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The Blind Squirrel's avatar

This is bloody fantastic, Alex! Give me a shout when you need the last 100k for a Trafalgar-Class!

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The Brawl Street Journal's avatar

Nuclear subs are the OG SMRs!

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John Neil's avatar

one of my mentors is former USN, prof at UT, and has literally worked on a floating reactor barge. My dms are open @jnconkle

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David Johnson's avatar

Quoting Back to the Future: "You know that new pure play you were looking for? Well, listen to this."

https://profanescience.substack.com/p/podcast-episode-3-the-suncell-and

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Alexander Campbell's avatar

Just read the post but sounds like they want to burn hydrogen to make light to be captured by silver panels?

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derek's avatar

I bet Germany will sell theirs so cheap to look good re ESG.

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Alexander Campbell's avatar

oof

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David Johnson's avatar

Great insights. So often just stepping back and doing the math reveals the underlying level of wackiness in which we are immersed.

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John Allard's avatar

Imagine writing this only for it to go stale in less than a few days when o3 / o3-mini benchmarks are released. Nobody from the big labs believes we’re near the top of an S curve when it comes to model intelligence, you’d do well to believe them

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