Agreed. Nuclear is great at providing a constant baseload that renewable energy can supplement. Combine with some form of energy storage to store the excess energy generated and you gain the ability to cope with rapid changes in demand as nuclear has a much slower ramp up/down time. Some countries are doing this already with their battery stores.
Especially in tight carparks, it’s much easier to get both in and out with a large vehicle. Plus you can see much better which on a car with no reverse camera is a big plus.
As one of those Windows admins who uses all of these things, I’d have to say it can’t quite possibly be all of them…
Because that’s how most people are taught.
You can use PowerShell to do more than the GUI can most of the time. Both locally and remotely.
For a small business, a service such as GoogleApps or Microsoft365 is likely going to be a cheaper solution than self hosting this. Plus including productivity applications and cloud storage as part of the package in most instances.
It will be much, much safer as well. If you’re unsure of how to do this, do not do it yourself. Setup a home lab, sure. Use it to learn but do not run your business this way!
Source: Am e-mail admin.
I’ve used it to develop the framework of my code or to do some boilerplate stuff in some instances but I personally wouldn’t want to use it for much else as without understanding what your code does, it could take much longer to fix or expand upon.
Am sysadmin by trade. I started when my manager told me to add 1000 people to a group. This rapidly lead me to learning how to script and build tools for my team…
Then my team leader asked if I could make the tools run from a web site but only using free stuff. So html, js and php followed. MySQL when I wanted to start logging capabilities. 10 years later and now running on Laravel here we are!
I think accessibility is the next big step personally. When you have stuff like StarLink that will give you access basically anywhere in the world. That will be something.
From there I’m not sure what will be the next thing. AI is more of a buzz word than anything at the moment but it certainly is pretty cool to think about. I’d like to think that proper AI assistants will be next but there is a long way before that’s a thing. We have enough trouble at the moment of having ai tell true from false at the moment… (At least last I read)
We have reactors from the 90s, so called generation III reactors, that have passive safety features that make them as safe as we realistically can. These ‘traditional’ designs or more modern gen III+, either are good options to build.
I quite like the ideas that Oklo have put forward with their liquid metal reactors that safe automatically should coolant flow stop. In a similar vein, pebble bed reactors can also offer similar fail-safe systems. Ultimately if they can bridge the gap until we figure out fusion which some very exciting advancements have been made in recently, even if still decades away is still within the life span of current nuclear reactors. Then our possibilities are limitless.
As for a timeframe? Yesterday would be a good start… I think they should have already been built and that much of the scare mongering regarding nuclear energy has in many ways exacerbated our present situation. The inherent fear that people have needs to be reduced before it is even anything more than a pipedream. The reality is that nuclear power takes huge investment and lots of time to build while also being a political football. But at the same time there are very few, if any, renewable sources that can provide as consistent power.