Posts by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AvTTN5wxT1GCchlFU8 by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-06-25T02:02:36Z
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@Andres4NY Does anyone have vote total prediction numbers? But yeah, seems like Lander voters will likely break Mamdani.Also: do you have any idea why the bronx is being so silly for Cuomo? WTF?
(DIR) Post #AvTV0XHzqzu2f8yLuS by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-06-25T02:26:30Z
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@futurebird @Andres4NY lmao <3
(DIR) Post #AvTVPjmUXwPQe3FlIm by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-06-25T02:31:03Z
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@futurebird @Andres4NY llol lmao <3 <3 <"...and that's why I can't vote for Cuomo" ;-)
(DIR) Post #AvTalJFKNn5KURqYm8 by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-06-25T03:30:59Z
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@futurebird @Andres4NY You appear to have brought out people with feelings.
(DIR) Post #AvxmaQcN9Kdw7mMCDw by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-07-09T17:04:47Z
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@stux Generally agree, but also don't sleep on agrivoltatics for land that's already food-production oriented.Also, done properly, solar fields can actually help re-wild, which addresses ANOTHER of our major crises, the biodiversity crisis. Also also: let's just get rid of the effin' cars anyway.
(DIR) Post #Awe0H3St2Bk2kVom8m by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-07-30T01:56:01Z
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@futurebird @Faintdreams Been hoping writers will stop writing warning dystopian futures and start writing like...soap operas set in utopian futures.Folks'll still have people issues if and when the world is better. Let's just show that. Show the world being great, and then have like..whatever human interest set on that backdrop to tell the story. Or just do like..ted lasso stuff, but in the future, where it's all good people and sometimes people make mistakes and there's competition to have
(DIR) Post #Azv6mNCMnrjcWCuLFA by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-11-05T01:35:21Z
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@futurebird I used to rage cry when doing math assignments. Definitely which I could've been more chill and learned more.
(DIR) Post #B18B9jOtT0pVSqlgv2 by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T14:32:34Z
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@benroyce @Walrus @paninid The LCOE of nukes higher than solar and wind + battery, WAY higher than solar and and wind without battery, and you can get solar and wind built in 18 months, whereas there are literally no nuclear projects anywhere in the world, including in China, that are not shattering their schedules and budgets by 2x or more, when those schedulers are 10+ years and the budgets would've built a more than equivalent amount of solar.
(DIR) Post #B18B9kimYYKhYp55Ye by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T14:38:27Z
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@benroyce @Walrus @paninid I mean, I think that's really a false premise. Look at the fall of cost and the rise in total generation of wind and solar and batteries in the time frame it takes to build a single nuclear plant. And then, for your backup, there are a bunch of technologies that show more promise, can be more distributed (which is really important to prevent oligarch takeover), and even considering research timelines they'll STILL be more available than nukes.
(DIR) Post #B18B9leZ5iYOS27Eci by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T14:48:55Z
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@benroyce @Walrus @paninid My problem with nukes isn't hte saftey.It's the expense, the time to build, and the centralization (read: targetification) of it.It's a big, slow, expensive target. And then when russia sabotages it because no one is willing to smack them for "hybrid warfare", you'll really be up shit crick.Edit: oh, also: nukes enrich oligarchs. You can't do "community nukes". Lol. You can't do "municipal nukes"
(DIR) Post #B18B9mQQDmpoqSVSDY by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T14:59:10Z
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@benroyce @Walrus @paninid That's historical though. I mean, what year did this happen? What was the LCOE of solar and wind at that point? What is it now?Like, black market solar in pakistan has more installed capacity than grid because it's so frickin cheap. They can't even track it anymore. Investing in nukes now when solar and wind and storage are already cheaper and are going to continue to fall is just a weird economic choice.
(DIR) Post #B18B9nFp8fx3PsYVKy by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T15:14:43Z
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@benroyce @Walrus @paninid Like, I see stopgaps as things that can be built quickly. So I don't see how a nuke is a stopgap when literally the foundations of what will be possible will have completely changed by the time a nuke will get built. That's not a stopgap.
(DIR) Post #B18B9oGZNO8sYTuc8e by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T14:33:36Z
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@benroyce @Walrus @paninid And the LCOE of nukes doesn't really properly account for waste that has to be managed and guarded for a minimum of "only hundreds" of years for "new" thorium type shit, and forever for everything else.
(DIR) Post #B18B9oTKbwLnC3so1w by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T15:25:13Z
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@benroyce @Walrus @paninid Yeah, that's what I mean. That's an easy bet for me. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capacityRenewables will have no problem meeting all of India's needs in 25 years. Absolutely none. I'd even go further and bet you that if they invest purely in renewables, they can get to energy so cheap you can run expensive industrial processes on it when it goes negative. Bonus points: it'll improve their agricultural output too.
(DIR) Post #B18B9plRo4R5CXMmuG by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T15:56:47Z
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@benroyce @iwein @Walrus @paninid Since 2009, China as built 1 terawatt of solar. It has built 2 MW of thorium.That's 5 *orders of magnitude* more power, and it's been producing power the entire time, whereas the thorium only came online last year.
(DIR) Post #B18B9qGHxP6ckBnPyi by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T14:41:55Z
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@benroyce @Walrus @paninid Enhanced geothermal. Tidal/ocean/blah blah blah gravitational. The AI bubble is gonna pop within a couple of years, long before any nukes we build to sustain it come online. AND: if we build out true renewables (wind and solar and geothermal, NOT hydro in the form of dams), and get lots of energy that's free, there's a ton of industrial processes that become possible.
(DIR) Post #B18B9qv3VpiQmcryWO by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T15:01:55Z
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@benroyce @Walrus @paninid I mean, obviously if the choice is nuke vs methane, sure, nukes. But that's not the choice anymore. Not even a little bit.
(DIR) Post #B18B9rDqNykDiteyo4 by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T16:09:08Z
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@benroyce @iwein @Walrus @paninid I know, but I'm just trying to get through that nuclear is *really expensive* and *really time consuming* and that money and time is wasted compared to renewable + storage (maybe + transmission). Like there genuinely aren't any scenarios I know of where that's not true. Which is why I'd love for you to provide some examples. re: weather and stuff, storage. Storage prices are on the same curve as solar was, just about 10-15 years behind.
(DIR) Post #B18B9uz6OjKTOKnGNs by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T14:42:34Z
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@benroyce @Walrus @paninid "But as solar gets cheaper and more efficient, we have a lot of energy, and we can take apart an old solar panel that ran at 20% efficiency and use its recovered materials to make two solar panels that each run at 40% efficiency:"https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/11/cyber-rights-now/
(DIR) Post #B18B9vymhOfYTdeWWm by qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T16:09:47Z
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@benroyce @iwein @Walrus @paninid And again, it's a commodity. Build it anywhere, put it anywhere, you're done in months not decades. The difference in how much power you get over time is nothing short of astounding.