Posts by Lars 4259 publicly visible posts • joined 21 May 2007
As expected Rolls-Royce SMR are mentioned among comments but they are not here yet.
Quoting the Wikipedia:
"In November 2021, the UK government provided funding of £210 million to further develop the design, partly matched by £195 million of investment by Rolls Royce Group, BNF Resources UK Limited and Exelon Generation Limited.[8][9] At that point they expected the first unit would be completed in the early 2030s.".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_SMR
Of course there are other companies too in the process of developing them.
And regarding the molten-salt thorium reactors, several countries are involved developing them but nobody can deliver a working reactor yet.
@RM Myers
" infinity is a neat if somewhat mind blowing concept in math, but I doubt many physicists believe it really exists, ".
Yes that is interesting but for me, since a teenager, either you assume something can come out of nothing, something I find too silly to accept, or you accept infinity which is so easy to accept looking forward but harder looking back.
So how could it be there was once nothing, and the easy solution has, of course, always been that he(we) did it, with some interesting and poetic variations of course.
@seeWemm
I am all for UK SMRs to enable and help the transition out of oil and gas for energy.
But quoting the Wikipedia it seems the support is rather meager and it's not there yet.
"In November 2021, the UK government provided funding of £210 million to further develop the design, partly matched by £195 million of investment by Rolls Royce Group, BNF Resources UK Limited and Exelon Generation Limited.[8][9] At that point they expected the first unit would be completed in the early 2030s.".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_SMR
Hello "Doctor Syntax".
I must admit I don't really understand your comment, but never mind.
So let me explain what I was writing about.
Here in Finland we had a first time new PM of a coalition government who was caught telling a lie on the telly, one lie, and as I recall repeated perhaps three times.
That premiership ended in less than three months.
A PM in a coalition is not king and has no majority to rely on if considered rubbish.
So my question is really what makes it possible for a notorious born liar to stay a PM in Britain.
How many days would a guy like that stay in power in a democracy with a coalition government.
Not one day probably as that person would probably never be given that responsibility.
And my point is that it's not about the people but the political system.
No country should be run by a government of just one party. And that is just one of your problems.
Look at the sleeze enabled in a government of just one party.
Also In a two party system the far right and far left trash will have nowhere to go but to try to take over one of the parties, just look at what has happened to the Republican party.
In both countries the whole system relies on honest politicians, but as soon as the trash are let in the system is toothless.
The two party system you Brits and sadly most of the English speaking countries have not been able to get out of while 2/3 of the world has managed it, is your main problem.
And adding to that the Brits who seriously believe they represent the golden standard of the universe.
I am deeply worried about you, if slightly happy there seems to be some efforts to get rid of fptp.
At least the way I see it here up in the North.
So what to do, well, the big chief, the dear child, the bright one, got it once again, - we will build a nuclear every year.
Just listen to the genius here, at home or abroad and congrats for being number one in wind power too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0MZBwHjUkI
Fact Checking The Boris Johnson Interview On CNN
Hinkley Point C construction started in 2017 and the commission date target is june 2027.
It's a modern plant like the one now up and running in Finland and in China earlier.
But it's one (two reactors) within the five next years. With plans to build some more, if there was such plans, Britain might be able to have three more in ten years perhaps if somebody was willing to build them.
Why do you accept a guy like that embarrassing the whole country.
"I would like to know more about why they switched from FreeBSD to Linux."
And why not, they are good at building supercomputers and they all run Linux, not only in China.
There is so much more energy around Linux not to mention all that small stuff and phones and robots and so forth.
It sounds almost surprising but if you want one OS to run every possible device on earth or in space it will be Linux.
Nothing beats a two party system in dividing a people into two groups.
Looking at you from the side it's absolutely horrifying to look and listen to you.
You will not be able to become anything else, perhaps not even a one party country like North Korea, and some other countries, and still it's the ultimate goal of a party in a two party system.
You are as rubbish in this respect as the British.
Get a mirror, please.
@katrinab
He was not afraid of a sentence in Sweden but for being extradited to the US from Sweden, who knows, perhaps he believed that could not happen in Britain.
I would let him go, write a book, have a life.
I cannot see him having harmed anybody worth a prison sentence anywhere.
"But that's not what Linux desktop fans want. They want Windows crushed and bleeding underneath the Linux juggernaut."
Speak for yourself.
I agree with that.
Perhaps there are those who don't know or have forgotten the game Microsoft had opposing Linux then years ago, and that certainly wasn't popular or accepted among Linux users and enthusiasts.
Linux more than survived those efforts, absolutely splendidly, one can say.
As for many desktops, so what, people are not all that disturbed by the fact there are several brands of cars either and most will be able to chose one all the same.
Well I think somebody should also translate "How to speak English" into English for the English and also "How to understand English in England for Americans", but more to the point.
I am very annoyed I am not as keen to test all available linux distros as before, but if I was, then I have no doubt there was use for Distrobox, and if not, then it would not exist.
Humm, perhaps I will try it.
"along the lines of what Switzerland has.".
In Switzerland you have first become a member of the "well organized militia" that Switzerland is and then you are given that weapon you are supposed to keep at home to defend the country should that be needed.
It has nothing to do with the American lunacy.
Amendments can be changed or it would not be called an amendment, and that one has to be amended.
A good American Quasi Christian and the NRA would of course demand that every +6 year old kid has to be armed to defend the 2nd amendment.
"Did you get Leica mixed up with Zeiss perchance?".
That won't make Danny 2s comment any less idiotic as,
"ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss. Together with Ernst Abbe (joined 1866) and Otto Schott (joined 1884) he laid the foundation for today's multi-national company.".
Do people actually believe East Germany become East Germany because they, the people, wanted it.
East Germany lasted from 1949 to 1990, no longer than about 40 years.
Remember "tear down the wall" by Regan.
For some odd reason Margret Thatcher did not join all those other heads of state for those celebrations.
Lets not get silly.
Intel is not open source and will not publish the code in the processors.
But they will reveal and market additional features in the processors we have to assume.
Linux will not become that one OS that is unable to use those additional features should user demand it.
I cannot see anything particularly disturbing here.
@StargateSg7
I hope you are better today.
And to help you, I suggest you have a look at the top500.org list about super computers in the world.
You do quite well in fact, behind China, the USA, Japan, Germany, France, the Netherlands but slightly ahead of the UK and South Korea with about 2.2% of the world capacity.
https://www.top500.org/statistics/list/
But I will still use this icon.
Perhaps, you have not used windshield wipers clearing out dust without water and what not.
A fan could be better but very ineffective due to the very thin air.
What they could perhaps use is what is used in F1 where they tear off a layer from their helmet visors at a time.
But I think there perhaps is a limit to how long you get useful data from one device.
It's the bloody same with cars.
Wheels, mostly four, Check.
Engine, Check.
Steering wheel, only one, Check.
Breaks, Check.
Light forward, Check.
Breaking lights, always reddish, never green, no imagination, Check.
Doors, only few exceptions, Check.
Vipers, only too and fro, Check.
Bonnet, if only in Britain mostly, Check.
Same old Carl Benz all the time.
And now I am getting upset with my toilet seat.
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