mosiacmango

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 49 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Of course it is. So is any buisness that doesn't with his government like musk has. That's how facism works.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pleather sold real well in the 90s.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Linus really pouring on that "white death" energy.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These are grid scale projects. Each one is designed to power 100s of thousands of homes.

Based on the data I can find, 35MW datacenters are what AI will require by 2030. The project I linked above could power 20+ of them at once by itself.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

There are immense capacity utility scale batteries available now from dozens of vendors. They would be roughly 100x easier to build than a nuclear power plant, even with a solar farm attached.

The most recent nuclear power plant built in the US was the 2 new units at the Vogtle plant in Georgia. They took 11 years and 34 billion dollars to build to output a roughly 2.4 gw of steady power.

A 1gw solar + battery plant was built in Nevada that cost 1.9 billion. They secured financing in 2022, and finished building it in 2024.

So we can get a solar array built to do the above with battery storage for 4 billion, in 2-4 years. For the same cost as that added 2.4GW nuclear, we could build 18GW of solar with 12.6gwh of storage.

So nuclear will do 2.4GW of peak, with 2.4gwh of "storage" available 24/7.

I have no doubt that the above 18GWh of solar could be traded in for more battery, to a more sane ratio that could compete with that "storage" while also providing 4-5x of total power. Based on what I can find, the batteries were about 1/2 the cost, so if we knock the solar generation to 9GW, we can increase battery to 25.2GWh. Now you still have huge power generation, a huge power storage that you can use all at once or over a long period, and it matches the "storage" that that nuclear plant offers for 12hrs, I.e the time when the sun is down.

It's honestly baffling why these companies are trying to spin up nuclear plants instead of pushing ahead with more grid renewables.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Okay, so they got the game "somewhat working" live? Well, that's something I guess.

I guess that explains why the commentor above posted a pre-recorded video instead of the actual live video that undermines his argument that the game is nearly done.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I'm just working off the video linked above. No video of the player, no commentary, no indication a person was actively playing it.

If they actually played it live, well bully for them. One point goes to star citizen.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Man, when you have to compare someone to literal fascists because they don't trust your untrustworthy videogame company, you have a problem.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (24 children)

They released the game to the public this weekend? That is amazing.

Ohh, they didn't? This is still not available? The FPS spin off that isn't even the main game? They said it was played live but don't show anyone playing it live? They just made more promises, the thing they are still doing after 700 million dollars and more than a decade has passed?

Okay then.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They already understaff hospitals. People are dying.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yup. "Bumblefucks DVD emporium" will oddly have 100k to splash out on lawyers to sue in that one Texas federal court with a Trump judge that refuses to abide by random cases being distributed, and this will be on hold for the whole country. The supreme courts shadow docjet will then affirm it with no comment, and then we wait for it to reach them, where they will release an opinion on the last day saying it's illegal, and also so is the FTC, and also senators are kings like presidents.

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