you know I had to do this

Why do I (when I search by price) see video projectors on Amazon with a resolution of 320 x 240 ? How is that even a thing?

This refueling video from Destin is excellent. His nuclear submarine series, and this surface reactor series have been a treat youtu.be/v0afQ6w3Bjw

#Nuclear #Thorium #China #钍 #TMSR Media news! 【新闻直播间】科技推动力·钍基熔盐堆建成 我国核能科技实现新突破 www.cas.cn/spx/202511/t... "Thorium-based Molten Salt Reactor Completed, Marking a New Breakthrough in my country's Nuclear Energy Technology" 76 MB vid 7:19 CC @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social via x.com/FissionLiquide

Had one hour in an Apple Store with an iPhone 17 Pro and it wasn’t enough time to fully explore one question: Dual Camera capture, is it 2x 4K or 1080P? Answer: DoubleTake UI is buggy. Says 4K but shoots 1080P. Toggling camera choices gets around the bug.

GPC Green Party of Canada's Elizabeth May is delaying member's vote on nuclear power policies, including a proposal to lift GPC's blanket opposition against #nuclear power. According to United Nations ECE lifecycle report, nuclear is THE single LOWEST-CARBON source of electricity. #cdnpoli

Voted ("NO") on Elizabeth May's continued leadership of GPC in Leadership Review vote, Green Party of Canada. Is May's fault EMay didn't participate in the debate. May's delay of nuclear power policy vote. Excludes 70% of Canadians from running as GPC. Drop-in candidates didn't get 100 sigs.

#Nuclear #Thorium #China #钍 #TMSR CC @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social Sad to see SINAP website in B&W today for mourning... www.sinap.cas.cn/xwzx/zhxw/20... Death notice for Xu Hongji (who headed the TMSR project). He "passed away in Shanghai at 8:15 AM on September 14, 2025, at the age of 70."

AppleCare+ is constant regardless of RAM or SSD storage. iPhone 17 Pro: 256GB or 1TB storage both (AppleCare) $13.49/mo. "That's $1600 CAD or $2200 phone, not a crazy delta!" MBP 16" MAX: $5500 CAD to $10,300. Same $190/yr AC+! One can "budget" to fixed $, but AC+ will be different.

I have lots to say and I am convincing myself to say as little as possible, but I don't think a society that has been absolutely saturated in unavoidable looping videos of snuff films for a decade is one that can hold. Power will and has coalesced around those who best weaponize the snuff films.

CANDU was created to solve a challenge this country faces again today: avoiding dependence on USA nuclear technology. macleans.ca/politics/how...

Univ. of New Brunswick has opened its Advanced Nuclear Reactors Laboratory to accelerate R&D, technical support, and workforce development. Moltex Energy, a UNB research partner for more than 7 years, noted that the facilities are specifically designed to handle molten salts. 1/2

"If we have time, we'll make a copy of the list. In case something happens to the first list." youtu.be/Vooevgm4HIQ?...

Hey @profgalloway.com!

@jonfavs.bsky.social July 11 discussion about Tesla’s commitment to the environment: Integrating Grok with Tesla means integrating gas turbines which help power it. Don’t see how company making batteries and solar panels does that, if environment was a priority.

Trump: "We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He's very nice all the time but it turns out to be meaningless."

Will no one rid me of this meddlesome President of the United States of America?

Like I said, previous Elon back down was only temporary, even when it came to his Epstein tweet that he took down. Like Trump, his basic nature is scorched earth. www.thedailybeast.com//elon-musk-d...

According to Wolff, Trump said, “‘actually, we dropped a dime to The New York Times ... on Elon’s drug taking.” Wolff said he has no idea if someone in Trump’s team was actually the source of that story, but “he is just claiming credit for that now.”

I wish Elon would stop making sense so I did not have to agree with him so much this week.

Update: This is no longer urgent or pertinent to our school.

So so good by @monicahesse.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

MacBook Pro 2012, Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon, and 2 supposedly Mini DisplayPort cables. Only 1 of them fits. What the F is going on? I only had the not-fitting one on-hand at first, and felt like I was losing my mind... it does NOT fit, so what is it? (The other end on both cables is HDMI.)

Apple Turnover: hypercritical.co/2025/05/09/a...

"Canada says YES to building the first #SMR in the Western world. Broadcast of the press conference on the announcement of the Final Investment Decision for Ontario Power Generation." @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=THSA...

#Nuclear #Thorium #China #钍 #TMSR CC @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social It's been way too long since I made a Satellite image video; just found out that browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu will make one for you if you just select the area! Here's the TMSR site from June 2018 to this month :)

🚨 New paper drop Must-read by a stellar group incl. @mliebreich.bsky.social, @iain-staffell.bsky.social H2 isn’t silver bullet it’s made out to be. It has a role—just not everywhere. Best bets: parts of industry, long-haul, storage Not useful: home heating, cars www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#Nuclear #Thorium #China #钍 #TMSR @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social it would be wonderful to get a PDF copy (or better yet, video!) of his presentation. Was titled: 《从上海光源到钍基熔盐堆（追赶、超越三十年）》 "From Shanghai Light Source to Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (Catching up and surpassing for thirty years)"

TIL: BEIR VII discusses the differences between receiving single, acute dose of radiation and multiple smaller doses spread out over time. The committee endorses LNT however, explicitly includes an adjustment for low dose rates spread out over time.

@gordonmcdowell.bsky.social SINAP itself posted www.sinap.cas.cn/xwzx/cmsm/20... about the same event, FINALLY acknowledging explicitly that LF1 was actually running LOL

@conrad.knauer.ca tech.gmw.cn/2025-04/11/c...

I work with companies working on large and companies working on small. You previously on Twitter asked for this type of nuclear discussion but rejected me and other professionals, calling us "advocates", apparently only an issue for nuclear professionals and not for, say, geothermal professionals

@radiantenergyg.bsky.social Any reason www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/us-p... is not linked to from your landing page?

🇨🇦 An application has been filed with Canada’s nuclear regulator to build enormous 4 gigawatt nuclear plant in Alberta The application includes four 1,000MW CANDU MONARK reactors, which are domestically designed and manufactured 🔌💡 iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/document... #cdnpoli

Trying various means to convert PDF to HTML and so-far I'd been missing a very obvious tool: Importing PDF to Microsoft Word. Not at HTML yet, but an (obvious in retrospect) approach to test.

Our friends at Decouple Media with Nick Touran @whatisnuclear.com are diving into an important conversation about radiation—how we talk about it, respect it, and ensure safety while advocating for nuclear energy. Give it a listen and support their work! Watch here: youtu.be/ntH0QUmIJsI?...

Minecraft Movie: kids enjoyed it. I really did not. I have to wonder how a movie like that is made. Whatever the process is, the process is wrong. Could have been good. (For me.) would have cost the same to make.

Nissan Versa sunroof stuck? Here's how I used Allen Wrench to manually close it. (And lubricate it so as-to unstick it.) Plastic was broken! Useless, pointless plastic. Get the hell out-of-my-way plastic. DIE PLASTIC DIE plastic. Anyway, our 2010 Nissan Versa sunroof was stuck, this was a fix.

Oh damn. www.reuters.com/world/china-... CC @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social if only someone had known about this problem in advance 🙄 gordonmcdowell.com/tag/rare-ear...

Wow.

Asking ChatGPT 4.5 to translate PDF into HTML. Feel like I'm bringing a knife to a gunfight, as exciting as it was for a while. United Nations ECE Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation Options. I want that as HTML. What do you recommend? (Short of UN sharing withe me the DOCX? Please?)

Tonight: Human lives + all the good things Musk has ever done and could ever possibly do going forward are at stake. Remember good old days when a crewed launch was only human lives? That was already gut churning. Expanded stakes for every crewed launch, forever. This is the first one.

HOUSTON: Tech giants are joining together with heavy energy users to support the Triple Nuclear by 2050 pledge. Just announced, with the signing event later today at the CERAWeek global energy conference. Everyone is realizing that, in the end, we are all baseload.

“Used Cars” is an 1980 movie starring Kurt Russell which I’ve never yet watched. For some reason it popped into my head today. /s Apple rents it but does not sell it. I’ve never seen that before for any not-brand-new movie. tv.apple.com/ca/movie/use... I’m in Canada, if that is the reason.

I enjoyed listening to another amazing Decouple podcast episode with Prof Koroush Shirvan from MIT talking about nuclear fuel costs. This is a "must-listen" for all of us trying to make reactors really cheap. www.decouple.media/p/fuel-for-t...

We know what the most persuasive things to say are. We just don't know how to make people hear those things. There is a gap between statements which persuade people, and statements which drive engagement and are heard.

🇨🇦 If you are a Canadian interested in cutting off dependency on America, I highly recommend you give this report from Canadians For Nuclear Energy a read. "The Case for CANDU" You all are sitting on treasure up there. #onpoli #capoli www.canfornuclearenergy.org/the-case-for...

#Nuclear #Thorium #China #钍 #TMSR @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social China Central TV segment; downloaded w/ yt-dlp: 2:06 1280×720 H.265/AAC MP4 5.2 MB 甘肃武威钍基熔盐堆即将建成小型实验堆 v.qq.com/x/page/d3549... "Gansu Wuwei Thorium-based Molten Salt Reactor to be built into a small experimental reactor" (May 13, 2024)

#Nuclear #Thorium #China #钍 #TMSR www.gen-4.org/resources/we... HT @ffnuclear.bsky.social CC @gordonmcdowell.bsky.social

Generation IV International Forum (GIF) webinar 97 materials are now available. This presentation has two important elements. One, a global review of molten salt reactor R&D. Two, news that China's TMSR-LF1 molten-salt reactor ran at full power for 10 days in 2024, with thorium in the fuel mix. 1/3