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[–] macros@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

First there is a reason for that, as all major incident and even many minor incidents (see above) release radioactivity. Often into the environment in very minor cases only into the reactor building and the workers.

Secondly its wrong. Yes incidents do happen in normal plant too. But any remotely major ones also make it into the news. Actually they do it more often as the plants are not as remote and as huge that you wouldn't notice them. As you can see 4 incidents haven't been made public in Grundmemmingen B, I don't know of a single one which has not been disclosed for years with coal/gas plants.

Lets pick a random sample of 10 German coal & gas plants from the Wikipedia list: (Kraftwerk Bremen-Mittelsbüren[49]Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Bremen (GKB)[52]Industriekraftwerk Bremerhaven[1]Industriekraftwerk Breuberg[53]Egger Kraftwerk Brilon[1]Kraftwerk Burghausen[1]Industriekraftwerk Marl[1][2]Kraftwerk Clauen[1]Heizkraftwerk Cottbus[55][2]GTKW Darmstadt[57] )

We have 8 with no incidents at all, notable Bremen-Mittelsbüren which runs since 1964! Special mention also for Marl where the plant didn't have issues, but the chemical factories around it, oh boy!

We have 2 with Issues, a complete list:

  • Fire in turbine, nobody hurt (Clauen)
  • boiler explosion 3 hurt, 2 dead (Brilon)

So in total you have less issues than with a single average atomic reactor and only 20% of the list had issues. Why is that so? First these systems are simple. The only contain comparatively few parts, you can access almost everything for inspection without special gear and notice and fix any faults before they even have a chance to become a problem. Secondly they deal with lower extremes. The steam circuit has less pressure, the power for the transformers is lower.

This also hold for the huge ones, e.g. the 4 Datteln plants where only Datteln 4 had a major fire incident with no deaths. The oldest one running 1964-2014, longer than any atomic reactor in Germany.

When you look to wind turbines incidents are even more rare. We have currently about 28600 wind turbines in Germany, of these 129 had incidents like damage to the blades. 8 towers collapsed so 0.5% with issues and 0.02% with major ones. (And these issues concentrate on the first turbines built)

[–] macros@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

On the one hand, yes it is. On the other hand the general average also does not seem good.

There are many reactors which had similar, but not as bad histories. Kozloduy NPP (BG), Zion Nuclear Power Station (US), Ignalina (LI), Shoreham, Bohunice, Superphénix, ... While reactors which have run without noteworthy problems make up not even half of the total, which is far below anything which should be the norm for public infrastructure.

Lets take Germany as example, which fits quite well due to half of the countries having very lax requirements (DDR) and half having strict ones (West-Germany)

  • We have 7 Reactors which where built but never operated due to safety concerns (3 in Greifswald)
  • We have at least 4 sites (with at least 8 reactor blocks) with major issues, besides Greifswald we have e.g. hydrogen explosions (Brunsbüttel), turbine fires (Gundremmingen A), transformer fires (Krümmel). These are just the ones I found with a quick search.
  • We have another 9 reactor blocks with minor issues like Grundmemmingen B (Bavaria), lets pick this one at random and name the minor incidents: 2 Workers killed by boiling steam explosion (1975), short circuit leading to 3m of contaminated water at 80°C in the building (1977), failed sealing leading to automatic shutdown and repair (2008), failed rods emitting 500-fold the allowed amount of radioactive gases into the atmosphere (2011), another 4 incidents which have not yet been made public and really minor issues like value issues.
  • We have about 10 with only minor issues. Stretching from Emsland with only 2 known small leaks to Grafenrheinfeld where there were sudden shutdowns and a fire which nearly reached the main reactor but was extinguished in time.

In fact during looking this up I haven't found a single reactor which ran a significant time without any incident, even if I do not count construction issues which were caught and fixed in time before they resulted in incidents.

[–] macros@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Maybe you should look the mentioned case up before making your argument.

Greifswald had 6 blocks in 1990: 4 blocks which were in very bad state, cracks in the pressure chamber with a high probability to release nuclear material into the environment. Due to these faults they were already shut down since 1987, except block 1 which was run against the recommendations of the security agency. To continue running them they would have to be rebuilt, completely. This includes dismantling them which as we now know would have taken many decades! Block 5 and 6 were under construction. (Started in 1970, planned for 1980) But mistakes were made during the construction, postponing it till 1990, when finally no energy company at all wanted to take over the risk of running it.

So Greifswald was shut down. Not to spite you, but because both security of the general population and financial aspects didn't allow running it anymore. (It had already two near disasters which where kept hidden and only became known because of the fall of the DDR)

[–] macros@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Now to the word "emerging"

This was built entirely in 16 months, from groundbreaking to connection to the grid. For the cost of a single nuclear reactor you can build 30 of these. And opposed to nuclear technology batteries are still making remarkable progress in their affordability.

Edit: Btw the battery also uses below 0,5% of the area of a usual nuclear plant.

[–] macros@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I suppose you know don't about the superbattery projects already implemented, e.g. the one in Australia and its huge benefits to their grid?

About sodium based batteries which have become commercially viable in recent years?

And because of the implication also that nuclear reactors produce extreme waste of building materials (e.g. Greifswald, ran for 26 years, dismantling in operation since 35 years and projected to last till 2040 at least, because higher contamination than estimated) and mining for them is at least as bad as for Lithium?

If not ask the search engine/ai of your choice.

[–] macros@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ich denke wir haben hier einfach Früh- und Spätaufsteher mit euch und ihr habt beide Recht 😉

Geht man um Mitternacht ins Bett, ist es da schon kühler und man kann bis morgens um 8-9 Lüften, wo es draußen warm wird.

Geht man um 21/22 Uhr ins Bett und steht um 6-7 auf, dann lüftet sichs besser in der Früh.

[–] macros@feddit.org 10 points 3 months ago

Um no? And why the Upvotes?

Yes, Jolla didlock the bootloader by default. Why? To prevent an attacker from circumventing the lockcode.

Did they do it to take away freedom from users? No. You can unlock it yourself at any time, of couse you need to unlock your phone for that.

Do they make you pay for it? No they even provide instructions for unlocking!

[–] macros@feddit.org 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hi,

I haven't done that but I used (and use) Linux smartphones like the N9 and N900 and because I need modern connectivity and a decent camera I got a used Pixel 5 with Graphene. My wife uses an XperiaXA2 with Sailfish so I know the system quite well.

So to answer you:

  • Android Apps mostly work reasonably well under Sailfish, expect difficulties with some banking apps and greater difficulties with apps that require Google Play (there are hacks to get microG installed, by now even somewhat officially supported, but she never asked for me to try that). Generally this will make the transition quite easy as you can continue to use old apps if you avoided google dependency on Android. Use f-droid and Aurora store to install them.
  • Expect to miss many things from android and falling back to app support to fill your needs. (e.g. good navigation app), but as that works generally well that is no problem. Over time your will replace some of those, but not all, with native apps.
  • Expect many features to just work which under android are a hassle. E.g. caldav sync to nextcloud or full and automated wireless backups via rsync and a script.
  • Never expect completely smooth sailing. While there is a constant stream of updates the system never reached the polished state of android. Most bugs can be worked around but are annoying. Example: On the XA2 the android app support sometimes looses internet connectivity. Workaround: Stop app support (there is a gui button for that), disable SIM slot 1, enable SIM slot 1, enable app support. Once you get used to it, its quick. Or the browser does not work with some websites and crashes, but you can just use an android browser.
  • Battery life with stopped android app support is amazing, even after years of usage the phone only needs to be charged once every few days. Battery life with app support enabled is still quite good with 1-2 days on moderate use.
  • Photo quality is lacking compared to current android standards. This may be better on newer phones like the C2.

Overall I can recommend it if you are willing to read the forums to find the workarounds and willing to make some compromises. She uses it as daily driver for many years and has no desire to replace it yet. The community behind sailfish is awesome and the developers often listen to user desires.

[–] macros@feddit.org 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Stammt eindeutig von KI von der Struktur her.

Aber ja, in dem Fall werden so die Informationen tatsächlich gut zusammengefassst und rübergebracht. Und wenn man eine Informative Quelle füttert wie es der Autor wohl getan hat, ist die Chance für Halluzinationen auch sehr klein. Nur kennnzeichnen sollte man es.

[–] macros@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Hat sich fairerwaiser unter der Ampel auch nicht gebessert. Zu Marokko wo die Beziehung vorher angespannt war, wurde die Beziehung gestärkt und Waffenexporte massiv erhöht.

Vergessen sind die andauernden Menschenrechtsverletzungen, die Vertreibung der Saraheli und dem minengespickten 2700km langem Berm um sie aus ihrem nativen Terretorium draußen zu halten. Das Referendum wird nicht durchgeführt, oder verschoben bis keiner mehr den hingesiedelten Marrokanern ihr Wohnrecht streitig macht. (Aufruf des Königs zur Besiedlung+Steuergeschenke nachdem der internationale Gerichtshof die Westsahara den Saraheli zugesprochen hat).Stattdessen baut man auf UN Friedenstruppen, die hier aber, im Gegensatz zu allen anderen Einsatzorten, nicht über Menschenrechte berichten dürfen.

[–] macros@feddit.org 32 points 7 months ago

Thanks to Patrick Breyer for reporting on this and techradar for picking it up. I wish the Pirate Party get more people into the parliament next election, so they can influence against such surveillance legislation.

Lets hope that the representatives of the countries have some common sense and vote against this. Or that they at least remember that Signal and Whatsapp said that they will be forced to leave the European market and that their voters will surely remember who was responsible for that.

[–] macros@feddit.org 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To explain this to the uninitiated: (First follow another explanation of the original combo)

In Magic spells are not in effect immediately, instead they go on the stack, before they are resolved. Spells from a stack are resolved in LiFo order, so last in, first out. Instants, like Gut Shot, can be put on the stack at any time by any player (simplified).

So Enemy gets his 21 mana with channel, you let that resolve, he has 1 life. He pumps it all into the fireball, now you act. While fireball is on the stack you cast Gut Shot, paying with 2 life of your 20. It goes on the stack. Your enemy hopefully has no response, without any mana left in his pool, and he looses his last life and the game.

When a player looses the game all his spells are removed from the stack, so you really win and there is no draw.

You stopped his combo with 4 cards worth unreal amounts of money with a single card worth about 50ct.

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