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Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository has been defunded. Nobody in the Untied States is working on a solution. In the meantime in the Untied States there are 3800 spent fuel casks, each weighing approximately 25 tons, looking for a place to call home. Smarter people would solve the waste...

"Interesting" is a word that has to do a lot of work in 2026.

And I am arguing that we are rapidly converging on a "right way." No reason to think that all states (well, except the states one step away from savagery and witch-burning, and we civilized folk can do nothing but shake our heads at them in pity) will have the infrastructure to recycle solar...

So you think the tw@ts in charge, who are in the process of getting our ass beaten senseless by Iran, can manage to win a war against Canada? You obviously love being punished!

Oh come on. You can do better than that. We recycle solar panels all the time. I can drop them off at the recycle facility in a town of 1000 people just down the highway from me. By weight solar panels are more than 90 percent aluminum and glass. Things we recycle all the time. On the...

The 8kw of solar panels on my roof cost me $16k in 2016. They were heavily discounted and listed for about $33k online (the story was they were part of a much larger project for a marijuana farm and they turned out to not need as many panels as they bought). Today I can find similar panels for...

They are going down on an exponential curve, not linearly. The graph makes it look approximately linear but because the axis is logarithmic that makes it exponential. And it is "just a projection" based on sixty years of historic data. SMRs do not have any data to base their costs on so anyone...

All of which make for such a wonderful view. I don't see any of those as being more intrinsically scenic than solar panels.

Of course the facility itself is so esthetically pleasing, though...

And I know that solar is so unpleasant to look at and ugly. I guess some people think this is pretty:

I agree. You are comparing a product that does not yet exist with a product that works and you can purchase today. This graph hammers it home hard: Source: https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/solar-panel-prices-have-fallen-by-around-20-every-time-global-capacity-doubled I quote from...

Oh, so solar parking lots are "pie in the sky" and SMRs are somehow not? I can buy this on alibaba, I can't buy an SMR online anywhere. Just saying...

What you miss when you say "Solar needs 100 times more land than SMRs" is that you can do other stuff with the land you use for solar. No reason you can't convert a parking lot to a solar farm and still park cars in the shade there. In fact, if you do that everywhere you can generate between...

Right now the best estimate for the electricity costs from an SMR are around $120/MWh. Right now you can buy and build solar plus battery systems for around $100/MWh. There is zero practical difference between solar-generated electrons and nuclear-generated electrons. Which means everyone is...

"Only by 5%" is still a drop and makes it harder to justify spending $10 billion to build something that will take decades to pay back. I consider the fact that we aren't building refineries (the last one built in the Untied States went online in 1977) to be the very best confirming evidence...

That may all be true (or more or less true) but it is irrelevant. Oil is a globally traded commodity and oil companies are not charities like the United Way. If people are willing to pay 300 per barrel in Japan and only 100 per barrel in the states, we will sell oil in Japan and people here...

Yeah. I'd also argue that the war in Ukraine and the war with Iran are both resource wars and our inability to get off of fossil fuels makes wars like those inevitable.

A couple of thoughts here. Existing hypersonic missiles are basically ballistic missiles with some limited capacity for terminal maneuvers and possibly a guidance system that will allow for terminal guidance. Good examples are the Chinese DF-21D and the Russian Avanguard. All of these weapons...

This thread has been going on for three years. Topic drift is inevitable in that time frame. This thread hasn't even reached the Godwin Point yet.