Comment Re:What if it filters certain visible frequencies (Score 1) 72
Or Barbra Streisand's 1969 acceptance speech.
Or Barbra Streisand's 1969 acceptance speech.
These are going to be quick and dirty installations in order to power AI data centers for people that bribed trump. It's your taxpayer dollars going to finance AI slop.
Construction isn't expected to start until 2030 at the earliest. From TFA:
Energy Secretary Chris Wright cited “tremendous interest” among developers of data centers that would buy the power, as well as utilities and energy companies. The nuclear plants could begin construction by 2030 and become operational in the mid-2030s, Wright and other officials said Tuesday.
By that time, the AI bubble may have burst, or the grid may have gone even further into renewables, or both.
We need more power, but nuclear isn't the way anymore. I was a supporter of nuclear until around 2020, when I saw how fast solar and wind were gaining. Both have consistently shown enormous growth because they are not as specific in their land requirements, can be installed in small numbers, and the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) for them has plummeted to become profitable even without subsidies. Storage is still a challenge, but we're seeing rapid improvements in that, too, with sodium batteries rapidly catching up in capacity.
TFA says that construction on these won't start until at least 2030, and if they make that, it would be amazingly fast for how reactors are built these days. In that time, wind is expected to expand by almost 50 GW and solar by 40 GW. Battery storage is expected to almost quadruple in that time. By the time the reactors are built, they will be a tiny fraction of the new power generation installed and they will probably be the most expensive part of it.
Will someone over there innovate and cash in, or will it be someone external to your countries?
We've been living with that all our lives in New Orleans.....just buy a few AC units for the windows if you don't have central air....
It's not the end of the world....
Hell, I'm doubting you have the humidity to go with the heat they way we do....?
I've been hearing about all the EU folks over here for the soccer games raving about the great AC we have here everywhere in the US.
If you can't afford central air...just toss up a few window units. It doesn't cost a ton and makes summer's survivable....especially if humidity is there in the mix.
Hell I live in New Orleans...the capital of heat and humidity in the summer....get some AC and you can do just fine....we do.
"...short people got...no reason to live...."
I didn't even realize the newer digital cinema cameras added microphones. But it makes sense even if the quality is terrible for the reason you said.
Every digital cinema camera I've ever heard of has XLR inputs. So if you don't mind being tethered to the boom operator, you don't necessarily even need a field recorder. It all depends on what you're shooting and where and how.
But yeah, decent mics are cheap enough now that even low-end DSLRs have at least survivable mono audio.
canvassing turns any vote into a popularity contest, I don't think that's how it should work
Not necessarily. Canvassing can also bring broader attention to something. For example, I'm hearing about this, and my politics don't align with his, but now I'm curious what the issue is about, and might actually pay attention to it.
Dude... really? That's exactly what you were trying to do with your followers before you were caught red-handed.
At some point, it stops being a mob and starts being a vote. And while it makes sense to not allow people to drag random folks onto the platform just to vote your way, it doesn't make sense to limit voting on an important issue to the 0.1% of users who pay close enough attention to notice. So I can see both sides on this one.
Maybe the right thing to do is to require a certain level of activity to earn the right to vote, then dump the canvassing rules. That way, any canvassing would only serve to increase turnout, rather than truly padding the ballot box.
And Fascism does not work very well either, but that does not prevent the current U.S. moving in that direction.
Not even close...not even with ultra liberal side of Democrats pushing facistic actions and promoting facist laws/rules and societal changes.
And all the while to promote facism they are using the term against anything center left to middle right as facist.....making the term meaningless over time much like they've done with nazi and racism....they've overused them so much then just have no meaning anymore.
Anything But China
American first, or anything manufactured on our shores......first.
Somebody wired up all those ICBM missile silos too
On the other hand, people might also genuinely thing their country, the people and the land is worth defending, at all costs.
I mean, c'mon....at the very least, we have "Ranch Dressiong".....you know...?
Kind of like how any economic system better for people in general is called communism.
nah....we all know that any form of economic system even resembling communism would not be good for anyone...at least not the common folks, only those at the time.
Sure, Capitalism sucks....but it sucks a whole lot less that ALL other forms of economic systems.....history has shown us this time and time again.
"Floggings will continue until morale improves." -- anonymous flyer being distributed at Exxon USA