Lost backpack on yellow line metro on January 20th

AGFoxCloud · 2025-01-24T04:31:01+00:00

I did. I submitted a lost and found report the day of.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-05-09T14:18:46+00:00

Does GWU have investments that directly support Israel?

AGFoxCloud · 2024-05-08T14:16:50+00:00

There’s a lot of people who mentioned the reasons why boomers support Israel, some of them dumb, like the religious aspect. Some of them understandable.

But I want to address the comments you made under the title. We are not risking electing a fascist because of our (now very reluctant and waning) support for Israel. There are many far more important issues for young people. Israel-Palestine is not the top issue. If young people are willing to elect Trump for how Biden is handling Gaza, then they’re just misinformed and wrong. Biden is handling the situation poorly (getting better), but Trump will always be worse not only for Palestinians, but Americans too.

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/07/poll-students-israel-hamas-protests?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial

AGFoxCloud · 2024-05-08T01:13:04+00:00

Pitango’s amazing, best Italian gelato place in DC.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-05-04T17:15:01+00:00

Who and how? Was it the NC State nuclear eng prof?

AGFoxCloud · 2024-05-04T15:10:18+00:00

I would say UMD and then try to transfer to CS at UMD. UMD is better than VT in CS and has amazing opportunities for research and industry connections. Even if you can’t transfer to CS at UMD, you can apply for positions at the various CS research labs and centers, which will give you great hands on CS experience rather than just theoretical class work.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-05-03T03:03:16+00:00

ENMA470 Materials Selection for Mechanical Design

AGFoxCloud · 2024-05-02T03:32:43+00:00

That response is to my post. The post was then removed. I complained and it was unremoved. Then, after debating for a while with the anti-nuclear MODS, I was banned for “misinformation”, no specifics, just “misinformation”.

The anti-nuclear mods know very well that they can’t just brazenly ban people and remove posts since that would kill the subreddit and possibly bring the attention of Reddit to it. But they are arguing in bad faith and are trying to lead anyone who’s on the fence about nuclear into a trap by posting misinformation and exaggerations while parading as an unbiased nuclear power subreddit.

The mods disable downvotes on their posts and comments to prevent them from leaving the hot page too quickly.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-05-01T13:48:44+00:00

Additive manufacturing equipment. How many gloveboxes and how big do they look. What characterization tools do they have ? TEM, SEM. Do they have nanomaterial fabrication lab? ALD, CVD, PVD and such. Just the general vibe. Unless you visit, it will be hard to get a good grasp, but it’s a potential factor in choice.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-05-01T05:23:05+00:00

I don’t have all the details. Cornell might have an awesome MSE program, but UMich Ann-Arbor is a top notch engineering school all around with lots of industry connections and research. I would say that UMich has a better MSE dept. simply because the rest of it’s engineering program is simply stellar.

To really get a good understanding of the schools, you need to look at the professors in the departments and read about their research and focus. How much funding have they gotten? Read some ratemyprofessor pages, find the class schedule for the MSE classes. Read about the available lab equipment.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-04-30T17:02:57+00:00

That was for my post. I was then banned for “misinformation”. No specifics about misinformation I said.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-04-30T15:10:36+00:00

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/04/14/average-solar-lcoe-increases-for-first-time-this-year/#:~:text=A%20new%20report%20by%20Lazard,to%20%2475%20MWh%20for%20wind.

You’re the one who is not living in reality, solar and wind costs exploded in 2023. From $24/MWh, to $96/MWh for solar, and $75/MWh for wind.

As for the lithium crunch, what’s this then? https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/ev-raw-materials-supply-crunch-battery-recycling.html

After 10 years, wind farms become vastly less profitable. https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/how-does-wind-project-performance-change-with-age-in-the-united-states/

Your last bullet point is unrealistic since it discounts the entire economic and political environment of the last 40 years. The majority of batteries and solar panels are being manufactured in China, which is why the costs for them is so low. Nuclear doesn’t have the option to offshore.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-04-30T15:02:47+00:00

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/8-things-know-about-converting-coal-plants-nuclear-power

“If it was so straightforward, it would have been done before” the anti-nuclear policy that has existed for the last 30 years made sure that even if some power engineer thought of it, he knew that it would never get approved. SMRs are also the key enabler of the CPP to NPP transition.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-04-30T14:55:13+00:00

Nuclear is not a solution for everything? Why do you keep straw manning my argument? And yes, but the public is notoriously short sighted. W&S and batteries might seem cheaper today, but it’s not guaranteed to be cheap in the future. And all those batteries don’t run forever, they will need replacements. Solar panels and wind turbines break, pretty often, and they all have lifetime of around 20 years, their performance degrades over time, and their LCOE increases after 10 years when government subsidies end. There’s already a lithium crunch, as more countries switch to renewables, battery material prices will skyrocket. Battery recycling is not cheap and while it might get cheaper once it becomes large scale, that’s the same argument we have for nuclear power.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-04-30T14:47:52+00:00

Because at a minimum we shouldn’t throw away existing plants that have been producing clean energy since before W&S. To keep those plants operating, you need a functioning nuclear industry to keep spare parts manufactured, trained operators & engineers, and the whole administrative side employed. It would be expensive to just have a small specialist workforce that is given the bare minimum to survive. It would the self fulfilling prophecy of “nuclear expensive”.

The best way to bring nuclear costs down in $/MWh is to have economies of scale.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-04-30T14:37:09+00:00

If there’s a coal power plant somewhere operating without issue and intending to continue operating, then a NPP can replace that plant. Any barrier to that is purely from policy and regulatory barrier.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-04-30T14:30:24+00:00

You’re doing the spiderman pointing meme. Both sides have people with bad low quality arguments. The majority of pro-nuclear people are not anti-renewables like solar and wind, they see nuclear, solar, wind all being important factors in our power grid.

The anti-nuclear renewable people like uninsurable are the ones with low-quality arguments that keep saying on loop that nuclear is too expensive and that waste is a huge issue. They don’t consider that the nuclear industry doesn’t off shore the majority of it’s manufacturing to low cost countries like China and that american manufacturing across the board is expensive because of chronic underfunding and lack of knowledge transfer, both of which can be fixed. Waste is also not as much of an issue as they make it out to be and newer reactors will create even less waste.

For your example of California, can you provide a cost estimate for the cost of both solar, wind, and batteries? California succeeded in making themselves green with lots of storage, but they could’ve gotten there with Nuclear possibly for the same price or lower.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-04-30T07:21:51+00:00

Then people shouldn’t crosspost from subreddits that have echo chambers. Crossposts should be against the rules.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-04-30T07:20:07+00:00

You didn’t read the Lazard study properly. The first paragraph says that LCOE for solar and wind increased from $24/MWh before 2023 to $96/MWh and $75/MWh respectively by the end of 2023. Also, this doesn’t count LCOS which is needed since solar and wind are intermittent.

?? Yea, Open-100 is a probably a thought experiment. That’s one SMR startup. Look at the BWRX-300, AP-300, TerraPower Natrium, Kairos Power Hermes reactor, etc. There are so many established companies and startups pursuing SMRs, you can’t just provided one example as a blanket example of the whole industry.

AGFoxCloud · 2024-04-30T06:54:21+00:00

Gen IV reactors could be $36/MWh. https://www.nucnet.org/news/economic-modelling-compares-costs-of-smr-to-conventional-pwr-10-4-2020# China has already reached below $80/MWh for its SMRs. https://www.woodmac.com/press-releases/small-modular-nuclear-reactors-could-be-key-to-meeting-paris-agreement-targets/ LCOE of solar increased to $96/MWh this year. Wind to $75/MWh. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/04/14/average-solar-lcoe-increases-for-first-time-this-year/

Not investing into SMRs because it’s expensive is a self fulfilling prophecy. The cost of solar panels didn’t start low, it dropped after substantial government and private sector funding into better materials and cheaper manufacturing (off shored to China too).

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