Energy enthusiast, low carbon energy enjoyer and FOSS proponent since 2010. I know programming and some graphic design. From Costa Rica, a country that is *not* 100% powered by renewables, not even electricity only. Please stop saying it is, it's dishonest especially when you take non-electrical energy into account.
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Last Notes npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico "In addition, nuclear power plants can last 80 years or longer (we actually don't quite know yet)" npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico HAHAHAHA npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico Yeah I found a source: npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico I think the key is in molten *chloride* salt. If I recall the Chinese use a fluoride salt. Then again if we go for a first in general then it would have to be the MSRE at ORNL. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico "Uruguay has built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables [...] the same playbook could work anywhere" npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico I'd like quote formatting. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico "as per Electricity Maps Australia had a carbon footprint of 489 grams per kWh on average for 2024" npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico "Russia says it will help China overtake the United States on nuclear power" [1] npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico yes npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico Interesting, hopefully someone makes a study about this. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico What a steal, and just need to add backups, firming, inertia and storage to make it reliable. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico Yeah well, I know the dose rate of spent nuclear fuel goes down by around two orders of magnitude after 300 years, and that even if it didn't, we can still deal with it with either a deep geological repository or deep borehole disposal. And so the idea that spent nuclear fuel is an unmitigated risk is wrong. That's my opinion and that's the point @npub1pnw…qhcz was making. If you agree with that much then there's nothing to argue about. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico "There are a variety of other errors in your claims. For example, oxygen does not have an infinite half-life; SOME isotopes of it do, but others do no." npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico the key is "radiologically harmless", even after 300 years it might still be a little bit radioactive, but not by a dangerous amount. Anti-nuclear people love to fear-monger saying things like "uranium-235 has a half-life of 700 million years!" implying that for that entire time it will be dangerously radioactive. But the truth is radioactivity is inversely proportional to the half life. Or in simple English terms "the longer the half-life the less radioactive it is", if that still sounds counter-intuitive, think of it like this: oxygen has an infinite half-life, every stable element has an infinite half-life, the longer the half-life, the more stable and therefore less radioactive they are. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico "It is therefore the wrong approach to respond against anti-nuclear arguments with facts. Believe me, I've tried. You can reply to worries about nuclear waste (spent fuel) for example with facts - like it being manageable just fine, or it only needing safe storage for 300 years before it becomes radiologically harmless, or it being able to be recycled perfectly fine, or its volume being negligible... If you get a denial of these facts, just stop bothering as people are just being dishonest with you." npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico "All energy sources have toxic waste streams. Nuclear has the fewest and best managed. It is a 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 to the problem of how to minimize our impact on the environment." npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico "The third world, primarily Africa, is going to explode in energy consumption as they economically develop themselves (at long last) this century and, if we don't want them to burn coal for decades, nuclear energy is a 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 to this problem." npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico "If humanity is to have a future, the future will have to be nuclear." npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico Actually I have a question, you said it was a (singular) dam that never produced electricity and wasn't equipped to do so. But the Banqiao dam failure ended with 62 dam collapses, I'd assume at least some of them were meant for electricity, and it looks like that was the case because Wikipedia says (with 3 sources) "was launched to prevent flooding and to utilize the water for irrigation and generating electricity." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico I'm not (too) worried until Russia is willing to openly say they're going to give nukes to Iran. Or that they have already given Iran nukes. I think Russia knows if Iran uses a nuke on anyone it will immediately kickstart WW3 with a high possibility of tactical nukes, and they may not necessarily have the support of China. I think they know they can't trust Iran to have the nuke just as a deterrent and that it would be a coin-flip. Call me optimistic but I think we're still at a coin-flip chance of WW3 in the next 5 years rather than an almost definitive chance. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico B-BELGIUM? "we don't need nuclear" Belgium? npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico No rules were broken so probably just some power-tripping moderator who thinks wind and solar is everything we can use and we can't even debate about it. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico LMFAO, after the boost it got after the election I thought it would remain high for at least 6 months to a year before crashing again. I'm always overly pessimistic or overly optimistic, before the election I didn't thought tesla would get any bump at all, I really thought they were finished and would had been lucky if they could maintain the stock. Nothing ever makes sense with these overhyped pump and dump companies. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico I hope the greens are out of government and that this stops https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-002175_EN.html npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico I'm actually more worried about one particular VVER, you probably know which one, an old one unit plant. I don't even want to say which one because I don't want to jinx it 😂 npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico Hopefully Scotland reconsiders nuclear energy before they turn every last tree to "renewable biomass" to make space for wind turbines. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico California, New York, Germany and now Taiwan, it's almost like energy density is a thing and it's just impossible to replace nuclear energy with renewables regardless of how much anti-nuclear people and politicians promise it will be the case. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico wait, is volker seriously comparing capacity without taking into account capacity factor or lifetime? This is so deceptive it should be illegal. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico 24:33 npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico I just hope Seamus O'Regan can remain in government. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico the problem is the justice system, it should be accesible for david to sue them and win such a clear cut case npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico w-why tho npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico Hoy aprendí que los peruanos tienen reactores nucleares para la producción de isotopos medicinales. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico You mean the thread about species extinction? There's nothing in there that says anything close to nuclear energy being a cause for that. And the only emissions to a river from a nuclear plant is the same river water but slightly warmer, the same can not be said about coal, coal on the other hand puts a bunch of nasty stuff into the air, including radiation and heavy metals, and yes, radiation too, because coal contains small amounts of uranium and thorium. Coal plants even put more radiation into the air than nuclear plants, because of different regulations that are much more relaxed for coal plants, read about NORM. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico I'm sorry but if you honestly believe any biological process, or even all of them combined can reduce co2 concentrations in any meaningful way in a timeframe that would actually be relevant to the problem of rapid climate change, then you just don't understand the sheer magnitude of the emissions, it's been known that the idea you presented won't work, even as far back as the 70's, it's a simple napkin calculation really. Both uranium and CO2 can be found naturally in the environment, but it will be CO2 what (at best) turns the entire world into Brazil, as in high humidity and temperature all year round, and that's the absolute best and not so likely scenario. While uranium is just one factor in the natural background radiation in which we all evolved with. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico https://greennuclear.online/system/media_attachments/files/113/727/675/212/583/891/original/32bab313506ad458.png npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico Wind and solar require more inputs from mining per unit of energy, and greenpeace pushes for wind and solar while blocking every mining development, that's the contradiction. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico Hopefully Argentina signs the declaration to triple nuclear energy by 2050 next COP, so far from latin america only El Salvador has sign it, Mexico and Brazil should sign it too. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico "A group of male students decided to go into a girls' restroom to take a Snapchat of their own, similar to what the transgender student did, as a form of protest." npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico inb4 the usual German anti-nuclear troll: npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico Catawu and the other user have a scary cult-like behavior blocking people that didn't even said a word and mostly just linked sources. Being an atheist, I have no patience for such religious behavior, so it's a favor getting blocked by such people. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico It came (to the grid) 😛 npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico hahaha Catawu blocked me just for sharing two links. Enjoy living in your echo chamber where facts are not allowed. Typical anti-nuclear behavior, just like all the anti-science people. npub1ysee63kwsga8ttv0hphcdnulk970a68p5yfux7p44r27ew7h36dsd2urfm El Tico https://www.statista.com/statistics/191201/capacity-factor-of-nuclear-power-plants-in-the-us-since-1975/
