Zear0

10/10

Ghostbusters?

Speculating that a lightning strike hit something. Hope nobody hurt.

Just be yourself, bit relaxed.

This has always baffled me. Imagine explaining this to E.T when he visit. "Yeah we're not allowed to take photos, but we employ an artist to draw pastel pictures of the scene". It's mad.

It's such a dull answer tbh. Despite what a lot of the literature says, they're not really cheaper per MW/hr compared to traditional civil plants (with caveat). As manufacturing is standardised the UPC (unit production costs) reduces, but I think it'll still be more than current plants albeit in an odd way. It, as most things in life do, boils down to financing. Picture the sales pitch for Hinckley Point C. "Hello, I'd like to borrow £33bn to build this EPR. It will take 11 years, with high programme and cost risk to complete and will then need to operate for 20 years before we've generated enough profit before you break even." You're not going to do well in the Dragons Den and just imagine the % on investment massive state investment funds would want to finance these projects (minimum 8%). For SMRs (already old hat) and micro reactors (new hat), you're dropping down in the £700-900m real where private funding enters the fray. For commercial reasons I'll be vague, but hypothetically if you were a major tech company running data centres consuming more power than a city, imagine having two of these things running giving you free power for your center, having a second for continuation of power, then selling excess to the grid. This, combined with two years of installation and commissioning opens up a significantly larger customer base. As I said, per MW is strictly more expensive, but it's like arguing for someone to install a gas turbine in their garage. Yes it's cheaper, but upfront costs mean it's easier to just buy off the grid. The size of civil plants is dictated by our capacity to manufacture nuclear grade forgings for major vessels. You get so much more power per space the larger you can make the hot bit. Bigger the better, but then the aforementioned investment issues start to add price. Look at the strike price for massive civil nuclear. They're having to guess what the energy market will be >20 years from now hence the argument SMRs are cheaper. As an aside, that is also why I get irritated at the green groups (who I do love) comparing costs of solar/wind against nuclear. Comparing today's price of green against 20 years from now price of nuclear is just daft. Re:waste, as a general rule the smaller the island the more enriched the fuel but tbh most modern nuclear fuel has the same detriments and decay properties no matter what you use. Using standardised fuel means you can reprocess in existing facilities. I keep getting told the wonders of thorium and americium fuel, but people forget the backend costs of disposing this shite. As an aside, now the world is happy with private entities operating power, there's a wonderful market of novel technologies being developed. If you've got time, have a look at the work Helion and MOLTEXFLEX are doing. Not saying either are front runners, just interesting projects. Further aside, micro reactors are fascinating. I was speaking to US defence bod who told me that half of US casualties in Afghanistan were people protecting fuel convoys. They're extremely keen for alternative power sources for remote operating bases.

How can anyone predict what the entitled (see super league), crass (see today's statement) plums running and supporting that club will do next? That statement has riled me more than I care to admit this fine evening even though it's true to form for them. Absolute cheek of a super league club coming out claiming footballing institutions have an agenda against them. I generally rail against the accusations of Liverpool having a victim mentality but it's hard not to when you read that garbage.

A predictable statement from Liverpool. Designed purely to obtain favourable decisions in the future and infering corruption against them.

Just rattled through Cocoon which was a fantastic little puzzler game. On all platforms, but did it on PC Gamepass as the price is right. Highly recommend people giving it a go.

Especially with 0 points to his name.

Don't you just hate him...

He after Fowler's ball?

Extraordinary US fightback to take the session 5-6 down. Well done guys.

Get in Shaneo

Thank god. Unreal from Tommy

JT and Speith getting some nerves. Thank god...

Bobby...

Exactly that

Unbelievable from Rose too. Giving it his all

Imagine he's got a bottle on hand and is shaking like a s**ting dog.

Unreal putt

Saved by the rough there Scotty!

Rory has been unbelievable all weekend.

Wonderful goal. Thought he'd overhit that pass

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66968021 More unnecessary pain and misery to be inflicted upon Kosovan people trying to live their lives. Hope it'll wind down but this has been building for so long now I can't see it ending quietly.