Comments by "kokofan50" (@kokofan50) on "Joe Scott" channel.

  1. Don’t forget about the lethal doses of radiation to the people working on it
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  2. Europe has worked out most of those to one degree or another because of the long tunnels through The Alps.
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  3.  @MrArchy1986  Mercury alone has enough mass to build a Dyson sphere
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  4. I said he brought in outside help for Zip2. Also, thanks for the name. I couldn't remember it.
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  5. Yes, stick shift is another name for manual.
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  6. California has 1 minute of battery storage. Also, serial production can drop the cost of reactors by 60%.
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  7.  @kel8923  well, Joe is wrong. The physicist Stuart Armstrong worked out that we only the mass of Mercury to build enough solar collectors to collect all of then from the sun.
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  8. You seem to be conflating nuclear power and nuclear weapons. You also don’t seem to know anything about where Europe is getting much of its natural gas for backing up their renewables.
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  9.  @stephenbrickwood1602  no, nuclear power and medicine are completely different from weapons after the enrichment of uranium. There’s a reason every country with nuclear weapons developed them before their nuclear power plants.
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  10.  @stephenbrickwood1602  only to those detached from reality
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  11. The economics aren’t a problem if you’re playing the long game, not just 3 months.
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  12. Yeah he's had a couple fail. His biography talks about how as a he and his cousins wanted to start an arcade but non of their parents would sign for the lease. There's, also, his first real company. It was technically successful, but it went in a completely different direction than he wanted it to. Elon and his brother brought in some experienced, who changed the direction of the company and eventually forced Elon out. Seems like Elon has had the last laugh tho.
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  13. I wonder which of these you combine together, if any, and how that would effect performance.
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  14. That’s not a problem with nuclear power. That’s a problem with steam turbines, but steam turbines aren’t the only option. Supercritical CO2 turbines have been under developed for years now.
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  15. Brayton cycles can us dry cooling.
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  16. Yeah, renewables are just going to take over, like how Germany replace their nuclear power with coal and natural gas instead of solar and wind. Renewables have no realistic solutions to their problems, while you’ve already conceded that the problem you brought up has valid solution. Also, wind and solar are the mercy of the weather. PV solar panels start losing efficiency, which is already lacking, if they get much above room temperature, which the desert, where people like to talk about build solar farms, definitely is, and wind turbines have to be locked during storms so they don’t get ripped apart.
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  17. All the studies I’ve seen with using all renewables are badly flawed, like calling for several times the amount of hydroelectricity than the US would be able to produce id we damed up every river in the country. Another common problem is presuming some miracle break through in battery technology. Here’s a nice article explaining why your abandonment of nuclear is leading to burning more coal. https://www.google.com/amp/s/carboncounter.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-germanys-nuclear-phaseout-is-leading-to-more-coal-burning/amp/
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  18. An example of a lie doesn’t mean that all the studies are lying the same way. Can you use some abstract thinking? Germany can’t get all of electricity from renewables. Only countries that can are small, non-industrial countries in warm climates. As for the US, it would take $20 trillion to build a renewable grid. I don’t know about you but the idea of using one quarter of the world’s yearly economy to service one twentieth of the world’s population is a little insane to me.
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  19. The Soviets put several nuclear reactors in space, and lots of countries have put RTGs into space. Also, ion drives are very efficient, but Mars is too close to really get the benefits of an ion drive.
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  20. That is truly remarkable. I’ve rarely seen people fit so many lies into one comment.
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  21.  @ronmcmahon508  nuclear reactors have incredibly high safety standards. I would argue too high. Reactor technicians are highly trained and competent, in spite of your slandering them as Homer Simpson.  The only studies that put nuclear at a high carbon footprint than most power sources include things like burning cities from a nuclear war.
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  22.  @ronmcmahon508  you only cited two power plant accidents, and only the one run by the Soviets, who are no longer around, had fatalities. Also, most of the others are early experimental reactors, and Tokaimura didn’t even involve a reactor! Did you just look up accidents without bothering to even look into them? Again, if solar and wind have control their toxic waste, you have to account for the trillion years toxic heavy metals are going to take to decay.
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  23.  @ronmcmahon508  yes, it’s so hard to tell we’re talking about power generating reactors when we’re talking about generating power. Cadmium, lead, and other byproducts from mining can’t be recycled. Also, spent fuel can be recycled or even just burnt in fast reactors. Nuclear is the only way to leave future generations a better planet.
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  24. Renewables don’t displace fossil fuels. They permanently entrench fossil fuels as part of the system, and they destabilize the grid increasing costs for everyone. There’s a reason we stopped using wind mills and burning biomass. Making newer versions is just going to leave us in the preindustrial state we were in. If we really want to advance as a civilization, we need a power source with the same upsides, in many cases even better at those upsides, of fossil fuels and fewer of the downsides. Nuclear fission is exactly that, and we have it now. Fusion, when it’s commercially viable, will be a welcome addition. However, we need something that works now, so we can work on the wouldn’t-it-be nice’s.
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  25. Actually, thrend is a hat things which start off small get bigger, while things that start big get smaller. Planes started off only being able to carry one or two people at a time at speeds your average car can reach. Now, we hqve planes that carry hundreds of people at near the speed of sound.
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  26. If solar had to secure it’s waste for the next trillion years that business case is beyond dead.
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  27. Are you stupid? How can pumping gigatons of a gas that traps heat into the atmosphere not going to effect the climate?
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  28. Everything is powered by some kind of fuel.
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  29.  @opus2598  solar panels don’t just magically appear. We make them from materials we have to dig up, and many times more material than is needed for nuclear. To go fully renewable would have to use more copper than all known reserves.  China, by far the largest producer of solar panels, uses slave labor to make them. Solar produces 10 times the toxic waste.
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  30. It depends on how you measure it. Solar regulatory has a price per unit lower than nuclear at the point of use.
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  31.  @buckstarchaser2376  I’m a nuclear advocate; I’m just explaining how they’re manipulating the numbers to make nuclear look bad.
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  32. That is a nightmare about some non-water-soluble leaking into a controlled area? Also, carrying a giant flare that is poisoning you doesn’t sound like a smart way of stealing materials.
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  33. Size can mean both mass and volume.
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  34. Not true, government is about the only thing that funds basic scientific research. No company is going to build something like the LHC.
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  35. Radiation and earthquakes
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  36.  @fidalfadel  geothermal releases/causes them
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  37.  @fidalfadel  nuclear has the lowest release of radiation of all forms of power because its all contained in the reactors.
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  38.  @fidalfadel  drilling releases radon, uranium, and thorium. You clearly don’t know anything about geology.
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  39. Yes.
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  40. Yes.
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  41. 1/10 millionth of the legal limit is a nonissue.
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  42. Molten salt reactors don’t need a containment building. Even water cooled reactors don’t need that because many of the problems of water cooled reactors only became problems at large scales. We have assembly lines for wide-body aircraft and other large complex machines for earthmoving.
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  43. Yes, robots are even more sensitive to radiation that humans.
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  44. No, millions of people each year get skin cancer from the sun.
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  45. No, it because of experience with water cooled reactors from the navy
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  46. Fusion is cool, but even if someone figures out how to create net energy gain from it, it’s still going to be cost prohibitive. ITER has so far spent about $20 billion and still going: How expensive are the commercial reactors going to be?
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