Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoMicrosoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactorsfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square417fedilinkarrow-up11.17Karrow-down130
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minus-squareNobsi@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down8·2 years agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#Capital_costs No, it isnt. Safety isnt what makes nuclear expensive. You actually got rawdogged by Nuclear fanatics.
minus-squareChris@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoDamn. Sucks to still see Natural Gas as the cheapest. I think that modern nuclear designs have a place in decarbonization but I don’t think it is cheaper and we have a lot of hurdles still.
minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoWind power at shores is generally cheapest
minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoCapital costs is incomplete, you need to look at lifetime costs versus lifetime production to get a more useful average - Levelized cost of energy (LCOE) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost-of-energyplus/ https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/levelized-cost-of-energy https://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-electricity-2020
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minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoI see absolutely no relevance here
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minus-squareNobsi@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·2 years agoLemmy is owned by genocide deniers. Whats your point?
minus-squareUFO@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoYea this entire clickbait can be summarized as “company looks to spend less on high capacity power”
minus-squaremonobot@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 years agoAnd you just need to find good non science fiction way to deal with nuclear waste. And some ethical ways of aquiring uranium. With all that calculated in, I am certain how much cheaper it is.
minus-squarenot_gsa@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down6·2 years agoRare lemming reasonable take
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#Capital_costs
No, it isnt.
Safety isnt what makes nuclear expensive. You actually got rawdogged by Nuclear fanatics.
Damn. Sucks to still see Natural Gas as the cheapest.
I think that modern nuclear designs have a place in decarbonization but I don’t think it is cheaper and we have a lot of hurdles still.
Wind power at shores is generally cheapest
Capital costs is incomplete, you need to look at lifetime costs versus lifetime production to get a more useful average - Levelized cost of energy (LCOE)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity
https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost-of-energyplus/
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/levelized-cost-of-energy
https://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-electricity-2020
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I see absolutely no relevance here
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Lemmy is owned by genocide deniers. Whats your point?
Yea this entire clickbait can be summarized as “company looks to spend less on high capacity power”
And you just need to find good non science fiction way to deal with nuclear waste.
And some ethical ways of aquiring uranium.
With all that calculated in, I am certain how much cheaper it is.
Rare lemming reasonable take