Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re...
by hooverd on Monday January 30, 2023 @11:35AM
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Which currency is the best heat source? I think some of the newer ones might give you cancer.
Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re...
by bumby on Monday January 30, 2023 @01:54PM
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Fossil fuel heat generation is an order of magnitude cheaper per unit than electric in many geographic areas.
Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re...
by chordalkeyboard on Monday January 30, 2023 @02:16PM
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> We have enough uranium to last for millions of years at current consumption levels
this is because we don't use very much nuclear power. There is currently enough known uranium reserves to provide 2 years of global energy production at current rates.
Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re...
by atemerev on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @10:45AM
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See "closed nuclear cycle" and breeder reactors.
Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re...
by Schroedingersat on Monday January 30, 2023 @04:20PM
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That's one to two hundred years depening on if you include inferred resource, and for supplying under 3% of the energy. Meeting net zero targets with PWRs would run out in well under a decade, perhaps not even a single fuel load.
Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re...
by atemerev on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @10:46AM
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Well, PWRs are dead end, we need breeders.
Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re...
by Schroedingersat on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @03:34PM
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So if we just do this thing that doesn't work and would be more expensive as the other thing that's too expensive and release many EBq of Kr-85, H3 and probably various other fission products we can avoid doing the thing that's currently working and is dirt cheap.
(Using oil for heating is outrageous, of course; as Mendeleev have said, it is exactly the same as heating your fireplace with money bills).