We are talking about dozens of millennia of uranium supply on Earth. Other fuel types and nuclear technologies look to extend that into billions of years. For all functional purposes, it's infinite. Just as solar energy is functionally infinite.
a supply of energy that is practically inexhaustible on the timescale of human civilisation (what people mean when they say renewable)
As I said: Nuclear is Renewable, in the exact same way everyone uses the term.
Never understood why people rebuy Skyrim over and over; obviously you aren't but clearly someone is. Buy it once on Steam and call it a day. (Even works as a handheld on the Steam Deck)
The ISS is one of the most expensive pieces of infrastructure humanity has built, it costs something on the order of $150B. My home I personally paid for, out of my own pocket, and it has 3x the power power supply of the ISS.
How about this. You give me 10% of the cost of the ISS and that datacenter rack, and I'll use the $15,000,000,000 to buy a big AC system to cool the rack. We both make out. You paid 10x less and got 3x as much power capacity, and I got FIFTEEN BILLION DOLLARS to service and maintain a residential sized power line.
you could absolutely launch and operate a space rack with current tech
If you aren't getting what I'm laying down. The issue isn't the technology, the issue is the many orders of magnitude of extra cost.
There is no magic bullet for “move this massive amount of heat somewhere else”
Space does let you dissipate heat via radiation (just not convection or conduction). Space radiators are a well understood and often-used technology.
The problem with space data centers isn't the technology, we have the technology. It's the cost. Everything in space is orders of magnitude more expensive than terrestrially. It's simply not economically feasible to build a data center in space when you can build hundreds for the same cost on Earth.
14 kW of electricity and reject all the waste heat, then the major concern for me is addressed.
This is a tiny amount of power. My house alone has over 3x that (I have 48 kW of electric service). Feeding my house with 48 kW and dissipating the heat is MUCH MUCH MUCH cheaper than doing this on the ISS not once, not twice, but thrice on this ISS....just to achieve what my home achieves right now. And don't think this is some odd amount for a home, this is a basic 200A home service line.
This was me. Hit the update to 11 button because I have always liked new things. About a week later went back to 10, then about a year ago saw the writing on the wall and jumped ship to Mint. Shoulda done it earlier!
Well, they won't be doing any invading for awhile, or ever. Being submerged in winter is lethal without an extremely timely heat source to warm you back up.
I had to set the power profile in Linux to 'power saver' to keep the fans from going nuts. The biggest change is the CPU doesn't boost, but for my purposes that is ok and the quiet is better.
Love to see they are working on making this better.
Abortion doesn't prevent or stop conception. Abortion isn't an 'anti-conception'*. So again, in which state is an 'anti-conception' illegal? None. It's a demonstrably false claim that weakens the fuck out of any point trying to be made.
We are talking about dozens of millennia of uranium supply on Earth. Other fuel types and nuclear technologies look to extend that into billions of years. For all functional purposes, it's infinite. Just as solar energy is functionally infinite.
As I said: Nuclear is Renewable, in the exact same way everyone uses the term.