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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • Compared to fossil fuels I tend to prefer nuclear as well, because even though mining uranium has quite some ecological impact including emitting carbon emissions, running a nuclear power plant doesn’t have carbon emissions and that’s important.
    What worries me is that there are nuclear power plants around the world and despite the first nuclear power plant having been built 70 years ago, not a single ultimate disposal place for the radioactive waste has been found/created.
    Having “cheap” electric energy for 3-4 generations and putting a burden on the next 40,000 generations just does sound like a bad deal to me.
    Until we have more wind and hydro, keeping nuclear running might be a price we have to pay.
    Not being able to dispose of some more (thousands of) tons of radioactive waste is making the problem only quantitatively worse and not qualitatively.







  • I’m still dreaming of seeing EVs with flexible battery space, which users can fill according to their needs.
    Like a car comes with space for 10x 10 kWh slots.
    If 20 kWh serve your usual needs, the other spaces remain empty.
    And if you plan longer trips and don’t want to recharge each 100 miles, you put in additional batteries. Those batteries don’t need to be owned, but can be rented.
    Ideally there are lots of battery rental stations, where you can get charged batteries and instead of recharging the batteries in the EV, the rent’n’swap stations recharge them.
    During (EV) wise low use times, these stations can provide a buffer to the energy grid.
    …one can dream…