the nuclear bros are in my mentions and goddamn they're dumb as i remember
i'm trying to be positive on the tech but they really don't fuckin help
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@davidgerard well considering that ai consumes a s* load of electricity, flooding capex and opex money for npp, there's certainly an entanglement between the two brotherhoods. In France we got this concrète exemple of the national and public company directly partnering with Softbank
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Just a few years ago I had someone talk about nuclear engines for space as though it obliviated the need for reaction mass completely, and I absolutely don't mean clever em or solar sail. So...
I am in abstract fairly pro nuclear energy, though I genuinely think it's funny that people lose sight of it (essentially) just being 'rock doesn't stop getting hot' and 'we really like steam a lot'.
@davidgerard Are the current nuke bros all about the fusion now or are they fission bros or are the both fusion and fission bros?
@davidgerard Fascinating! I don't know if you've looked at the fusion hype bubble recently but it's getting pretty wild now. The superconducting magnet people are losing their minds, they've gone from building weird stuff only scientists care about to weird stuff that suddenly billionaires care a hundred and crazy percent about. I think the fusion hype bubble right now is *very* similar to quantum "computing". So it's kind of funny to me that nuke bros are still pumping fission, because it means they may have chosen to pass on a billionaire-backed hype bubble. Maybe that's being too charitable to them.
@davidgerard then don’t be. It’s really unnecessary at the end of the day.
@davidgerard They're grateful for all of the other grifts distracting attention from them.
