The radiation explains why his right arm is long enough that he could scratch his shins standing up
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Imagine using something dangerous to generate power or heat for a home. Something that if it leaks into your home could suffocate you overnight or explode, or that in normal use can give children respiratory issues or cause cancer. Thank goodness we're too smart to use something like that unlike the absolute imbeciles in this comic
Imagine if we had to move it around in such large quantities that there were thousands of kilometres of unwatched pipelines just out there, potentially leaking.
And imagine people fight pointless wars over resources instead of using the renewables that are available for free.
Not only that, but mining for it produces massive quantities of dangerous runoff and radioactive waste. Good thing coal doesn't do that!
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The Jetsons/strangelove era pricing for nuclear energy was based on fuel costs only, and certainly scale was needed rather than this absurd wafer system. The fuel costs were based on no one using any yet, and maybe children yearning for the cancer.
Kilo wat
tell me you dont understand how nuclear-powered energy without telling me you dont understand nuclear-powered energy
Beta-voltaic batteries are fairly safe, work for 50 years, no recharging.
Almos tuseless at like 0.1 milliwats.
It's easy: just boil some water
“Junior please walk 30cm to the left and do this task that would have been easier for me to do than ask you to do it”
30cm can make a big difference
It's just one of those things you can do yourself, but you want the kid to feel valuable too.
Besides, if you're getting radiation poisoning, you want that little shit to go down with you.
It's faster, cleaner, and far more efficient for me to clean my kids' dinner plates.
And if I always do it, they'll never do it on their own.
I guess renewables are still cheaper.
At least personally and anecdotally, because it doesn't happen often, but it has happened more than once, that I have purchased electricity at negative prices due to overflow from renewables, which is a hell of lot cheaper than paying a tenth of a cent per kilowatt hour.
no radioactive waste to deal with either.
and with solar, most of the hardware can be recycled now into new units; with a 20 year lifespan, that's going to pull thousands of kilowatts out of the sky, that'll do just fine.
My main thing with solar is I wish they'd put panels over existing parking lots or large buildings. This is a thing that is already done in some places, this is a solved engineering problem, but in my area anywhere a solar farm has sprung up it's been a field that previously either grew crops or was undeveloped woods. And I know the reason someone's going to come back with: To install solar awnings over an existing Wal Mart parking lot, you need to tear up the asphalt to install power lines, build the actual structure, permitting is probably more expensive, and you have to have some or all of the parking lot down for awhile during construction restricting the use of the store. Meanwhile, clear cut 10 acres of forest and you get lumber to sell to a paper mill.
I disagree, only thinking we should cover EVERYTHING - any human building / structure etc should have solar all over. yeah, it's not cheap to build them, but we should stop playing fuckaround and get it done, it'll be cheaper to do it today than tomorrow.
But re: fields - they can do double duty via agrivoltaics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics
Pretty sure that kid's arm would hang down to his ankle if he straightened it. Must be all those atomic wafers.
He's actually the bass player in a metal band.
"Kilowat"
Might have questioned the reliability of that information source even back then already...
Yes, the kilo-wat. For when a simple "wat" doesn't accurately capture the absurdity of the situation.
For example, asking junior to put an atomic wafer in the power box, when you are standing right fucking next to it.
I don't think fiscal cost is the best or only way to measure success or necessarily improvement of society's energy generation.
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