Flying Squid to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoMicrosoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactorsfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square415fedilinkarrow-up11.17Karrow-down129
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minus-squareNobsilinkfedilinkEnglish12•1 year 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-square@Chocrates@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year 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-squareNatanaellinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year 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
minus-square@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoWikipedia is owned by someone who’s married to an intelligence agency member.
minus-square@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoWikipedia is owned by someone who’s married to an intelligence agency member.
minus-squareNobsilinkfedilinkEnglish-2•1 year agoLemmy is owned by genocide deniers. Whats your point?
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
Wikipedia is owned by someone who’s married to an intelligence agency member.
I see absolutely no relevance here
Mmkay
Wikipedia is owned by someone who’s married to an intelligence agency member.
Lemmy is owned by genocide deniers. Whats your point?