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Youre wrong until youre not.

We got a West North Carolina now? Fancy.

When are we getting East North Carolina, South North Carolina, or the holy grail, West East South North Carolina?

I'm with your parents. Jump up and down all you like, I'll be over here.

The whole pitch of SMR is modular reactors that can be mostly prefabbed offsite and just lego blocked into a power plant quickly.

So far, yeah we are seeing the same exact issue as normal nuclear, i.e. so complex with such high stakes if they fault, the build times and costs over run 3-5x for each of them.

SMR feels like the "clean coal" of nuclear. Ontario is absolutly treating it as greenwashing to prevent solar/wind when we know these are both cheap and easy techs that have great output, no safety issues, and almost no maintance costs, even when coupled with batteries. They really should be working to develop real SMR while pushing 100% ahead with relaible renewabale power, but yeah. Here we are.

Your link shows that they are nowhere near finishing production on their first SMR reactor, much less starting the other 3. They vaguely point to the first one being done by "the end of 2030."

  When will the SMRs start producing power?								

Our planning goal is to complete construction of the first SMR by the end of this decade, and connect to the grid by the end of 2030. 

Thats 5 years away, at best.

Ontario is going to scale to 4 reactors at $20B total, still much less than classic reactor designs, and they can be maintained easier and cheaper.

$20.9B is their estimate, not 20B. That stll seems high for the 1.2MW total output at all 4 plants listed in your artice. The Georgia Vogtle plants, the most recently built nuclear plants in the US, are each 1.2MW. They had drastic delays and cost overuns, but were still about $17B each. Is SMR somehow more expensive than older reactors per watt?

Even that $21B might be low. They hope it costs $21B total, and they hope it can be maintained easier and cheaper. Most nuclear projects vastly overun their cost estimates, and while SMRs are nominally supposed to be designed to mitigate that, this is the first production one ever built.

Lastly, Ontario is a huge oil and gas producer and has come out hard against solar/wind energy usage. They have pushed nuclear as the only viable green path for power generation. These SMR plants are being stood up partially as a way to justify blocking solar farms and wind turbines, which can undermine Oil and gas interests with inexpensive, proven technologies. Realize ontario's goverments marketing/estimates/etc are based on politcal goals, not neutral assesments of the technologies viabiltiy.

I personally hope they succeed, but so far every SMR project has been overloaded with hype thats manically used to cover up repeated failures. When they get their plant online and working safely at the projected cost, then we will have another great renewable energy source at hand. Until then, its hype and hype alone.

That and brand loyalty. If shopping was just api based, you could have your ai agent just buy X product from wherever when the price was right and never care about the company or marketing or anything.

It would be hugely empowering to be able to make a non website based shopping list and just have "something" sort out all the logistics, biased towards reducing your costs and inconvience, but that is never going to be what even the ai companies are selling. They will funnel you to their "prefered partners" and find every possible way to extract money and attention in the process.

but I think it’s an easy way for LGBT+ folk to not ‘out’ themselves when talking to inconsequential people.

This is why conservatives hate the more general use of "partner." It became a way to out gay people because it became a common coded term to not out themselves.

Using the term to not out yourself was a way to out yourself that is being unwound by common usage of "partner" by everyone.

Costco sells gold now, just as a heads up.

Its dead on, although with a touch of swarthiness. Latin Cumberbatch, maybe, or old Benny after spending a few months sailing the Mediterranean.

A full reverse sear, nice. I think leaving it unconvered overnight is a bit much, as it will form a pellicle, a tacky outer layer. This is good for smoking, but pretty overkill for an everyday steak. Kenji does go hard though.

Honestly just salting, adding to a 250f oven/toaster oven for 20-25 min, then finishing off in a pan for less than a minute on each side is excellent, and doesnt involve waiting a day.

I bet all of the trump docs are not in it.

Crowdsec is absolutetly the way to go. Just be aware you need the engine and what they call a "bouncer" both running, but they have easy instructions about how to install both.