That’s for way more than just one plant, and there’s a lot more going on that resulted in such a high price tag. That isn’t normal.
No, that's pretty normal. Current experience with decommissioning German nuclear power plants show that the cost is about $1.2 billion per power plant, and that decommissioning takes about 20 years.
Of course it cost money to build, but now it’s just there.
That doesn't mean you simply get to ignore the $53 billion it cost to dig that hole.
But solar panels take up a lot more space for the energy they give out than a nuclear plant iirc
But it's not like we need to pave over pristine wilderness to build out solar: it's easy to deploy rooftop solar on tens of thousands of square miles of rooftop surface, or on top of tens of thousands of square miles of area that has already been sealed for parking lots while simultaneously providing shade and protection for parked cars.
And we could do all of that at a fraction of the cost of building new nuclear power plants.
The issue is intermittence. As a society we decided to continue using electrical equipment even when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing.
And a lot of that can simply be solved with a larger grid.
Yes, in a small geographic area, you might run into a situation where the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. On the other hand, on a global scale, the sun is always shining and the wind is always blowing.
A realistic solution right now are therefore continent-wide grids that combine hydro, solar, wind and pumped hydro storage.
That video completely ignores decommissioning costs for nuclear power plants and long-term nuclear waste storage costs in its calculation. Only in the levelized cost of electricity comparison does it show that nuclear is by far the most expensive way of generating electricity, and that it simply can't compete with renewables on cost.
People love to look at nuclear power plants that are up and running and calculate electricity generation costs based just on operating costs - while ignoring construction costs, decommissioning costs, and waste disposal costs.
and you’ll note the heat map correlates with wealth (and thus smartphone access).
It doesn't, or else there would be a lot more sightings all over Europe, South Korea and Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Israel, Saudi Arabia and various emirates, and a good junk of China.
Also, smartphones didn't exist for the first 101 years of the reporting time span.
I hate this narrative, because it implies that the person in question - whether it's Musk or Trump or the Republican representatives who travelled to Russia on 4th of July or whoever it's about - are acting in a way favorable to Putin and Russia against their will and only because they're being coerced.
The reality is that a lot of wannabe authoritarians who look up to Russia and to Putin simply admire Russia, admire the totalitarian system, admire the silencing of any opposition voices, admire how the press is being reduced to pro-Kremlin propaganda, admire how regular people lose their rights, admire how anyone can be tossed into prison on a whim, admire the hate campaigns against LGBT+ people, admire the white supremacist, nationalist kind of conservative state religion, admire how Putin is wielding military power to annex territory, etc. etc. etc.
With the official Apple app, you had to know that it existed, find it in the Google Play Store, install it, and then manually run it every single time you wanted to check for trackers.
With AirGuard, you had to know that an unofficial implementation existed, find it, install it, and then either run a manual sweep or have it permanently run in the background if you wanted to get notified of trackers near you.
Neither implementation would tell you how long a tracker had been following you, or where it first started following you. Neither option would allow you to ring the tracker. Neither option would allow you to read the information on the tracker via NFC.
So no, this has not "objectively existed for a long time now."
What you mean is that other, far more limited options have existed for a while now.
I'm still not sure that "let's do nothing and hope for the best" is the best approach in a society where people now live so long that mental decline affects a much larger percentage of the population than it did in 1776.
That entire song is just a thinly veiled threat saying "we're going to murder you if you're trying something we disapprove of here in this place, where we have all the power."
Of course people should be allowed to own nice things that they enjoy.
The problem is that these specific people are only able to afford these specific nice things because of economic systems that are based on hundreds of millions of people not being able to afford any nice things in life, ever.
Not that I'm specifically blaming multimillionaires and billionaires for the shortcomings of global economy systems.
They have just benefitted from them in the same way other people are suffering from them.
Yeah, but then there's his anti-semitism and his conspiracy theory that COVID was genetically engineered so that it would spare the Jews but kill other people. Or his conspiracy theory that WiFi causes cancer and a leaky brain. Or his conspiracy theory that anti-depressants cause school shootings. Or his conspiracy theory that AIDS isn't caused by HIV. Or his conspiracy theory that vaccinations cause autism. Or his conspiracy theory that Ivermectin is a magical cure for COVID. Or his conspiracy theory that Bill Gates collaborated with Dr. Anthony Fauci to make the pandemic appear much worse than it really was in order to promote vaccines.
And that's just a tiny fraction of the insane conspiracy theories he has promoted over the years.
I really wouldn't want to know what a guy like that would do with the power of the U.S. presidency.
The upsetting thing is how many millions of people look up to them and try to emulate them just because they're billionaires.
Doesn't matter what kind of absolutely disgusting, horrible human being the person in question is - "But he's a successful business man!!" is all it takes to convince many people that they should aspire to act in the exact same way.
Says a lot about the Republican party when an attack on Trump for being too "trans-friendly" doesn't even point to a specific candidate, because they're all a bunch of transphobic, homophobic, "anti-woke" extremists... doesn't it?
Every Pixel ever could create a hotspot. I've used the feature on every Pixel I ever had, and on every Nexus I owned before that.