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All wafers, cookies, chips, biscuits, crispbread and hardtack I've ever seen have been atomic.
I struggle to imagine one that wouldn't be.
I bet it tastes as good as yellow cake
Or yellow snow
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake
Btw, it's written together.
Edit: my bad, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake
Danke, oida.
Https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowsnow
“Mother, why do all my teeth feel itchy?”
"It's because you haven't been smoking enough. Here, smoke these two before dinner."
Spit out the wafer.
The Children of the Atom deem you a HERETIC! Embrace the holy atom!
Too 👏 cheap 👏 to 👏 meter
Given the up-front cost of any kind of reactor, I don’t think the concept of a usage-based electric bill goes away as long as it’s corporations competing for customers. Maybe eventually it would be like ISPs where it’s a flat fee depending on the size of your connection. I guess it could be totally unmetered then.
Like so many things, it gets a lot simpler if it’s the government supplying the service.
It's not too cheap to meter even when provided as a public service. Nuclear is more expensive than battery + solar, more expensive than wind, more expensive than coal
"Too cheap to meter" was a lie that ignored costs of safety and decommissioning.
Yeah I agree, and you still hear that BS about fusion power, that it will be an unlimited source of cheap/free clean energy.
I guess I could imagine scenarios where power is not metered and is supported via taxes, maybe in a scenario where citizens have a right to energy just like a right to healthcare. It’s not free by any means, but the people who make the most money and thus benefit the most from the infrastructure end up paying into it the most. And the truly poor would get free (to them) electricity.
I really wonder about fusion. Most of the news of energy production higher than energy input is about non-electricity fusion - the big tokamak fusion systems are not yet producing more power than they take to run, but scientists working on them are expecting good results soon
Like when I was a kid fusion was 20 years away and would always be 20 years away. Now it looks like it'll be 5 years away for a while
I like to follow fusion news whenever I see it, and I think the situation might be even worse than you’re describing, lol.
The news about ignition and/or more energy out than in, that refers to the energy actually delivered to the sample versus the full energy released from the sample. So it doesn’t include all the energy needed to charge and fire the lasers that was lost along the way. And like you said, it’s the thermal power they’re measuring, and you lose a huge amount of that power when converting to electricity.
I think we’re still firmly in the “fusion is 20/30 years away” cycle.
I'm hanging out for when ITER is operational. There's every chance it runs at or just over 1:1
Oh yeah, I think ITER is supposed to have a Q of like 10, so maybe they can produce a net gain system-wide.
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Look at his face, he's 100% gonna eat that.
Uranium has so many calories, he will never have to eat again
duuude how many degrees celsius do you think one uranium wafer could heat one litre of water by??
Doesn't matter, if you eat one you won't have to worry about starving anymore
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Atomic wafers made by the techo-church-state? Or have I got this back to front and this is how the non-technical society irradiates its children?
I think this refers to everyday household items being powered by some unspecified kind of uranium engine.
Wait a sec, I was told American's don't use the metric system...
The imperial system doesn't have any electromagnetism units that I'm aware of, so they borrow from SI.
We also don't use apostrophes for plural words.
Plenty of us do, unfortunately!
Speak for yourselv’es
The apostrophe abbreviates the es (to 's) that used to be part of the English possessive (as it still is on some words that end s)
It's a bit shit. Lots of people have trouble with it, lots of English as a second language people have trouble with not understanding what is replaced by the apostrophe
imagines a nuclear future
also imagines that each home needs to supply its own atomic wafers
That way you would create more trash.
They lived making lots of "trash" bcs they loved discarding all the trash.
Do you want to be Malons? This is how you become Malons. /s
What show is that?
Walker Texas Ranger
Clean! Safe!! Too cheap to meter!!!
/pffft
Kilowat
wat?
Kilowatt. I don't expect Americans to know how to spell it. The American unit is horsepower or BTU
She's right there. This is literally a power play to force her kid to do a pointless task.
Well, if you're a Stalker, it may put hair on your kids бляать.
UWU
Well I'm licking it first!
Wonder if a convenient wall mount would even be worth it, isn't a golf ball sized pellet enough for a lifetime of consumer usage or something?
That's Thorium that will do that.
With Uranium, a reactor only extracts 5% of the enemy in the pellet and the 95% left is called "waste".