Stephen G

I'm afraid that I don't hear a thing

[Stephen G @circlemakerain]

"On Caladan we ruled with sea and air power. Here in the sewers we need Turtle power."

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

@BecketAdams He might be the most workshopped candidate and Democratic Party history.

He is the absolute ideal of what the Democratic Party *thinks* straight white men are - veterans who are also white supremacist, and also abuse women. He is the Homer Simpson car of the Democratic Party.

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

That’s horrible, I’d hate it if some soulless corporation jumped into my DMs (which are open) and offered to back a dump truck full of cash onto my front stoop in exchange for boosting their products online. I’d be super angry and tell them I’m not for sale though, I’m sure of it

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.

[Talmud Enjoyer 🇬🇧 🇮🇱 🧬 @jewndahalfmen]

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than seeing far left anti-Zionist Jews being treated like shit by pro-Palestinians

[Upstate Federalist @upstatefederlst]

The Platner thing is just the latest in a string of reminders that they have no principles. The only internal question they answer is whether or not this gives them more or less ability to launder money to their friends.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

I want to make clear that everyone who makes this argument earns my disdain

They are telling me that they support partner abuse as long as the right people are being abused

[Stephen G @circlemakerain]

@zuki_2024 Brentwood?

[Stephen G @circlemakerain]

@ingelramdecoucy That tweet belongs in the “telling on yourself” hall of fame my god.

[Disgraced Propagandist @DisgracedProp]

I wasn’t sure until latest vote drop that just happened now, but it’s looking like the magical mail ins are going to somehow heavily favor Nithya Raman, because of course Raman voters are known to specifically vote late, moreso even than Democrats, which will explain how she slowly but surely overtakes Pratt while having absolutely zero organic voter base, and while not taking any votes from Bass.

Only 65% of the vote counted!

[Stephen G @circlemakerain]

Gotta love CA politics

[Stephen G @circlemakerain]

@6Voodoo Don’t forget about your two other carriers who are pointlessly too far away doing fuck-all near the Aleutians.

[Brandon S @BSaarX]

Only way to fix LA, and I have been saying this for years. Investigate the SEIU. The SEIU is so powerful that they made the Dems in the Senate and Assembly in California SIGN NDAS when discussing taxpayers money. Think about that. The California Democrats allowed the state union to dictate if they could tell the public how they are spending public money. @Elex_Michaelson ignored this story as well as many in CA media. @ZavalaA was the only one asking and asking and asking. This is why CA the way it is

[Stephen G @circlemakerain]

@TippingOddsLV @redsteeze If you need a resident of Maine with name recognition and a history of opposing Trump, a familiar face springs to mind…

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

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[Stephen G @circlemakerain]

Can’t wait to read “the conservative cases for domestic violence” from one of the bulwarks creatures next week.

[Peter J. Hasson @peterjhasson]

This is abuse. Straight up.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

Two women, on the record. Opposite ends of the political spectrum . One of which the Times clearly watered down her story at the request of the Platner campaign. And the other who turned over diary entries and text messages.

[captive dreamer @captive_dreamer]

This really is an allegory for the country at large. Democrats and the left just take decline and filth as a given, they can't even imagine that it can be reversed.

[Stephen G @circlemakerain]

@bethanyshondark @alanagoodman @lyndseyfifield Wait what

[Mystery Grove Movie List Co. @MysteryGrove]

It’s really important to make nice with Massie supporters after the election so they can operate as an anti-Trump 5th column forever, huge value add

[Aeneas @Phrankensteyn]

Let's put some numbers to that: 

The USA has ~95 kt of spent fuel (high-level radioactive waste, HLW) currently stored. ~4% of that is actual waste like Cesium, Strontium or Technicum etc. That stuff is highly radioactive, but you can't fission or breed it properly. Luckily, that stuff has a short half-life, so it just needs several hundred years of storage time. 

So ~91 kt of the HLW is U238, U<238 and Plutonium. U238 is only fertile not fissionable, so it needs breeding to transform into fissionable material. But @oklo is working on breeders, @AaloAtomics, the company @MattLoszak is working for, will likely go for breeding in a several years once their current reactor is commercial and scaling.

If you breed and fission one tonne of usable heavy metal perfectly, you'd get a good 900 Gigawatt days (GWd) of heat out of it. That's ~22 Terawatt hours (TWh) or ~22m MWh. The worldwide proven oil reserves are currently (there's likely more, but not yet provably found) 1.77tn barrels. One barrel holds about 1.7 MWh of heat energy. 

Therefore:

1.77tn * 1.7 = 3tn MWh of oil reserves

91k * 22m = 2tn MWh of usable heavy metal 

So that usable heavy metal holds less energy than the proven oil reserves especially when considering that this needs perfect breeding and fission and later, nuclear power stations have less efficiency than oil power plants. Therefore, the real comparison would be: 

3 * 45% = 1.35tn MWh power 

vs

2 * ~50% * 35% = 0.35tn MWh power 

So @jakedewitte is wrong... Or is he?

Well. No. 

To get to 95 kt enriched uranium (that later is 91 kt usable and 4 kt waste heavy metal) with 3.3% of U235, you need to enrich the natural uranium holding only 0.72% of U235. Perfect enrichment would need 3.3/0.72 = 4.58x raw uranium. But the enrichment process isn't perfect and it ends with the depleted uranium still holding 0.25% of U235. So the actual depletion delta is 0.72 - 0.25 = 0.47%. Therefore, the factor is more like 3.3/0.47 = 7. 

Any country with a long-term nuclear strategy should've kept its depleted uranium or let it be delivered, too, when bought from foreign countries like USA did from Russia and is now active to end this dependency. Way too late, true, but at least they are learning and enrichment is no magic. Just needs a bit of investment. 

So, let's calculate the total usable heavy metal that could be available to the USA:

95 * 7 = total raw uranium needed = 665 kt 

665 - 95 = 575 kt depleted uranium that should be available 

91 + 575 = 661 kt total fissionable and breedable heavy metal 

So our value of 0.35tn MWh of power needs the following adjustment:

(661 / 91) * 0.35 = 2.54tn MWh of power possible 

Nearly double the value of proven oil reserves. Jake is, in fact, right. 

By the way, the actual extracted amount of power from the spent fuel should be in the area of 95 kt enriched uranium* 3.5% fission products * ~900,000 MWd burn-up rate * 24 h * 35% efficiency = ~25bn MWh of power. So just ~1% of the total potential used.