1. if nuclear is so cheap to run, why is it still more expensive than any other renewable energy source out there?

2. I've heard this line of bull so many times before, I would rather wait for someone to actually make it happen (no "mission accomplished" sign for you until you actually overcome the political minefield of transporting spent fuel around, and then actually get it i the ground) .

3. I'm just saying that the waste built-up to 10x what it currently is will be a "big problem" that nobody here has any plan to handle, so if you were planning on making it all disappear with reprocessing, that's never going to work.

When you take into account the much more complex cooling system (required to maintain isolation, can vary in complexity depending on the site thermals) plus the inherently high cost of nuc fuel cycle, the only way you're ever gong to make this happen in a pl ace like the US is if you can magically fix all-of-the-above problems, and THE N convince the government to pay money to build plants (nobody else will)

Your experts forget about the enviorbnmental impact of:
1 Pre processing light water nuclear fuel AINT CHEAP / clean.
2.The cost of holding onto that spent nuclear fuel while the ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD sits around trying to figure out "perfect" geological disposal method (while expensive waste piles up at every existing plant)
3. The cost of nuclear reprocessing is about 10x the cost of normal fuel + geo disposal (and still has waste product)

see here:

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/...

I guess AFTER TWENTY YEARS /my sig could use an update?

Does it or does it not use SLI bride replacements to communicate with other cards?

If so, then I'm right, and AMD users have nothing to fear from nvlink GPU interconnect!

I don't give a shit what kind of advanced features it supports - as long as nvlink is not replacing the pcie slot for each card, then I'm right, and the author if a fucking FUD-spewing idiot!

NVLink is the replacement for old SLI bridges (see RTX 3090). even if you have dedicated skots on the motherboard for nvlink, the card still plugs into a standard pcie,

https://www.servethehome.com/d...

AMD will work just fine

Yeah, I always love AMD proprietary windows drivers - thousands of annoying bugs that turn your compute powerhouse into a guessing game of peeking around in various internet web boards.

If this kind of bugs still exist in the Linux open-source drivers , then there is no hope for AMD users!

Remember when every university in existence was tripping over themselves adding Java courses, and after all that fanfare, only the most boring server projects use Java!

You don't need lies to sell all this shit - those same shitty Java server apps still need maintainers (and they have more than enough coders willing to take the easy way out, and use Java)

Ignoring your Thorium, Dreams, the reason Nukes are perpetually too expensive o build is because they have a much more complex cooling system than other big power plants (and when you take into account issues like paying the massive extra cost for "no active cooling" versus "you need backup generators for your active cooling system stored somewhere safe" you can get some idea of why the fuck it's impossible to mass-produce the majority of a nuclear plant..

https://arstechnica.com/scienc...

Thorium requires molten salt cooling system, which is even more expensive.

By-comparison, Wind Turbines ARE mass-produced and shipped to their location for final-assembly, saving massive amounts. Solar Panels also benefit from massive Silicon Wafer competition.

Sling Tv made this service redundant - not-only do they solve the "potential piracy" problem Sling suffered from, you also made it painless one-click setup (instead of futzing around getting your Cable DVR to talk to your Slingbox / paying the exorbitant price for the app on every device).

$20/month for all-in-one was a lot easier sell. (and as the world's most successful place-shifting live TV service, I would think it was a good reuse of the brand).

It sucks that the cloud is no-more, but you knew it would happen eventually...they added cloud options to work around the incredible clunkiness getting remote streaming from a 3rd-party dvr setup by you MANUALLY.

I'm not your buddy, guy

Right, and this is the same wall that RISCV will hit:

It's a lot easier for microcontroller makers to build their own custom RISCV, (start with the familiar, then customize), and they should be able to use it effectively.

Now, imagine a Linux Distro that has to add driver support for two-dozen different RISCV implementations? They will just choose the best implementation, and ignore the rest (which will require much infighting, much like every advancement in Open Source).

The idea that RISCV is going to get past this wall anytime soon is laughable..HURD 1.0 will ship before we have mainstream RISCV support om Linux

This is true, however, most business users will be well-served by Zen 2 APU.

Even their entry-level closeout Zen 1 has fairly competitive performance with skylake processors that actually stick to their 65w TDP. (read: your average Dell//HP sff business system) .

Zen 3 will also eventually appear in APU-form, but it crossing the undeniable Intel performance barrier demands a higher launch price.

So, you can either use that cheap electricity to recharge a liion battery to power your plane, or you can waste 3x as much of it converting water to hydrogen.

If you do some research into the stuff, you will find that 10,000 psi hydrogen fuel tanks weigh the same as a current lithium ion batterer (with around the same range). maintaining both devices will end up costing similar amounts over time.

Fuel cells sound better, until you do the math.

You need 10000psi tanks to get anywhere near the same capacity as lithium ion (jet-alone jet fuel). Add in the additional weight/cost for the required fuel cell stack for converting hydrogen to electricity, and they're going to have similar weight for similar range to pure electric

Just have a look at the curb weight of the Toyota Mirai versus the 2020 Model 3:

Mirai: 4,075 lbs
Model 3::3,552 to 4,100 lbs

And the Model 3 probably throws in a way more powerful engine, so you can remove 200 pounds from those numbers.

The thing about planes running on Hydrogen is this: the density of these expensive to build and maintain 10k PSI tanks is as good as it will ever get - the only improvements in range will be improvements in fuel cell efficiency (and when was the last time we had a great leap in that?)

And meanwhile battery tech will continue riding the much faster-moving train, with different lower-mass formulation options for aircraft.. And, it doesn't cost over 3x the cost of avgas to refuel a battery pack. .

There is no Anti-trust concerning NVIDIA, as they are just as viable a caretaker for this as if Apple bought the thing.

Anybody who buys ARM knows what they are getting into, and that requires mass-quantities of processors licenses sold at low margins. NVIDIA has already sol d their soul to the ARM corporation with Tegra, , and they've even had a go at building their own VLIW ARM core.

If anything, NVIDIA would love more compute-focused chips to power their AI platforms, so you can expect them to push things that way...

But, phone chips have gotten so hard to build, everyone has consolidated and let ARM do it, so I just don't see NVIDIA abandoning them - if the costs keep going up, they will just raise prices to maintain ARM's current margins.

I can see NVIDIA putting more effort into those custom Neoverse Server chips, but they won't abandon the A-series to do it/