All you need to do is float in open water to know that extracting power out the water you’re floating in is basically impossible. The water and you move as one. It’s like putting a wind turbine on a balloon. Unless you’re anchored you’ve got no chance.

…but remember, everything needs to be written in memory safe languages to stop security breaches.

It’s not going to be steam pipes, but warm water. Maybe 60°C but lots of it. Warm enough for underfloor heating to be sure.

Biggest problem in my head is that you’d need to design buildings to take advantage of it, and I doubt data centres would be permanent enough to warrant the commitment.

You joke (I think) but community heating schemes off these places would be a good byproduct. Not enough to make them worthwhile, but it would offset their impact.

Doesn’t really matter if you have local production if it goes on the global market. One global price set by global supply and demand. What happens in the middle east drives the price up in Michigan.

That’s a bad faith argument

Yes and no. I wrote it in a blunt way, but to deregulate nuclear plants I want to be sure it doesn’t impact safety.

Your story does nothing to convince me that the industry is regulated to “strangle” it. You don’t say what the pipe did. It may have been part of a coolant loop in which case it’s safety critical and having the wrong pipe might mean early failure of joints of connected components. Getting that right could be important and so it’s right to be regulated.

The problem is actually that it took far too long to be sure what was right, and that’s down to companies / people being far too dogmatic about how they work.

nuclear also comes from the way we manage energy utilities. When a solar farm is built, the builders can just sell it to the utility and walk away, no consideration for decommissioning or waste disposal or environmental considerations.

Well yes, because the site isn’t a million tonnes of low level nuclear waste that needs to be dismantled in a controlled fashion, and specially processed. A solar farm might have some toxic metals in the panels when ground-up, but all are quite easily reclaimed. There’s no special skill / process needed for anyone dismantling it. It just needs responsible disposal.

Completely different scale of responsibility.

You want to drop safety standards on reactors?

…because they will suck the grid dry.

Not if Trump keeps Hormuz fucked.

Quick! Get the Flexseal.

I’m not sure we have ways of concentrating energy enough to do this. Heat pumps let us move heat, but I’m not aware of anything that can get the target to 100+ degrees Celsius.

Still worth a watch if you haven’t in a while. The way the interviewer cracks always gets me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

…into another environment?

Ok, but that will still need to be handled otherwise it’ll shake the building to it’s knees.

Well… It’s 9GW of waste heat. Same as the energy supply.

They’re not being built, and you know they’re not because of exactly these kind of figures. They’d need multiple additional power stations to feed them. The kinds of places that cost governments tens of billions.

Then all that energy needs to go somewhere so you probably need to add 25% more to power a cooling system. Something that can dissipate that atom bomb of energy into the environment every hour.

Without the support infrastructure the compute is useless, and nobody is talking about the infrastructure because it’s impossible.

📣 Yes he can 📣

I can’t read the article because of the paywall, but I really hope France are going to stay on station and not get involved. Maybe clear up a few Somali pirates.

Basically a digital B Ark then?