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The popular open source option is www.openbuildspartstore.com Availible via many resellers worldwide and even cloned.


The extrusion profile is Open Source, so not clones.


Does this still create waste that is dangerous for thousands of years?

My understanding is that there is no long term solution for storing dangerous nuclear waste. They try burying it super deep in mountains. But can't be sure that it won't get out in the next few thousands of years.

Everybody watch the documentary "Into Eternity" on the subject. Amazing.


Nuclear waste is somewhat dangerous, but deep inside mountains it won't do any harm barring some kind of black swan event.

Compare the risks of living near a nuclear waste storage facility and living downstream of a hydroelectric dam. I know what I would choose! If you demand absolute certainty over a thousand year period you'll be paralyzed into inaction. Any new technology and any political action could result in the eventual collapse of civilization. But inaction guarantees disaster because the status quo is unsustainable. So we have to make mundane risk/reward evaluations and from those we conclude that we can't do without nuclear energy.


You are comparing the aftermath of a power plant with a plant that is producing energy.

Would you rather live next to an active nuclear power plant or next to an active hydroelectic dam?

There have been cases of increased cancer near nuclear power plants.


The earth is full of uranium, and yet we don't worry about it leaking out.


Are you even serious?


hoping this becomes a sustainable open source project... go Logseq!

For power users... I was specifically looking the feature 'named properties' aka 'key-value pairs'. Which AFAIK is unique to logseq, absent from the other outliners (Roam, Obsidian, Athens...) https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/term%2Fproperties


You can get a similar thing going with frontmatter in Obsidian. But advances features would need custom plugins.


I'd love to know what cost they have put for 100k of storage of nuclear waste. Talk about intergenerational debt. Surely once storage costs are factored into nuclear energy, renewables are much much more cost effective, without all the risks of nuclear waste spilling out at some point in the next 100k years?!?!


> renewables are much much more cost effective

It's not a cost issue, it's an "intermittent and non storable" issue.

We don't need theories just look at Germany right now... Their last two nuclear reactors (max output 4GW) often produce more than their entire sun+wind system (max output 122GW)

https://mobile.twitter.com/fmbreon/status/148058947971495936...


They also have 6 GW of pumped water storage and interconnects to countries with 20GW more, with 8TWh of storage in total.

https://www.hydropower.org/country-profiles/germany


Coops FTW


Great


I used to work at the company which made this popular free app. You code simple drawings. It had a great response with children and non programmer adults https://art.kano.me/


Are there any pledges one could try and get companies to sign up to? Like there is a the 'fair tax mark' in the UK. Is there a similar? e.g. % of profit or revenue donated to open source mark


RIP Aaron Swartz


I'm pro science and evidence. But anti GMO

bad website, but these anti-GMO scientists / academics have compiled a meta review of scientific literature (free pdf and book to buy): http://gmomythsandtruths.earthopensource.org/

there's a short news article that has some of the arguments here https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/genetically-modified-fo...


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