Report: German soft power has worked for decades to undermine nuclear energy in France, "to prevent French industry from ... gaining a competitive advantage"
Report: German soft power has worked for decades to undermine nuclear energy in France, "to prevent French industry from ... gaining a competitive advantage"
A friend points me to this remarkable article in the French centre-right news magazine L’Express, on Germany’s increasingly unwelcome soft-power efforts to undermine French energy policy: Their names are Rosa Luxemburg and Heinrich Böll. These German political foundations don’t make the headlines, but they’re deliberately undermining the French nuclear industry according to
Ok, let’s all make believe that Europe, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand all miraculously become totally carbon neutral at some point in the future. BFD - with the rest of the planet not pursuing such an idiotic policy, what difference will it make to holy Gaia? In the world of reality, it won’t mean a damn thing in the least. In darker moments, I find myself wishing for these insane cultists to be returned to a time of belching smokestacks, blue exhaust emitting autos and chemically infused oceans, rivers and lakes so that even their low iq feeble minds might just possibly realize things ain’t anywhere near so bad these days.
Funny thing is that even if the world went 100% nuclear energy tomorrow, it wouldn't impact global air temperatures. Yes, air quality would be far cleaner and we would have abundant, dirt cheap electricity but CO2 is not the antecedent to rising temperatures - that hypothesis has been shown to predict precisely ZERO outcomes in the last 30 years. Debunked itself. Solar activity is the primary driver of rising or falling average global temps with clouds and water vapour also contributing. We're actually staring down the barrel of a Grand Solar Minimum based on recent decreasing solar activity and it's more about how severe it could be is the issue.
If some scientists are correct, cooling starts next year and society will steadily get cooler. Humans can readily deal with heat but not cold. If the science is correct, we may wish for those awful nuclear plants. We can hope the modular factory built small reactors can be developed in time. Distributed smart grids may allow networking of smaller facilities which may be less efficient in $/kW but more adaptable to locales. The large plants take ~ 10 years to build.
The Greenies, at least those at the top, don't care because "saving the planet" is not the goal (and the planet doesn't need saving anyway and they know it). As far as the watermelon greens (red on the inside) are concerned, having noncompliant countries is a plus as it enables them to keep the scam going forever. Heck, being noncompliant may be part of the plan.
>with the rest of the planet not pursuing such an idiotic policy, what difference will it make to holy Gaia?
This argument again. It's the appeal to the urge to defect in a prisoner's dilemma. What if Japan continues hunting whales, while we stop? What if China continues releasing CFC's, while we stop?
>things ain’t anywhere near so bad these days.
Yeah that's the exact problem. The problem kicks in when the people who caused it are (almost) dead.
The argument is valid. The bulk of emissions will be coming from the burgeoning expansion of energy consumption in the Developing World. Any serious effort to reduce emissions must include that. Western countries have been declining in their emissions.
Sad fact, China, India the big two could EASILY have avoided their massive emissions growth by focusing on a rapid nuclear expansion instead of using coal, France did it, the USA did it. The real by-far-and-away sin of Western nations is by not aggressively promoting nuclear power. Developing Nations were stifled and blocked from using their energy investment on nuclear instead of coal. Greenies are the direct cause of climate change. It is entirely on their shoulders. They need to be held to account.
In Canada there are huge wild fires ,from coast to coast .The sky is an orange smoke filled color that no carbon tax can eliminate .Trudeau just announced a new carbon tax on top of the ones we already have for quite some time ,that will clear the sky and stop the fires .??
That's a good point. Some good forest management would go a long way to reducing all that pollution + GHG emissions caused by forest neglect. And what's with the widely spread fires in Quebec that started simultaneously as viewed on satellite imagery? Another little narrative building exercise by the Malthusian Psychos who run things.
Canada Under ATTACK? Wildfires IGNITE Simultaneously in CLEARSKIES:
>could EASILY have avoided their massive emissions growth by focusing on a rapid nuclear expansion instead of using coal
One weird trick to stop emissions!
The climate crisis is ultimately just a symptom of the bigger crisis, which is the anthropocene, that is, the domination of the planet's terrestrial surface by human activity. If you were to solve the climate crisis with a new technofix and continued with business as usual, you would eventually just run into other sustainability problems a few decades later (groundwater depletion, soil erosion, peak phosphorus etc).
The only real way this could have been prevented is through degrowth policies that reduce our overall demands on the biosphere:
-Below replacement fertility rates (ie legal abortion in sub-Saharan Africa)
-Plant based diets
-Negative economic growth
But people just don't seem to want that. And so what they get is ecological overshoot instead, which results in mass death.
The evidence overwhelmingly does not support the DeGrowth dogma. BTW Degrowth is a type of techno-fix. If you ever did really try to institute your "negative economic growth" "plant based diets" etc you would have to come up with techno-fixes galore in a desperate attempt to make the whole thing work. A futile effort, in the end it is doomed to failure.
The ONLY resource you really need is energy. If you have plentiful energy you can recycle everything else including water. Fortunately we have a 100Myr supply of uranium & thorium for fission energy, just on the accessible Earth land mass. That's for a high standard of living for 12B people. And deuterium for fusion energy we have easily billions of years supply on Earth. A liter of ordinary water has enough deuterium in it, if fused to Helium would produce the energy of 300 liters of oil.
Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet Hardcover – Aug. 31 2022
by Marian L. Tupy (Author), Gale L. Pooley (Author), & 1 more
"...After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services spanning two centuries, Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. That was especially true when they looked at “time prices,” which represent the length of time that people must work to buy something.
To their surprise, the authors also found that resource abundance increased faster than the population―a relationship that they call “superabundance.” On average, every additional human being created more value than he or she consumed. This relationship between population growth and abundance is deeply counterintuitive, yet it is true..."
>If you ever did really try to institute your "negative economic growth" "plant based diets" etc you would have to come up with techno-fixes galore in a desperate attempt to make the whole thing work.
Negative economic growth is just what you get when people consume less and accept lower standards of material wealth. Doesn't take much complexity.
Plant based diets are what most Indians and Africans have today, what East Asians had until recently and what Europeans had before WWII.
It's not complex.
It just requires Westoids to stop being decadent and accept the world does not revolve around human needs. Anthropocentrism just results in you getting wiped out like any other species that exhausts its niche.
>Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet Hardcover – Aug. 31 2022
Yeah here's the problem you run into.
If your silicon valley style libertarian technerd utopia could work (funfact, you want the same thing as Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Kurzweil etc), it wouldn't just be profoundly ugly, meaningless and existentially empty.
It would raise another problem too: If there's some glorious future ahead with trillions of people, or if we could keep the status quo going for thousands of years, isn't it strange that we find ourselves living in our era, rather than the Star Trek utopia? Seems like a weird coincidence to me. Statistically speaking you will generally just find yourself at the peak of human complexity. The reason you and me can have this conversation today is because our era creates plenty of opportunity for humans to communicate through the Internet. If such opportunity existed for thousands of years to come, it would be strangely coincidental for us to be doing it now.
>And deuterium for fusion energy we have easily billions of years supply on Earth. A liter of ordinary water has enough deuterium in it, if fused to Helium would produce the energy of 300 liters of oil.
Yeah the problem is not deuterium. It's tritium. They've been trying the nuclear fusion thing for 70 years now. I'm amazed there are still people who can be fooled by it.
>The ONLY resource you really need is energy. If you have plentiful energy you can recycle everything else including water.
If you somehow had abundant energy you would just quite rapidly run into the next problem, which is that you'll be stuck in your own waste heat. France is already running into this problem: They can't dump the waste heat in the rivers.
The nice thing about our comfort is that rich places stop reproducing. Maybe it's being selfish to not want children, but nearly everywhere populations are declining. Been an issue in Japan for some time and China is now facing it. The task may be for the wealthy nations to figure out how to educate migrants so there will be somebody who can fix the cell towers.
Maybe of consequence is the cultural issues where the Indo-European stock with a propensity to innovate begin to fade away. Those risk takers are culturally somewhat unique.
Even since the Council of Rome (70's?), we have heard that we will run out of everything. So far, technology has found ever increasing energy sources and we haven't even begun with nuclear nor hydrogen. Vertical self-contained farms can produce veggies galore although we aren't sure of their nutritional value. Many are adopting sustainable ag using little pesticide, robots, targeted fertilizer in sensor equipped fields adding grazing animals to refresh the soil.
What really limits us to adapt and adopt these solutions lies at government's feet with their attempt to control everything. Capital gets squandered via financial engineering that increases the wealth gap driven by government policy. Regulations that ensure newcomers can't get started. The power that corporations hold over politicians.
These bad covid shots may accomplish much of that. What with bad manufacture/distribution, and possibly targeted delivery, they seem underpowered. The other vaccines just seem to cause various life-long maladies, many of which increase ecological burdens.
No. The fate of the traitor is never happy, even if they live.
Game theory and The Prisoners Dilemma are Cold War fantasies conjured up by paranoid academics rationalizing betraying each other to the FBI or US ASA (Army Security Agency).
Nash’s equilibrium is the mathematical expression of schizophrenia.
Go old school, but if you betray at least know it’s betrayal.
I always thought all lifeforms are carbon based ,including plants .I understand the wish of the elite that life on Mars will be nirvana once we all relocate there .since life on earth is unbearable with all that carbon around ..
There is no prisoner's dilemma, because there is no climate crisis or even a slight danger of it.
The big growing industrial countries (BRICS+) know that, and this why they are continuously increasing their energy production, mainly from fossile fuel.
Every last reachable molecule of fossile fuel will be turned into energy, and if we don't do it, then China has a few months-worth more oil and coal to burn.
I know ,I was only teasing you .After years of insanity one tends to become a bit of a comedian .If you like ,you can answer my comments in German ,because ich spreche deutsch .JOE
Except the Elephants in Africa have to be culled because they are reproducing off the charts.
If you still believe that Oil is derived from ancient plant and life forms (ie = 'fossil') then you are truly as ignorant as you sound. The abiotic creation of oil has been proven and known for the last 100 years, but it does not fit the profits of the oil corporations to acknowledge the truth.
We shall also be seeing the return of the Net Zero surcharge of £170 per year, to add to the rapidly growing inflationary pressures and the inmates running the asylum are planning to decommission the one remaing coal fired station next year.
Meanwhile the Great Covid Farce continues as today The Sturgeonator took the opportunity to blame everything on Brexit, and by default, Westminster: the lockdown here was stringently enforced, with complusory masking, senseless duatribes about zero covid and crazy Nats in hazmat suits threatening English drivers at the border.
Of course the Nats are fervent advocates of Net Zero, even more so than the enthusiasts in Westminster, so turbulent times ahead.
Finally Thames Water is threatened with nationalisation: many homes without water, hosepipe bans, sewage discharges and millions of litres lost from leaky pipes.
Demand is rising steadily but no one in our dysfunctional establishment will acknowledge the vast increase in demand resulting from mass legal and illegal migration, which is likely to continue as judges have just ruled against the Rwanda plans.
Truly we are completely and utterly f...ked; the decay is gathering and all we get are soundbites and delusional Net Zero commitments.
Note that globally we have quite the resurgence in interest in nuclear energy since the last year. Nuclear analysts expect a big increase in the number of nuclear power plants, and the price for Uran and stocks of Uran miners have risen quite dramatically.
Even Germany's direct neighbors France or Poland build new plants, or go back to nuclear, Sweden.
It is becoming hard for me not to think that there are forces at play who want to actively hurt Germany's economy and society.
Germans are brought up hating their own country and the fact that they are German. It's called 'Erinnerungskultur'. I'm convinced this national mental disorder of 'Schuld' lies at the heart of much of our problems. This only applies to the 'educated' class though, academics and the sorts
“Atrocity propaganda is how we won the war. And we’re only really beginning with it now! We will continue this atrocity propaganda, we will escalate it until nobody will accept even a good word from the Germans, until all the sympathy they may still have abroad will have been destroyed and they themselves will be so confused that they will no longer know what they are doing. Once that has been achieved, once they begin to run down their own country and their own people, not reluctantly but with eagerness to please the victors, only then will our victory be complete. It will never be final. Re-education needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again – those indestructible weeds of historical truth.” - Sefton Delmer, 1904-1979, former British Chief of Black propaganda, said after the German surrender, in 1945, in a conversation with the German professor of international law, Dr. Friedrich Grimm
This sounds a lot like our current government. Especially the greens. One of them in our government apparently even explicitly said he is of the opinion Germany needs to serve the United States.
It's sickening. They should be serving their constituents.
As an American, I would point out that Germans have been remarkably candid about their past. (Come over here and question the ethics of the a-bombs; see how well THAT goes over.)
We're trying, but the EU/Germany is lobbying hard against our politicians to get them to drop any attempt.
Couple of weeks ago, leader of the Christian Democrat Party Ebba Busch-Thor switched from being pro-restarting a couple of stepped-down reactors as well as building new modern ones á la Finland, to...
...being fully anti-nuclear, pro chinese-owned windpower that would wipe out fishing banks.
What happened? Busch-Thor met up with von der Leyen, the teeny-tiny Christian Democrat Party being able to tip the vote against nuclear.
🇺🇸 government decided to handle the populist uprising in America and Europe by crushing the Imperial subject’s foreign and domestic with COVID and Ukraine sanctions, and Green energy (the only energy in Green is money 💴). Just in case we’re doubting who’s in charge 🌈 has title to your children as well.
So yes someone 🇺🇸 is smashing Europe, in particular 🇩🇪 because 👃 they’ll hate you eternally and 🇬🇧 for Brexit. Cold, hungry people are easier to control.
Or kill.
We 🇺🇸 on the other hand are re-industrializing under the rubric of COVID and War. At your 🇩🇪🇬🇧 expense.
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Do they genuinely believe that they can power Europe entirely through solar and wind? Do they not spend two seconds thinking how even if they could, it won't make much difference compared to two billion Chinese, two billion Indians, and a billion Africans? I thought even Bill Gates was trying to fund small nuclear power plants, when he wasn't farting around the globe peddling vaccines.
It really seems like their goal, even if not consciously articulated, is depopulation and deindustrialization (for the poors, obviously; the NGO bureaucrats still need their private jets for their climate summits). But again, do they think China and India are going to peacefully go along with this plan, depopulate themselves, and reduce their own strategic advantage?
>But again, do they think China and India are going to peacefully go along with this plan, depopulate themselves
Don't worry. There won't be a lot of Indians left once the rivers run dry and the groundwater is depleted. LSWMs always seem to think this is all some sort of big plot against the West. In reality, it's more akin to a big plot by the West against the poorest countries on the globe.
The West got away with screwing everyone else over: We released the fossil carbon beneath our feet, achieved economic development with it, most of the impact will be felt in the developing world and we used up what room there was left to stay beneath two degree, room that those nations needed to pursue economic development of their own.
The only reason the rivers would run dry and groundwater be depleted is if our governments are run by Bankster DeGrowthers or Greenie techno-tards. That happens when you don't properly use readily available tech to ensure minimal impact of humans on the environment. Like recycling water. Like storing seasonal heavy rainfall i.e. monsoons. Like more efficient water use in agriculture, methods that are 10X more water efficient are now available.
Zero population growth is also desirable and that is already happening. Should be no problem.
What if the model IS The Great Leap Forward? Which sucked everyone into going along with a delusion? Mao said the great revolution and his magnificence would create huge crop yields, so everyone everywhere had to send the "extra" of the huge crop yields to the government, which led to millions and millions starving. Also, magically, the pig iron in rakes and shovels was to be melted into steel in backyard forges. Would happen magically. Then came the Cultural Revolution.
Many facets of this attack on us and our sovereign nations, but look at Sri Lanka, not a cautionary tale to them, probably exactly what they intended. They intend this delusion and the wreckage and the illness and death. It is the only conclusion I can see, Hanlon's Razor notwithstanding.
Demand management aka rationing: we shall endure more of this as Net Zero delusions collide with the inevitable consequences of mass migration.
The idiots in charge are so reluctant to prevent the incursions that demand management will be their way of squaring the circle; desperately dangerous and utterly deranged.
Bring back manual transmissions. They're more efficient and easier to maintain. Require a medical prescription for purchase of a new automatic transmission. And quit putting rhodium in catalytic converters, while setting the fuel-air mix for optimal efficiency. NOx is free fertilizer. What do lightning strokes through air accomplish?
agree. I live in Northern Virginia and they spent a fortune building the Silver Line into Loudoun County. No one is riding those metro cars. No one works in DC or in the cities closer in anymore. yes, they want to and ARE indeed building little "pocket cities" with limited parking even!! If you want to venture to other places, well, there is the bus, or go find your car parked where ever you last parked it. It might still be there, but now that Calm normal Loudoun County is connected to the DC Metro..... we get the thieves and criminals that live closer in to the city. .
Most people work from home, or near their home.
Passing by the metro stations on our way back from Chantilly, we looked at the parking garages and parking lots, not many cars, and the trains are barely full. What a stupid waste of money.
Don't forget big pharma drugs; the neuro-toxicity slows down metabolism and adds to the problems. Exercise still helps to burn calories but walking to the fridge to get a beer won't help much!
“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”
While Kernkraft (nuclear power) could certainly be improved in both safety and efficiency, and switched from uranium to primarily thorium (produces very little transuranium actinide waste; mostly just the very valuable plutonium-238), it ought to be utilized far more than it is at present.
Germany will learn the hard way that wind and solar are ineffective baseload energy sources. Thyssen and Phoenix will collapse with just wind and solar. As goes Thyssen and Phoenix, so goes Germany.
The German Volk have a long history of worshipping the gods of Nature. It is why ‘Green’ is venerated and deep-seated in the German psyche and why industrialisation is blasphemy and an offence to the gods for which Human sacrifice must be made to atone and appease. Alas it has been Germany’s top export.
I used to work at a nuclear power generating facility. It has been online since 1984. It was built based upon 1960’s level technology. It still operates just fine.
Building these plants is expensive but much of that expense is due to heavy regulation. Not to mention how far behind we (the West and America specifically) are in R&D with alternate designs and fuels.
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I'd like to add a little to the American influence on Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. I saw the exact same thing happen at the Dutch Greens (Groen Links) two decades ago when I was a part of that party.
In the early 2000's Washington decided to use the pacifist Dutch Greens (Groen Links) to 'massage' the unwilling Netherlands into the disastrous war in Afghanistan. Considering that Groen Links was deeply pacifist at the time this was quite a nasty political coup against the will of the members. The party leader who pulled of this stunt was rewarded with the position as mayor of Amsterdam years later. Of course she will not see this as the quid pro quo that it obviously is.
Following its success in corrupting the Dutch Greens, Washington now set its eyes on Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. Over the years I saw the same nefarious scenario unfold across my border, little by little Green idealism was replaced by American Green neo-liberal dogmas. By now I seriously question who is pulling the string at Bündnis 90/Die Grünen.
The notion that Washington is using US based NGO's to de-industrialize Germany and Europe at large is not that far fetched. Washington has been using NGO's ( more correctly Government Operated NGO's or GONGO's) to great effect across the globe to further its agenda.
As to Europe - It's decision making class, both politicians an bureaucrats, are completely under the control of Washington. Germany's environmentalists are no exception. Nobody in a position of power dares to speak out against or complain loudly about the Americans. Much to the detriment of Europe and its people.
Which US-based group or groups of people could have it in for the european nations, promoting what amounts to destruction of industry, infrastructure and genocide-via-migration?
Not the least are issues related to managing intermittent power flows. In order to deliver power there must be thermal plants to manage demand. This is a non-trivial issue when needed at scale. Power managers must be warning politicians regularly but obviously some think power just arrives at a wall socket, magically.
Oh that’s easy. You use the ‘spare’ wind and solar power to extract hydrogen (the new wundersustainable), which you store (because that’s so easy and cheap) and use in thermal plants when wind and solar cannot supply. True enough, you do need a huge over-provision of wind and solar to be able to produce the electricity to extract the hydrogen when wind and solar are supplying the grid, but that’s just a detail we don’t have to bother with - it’s the theory that counts not the practicality... and Saving the Planet™️ . Bonus: hydrogen when combusted in air only produces water vapour, which is the most significant ‘greenhouse’ gas without which the Earth would freeze, so that’s preferable to CO2 whose ‘greenhouse’ effect is so small it cannot be measured... Oh! Well never mind.
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The public's ignorance is relative, hence the 70+ year effort to destroy their education. A supremely ignorant public is easily victimized by even the most ridiculous pap, like "my mask protects you, and your mask protects me!"
You can't get rid of snake oil salesmen, they will always be there. The only thing you can do is armor people against snake oil. Unfortunately, your enemy has a 7 decade head start.
I understand all the arguments for nuclear as the cleanest way to generate energy.
What I don't understand is how cooling pools where the spent fuel must sit for years are not a serious risk. We can't even stop oil spills and coal car train derailments, and I am to believe there's almost no chance of radioactive water, by any variety of mishaps, escaping and eventually contaminating surface or aquifer water supplies?
Ask me how shocked I was to learn about the EU standards for radioactivity in berries and how the berry-pickers of Chernobyl just put a hot berry or two in each little punnet to keep the readings under alarm levels. So much for me buying any more imported jam!
Waste storage methods like vitrification I can understand as reasonable. But water, it goes everywhere when it escapes. Please make me understand why the nuclear industry can be trusted to employ fewer morons than found everywhere these days.
You can swim in the spent fuel pool water. The water does not become radioactive. There may be minute amounts of some short lived volatile isotopes that get in the water but that is trivial. I'm not exaggerating to say there are easily a million times more dangerous various wastes that openly contaminate our environment than spent fuel water, even if somehow the seismically protected six foot thick concrete & steel pool leaked.
Why this INSANE focus on nuclear radiation? You know radiation is a mild carcinogen? You are getting blasted 5000 times/sec by natural radioactive decay in your own body like K-40, a strong beta & gamma emitter. The fumes from the gasoline hose you fill your car with are far more dangerous to you. Do you worry about them?
>You can swim in the spent fuel pool water. The water does not become radioactive. There may be minute amounts of some short lived volatile isotopes that get in the water but that is trivial.
This is knocking down a strawman. The problem is what happens when for whatever reason the spent fuel isn't being cooled. That's when they start spraying all sorts of crap.
It ain't a strawman, He was bemoaning a possible water leak contamination from a SNF pool. It ain't a significant issue.
A LOCA or loss of cooling accident in a SNF pool is another matter. If the fuel is fresh i.e. <1yr old, there could be significant radiation leakage. Why would anyone let a SNF pool go empty? A garden hose of water would do the job. If by some bizarre reason, like a meteorite strike or total war happened, the localized radiation leak would be trivial compared to whatever caused the event. The SNF ain't going to melt down, it will get hot, and leak some volatiles like Cs-137, I-131, Xe-135. It is highly unlikely it would kill anyone.
“After the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a nuclear power critic estimated that 1 million cancer cases, half of them fatal, would occur. A less hysterical estimate was 5,000 to 10,000 Chernobyl-linked cancer deaths. Reality has been quite different. The UN recently reported that about 1,800 children developed treatable thyroid cancer and that "with this exception, there is no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality or in nonmalignant disorders that could be related to radiation exposure."
(The Chernobyl plant's crude design would never be approved in the U.S. anyway.”) -
Steven Milloy (creator of www.junk.com), Friday, May 25, 2001
Ah the wonderful NHS. I had a large cyst on the back of my neck, went to doctor, "oh no too big for me, you have to see a specialist."
Phone specialist, first appointment 8 weeks. Go home and decide to fix it myself. Hot water bottles an pressure and hey presto, cyst disappears. 8 weeks later the hospital phones to confirm and I tell them not to bother as the Cyst has taken care of itself. I am told that if I do not keep the appointment the hospital will not allow me to be treated or enter there ever.
Finishing the conversation with "That's fine by me you useless bastards." probably didn't win me any friends either
Easily hundreds of other things you do that are vastly more dangerous to you than any spent fuel pool water leak would ever be. Like riding your bicycle through a city breathing all the fumes from auto exhaust and furnace flue gases.
Are the Pfizer injected a hazard on the roads ? I never had so many close call while driving than in the last few years .The electric car drivers seem to be dangerous .They need to drive fast as hell before the juice runs out .
Hard to say whether their prevalence have increased since the Jabracadabra. Seems like it, but I don't claim to have compiled comprehensive statistics. Those brain microclots can't be good, however.
1) Make the pool deep enough (in-ground, so a wall breach will have little effect), it won't evaporate in any reasonable time before replacement water can be brought in.
2) Have it fully oxidized so it can't burn, and remove things like iodine-129. Perhaps persistent solubles like caesium-134 and 137, too.
#1 won't help you when the Russians take over the power plant. They can just pump the water out.
The Zaporizhzhia power plant is now just a fallback option for Russia if Ukraine seriously begins gaining territory. Wait for the wind to blow in the right direction and they can just render vast swathes of land uninhabitable, for generations to come. A nuclear power plant just becomes an undetonated dirty bomb in the hands of an adversary.
SNF ain't going to catch fire. That is utter nonsense Fear Porn invented by the wealthy anti-nuke crowd (you know the ones who refuse to tell us where they get their hundreds of $millions/yr in funding from).
It ain't even going to melt down. If it gets hot some volatile isotopes will be released, local contamination. Not likely harm anyone.
Why on Earth would Russia bother using the Zaporizhzhia NPP as a Radiological Bomb? You know that is a WMD weapon release, legally the same as using a nuclear bomb. Russia could easily make vastly superior radiological bombs using common medical or industrial isotopes like Cobalt-60. And direct the radiation exactly where it would do the most damage, like Kiev. Or just nuke Kiev, same crime. They have +10,000 nuclear weapons they can use.
Zaporizhzhia NPP is just more Fear Porn coming from the same hundreds of $million/yr anti-nuke NGO's who won't tell us where their money comes from. Notice the Greens in Germany, Nuclear Power Fear Porn specialists, could care less about how the NATO proxy war in Ukraine could easily lead to Global World Nuclear War. That's not a risk, No-siree Bob, nothing to worry about there.
>Why on Earth would Russia bother using the Zaporizhzhia NPP as a Radiological Bomb? You know that is a WMD weapon release, legally the same as using a nuclear bomb. Russia could easily make vastly superior radiological bombs using common medical or industrial isotopes like Cobalt-60.
With a nuclear power plant, you have plausible deniability. "someone" shelled the plant. But who was it? Good luck proving it.
>Russia could easily make vastly superior radiological bombs using common medical or industrial isotopes like Cobalt-60.
If you're caught manufacturing a weapon like that, there will be some diplomatic fallout.
Shelling the NPP would do a lot of expensive damage, a drop in the bucket compared to what this insane Bankster war is costing. Not much else beyond that.
They've already easily murdered over 500,000 people with their "Fun War, gotta beat those dirty Ruskis". The core and SNF ponds are likely easy to keep cooled even if the containment building is damaged. At worst you might have a Fukushima = zero deaths, mild radioactive contamination, less radiation anywhere outside the plant gates than a popular beach in Brazil.
Welcome to the history of human conflict. Representative democracy reins in nothing, really.
I'm as pissed about it as you are. But I'm not exactly surprised that gangs of the powerful want to push everyone else around.
There's a reason why nation-states grew up along ethnic, linguistic and cultural boundaries. The happy little fantasy after 1945 that the West could become one great big special interest group of its own--regardless of the competing interests of each group within it--has proven to be unrealistic nonsense just as all those alliances of the crowned heads of Europe were in the way back whens.
People can't even manage to get along in HOAs. They always form different cultural enclaves in every big city. People can't stand it when someone with different culinary traditions moves into a building and perfumes the hallways with enticing aromas that inevitably will make some of the other residents gag.
Nothing unique is happening. The climate cults and the plague cults are like every other cult before them--full of true believers who always tend, in one way or another, to be batshit crazy.
In the final analysis, it is a question of whether German industry will find a way to adapt, or whether Europe will go tbe way of the middle kingdom. I'm thinking we are just living the wrong generation, and our kids will know better. I hope
yes, rosa-luxemburg-stiftung doesn't seem to as active in green climate advocacy as other orgs, but the report authors are mad about an anti-Uranium propaganda pamphlet they published in cooperation with some other groups, including the Ministry for Economic Development
"At least some of the German organisations promoting anti-nuclear ideology in France probably do have devious motives related to undermining French nuclear power generation
Better devious than foolish. At least they understand the damage they are advocating. That offers a faint ray of hope that reason may someday prevail. For the tree-hugger fools, there is no hope whatever.
Quite. Evil doers are at least rational and act for a reason which delivers them some benefit; stupids are irrational and just act with no particular benefit as the aim. Dealing with rational people is far easier than dealing with irrational people.
Ok, let’s all make believe that Europe, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand all miraculously become totally carbon neutral at some point in the future. BFD - with the rest of the planet not pursuing such an idiotic policy, what difference will it make to holy Gaia? In the world of reality, it won’t mean a damn thing in the least. In darker moments, I find myself wishing for these insane cultists to be returned to a time of belching smokestacks, blue exhaust emitting autos and chemically infused oceans, rivers and lakes so that even their low iq feeble minds might just possibly realize things ain’t anywhere near so bad these days.
How about sending them to explore the inside of an active volcano .It would teach them ,how the earth really works .
Funny thing is that even if the world went 100% nuclear energy tomorrow, it wouldn't impact global air temperatures. Yes, air quality would be far cleaner and we would have abundant, dirt cheap electricity but CO2 is not the antecedent to rising temperatures - that hypothesis has been shown to predict precisely ZERO outcomes in the last 30 years. Debunked itself. Solar activity is the primary driver of rising or falling average global temps with clouds and water vapour also contributing. We're actually staring down the barrel of a Grand Solar Minimum based on recent decreasing solar activity and it's more about how severe it could be is the issue.
If some scientists are correct, cooling starts next year and society will steadily get cooler. Humans can readily deal with heat but not cold. If the science is correct, we may wish for those awful nuclear plants. We can hope the modular factory built small reactors can be developed in time. Distributed smart grids may allow networking of smaller facilities which may be less efficient in $/kW but more adaptable to locales. The large plants take ~ 10 years to build.
100%. SMRs will need a rapid deployment to avoid famine and extreme cold temps.
Not sure we will be ready in time. Sad.
Tectonics also play a large role
"... what difference will it make to holy Gaia?'
The Greenies, at least those at the top, don't care because "saving the planet" is not the goal (and the planet doesn't need saving anyway and they know it). As far as the watermelon greens (red on the inside) are concerned, having noncompliant countries is a plus as it enables them to keep the scam going forever. Heck, being noncompliant may be part of the plan.
Well said
>with the rest of the planet not pursuing such an idiotic policy, what difference will it make to holy Gaia?
This argument again. It's the appeal to the urge to defect in a prisoner's dilemma. What if Japan continues hunting whales, while we stop? What if China continues releasing CFC's, while we stop?
>things ain’t anywhere near so bad these days.
Yeah that's the exact problem. The problem kicks in when the people who caused it are (almost) dead.
The argument is valid. The bulk of emissions will be coming from the burgeoning expansion of energy consumption in the Developing World. Any serious effort to reduce emissions must include that. Western countries have been declining in their emissions.
Sad fact, China, India the big two could EASILY have avoided their massive emissions growth by focusing on a rapid nuclear expansion instead of using coal, France did it, the USA did it. The real by-far-and-away sin of Western nations is by not aggressively promoting nuclear power. Developing Nations were stifled and blocked from using their energy investment on nuclear instead of coal. Greenies are the direct cause of climate change. It is entirely on their shoulders. They need to be held to account.
In Canada there are huge wild fires ,from coast to coast .The sky is an orange smoke filled color that no carbon tax can eliminate .Trudeau just announced a new carbon tax on top of the ones we already have for quite some time ,that will clear the sky and stop the fires .??
That's a good point. Some good forest management would go a long way to reducing all that pollution + GHG emissions caused by forest neglect. And what's with the widely spread fires in Quebec that started simultaneously as viewed on satellite imagery? Another little narrative building exercise by the Malthusian Psychos who run things.
Canada Under ATTACK? Wildfires IGNITE Simultaneously in CLEARSKIES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoOam64L97U
Tax Canada up the wazoo for their fires! (Californication, too)
>could EASILY have avoided their massive emissions growth by focusing on a rapid nuclear expansion instead of using coal
One weird trick to stop emissions!
The climate crisis is ultimately just a symptom of the bigger crisis, which is the anthropocene, that is, the domination of the planet's terrestrial surface by human activity. If you were to solve the climate crisis with a new technofix and continued with business as usual, you would eventually just run into other sustainability problems a few decades later (groundwater depletion, soil erosion, peak phosphorus etc).
The only real way this could have been prevented is through degrowth policies that reduce our overall demands on the biosphere:
-Below replacement fertility rates (ie legal abortion in sub-Saharan Africa)
-Plant based diets
-Negative economic growth
But people just don't seem to want that. And so what they get is ecological overshoot instead, which results in mass death.
The evidence overwhelmingly does not support the DeGrowth dogma. BTW Degrowth is a type of techno-fix. If you ever did really try to institute your "negative economic growth" "plant based diets" etc you would have to come up with techno-fixes galore in a desperate attempt to make the whole thing work. A futile effort, in the end it is doomed to failure.
The ONLY resource you really need is energy. If you have plentiful energy you can recycle everything else including water. Fortunately we have a 100Myr supply of uranium & thorium for fission energy, just on the accessible Earth land mass. That's for a high standard of living for 12B people. And deuterium for fusion energy we have easily billions of years supply on Earth. A liter of ordinary water has enough deuterium in it, if fused to Helium would produce the energy of 300 liters of oil.
Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet Hardcover – Aug. 31 2022
by Marian L. Tupy (Author), Gale L. Pooley (Author), & 1 more
https://www.amazon.com/Superabundance-Population-Innovation-Flourishing-Infinitely/dp/1952223393/
"...After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services spanning two centuries, Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. That was especially true when they looked at “time prices,” which represent the length of time that people must work to buy something.
To their surprise, the authors also found that resource abundance increased faster than the population―a relationship that they call “superabundance.” On average, every additional human being created more value than he or she consumed. This relationship between population growth and abundance is deeply counterintuitive, yet it is true..."
>If you ever did really try to institute your "negative economic growth" "plant based diets" etc you would have to come up with techno-fixes galore in a desperate attempt to make the whole thing work.
Negative economic growth is just what you get when people consume less and accept lower standards of material wealth. Doesn't take much complexity.
Plant based diets are what most Indians and Africans have today, what East Asians had until recently and what Europeans had before WWII.
It's not complex.
It just requires Westoids to stop being decadent and accept the world does not revolve around human needs. Anthropocentrism just results in you getting wiped out like any other species that exhausts its niche.
>Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet Hardcover – Aug. 31 2022
Yeah here's the problem you run into.
If your silicon valley style libertarian technerd utopia could work (funfact, you want the same thing as Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Kurzweil etc), it wouldn't just be profoundly ugly, meaningless and existentially empty.
It would raise another problem too: If there's some glorious future ahead with trillions of people, or if we could keep the status quo going for thousands of years, isn't it strange that we find ourselves living in our era, rather than the Star Trek utopia? Seems like a weird coincidence to me. Statistically speaking you will generally just find yourself at the peak of human complexity. The reason you and me can have this conversation today is because our era creates plenty of opportunity for humans to communicate through the Internet. If such opportunity existed for thousands of years to come, it would be strangely coincidental for us to be doing it now.
>And deuterium for fusion energy we have easily billions of years supply on Earth. A liter of ordinary water has enough deuterium in it, if fused to Helium would produce the energy of 300 liters of oil.
Yeah the problem is not deuterium. It's tritium. They've been trying the nuclear fusion thing for 70 years now. I'm amazed there are still people who can be fooled by it.
>The ONLY resource you really need is energy. If you have plentiful energy you can recycle everything else including water.
If you somehow had abundant energy you would just quite rapidly run into the next problem, which is that you'll be stuck in your own waste heat. France is already running into this problem: They can't dump the waste heat in the rivers.
What you entirely skip over by the way is food.
Again everything you stated is false, worse it is disinformation. I'll get to debunking it later when I get some time.
"...and accept the world does not revolve around human needs."
You must not get out much. The world most certainly DOES revolve around human needs.
The nice thing about our comfort is that rich places stop reproducing. Maybe it's being selfish to not want children, but nearly everywhere populations are declining. Been an issue in Japan for some time and China is now facing it. The task may be for the wealthy nations to figure out how to educate migrants so there will be somebody who can fix the cell towers.
Maybe of consequence is the cultural issues where the Indo-European stock with a propensity to innovate begin to fade away. Those risk takers are culturally somewhat unique.
Again, go please live the truth of your philosophy to the fullest. Make sure to take your friends with you.
Even since the Council of Rome (70's?), we have heard that we will run out of everything. So far, technology has found ever increasing energy sources and we haven't even begun with nuclear nor hydrogen. Vertical self-contained farms can produce veggies galore although we aren't sure of their nutritional value. Many are adopting sustainable ag using little pesticide, robots, targeted fertilizer in sensor equipped fields adding grazing animals to refresh the soil.
What really limits us to adapt and adopt these solutions lies at government's feet with their attempt to control everything. Capital gets squandered via financial engineering that increases the wealth gap driven by government policy. Regulations that ensure newcomers can't get started. The power that corporations hold over politicians.
These bad covid shots may accomplish much of that. What with bad manufacture/distribution, and possibly targeted delivery, they seem underpowered. The other vaccines just seem to cause various life-long maladies, many of which increase ecological burdens.
Feel free to kill your family members and then yourself. Personally, I'm a fan of the Anthropocene (Era of Humanity).
Lmao
A climate crisis presumes an acknowledged laudable climate from which we are diverging. Would someone please supply the specifics of that ideal state.
Sometimes defecting in a prisoner's dilemma is the correct choice
No. The fate of the traitor is never happy, even if they live.
Game theory and The Prisoners Dilemma are Cold War fantasies conjured up by paranoid academics rationalizing betraying each other to the FBI or US ASA (Army Security Agency).
Nash’s equilibrium is the mathematical expression of schizophrenia.
Go old school, but if you betray at least know it’s betrayal.
My point was if you know your counterpart is defecting then the correct choice is to defect also.
It isn't. It's just cowardice repackaged as cleverness.
I always thought all lifeforms are carbon based ,including plants .I understand the wish of the elite that life on Mars will be nirvana once we all relocate there .since life on earth is unbearable with all that carbon around ..
Lol
There is no prisoner's dilemma, because there is no climate crisis or even a slight danger of it.
The big growing industrial countries (BRICS+) know that, and this why they are continuously increasing their energy production, mainly from fossile fuel.
Every last reachable molecule of fossile fuel will be turned into energy, and if we don't do it, then China has a few months-worth more oil and coal to burn.
Andreas when elephants die in Africa ,will they be our future oil supply ,like the extinct lifeforms are now ?
We have oil for many decades to come, coal is estimated to last for at least 200 years at the current rate, nuclear for a millennium or two.
I know ,I was only teasing you .After years of insanity one tends to become a bit of a comedian .If you like ,you can answer my comments in German ,because ich spreche deutsch .JOE
Ja, Du hast recht.
Das Problem ist dass diese Lügen jetzt so viele Jahre wiederholt wurde, vom Kindergarten an, dass sie fast jeder für selbstverständlich hält.
Except the Elephants in Africa have to be culled because they are reproducing off the charts.
If you still believe that Oil is derived from ancient plant and life forms (ie = 'fossil') then you are truly as ignorant as you sound. The abiotic creation of oil has been proven and known for the last 100 years, but it does not fit the profits of the oil corporations to acknowledge the truth.
Well dear PJ London ,when I open my new comedian game show ,I will not invite you ,because you would not understand me .
Oh I would understand you, but being German, you are just not funny.
Blighty is on course for a blackout winter:
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/06/28/britain-to-be-left-without-emergency-coal-reserves-this-winter/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/25/the-green-movement-and-energy-prices-the-theory-of-effective-pain/
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/28/uk-to-run-only-one-coal-fired-power-plant-this-winter
We shall also be seeing the return of the Net Zero surcharge of £170 per year, to add to the rapidly growing inflationary pressures and the inmates running the asylum are planning to decommission the one remaing coal fired station next year.
Meanwhile the Great Covid Farce continues as today The Sturgeonator took the opportunity to blame everything on Brexit, and by default, Westminster: the lockdown here was stringently enforced, with complusory masking, senseless duatribes about zero covid and crazy Nats in hazmat suits threatening English drivers at the border.
Of course the Nats are fervent advocates of Net Zero, even more so than the enthusiasts in Westminster, so turbulent times ahead.
Finally Thames Water is threatened with nationalisation: many homes without water, hosepipe bans, sewage discharges and millions of litres lost from leaky pipes.
Demand is rising steadily but no one in our dysfunctional establishment will acknowledge the vast increase in demand resulting from mass legal and illegal migration, which is likely to continue as judges have just ruled against the Rwanda plans.
Truly we are completely and utterly f...ked; the decay is gathering and all we get are soundbites and delusional Net Zero commitments.
Thanks for that. The Sturgeon in the UK is under threat.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/save-the-sturgeon-in-the-uk-an-endangered
https://youtu.be/EVBFMp4JW-s
This is shocking but it might be the straw needed to break this soft dictatorship. GBNews won't let this slip under the official radar.
That would be nice. Doubt it.
What would they even use?
gdoc ,why did you not tell me sooner ? I just sold all my guns ,to pay my rent ,no i'm helpless .
Note that globally we have quite the resurgence in interest in nuclear energy since the last year. Nuclear analysts expect a big increase in the number of nuclear power plants, and the price for Uran and stocks of Uran miners have risen quite dramatically.
Even Germany's direct neighbors France or Poland build new plants, or go back to nuclear, Sweden.
It is becoming hard for me not to think that there are forces at play who want to actively hurt Germany's economy and society.
"It is becoming hard for me not to think that there are forces at play who want to actively hurt Germany's economy and society."
From what I am reading on eugyppius's Substacks, these "forces" are probably German themselves.
Figure that one out.
Germans are brought up hating their own country and the fact that they are German. It's called 'Erinnerungskultur'. I'm convinced this national mental disorder of 'Schuld' lies at the heart of much of our problems. This only applies to the 'educated' class though, academics and the sorts
“Atrocity propaganda is how we won the war. And we’re only really beginning with it now! We will continue this atrocity propaganda, we will escalate it until nobody will accept even a good word from the Germans, until all the sympathy they may still have abroad will have been destroyed and they themselves will be so confused that they will no longer know what they are doing. Once that has been achieved, once they begin to run down their own country and their own people, not reluctantly but with eagerness to please the victors, only then will our victory be complete. It will never be final. Re-education needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again – those indestructible weeds of historical truth.” - Sefton Delmer, 1904-1979, former British Chief of Black propaganda, said after the German surrender, in 1945, in a conversation with the German professor of international law, Dr. Friedrich Grimm
This sounds a lot like our current government. Especially the greens. One of them in our government apparently even explicitly said he is of the opinion Germany needs to serve the United States.
It's sickening. They should be serving their constituents.
As an American, I would point out that Germans have been remarkably candid about their past. (Come over here and question the ethics of the a-bombs; see how well THAT goes over.)
Bleib' standhaft.
Which european nations have been and are being targetted the hardest for deindustrialisation and mass-migration?
What do they have in common, historically?
Who could have a grudge and a score to settle with them?
Could be that easy, could be me being overly paranoid.
once all the Congo population has re located to Germany you don't need industry ,you need banana plantations
👃
Germanic certainly. They are manic about germs for a start! There are other forces too though.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/covid-19-summary/
We're trying, but the EU/Germany is lobbying hard against our politicians to get them to drop any attempt.
Couple of weeks ago, leader of the Christian Democrat Party Ebba Busch-Thor switched from being pro-restarting a couple of stepped-down reactors as well as building new modern ones á la Finland, to...
...being fully anti-nuclear, pro chinese-owned windpower that would wipe out fishing banks.
What happened? Busch-Thor met up with von der Leyen, the teeny-tiny Christian Democrat Party being able to tip the vote against nuclear.
🇺🇸 government decided to handle the populist uprising in America and Europe by crushing the Imperial subject’s foreign and domestic with COVID and Ukraine sanctions, and Green energy (the only energy in Green is money 💴). Just in case we’re doubting who’s in charge 🌈 has title to your children as well.
So yes someone 🇺🇸 is smashing Europe, in particular 🇩🇪 because 👃 they’ll hate you eternally and 🇬🇧 for Brexit. Cold, hungry people are easier to control.
Or kill.
We 🇺🇸 on the other hand are re-industrializing under the rubric of COVID and War. At your 🇩🇪🇬🇧 expense.
This is because I am sorry to say, Germany is in part behind today's nonsense.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/covid-19-summary/
Do they genuinely believe that they can power Europe entirely through solar and wind? Do they not spend two seconds thinking how even if they could, it won't make much difference compared to two billion Chinese, two billion Indians, and a billion Africans? I thought even Bill Gates was trying to fund small nuclear power plants, when he wasn't farting around the globe peddling vaccines.
If solar energy can power Europe ,why is BILL Gates blocking the sun ? Does he want to keep all the suns power to himself ,and then sell it to us ?
Agreed. The elites will have all the energy and luxuries they want while we live in pods and feast on bugs.
It really seems like their goal, even if not consciously articulated, is depopulation and deindustrialization (for the poors, obviously; the NGO bureaucrats still need their private jets for their climate summits). But again, do they think China and India are going to peacefully go along with this plan, depopulate themselves, and reduce their own strategic advantage?
>But again, do they think China and India are going to peacefully go along with this plan, depopulate themselves
Don't worry. There won't be a lot of Indians left once the rivers run dry and the groundwater is depleted. LSWMs always seem to think this is all some sort of big plot against the West. In reality, it's more akin to a big plot by the West against the poorest countries on the globe.
The West got away with screwing everyone else over: We released the fossil carbon beneath our feet, achieved economic development with it, most of the impact will be felt in the developing world and we used up what room there was left to stay beneath two degree, room that those nations needed to pursue economic development of their own.
The only reason the rivers would run dry and groundwater be depleted is if our governments are run by Bankster DeGrowthers or Greenie techno-tards. That happens when you don't properly use readily available tech to ensure minimal impact of humans on the environment. Like recycling water. Like storing seasonal heavy rainfall i.e. monsoons. Like more efficient water use in agriculture, methods that are 10X more water efficient are now available.
Zero population growth is also desirable and that is already happening. Should be no problem.
What if the model IS The Great Leap Forward? Which sucked everyone into going along with a delusion? Mao said the great revolution and his magnificence would create huge crop yields, so everyone everywhere had to send the "extra" of the huge crop yields to the government, which led to millions and millions starving. Also, magically, the pig iron in rakes and shovels was to be melted into steel in backyard forges. Would happen magically. Then came the Cultural Revolution.
Many facets of this attack on us and our sovereign nations, but look at Sri Lanka, not a cautionary tale to them, probably exactly what they intended. They intend this delusion and the wreckage and the illness and death. It is the only conclusion I can see, Hanlon's Razor notwithstanding.
Demand management aka rationing: we shall endure more of this as Net Zero delusions collide with the inevitable consequences of mass migration.
The idiots in charge are so reluctant to prevent the incursions that demand management will be their way of squaring the circle; desperately dangerous and utterly deranged.
>Electric cars are not promoted as a viable alternative to petrol cars. They are promoted to remove cars completely from circulation.
I wish that were true. Imagine if the US of A, a country where the majority of the population is obese, was forced to ride bicycles.
The sad reality is that politicians offer people the delusional unsustainable crap they ask for.
I dont think I've ever heard an American say they didn't want cars. The push to make having a car more difficult is 100% top down.
Bring back manual transmissions. They're more efficient and easier to maintain. Require a medical prescription for purchase of a new automatic transmission. And quit putting rhodium in catalytic converters, while setting the fuel-air mix for optimal efficiency. NOx is free fertilizer. What do lightning strokes through air accomplish?
Well, in the words of Henry Ford: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
Americans want cars, because they live in an environment where you need a car.
Nobody wants to ride public transportation
agree. I live in Northern Virginia and they spent a fortune building the Silver Line into Loudoun County. No one is riding those metro cars. No one works in DC or in the cities closer in anymore. yes, they want to and ARE indeed building little "pocket cities" with limited parking even!! If you want to venture to other places, well, there is the bus, or go find your car parked where ever you last parked it. It might still be there, but now that Calm normal Loudoun County is connected to the DC Metro..... we get the thieves and criminals that live closer in to the city. .
Most people work from home, or near their home.
Passing by the metro stations on our way back from Chantilly, we looked at the parking garages and parking lots, not many cars, and the trains are barely full. What a stupid waste of money.
"Americans want cars, because they live in an environment where you need a car"
Just so you know, that's not really going to change.
"Imagine if the US of A, a country where the majority of the population is obese, was forced to ride bicycles"
What of it? Excercise is known to be no cure for obesity. Diet is the culprit.
Don't forget big pharma drugs; the neuro-toxicity slows down metabolism and adds to the problems. Exercise still helps to burn calories but walking to the fridge to get a beer won't help much!
True, Americans watch exercise shows on tv for hours and yet they still get fat! No matter how much football they watch they never lose weight.
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“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”
–Mariah Carey
>It is the right of an American to be as fat as he likes. That is what freedom means.
Thanks, now I hate freedom.
The fact that you hate freedom was apparent some posts ago.
and we "hate" freedom haters enthusiastically
"now I hate freedom"
I think you hated it already.
We could tell.
Please go stuff your hand in a running garbage disposal.
"Thanks, now I hate freedom."
Oh no! Now I won't be able to sleep tonight.
While Kernkraft (nuclear power) could certainly be improved in both safety and efficiency, and switched from uranium to primarily thorium (produces very little transuranium actinide waste; mostly just the very valuable plutonium-238), it ought to be utilized far more than it is at present.
Outlaw ALL NGO’s.
No Good Organizations.
I would prefer a different verb be used.
If French envy is the road through which energy sanity begins to reassert itself, I'm all for it.
Germany will learn the hard way that wind and solar are ineffective baseload energy sources. Thyssen and Phoenix will collapse with just wind and solar. As goes Thyssen and Phoenix, so goes Germany.
The German Volk have a long history of worshipping the gods of Nature. It is why ‘Green’ is venerated and deep-seated in the German psyche and why industrialisation is blasphemy and an offence to the gods for which Human sacrifice must be made to atone and appease. Alas it has been Germany’s top export.
When the relocation of African tribes to Germany is compete ,industry is outdated . Banana plantations will replace the windmill plantations .
Wait until they see how well bananas grow in a German winter.
What winter ? Global warming is making all winters into a summer paradise .
Bananas are rayciss.
hoppah ,what is rayciss ?
What does it sound like?
I used to work at a nuclear power generating facility. It has been online since 1984. It was built based upon 1960’s level technology. It still operates just fine.
Building these plants is expensive but much of that expense is due to heavy regulation. Not to mention how far behind we (the West and America specifically) are in R&D with alternate designs and fuels.
And the decommissioning costs have to factored in up front.
I'd like to add a little to the American influence on Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. I saw the exact same thing happen at the Dutch Greens (Groen Links) two decades ago when I was a part of that party.
In the early 2000's Washington decided to use the pacifist Dutch Greens (Groen Links) to 'massage' the unwilling Netherlands into the disastrous war in Afghanistan. Considering that Groen Links was deeply pacifist at the time this was quite a nasty political coup against the will of the members. The party leader who pulled of this stunt was rewarded with the position as mayor of Amsterdam years later. Of course she will not see this as the quid pro quo that it obviously is.
Following its success in corrupting the Dutch Greens, Washington now set its eyes on Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. Over the years I saw the same nefarious scenario unfold across my border, little by little Green idealism was replaced by American Green neo-liberal dogmas. By now I seriously question who is pulling the string at Bündnis 90/Die Grünen.
The notion that Washington is using US based NGO's to de-industrialize Germany and Europe at large is not that far fetched. Washington has been using NGO's ( more correctly Government Operated NGO's or GONGO's) to great effect across the globe to further its agenda.
As to Europe - It's decision making class, both politicians an bureaucrats, are completely under the control of Washington. Germany's environmentalists are no exception. Nobody in a position of power dares to speak out against or complain loudly about the Americans. Much to the detriment of Europe and its people.
Which US-based group or groups of people could have it in for the european nations, promoting what amounts to destruction of industry, infrastructure and genocide-via-migration?
Which one(s) indeed.
In Canada ,all T.V. commercials /advertising must have at least one black actor in it .
Rosa Luxemburg is proof that commies can keep on wrecking society a century after their death.
The problem isn't the jackasses pushing it, it's the ignorant public going along with it.
the public are always going to be ignorant, the problem is the people filling their heads with silly fairy tales and fantasies of a windmill future
Not the least are issues related to managing intermittent power flows. In order to deliver power there must be thermal plants to manage demand. This is a non-trivial issue when needed at scale. Power managers must be warning politicians regularly but obviously some think power just arrives at a wall socket, magically.
Oh that’s easy. You use the ‘spare’ wind and solar power to extract hydrogen (the new wundersustainable), which you store (because that’s so easy and cheap) and use in thermal plants when wind and solar cannot supply. True enough, you do need a huge over-provision of wind and solar to be able to produce the electricity to extract the hydrogen when wind and solar are supplying the grid, but that’s just a detail we don’t have to bother with - it’s the theory that counts not the practicality... and Saving the Planet™️ . Bonus: hydrogen when combusted in air only produces water vapour, which is the most significant ‘greenhouse’ gas without which the Earth would freeze, so that’s preferable to CO2 whose ‘greenhouse’ effect is so small it cannot be measured... Oh! Well never mind.
Ah yes, energy storage. One day, real soon now. Hopes for those Vanadium flow batteries, right around the corner.
The public's ignorance is relative, hence the 70+ year effort to destroy their education. A supremely ignorant public is easily victimized by even the most ridiculous pap, like "my mask protects you, and your mask protects me!"
You can't get rid of snake oil salesmen, they will always be there. The only thing you can do is armor people against snake oil. Unfortunately, your enemy has a 7 decade head start.
I understand all the arguments for nuclear as the cleanest way to generate energy.
What I don't understand is how cooling pools where the spent fuel must sit for years are not a serious risk. We can't even stop oil spills and coal car train derailments, and I am to believe there's almost no chance of radioactive water, by any variety of mishaps, escaping and eventually contaminating surface or aquifer water supplies?
Ask me how shocked I was to learn about the EU standards for radioactivity in berries and how the berry-pickers of Chernobyl just put a hot berry or two in each little punnet to keep the readings under alarm levels. So much for me buying any more imported jam!
Waste storage methods like vitrification I can understand as reasonable. But water, it goes everywhere when it escapes. Please make me understand why the nuclear industry can be trusted to employ fewer morons than found everywhere these days.
You can swim in the spent fuel pool water. The water does not become radioactive. There may be minute amounts of some short lived volatile isotopes that get in the water but that is trivial. I'm not exaggerating to say there are easily a million times more dangerous various wastes that openly contaminate our environment than spent fuel water, even if somehow the seismically protected six foot thick concrete & steel pool leaked.
Why this INSANE focus on nuclear radiation? You know radiation is a mild carcinogen? You are getting blasted 5000 times/sec by natural radioactive decay in your own body like K-40, a strong beta & gamma emitter. The fumes from the gasoline hose you fill your car with are far more dangerous to you. Do you worry about them?
"Why this INSANE focus on nuclear radiation?" Among other things to distract from the damage caused by big pharma drugs etc.
e.g. Cancer - must be radiation (but not the vaccines and drugs no, no that could never be).
>You can swim in the spent fuel pool water. The water does not become radioactive. There may be minute amounts of some short lived volatile isotopes that get in the water but that is trivial.
This is knocking down a strawman. The problem is what happens when for whatever reason the spent fuel isn't being cooled. That's when they start spraying all sorts of crap.
It ain't a strawman, He was bemoaning a possible water leak contamination from a SNF pool. It ain't a significant issue.
A LOCA or loss of cooling accident in a SNF pool is another matter. If the fuel is fresh i.e. <1yr old, there could be significant radiation leakage. Why would anyone let a SNF pool go empty? A garden hose of water would do the job. If by some bizarre reason, like a meteorite strike or total war happened, the localized radiation leak would be trivial compared to whatever caused the event. The SNF ain't going to melt down, it will get hot, and leak some volatiles like Cs-137, I-131, Xe-135. It is highly unlikely it would kill anyone.
“After the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a nuclear power critic estimated that 1 million cancer cases, half of them fatal, would occur. A less hysterical estimate was 5,000 to 10,000 Chernobyl-linked cancer deaths. Reality has been quite different. The UN recently reported that about 1,800 children developed treatable thyroid cancer and that "with this exception, there is no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality or in nonmalignant disorders that could be related to radiation exposure."
(The Chernobyl plant's crude design would never be approved in the U.S. anyway.”) -
Steven Milloy (creator of www.junk.com), Friday, May 25, 2001
And cancers probably caused by something else anyway like big pharma drugs used to treat cancer etc.
I was diagnosed with a cancer by useless NHS in 2020. I had in fact sodium nitrite (E250) poisoning, legally allowed in bacon I ate.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/sodium-nitrite-e250-the-poison-in
Ah the wonderful NHS. I had a large cyst on the back of my neck, went to doctor, "oh no too big for me, you have to see a specialist."
Phone specialist, first appointment 8 weeks. Go home and decide to fix it myself. Hot water bottles an pressure and hey presto, cyst disappears. 8 weeks later the hospital phones to confirm and I tell them not to bother as the Cyst has taken care of itself. I am told that if I do not keep the appointment the hospital will not allow me to be treated or enter there ever.
Finishing the conversation with "That's fine by me you useless bastards." probably didn't win me any friends either
I don't drive.
Easily hundreds of other things you do that are vastly more dangerous to you than any spent fuel pool water leak would ever be. Like riding your bicycle through a city breathing all the fumes from auto exhaust and furnace flue gases.
And homicidal automobile drivers.
That too.
Are the Pfizer injected a hazard on the roads ? I never had so many close call while driving than in the last few years .The electric car drivers seem to be dangerous .They need to drive fast as hell before the juice runs out .
Hard to say whether their prevalence have increased since the Jabracadabra. Seems like it, but I don't claim to have compiled comprehensive statistics. Those brain microclots can't be good, however.
I don't bike ride.
Walking is just as bad, lower air uptake but for a longer duration.
I appreciate your concern for my wellbeing but I think I'll decline to regard spent-fuel rod cooling pools as ideal shared-use opportunities for spas.
>What I don't understand is how cooling pools where the spent fuel must sit for years are not a serious risk.
Answer: They are a serious risk. A major spent fuel pool fire would make Chernobyl look like a nothingburger.
Some suggestions:
1) Make the pool deep enough (in-ground, so a wall breach will have little effect), it won't evaporate in any reasonable time before replacement water can be brought in.
2) Have it fully oxidized so it can't burn, and remove things like iodine-129. Perhaps persistent solubles like caesium-134 and 137, too.
#1 won't help you when the Russians take over the power plant. They can just pump the water out.
The Zaporizhzhia power plant is now just a fallback option for Russia if Ukraine seriously begins gaining territory. Wait for the wind to blow in the right direction and they can just render vast swathes of land uninhabitable, for generations to come. A nuclear power plant just becomes an undetonated dirty bomb in the hands of an adversary.
SNF ain't going to catch fire. That is utter nonsense Fear Porn invented by the wealthy anti-nuke crowd (you know the ones who refuse to tell us where they get their hundreds of $millions/yr in funding from).
It ain't even going to melt down. If it gets hot some volatile isotopes will be released, local contamination. Not likely harm anyone.
Why on Earth would Russia bother using the Zaporizhzhia NPP as a Radiological Bomb? You know that is a WMD weapon release, legally the same as using a nuclear bomb. Russia could easily make vastly superior radiological bombs using common medical or industrial isotopes like Cobalt-60. And direct the radiation exactly where it would do the most damage, like Kiev. Or just nuke Kiev, same crime. They have +10,000 nuclear weapons they can use.
Zaporizhzhia NPP is just more Fear Porn coming from the same hundreds of $million/yr anti-nuke NGO's who won't tell us where their money comes from. Notice the Greens in Germany, Nuclear Power Fear Porn specialists, could care less about how the NATO proxy war in Ukraine could easily lead to Global World Nuclear War. That's not a risk, No-siree Bob, nothing to worry about there.
>Why on Earth would Russia bother using the Zaporizhzhia NPP as a Radiological Bomb? You know that is a WMD weapon release, legally the same as using a nuclear bomb. Russia could easily make vastly superior radiological bombs using common medical or industrial isotopes like Cobalt-60.
With a nuclear power plant, you have plausible deniability. "someone" shelled the plant. But who was it? Good luck proving it.
>Russia could easily make vastly superior radiological bombs using common medical or industrial isotopes like Cobalt-60.
If you're caught manufacturing a weapon like that, there will be some diplomatic fallout.
Shelling the NPP would do a lot of expensive damage, a drop in the bucket compared to what this insane Bankster war is costing. Not much else beyond that.
They've already easily murdered over 500,000 people with their "Fun War, gotta beat those dirty Ruskis". The core and SNF ponds are likely easy to keep cooled even if the containment building is damaged. At worst you might have a Fukushima = zero deaths, mild radioactive contamination, less radiation anywhere outside the plant gates than a popular beach in Brazil.
Your suicidal Russians narrative doesn't thrill me.
I appreciate your appreciating my concern but your answer has further confused me a little.
How would a fire burn in water? Is it that the water wouldn't be able to extinguish the burning spent rods? Like burning oil spills in the ocean?
When have special interest group visions *not* been imposed on the ordinary people in any society since the beginning of time?
Oh, well it's OK then.
Welcome to the history of human conflict. Representative democracy reins in nothing, really.
I'm as pissed about it as you are. But I'm not exactly surprised that gangs of the powerful want to push everyone else around.
There's a reason why nation-states grew up along ethnic, linguistic and cultural boundaries. The happy little fantasy after 1945 that the West could become one great big special interest group of its own--regardless of the competing interests of each group within it--has proven to be unrealistic nonsense just as all those alliances of the crowned heads of Europe were in the way back whens.
People can't even manage to get along in HOAs. They always form different cultural enclaves in every big city. People can't stand it when someone with different culinary traditions moves into a building and perfumes the hallways with enticing aromas that inevitably will make some of the other residents gag.
Nothing unique is happening. The climate cults and the plague cults are like every other cult before them--full of true believers who always tend, in one way or another, to be batshit crazy.
It's so easy to forget that "normal" doesn't always mean "good."
In the final analysis, it is a question of whether German industry will find a way to adapt, or whether Europe will go tbe way of the middle kingdom. I'm thinking we are just living the wrong generation, and our kids will know better. I hope
It is through battle that we discover the best of ourselves.
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is affiliated with the Left Party. The Heinrich Böll Foundation is affiliated with Alliance 90/The Greens.
yes, rosa-luxemburg-stiftung doesn't seem to as active in green climate advocacy as other orgs, but the report authors are mad about an anti-Uranium propaganda pamphlet they published in cooperation with some other groups, including the Ministry for Economic Development
The association with Communism is difficult to miss. As are some other interesting associations.
"At least some of the German organisations promoting anti-nuclear ideology in France probably do have devious motives related to undermining French nuclear power generation
Better devious than foolish. At least they understand the damage they are advocating. That offers a faint ray of hope that reason may someday prevail. For the tree-hugger fools, there is no hope whatever.
Quite. Evil doers are at least rational and act for a reason which delivers them some benefit; stupids are irrational and just act with no particular benefit as the aim. Dealing with rational people is far easier than dealing with irrational people.
Evil doers are irrational that's why they do evil. There might be short term gain like money or power but that's it.