Comments by "" (@BasementEngineer) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1.  @XxxThePsyCheMisTxxX  Before a problem can be solved it needs to be recognized.
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  2. Glad you mention gravity. The gyrations necessary to make that theory comply with the real world such as stable planetary orbits, are beyond belief.
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  3. It's the quantities of the waste that make it a trivial problem. The quantities involved are exceedingly small compared to coal ash residues. The point of: "But it is radioactive for 100's of thousands of years..." again belies the quantity of radiation, which decreases very rapidly.
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  4. UV: "Sabine has a great sense of humor." How can this be??? Everybody knows that Germans have no sense of humor!
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  5. There are two areas of human endeavour that do not suffer fools gladly: nuclear power plants and air liners.
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  6. Just stumbled on to your presentation, and it appeared to be quite informative to me. What follows is only tangentially relevant to your presentation here; you may consider it as a topic in the future. I live in Canada and worked in the Candu nuclear industry for a number of years. Consequently I have great difficulty understanding the anti-nuclear attitude in many countries, but especially in a technologically sophisticated country such as Germany. I suppose that propaganda is effective, no matter where or what topic is being addressed. Here in Ontario nuclear power plants supply 60% of our electric power needs. Hydro-electric power plants supply about 35%. The rest is supplied by gas turbine plants plus wind and photo-voltaics. The latter two were quite a business racket here, some years ago. Having said all that, I do not understand why reasonably educated people are so anti-CO2. I know why governments latched onto this hate: It gives them another opportunity to pick our pockets to feed the insatiable government machine. But for people to buy into this nonsense? You may as well admit that you hate all greenery and forests! Plants need CO2 to live. BTW I love forests and plants. And this brings me to the real point of my rant. I just attended a monthly meeting of a local engineering group of which I am a member. The invited speaker made a presentation about SULPHUR, and its role in the modern economy. We also enjoyed a marvellous roast beef dinner. I must admit that this sulphur business was a real eye opener! I had seen unit trains out in western Canada; trains with hundreds of open car loaded with sulphur. This sulphur is the by product of gas and oil production in western Canada. By law it must be removed from the sour oil and gas to make these fuels saleable and usable by the public. The result is a LOT of sulphur. We are talking about millions upon millions of tons of sulphur, world wide! And it is FREE, apart from shipping costs. Free, because without its removal, the oil and gas cannot be sold. So what? may you ask. It turns out that over 50% of this sulphur is used in the production of fertilizer! Another 40% is used in industry for various ore and metal processing operations, plus chemical and plastics manufacturing. Detergent manufacturers also use this stuff. For industrial use the sulphur is often transformed into sulphuric acid, or H2SO4. Tire manufacturers need it, also. It should be obvious that with future reductions in the use of oil and gas, serious reductions in the production of FREE sulphur will affect the cost and quantity of fertilizer manufacturing! With the Earth's population approaching 8 Billion, affordable food production is a major consideration. And that, my friends, will be seriously impacted by the loss of FREE sulphur. Hence my admonition: Be careful what you wish for, because you may just get it, good and hard. Information is power, but it must be used wisely.
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  7.  @jeffbenton6183  I'd like to see reliable statistics that show that Canada uses heat pumps in vast quantities. In Ontario at least the majority of domestic heat is via natural gas fired forced hot air furnaces.
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  8.  @AlexHillsCandles4Assange  Tell us more! Personally I have great difficulty in accepting the space curvature thing because it raises numerous new questions. Too bad Dr Sabine does not answer questions here.
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  9.  @AlexHillsCandles4Assange  Thanks.
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  10. Here is a task for you Sabine: Suppose you list, say, 1/2 dozen of evil acts by A.H., along with authenticated verifiable forensic evidence. You know, similar to the evidence discovered and documented about the Katyn Forest massacre in Poland. After you have done that, contrast them with the actions taken by the allies with similar circumstances. Good luck! If you fail to accomplish this you are nothing but another brain-washed German who swallowed all the post-war Greuelpropaganda wholesale.
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  11. NAL: Interesting! Where may one read scientific literature on this? Thanks.
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  12. The fear is rational based on the MIS-information...
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  13.  @stevenjones8575  Not all nuclear power reactors are subject to melt downs. Read up on CANDU reactors from Canada. Nonetheless, a vociferous group of Canadians oppose nuclear power, in part because of the misunderstood "problems" of long-term spent fuel storage.
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  14. You raise and excellent point. My house could stand an attic re-insulation job. The cost for doing this to the new building code is so high that it is cheaper to just pay the higher heating costs.
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  15. Liebe Frau Sabine! I feel your pain. I'm a retired Professional Engineer (BASc, P.Eng.) here in southern Ontario. After a marvellous beginning to my professional career lasting almost 14 years, I was caught up in the economic maelstrom of the times. Following some promising starts that didn't pan out for various reason, I said screw it and hung out my shingle as an industrial consultant. (Not Consulting Engineer because that required different licensing I wasn't interested in obtaining). After a bit of a slow start, I had to learn how best to advertise my skill set, I struck the right note and never looked back. I had always been complimented on my work which was mostly concerned with industrial problem solving. Case in point: Why did this particular conveyor hanger keep breaking every year? Why did this particular group of crane runway assembly bolts fail every year or so, falling on workers below? I was very good at this and was always welcomed with open arms and paid on time. Now my bugaboo with modern science. The theories of electricity, light, and gravity were formulated at approximately the same time. We now know much about the former two: We know how to create it, control it, bend it, mutilate it etc. Not so with gravity of which very little is known. What is supposedly known cannot explain the stable orbits of the planets including Earth, around the sun. Recently I had the opportunity to attend a presentation by a top professor regarding the big bang. This fellow was quite forthcoming and answered many questions from the audience with: "I do not know"! Thus encouraged I asked my question regarding gravity and the planets' orbits. He was a little taken aback and finally conceded that the stable orbits could only be explained on the basis of relativity. Since I am not a fan of Einstein's work I was at a loss with this reply. What does relativity have to do with the movement of the planets? Perhaps no one knows why the orbits are stable??? Good luck and Best Wishes from Canada.
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  16. dws: What does that wood smoke do to the environment? A wood fire place is after all, just a miniature forest fire. This is somewhat tongue-in-cheek. I too have a wood fire place and we love it for the atmosphere it creates.
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  17. I would agree that capitalism on the whole has been good for the western world. However, this requires some qualification. There is banking/money capitalism. There is labour capitalism. The former is what we have now, with the result that bankers rule governments and the world is turning into a cesspool. This is unbridled capitalism. The latter brought an unprecedented standard of living with practically zero unemployment to its people. Talking about this will get you arrested in most European countries.
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  18.  @7th808s  Where/how are you going to get the hydrogen? And at what cost/Kwh?
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  19. Can you point out a research paper on this, that develops the cost/Kwh and space requirements? Thanks.
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  20. From Dr H's talk on gravity waves, she mentioned that said waves travel at the speed of light. Does this mean that the gravity communication vector also travels at the speed of light? If not, what is the speed of that communication vector?
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