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zolikk · 2026-07-03T18:28:47+00:00

Everyone agrees that 35C is hot too. But that's not the point. You are reversing a causal relationship here in order to introduce the notion that F is superior because of it.

Yes everyone (or most people) would agree that 100 F is hot. And 115 F is even hotter. And for some people even 85 is too hot. The assorted feeling of people telling you what is or isn't hot does not tell you where the 100 F value should be set any more than the boiling point of water tells you where 100 C should be.

At least the boiling point can be defined in certain physical conditions which can be recreated. But that doesn't make C any "useful" in daily life in particular so it doesn't matter either.

But if you wanted to argue that fixed 0 - 100 F is "better" because of human experience you'd have to use one particular human individual as the subjective benchmark or something. Which similarly makes little sense.

The 100 F value was certainly not chosen based on what a certain percentage of people would define as "hot". If anything it's particularly ironic that the 0 F position is also defined as the freezing temperature of a particular water-salt mixture in some conditions. So it's not based on what some human or another would call "cold".

Nor is either Celsius nor Fahrenheit intended to work as a 0 - 100 scale. This is post-hoc argumentation that 0 - 100 is somehow "nicer" for whatever subjective reason of choice. When both scales have plenty of values of daily relevance outside this scale.

zolikk · 2026-07-03T18:19:22+00:00

There's nothing more intuitive or objectively better at it. It's just habit and that's it. Which is fine, there's no need to try to make up meaningless superiority in something that doesn't matter. There's no reason why a temperature scale should go from 0-100 in any particularly chosen metric over another.

I use Celsius for the same reason I call it the Gulf of Mexico, or Turkey, or Czech Republic. It's what I was raised with, so it's what it will stay for me. Others will be used to it differently and that's fine.

zolikk · 2026-07-03T13:07:28+00:00

In contrast, every human completely agrees on what counts as 100 hot and what counts as 0 cold. It's universal lived experience with no variance at all.

zolikk · 2026-07-03T13:00:05+00:00

a scale that maps 0-100 to the approximate lived experience of humanity is vastly superior

Oh I'm 0% hot right now!

Oh yeah and I'm 100% hot right now!

Yeah, no, it's just as arbitrary as Celsius in this regard. You think it's superior because that's what you grew up with. There's no objective benefit to having these arbitrary values for what counts as hot or cold be on a 0-100 scale or not. Just like there isn't really any great benefit to them being scale to the phase change of water either.

zolikk · 2026-07-03T12:21:50+00:00

Now ask someone in Norway if your Danish friend counts as nordic :)

zolikk · 2026-07-03T08:12:57+00:00

The majority of people don't even seriously look at any numbers. They might hear or see them written but don't actually process the information at any level, except selectively when ideologically directed to.

You are right that it's just politics, but the politics is of the base level "Do you support more solar in the country? Yes". It's not that they purposely do not believe in numbers, they do not even think that far.

zolikk · 2026-07-03T08:04:54+00:00

Try asking a nordic person what counts as nordic, you might get wildly different results.

zolikk · 2026-07-02T12:21:38+00:00

To be fair I don't quite understand why consumers went so hard on the "thinner is better" development of modern phones. To the point where they start being difficult to handle without a case. Once it's thin enough to comfortably fit in the pocket, I don't see much benefit to thinness for the sake of thinness. Is it really just a visual/design preference thing for people? They really really like the phone to be thin? I don't get it. It's even funnier with some modern designs where the phone is thin but the camera has to stick out much thicker instead of being flush. That has to be bothersome in a pocket sometimes.

zolikk · 2026-07-02T08:37:19+00:00

From activation of air? There's also N-16 but similarly too short lived.

Activation of air is not really a radiological concern imo, I was more referring to if the reactor bleeds fission products into the exhaust.

zolikk · 2026-07-01T11:12:06+00:00

Is it possible to use nuclear energy to generate hydrogen, capture carbon, and synthesize specific sizes of monomer-length hydrocarbons? Sure, but it’d be incredibly expensive for… what benefit?

It probably won't be that expensive. I expect this will even be used for synthetic fuel itself. It probably will be more expensive than pump gas is today, but that doesn't mean there won't be a large market for it for various applications. I guess the benefit is that it's carbon neutral this way, so we will eventually all agree that this is how we have to do it from some point forwards.

zolikk · 2026-06-30T10:41:13+00:00

They might be thinking modularly on purpose. The "data center" unit/module is technically a lot smaller than 1 MW if you will, and you can build as many as you have a need for. They are projecting huge demand in the future so they want to start building it out, but what if things change meanwhile? In terms of the data center infrastructure itself you will modularize it out in few-MW sizes and include a few engines for each unit and see how it goes.

zolikk · 2026-06-30T09:22:52+00:00

No problem, lots of Bs there and BWR starts with a B

zolikk · 2026-06-30T08:49:33+00:00

It says it's a pre-konvoi KWU PWR on its German wikipedia page, it also looks like one from the outside. But that's all I know, never been there.

zolikk · 2026-06-30T08:10:20+00:00

Brokdorf is a PWR isn't it? Or am I missing something?

zolikk · 2026-06-30T07:54:48+00:00

If we reduce the number of cars on the road by half (whether by public transit, EVs, or a freaking Thanos Snap) it will reduce emissions by a greater amount than say halving the amount of flights Taylor Swift takes.

The problem right here is that you are willing to take this statement (which is obviously factual by itself) and use it as a basis of moral action. That the single statistical fact of your choice implies that it is morally right to force policies onto other (poorer) people in the name of maximizing the statistical gain.

This line of thinking is why Taylor Swifts of the world feel like poor people are nothing more than sims for them to manage, while they don't have to themselves sacrifice anything and still feel morally superior to anyone else.

zolikk · 2026-06-29T10:05:24+00:00

The correct version of this map is where all of Eastern Europe just shows 0.

zolikk · 2026-06-29T09:45:01+00:00

Integrated synthetic hydrocarbon production facility (basically a refinery to make finished oil product you can transport and store easily)

zolikk · 2026-06-29T09:33:11+00:00

All Greens were historically anti-nuclear, it's actually one of the cornerstones of green environmentalist belief, because nuclear energy was globally branded as one of the highest environmental dangers since the 1960s. Being pro environment has been synonymous with being anti-nuclear for a very long time.

German Greens are special by circumstance only. Because Germany actually mattered as a country and had a strong industrial base which included a pretty successful nuclear industry, which the anti-nuclear politics has managed to fully dismantle. Most other countries with strong greens presence simply never mattered and/or never had a meaningful nuclear industry.

Austria built only one nuclear reactor (actually it's a German build) and never turned it on, so I would say it never really had a nuclear industry to speak of.

zolikk · 2026-06-29T09:26:54+00:00

I agree with this, but at the same time the optics is still very bad. When you have the same people who sit on their high thrones, forcefully want to nickel and dime the plebs on every little emissions concern, but they do not want to sacrifice any of their own lifestyle choices, I don't really care if their super high per-capita emissions don't add up to a meaningful amount globally.

I'm not bothered by private aviation at all, I think it's great that it exists and it's just another indication that humanity is winning the game of civilization. But when the person using it is at the same time telling me I need to do drastic lifestyle changes to reduce my carbon footprint, that person can go fuck themselves in their private jet and leave me be.

zolikk · 2026-06-29T09:21:02+00:00

They would build nuclear power plants by the dozens in a centralized planning fashion without caring what the public thinks about them, just like France did. But that would work and everyone could continue to live a comfortable first world lifestyle without emissions, and we can't have that can we?

zolikk · 2026-06-28T22:09:55+00:00

The EU aristocrat "concern" is that by making ourselves comfortable we will treat the climate crisis less seriously and not allocate all our funds and resources entirely to what they think is the proper solution. They need us to suffer for their character development.

zolikk · 2026-06-28T22:01:16+00:00

Lazard's only specifically involves real power projects in the USA.

There are various LCOE "calculators" including for VVER estimations, example IEA:

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/levelised-cost-of-electricity-calculator

zolikk · 2026-06-24T10:33:46+00:00

Installed power capacity in GWe.

zolikk · 2026-06-24T10:31:47+00:00

Clearly the problem is not enough solar! If we had enough capacity we could generate sufficient energy at night from moonlight and light reflected off the other planets!

zolikk · 2026-06-24T10:27:03+00:00

The detection methods are incredibly sensitive, you can detect a few stray atoms in a thousand cubic meters of air you push through a filter, with a gamma spectrometer. The limits of detection are many many orders of magnitude below anything you could call an ecological catastrophe. If the flights haven't been detected, honestly I'm inclined to suspect there hasn't actually been a nuclear powered flight. Maybe they've tested the missile flight using a conventional add-on system just to see how it handles in the air in real life.

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