Flying Squid to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agoMicrosoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactorsfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square372fedilinkarrow-up11.13Karrow-down129
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minus-squareNobsilinkfedilinkEnglish12•9 months 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@Natanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglish2•9 months 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.decakelinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoWikipedia is owned by someone who’s married to an intelligence agency member.
minus-square@Chocrates@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•9 months 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-square@Natanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglish3•9 months agoWind power at shores is generally cheapest
minus-square@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.decakelinkfedilinkEnglish0•9 months agoWikipedia is owned by someone who’s married to an intelligence agency member.
minus-squareNobsilinkfedilinkEnglish-2•9 months 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.
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
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
Wikipedia is owned by someone who’s married to an intelligence agency member.
Lemmy is owned by genocide deniers. Whats your point?