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Look at his face, he’s 100% gonna eat that.
There’s a timeliness where tiktok kids are eating atomic wafers as a challenge.
Uranium has so many calories, he will never have to eat again
duuude how many degrees celsius do you think one uranium wafer could heat one litre of water by??
Doesn’t matter, if you eat one you won’t have to worry about starving anymore
It’s literally called wafer. Can’t blame him
Feeling snackish for an
A T O M I C
W A F E R !
All wafers, cookies, chips, biscuits, crispbread and hardtack I’ve ever seen have been atomic.
I struggle to imagine one that wouldn’t be.
You don’t eat baryonic baked goods?
I bet it tastes as good as yellow cake
Or yellow snow
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake
Btw, it’s written together.
Danke, oida.
Too 👏 cheap 👏 to 👏 meter
It’s only cheap until environment regulations and safety standards are required…
More people die from wind turbines and hydro than from nuclear on a per tWh basis. If we actually want to save lives we would require higher levels of safety standards on fossil fuels that are magnitudes more dangerous than nuclear
Given the up-front cost of any kind of reactor, I don’t think the concept of a usage-based electric bill goes away as long as it’s corporations competing for customers. Maybe eventually it would be like ISPs where it’s a flat fee depending on the size of your connection. I guess it could be totally unmetered then.
Like so many things, it gets a lot simpler if it’s the government supplying the service.
It’s not too cheap to meter even when provided as a public service. Nuclear is more expensive than battery + solar, more expensive than wind, more expensive than coal
“Too cheap to meter” was a lie that ignored costs of safety and decommissioning.
Yeah I agree, and you still hear that BS about fusion power, that it will be an unlimited source of cheap/free clean energy.
I guess I could imagine scenarios where power is not metered and is supported via taxes, maybe in a scenario where citizens have a right to energy just like a right to healthcare. It’s not free by any means, but the people who make the most money and thus benefit the most from the infrastructure end up paying into it the most. And the truly poor would get free (to them) electricity.
I really wonder about fusion. Most of the news of energy production higher than energy input is about non-electricity fusion - the big tokamak fusion systems are not yet producing more power than they take to run, but scientists working on them are expecting good results soon
Like when I was a kid fusion was 20 years away and would always be 20 years away. Now it looks like it’ll be 5 years away for a while
I like to follow fusion news whenever I see it, and I think the situation might be even worse than you’re describing, lol.
The news about ignition and/or more energy out than in, that refers to the energy actually delivered to the sample versus the full energy released from the sample. So it doesn’t include all the energy needed to charge and fire the lasers that was lost along the way. And like you said, it’s the thermal power they’re measuring, and you lose a huge amount of that power when converting to electricity.
I think we’re still firmly in the “fusion is 20/30 years away” cycle.
Clean! Safe!! Too cheap to meter!!!
/pffft
Atomic Wafer Challenge
“Mother, why do all my teeth feel itchy?”
“It’s because you haven’t been smoking enough. Here, smoke these two before dinner.”
I’m so out of my depth in this thread. Is this a real side effect of radiation?
I can’t find it now, but I’d swear to having read an anecdote from someone working with radiation who reported tingling teeth during exposure.
It definitely does a lot of nasty things to the body.
Spit out the wafer.
The Children of the Atom deem you a HERETIC! Embrace the holy atom!
“Timmy you left the aluminum foil on the atomic wafer!!”
“By golly Tim you shattered space time and opened a black hole!”
“My apologies mother and father, I have been absent of clear cognition.”
I passed out from the flood of Fallout references that just rushed into my brain.
Never forget the future that was taken from us.
It’ll come back eventually unless fusion takes over. The power density promises are simply too attractive.
Never mind that pesky burning taste, imagine the power savings!
It always smells like bloody sinus in our house after changing the wafer.
That means it’s working!
The mining and processing of the “fuel” is not. The cost of the plants abd the risks neither. That’s why nuclear is slowly losing to regenerative.
Well that the enormous initial cost and time to construct
Of course, mother!
Thank you Junior. Don’t forget to wear you shoes when you go play in the asbestos pit at school. I put two cigarettes in your lunchbox you can have one at lunch if your teacher says its okay and one on the way to home after your shift at the radium watch painting factory.
Thank you Green Peace /s
Bunch of short sighted uninformed hippies
Funded by fossil fuels. The scariest concept to a capitalist is something being too cheap to matter.
Dude spent way too much time drawing those chesticles
UWU
Do you want to be Malons? This is how you become Malons. /s
What show is that?
Star Trek Voyager
Walker Texas Ranger
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Atomic wafers made by the techo-church-state? Or have I got this back to front and this is how the non-technical society irradiates its children?
I think this refers to everyday household items being powered by some unspecified kind of uranium engine.
Rare element, I didn’t think uranium was ever specially mentioned just “atomics”, fusion and fission generally.
Might be my imagination is playing tricks on me.
I could be wrong, it’s been a minute since I reread the series.
Well, if you’re a Stalker, it may put hair on your kids бляать.
Gotta power the family brain scorcher, for home defensse
She’s right there. This is literally a power play to force her kid to do a pointless task.
“pick up that can”
Of course, mother!
