BoxesOfPepe

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Skeptics Guide To The Future" is supposed to be pretty good, and "Black Hole War" is a great read but might be old news to a pro in the field.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Idk that it's better than renewables, I'd say they're complimentary. And I'm not sure we'd need new big multi-million new ones, newer models can be much smaller, cheaper, and modular. But places like Germany shutting down perfectly functional nuclear plants drives me nuts, just ups the coal and gas usage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To my understanding they don't use up the water though, it's evaporated back into the cycle after use. Also they can use non potable water like salt water, if memory serves.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Coal dropped, but looks like natural gass usage jumped. That's only a small difference in carbon output. Nuclear is the way to go until we've got a solid infrastructure that can handle the ups and downs of renewables, grid storage and general upgrades, nation wide.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Same boat. But Twitter wasn't really my kind of social media anyway, maybe that's why Mastodon hasn't locked in?

 

Who's been listening to the SGU lately? I found the segment on brain health after space travel pretty interesting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I guess it's better than the "guns for teachers" bullshit, but fuck... Surely we can do better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mint is where I started and I think it's a great way to begin. Lots of helpful GUI interfacing to get you situated. Plus the popularity makes finding help a lot easier.