid plan?
- Comment on i wish it was a cheesesteak 2 months ago:
I’m afraid that’s a CT scanner not an MRI.
Your point stands though.
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 4 months ago:
The Phénix rector shut down in 2009 so I think that was the end of France’s breeder reactors. India, China and Russia have operating breeder reactors.
Breeding from non-fissile material is different to reprocessing though. Reprocessing is a chemical process, not a nuclear one. The UK had an operational reprocessing capability - though it is being decommissioned now because it wasn’t cost effective with such a small fleet. Japan is still trying to bring its reprocessing plant online (after years of trouble). However France is doing it routinely for their domestic fleet and some foreign reactors IIRC. The USA made reprocessing illegal back in 1977 due to proliferation concerns. Despite that ban being repealed, they haven’t set up the regulatory infrastructure to be able to do it so no one has bothered. Maybe the new nuclear industry will shake that up a bit.
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 4 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.
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 4 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”.
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 4 months ago:
They’re talking about recycling the fuel and putting it back into the reactors. Unfortunately it’s cheaper to mine fresh fuel than to reprocess used fuel … as long as you just ignore the waste problem.
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 4 months ago:
No permanent storage location for the waste has been found, to date.
to burn the unburned fuel you would have to breed the material
France reprocesses spent fuel. With increased scale it would be cheaper and cut down on the volume of waste that must be dealt with regardless of if there’s a nuclear industry in the future.
- Comment on brains! 5 months ago:
All the way through?
- Comment on There you go little guy 6 months ago: