Although renewable + bess still wins according to most recent studies on that matter, cost comparison between nuke and renewable / Bess is not that useful. Assumptions on the longevity of nuke reactors, for example, helps little if the fleet of reactors end up constantly break down and require repairment as in France and Belgium. So lcoe of nuke over long time span is highly uncertain and contingent; even in construction phase nuclear projects already entails higher risk in time and budget overrun than renewables. Plus the positive feedback loop of learning curve, evident in renewable and Bess, is not so visible for nuclear.

What is more useful for sake of current policy discussion is deployment rate and scalability, which renewable plus batteries clearly wins.

A Planck computer needs to store guessed passwords somewhere, if it choose to do so. This assumption of unconstrained memory probably means that the password cracking speed of the Planck computer has to be reduced. And checking guessed passwords probably incur computational burden as time goes on. In the best case where password is known to be static, this reduces probability of survival to a hypergeometric distribution. If the password rotates, there is non-zero probability that after guessing the entire sample set, the PC still fails to crack the password, but given infinite amount of time it will eventually still crack the password if it is allowed to retry the procedure again.

In a memoryless random guess PC set up, rotating or not rotating passwords does not matter, the probability of survival always follows a geometric distribution.

In the pure theoretical thought experiment of Planck computers, let's say an ai is trying to hide its password against the Planck computer who also happens to have unconstrained memory storage, then rotating password constantly yields geometric distribution and not rotating yields hypergeometric distribution for the probability of survival.

Caveat: The assumption of unconstrained memory probably means that the password cracking speed of the Planck computer has to be reduced. And checking guessed passwords probably incur computational burden as time goes on.

two things:

1. Kepler's law of planetary motion already existed when the church embraced the helio-geo hybrid model and prosecuted Galileo. So by that time an elliptic heliocentric model was already the best model of the solar system.
2. Galileo got it wrong in his tidal theory when he tried to use it to prove earth's movement. However, Kepler got it right. If tides were caused by attraction from the moon, it then follows the earth must at least be rotating, otherwise the tidal period should be twice a month not twice a day.

of course it was still possible to come up with a helio-geo hybrid model that had elliptic orbits and that the earth was rotating but not revolving. I am not sure if anyone adopted that view, because it seems arbitrary to allow one type of movement but not the other.

IMO the kinematic theory of the solar system was settled in early 17th century. The dynamic theory would be completed by Newton, but the clues were already there.

and you don't seem to understand...

solar panels in a desert seems relative low impact infrastructure

I looked into the gwp* thing and it is more appropriate for macroscopic / global analysis than for the carbon accounting of individuals. if one reduces 1 unit per year of emission of short live GHG now, can they claim the positive climate effects by comparing with the counterfactual baseline, where they continue to emit the GHG with the same rate forever? That is the equivalent of claiming an infinite amount of emission reduction.

in any case it is always possible to use a pulse response function to account for the gwp of any instantaneous emission increase/decrease, since gwp* is just the convolution of the pulse response over time.

just thinking: why stop at 2? I suppose a grid of heat towers with mirrors beneath would provide maximum utilization of the solar radiation

its the marginal cost of running existing plants, mainly from fuel cost.

since death star is capable of delivery a blast with high energy density, its core might be a nuclear fusion or anti matter power plant. maybe the mass there generates sufficient gravitational force.

The political context here is that the Australian conservatives (the liberal coalition I suppose), who have been vividly against climate policies and renewables, are now trying to propose nuke projects on coal power plant sites. Many of these coal power plants are soon to be phased out with renewables plus storage in the queue for the freed transmission capacity, so there isn't really any advantages these sites can offer for nuke projects decades from now.

Of course, any realistic realization of nukes in Australia would be no earlier than 2040 (some even suggest 2050), by then they could already get 100% renewable in energy system easily.

my understanding is that Taiwan buys weapons from the us, so he is demanding something that is already a common practice

just a reminder if they put the orange diamonds for wind and solar it would probably lie somewhere near zero $/MWh

It is highly dependent of the local geological conditions. Convection-based geothermal plants (those with hot spring flowing around) probably have less constraints on heat extraction limit. Conduction-based geothermal plants will face more problems.

In some shallow geothermal use case the ground is used as seasonal heat storage so heat renewable rate is not an issue.

The moemorphic character shown in the picture is Archchan, created by ravimo. I wonder why show her in a discussion about Mint?

It's not a good analogy. A better analogy might be a community that promotes a Linux distro that runs exclusively on Chromebook and claims that that is the ONLY private and secure way to use a computer.

Some people are still using current primary energy supply share of renewables to bash wind and solar. Given the rapid adoption of these techs, such unfair metric will become more and more irrelevant. Once thermal electricity generation becomes the exception, electricity becomes the main primary energy carrier. Some forms of secondary energy carriers will still exist (in form of green chemical molecules) but overall efficiency of the energy system will no doubt improve.

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I felt the slap in the face. It is good that Momoka acknowledges Nina is not just a punk token for her nostalgie and will start fight with her for what they think is the right way of doing music.

because simplified Chinese characters borrowed many words directly from Japanese kanji, so google translate still recognizes it.