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UNCjigga

UNCjigga

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misuspita said:
I think Romania is going to be a testing ground for the SMR. Hopefully it's a success


Romanian-Polish cooperation on NuScale SMR deployment : New Nuclear - World Nuclear News

Romanian utility Nuclearelectrica and Polish copper and silver producer KGHM Polska Miedź SA have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in the development of small modular reactors. Both companies have previously signed agreements with NuScale of the USA on the...
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I've been conditioned to believe anything SMR-related is shit.

CMR/PMR for the win.
 
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Ajay

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Moonbeam said:
www.cnbc.com

U.S. can get to 100% clean energy with wind, water, solar and zero nuclear, Stanford professor says

Stanford professor Mark Jacobson sees a way to clean energy in the U.S. by 2050 with 100% wind, water and solar (no fossil fuels, no nuclear). Here's how.
www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com

One person opposed to a shotgun approach as a waste of money.
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Probably - once the grid infrastructure is upgraded and some companies develop longer term grid level energy storage options. The current grid level storage systems are based around something like 4 hours of storage. I'm still for building newer Gen 4 fission reactors, but the NRC has been dragging their butts on approvals for even pilot plants for the past 10-15 years. There are many options for more friendly fuel cycles, the ability to use existing nuclear 'waste' as a fuel source, etc., etc. Reliable baseload capacity. Just stop putting them near lakes, oceans and highly active earthquake zones.
 
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Ajay

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hal2kilo said:
Yep. Hot fusion sure is.
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Yep, super high energy plasmas don't like to behave in a uniform and predictable manner. Shocking.

Oh, but Helion is special (hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!). Stupid technology isn't even new. Investors sure are gullible.
 
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Ajay

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hal2kilo said:
Yep. Hot fusion sure is.
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I think workable cold fusion systems will come out about the same time as room temperature superconductors. Which could easily be never as they are well past our current knowledge of materials science. I know, I'm a nattering ninny of negativism :p
 
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Ajay said:
I think workable cold fusion systems will come out about the same time as room temperature superconductors. Which could easily be never as they are well past our current knowledge of materials science. I know, I'm a nattering ninny of negativism :p
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Yep. Physics is a crazy science these days. I've seen several papers that claim the Coulomb barrier at extremely short distances does not exist. It's an essential part of Lattice Confinement Fusion, H2 or D2 when absorbed in nano cracks of certain metals can fuse due to how close the atoms are to each other. In a tokomak they are trying to squeeze extremely hot gas to fuse in a strong magnetic field. I find that a hard stretch. They are stuck on how they "think" the sun does fusion.
Anyway, yea, someone needs to redo their experiments for room temp superconductivity.
There is physics base on physical reality, but there is more physics based on mathematical constructs that may not reflect actual physical reality.

Stunning room-temperature-superconductor claim is retracted (nature.com)
 
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[DHT]Osiris

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hal2kilo said:
Yep. Physics is a crazy science these days. I've seen several papers that claim the Coulomb barrier at extremely short distances does not exist. It's an essential part of Lattice Confinement Fusion, H2 or D2 when absorbed in nano cracks of certain metals can fuse due to how close the atoms are to each other. In a tokomak they are trying to squeeze extremely hot gas to fuse in a strong magnetic field. I find that a hard stretch. They are stuck on how they "think" the sun does fusion.
Anyway, yea, someone needs to redo their experiments for room temp superconductivity.
There is physics base on physical reality, but there is more physics based on mathematical constructs that may not reflect actual physical reality.

Stunning room-temperature-superconductor claim is retracted (nature.com)
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My extremely ill-informed bigbrain theory about a lot of edge physics is that most of this shit is just coded as an approximation in our simulation, never intended to be probed by an intelligence, therefore seems illogical at first blush. Throw galactic rotation, the constant discovery of earlier and earlier galaxies of advanced formation which make no sense, and the lack of comingling of classic and quantum physics in that same bucket.
 
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More reason for hope from solar:

www.pv-magazine.com

The fastest energy change in history

Solar and wind are being installed at a rate that is three times faster than all other new electricity sources combined. This offers compelling market-based evidence that PV and wind are now the most competitive and practical methods for deploying new generating capacity.
www.pv-magazine.com www.pv-magazine.com
 
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woolfe9998

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Moonbeam said:
More reason for hope from solar:

www.pv-magazine.com

The fastest energy change in history

Solar and wind are being installed at a rate that is three times faster than all other new electricity sources combined. This offers compelling market-based evidence that PV and wind are now the most competitive and practical methods for deploying new generating capacity.
www.pv-magazine.com www.pv-magazine.com
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Yes, and consider that the charts and graphs in that article stop at 2021 and aren't taking into account Russia's war in Ukraine which is causing a massive speedup of solar and wind deployment. Posted this in the Ukraine thread.

www.cnbc.com

Renewables to overtake coal and become world's biggest source of electricity generation by 2025, IEA says

The global energy crisis, sparked by Russia's war in Ukraine, has sparked "unprecedented momentum for renewables," the IEA said.
www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com

“Renewables [will] become the largest source of global electricity generation by early 2025, surpassing coal,” it added.

According to its “main-case forecast,” the IEA expects renewables to account for nearly 40% of worldwide electricity output in 2027, coinciding with a fall in the share of coal, natural gas and nuclear generation.

In its largest-ever upward revision to its renewable power forecast, the IEA now expects the world’s renewable capacity to surge by nearly 2,400 gigawatts between 2022 and 2027 — the same amount as the “entire installed power capacity of China today.”
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EIA is saying the world will more than double its rewnewables capacity in the next 4 years.
 
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hal2kilo

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hal2kilo said:
Yep. Physics is a crazy science these days. I've seen several papers that claim the Coulomb barrier at extremely short distances does not exist. It's an essential part of Lattice Confinement Fusion, H2 or D2 when absorbed in nano cracks of certain metals can fuse due to how close the atoms are to each other. In a tokomak they are trying to squeeze extremely hot gas to fuse in a strong magnetic field. I find that a hard stretch. They are stuck on how they "think" the sun does fusion.
Anyway, yea, someone needs to redo their experiments for room temp superconductivity.
There is physics base on physical reality, but there is more physics based on mathematical constructs that may not reflect actual physical reality.

Stunning room-temperature-superconductor claim is retracted (nature.com)
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More on the is modern physics representing the physical world, or just math.

First article really needs some deep understanding of sets.


This one was very understandable and interesting.

Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math. | Quanta Magazine
 
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hal2kilo said:
This one was very understandable and interesting.

Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math. | Quanta Magazine
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Gisin speaks of making choices in adding precision to numbers. Is he referring to experimental design where how the number is observed determines the next digit? Intuitionist math has appeal in that eventually one hits a quantum limit in measuring things beyond which more digits are pointless. If math is to be employed as a model of how the universe works then it makes some sense that numbers are truncated when they reach the edge of what can be measured.
 
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Jaskalas

Jaskalas

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That experiment briefly achieved what's known as fusion ignition by generating 3.15 megajoules of energy output after the laser delivered 2.05 megajoules to the target, the Energy Department said.
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Input 2.05 MJ.
Output 3.15 MJ.

Nicely done. Now the trick will be to keep it running. And, probably more scaling.
 
sportage

sportage

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So, when will my Apple Watch battery last a year??? Thats what I'm waiting for with this technology. A better battery. ;)
 
Paratus

Paratus

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brycejones said:
You want a fusion reactor on your wrist? WTF
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Everyone knows it goes in your chest.
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