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  • Nobody is building it

    France built the fuck out of it, 71% of their power is nuclear. Works darn well.

    it’s not because regulators are blocking it

    In the US, the over-regulation makes it horrifically expensive. Every plant is bespoke instead of mass produced, with exchangeable parts, personnel, and knowledge. Mass produce nuclear plants and the costs come way down.

    Water/wind/solar solutions have undercut even the plummet in natural gas prices.

    Wind and solar are paired with natural gas. People still want power in the winter and at night and right now that is natural gas. By opposing nuclear, you ensure it will continue to be natural gas paired with wind and solar.








  • they generate about 3,800kWh per year. We also use about 3,800kWh of electricity each year

    Obviously, we can’t use all the power produced over summer and we need to buy power in winter. So here’s my question: How big a battery would we need in order to be completely self-sufficient?

    O, god, it’s going to be huge. You really can’t do the off-grid thing unless you have enough power production to satiate you over any given 3-day moving window. Trying to store power from summer until winter is going to be too expensive, instead buy more panel.

    This isn’t even going into the fact batteries lose charge slowly. So any power generated in summer will be much diminished by winter, even if you have big enough batteries.


  • Killing super-mods would have been much more effective 5 years ago, back when there were still lots quality moderators in small subreddits. I remember people screaming for years this was a problem they needed to do something about.

    However, during the last blackout (triggered by Reddit killing off 3rd party apps), Reddit removed hundreds (thousands?) of moderators who wouldn’t toe the party line. These people aren’t coming back and there aren’t quality people lined up behind them to donate their time. The mass moderator removal made the super-mod issues even worse.


  • That is certainly an issue. Easiest political solution I see for that is to pay France to take the small amounts of waste. They have a massive nuclear program and have this shit down.

    The other thing we need to solve with nuclear plants has been the inability to mass produce them due to overregulation. Every one built now is a bespoke design, rather than one design built hundreds of times, where workers, knowledge, and spare parts are all interchangeable. It balloons costs as every plant is unique. It doesn’t have to be this way.


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    Yeah, that is my standard way of doing things. Old desktop becomes the server, and it’s specs blow everything I want it to do out of the water, so things like file storage (and the CPU required to encrypt-on-disk), etc have no chance of ever presenting an issue. Though, I do have a pair of Pis with POE hats on them (as well as a POE switch), because I really like POE.

    Then I set it up for auto-updates and proceed to ignore it. Love very simple home networking setups that still accomplish every goal.

    The dedicated NAS appliances really annoy me. Every time I have had to use one I just think ‘I can just do this in Linux on any random desktop lying around, why am I learning another proprietary thing?’