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BingoBoingo: Well, one Pantsuit primary election faultline is appearing to be a "Green New Deal" that consists of eliminating fuels and
nuclear power within 10 years. A proposal that makes... heating New York impossible
BingoBoingo: Latest G20 lulz is Argentina is going to see if they can afford to buy a
nuclear power plant and management of said plant from Russia
mats: fun fact, tw started work on a
nuclear power plant and construction has been stopped since 2014 due to the tsai admin, which wants to phase
nuclear power out entirely by mid 2020s
thestringpuller: a coin which requires
nuclear power plants worth of energy to mine single blocks
mircea_popescu: and new york has been failing to maintain it's
nuclear power plants.
mircea_popescu: contrary to aqll the brouhaha at the time, about how "mankind has found the way to end itself" bla bla, nothing could be further from the truth.
nuclear power provides humanity a hard guarantee against large scale catastrophe that no other life has, nor could have without thios particular tech.
thestringpuller: always imagined some d00d with access to
nuclear power building a reactor on some island and using all the
power for mining
ben_vulpes: "what, you want to automate the
nuclear power plant?"
pete_dushenski: unless "make coins for the homeless" is use
nuclear power for bitcoin mining
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> "Jordan has signed a $10bn deal with Russia to build the kingdom's first
nuclear power plant, with two 1,000-megawatt reactors in the country's north." << someone is actually building
nuclear reactors these days. << /me remembers when King Hussein was the "Good Guy" (TM)
pete_dushenski: "Jordan has signed a $10bn deal with Russia to build the kingdom's first
nuclear power plant, with two 1,000-megawatt reactors in the country's north." << someone is actually building
nuclear reactors these days.
BingoBoingo always imagined a perfect "
nuclear power" untouchable datacenter would target DC, Beijing, Moscow, and Mecca for its dead hand protocol
mircea_popescu: this water has another .7MJ added by a
nuclear power plant, turns to steam, powers a turbine, putting out 1MW of electricity which restarts the cycle.
mircea_popescu: aside the obvious objection that "right wingers" have nothing to do with all this, and aside the spurious conflation of plastics and
nuclear power,
decimation: they have always hated suburbs,
nuclear power, shopping malls, automobiles... and plastics, which could not exist under a centrally planned green economy. I would therefore like to ask all my readers to take a look around them and note everything plastic, and then say a quiet "thank you" to the right-wingers who made it possible for everything that Brutopians consider "wasteful" to exist at all. << Herr Kokkarinen
decimation: "Naturally, we should also immediately start rationing those scarce medical
nuclear isotopes used in cancer treatments, so that those who oppose
nuclear power would always be the last in the priority queue to receive them."
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2014 00:36:11; asciilifeform: a datacenter that can't be diddled from a safe distance is also called 'a
nuclear power'
assbot: Army
Nuclear Power Program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, wind storms are a thing here and... should a hot war start with a
nuclear power... I live all to close to Air Mobility command atm to count on these plastic window blinds to save me from radiation poisoning while I wait out the initial fallout's decay.
peterl: use
nuclear powered sumarine to
power miners?
mircea_popescu: joecool that can't be right, mostly because
nuclear power is economical as compared to burning oil.
mircea_popescu: aircraft impossible to make large enough for
nuclear power to work. submarines pretty much only work as nukes.
mircea_popescu: a robot
nuclear submarine is perhaps one of the best
power projectors available.
jurov: 4.
nuclear power is blamed
jurov: 3.
nuclear power is adapted to make moar bombs
jurov: 2.
nuclear power get invented
jurov: even that
nuclear power discussion fail
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the 30 minute thing : maybe time to include some
nuclear power.
kakobrekla: as i said, my
nuclear power plant works fine on php.
kakobrekla: hey hey i use it in my
nuclear power plant
mircea_popescu: this arguing as to why php is not the best tool to write
nuclear power plant supervision tools and spacecraft controlsoftware entirely misses the point.
mircea_popescu: in the not-so-distant future electric
power,
nuclear and solar, will be all the
power we ever use.
Urushiol: relative of mine is a project planner for a company big in
nuclear power plant design and he was saying one day "oh yeah, we've got the construction of
power plants down pat. we can turn them out really fast now". I asked "how fast is 'really fast'", to which he responded an underwhelming "about 10 years"
furuknap: Want to know the next big thing after oil?
Nuclear power. Clean, safe
nuclear power. To get that, you need Thorium. Guess which country has the third largest Thorium deposits in the world..?
MJR_: (garage based
nuclear power)
mircea_popescu: empowering people to run
nuclear power plants in their garage is not a good thing
smickles: "So lets ballpark it to say ~50,000 brand new
nuclear reactors constructed and running continually to
power nothing but this non-existent alien tech perfect computer for the next 10,000 years .... and it would still only have less than a 10% chance of brute forcing a Bitcoin address."
OneMiner: the mercury is less than if you burned coal. Mercury is released into the air from coal
power. Also radiation in greater quantities than you get from all the
nuclear disasters around the world.