Comments by "kokofan50" (@kokofan50) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1. It’s not “even with Biden”. Biden is the most corrupt president in the last century and corrupting the system more.
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  2. You can make every prediction you want, but renewables don’t work. Every place that’s tried has only made their electricity expensive and unreliable. Just like with communism, it’s not going to work this time either, regardless of whatever model you’ve got
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  3. UAW has murdered American competitiveness.
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  4. Try 1 year. He’s probably going to be impeached next year.
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  5. Yeah, Canada does seem to be going the environmental fascist route.
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  6. Generation 3+ and beyond have inherent safety systems, so unless the laws of physics stop working, they will fail safely and not breach containment.
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  7. Europe are cutting themselves off from Russian natural gas. They’ve basically forced themselves to deindustrialize. That’s not something to celebrate
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  8. Are you saying Elon is against the rule of law and math?
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  9. Never because you need Russian resources to build those turbines and solar panels
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  10. 300mw. That’s where the 300 in the name comes from, like the AP1000 it’s based on
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  11. RTGs aren’t batteries or reactors.
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  12. No, Biden is just corrupt.
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  13.  @VaMarineOG  you are NOT my tsundere
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  14. This whole thing is stupid. Bans won’t work if EVs are an inferior option, and if EVs are better, bans are superfluous. The French being French about the Germans is just the extra stupid cherry on top
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  15. This is a helium cooled design.
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  16. Nope, renewables were never going to work, and they’re double dead now because Russia is the largest supplier of many key resources needed for renewables. History is going to show nuclear was alway the smartest option
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  17. Anyone building or advocating for solar in Canada is not a serious person and should be laughed at
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  18. You site in the sludge from making solar panels and wind turbines then tell me they’re clean.
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  19.  @CARambolagen  after it’s cooled off enough to be put in a cask, you wouldn’t even raise your risk of getting cancer
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  20. The Emus are a savage foe. He’s lucky to be alive.
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  21. Enjoy living in “Escape from New York”.
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  22. Germany invested in renewables. They had the most expensive electricity in Europe, even before Russia invaded Ukraine. France invested in nuclear and has the least. You can’t argue empirical results.
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  23.  @enadegheeghaghe6369  None, all of the plants I okow of have been shut down for political reasons, like Germany’s fleet.
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  24. Yep, and most of those 8 are small unindustrialized countries.
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  25. Larger reactors are more efficient and it takes a permit from each reactor, which can a real pain to get.
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  26. The Russians wanted to take control of the plant, not destroy it.
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  27. Negative prices are bad because it means you have over production that will force other sources offline or damage the grid. That destabilizes the grid and drives prices up later. Imagine if you had a car with a power source that’s free hut randomly stops and starts. That’s not acceptable, so you’re going to put in a second drive system, which you’ll have to constantly be trying to match up with the the random one. Also, you’ll have to have your food on the break at all times to make sure you don’t randomly accelerate into another car or wall.
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  28.  @willm5814  not true in the least. The book Roadmap to Nowhere compares the costs of building a fully renewable and fully nuclear grid in the US. The renewable was calculated to cost $21 trillion, 3.5 times the cost of an all nuclear grid. There are studies on what it would take huge amounts to do the same in other countries
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  29. Yep, Unions are great at killing off the competition.
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  30. Solar still takes up far more space, uses far more materials, and is much more expensive than nuclear, and it is isn’t even reliable enough to run more than a house on.
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  31. The problem hasn’t been finding deposits. The problem has been our stupid regulations. Thorium is a common byproduct of REE mining. Because thorium is classified as a nuclear source material, you can’t dispose of it like other byproducts, even though it’s perfectly safe.
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  32.  @nickkacures2304  wind and solar are some of the most expensive. Unfortunately, coal is actually pretty cheap, which is why it’s been so dominant for centuries
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  33.  @williammeek4078  installation and maintenance are never going to go away. Germany has the highest electricity costs in Europe with lots of solar and wind. France with 80% nuclear has the lowest. Solar and wind often sell for less than they should be and drive up the cost in other parts of the system.
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  34.  @Nobodyinvitedyouhere  the installation is never going to end, and with the man power it’s consuming we don’t have the man power to actually build a 100% renewable grid.
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  35.  @williammeek4078  Texas and Oklahoma have really cheap natural gas. Wind has a capacity factor of about 30%, so only about 10% of that electricity is actually from wind. Also, I’m from Texas, and the last time I looked the renewable sources were more expensive. Although, I moved a couple years ago so I don’t know the prices at the moment.
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  36.  @williammeek4078  the spot price is lower but the overall system is more expensive. California produces a fraction of the natural gas and at much higher costs.
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  37.  @williammeek4078  no, it’s because the green cult has pushed them. Renewables get tons of subsidies and are given preferential treatment because the cult has captured our institutions. You should read the book Roadmap to Nowhere. It’s an in-depth breakdown of costs for a a renewable only grid in the US and compares it to on with nuclear only. The renewable only grid was costed at 3.5x what the nuclear grid would be.
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  38.  @williammeek4078  if they worked, they wouldn’t need the preferential treatment. Please, go line by line. I’ll be happy to prove you wrong.
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  39.  @williammeek4078  I didn’t delete anything, and that number is either at peak, rather than consistent rates or including natural gas backup
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  40. Alaska is a the size of Western Europe.
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  41. Why wouldn’t people who believe that the free market should be what creates goods and services buy a better product created by said free market? It’s the moralistic Democrats who will refuse to use an obviously better product for stupid political reasons.
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  42. People don’t want EVs. They want Teslas.
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  43. If you think Joe is a shock jock, you’re in for a hell of a shock.
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  44. I like Tesla, but solar is a boondoggle. Nuclear is the future.
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  45. On reactor for a large cargo ship would be more than enough. Depending on the design, an SMR doesn’t need refueling. Many of the designs are designed to have enough fuel for their entire lifespan.
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  46. More value added is a good thing
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  47.  @MichaelLloydMobile  I understood. You’re just not for voluntary cooperation to produce the greatest value for people because of your ideological views
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  48. California suing for racist hiring practices when they actually had a vote on if they should repeal anti-discrimination protections. The universe makes jokes of those idiots every single day.
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  49.  @hvh377  The Netherlands is like the size New Jersey, so y'all can get away with shorter range cars. Also, cars as a whole are more expensive there, so Teslas are more affordable in the US.
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  50. Oil and natural gas companies have been the biggest pushers of renewables because they know renewables can’t replace natural gas. Wind only produces 30% of the electricity it could if the wind blew all the time. Solar is even worse. To cover that 70+% of rime renewables aren’t enough they burn natural gas.
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