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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm always amazed about the lack of conversation around nationalizing telecom. We have sasktel as a great example of how it can work, and hydroquebec as a great historical representation of the benefits of publicizing infrastructure. Seems about time to start recognizing internet as a necessary utility that the government directly provides to the people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Actually we both screwed up by a factor of 1000, the article states 190 becquerels of tritium per litre, not cubic meter.

~~Seems like you have the right order of magnitude, but~~ the sources I've seen gives the ocean close to 0.5-2 TU, or "Tritium Units" which correspond to 180 Bq/m^3. ~~So I wouldn't call the water being released as cleaner, just basically on average with the ocean already.~~

https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/fac/etg.tmp/text/woce_method.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969718348034

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is similarly true to a container of gasoline. The difficult part is we've yet to find a battery tech that comes even close to the same energy density. Gasoline has nearly 12000 Wh/kg, compared to the 200-500 mentioned in the article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

$40CAD for a baseball hat is already ~double what I'd normally expect. Plus tax, plus shipping makes it even worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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