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  • The whole pitch of SMR is modular reactors that can be mostly prefabbed offsite and just lego blocked into a power plant quickly.

    So far, yeah we are seeing the same exact issue as normal nuclear, i.e. so complex with such high stakes if they fault, the build times and costs over run 3-5x for each of them.

    SMR feels like the “clean coal” of nuclear. Ontario is absolutly treating it as greenwashing to prevent solar/wind when we know these are both cheap and easy techs that have great output, no safety issues, and almost no maintance costs, even when coupled with batteries. They really should be working to develop real SMR while pushing 100% ahead with relaible renewabale power, but yeah. Here we are.


  • Your link shows that they are nowhere near finishing production on their first SMR reactor, much less starting the other 3. They vaguely point to the first one being done by “the end of 2030.”

      When will the SMRs start producing power?								
    

    Our planning goal is to complete construction of the first SMR by the end of this decade, and connect to the grid by the end of 2030.

    Thats 5 years away, at best.

    Ontario is going to scale to 4 reactors at $20B total, still much less than classic reactor designs, and they can be maintained easier and cheaper.

    $20.9B is their estimate, not 20B. That stll seems high for the 1.2MW total output at all 4 plants listed in your artice. The Georgia Vogtle plants, the most recently built nuclear plants in the US, are each 1.2MW. They had drastic delays and cost overuns, but were still about $17B each. Is SMR somehow more expensive than older reactors per watt?

    Even that $21B might be low. They hope it costs $21B total, and they hope it can be maintained easier and cheaper. Most nuclear projects vastly overun their cost estimates, and while SMRs are nominally supposed to be designed to mitigate that, this is the first production one ever built.

    Lastly, Ontario is a huge oil and gas producer and has come out hard against solar/wind energy usage. They have pushed nuclear as the only viable green path for power generation. These SMR plants are being stood up partially as a way to justify blocking solar farms and wind turbines, which can undermine Oil and gas interests with inexpensive, proven technologies. Realize ontario’s goverments marketing/estimates/etc are based on politcal goals, not neutral assesments of the technologies viabiltiy.

    I personally hope they succeed, but so far every SMR project has been overloaded with hype thats manically used to cover up repeated failures. When they get their plant online and working safely at the projected cost, then we will have another great renewable energy source at hand. Until then, its hype and hype alone.


  • That and brand loyalty. If shopping was just api based, you could have your ai agent just buy X product from wherever when the price was right and never care about the company or marketing or anything.

    It would be hugely empowering to be able to make a non website based shopping list and just have “something” sort out all the logistics, biased towards reducing your costs and inconvience, but that is never going to be what even the ai companies are selling. They will funnel you to their “prefered partners” and find every possible way to extract money and attention in the process.


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    but I think it’s an easy way for LGBT+ folk to not ‘out’ themselves when talking to inconsequential people.

    This is why conservatives hate the more general use of “partner.” It became a way to out gay people because it became a common coded term to not out themselves.

    Using the term to not out yourself was a way to out yourself that is being unwound by common usage of “partner” by everyone.









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    Him brashly showing naked pictures of her to people in front of her was sexual assault, meant to damage her mind/emotions/social connections.

    Why are you only interested in the damage done to his body, and not the damage done to her life?

    Why is her “option of last resort” use of violence not okay when ever other attempt failed to protect her? How else can she protect herself when literally everyone else refused to?




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    I highly recommend the tea, honestly. I switched from coffee to tea for years. The caffeine buzz was smoother and lighter, but still satisfying. Issues with dairy are the only reason I switched back to coffee. Oatmilk works a lot better in coffee than tea.

    i’d recommed Sansbury red if you’re making the switch. Its a strong, very flavorful english breakfast. Tetleys or PG tips is also solid, and a bit easier to get in the states. Not as good, but still pretty good.

    A good “always on” boiler is also a great tea investment. The insulated ones use very little power and keep water at boiling all day so you can make an instant cup.



  • Its both, based on their article. Its an ARM chip they have a translation layer called FEX to handle, so it should be able to play most any steam game. Native vulkan games will apparently run even better because it can skip some of the emulation and just hit the vulkan API directly for rendering. It has onboard storage, so it can be used standalone.

    In standalone mode, the intergrated chip will use about 20w, so you will get about 1 hour of playtime on it because of the 20wh battery. In streaming mode, the graphics will be better, and the power use cuts to about 6w, so it can go 3-4 hours. It has an integrated usb port, so you can easily plug in a bog standard battery bank and put it in your pocket for longer play times.