Thanks. So this compares fairly well then, and is doubtless a lot safer, even if you don't care about the zero emissions.

Indeed, this has been well known in Europe for many years, and rules put in place to mitigate the problem.

Some places have free electricity now, thanks to renewables makes it so cheap. Australia has recently got it too. 3 hours a day of free energy for some parts.

If an AP1000 loses power, it requires a functional cooling system to avoid meltdown, and for it to do a proper emergency shutdown where the control rods work as expected. It absolutely can melt down if things go badly wrong.

Shutting down reactors in Germany wasn't just ideological. They were old and end of life. The only way to keep them going was to closely monitor the cracks that were spreading, and shut them down on short notice if necessary, assuming there wasn't simply a serious accident.

It wasn't ideal, but the choice was either spend more money keeping them going, or divert it to transitioning to renewables.

If you look at Germany right now, it's basically solar powered: https://www.energy-charts.info...

If you look at exports, Germany exports more than twice as much electricity as France does over the course of a year.

France has been having to shut down reactors again due to the heatwave. It's happening more and more frequently.

The ones in Illinois don't have a stellar record either. Quad Cities has a coolant leak and sprayed a couple of people in the face with radioactive water, and then lied about it. Braidwood, Byron, and Dresden all had a tritium leaks. Byron also had a severe non-nulcear hydrazine mass casualty incident. Dresden is even worse, having repeatedly suffered from flaws in the design of its monitoring and cooling systems, and incredibly something as simple as a stuck needle nearly causing a severe accident. LaSalle County is the site of one of the most serious nuclear incidents in US history due to staff incompetence.

The pirate version will be better anyway. No DRM or ring 0 drivers buggering up your computer and breaking Linux compatibility. Save the installer and play it forever. The download server won't melt on day 1 so you will actually get to enjoy the game.

Some people have commented on the 120kW charging, but it's actually plenty for most people. By the time you have had a coffee it will be ready for the next leg of the journey.

We shall see how repairable it is, but some EVs are easier to maintain that fossils. The Nissan Leaf is like that. For all its flaws, it's a simple design that isn't hard to work on. Even swapping the battery is something you can do on your driveway with a bit of effort. Maintenance and repairs are easy to do yourself, and there isn't all that much to do.

It would be great if this truck was like that too.

How much did your GMC cost, adjusted for inflation?

That would only be a problem if we made our whole environment sterile, but that's not what they are suggesting.

It does surprise me how little effort we make with respiratory viruses, when we already have tools to limit their spread. For example, UV lights that kill airborne viruses are old technology at this point, and while some care is needed to install them (they are up near the ceiling, shining sideways so that viruses in circulating air are killed but nobody in the room is exposed, because they can cause eye damage), the newer ones on 222nm don't even need that.

The immune system recognizes viruses by their shape, so vaccines provide a deactivated virus that has the same shape but doesn't make you sick. The newer mRNA ones skip that bit and just provide the instructions to kill that shape virus directly.

They definitely can melt down.

All the portable ones are pretty loud. Small and loud fan, small and loud pump. The main thing going for it is that it was cheap, and it seems to be reliable too. I've had it for maybe 5 years now.

Try using that instead? /s