Indeed:

"Reality has a well known liberal bias." -- Stephen Colbert.

Lol. You just want to complain. Now that I've pointed out your weird complaint is bullshit you're off on some other tangents.

There is no reactor in the world that can "burn" fission products, aka "WASTE".

Not much (> 10% IIRC) of the uranium fuel is fissioned in a typical light water reactor. The "waste" from those reactors contains that unused uranium and fission products, many of which are themselves fissionable. Plutonium for example. Reprocessing can be used to recover fission fuel from the "waste".

https://world-nuclear.org/info...

Reprocessing is pretty standard. Far from "no reactor in the world", pretty much all reactors can used reprocessed fuel. CANDU can too, as well, including plutonium either from reprocessing or weapons disposal. However, reprocessing is expensive. The DUPIC process basically involves running spent PWR fuel through a CANDU with minimal reprocessing. Basically just chopping it up and packaging it so it fits.

https://inis.iaea.org/records/...

Stupid brainwashed Americans.

1. I'm not American.
2. Can you say "ultracrepidarian?"

They can also run on thorium.
Unlikely. Thorium has to be bread into Uranium before fission. I do not think a CANDU reactor can do that (without upgrade or modification).

At least you're willing to admit there's a possibility you're wrong on this one. No, it doesn't run on pure thorium. You mix it with uranium or plutonium.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
https://www.nucnet.org/news/cl...

I don't think that would matter in practice. This law wouldn't let them specify what *news* is allowed, only what news sources, and there would be a huge stink if they tried to block the major real news outlets. They'd like to, I'm sure, but I really doubt that they'd succeed.

Russiagate was absolutely not "proven false". Mueller's report and both the House and Senate reports (from committees led by Republicans) thoroughly verified it.

Yes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

L1 is where you want to put solar observatories. L2 is popular for not-solar observatories. L4 and L5 not as much, but there are some satellites like Stereo A and B that passed close, and the ESA plans to put a solar observatory actually at L5.

I was curious WTF you're talking about so I looked up the quote. Poettering was proposing socket-based activation where an infrequently used process, for example, sshd, would be launched when a connection was made rather than idling in the background at all times. You know, like process-based webservers do all the time.

It would have pretty much zero effect on your use case even if it weren't completely optional.

As for the accuracy of the example in the actual quote, excluding phones, which usually aren't running SSH, about half of Linux machines are web servers, another third are cloud machines hosting containers, and another ~10% are file or email servers. The vast majority of those are going to be running SSH for occasional administration. Machines hosting remote X connections are going to be a minority.

Yeah, this is apparently where the water usage numbers come from. Somebody makes up a stupid number and then that gets repeated over and over.

Tracking down the source of silly datacentre water usage was a bit of a sport for a while. It seems a lot of it traces back to a single writer who sort of picked a number.

They are not unsafe, they just unfortunately produce the same / similar waste "standard reactors" do.

One of the neat tricks CANDU reactors can do is burning the "waste" from "standard" reactors. They can also run on thorium.

Do we ever place any kind of satellite at the other Lagrange points ? I know about the attempt to get a gravitational detector at L3/4/5, but is there anything currently ?

It's not an either-or discussion? So you're going to pay for both things to happen?

Yes? Canada's solar, wind and storage capacity is all growing at double digit rates and BC just finished an enormous new set of hydropower dams.

They say two things, one is that folks don't know how to deal with a released person:
"Their case manager may need to consult a dozen or more paper files or databases to learn whether they were convicted of a violent offense, if they require mental-health medications, if they can stay with family or need housing, and which vocational and educational programs they may have taken, among other factors."

The other:
"Not only would a more-efficient system help released inmates get the support they need, it could highlight who is likely to offend again after release."

So sounds like making more informed parole decisions?

Looking up a nuclear plant near me, the sustained power output is about a gigawatt.

Roughly looking up peak theoretical solar for a farm that could sit in the same footprint, it touches *maybe* 500 MW under impossibly ideal conditions.

Power density story is rough.

Further, the latitude causes some challenges seasonally for solar.

More likely a coronograph to hide the light from the star and see around it without being blinded.