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nukemandan··on K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system
all those things are easy to replace too - just fill a water bottle from a filtered source and get a soda CO2 injection machine + syrup. coffee is about the same amount of work and needed equipment to make.
nukemandan··on Social networks are no longer social
I have moved off of social media to find myself in these kind of channels much more and other semi-private communities to find and grow social connections. It is so much more fulfilling and refreshing to not be all about capturing my attention to keep me hooked and make ad revenue. Thank you all for being there and spending your most valuable resource - your attention - on this smaller and more connected community.
nukemandan··on K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system
Why is this so much of an issue? I agree that is it a more wasteful way to do coffee than other machines, but not significantly so. Why is everyone so up-in-arms about this vs any other single serve item, like water bottles, soda, and tea/coffee cans? The shipping costs alone for moving what amounts to mostly water and all the packaging make pods look innocent or better.
nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
A mix makes sense. Why use only one solution? Just PV? there are so many more ways we can take advantage and maximize our resource use. A blended solution gives us much better ways to optimize our inputs and outputs.
nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
checkout fast breeder reactors. This is why I am so excited about them specifically: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/30/fast-bre....
nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
Aggressive anti-nuclear sentiment killed new construction due to HUGE costs to comply with regulation and HUGE costs for finances - more than half of the _entire cost of the plat_ in some cases. Yes - capitalism gave rise to the stop in production - The cost and risks were too high. Why? The anti-nuclear movement .
nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
checkout fast breeder reactors. This is why I am so excited about them specifically: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/30/fast-bre...
nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
Good point. But do subsidies, research funds, and general sentiment support that? I primarily see investment in PV - not solar thermal. Got a preference I can look at suggesting you are correct?
nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
check out this: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608271/small-reactors-cou...
nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
also checkout: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608271/small-reactors-cou...
nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_small_modular_reactor_...

More coming soon

nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
right now? not that I know of. Regulatory frameworks that make sense vs the present standards are in the works.
nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
I am not a statistician - but 14 total instances in all studies? This seems like a study group too small to analyze with meaningful significance - the expected variance is very large with such a small sample.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892150/

And not to downplay at all - but 14 cases being the total possible over a ~30 year time-frame seems like a mute issue compared to any other life threatening issues.

nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
From that:

>Euroclus study In contrast to the above-mentioned studies, which focus on the Elbmarsch geographical area, the EUROCLUS study attempted to find matches between the 240 leukemia clusters identified in the study.

The evaluation of the study showed that environmental factors such as proximity to nuclear power plants, military airfields or other facilities often causing pollutants do not correlate with the occurrence of leukemia cases, but that demographic factors are the most significant characteristics in which they were studied Clusters match.

nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
got as source with statistics to back that claim?
nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
use it as is in Molten Salt Reactors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor
nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
or just below ground : http://mragheb.com/NPRE%20402%20ME%20405%20Nuclear%20Power%2...
nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
really this: http://mragheb.com/NPRE%20402%20ME%20405%20Nuclear%20Power%2...
nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
Why not a "nuclear battery"? ;-)

https://phys.org/news/2016-11-diamond-age-power-nuclear-batt...

nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
That is why financing of reactors is outrageous - more than 50% of the TOTAL cost of some reactors!

But there is a solution: SMRs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor

nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
update on that reference is less optimistic:

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy18osti/71500.pdf

nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
>I do question the externalities and pollution and embedded carbon costs of 43k SQMI of solar panels, however - I think that's the logistical issue that's most pressing.

YES! especially considering the life cycle of PV - it is short!

Here is some great stats to consider: https://youtu.be/V2KNqluP8M0?t=454 (alarmist tone + admittedly biased toowards nuclear - for a reason - the numbers are sound)

nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
> I do not want to see any more centralization and the corresponding corruption.

Agreed - That is why Small Modular reactors are exciting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor

nukemandan··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
Love this. Close to my heart - Nuclear power is key to making a clean, reliable, safe, and robusts electrical grid. Plus - this is the only realistic way _right now_ to phase out fossil fuels!

Great advancements to keep an eye on: https://www.energy.gov/ne/nuclear-reactor-technologies/small...

Specifically Molten Salt (Liquid Floride) Thorium Breeder reactors are my personal favorite technology I hope to see come around!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...

Great place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rL08J7fDA

Great videos to follow: https://www.youtube.com/user/gordonmcdowell/featured

nukemandan··on Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages
What if it autocompletes bugs and vulnerabilities?
nukemandan··on Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear
Where do you get that $10 from? What is included in that? Total profit per user? Do you think that the sale of data for all users (bots included) is the same? per post is easily gamed - not a solution to be sure.

steemit.com has some ideas - but not perfect ones to be sure - to build incentive based content.

Where is the $400M twitter profit from?

Ultimately it is not about the direct monetary ROI for this in my mind. But empowering choice of you as to who can use your data (and knowing what they are legally able to do with it) is critical. Thinking about reducing the supply of data will likely spike the cost of that data as well. Most of what is sold is not content - but your use of the platform and _who you are and what you do there_ and predicting things about you - not what you post.

nukemandan··on Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear
matrix.org is a great place to start. This can be the groundwork that you build all platforms from... maybe.
nukemandan··on Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear
This is why we need federated social media. I can port all my data to any platform and keep a copy of my own. then when facebook does this, I can just jump to another platform with almost no friction. EG a git repo of all my data/post and linked media that I can move from github -> gitlab
nukemandan··on Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear
Thee need to own your own data is clear - only you should have the right to redact your posts for any reason. We should adopt systems that are fundamentally amoral, non-censoring, and non-competitive for our data being on their platform. Systems where we can profit from the success of our content. Can anyone think of some examples?
nukemandan··on How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains – Mary Lou Jepsen
As they point out - this we a first demonstration in public. I sure hope that as things become more public and they make plans for products this will start to show up. ( Or we will make enough noise about it that it will have to show up ;-) )
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