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[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Okay but since you're the one trying to make a point by saying that, it's really up to you to add the cost and show that the results really do make the point you want to make.

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

its a post about uranium being at the top, so the message should be about primary energy generation (unlike sugar -nutritional energy, which is also in the pic)

Cost per gigawatt of installed capacity: Nuclear power: 7–10 billion euros per GW.
While Wind energy (onshore): 1–2 billion euros per GW. Wind energy (offshore): 2–4 billion euros per GW. Solar energy: 500 million to 1 billion euros per GW.

This is evident if you just look at the nuclear power companies like france (who is heavily into nuclear): State-owned EDF - 70 billion euro debt. These companies can't stay afloat because its that unlucrative and therefore need heavy subsidies.

Then you have environmental cost, which is the funny part, because we cant even evaluate the potential of the damage since we dont understand the effects fully. The scale in the cartoon is literally comedic compared to the half-life of nuclear waste. like 24000 years for plutonium and for uranium over billions

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

It's a post about logarithmic scales LOL.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I wonder what was the cost of making gasoline cheap. Probably like $10 huh.

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 weeks ago

millions dead

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

thats one kind of cost

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Jerry Hathaway still wants 5 megawatts by mid-May.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

You win the Internet today!!!

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Weird thing I’ve noticed:

Logs are taught in high school. Absolutely no one seems to remember what they are after the unit test, much less high school. I’ve even reminded other math instructors about how to use them.

Why do people have such a hard time learning to use and understand logs?

I love this comic, and it’s going to replace my weird “let’s talk about how this makes the distance between us and Alpha Centauri, and us and Earendil easier to understand” bit.

[–] WarlordSdocy@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

I mean I think a lot of it is that at least in America when it comes to Math a lot of the teaching is more about how to use specific formulas and apply them to certain kinds of problems. They don't really teach you what it is you're actually doing or why you're doing it. It just turns into recognizing a type of problem and applying a certain tool to it rather than understanding what that tool is and what it does.

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