mosiacmango @ mosiacmango @lemm.ee

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We have invested decades and billions into reactor tech. The DOE just announced another 900 million for SMR, on top of previous billion dollar grants. So far, every SMR company has failed to make any progress. The DOE even certified one for use and it still can't get it done.

Meanwhile, solar/battery research is getting funding from tons of sources, government and corporate, and exploding forward in every direction. Solar arrays are being deployed all over the world at insane rates, propelled mostly by just how inexpensive, safe, effective and easy it is to deploy. Its because of solar/battery that we may even hit some of the 2030 "pie in the sky" climates goals that were set across the world.

Its pretty clear which of the two techs we should be spending time on.

Nevada just built a hybrid 1400MW solar/battery plant for 2 billion dollars in 2 years.

That 1400MW is solar panel + battery output, so it doesnt match nuclear's steady state, but ive done the math on these projects before. We should be able to can build a 3000MW solar generating plant with 1200MW battery supply for 16hrs at roughly a cost of 17 Billion dollars, or 1 Vogtle nuclear plant. My time estimate was 6 years. This would output 2x the power of the Vogtle plant during the day, and output just as much as it over the night.

The above makes solar/battery not only way more productive than nuclear, but way safer, and way faster to built. All of that is just with demonstrated, everyday tech available today. It ignores all the huge advances being made in various batteries and panels. In the decade+ that it would take to open just one more reactor, we will likely be able to 2x-3x the power and speed to build at a lower cost with just solar/battery.

Nuclear was the right answer for the last 50 years. That's no longer the case.

You realize nuclear power plants have steady maintenance and replacements occurring at all times, right? That a machine being used in nuclear power doesn't make it immune from breaking down? That many of the machines involved have spinning and moving parts working in a high heat environment, whereas PV systems are largely static?

Replacement in a nuclear plant is happening way, way more often than on PV panels, where commodity panels are rated to provide near full power for 25-35 years, and then still provide over 80% power while they very slowly drop off. Solar is the only power source that will continue providing power without constant maintenance.

If "lack of replacement" is your main criteria, you dun fucked up backing nuclear. Solar fits that bill way, way better.

Total land used for all power to be supplied by solar would be a hilariously tiny percentage of land, so this just reads like a solar version of "its killing birds" to me.

Agrivoltaics also side steps this non issue, as interlacing solar panels into farm land increases yields for many crops while making efficent use of space that's already spoiled any biodiversity. Can you do that with a nuclear reactor?

Now do Georgia's Vogtle reactors 3 and 4, which came in at 34 billion for 2 x 1200mw plants, 21 billion over the original 14 billion estimate, and took over 14 years to build, 8 years behind schedule.

Im glad these powerplants finally got built. They will help, but nuclear is just not reasonable anymore. Its a slow, expensive tech, especially when we are making such leaps and bonds with solar/battery.

Libreelec is the easiest and most direct right now. Very stable, and they release timely updates with new versions of Kodi. Use a pi5 if possible. The extra compute and hevc decoders does help with media.

There is a great youtube and sponsorblock addon as well. Completely ad free youtube.

Your can directly mount nfs shares in your kodi client if you like, but Id recommend setting up jellyfin as the media server you host as a standalone server. It has its own native Kodi app to sync media updates and media state. Super clean way to organize, update and index all your media, and then view it in Kodi.

Its a general estimate of viability, yes. I did point out that panels drop off a bit every year, but it looks like that wasn't clear if you feel like it needs a correction.

Every comment in here when I posted was skeptical about solar, with no stated reason. I added some general data about actual panels. If you want to add more up to date info, please do.

It won't, but the above replaces about 30% of power costs for life for these residents, and pays off in 6 years.

Thats still very good.

Average solar panels are warrantied to give 100% power for 25 years. After that, they still work but at roughly an 80% rate, with a small fall off each year.

A 6 year payoff is an excellent investment. I'd gladly hang something with zero negatives on a balcony that just made me money for the rest of my life.

2d isometric vs 3d first person. One format clearly lets stories breathe better, but that doesn't mean half life isn't story driven.

Rogue tower is another great game with rogue in its name.

Fantastic tower defense.

Hard disagree.

Listen to the whole rambling speech. Its a barely contained mess, a geriatric kaleidoscope of madness about of how the internet works, clearly filtered through whatever the Comcast lobbyists told him to think.

Not just per core, but with a core minimum. We had some edge servers that are low power hosts that we now pay 5x on because of the core minimum.

Our main vmware license is still under the old pricing due to lock in, but that expires in a few years. We will be moving off vmwaew, and by then hopefully improvements like this bring proxmox into the competition.

Yes, its clearly sarcasm.

Slay the spire, slice and dice, dicey dungeons are also up there as mobile games.

Hes no EA, but Balatro has made him a multimillionaire.

He needs to use some of that money to sue, maybe get the orgs that are fighting gambling/microtransactions onboard.

Good to see proxmox adding a vsphere style interface. It should help adoption in the enterprise, especially as broadcom continues to turbo fuck vmware.

Yeah...let's not canonize Ted stevens. He was a massive piece of shit.

That meme was him rallying against net neutrality while head of the senate commitee that regulated the internet.