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It seems bad that it costs $1.6B to restart an existing reactor that was fully functional a few years ago.
Doesn’t bode well for new plants
Oh yeah! I toured the functioning reactor in middle school (pre-9/11) and we could even peer into the spent fuel pool and walk around the shuttered reactor cooling towers. It was so cool. Glad to see it coming back online.
Says quite a lot about the state of US nuclear regulation that it's easier to reopen a reactor with a design that allowed a meltdown than to build something with a newer, safer design.
Still net positive to reopen, though.
Maybe hearing that nuke plants will be powering data centers, not homes, will make NIMBY's feel like it's none of their business, even though the plants will be in exactly the same place. It's just stupid enough to work.
It will be difficult to impossible to save the climate without nuclear power. But when a corporation, like Microsoft, is so large and powerful that it can buy the output of an entire nuclear power plant, something is wrong. But this is unfettered capitalism.
I’m sure this will get glowing reviews. (Rim shot). I’m fine with bringing more nukes online if it means less power from coal and oil. This AI scam is eating up power, but not really doing the things (nor is it capable of) its boosters claim.
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Ozempic has essentially revealed this to be false.
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Most of the fat people I know are living off 1200-1500 kcal a day and doing their absolute best—at least 80% of them. Little do they know it’s all for nothing, because being fat is a metabolic issue, not a matter of weak will or laziness. They’re fat because they’re sick, not the
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The claim that obesity is primarily a metabolic issue oversimplifies the science. While metabolism plays a role, obesity's root lies in energy balance - calories in vs. out. Research shows even with metabolic variations, lifestyle and diet are key. washingtonpost.com/food/2023/08/2…
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btw ozempic is nearly universally successful and the mechanism by which it works is literally *only* reducing appetite and therefore calorie consumption. so the whole metabolic thing is just wrong. sorry.
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@celestialbe1ng
Most of the fat people I know are living off 1200-1500 kcal a day and doing their absolute best—at least 80% of them. Little do they know it’s all for nothing, because being fat is a metabolic issue, not a matter of weak will or laziness. They’re fat because they’re sick, not the
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The claim that obesity is primarily a metabolic issue oversimplifies the science. While metabolism plays a role, obesity's root lies in energy balance - calories in vs. out. Research shows even with metabolic variations, lifestyle and diet are key. washingtonpost.com/food/2023/08/2…
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If you don’t get that these two ways of doing addition are essentially the same thing, I feel like you might not actually be very interested in math.
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Obama's Common Core was the final nail in the coffin of public education.
This is how they teach math now: