Corporations and individuals with more capital and power than medium sized states are more dangerous than my tiny state and local governments, where I actually personally know some and have taken part in choosing my representatives.
besides the poor UX for unauthenticated users, i would rather not view ads from advertisers who still pay X for the access to my eyeballs (in the event i'm using a browser that doesn't block them to begin with).
Has a section for code. You link it to your GitHub, and it will generate code for you when you get on the bus so there's stuff for you to review after you get to the office.
The app version is iPhone only, you don’t get Code in the Android app, you have to use a web browser.
I use it every day. I’ll write the spec in conversation with the chatbot, refining ideas, saying “is it possible to …?” Get it to create detailed planning and spec documents (and a summary document about the documents). Upload them to Github and then tell Code to make the project.
I have never written any Rust, am not an evangelist, but Code says it finds the error messages super helpful so I get it to one shot projects in that.
I do all this in the evenings while watching TV with my gf.
It amuses me we have people even this thread claiming what it already does is something it can’t do - write working code that does what is supposed to.
I get to spend my time thinking of what to create instead of the minutiae of “ok, I just need 100 more methods, keep going”. And I’ve been coding since the 1980 so don’t think I’m just here for the vibes.
Thorium 232 is the thorium in the cycle yes. And all kinds of nonsense is correct for the daughter products. But in general, to actually use do anything with thorium you need excess neutrons.
Even the daughter uranium 233 only produces on average 2.48 neutrons per fission, so it’s very difficult even in a combined lifecycle process to have enough - thorium doesn’t produce uranium 233 immediately (takes almost 30 days), neutron capture with that low a ratio requires a LOT of thorium, which is going to mostly just suck up all neutrons and you won’t have any extra for addition uranium 233 fissions, etc.
It’s quite difficult (impossible?)to have actually work without a source of a large amount of additional neutrons.
> to actually use do anything with thorium you need excess neutrons
Unless 100% of those neutrons is being absorbed by the thorium, this means you'll have neutron flux at the boundary. Which, for a liquid moderator, means all the pipes and tanks and pumps.
Sure, if you ignore all the parts of the neutron economy that make it possible to work. The part everyone missed in this discussion is that all of the numbers of neutrons (and their barns) aren't constants. Since the fuel is a fluid, you can use density and shape to improve the neutron economy in the reactor core. Basically, when the atoms are closer together, the economy improves. You can also use a better moderator like graphite since the basic design is safer and the rate of fission is just easier to control.
And considering that people made these things work 60 years ago without modern computers, the idea that its impossible or needs 40 years of research seems pretty far fetched. What is left of the nuclear industry wants to build current designs like the AP1400. That is a great idea, but there are things you can do with a LFTR that you can't do with an AP1400. The biggest of them is making synthetic fuel. The other advantages are the amount of waste produced and the fact that you can make a LFTR into a waste burner consuming the spent fuel rods from a AP1400. The downside is you actually have to fix nuclear regulations to do this and getting politicians to do that has proved impossible.
There are no technological barriers, this is entirely political.
> That you’re even discussing graphite moderated (?!!) makes this pretty clear.
And why would this be? Is graphite expensive? No it isn't. Also, we created a working one of these designed in the 1960's without computers. You seriously think this is hard compared to other types of engineering we do today?
A LFTR can also do things that a PWR or BWR can't and has several major advantages. But since it uses pencil lead apparently we can't even try it.
Because it has dangerous behavior in real reactors due to the void co-efficient behavior, to the point of… being the cause of the largest nuclear disaster in recorded history?
Not OP but he maybe referring to the new gas cooled gen 4 reactors not Soviet RBMKs. The ones I heard are working with sealed beads of uranium, encased in porous carbon, then some other layers, including some carbide (silicon?). The porosity of carbon absorbs gases but they ultimately stay sealed. The whole thing is helium cooled.
Yeah. I was listening to David Ruzic's video [1] about them getting one of those reactors on campus and when he showed the structure of beads, that's the first thing that popped in my head - at that size how are they going to ensure every single bead has an intact surface.
