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New comment by dalyons in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

dalyons — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:53:34 +0000

I absolutely agree we could see cost reductions with scale. Maybe 2x ? But solar is a much more simple manufacturing process that’s amenable to massive massive volume. Print silicon, add traces, assemble. 100% automated. As such it has seen a 20x cost reduction since 1994. Nukes will never be able to touch that reduction.

New comment by dalyons in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

dalyons — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:44:52 +0000

And I’m supposed to care? Old tech will be pushed off the grid by cheap renewables, and rapid dispatch gas will remain. Sounds great.

New comment by dalyons in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

dalyons — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:42:03 +0000

Last two years for china. But yes? That’s because renewables finally got great. They’re momentum is not expected to slow down

New comment by dalyons in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

dalyons — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:32:59 +0000

> If solar and wind can be made profitable, I don't see how nuclear is any different.

Nuclear is fundamentally way more complicated than wind and especially solar. Nuclear is 10s of kilometers of high pressure piping, 1000s of tons of concrete, exotic pressure welding. Solar on the other hand is brain dead simple and amenable to mass production in a way that nuclear can never be. As such, nuclear will never see the same scale of cost reductions.

New comment by dalyons in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

dalyons — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:14:57 +0000

They mostly don’t seem to agree, as exhibited by the fact that virtually none of them are breaking ground on new nukes.

New comment by dalyons in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

dalyons — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:56:54 +0000

The increased demand is absolutely and categorically not being met by coal. Look it up, chinas total coal emissions have declined the last few years, despite overall demand growth.

It’s being entirely met by renewables.

New comment by dalyons in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

dalyons — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:51:44 +0000

This is just faith without evidence

New comment by dalyons in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

dalyons — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:39:10 +0000

Finland is the definition of an outlier, and folks in similar situations make up a tiny percentage of the world population. They can burn gas for the next 50 years, and we can still be good.

New comment by dalyons in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

dalyons — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:38:04 +0000

Huh? Solar is widely acknowledged to be significantly cheaper than building new coal. And it is everywhere, you can just buy containers of it and have it delivered anywhere in the world.

New comment by dalyons in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

dalyons — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:36:14 +0000

Something like half of all bulk transport is moving fossil fuels around. So there’s already a huge win

New comment by dalyons in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

dalyons — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:53:39 +0000

and yet their coal usage has declined in the last two years, and is projected to continue declining.

New comment by dalyons in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

dalyons — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:50:24 +0000

politics. Supply is cheap, but California has a corrupt relationship with the monopoly provider, and lets them get away with bundling all kinds of costs into the distribution charge. fire rebuilding, social projects, decades of infrastructure neglect from previous corruption.

Go and compare the rates from a non-pg&e distributor (eg SMUD in sac) and you'll see, supply is cheap enough and it doesnt have to be this way.

New comment by dalyons in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

dalyons — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:40:31 +0000

no, sadly its somehow become part of the global culture war. Fossil is right wing manly dominant power, renewables are woke and womanly and left.

Its all electrons how did we get here jesus.

New comment by dalyons in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

dalyons — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:19:23 +0000

I agree except for REAMDE that was very fast paced and barely explained

New comment by dalyons in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

dalyons — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:05:51 +0000

Genuinely thank you. I’ve had sleep issues my whole life and no one has mentioned these. Not saying I will pay that, but more info is always good.

New comment by dalyons in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

dalyons — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:35:14 +0000

Wait what are the sleep medications they actually recommend?

New comment by dalyons in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

dalyons — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:23:02 +0000

What about this administration so far makes you think they are remotely interested in actual accountability?

New comment by dalyons in "The Last Technical Interview"

dalyons — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:18:18 +0000

Take homes are much lower signal now with AI

New comment by dalyons in "The dead economy theory"

dalyons — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:46:20 +0000

Is there any relevant recent evidence of them not just doing exactly what they’re told? “Oh they will refuse unlawful orders” hasn’t exactly panned out

New comment by dalyons in "The dead economy theory"

dalyons — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:39:24 +0000

90% of the 10% will be doomed. The remainder, the 1% overall lives off capital not labor, they’ll be fine.