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@headofmyself5663 You may be correct, but nuclear power costs are very largely a political decision. All sorts of costs are piled onto the nuclear power price to make it unattractive. One case in point is disposal of nuclear spent fuel. In the true scheme of things these costs are trivial, one reason being the small quantities involved. I live in Ontario Canada and we get about 60% of our electric power from CANDU nuclear plants. It is the cheapest producer of electricity available but, because previous governments have saddled us with the costs of uneconomic wind and photovoltaics, we now have among the highest cost of electric power in North America. Supposedly educated people such as Germans and Canadians swallow any sort of rubbish when it has the word "green" in it. Further, no one yet has talked about the disposal of all those composite fibre windmill blades, which will be a real problem I think.
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@headofmyself5663 They may be requirements but they are not reasonable from an engineering or scientific perspective. All nuclear isotopes have a half life. The most radioactive isotopes have the shortest half life. I don't remember the actual years, but in Canada spent nuclear fuel can be retrieved from the cooling/shielding pool after 10 years and placed into dry storage above ground. After 10,000 or 100,000 years the remaining radioactivity is so low that it is no worse than working in a granite faced building flying in an airliner. Nowadays everything regarding nuclear power is politicized and no rational decisions are possible.
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@dagmarbubolz7999 Nuclear power, like airliners, submarines, and central banks, do not suffer fools/political/hacks gladly.
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@alanhamford2538 Sorry, but that was the Polish dream.
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@patkearney9320 Blame those who are responsible, please. And that are those Irish who accepted EU money and sold your country down the drain. Alternatively, they were too lazy to read the fine print of the contract with the EU, and only saw Euro signs.
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@sonikka9302 You are correct of course. The influx of unemployables may have been fostered to reduce the standard of living of Germans. I can think of more sinister reasons but I'll leave it at that.
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spo: Why do you think so? Can the leopard change his spots? Who has started the most wars over the last 100 years, or 400 years if you like???
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A fair amount goes to pay blackmail maintained by war propaganda which, interestingly, was largely invented after the war.
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@cleightorres3841 Nothing wrong with ICE. Are you aware that in many large cities the exhaust from the modern ICE is cleaner than the air going in?
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@lesleycassell Hydrogen is too inefficient currently. Better and cheaper methods of storing hydrogen need to be developed. However, hydrogen may make economic sense for airliners. Because hydrogen is exceedingly light, more freight may be transported by the same aircraft.
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@marysmik9812 Finance your own economy plus wants and wishes without accepting welfare off the EU. Presto, you get to run your own show.
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@nicholasjohnferriman8283 Britain's problems are fundamental. Germany's are temporary and easily solvable.
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@nicholasjohnferriman8283 You must be joking. For 300 years Britain has relied on pilferage and war for prosperity of the ruling class. When this was no longer sufficient your powers-that-be concluded that it would be profitable to eliminate the intellectual and economic competition by declaring and fighting 2 wars on Germany. Your truly miserable country (certainly from a political and banking perspective) had to drag the USA into both wars, and aid and abet the communists, to save your sorry a..s. Read the book "The Pity Of War".
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@nicholasjohnferriman8283 You put your finger on it, the British penchant for muddling through. Look around you and see where that got you in the modern world. A bunch of bankers shuffling paper and skimming the cream off the workingman's wealth creation.
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elg: It is indeed a catastrophe but it is not environmental for reasons you believe.
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greg: Up to a point, and that point is fast approaching. Methinks the limit was 96 years.
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@williamrogers1219 Interesting about US help to France during WWII. The allies killed more French civilians during their invasion than the Germans did in 5 years of war and occupation. France declared war on Germany and is still pissed???
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Sim: So Germany doing its own thing and minding its own business was bad. Got it.
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sci: As the saying goes, the devil is in the details. Germany could get away with it, possibly the French, Italians, and a few others also. Any other country that attempted this would see its new currency drop significantly in value. Why? because none of them have a good record of managing their economy, and inflation was the result. Having the EURO forces spendthrift governments to manage better.
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@marysmik9812 Rubbish! Germany had more universal voting before Britain did.
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@grisflyt Precisely.
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@stefanhetzel German courts have imprisoned 90+ year old women because the refused to believe the official narrative and spoke out about it. That court labelled Hoecke a fascist? Imagine that.
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@gdok6088 What rathole country do you inhabit?
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@archibaldikowski3646 So you have been told all your life; I get it. However, I would respectfully suggest, if you are at all interested, to dig for the real story. You might begin with who declared war on whom, who aided and abetted whom etc.
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