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Arina Theartlavtheartlav@anarres.family
Oct 28, 2026, 11:25 PM
@nikki Hm, no wonder there are no pro-nuclear vampires.
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Billr3wst3r@infosec.exchange
Oct 29, 2026, 12:14 AM
@theartlav @nikki the vampires do all seem to be into coal, oil, and gas...
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Jessejessta@aus.social
Oct 29, 2026, 12:42 AM
@r3wst3r @theartlav @nikki technically coal, oil, and gas are also solar power
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nicknickzoic@aus.social
Oct 29, 2026, 4:47 AM
@jessta @r3wst3r @theartlav @nikki Fission nuclear too. Those heavy elements are from stars which died[*] long before Earth even formed.
[*] details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_nucleosynthesis#r-process_nucleosynthesis
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bencourticebencourtice@aus.social
Oct 29, 2026, 7:19 AM
@jessta @r3wst3r @theartlav @nikki there is very little that's not ultimately solar power. Geothermal, nuclear, tidal (mostly).
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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪villavelius@mastodon.online
Oct 29, 2026, 8:47 AM
@bencourtice @jessta @r3wst3r @theartlav @nikki
That's why pharaoh Akhenaten already declared that the Sun should be the only god to be worshipped. 😊
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Leelooleeloo@c.im
Oct 29, 2026, 9:08 AM
@bencourtice @jessta @r3wst3r @theartlav @nikki
Nuclear is a very low leak battery that was charged by solar power.
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angst-ridden wandererangst_ridden@turtleisland.social
Oct 28, 2026, 11:55 PM
@nikki and yet close enough to cause radiation damage with prolonged exposure! 🤯
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argv[-1]argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
Oct 29, 2026, 4:30 AM
@angst_ridden
The reactor is very, very large.
@nikki
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Pusher of Pixelspixelpusher220@dmv.community
Oct 29, 2026, 7:26 PM
@argv_minus_one @angst_ridden @nikki and the waste is truly safely stored for billions of years
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angst-ridden wandererangst_ridden@turtleisland.social
Oct 29, 2026, 9:15 PM
@pixelpusher220 @argv_minus_one @nikki yes, but I question their long-term commitment to safe storage. Every inquiry seems to indicate they’re just kicking the can down the road, and in a few billion years, we’ll all be stuck in a crisis without a solution.
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Mattforelioned@mastodon.online
Oct 29, 2026, 12:09 AM
@nikki the degree to which solar is nuclear is unclear, depending on the time of day.
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estelleestelle@mstdn.social
Oct 29, 2026, 12:25 AM
@nikki gravitational confinement, that's one of the best confinements there is
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argv[-1]argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
Oct 29, 2026, 4:31 AM
@estelle
Not very portable, though. Can't use it to power a starship.
@nikki
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Daniel Howard 🌻dannyman@sfba.social
Oct 29, 2026, 4:50 AM
@argv_minus_one @estelle @nikki
Solar Sail
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Sashinsashin@veganism.social
Oct 29, 2026, 1:58 AM
@nikki It's fusion at that! Already here!
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Moss (the τεχie) <(fsm)>{{Moss_the_TeXie@rheinneckar.social
Oct 29, 2026, 2:07 AM
@nikki
Not that far, just 8 minutes delivery time.
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Vive LevantVive_Levant@masto.bike
Oct 29, 2026, 2:10 AM
@nikki wind too, except that the secondary fluid running the turbine is air (primary is void, terrible design choice as it’s the worst heat transfer fluid you can think of) displaced by the heating power of a distant fusion reactor.
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Vote for 🗽 & 👩‍⚖️ -No New Inquisition!MissGayle@urbanists.social
Oct 29, 2026, 2:20 AM
@nikki
It's wifi nuclear power.
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decapitaedecapitae@mastodon.social
Oct 29, 2026, 2:33 AM
@nikki It is the fuaion reactor that's already online and providing free energy - why not use it again? 🤷 Fossil fools have almost everyone convinced it's insufficient it seems 🤦
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Esslar2flyhigh@universeodon.com
Oct 29, 2026, 2:36 AM
@nikki Damn, that's good.
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kΔkDelta@ieji.de
Oct 29, 2026, 2:38 AM
@nikki
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Jonathan Lamotheme@social.jlamothe.net
Oct 29, 2026, 3:16 AM
@nikki When you think about it, all power is nuclear power. It just gets stored in various intermediary ways sometimes.
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Ozzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan:ozdreaming@infosec.exchange
Oct 29, 2026, 4:42 AM
@me @nikki fission-based nuclear power is stored supernova power
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bencourticebencourtice@aus.social
Oct 29, 2026, 7:21 AM
@me @nikki tidal? gravitational.
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Jonathan Lamotheme@social.jlamothe.net
Oct 29, 2026, 12:22 PM
@bencourtice @nikki I'll grant you tidal I guess, but how does one make use of gravitational? I've seen it used as a type of storage battery by pumping water up to a high location and then using gravity to release that energy, but that's once again just a way of storing some other energy source.
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bencourticebencourtice@aus.social
Oct 29, 2026, 7:29 PM
@me @nikki Yes, there are tidal turbines in some places, but limited applicability.
Geothermal is partly stored heat from the gravitational accretion of material to form the planet (and partly nuclear, from decay of radioactive isotopes)
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Justinjustin@toot.io
Oct 29, 2026, 3:36 AM
@nikki with the world's longest transmission lines.
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Edelruth, PBS Passport HolderEdelruth@mastodon.online
Oct 29, 2026, 3:57 AM
@nikki
You win all the points.
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diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱dianea@lgbtqia.space
Oct 29, 2026, 4:03 AM
@nikki
Nuclear fusion? I have it on the roof of my house ☢️
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Mark Whybirdwhybird@aus.social
Oct 29, 2026, 4:10 AM
@nikki Nuclear power at a reasonably safe distance (though it still causes radiation burns and cancer at times).
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Scott Michaudscottmichaud@mastodon.gamedev.place
Oct 29, 2026, 4:33 AM
@nikki One day I was talking about renewable materials, and how we're not going to survive as a civilization (on the order of thousands of years) unless we can destroy and remake infinitely.
I was sneakily implying wood (although obviously we'd need to invent beyond that for certain products).
Someone said that we'll never get that before fusion energy.
... ... They weren't wrong. 😅
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croutoncrouton@aus.social
Oct 29, 2026, 4:35 AM
@nikki fossil fuel is yesterday's battery for storing nuclear power. We have better storage technology now.
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Jean-François Mezeijfmezei@cosocial.ca
Oct 29, 2026, 12:01 PM
@crouton @nikki fossil fuels are not stored nuclear power. It is dead living material that has been compressed by lots of ground above it over 60 million years and not exposed to sun. The energy they produce is purely chemical , not nuclear.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''valhalla@social.gl-como.it
Oct 29, 2026, 12:43 PM
@jfmezei @crouton @nikki most of that living material got in a state out of which we can extract energy through chemical reactions enabled by the availability of energy from the sun (thus nuclear power)
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bjb :devuannew: :emacs:bjb@fosstodon.org
Oct 30, 2026, 7:12 AM
@crouton @nikki
Fossil fuel is also captured carbon.
The carbon is already captured. What are we doing by burning - releasing - the captured carbon, and having to recapture it again?!?!? Madness.
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croutoncrouton@aus.social
Oct 30, 2026, 7:14 AM
@bjb @nikki that's a really good point. Should market leaving fossil fuel in the ground as 100% effective carbon capture with zero opex spend.
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Kevin Rigglekevinr@free-dissociation.com
Oct 29, 2026, 4:35 AM
@nikki and fusion!
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argonautargonaut@mastodon.social
Oct 29, 2026, 4:44 AM
@nikki @lisamelton also, the only fusion one we have, yay!!!
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Cameron ThomasThatManCamT@mastodon.social
Oct 29, 2026, 4:47 AM
@nikki I'm glad you found out
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Daniel Howard 🌻dannyman@sfba.social
Oct 29, 2026, 4:48 AM
@nikki How far could it be? I heard the nuclear energy reaches us in around 8 minutes.
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Laurent Cimonclf@bsd.cafe
Oct 29, 2026, 4:59 AM
@nikki much safer this way tbh
We can even say we use a fusion reactor
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Dremmwel ar Vran Ruzdremmwel@eldritch.cafe
Oct 29, 2026, 5:11 AM
@clf
Bah this one will finally explode too 😅
@nikki
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Jonathan Lamotheme@social.jlamothe.net
Oct 29, 2026, 8:04 PM
@clf @nikki Safer, yes, but seemingly not by as much as one might think.
Source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/dea…
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Ada (the moon girl) 🏳️‍⚧️Axolotl1@gaygeek.social
Oct 29, 2026, 5:12 AM
@nikki false. Fusion power involves boiling water /hj
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Oliver Schafeldoliver_schafeld@mastodon.online
Oct 29, 2026, 5:56 AM
German pun:
Fernfusion ist billiger als Kernfusion.
"Far-away fusion" (invented word for solar energy) is cheaper than nuclear fusion.
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Magnus Ahltorpahltorp@mastodon.nu
Oct 29, 2026, 3:29 PM
@oliver_schafeld Telefusion.
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bkknutson_brain@sfba.social
Oct 29, 2026, 6:10 AM
@nikki
and way more powerful, and free...
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neurotropicneurotropic@mstdn.social
Oct 29, 2026, 6:11 AM
@nikki solar should be rebranded as nuclear power collectors
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stfnstfn@mastodon.com.pl
Oct 29, 2026, 6:12 AM
@nikki as the old joke goes:
- how far are we from a working thermonuclear power plant?
- 1 AU
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Die™ar🌈lectrodan@mastodon.social
Oct 29, 2026, 6:19 AM
@nikki time to cancel solarpower then.
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lobingeralobingera@chaos.social
Oct 29, 2026, 6:43 AM
@nikki word!
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Alerta! Alerta!heiglandreas@phpc.social
Oct 29, 2026, 6:56 AM
@nikki In german we have coined the term "Fernfusion". It's a play of words with the german "Kernfusion" which means nuclear fision. "Fern" though means that that is happening far away....
Is there a similar word in english?
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Jack William Belljackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com
Oct 29, 2026, 7:18 AM
@nikki
And the power transmission system doesn't work at night.
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Jenkins. Tom Jenkins. 🤮🤢🤮ewos1986@norden.social
Oct 29, 2026, 7:40 AM
@nikki the waste also stays far away from the neighborhood.
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felixmüdeKflexK@norden.social
Oct 29, 2026, 7:46 AM
@nikki the one safe and reliable fusion reactor available...
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Alex Schroederalex@social.alexschroeder.ch
Oct 29, 2026, 7:47 AM
@nikki My German speaking friends sometimes refer to this with their sticker "Fernfusion? Ja, bitte!" or "Remote fusion? Yes please!". It's a play on the old sticker "Atomkraft? Nein danke" or "Nuclear fission? No thanks."
Example:
https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Fernfusion-Ja-bitte-by-jfinkhaeuser/163498586/7sgk
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ChrisASprinkleofSage@mastodon.social
Oct 29, 2026, 7:49 AM
@nikki today's hottest take
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Charlotte :lotteheartplural:/Cinny :cinny_heart_plural: :thetadelta: :ursaminor: :treblesand: charlotte@akko.chir.rs
Oct 29, 2026, 8:51 AM
@nikki and most other energy sources derive from it too
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phoenix🐧🏕🏞🚀🍝🌈phoenix@chaos.social
Oct 29, 2026, 9:01 AM
@nikki It's also nuclear fusion, not fission, which just sounds wayyy fancier
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