The carbon dioxide produced by making cement for a nuclear reactor is absolutely insignificant compared to that produced by burning billions of tons of fossil fuels... and keeping on burning that much every year, forever.

This is an effect known as "innumeracy"-- not being clear about the distinction between thousands of tons, millions of tons, and billions of tons,

Would be great, but so far we don't know how to do it; all the proposals to do it are very expensive, and even if we could do it, we have only notional ideas of how to convert fusion energy (primarily hot neutrons) into electricity.

This is an important point that I think slashdot commentators miss. Solar has an advantage that is scales well to small applications. You can start small and work up. But, a hundred megawatt solar field is (nearly) a hundred times as expensive as a one megawatt solar field; there's no economy of scale at large sizes.

Nuclear, on the other hand, is the opposite. It scales well at large sizes. It's not twice as expensive to make a nuclear plant that puts out twice as much power, and hence big units are much cheaper (per watt) than small.

Does this sentence have any meaning at all, or did the AI just insert economics-related buzz words into a grammar template?

Addressing only the last four words of this, the answer is that the economies of scale of mass production means "individual and localized production" is much more expensive than factories, and hence individual and localized production may work in a society that is small and poor, but not in one that is large and rich.

Right. We get this headline every year, because since the carbon dioxide level is rising, and therefore every year sets a new record.
https://www.climate.gov/ghg/cu...

"Rising line is higher than it was previously! " is a headline, but not really "news".

Paleoclimate researchers measure ancient methane primarily by analyzing air bubbles trapped in glacial ice cores retrieved by drilling into ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland.

How does it work for an outage? With solar inverters they need to have a special island mode where they disconnect the grid, so there is no chance of backfeeding power into it and electrocuting the technician who is trying to fix it. Most inverters don't support that and have an automatic cut-off if they don't detect the grid is up (i.e. there is already 110V 60Hz there).

If you have Vehicle 2 Load you can just plug appliances directly into the car.

Many of the nuclear fanatics want it because they think it means they don't have to change their lifestyle, or because they are NIMBYs and fear wind turbines and solar farms appearing near them (but don't care about nuclear plants near someone else).

Renewables and storage are by far the cheapest and fastest option now. Nuclear is just kicking the can down the road, not doing anything for another 20+ years because "nuclear is coming".

Coincidentally published today: https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

Nissan did it back with the original Leaf around 2012. It was advertised as for emergency use and required an expensive wall box. Later there were V2G options for it, also rather expensive.

True, but I wouldn't read much into the 75,000 figure. Folding it repeatedly isn't the same as keeping it in a pocket, exposed to normal dust and lint, and folding it repeatedly. In other words, it's likely to be optimistic.

I'd say the flaw is that the tolerance is so tight that the manufacturing yield is unacceptably low.

Yes, we will need nuclear energy if we want to mitigate this problem. Get out of the way you antinuclear fanatics.

Fascinating!

Do you have a source for this?

But also, in China the government runs the country and controls the economy, not the stock market like in the US. So it's really an apples to oranges comparison.

Also "vaporizing some $480 billion in market value" is kind of hilarious. Can you vaporize something that is already vapour?

In this case it appears to be a design flaw. They all break in the same place, in the same way. iFixIt found that there is a part of the hinge right under the screen there, and it appears that sometimes it gets misaligned and damages the screen.

My memory of a systemic failure was HP laptops. They had a deal with Nvidia that meant they all used Nvidia chipsets, and they would all eventually fail as the repeated heating and cooling cycles caused the BGA soldering to fail.

It sounds like BS anyway. Their press release says

"Components sourced from U.S. and allied-country suppliers account for more than 90% of the BlueChip prototypesâ(TM) component procurement cost."

Note that they include "allied-country suppliers", and are using the cost rather than the component count.

Does anyone make high grade NAND in the US?