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New comment by ncmncm in "Borneo skeleton may show 31,000 year old amputation"

ncmncm — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 04:43:46 +0000

At the time, all of what we think of as the sea between Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, and on up to Thailand and Taiwan, and the whole South China and Yellow Seas up to Korea was all dry land, like a million square miles of it.

Borneo was high ground. Most of what was going on with humanity at the time, according to cave painting evidence, was there and is now almost all under water.

There is a hill on Java built over 20,000 years ago. Excavation was halted, by the Indonesian government, for reasons not expressed.

New comment by ncmncm in "Retired U.S. generals, admirals take top jobs with Saudi crown prince"

ncmncm — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 22:10:13 +0000

I see you and raise you one Flynn.

New comment by ncmncm in "“You meant to install ripgrep”"

ncmncm — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 23:51:54 +0000

Sorry, how does ripgrep save you tens of hours? I get that it is faster than regular grep, but that doesn't really answer the question; I don't find myself stalled waiting for grep. The only reasonable explanation would be something ripgrep does that grep actually doesn't. I could try to guess, but have no confidence I would guess right.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 03:42:39 +0000

Right: the fossil fuel lobby has discovered that nuke-mongering is in their interest. The nukes don't need to ever be completed, but as long as they haven't been, their market is secure.

They know the writing is on the wall, but profits can be good right up to the end.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 03:38:33 +0000

If global civilization collapses, the majority will starve. Some won't.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 03:27:06 +0000

The argument against nukes is that they are super-expensive compared to modern alternatives. The politicians who make nukes even more expensive are smart enough to get rich doing it.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 03:25:41 +0000

You imagine there is no plan because you do not know about the plans.

It would be stupid to build storage there is not renewable generating capacity to charge. When there is such capacity, they will then build out storage. In the meantime the correct place to spend is on generation. Which, in fact, is what they are doing.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 03:17:47 +0000

It has already been explained to you numerous times that the above is false. Who do you imagine you will fool this time?

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 03:08:01 +0000

Do you even read what you write? You make no sense.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 03:04:19 +0000

Wind and solar both. Which of those is cheaper varies with circumstance.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 03:03:05 +0000

Hydrolysis has had high losses until recently, but efficiency is now well over 90%.

The remaining problem is building factories for electrolysis equipment. Building factories takes an appallingly long time. But the problem is only of time, not technical maturity.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 02:58:38 +0000

False. There is no shortage of any of the materials needed to go fully renewable.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 02:31:01 +0000

OP could explain why they imagine fatal problems. Would, if they were not just trolling.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 02:26:28 +0000

Fusion is not, in fact, technically feasible.

Anything not built yet has not been built. After it is built, it will then have been built.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 02:24:13 +0000

Deserts are a stupid place to plant solar farms, so the question is moot.

Numerous politically stable European countries have plenty of room for solar installations.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 02:21:38 +0000

It has been explained to you numerous times already.

You may repeat your lies as much as you like. I will point out that you are lying, each time.

Who do you imagine you are fooling?

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 02:16:21 +0000

There are dozens of such reservoirs in the Sierra Nevada range in California. None of them will take as much water as Lake Mead, but they don't need to.

Sweden has lots of high mountains that may have shallow reservoirs built cheaply on top of. Reservoirs with earthen dikes are radically cheaper than the sort of dams needed for traditional hydro power, and may be placed almost anywhere, because they do not need or destroy a watershed. Lots of small ones, placed close to users, are better than one big one like Lake Mead.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 01:11:48 +0000

I frequently get flyers in the mail, from a variety of mostly co-op providers, offering to supply me power more cheaply than the grid operator does.

So in fact my cost, as a consumer, is lower than it was.

You clearly wish this were not so.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 01:07:43 +0000

You dearly wish for storage to be expensive, just as you used to wish solar PV would be. But you were wrong then, and you are wrong now.

New comment by ncmncm in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

ncmncm — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 01:00:29 +0000

Everything else is getting cheaper, at an exponential rate, but nukes are getting more costly.