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Comment Re:Phones with wheels (Score 1) 147

At least phones have a consistent UI.

Cars used to be fairly similar. High/low beam on the floor, emergency brake on the floor (some had a center lever)
Blinker on the left. Wipers... on the dash or on the right like the blinker
Radio in the center w/ volume on left, tuning on right w/ 5 buttons for favorites
Heating, fan, defrost varied a bit more, but it was usually in the center.

Comment Re: Imagine explaining solar (Score 1) 120

They actually don't.

That is american propaganda.

And this "whataboutism" is pretty pointless, as anyone with a some interest in it, can list you 100 steps in the production where nuclear fuel rod production, leave waste behind .... or simple coal digging.

Solar cell production is very similar to computer chip production, at least the early stages. Guess what: the "waste" is so valuable: it gets reused.

And the other stuff are acids, which are forbidden to be released into the environment. Even in China, facepalm. Trash factories you perhaps find in India, no idea. But not in mainland China.

Comment Re:This is the way. (Score 1) 120

If government created the means for people to finance them, then they could install them. There are a couple problems there.
That is easy.
You just put high enough tariffs and if possible some extra taxes in the imported solar panels, and hand out that money with 0.5% interest to home owners, to buy solar panels.
SIMPLE!

Comment Re:Reactors can consume high level waste as fuel (Score 1) 189

More than 90% of its potential energy still remains in the fuel, even after fiveyears of operation in a reactor.
That is nonsense.
For a typical reactor - the ones currently under operation - it is roughly 50%. Not 90%. No one is throwing away 40% of its fuel and burns only 10% ... you are either misinformed or a typical stupid nuke tard.

France reprocesses: to extract the Plutonium. Obviously as by product some new Uranium fuel rods get made ready, too.

There are also someadvanced reactor designs in development that could consume or run on spent nuclear fuel in the future.
That is a misnomer. The newer rector designs, like CANDU, can run on not enriched fuel. That basically means, they could run on fuel rods, that get removed from the main stream reactors.

However the "fuel waste" we have right now, is mostly dismantled fuel rods. It is a majour endeavor to make new rods from that waste - similar to reprocessing.

Comment Re:Who's Footing the Nuclear Waste Bill? (Score 1) 189

Reprocessing extracts the useable remaining fuel from the "waste".
And during that process produces lots of more waste.

Roughly a factor of ten.

So: it only makes sense to reprocess if you are in desperate need of some of the stuff in the fuel waste, for example *cough* *cough* Plutonium.

Comment Re:Who's Footing the Nuclear Waste Bill? (Score 1) 189

Used fuel has never killed a single human being.
You got corrected on that already several times. In Japan plenty of people of died during the 1980s by mishandling nuclear waste. No idea about Germany or France, though.

Repeating knowingly something that is not true: is a lie.

The rest of your opinions, are simply uninformed bullshit.

Comment Re:Nuclear displaces petroleum, not renewables (Score 1) 189

There never was a plan to replace nuclear power with gas.
The plan always was and still is: water, wind and solar.

You are either completely stupid or utterly misinformed.

Should an emergency occur the Marine Corps heavy lift helicopters would deliver the generators.
They did the same in Fukushima.
And when they started pumping, they flooded the buildings. Realizing that the earth quake had destroyed the cooling system.

That the local emergency generators got flooded first: only shows their utter incompetence and is only the icing on the drama.

Comment Re:Apologise, greens (Score 1) 189

The grid failure in Spain and Portugal has nothing to do with "spinning turbines".
The turbine type is not relevant for fast reaction, and no, a nuclear plant does not use the same turbines like a gas plant. Perhaps you should look up their construction. A gas plant turbine basically looks like a jet engine.

Nuclear plants will never be super fast in reaction. They are good enough for load following, so no one really cares, and with steam reservoirs you theoretically can react faster, too.

That nuclear plants are always slow for load following is btw. a misunderstanding. Most of the french ones do load follow, but in a specific way. That means one plant that is lowering its output, will continue to do that, every time when it is required that "some plant" lowers it output. Until it is at the lowest point, then it changes its role and comes into the fleet that is ramping up. The french plants are designed to be able to make two full cycles of shifting down to minimum and then shifting up to maximum again, two times in a day.

On the other hand, the German plants, essentially very similar, are not designed for that. They always just were base load plants.

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