Ukrainians aren't sweating; should we?
- Thread starter Taichiliberal
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You want to move on because you've been resoundingly beaten. It doesn't matter what you say anyway as 4th gen. nuclear is moving along at a furious pace and will be the way forward along with hydrogen, ammonia, natural gas and pumped hydro for storage.
moon
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Sure, maggot- and also, according to you;
There is no pandemic
Trump will win
Sturgeon is toast
Brexit is successful
The Boeing 737 is a safe aircraft
There is no global warming
Covid isn't spread by contact
Nuclear waste is safe
You must be the champion forum prognostication disaster area
Haw, haw....................................haw.
Taichiliberal
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Oh, what a scathing retort! How ever shall I go on?
Your buddy has no credibility with his late in the game claim, toodles. "navy nuke" my shoe! Like you, he just keeps trying to pass off a shit load of moot points, PR, theories and status quo improvements while dodging the FACTS I put forth. You two wonks just can't stand being properly challenged. Grow up...if not, just have a circle jerk with your like minded wonks on how knowledgeable you are to ignore what you don't like. Pathetic.
Taichiliberal
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Oh yeah, the US affiliate of DW news carried this. The ultimate conclusion to a current method. Yep, shouldn't be a problem for centuries...unless
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/finland.html
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/164373/Volcano-in-Finland-sparks-threat
But faith that there will be NO flaws in construction or transportation and such, and that a fifty or a hundred or a thousand years from now everything, everywhere is geologically stable is enough for you wonks. And hopefully, the shit won't hit the fan in your lifetime. Good luck with that, Finland.
Taichiliberal
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Did it every occur to you that it's because of dictators and despots like Assad are the reasons why extremist groups gain power? Our history of supporting such proves we sometimes never learn as a country historically. Gabbards flip flops in the last few years is no laughing matter...a DINO that can't flat out admit she's wrong. Thank God I'm an Independent and not a political party slave.
Taichiliberal
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Learn to read, bunky. I move on because predictable wonks like you just keep pounding out the SOS, like the nuke industry. I just put a serious crimp in your latest and predictable PR post from Finland regarding waste disposal....seems the nuke industry and it's wonks are a new religion. And as always so long as mother Earth complies and human beings are perfect in execution and beyond corruption on any level, your wet dream will be a reality. And if not, who cares so long as the shit doesn't hit the fan in your lifetime or where you live.
what the hell are you talking about? Gabbard has always been an anti-interventionist going back to Iraq.
She interviewed Assad ( so did Dennis Kucinich ) and Assad correctly said to both he was the only alternative to Islamic jihadists such as al-Nusra gaining power.
Qadaffi made the same claim, and after his demise ISIS moved into Libya as well
Russia was smart enough to back Assad ( Syria) being a long time client state.
Obama and the CIA goofed around with arming the non-secular opposition, and it was a disaster
How about we just stay out of Nordstream 2, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Libya? - none are our business
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You're such a cretin, Germany has just about the most expensive electricity in the world and their grid has gone from one of the most stable to a total nightmare.
Germany Electricity Prices Soar To World Record Highs After Years Of Energy Policy Folly…Expensive, Unreliable
Germany’s power supply, once mostly made up of a mixture of coal and nuclear power, used to be among the most stable and affordable in the world. Power outages were rare and grid interventions were infrequent.
German consumer electricity prices shot up to 36.19 euro-cents per kilowatt-hour while blackouts threaten.
Greens and socialists then tried electrical power engineering
But then in the 1990s environmental activists and politicians got involved, believing they could manage and design a grid and power supply that would be technically and environmentally superior than what the leading power generation and electrical engineers and experts themselves had in place.
Sun and wind were the way to go, the environmentalist Greens and SPD socialist’s declared. After all, the wind and sun don’t send electric bills and are “free for the taking”. This they somehow managed to convince the public. And so the greening of the grid began.
2000 EEG feed-in act
In 2000, the coalition government of the Socialist’s and Greens, led by Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, introduced the EEG renewable green energies feed-in act. What followed was a green energies construction frenzy with hundreds of megawatts of volatile wind and solar capacity being added to the grid every year while nuclear power was shut down.
Today now comes the EEG’s price shock. Wind and solar are not free after all. In fact they are outrageously expensive, and they are even more volatiles in terms of supply than the country’s Corona policies!
Unstable grid, record high prices
Today German weekly news magazine FOCUS here reports how Germany’s electricity prices have now reached “record” levels: “Germany is the world champion in electricity prices – no country pays more for electricity. According to new data from the German Association of Energy and Water Industries, German households paid an average of 36.19 cents for a kilowatt hour in January 2022.”
That’s over 40 US cents per kilowatt-hour!
Three times higher than international average
“Never before have German consumers had to pay so much,” writes FOCUS. “Germans have to pay almost three times as much for electricity from the outlet compared to the international average. This is mainly due to unusually high taxes and eco-taxes in this country.”
Volatile grid teeters on collapse
What’s worse, the country now teeters on power grid collapse, meaning blackouts are a real threat. Moreover, high-tech computer-controlled production machines and plants rely on a steady supply frequency to operate. As grid frequency becomes increasingly unstable due to the volatile wind and solar power input, the equipment risks costly unplanned production shutdowns. In total this makes Germany a less attractive place to invest, despite its highly skilled labor force.
Half price in some neighboring countries
According to FOCUS, consumer electricity costs significantly less in neighboring countries like Italy, where the price 25 euro-cents, or in Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg where it is about 23 cents.
In France a kilowatt of electricity is 21 cents, and: “in the Netherlands and Poland only 19 cents. In large countries like the USA (16 cents) or Brazil (14 cents), electricity costs less than half as much as in Germany. In Canada (12 cents) or South Korea (11 cents) consumers pay only a third, in India (8 cents) and China (9 cents) only a quarter of the German price level.”
50% increase in just 2 years!
German industry, which gets a lower price than consumers do, is now paying “an average of 26.64 cents per kilowatt hour”, up from just 17.76 cents in 2020 – that’s a roughly 50% jump! Industrial association are warning that these astronomical prices are rapidly making Germany unattractive as a place to do business, reports FOCUS.
According to Holger Lösch, Deputy Managing Director of the BDI industry association. “Energy-intensive industries in particular (steel, metals, paper, glass, aluminium, cement) are threatening to move out of Germany.”
No wonder not long ago The Wall Street Journal dubbed it the “world’s dumbest energy policy”.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/02/09...-of-energy-policy-folly-expensive-unreliable/
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Fight authoritarianism support Noking
You are the Lord of Cretins.
Taichiliberal
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I shouldn't have said "years" or labled it a "flip flop" per se.....but this tidbit disturbed me: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/tulsi-gabbard-syria-assad-war-criminal-cnn-town-hall-misunderstanding/
While I may agree with your last sentence, you and I both know that the geo-political chess playing and military backed "one up-manship" is going to be ongoing no matter which party is in office...and that's a sad thing.
Taichiliberal
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And then there's the reality check that wonks like you just don't think about. Yes, there are ups and downs, but not the dire scenario your link paints:
https://www.reuters.com/business/en...wer-usage-falls-lower-wind-output-2021-09-28/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-to-46-last-year-research-group-idUSKBN1Z21K1
And as usual, nuke wonks will always latch onto lies:
https://factcheck.afp.com/german-solar-wind-power-did-not-fail-cold-weather
And as always, the man-made problems of economics coupled with the physical (but not incurable) problems of mechanics cause more problems than needed. But as the article points out, it's not the power for Germany itself that is the problem with the system.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/germanys-stressed-grid-is-causing-trouble-across-europe
But for you, my wonkish friend, this is all a calamity that can be solved with faith in nuke power...burying the waste and testing theory in reality. Yeah, we've done this insipidly stubborn dance of yours. Now lets's get back to discussing the OP, shall we? Carry on.
Taichiliberal
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And then there's the reality check that wonks like you just don't think about. Yes, there are ups and downs, but not the dire scenario your link paints:
https://www.reuters.com/business/en...wer-usage-falls-lower-wind-output-2021-09-28/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-to-46-last-year-research-group-idUSKBN1Z21K1
And as usual, nuke wonks will always latch onto lies:
https://factcheck.afp.com/german-solar-wind-power-did-not-fail-cold-weather
And as always, the man-made problems of economics coupled with the physical (but not incurable) problems of mechanics cause more problems than needed. But as the article points out, it's not the power for Germany itself that is the problem with the system.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/germanys-stressed-grid-is-causing-trouble-across-europe
But for you, my wonkish friend, this is all a calamity that can be solved with faith in nuke power...burying the waste and testing theory in reality. Yeah, we've done this insipidly stubborn dance of yours. Now lets's get back to discussing the OP, shall we? Carry on.
There never was any proof given of Sarin used by Assad forces. I wouldn't put it past Assad,but still no proof shown
I can understand you being "disturbed" - but look at her geopolitics, she was correct that Assad is still the best choice among bad choices for Syria.
He is not an Islamist, and we dont need another “Islamic Emirate" like Afghanistan
Taichiliberal
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As I alluded....the SOS of backing a despot/dictator/fascist regime so long as it's not placating to the "enemy". Of course, this supports only lasts until these cretinous leaders get the insane notion that it's their country to do with what they will, and the USA can just send aid & comfort but STFU and keep their nose out of sovereign nation business. Just look what happened to Hussein & Bin Ladin. There's a better way, but no one wants to make the effort to figure it out. And the losers are always the average schmoes who just want to go to work, feed their families and have a decent place to live.
And then we create our own problems because when you back despots and dictators and fascist regimes, eventually the locals rebel and side with the group who's best organized to get the job done....which is why you have ISIS and Al Qaeda. And the band played on.
The real question is, show me the military ready to go up against putin under russian junky nambla leadership from the WH. All the gay officers were purged by trump in the first week.
No one is stupid enough to get stuck fighting the russians under russian leadership, even if it wasnt a nambla needle exchange point.
No one is stupid enough to get stuck fighting the russians under russian leadership, even if it wasnt a nambla needle exchange point.
Taichiliberal
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Man, you need to stop drinking...because last time I checked even under Dump the recognized percentage of gay military was so low that it wasn't funny. Seek therapy, my friend.
Low yes, but they were allowed to be openly gay under the 08-16 admin. You probably didnt notice between your heroin injections.
Trump purged them all within his first week.
Trump's critical failure was to cite jHoe obiden's swine flu statistics instead of jHoe's heroin statistics.
Ever since 2010 the heroin epidemic death rate bumped the national mortality rate. That trend trimmed out under trump and all he had to do was halt afghan heroin imports. Besides your narrative, trump's reaction to covid saved lives. The numbers dont lie.
But dont get me confused, i dont support anyone that skimms over obiden's afghan pederast heroin cartel pals. Trump included.
Ever since 2010 the heroin epidemic death rate bumped the national mortality rate. That trend trimmed out under trump and all he had to do was halt afghan heroin imports. Besides your narrative, trump's reaction to covid saved lives. The numbers dont lie.
But dont get me confused, i dont support anyone that skimms over obiden's afghan pederast heroin cartel pals. Trump included.