alcoholicorn

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[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It would be really funny if he took it up, and the republicans proceeded to block appointments until a conservative presidency.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

OK yeah everyone knew the cops started shooting protesters, but the real mystery is who were the snipers shooting the riot cops.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So there's enough cheap enough utanium to go around and no need for the industry to recycle spent fuel.

That is where the supply and demand equation is right now. When the supply was lower before the 90s, the equation favored recycling, and if we build more plants to drive up price, it will favor it again.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure, if it was free to build, it would be better than not having them (though worse than more efficient types of storage), assuming the cost of refining the steel breaks even.

There's a reason fossil fuel companies fund hydrogen.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

As for reprocessing, storage is in competition with newly mined fuel. As mining becomes more expensive or nuclear demand increases, there's greater impetus to recycle more fuel. Conversely, if there's fewer plants consuming the fuel or more mines opening, recycling projects die.

The more plants close, the less waste you're gonna get reprocessed.

Russia already has 40,000 nukes, they're not a proliferation risk.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's both, there was a plant in Savanah Ga that was supposed to process nuclear weapons into fuel, but after they got the weapons, they stalled on building the plant.

There were other plans to build reprocessing facilities for old fuel in the US (or breeder reactors that can use them as is) that all died off after the fall of the USSR opened up kazakstan, tanking the price of Uranium.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Why would you bury fuel that you've only harvested 1% of the energy from? If you're not gonna build reprocessing facilities, sell it to France or Russia.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Well they own and are currently profiting from coal mines, they don't own solar farm construction companies.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Would you evaluate the contents of the wikileaks leaks if they had released an equal amount of dirt on Trump?

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

We tried no zoning except parking minimums. The result was Houston.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

Meanwhile, Dev of company C driving off a bridge, getting laid off after modernizing the 90s era codebase.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Which is a shame, because if I could create tangible loss for Ubisoft by downloading their games, I would do nothing else until they went under.

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