quarrk [he/him]

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Cake day: May 30th, 2022

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  • It says that the power output is about the same as the US Navy’s S6W reactor at about 200 megawatts.

    I did some googling and it seems that the most powerful diesel engines, which are most common for commercial shipping, land at around 80 MW. So if it’s more practical to build and use thorium reactors on commercial ships (not just the most advanced Navy ships) the I think it’s got to change the game at least economically right? Not just speed, but other factors like eliminated need to refuel at ports (which can take days, but maybe that happens during downtime anyway). For military application that’s a key benefit too.














  • I don’t really know anything about this stuff, so feel free to tell me if this is a thing or that it wouldn’t work:

    What if a new lightweight class of browsers emerged with an intentionally reduced set of features? Then websites that believe in that principle would build toward that standard and not use features beyond it. Could be more secure and faster to load. And if the standard gained traction, it would prevent the inevitable “power creep” done by web designers who would want to use all features available to them.

    There is already a trend toward tech simplification using e-ink displays and “dumb phones”, so I think it could plausibly gain popularity.