Where can you get a nuclear reactor with $1 billion?
Olkiluoto III is somewhere around 10 billion, depending how you calculate. If you are lucky, you may get is GW plant for 2-3 billion, if not
Nobody with a even tiniest amount of brains is not going to invest billions to something which must sell 3~10 cents/kWh for 20-30 years to be profitable - or you lose billions.
Wind is already there, and solar is below 10c in few years.
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Once, when I was email responsible (-90's). Our ISP sent email to admin (me) because of their fault. Horrible, I hated it, the real recipient hated it,
There is a catch, you must watch the stream with windows closed.
True story: People watching a stream (in a pub or like) could hear roar of a goal from down the street - from people watching the "live". Lag of stream is a lot bigger than delay from sound (300m/s).
At least the ecosystem of a plant in the roof is a lot smaller than the ecosystem of a tree in forest.
More importantly, when (not if) a robot does a crime, who is responsible? The guy who wrote the AI?
To be absolutely clear: if this happens, I am going to make ten million AI-persons who, just by being "reasonable", vote the way I like.
You forgot one thing. Making solar or wind plant is going to produce electricity with robust price estimate for the next 20 years.
Starting a new nuclear reactor
Why wouldn't you sell it back if you can make risk free money?
Electric cars.
One company in Finland got fee ride (plus "coffee money") by loading (buying) electric cars when electricity was cheap and unloading (selling) when electricity was expensive. This is going to get big.
I once visited USA. It was wonderfull trip, and enjoyed everything and everybody. Really nice people - except the immigration. I was surprised the official seemed to believe everyone wants to move to USA. Er, really, why would I want? Today I cannot even think of visiting USA, there is pretty much nothing that can persuade me to go there.
Then came Bush. I decided that I will not support his imperialistic wars. I started actively buying non-USA stuff. Obama did not help, at all.
Don't worry, USA is not the only country I "boycott", for example Russia is another (there are more, but you don't want to know).
No.
Translation: Too litlle too late. Java died with generics. Every other (recent) language is going away, Perl, Python, Ruby,
No.
We know there are problems which require exponential time (and/or space). No matter whether P == NP or not.
There is no need for the cryptography to use NP problems.
For example, prove a Presburger arithmetic problem. It will not happen "soon".
Deal with it! There are huge amount of women who are smarter than you! Really huge. A lot smarter.
And there is nothing you can do about it. No matter how much "evidence" you have against it - you all sound like holocaust-denies.
I hate the whitespace, but can live with it.
The biggest problem with Python is its incompatibility with itself. It is really annoying that RedHat and Ubuntu need different scripts. The situation is so bad as to need "venv" hack-around.
When Bash (much better than most people think) is not enough, I usually do it in Perl.
You forget that building a nuclear is extremely expensive, running it is relatively cheap.
So in order to get the investment back, you need to get revenue for over fifty years. For solar you only need ten to twenty years.
In the sciences, we are now uniquely priviledged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton
