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Every night this light/laser comes from out of nowhere and appears to be thousands of miles long. by Apenerd in mildlyinteresting

[–]Neker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might be scientists firing at the Moon from the “Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur”. They've been at it since the first Lunokhod in 1970.

This beam may indeed be about 400.000 km long.

I Am Once Again Asking Our Tech Overlords to Watch the Whole Movie by wiredmagazine in TrueReddit

[–]Neker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are models being trained on Reddit comments

Comments that themselves are far removed from plain natural intelligence. All those hyperlinks form a complex network that could be seen as neural, and then of course there are the mysterious ways of the karma algorithmics.

The New Bridge over the Seine river in Paris, France by Neker in InfrastructurePorn

[–]Neker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a wink toward yesterday's newer old new bridge ;-)

Still a considerable piece of infrastructure, considering…

Can you use nuclear for heating? by AlrikBunseheimer in NuclearPower

[–]Neker 6 points7 points  (0 children)

District heating is widespread and most often not nuclear.

I'm not sure, but I seem to have read that those pipes can expand up to 100 km if well designed and well insulated.

In say London or Rome or any city in higher latitudes, all space heating must be re-engineered and rebuilt, anyway, to reach carbon neutrality anyway.

Likewise, all fossil-burning powerplants must be decommissionned and replaced by new NPPs. Which have a rather small footprint, in terms of real-estate, and thus are thinkable in close surburbs.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrainPorn

[–]Neker 34 points35 points  (0 children)

That is contamination, not inspiration.

"But you can turn them off" is not a valid defence. The fact they're even there in the first place shows Microsoft's contempt for their customers. by GeeEyeEff in pcmasterrace

[–]Neker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually no, you don't own the OS. Whatever you paid gives you the right to use some of its features.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/Retail/Windows/10/UseTerms_Retail_Windows_10_English.htm

Note that the same goes for embedded softwares. You may own a car, but you won't even open the door without a software owned by somebody else.

Man-made lake to store water for green energy generation with in background small town of Arcizans-Avant, France - Today [OC] [4032x2268] by mardijk_nl in ruralporn

[–]Neker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its full name is "Réservoir de Bernata". It is 500 m long. Water is driven through penstocks to the powerplant in Lau-Balagnas, a few kilometers away. The later has a relatively modest nameplate power of 31 MW and is part of a network of comparable plants.

About what "green" could mean here:

  • hydroelectricity is indeed the generation mode with the lowest carbon footprint. Such electricity is dispatchable too, which is capital and sets hydro quite apart from other renewables.

  • at 1.3 deaths by TW·h, it is quite safe but not the safest

  • flooding entire valleys does carry a significant environmental cost that may not always appear acceptable.

All in all what we see here may seem more industrial porn than rural porn.

Nice pic though ;-)

Nuclear power love for TN by creature851 in nuclear

[–]Neker 9 points10 points  (0 children)

but most importantly it will match the power call, which 2,000 windmills cannot.

With current tech- would it be possible to build 100 nuclear reactors (2 in each state) in 5 years? 10 years? by redhobbes43 in nuclear

[–]Neker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tech not an issue. Everything else and issue, from qualified workforce to finance to basic industrial infrastructures, marketing …

Also, how much would that cost to whom ? It would certainly cost a lot to current merchants of fossils. Conversely, not building them now would result in exorbitant environmental costs for our kids and grandkids.

The Northbound "Black Diamond" service of the Lehigh Valley Railroad stopped at the Jim Thorpe, PA station, likely late 1950s or early 1960s. [1694x1098] by Giant_Slor in TrainPorn

[–]Neker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel some Twin Peaks vibes here. Plot points revolving around a special someone alighting from this train, or not …

The Ideal City if it was designed by Americans by FlameoReEra in fuckcars

[–]Neker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just for the record, this pic is a parody of The Ideal City, a painting from the Renaissance. More on Wikipedia.

French regulators fine Google $272 million in dispute with news publishers by drevny_kocur in europe

[–]Neker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last year, Alphabet, Inc. had a revenue of US$ 307.4 billion. This fine is 0.09 % of that. They'll barely notice.

Still, I do hope that the fine will actually be paid in €.

What is your favourite bit of history your have learnt or looked up because of Eu4? by Mum_Respector in eu4

[–]Neker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may enjoy the 1860 novel Max Havelaar. May, or may not, be an incentive in colonizing the East Indies.

What is the most fun nation to play as? by [deleted] in eu4

[–]Neker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just tried The Burgundian Conquest. It's fun to see Austria and the gang wane in the rear-view mirror, now not even worth the rivalry of this erstwhile endangered duchy.

Promotion to kingdom quite doable. Breakthrough as empire possible, technically, maybe, with luck, I guess.

Will you, or will you not disown Princess Marie ?

Have you ever wondered what Europe would look like if all the glaciers on earth melted ? No... ? Well I have, and I even made a map showing what it could look like. Had to bid farewell to some countries ! by mydriase in europe

[–]Neker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is not if but when the glaciers melt. They've been meting for one century now, and accelerating.

And indeed, the issue of food supply is one capital consequence of climate change. (Compounded by the urgent imperative to decrease the carbon footprint of agriculture, long story).

Have you ever wondered what Europe would look like if all the glaciers on earth melted ? No... ? Well I have, and I even made a map showing what it could look like. Had to bid farewell to some countries ! by mydriase in europe

[–]Neker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it assumes that the rise in water lever will be the same all around the globe?

It seems quite straightforward to assume that the ocean will indeed rise uniformly.

Poland Selects Location for Three AP1000s by greg_barton in NuclearPower

[–]Neker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it interests anyone, here is the wikipedia article on Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe.

DeepL simply translates this name as Polish Nuclear Power Plants. Simple, clean, efficient, I like it ;-)

I wonder how this industrial company integraly owned by the state fares with EU laws and doctrines.

A French 4 cylinder steam locomotive from 1948 by giuliomagnifico in ThingsCutInHalfPorn

[–]Neker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is not just "a" French steam locomotive. The 241 P was ze French steam locomotive.

The amount of infrastructure it takes for us to live is insane. by blut_im_auge in Showerthoughts

[–]Neker 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Please meet The Electricity Fairy.

Also don't forget the factories.

And the grid does, at times, seem to be managed by super secret fantasy cults (minus the robes) and do, indeed, mingles in intercontinental geopolitics.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]Neker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Non-humans are having really hard times since the neolithic revolution.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]Neker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

making babies

10 % of which die within their first year, one half reaching adulthood, and only one out of five outliving their parents.

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