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Solice Kirsk posted:I've only got a basic understanding of electronics, but why don't they just make a capacitor like the size of a building to store the power and release it at night? Man, electrical engineers are stupid. Getting a capacitor to discharge more slowly than "all at once" is a challenge.
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Why not just a really, really, really large water tank.
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Feb 8, 2021 19:43
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Tell me why cars ever have to go away I mean couldn't you just have electric cars charging off a grid powered by nuclear plants? If you really, really, really had to do it that way even though you didn't want to? That's just forever power.
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Feb 8, 2021 19:46
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Why not just a really, really, really large water tank. They have them, this one's been working for like 25 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Hydroelectric_Plant I think they're building another out in California. Unfortunately they're expensive and can only be built in mountains. But they work.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Tell me why cars ever have to go away I mean couldn't you just have electric cars charging off a grid powered by nuclear plants? If you really, really, really had to do it that way even though you didn't want to? That's just forever power. People who could more easily imagine mutants than the climate apocalypse prevented that 30+ years ago.
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Elviscat posted:But every Schoolboy knows the recycling technologies will save us! +1 for the Lost In Space movie quote, sir.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I've only got a basic understanding of electronics, but why don't they just make a capacitor like the size of a building to store the power and release it at night? Man, electrical engineers are stupid. They actually kinda do that, after some massive blackouts South Australia set up a huge battery farm for reserve power. ultrafilter posted:Getting a capacitor to discharge more slowly than "all at once" is a challenge. I imagine hence why they tend to have lots of small batteries rather than one big one.
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Krispy Wafer posted:They have them, this one's been working for like 25 years. These are indeed real and very cool. For a broad definition of "battery" they're the largest we've ever built by a wide margin, both in terms of energy storage and physical dimensions. e: there's a lot more than one though; they account for almost all of the world's grid storage
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Feb 9, 2021 22:45
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Best to pay attention to how much of this is younger generations not having any money or secure work, and possibly having neglectful boomer parents who never gave them useful driving lessons and isolated them from any other opportunity to learn. https://twitter.com/stlouisfed/status/1356443482374701062
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Feb 9, 2021 23:48
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I'm amazed that this didn't happen a couple of years ago when other brands were pulling mascots like the Land O'Lakes Native woman and Uncle Ben's https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1359286844572188678?s=20
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Feb 10, 2021 02:36
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Tell me why cars ever have to go away I mean couldn't you just have electric cars charging off a grid powered by nuclear plants? If you really, really, really had to do it that way even though you didn't want to? That's just forever power. Until they can scale nuclear breeder reactors up, nuclear is not a renewable resource and in fact might be rolling into its last couple of decades unless the demand for uranium increases quite a bit.
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Rick posted:Until they can scale nuclear breeder reactors up, nuclear is not a renewable resource and in fact might be rolling into its last couple of decades unless the demand for uranium increases quite a bit. Yeah, Thorium breeder reactors are awesome. There's tons and tons of cool poo poo that could be done with nuclear, but the it's shunned by the fossil fuel lobby, environmentalists, and most powerful of all, NIMBYs, so there's no support and no funding for it besides a bunch of nerds, some engineers, and warships. Breaks my heart. Elviscat has a new favorite as of 02:59 on Feb 10, 2021 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:I'm amazed that this didn't happen a couple of years ago when other brands were pulling mascots like the Land O'Lakes Native woman and Uncle Ben's I know people joke about 2020 lasting forever but those things happened several months ago
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Feb 10, 2021 03:23
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I guess this is the first look at what they decided to replace that logo with though. That patent was only filed at the beginning of the month.
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Feb 10, 2021 03:40
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I genuinely want brands of any food that is not inherently healthful and life-giving to transition into packaging that only shows the name of the brand, the contents of the container, and the nutrition information. Black and white with some neutral typeface. This is the dystopia I believe in.
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Feb 10, 2021 03:51
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Tunicate posted:yeah the former is pretty big Holy poo poo those boomer employment numbers. I knew they weren't retiring, but I didn't know it was quite that stark.
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Feb 10, 2021 04:05
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Tunicate posted:yeah the former is pretty big It would be pretty nice if this graph was per capita as well; there's a lot more old folks than there used to be.
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Feb 10, 2021 04:21
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ultrafilter posted:Getting a capacitor to discharge more slowly than "all at once" is a challenge.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I genuinely want brands of any food that is not inherently healthful and life-giving to transition into packaging that only shows the name of the brand, the contents of the container, and the nutrition information. Black and white with some neutral typeface. This is the dystopia I believe in. not quite the same thing, but there was a company that did this with their food when I was a very small child. plain white labels that just said CORN or whatever. I asked my parents about it and they said it was basically a marketing scheme: "our food is so inexpensive that our labels look like poo poo!"
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Feb 10, 2021 04:52
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Empty Sandwich posted:not quite the same thing, but there was a company that did this with their food when I was a very small child. plain white labels that just said CORN or whatever. You sassin' Canadian Icon no-name?
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Rick posted:Until they can scale nuclear breeder reactors up, nuclear is not a renewable resource and in fact might be rolling into its last couple of decades unless the demand for uranium increases quite a bit. Russia completed an 880 MWe breeder reactor in 2016 and China and India have 600 MWe and 500 MWe ones under construction respectively, so I'd consider it scaled up, at least from a technological perspective. It's just as you said there's not much reason to build breeder reactors as long as demand remains low. The bigger issue is that even if nuclear is made sustainable, it still has to deal with being a real machine where every megawatt of capacity requires an investment of concrete, steel, precision machinery, and manpower. It can give a good return on the resources invested, but it won't make power or resources infinite. Even if we got around the issue of power generation and battery resources by powering cars Fred Flintstone style, US car culture would still be unsustainable. Each new vehicle represents a massive expenditure of resources and a massive amount of expensive-to-maintain (and poorly scalable) infrastructure like highways and parking garages. And they're not just less efficient per mile, their use requires greater spacing between points of interest, meaning the waste scales exponentially.
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Rick posted:Until they can scale nuclear breeder reactors up, nuclear is not a renewable resource and in fact might be rolling into its last couple of decades unless the demand for uranium increases quite a bit. It’s still not a renewable resource, but that’s a distinction without a difference when the reserves are so large.
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people thought that about north american old growth timber too
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IIRC there's still bits of Australia so naturally radioactive it's not safe to spend too long there.
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Microcline posted:Russia completed an 880 MWe breeder reactor in 2016 and China and India have 600 MWe and 500 MWe ones under construction respectively, so I'd consider it scaled up, at least from a technological perspective. It's just as you said there's not much reason to build breeder reactors as long as demand remains low. China's also building US designed PWRs at a frenetic rate, Westinghouse is collaborating with them on the successor to the AP1000, which is IMO one of the best conventional reactor designs ever. China as a whole are seriously committed to reducing their emissions footprint, and while they're still one of the worst offenders I'd bet in ten years they blow past the US in terms of CO2 emissions. Russia is Russia, and I'm suspect of anything they build to contain the Bad Atoms, and always will be regardless of merit.
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bunnyofdoom posted:You sassin' Canadian Icon no-name? Better not be.
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Empty Sandwich posted:not quite the same thing, but there was a company that did this with their food when I was a very small child. plain white labels that just said CORN or whatever. hell yeah I remember stuff like that 
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Whooping Crabs posted:hell yeah I remember stuff like that Remember basically living off this brand when I was younger, dad was super cheap.
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Rick posted:Until they can scale nuclear breeder reactors up, nuclear is not a renewable resource and in fact might be rolling into its last couple of decades unless the demand for uranium increases quite a bit. Why do you say this? Are mining companies not really that interested in mining for uranium anymore?
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Empty Sandwich posted:not quite the same thing, but there was a company that did this with their food when I was a very small child. plain white labels that just said CORN or whatever. I remember when Lucky grocery chain in Northrrn California brought out a line of generic prepackaged food which was just like that, except the label was yellow with the big bold black sans-serif font. They even had BEER in six-packs. Fake edit: holy poo poo, a commercial for it: https://youtu.be/USDi0gP3lNw
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silence_kit posted:Why do you say this? Are mining companies not really that interested in mining for uranium anymore? Was also curious, so I went Googling and found this:  Looks like uranium mining in the USA has fallen off a cliff, but in general is pretty stable.
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JnnyThndrs posted:I remember when Lucky grocery chain in Northrrn California brought out a line of generic prepackaged food which was just like that, except the label was yellow with the big bold black sans-serif font. They even had BEER in six-packs. Still very much a thing, at least in Canada https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Name_(brand)
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Gort posted:Was also curious, so I went Googling and found this: I know Borat jokes are well played out, but I feel like there's really something you could do with this.
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Churchill posted:Still very much a thing, at least in Canada It’s an institution.
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JnnyThndrs posted:I remember when Lucky grocery chain in Northrrn California brought out a line of generic prepackaged food which was just like that, except the label was yellow with the big bold black sans-serif font. They even had BEER in six-packs. yes! this is the type of thing and the era, but I think it was a similar gimmick at (perhaps) Kroger.
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99% Invisible had an episode about generics and how they came about. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/podcast-episode/ I vaguely recall those white cans with black letters for beer. Nothing else. Just beer. But even my dad, who’d drink vanilla extract in a pinch, couldn’t stand generic beer.
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Platystemon posted:Wow, they even sold fathers? :noice:
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Whooping Crabs posted:hell yeah I remember stuff like that not my favorite 2pac album, but a solid contender
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Gort posted:Was also curious, so I went Googling and found this: IIRC the us government actually stopped prospecting for uranium in the middle of the cold war because they didn't see any need to find more sites
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