Because if duty calls, I will answer.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Nuclear power is the best source of power, and the reason we don't use it is because it takes about ten years for a new plant to become profitable, which is incompatible with capitalist planning systems.

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      Also it's a unionized industry and we can't be paying workers a beyond livable wages to build and maintain it for extends periods of time can we???? :shushing face:

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      Isn't this common sense? Fuck solar, solar is just a techy labour-intensive way to burn lithium and rare earths.

      • Owl [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        How common does something have to be to be considered common sense?

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            Oh, I wish.

            Unfortunately a lot of people on the left are still blind to just how many workers get killed by solar panels, since it's mostly routine maintenance workers getting fried or falling off a roof, and not spooky science accidents.

            • Samsara [he/him,he/him]
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              4 years ago

              large solar plants are on the ground. solar panels on roofs are just bougie libs pretending to be green.

                  • cosecantphi [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    So an antenna picks up electromagnetic waves from a broadcast station, these radio waves are used to encode sound, and since they are photons they also carry a bit of energy. Transmitting power wirelessly would work like this except you'd use a higher frequency, probably microwave, and up the intensity significantly.

                      • cosecantphi [he/him]
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                        4 years ago

                        I think the idea is that it's not a tight beam at all, but rather a very diffuse and spread out signal that reaches an "antenna" that is basically a wire mesh covering several square miles.

                          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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                            4 years ago

                            You can tighten the beam an make a poor man's orbital beam cannon if you want though. So that is fun.

                            • garbology [he/him]
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                              4 years ago

                              if you want

                              Yes, you are morally obligated to use this satellite to set the Gävle goat on fire each year.

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      4 years ago

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  • Owl [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Car engines and gas power plants have more in common with conventional bombs than nuclear power plants have in common with nuclear bombs.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The first successful nuclear fusion power plants will be tokamaks, but not long after we'll find a different magnetic confinement pattern that makes tokamaks look real dumb.