Hello LTT, I hope this reaches you. I would be very interested in hearing more about Linus' opinions on nuclear power. I am a mechanical engineer who actually started out in the field of reactor shielding of GEN IV reactors, but reoriented myself into other industries fairly quickly. I want to offer an perspective on the subject that you might not commonly find in internet arguments online: a rational one.
Building a nuclear power plant takes money and time. Linus as a business owner surely understands capital risk, opportunity costs and the like. Any investor who is surmising whether to put their money into a nuclear power plant, needs to consider whether or not this business is a sensible investment or not. When the nuclear power plant is ready to begin operation 20 years into the future, how many years will it take to reach its intended annualized investment return? Will it even be able to produce and sell electricity at a profit in the first place? Maybe in 20 years, but what about in 30, 40, 50? Nuclear fuel, safety requirements, highly specialized workers, maintenance, lifecycle engineering, waste management, virtually everything that is attached to what it means to build and operate a nuclear power plant, is >very< unlikely to get less expensive in the future – quite the opposite. Meanwhile, the nuclear power plant has to compete on the energy market.

And who will the competitors be in 20 years? Solar power comes with virtually zero capital risk. There is no fuel to buy, no specialized employees to hire, no safety concerns, no waste. It's virtually plug&play (not really but you get where I'm going with this). And while sunlight will be as free 20 years from now as it is today, fossil and nuclear fuel will be more expensive. This means a solar plant operator will, whenever he produces electricity, >always< be able to sell for a lower price than any competitor. And as opposed to fossil and nuclear power plants, a solar power plant does not need to run at a loss. If you disconnect it from the grid, nothing bad happens. Meanwhile fossil fuel operators will have to sell at negative energy prices, presumingly to storage plant operators, who will buy cheap electricity during the day and sell it during the night – once again outcompeting fossil and nuclear.
This is the market a nuclear power plant has to be competitive in in the future. Which is honestly just not feasible.
Now, you will point out that a nuclear power plant does not actually have to compete in the energy market. It can sell its electricity directly to consumers who are in need for a constant baseload. But here's the thing. (Almost) no matter how cheap a baseload-producing nuclear power plant can run at. For its customers, it's still externalized cost. Say, a blast furnace, a hydrogen producer, or a desalination plant needs huge amounts of energy. But not that much that they would build their own nuclear power plant. Nuclear power is poorly scaleable. Meanwhile, solar power is. Meaning, it is an absolute no-brainer for any energy-demanding industry to internalize as much of their energy demand as possible through solar power. Which results in the same challenge for nuclear power plant operators as before: They can't sell their baseload.

I hope this could provide an alternative viewpoint on a topic that is very often dominated by the same few takling points about waste management, safety and security on the opposing side, and "it's basically free energy" on the supporting side.

Badminton center is a midlife crisis project if I’ve ever seen one

about youtube and your youtube-community-exclusives. reason i use youtube instead of floatplane, i watch your content 99% on my TV, not via casting from a smartphone but via the native youtube app. it is a google TV, so i would really really like to see a floatplane app for google TV or a KoDI Addon or whatever but for now, your youtube membership is the only good way to get the same level of access to the exclusive videos.

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59:12 ish. Can a 3rd party search engine for YT not learn to filter out the garbage that Luke sees as continuing in perpetuity?

Don't want to watch WAN without timestamps 🙁

Youtube really turned up the adds – get two every 3 minutes…

1:23:50 just watch dan's face lol

As someone who has spent many hundreds of dollars on LTT Store, I’m not a fan of the desire for utility over comfort in clothing, and I’m not a fan of the changes in the water bottle lid. What’s the point of making something more utilitarian if those changes make it inherently worse to use? I’ve barely worn my WAN hoodie ever because of how uncomfortable it is.

my hope with AI is that we will end up like in STAR TREK where any one can do anything and all will be free cos the AI will be doing it all, and what will be left for us is to enjoy our life, either by creating, inventing, traveling etc.

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