the thing you’re missing is scale. what you’re describing is overgrown car radiator type scheme, and it works up to some couple MW if need be. when you have access to sea, or large river, you can just use that water as a coolant and dissipate some couple GW this way. this is the reason why so many nuclear powerplants are on seashore. because sea is generally very big [citation needed] temperature increase is slight and mostly harmless in usual cases

inland, in absence of large river, the other way to provide cooling is by evaporation of water. one form is to take that oversized car radiator and spray water on it, water evaporates taking away some heat. this arrangement allows for no-added-water operation in low load conditions. in principle this means that lowest possible temperature is not air temperature, but instead it’s wet bulb temperature, which is always lower, and difference is greatest when air humidity is low. in practice this doesn’t allow to reach this lower temperature, but the other approach does. for bigger scale still, instead of using heat exchanger, water is dripped in a tower of some shape and air is moved in some way against it. small part of water evaporates, and the rest, now cooled down, is collected at the bottom. this is how these large cooling towers near coal or nuclear powerplants work, but so do smaller towers that rely on fans instead of chimney effect. extra water is always needed, and temperature closer to wet bulb temperature is achieved in all load conditions. rarely used alternative is to make an artificial lake, and allow for evaporation from water surface

notice that if water is evaporated, it’ll leave whatever is dissolved in evaporator part, which means it has to demineralized at all times. in practice it means that some part of evaporated water is treated continuously by reverse osmosis, and the less saline input water is, the easier and more energy efficient it is to do it

the thing with heat exchangers is, without water evaporation, that they have some constant thermal resistance. if you want to dissipate more heat, you need more of heat exchanger, or alternatively have to allow for higher temperature. the former means more metal needed, the latter means limits to other parts of coolant loop, or using heat pump to cool down silicon, while increasing temperature of coolant. both of these mean extra capex and/or energy use, but evaporating water is cheap, so it’s done instead. it doesn’t help that one of dc ratings is ratio of how much energy gets into dc to how much energy powers actual silicon. evaporating water does not add to energy use, so designs chasing this rating are likely to use that solution

all profit is based on deception - lao zidong

as a side effect, it’s a phenomenal accountability sink. people almost forget that usaf can make entirely human-made fuckups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiriyah_shelter_bombing

i think you can say that at least some people of iran already turned against their government, except those with guns. historically the parts of strategic bombing that worked were targeting of military leadership (in progress), communications (?), weapons storage and manufacture (in progress), energy production (no signs so far). not sure if there is any plan beyond strikes, leave it to them to turn operational success into diplomatic failure

i had no idea that you can buy anti-ship missiles in any corner store. not sure how do you make sense of how both of these militias mentioned decided to do nothing after the guy signing their checks and sent them weapons was killed

last time i’ve checked, wandel durch handel style approach was determined to not work as intended, not that it matters in this case anymore

i also think that americans are currently allergic to boots on the ground involvement* so it’s not likely. my best guess is airstrikes only, then ??? then i guess they expect regime change to materialize out of thin air. only time will tell

* unless it’s not theirs, but for example kurds, this way they don’t care

i don’t give a shit about sam harris. if iranians were broadly fine with theocracy, there wouldn’t be 30k+ dead protesters last month, or major protests every year for a decade. like every other country on earth, you can expect that iran secularizes, except that apostasy or conversion is capital offense, or any significant dissent for that matter, so any survey unaffected by self-censorship would be hard to conduct

there is some reason to think this way. also keep in mind that a segment of that anti-americanism was funded by sales of iranian oil. not all of course, but houthis wouldn’t be a thing without it, or large parts of hezbollah, for example. of course what people want and how it shakes down after the bombs drop is different thing entirely, i guess we’ll see, eventually (i assume that decision to strike was already made)

real. every prediction i got from computational chemists was wrong

slowmo shot of the last american nuclear test delivered by airdrop, it is spherical, but not because of condensation cloud (that moves away quickly and is transient anyway)

there’s a couple of amusing hells inside that job, you either have to deal with construction crews and contractors, jump between power poles including in cold and rain, wrangle with paperwork for permits for new lines, or fix horrors left by someone before you, it can be also dirty people-facing

i still think that lots of people damaged by chatbots will stop in their tracks when this vc money burning charade ends, they won’t be able to set up it all locally because chatbots brainrotted them even if it was possible in the first place

If you don’t care about precise size, balls can be made cheaply by dropping drops of metal down tower where they are cooled by air as they fall, and then by water after they solidify. Then just sort by size

many years past, there was fb meme page called “places in warsaw you had no idea about, because they don’t exist”. i see it lives on

mold will be more fitting

this is just notpetya with extra steps

some lwers (derogatory) will say to never assume malice when stupidity is likely, but stupidity is an awfully convenient excuse, isn’t it

the get smart quick scheme in its full glory

they prompted so hard and that’s all they get, so obviously there’s nothing better and they stop st that

they’ll do anything except actually learn shit or put in effort

Would be much easier if there was any kind of organised opposition within iran, but this is not the case and irgc know what they’re doing