What’s the exclusion zone of rare earth mines ? Of the terrible chemicals required to extract those products ? Same question with the batteries. What’s the impact of the shade on agriculture ? How about all the steel, concrete and composites on the environment, how do they degrade ? Is it in micro plastics ?

I didn’t say nuclear energy was good, just that solar panels are worse. The perfect energy source doesn’t exist but currently all the data I’ve come across points to the direction that nuclear is significantly better than all other renewables and don’t require significant battery storage.

Also if anti-science ecologists hadn’t blocked so many fast neutron reactors, we’d be further along to a tech that can burn existing thorium stockpiles for 8000 years without further mining and while producing significantly less dangerous waste than current reactors. I guess we’ll just buy the design from China and Russia who didn’t stop the research and have currently operating reactors right now.

Even for offshore wind, you gotta add the necessary battery capacity for a reliable power grid…

https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf

I’m using table 1.

PV panels alone produce 43g/kWh, batteries 33.

Nuclear (light-water or pressurized) are at 12.

We’re talking complete life cycle analyses.

This is still more polluting to mine than going nuclear, even accounting for nuclear waste.

You’re right, although I’d be considering narrower cards and maybe blowers. This is a server build, not a main rig. So I’d get a GPU that’s as close as possible to a glorified encoder ad possible and pocket the power savings. I don’t have ac where I live…

If going m-atx, there’d be enough pcie slots to get a cheap SFP+ 10G nic or better, tho…

I’ll look at the jonsbo stuff tho, thanks !

If OP need compactness, maybe micro atx or mini itx could help.

Although I’ve been thinking about doing like that I haven’t found a good cheap compact case for mass HDD storage, pcie expansion for network upgrades and GPU installs…

Maybe check your order history if you bought it online.

Although any lithium battery can catch fire if mishandled… You should still probably look for it.

Parets

So do catenaries, rails, etc…

I’m a little jealous of you guys, but we have mostly maxed out our potential in Europe for hydro power already…

France has taken away electricity subventions a long time ago, they were temporary relief during COVID only.

In fact, there are pretty high taxes here too, just the base cost is lower.

And I started this debate to challenge the notion that all of Europe has Germany’s electrical management issues; they’re the main ones to have failed.

Judges you from French 0.20€/kWh nuclear prices

If only you guys had listened to the science… You’d be gaming AND heating your place for cheap!

And regardless, unless the chip is radically different from what has been observed in currently available RTX 5090s, I don’t see how 2400W can be anything other than a transient spike

That’s why I started my sentence with “In Europe”

In Europe, this is no biggie

I just saw a reputable 2400W kettle on a random online store for 50€

Looks like there are 3000W options too

It happened in this very post, actually. Serves them right for French bashing.

The rest of the time, I’d agree with you, I’ve never done this joke nor condone it.

OMG YOU ACTUALLY DID IT XDDDDDDDDDD

You gotta eat a baguette sandwich with the French cheese of your choice, with a side of French red wine as penance.

Feel free to remove the language pack then, I suppose.

(You’ll lose 50% of the English vocabulary, btw)

If you’re dumb enough to hate the French, you deserve what’s about to happen to you.

Please post it!