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[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Wow, didn't realize how anti-nuclear Lemmy is after looking at this comment thread.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Common on contrarian and alternative platform as this particular topic has been seeded by russia psyops against russian oil alternative.

This is why germany shut down all its reactors and went back to burning lignite coal when nordstream was blown up by a ln Ukrainian triggerman.

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[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 51 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I thought this was going to be about how many turkeys you could cook directly using the reactor heat

my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

[–] ultracritical@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Be about 3x that number. Reactors are about 33-40% efficient. So a 1000 MW electric plant is running at 3000 MW thermal. Would be relatively easy too. Just a gigantic steam heated oven. So 7.5 million turkeys, enough to feed 90 million people or about a quarter of the US.

[–] Hagdos@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I doubt an oven needs 2400W continuous to keep at temperature. Also a single large oven will be far more efficient than 7.5 million separate ovens.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

you know what, i am thankful for you

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[–] ToothpasteSundae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Can we also talk about the way they chose to manipulate the perception of the data by their choice of states

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago

LOL, it's a reverse population map. Works on the stupid because "lots of orange!"

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

There are states with populations higher than 30 million. Like yea that's a lot of people, but the cherry picking of states is annoying

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[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 65 points 5 days ago (1 children)

if they claim a 15lb Turkey feeds 12, how am I supposed trust any of the other numbers?

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Or how 1 GW/(200 W/person) came up with a number that started with a 3 instead of a 5. Like 5 million people, not 30 million.

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[–] ShankShill@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

If you cook me a 15lb turkey in 3 1/2 hours that burnt dry shit is going in the trash.

  • Dude standing by a smoker with 10 lbs of pork ribs for the past 4 hours
[–] AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Rookie Numbers. It only uses electrical power generated. Why not cook turkeys in heat destined for cooling towers ? Gotta push those numbers way up.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Or just toss all the turkeys into the reactor

[–] eldain@feddit.nl 12 points 4 days ago

Restricted sous-vide basin

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 days ago

Turkey control rods

[–] C126@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'd like to see this redone using energy instead of power. E.g is 2,400 watts during the initial heatup or when the oven reaches stable temperature? They're not taking into account the time change either.

[–] Hagdos@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

2400W is typical maximum power for an oven. If you run that continuous you'll have very crispy (black) turkey

[–] wasabi@feddit.org 22 points 5 days ago

How is this a meme?

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The fun part of this is this is true of any 1GW power source. We have been deploying solar+battery arrays in that range recently for much less money and much faster than nuclear.

Thanks "Office of nuclear energy" for pointing out how useful large scale solar+battery is too!

[–] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (24 children)

I really don't get this ackshually business about nuclear power, we're absolute idiots to not employ it more. Everywhere there's been a focus on nuclear power generation we're seeing reliable results over a long long timespan

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The problem with nuclear is: business wise, it is a TOUGH sell to the public, even without the anti-nuclear lobby groups fighting with safety propaganda.

It takes a much higher capital spend to start up nuclear than any other type of plant, so you won't "break even" for 30 plus years, if ever.

It doesn't help when there are high profile sites that are being refurbished, whose costs are already phenomenaly high, and then the managing firm fucks it up (I'm looking at you Crystal River).

It makes it high risk, financially. And it's the public that ultimately ends up paying.

My hope is that SMR's become viable. They introduce a new factor though. If you get small, "cheaper" nuclear plants, then you will get more operators and you will get some that may run fast and loose. One fuck up can ruin it for everyone.

I can accept the argument that it's safe and effective but the public irrationally won't accept it. Seems to have been a pretty good sell on the other side of the curtain though

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