Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "VisualEconomik EN"
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“Do you think small countries will establish themselves as…”
The current situation where a large country, like the United States, spends its treasure to safeguard trade routes, for no tax, is an anomaly in history.
The day the US fails, due to debt crisis & internal political struggle from centralization of power [vs decentralization of power via Federalism] will be the end of the significance of small countries being able to be independent.
Then, the norm occurs, with Islamic Caliphates conquering, British & French & Russian Empires, Byzantine Empire, Roman Empire, various Chinese Empires, etc.
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@Omer1996E.C - “gdp shrinks when it is taxed” - but it makes the conquerors rich, so the can invest & build, when they would not have the capital to do otherwise in their economic system.
Foreign non-Muslim civilizations were forced to pay protection taxes (effectively Jizya) and that became a direct injection of funds into the conquerors, increasing GDP.
The U.S., for example, when they became independent from Europe, disbanded their armed & naval forces, because they planned on being peaceful citizens of the world & never get involved in European affairs. Well, that lasted as long as the first Islamic Pirates, whose pirates ships captured & held them for ransom. The Islamic nations took huge sums of money from the US treasury… about ~50% to cover the US for the rest of that year! THAT is some nice GDP! LOL! The US fought 2 wars over it. In the end, it was Islamic Pirating that caused the US to create The Marines & maintain a standing army. All to avoid the yearly Jizya.
Furthermore, sacking & raiding caravans & ships from foreign civilizations increase conqueror GDP since those losses were absorbed by the foreign civilizations being stolen from. In the end, it was this action that caused Gengis Khan to invade Central Asia, Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Islamic GDP boost eventually had its disadvantages.
Islamic empires always had imperial conquests for exploitation. The Arab Slave Trade took their Black Gold from Africa, eunuchs were valued higher than non-eunuchs (because so many slaves died when cut & buried to their necks until the fever passed.) Ottoman Turks took a percentage of the most fit children from Eastern European Balkans for their slave armies, to die in battle against future conquests. The Persians took fit children from the Caucuses, for their slave armies, to fight against their conquests.
Perhaps Islamic law prohibited unjust exploitation, but if the population being exploited were Kafirs, it was considered just. And there in is the problem. Once they run out of Kafirs to exploit, they had to expand their exploitation to find new ones. We saw this in North African conquests… North Africans were told to pay the Jizya, they said they were Muslims and did not have to pay. They were continually charged until there were revolts. Then, they got into the business, and decided to conquer farther west & across the straight to the Iberian Peninsula.
Islamic conquerors just could not get enough of the booty & Jizya from conquered people groups, until they were forced not to, then their economies ceased growing quickly.
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@bjjkickboxing7876 - honestly, I am less concerned about theories, like some YouTube publishers are.
Hydrocarbons are located in the Caribbean, at the poles, etc. Liquid form can be extracted from the CO2 in the air, and people don’t like that energy & organic compounds will be so difficult to control, once it is no longer escrowed under the earth.
Hydrocarbons are everywhere. It has been seeping out of the ground since the days of Noah, where ancient writers wrote about early uses to waterproof wooden structures.
Hydrocarbons come in convenient universal forms, to hold the naturally recyclable precursor for energy & nearly all manufactured end products used by humanity… from heating homes, to cooking food, from clothes we wear to the carpets we lay on, from dashboards on cars to the roads we drive on.
That universal liquid form, once it can not be found naturally, will be manufactured… because it is so easily piped, held in tanks, and can be changed from a liquid state into any basic form like long threads and even printed into objects using 3D printers.
Any talk of oil running out is not only willful ignorant, but honestly a petty scare tactic, and demonstrates a degree of scientific misunderstanding that dates back to the stone ages.
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@ignaciofernandezclavel3535 - “millions of years of concentrated solar energy”
You bring up a good point, but millions of years are not needed to organically concentrate solar energy.
There are only 4 bonds needed for a Carbon atom, sugars are made in real time from photosynthesis, and the aggregated sugars are at the core of organic energy storage & usage. Plants 🌱 pipe the sugar around through xylem & phloem.
Prometheus produces liquid fuel ⛽️ directly from CO2 in the air, by mixing it with salt water, pass electricity through it, and the fuel is separated from the water.
NASA produces liquid fuel directly from CO2 in the air using solar powered thin film devices. The photoelectrochemical cells produce hydrocarbons directly from the air.
Carbon Engineering from Canada has been harvesting CO2 directly from the air for 8 years and converting it directly to fuel for 6 years.
Sun Fire in Europe has been producing fuel directly from CO2 in the air, using high temperature electrolysis.
South Korea 🇰🇷 is combining H2 with CO2 from the air & water with a catalyst to produce diesel fuel.
Oxford University is using Iron catalysts to drip 💧 jet fuel from the CO2 from the air, hydrogen, and water.
These are not the only methods, but just a sampling, and the secret is to de-escrow the carbon from the earth 🌎 to make it readily available to everyone across the earth.
Honestly, there are so many ways to create hydrocarbons… and we don’t have to burn it, but can continue to make whatever we need to. We will never run out.
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@ignaciofernandezclavel3535 - “require massive amounts of FF to be manufactured”
H2 is the key 🔑 factor in many of those technologies. Hydrogen can start replacing FF today, without little special changes.
H2 can be introduced into existing Natural Gas appliances & turbines today, up to 20%, to stretch natural gas.
H2 is being introduced to existing diesel vehicles in Europe, today, to stretch diesel longer.
Existing NG infrastructure is being upgraded to handle greater percentages of H2, all the way to 100%, and this can be done as existing NG infrastructure needs to be repaired & renewed.
H2 transportation exists today and is increasing around regional hydrogen hubs.
H2 & NG turbines are being released, today.
H2 & Diesel dual fuel engines are being released in ships, today.
H2 & Diesel dual fuel engines are being released for large trucks, today.
The first H2 powered test planes ✈️ are being flown last year & this year.
H2 can be cracked from salt water, today, using nuclear ☢️ facilities located by existing ocean 🌊 waterways.
In the end, H2 can provide everything we need, today, without incurring the mining, manufacturing, repair issues associated with brand new all electric infrastructure.
For the electric ⚡️ heads… Solar ☀️ & wind 💨 are both intermittent energy sources, which H2 production can mitigate by H2 being used as a storage for a percentage of the energy produced, for when there is no solar & wind… and excess can be used for transportation.
Carbon fuels are superior energy carriers, where waste is naturally recycled by living things, but H2 offers an immediately achievable alternative with cleaner & more efficient options in the future with fuel cells.
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@husniabdelqader6669 - “since you buy the Israeli narrative”
On the contrary, I read the Hamas Charter and buy their narrative.
Hamas is ok 👌🏽 with not waging war against non-Muslims, as long as Muslims are in charge, as per article 31. Hamas is most certainly an apartheid regime, at best. At worst, it is an advocacy of fast [war] or slow [apartheid] genocide. It is the most bigoted founding document 📃 in modern existence.
“Would you admit there are two sets of laws”
One for the nation of Israel 🇮🇱, one for the almost nation of Palestine 🇵🇸. Eventually, Palestine 🇵🇸 should administer their own laws.
“One for the Palestinians and another for the Jews”
Only in the territories of Palestine 🇵🇸 where Palestinians almost governs.
In Gaza, for example, Jews & Christians must live under Muslim rule (according to Hamas charter) while there is no such religious restriction in Israel 🇮🇱.
“Apartheid… Jim Crow”
Yes, people understand this perfectly.
In Arab countries, they put your religion on your identity documents and treat people differently under the law, depending on their religion. The territory of Palestine 🇵🇸 tries to do the same thing.
“why is this different?”
Israel 🇮🇱 does not tag people according to their religion & administer them differently, unlike the Apartheid Arab regimes.
“you’re just willingly ignorant”
When the Arabs conquered Palestine 🇵🇸, the Arab Invaders instituted a different set of laws for the conquered Palestinians [Christians & Jews & Muslims are differentiated under Sharia Law] than Israel 🇮🇱 [law is attempted to be implemented uniformly for Christians & Jews & Muslims, with Arabs given preferential treatment over Jews in areas like educational scholarships.] (full disclosure: personally, I disagree with any existing preferential treatment for majority groups in Palestine or minority groups in Israel.)
Jordan 🇯🇴 & Egypt 🇪🇬 gave Palestine 🇵🇸 back the land that they conquered, with the intention that Palestine 🇵🇸 would stand up a state. Palestine 🇵🇸 never stood up a state.
Instead, Palestine 🇵🇸 outsourced their military & tax collection to Israel 🇮🇱, in exchange for a check 💵, and a promise to negotiate borders, which never happened. (This was a perverse incentive, since Palestinians get money 💴 for the status-quo of not standing up a state.)
Palestine’s 🇵🇸 outsourcing results in different laws for their territories, as per the agreement the Palestinian Authority made with Israel 🇮🇱… Palestine 🇵🇸 apparently want laws of Egypt 🇪🇬 & Jordan 🇯🇴 , the UK 🇬🇧 administration, and Ottoman Empire before that. Palestine 🇵🇸 has a “tossed salad” 🥗 of laws, compared to Israel.
At some point, Palestine 🇵🇸 needs to stand up a state, and stop expecting Israel 🇮🇱 to help administer laws set up by foreign nations like Egypt 🇪🇬 & Jordan 🇯🇴 & UK 🇬🇧 & [non-existent] Ottoman Empire.
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@JHM52 - “Obama inherited…”
…enough cash from the Bush deficit to run a budget surplus, but failed.
Obama was a senator, who not only contributed to the economic disaster, through the laws he passed during is time as a Democrat lawmaker.
The Democrats, a few decades earlier, passed the CRA, which enabled blackmailed rioters to blackmail banks into providing subprime loans in exchange for being allowed to open new branches in new neighborhoods, and then their policy led to a banking crisis in a few decades from too many banks going under.
In order to resolve the Democrat created banking crises, Obama & McCain both agreed with Bush to take massive loans out of the Bush administration, to stabilize the economy.
Obama & McCain agreed to the huge Bush spending deficit, because the loans were paid back [with interest] during what would be their future administration.
Obama should have run a surplus, with all the Bush deficit money loaned to banks which was paid back with interest to the federal government, but Democrats were as incompetent to create the banking crisis, as they were with the incredible gift to make it possible to balance the budget.
So incompetent, the Democrats who wrote the spending bills for Obama, still could not balance the budget, and Obama was incapable of getting people back to work by canceling the rules which encouraged people to work instead of receiving government benefits, and his political party was responsible for the failure of the a king system through their little blackshirts & brownshirts.
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Agreed that Battery Technology [largely controlled by Asia] will not be able to supply the needs from simple swings in weather, as experienced in Texas when the windmills & solar panels froze over, for many days.
We saw when the Texas wind & solar froze over, even if the wind & solar did not freeze over, they would not have been able to boost their output to meet the peak demand of heat required… and the Nuclear plants could not peak high enough.
This left the Natural Gas plants, which had incredible peak capabilities, but there was not enough natural gas to supply Mexico & Texas… which resulted in blackouts across Central & North America.
In the end, the US would likely be better off generating Hydrogen (from excessive wind & solar & nuclear), storing H2 in huge storage facilities, having large H2 cracking facilities on-shore & off-shore which could turn on to replenish the H2 reserves in a pinch, and use H2 in already existing turbines which can run on H2.
Hydrogen means every nation with a coastline can make their own batteries (in the form of an H2 tank) and create peak power on demand, without ever running out of Natural Gas.
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[David H] - “Battery technology… not be able to supply the needs from simple swings in weather… experienced in Texas”
@alexstergaard3551 - “That is also not true. It depends on the type of battery chosen to do the task”
Dude, you’re on drugs.
Instead of Natural Gas running 10 gigawatt hours and occasionally peaking at 20 gigawatt hours… the minimum NG energy production was 20 gigawatt hours, then 30 gigawatt hours, then 40 gigawatt hours, then hovering 30 gigawatt hours… while peaking around 50 gigawatt hours for weeks!
The only thing holding down energy consumption were blackouts, an area the size of much of Western Europe, for weeks.
To think that 3x of the largest amount of energy Nuclear could produce will be supplied by batteries, for weeks, in the event of another weather downturn, is delusional.
A typical Redox installation is 1 megawatt, for under a half day. Texas would need about 40,000 installations for a half day, then for 2 weeks, assuming the best opportunity of 12 hours to complete drain, they would need 1,120,000 battery installations. Then, they would need to keep them all charged, somehow.
They will never build & maintain that much battery power, no matter how nice redox-flow batteries are. This is the wrong use case.
Batteries, with their low energy density, can not replace peak generators. Batteries can [and should] smooth out the grid, with unreliable generators like Solar & Wind.
To be honest, H2 is needed in a carbon free future, to perform peak generation roles that only carbon based Natural Gas can fill today, without coal & oil. Ignoring that increases sole dependency on Natural Gas, which is dangerous.
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@allahkakafirbanda1939 - “they themselves were the biggest invaders” - after Muslim pirates took Americans 🇺🇸 captive & wanted a yearly ransom [ie Jizya] to “prevent” future raids [when the US did not have a standing army] & the US had to create a standing military force to deal with them, then they did it again & there was a second military conflict, there was WW1 which the US got sucked into after many dead innocent Americans 🇺🇸 & then the US finally got involved, there was WW2 where the US got involved after having ships sunk & homeland invaded where Hitler aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe, there was Iraq 🇮🇶 where a bomb maker killed Americans on the US Homeland & retreated into Iraq 🇮🇶 & refused to give him up & an invasion later happened, there was Afghanistan 🇦🇫 where people who orchestrated the bombing of the US homeland were not given to America 🇺🇸 when requested & resulted in an invasion.
It seems to be correct, had it not been for a very small minority of blood 🩸 thirsty Muslims who attacked America 🇺🇸 repeatedly, the US would not even have a standing army, military actions would have been completely unnecessary, and many forced invasions would have never occurred. Imagine a world where the US had no standing army - that would have been the world had Muslim Nations not started raiding US 🇺🇸 ships & killing Americans 🇺🇸.
Interestingly enough, after the objectives were complete, the US left the various nations in peace, instead of annexing them like colonizing Islamic Caliphates, which committed genocide as they took over nations across the world. 🌍
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@BlackShardStudio - honestly, it is very readily tested… you can do it!
When I read an account to elementary school students, they can repeat it back almost word for word. Try to get them to draw inferences, they can struggle a bit. Often, with blank stares.
When I read an account to a middle schooler, they don’t retain the information, word for word, as well. Ask them to repeat sections, they often give a blank stare. They can draw inferences slightly better, but sometimes get confused.
When I read an account to a young adult, they not only get much better at drawing inferences, but better at self application. 25 years is when males get a lower insurance rates… 25 year old males clearly & statistically start making better decisions, so self application from inductive learning is finally demonstrating positive results!
Having taught young people, for a long time, I found various ages to be very interesting! We must teach to the strengths of the child, age is only one indicator. Not saying we can’t accelerate development, but we can’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
Have a great day!
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“Deaths…”
The amount of deaths from Nuclear are MUCH higher, just look at all the dead Russia Soldiers, who dug trenches in the Red Forest of Ukraine.
The deaths due to coal & oil are exaggerated. Many of those deaths could be attributed to smoking tobacco cigarettes & pot joints & water pipes.
Now, fake numbers for deaths by natural are being created.
This being said, we need all the energy & all the diversity (solar, wind, nuclear, coal, oil, natural gas, hydrogen, co2 from the air, etc.] & energy delivery options [train, pipeline, truck, ship, etc.] we can get, so supply chains must compete with each other, and to keep oligarchs from holding large numbers of people captive.
Eliminating energy types & delivery types only empowers oligarchs & holds humans captive to evil people.
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@sH-ed5yf - “only if Americans are willing to saw clothes”
[David H] - “Americans were always willing to sew clothing”
[s H] - “then name a huge clothes manufacturer”
[David H] - “a local seamstress…”
[s H] - “so you don’t know any major clothes manufacturers in America”
Actually, I don’t know ANY major clothes manufacturers… period.
I know local seamstresses. Another time, we bought one a sewing machine. Ability to locally source demonstrates Americans are willing.
[s H] - “Thanks. I was right then.”
No, you were asking about people who saw’ed clothes. I had a chainsaw hit my leg once, cut some jeans, so technically I know myself.
Now, I know local Americans, so I know your statement is categorically false if you misspelled “sew”, if you were talking about sewing.
Manufacturing was never your question, saw’ing was. Get your question right, because you were wrong 2x in the same thread, and are not doing well.
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@ArawnOfAnnwn -“ very generous way of looking at it”
Someone had to keep the roads between city-states open during the times of the Roman Empire. They were brutal, but people could travel safely. Then, the Byzantines did so, until the roads were unsafe from Islamic Raids, and city-states were Balkanized & they fell. It was the raids of traders in Central Asia, when they sacked the wrong caravan, that brought Genghis Khan to conquer from the East (his caravan was the wrong religion, when traveling across Islamic conquered Central Asia.) Then, Islamic Pirates would kidnap people on ships (off coast of Libya & Somalia), until Europeans built up large enough navies to keep the seaways safe. Now, the US is the primary force keeping the seaway open against Islamic Pirates (off coat of Yemen) & Chinese aggression in South East Asia (the Philippine Christmas Resupply Convoy was harassed, and Vietnamese fishing vessels had been sunk in the past.)
Sometimes, you have to look at things the way they are. The natural state of man is pretty brutal & viscous, when there was no one to protect them against sacking, kidnapping, slavery, and death. It traditionally took a pretty significant brutal order to allow people to live reasonably free when moving between locations. The US does not tax the world, for flying airplanes & sending ships around the seas - yet their blood & treasure largely makes it reasonably safe, today (after WW1 & WW2, where European forces are a shadow of what they used to be, with significant monies redirected into socialized programs for their populations from their former militaries.)
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@williamsmith1741 - “I am not familiar with what you are talking about”
Executives at the Illinois-based utility Exelon, nuclear energy proponents, contributed at least $227,000 to Obama's campaigns for the United States Senate and for president.
Two top Exelon officials, Frank M. Clark, executive vice president, and John W. Rogers Jr., a director, were among Obama's largest fund-raisers.
This is long before 2010, 2009, 2008…
September 2009, White House visitor logs show Exelon CEO John W. Rowe, former chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, visited Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, for nearly an hour.
Regulators in October 2009 then sent a letter to Westinghouse, which is designing new nuclear facilities proposed for Georgia and South Carolina, the NRC called for modifications to the shield building -- a steel and concrete structure that would be erected around the reactor to protect it from earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, or even a terrorist attack.
Follow the money… dynamically changing regulation on long term projects is a way to blackmail others & facilitate indirect payments.
The problem is not with regulation in the US, but with political graft. Unfortunately, regulation is a primary mechanism to drive graft in the executive branch. The longer a project runs, the greater the opportunity for political graft to rear it’s ugly head, and hurt the general population since we all pay the bills.
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@williamsmith1741 - “I am not entirely sure what kind of connection you’re trying to draw”
I did not make the connection, the news did.
Tom Clements, Southeastern Nuclear Campaign coordinator for Friends of the Earth drew the connection, the news did the investigation.
“a $227k contribution to one candidate”
It was more than just one donation, it was to more than just one election, and it was more than just donations.
ABC reported Chicago-based Exelon EVP Frank M. Clark and Exelon Director John W. Rogers Jr. were among Obama's largest fund-raisers, at the time when Obama was becoming politically established in Chicago.
“where was the regulatory graft here?”
NRC Office of New Reactors Director Michael Johnson had been delivering edicts to Westinghouse about the shield redesign since 2008.
In September 2009, Exelon CEO Rowe, former chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, visited Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, for nearly an hour.
Regulators were continuing to pressure Westinghouse, in October 2009 they sent Westinghouse another written communication regarding modification to the shield design.
In February 2010, President Obama announced this week that he would offer $8 billion in loan guarantees, extolling the safety of the design, while regulators had been arguing for safety changes for years.
In this case, the news was gathering evidence of the link between the President Obama and the undercutting of the regulator authority, at the hands of the nuclear industry individuals sending donations & nuclear industry bundlers. The income made by these bundlers in the industry indirectly funded campaign donations.
“Obama Administration and NRC”
After Chicago’s Obama was funded, Obama, elected, and Obama greased the wheels… Southern Nuclear named Stephen Kuczynski, a former Chicago-based Exelon executive, as its chairman, president and chief executive officer.
Shortly afterwards, Southern Co.'s nuclear subsidiary hired a second former Chicago-based Exelon Corp. executive, Bradley Adams, to its management team as Southern Nuclear's Fleet Operations Support vice president.
Oligarchs in WW2 Germany worked through regulation of government. Oligarchs of the Soviet Union worked through government. Oligarchs in Red Communist China works through government. Today, graft builds political oligarchs via bundlers, regulatory system is manipulated, other friendly funding oligarchs are rewarded. This is how the US oligarchy is built.
“How come the South Carolina project died…?”
The South Carolina nuclear project relied on tax credits and the 2 units had to be finished by 2020 to qualify for $2+ billion in federal tax credits or over 20% of the cost.
There were multiple time over-runs, projected future cost over-runs of 150%, project was canceled, and executives went to prison.
Contrast this to GA Southern Co’s hiring & protecting Obama fellow Chicago-based oligarchs [their organization pumped money into Obama’s coffers] - the rate payer is picking up the tab for massive cost & time overruns. No Justice.
“first early site permits… Vogtle… wasn’t 16 years”
Southern Company filed an early site permit in 2006 with the NRC. Now is 2024. GA plants still not powered up & delivering power in production.
Ok, it is worse… ~18 years
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@williamsmith1741 - ‘“explosive power” for dispersion”
If you are ignorant of how to disperse radioactive materials, without significant explosive capabilities, to poison a region — I do not feel it is wise or necessary to educate you & others on the internet.
I suspect you are well aware, if you have not been copy-pasting your arguments from other internet documents.
‘ What incentive would… have to “not count the numbers?” ‘
International agencies work through national governments. There is not much value for humanity in Eastern Europe, much of the remains of the old Soviet Systems do not really care about Eastern European peoples [especially those who are not ethnic Russians.]
Even during the Soviet times, government officials often lied about numbers reported, from the lowest levels of government, additional lying occurred climbing up the chain, lying again before releasing to other external agencies.
Russians, and later Soviets, were renown for human relocations by cattle car, mass graves, and not counting deaths.
Even Russians invading Ukraine, sending largely Asian fighters, are not bothering to pick up their dead.
Why such a lack of value on human life?
Some of the issue is related to racial beliefs.
Part of it is cultural, dealing with shame.
There are so many reasons.
Even outside scientists of prolific peer reviewed articles have been found to falsify radiation studies [for unknown reasons], such as Anders Pape Møller.
Having been to Eastern European villages & cities, this is not hard to comprehend.
“international conspiracy led by the…”
Your previous posts obsessing over conspiracy theories are unnecessary. These are “straw man arguments”, which are logical fallacies, a passive admission to a bankrupt position.
Since I see nuclear power as a reasonably positive thing, I don’t understand why you felt necessary to go down this rabbit hole of illogical thought.
“Chernobyl cleanup”
Not much was cleaned up, much effort was done with containing.
Many peoples were not evacuated, until years after the incident. Others refused to leave exclusion zones. Governments allowed many to just remain. What happens to those people [who were in or are in exclusion zones] are not always diligently followed, as per previous reasons cited.
Belarus got a huge amount of the nuclear fallout, and they had started resettling people back into various radiation zones.
Even some of the less dangerous contaminants only have a 30 year half-life, and it is now 38 years since the disaster. The death of flora & fauna has been immense, genetic defects in both, and measurement of populations in regions demonstrate the danger of such areas to living things [because attempting living things die or can’t replicate without insignificant genetic defect due to radiation.]
Later rainstorms & wildfires raise radiation rates for a short period of time, every so often, so it is still an ongoing issue.
“radioactive waste largely isn’t an issue”
If it was truly not “an issue”, Nuclear Fuel Lifecycle would not be internationally regulated as tightly, regionally regulated so tightly, there would be far less perceived risk, and nuclear electrical energy would cost next to nothing in this day & age.
The problem is: people are not honest about the risks & benefits.
Disassociating radioactive materials from spent fuel, effectively atomizing it, mixing it with soil, and returning it to the ground it came from, is a cute mental exercise, but a disingenuous way of dealing with the risks, and falls into the realm of dishonesty since such disposal techniques are not actively being seriously considered.
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@ReekieReels - “the architecture of American. Global Power projection… was handed to it by Britain”
The US did not want this role. The US disbanded their military after the revolution. The US wanted to be an isolationist nation, on the other side of the world.
It was the Islamic Pirating from the Barbary Nations in Northern Africa, that caused the US to institute a Standing Military. America is largely where it is at today, with their navy, because of Islamic Piracy. Sure, Americans learned from Britain, but had this standing navy seed not been forced upon them, there would have been no reasonable naval infrastructure for fighting during WW1.
The Brits paid off their war debt from WW2. There is no war debt reason for the UK to not have a stronger presence in the globe. With the US Deficit & Debt, the UK will likely need to step up again, sooner than later, until the US can control their budget.
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@ignaciofernandezclavel3535 - “technology you mention are subsidiaries of fossil fuels”
Nope 👎
Liquid fuel ⛽️ directly from CO2 in the air, by mixing it with salt water, pass electricity through it, and the fuel is separated from the water… only requires electricity ⚡️, which can come from any source… and does not explicitly require fossil fuels.
Liquid fuel directly from CO2 in the air using solar powered thin film devices. The photoelectrochemical cells produce hydrocarbons directly from the air… does not explicitly require fossil fuels.
Harvesting CO2 directly from the air for 8 years and converting it directly to fuel for 6 years… does not explicitly require fossil fuels.
Producing fuel directly from CO2 in the air, using high temperature electrolysis… does not explicitly require fossil fuels.
Combining H2 with CO2 from the air & water with a catalyst to produce diesel fuel… does not explicitly require fossil fuels, H2 can come from nuclear or solar electrolysis.
Iron catalysts to drip 💧 jet fuel from the CO2 from the air, hydrogen, and water… does not explicitly require fossil fuels, since H2 can come from nuclear or solar electrolysis.
Carbon based liquids will be around a long time.
“energy return from these processes is less than 1:1”
That is the case from every process.
There is always loss, that is academic.
There is also loss in recycling process, which makes carbon based energy very efficient (in comparison to spent batteries 🪫 )
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The US always reaches it’s debt limit.
They will spend, there is no tomorrow.
You missed the open border in the US, where more illegal aliens are crossing every month than there are housing permits, not to mention legal immigration & births.
When people need places to live, they buy / lease housing & furnish housing, regardless of how much it costs.
Once the southern US border is limited, fewer people will consume the little housing that is permitted, eventually housing pressures will subside, purchasing will decrease, and inflation will come under control.
The savings are being used to help fund what is happening, and once that savings is gone, there will be a huge problem, if the illegal immigration at the US Southern Border is not controlled.
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@teddycooke8145 - “the rich will tell you to…” to depend on government handouts, so they can be slaves on their plantation, bound to the land, and bound to the person they vote for to continue their handouts.
“most people who… don’t have the capitol [sic]… to buy a second property as an investment”
There is a family I know, who came here from Iraq, the second eldest boy went through High School, worked labor, went to aircraft mechanic school, worked labor, and eventually moved into investment properties.
With the excessive spending of Democrats, constantly trying to buy votes, saved wages are worth nothing, and real estate is an asset one can invest physical labor into in order to receive a return on investment.
As long as Democrats keep an open border, to supply their new plantations with slave labor, where housing permits number fewer than the border crossers… the value of land will increase and they will continue to make tremendous money [as the value of money continues to deflate from deficit spending.]
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Carbon in the atmosphere will effectively drive the democratization of energy, since anyone can harvest it, anywhere around the world, with very little effort.
Today, we have:
- machines to suck it out of the atmosphere, which can create liquid fuel for escrowing & easy consumption
- silicon based devices, to create liquid fuel for escrowing & easy consumption
- many different catalyst processes, to create liquid fuel from the air for escrow & easy consumption
The problem is, everyone can do it, literally everywhere, which means no one can control it… and this could start the process of actually removing CO2 from the atmosphere to solve global warming, but it is not really about solving global warming.
Drilling can be controlled by a few nations, Solar is controlled by a few nations in The East, Wind turbines are controlled by a few nations.
Until people finally realize that the problem is really about control of energy [which everyone needs], people who want to profit & control [weaponize] energy will continually to fight over shutting down various energy sectors to remove the competition, instead of dealing with the CO2 issue head-on by harvesting it.
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@bobg9 - Out of 237 nations, only 89 countries are able to replace their current birth rate, with 148 nations not experiencing enough birth rate to replace their populations.
The reality is, genocide of 148 different sets of many people groups, with the replacements having excess, will only cause a situation where any goal of population control will fail since the increasing groups will gain political control & population will skyrocket even more aggressively, with a more homogeneous set of peoples, leaving a world lacking human diversity.
Sure, Racist Social Darwinists, who hate diversity, like what is going on, but the rest of us are not so filled with hate.
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So, temporary China deflation does not help West’s inflation, but temporarily & artificially hides it.
The US inflation is pretty simple & you missed it, migration across the US Southern Border has been occurring faster than housing permits [for ~2 years], which has been driving increased housing prices, which increases taxes, which increases housing rents, which all decreases real wage value, which increases requested human wages, while the government spends like a drunken sailor, and all of this is creating inflation.
The increased need for higher wages leads to a tightened labor market, where US workers can not afford to take a job which they essentially lose money working at… thus people don’t go back to work.
Everywhere around the world which sees immigration + organic human population growth > government permitted housing starts, for years, sees inflation… the U.S. is no magical place which is immune. 😢
The US inflation is 100% due to their own executive branch policy of not enforcing the law at the Southern Border & printing free money to cover up their disaster.
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“on the verge of derailing”
The number of illegal immigrants being allowed to enter had been greater than the housing permits to be built for approaching 4 years.
Large investment companies are trying to buy 30%-40% of all housing, they have been renting to illegal aliens who had been working to pay housing costs, multiple people per rented household.
This had driven inflation in all segments: housing, food, furniture, white wares, etc. Inflation, over the past 3.5 years, was like 30% in the US.
When the illegal immigrants leave [as is typical] with a recession, the investment firms will tank, there will be a fire sale, and life will become terrible in a flash.
Executive Branch regulators, under Democrats Biden / Harris had done nothing to crack down on this risk.
Sorry, this mess is bound to have a correction. The investment houses will crash, I already see many of these former investment houses going up for sale, now… to bail out before the future crash.
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@LowValueMan - “it will crash the price supply/demand”
With people in China, India, Africa, and South America wanting the creature comforts of the 1st World — it will take a half millennium before there is any true crash in demand. Supply will be indefinitely needed (even solar panels use vinyl backings.)
We really need to be working on synthetic supply, if we are going to be realistic about it. Population growth in non-1st World nations will demand carbon based needs like fuel, plastics, roads, vinyl planking, vinyl siding, polyester clothing, 3D printers for their own production needs, paints, carpets, electrical wire insulation, etc.
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@ThePatxiao “how much data… collect and manage that information would be INSANE”
Ummm… we are there, today.
Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. They know who we are, where we are [with every mouse click], how to contact us, what we say we like, what we click on & really like, what we buy, what movies we watch, what we read, etc.
Then, there is the governments, which escrows packets from internet taps, even encrypted packets they can’t unencrypt.
AI merely needs access to harvest it all.
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@antonmorozov5193 - “can’t use fresh water”
Actually, you are more correct in that statement than you think. Electrolysis does not require freshwater, but a salt is needed to transfer ions, so salt water is a good place to go, and we have LOTS of salt water.
“we are going to need a lot of H2… need desalination”
Nuclear requires LOTS of fresh water. H2 production has unlimited salt water to draw from.
Off-shore wind cracks salt water allows H2 to pump to shore via water pressure, nearly being a passive system. Recycling used hydrogen is consuming freshwater. Nuclear requires a huge supply chain that is expensive & complex, and creates nuclear waste for everything the radiation touches.
“problem of water vapor”
There are Solar Panels which produce H2 directly from sunlight using the water vapor in the air, which does not require electrolysis. Nuclear creates an immense amount of water vapor from the cooling towers.
“so it seems that the best way is to switch to…”
Hydrogen, since it solves all the problems of Nuclear.
Also, Hydrogen solves the problem of oil & gas, since there is a never ending supply, recycling easy as oil & gas does.
Also, Hydrogen solves the problems of Solar & Wind, where their energy output is erratic in nature, and H2 provides the natural ability to store until needed, and storage can occur at point of use or anywhere along the way, in inexpensive tanks. Solar & Wind require expensive tanks (ie batteries) to hold temporary energy for peak usage.
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@antonmorozov5193 - “electrolysis does not require freshwater… where can I read about this?”
hydrogen production by chlorine-free hybrid seawater splitting
The secret is low voltage
“Nuclear…. Water… returned to the river downstream”
Steam from cooling towers
“H2 will consume the water”
As stated before, off-shore hydrogen production via wind, on-shore solar to hydrogen production without water (using water vapor in air.)
“Production of H2 from solar/wind”
search:
Offshore Hydrogen
Also, hydrogen is being produced at hydroelectric dams
A sampling of articles & dates
2021-03-02 - Hydroelectric H2 in NY
2021-09-20 - Solar H2 in Fresno, CA
2021-06-10 - Solar H2 in Camden, GA
2022-10-14 - Solar H2 in Kingslsnd GA
2022-10-21 - A new large-scale project was announced in March 2022 by the US startup Green Hydrogen International called the Hydrogen City.
2023-01-09 - 900 megawatt wind & 400 megawatt solar to produce 1.4 gigawatts for Austin, TX for 200,000 kg of H2 produced per day
Green H2 production is petty massive right now, plants in GA are already online, plants in California will take years to come online due to their heavy regulatory restrictions
Right before the Russian invasion, Ukraine was entering into agreements with Europe to supply hydrogen…. Russia just blew the dam next to the nuclear power plant, that was a great Blue Hydrogen plan.
“large scale storage”
I have not investigated this topic thoroughly, but I will since you brought it up.
Today, Ukraine was the largest storage provider in Europe for natural gas. It was projected to be so for Hydrogen.
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@paperplane-db8qf - “Palestinians were not any race or religion”
I don’t really disagree with you on this point. When the Ottomans ran things, the various dhimmi communities lived there. Druze were there, some others.
“some religious disharmony, but that’s normal”
The Hamas charter quotes some of that “disharmony” in Article 7 and it is by NOT NORMAL, “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him."
“Then the Europeans and Americans got their own country there”
That is partially true. During WW1, Ottomans sent in their shock troops from Albania, to try to restore order in Palestine, and many of those European Muslims never left.
During WW2, many of Hitler’s disaffected Muslim allies from Europe’s Balkans were sent in as mercenaries into Palestine to keep Israel from standing up a state, and many never left.
The Jews who were there. They got their own country, an opportunity to have self-rule again, after a long time of not having it.
And the Africans, Middle East, Anatolians, Persian/Asians Jews all got their own country there, once they emigrated back to Israel, who invited them. (Much of the pressure to return was because of the widespread publication of Nazi literature through the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and Israel became a safe place.)
The rest of the Palestinians never got their own country, with those Europeans, once Egypt & Jordan invaded the land, and kept Palestinians from standing up their own nation.
“Deir Yassin massacre happened there”
Yep. Arab militias under Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni blockaded the corridor from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, preventing essential supplies from reaching the Jewish population. The massacre happened while trying to break the blockade. Palestinian historian Aref al-Aref counted 117 victims.
Oct 7 massacre was the latest massacre, done by whackos who believe in the Hamas charter and the religious sources it quotes. They killed over 10 times the number.
Honestly, this is a good reason for people to have self-rule by government: people surrounding you are bent on killing you creates terrible effects. Their government should handle the power of the gun, through rule of law, not civilian militias.
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@monoblock. - use H2, CO2 concerns evaporate
Rail is a great technology for moving heavy cargo.
Trains get stuck in traffic jams because a single rail line is half duplex, while roads are built full duplex.
In the US, roads are used heavily at night for cargo, that comes from sea, air, and train ports. If roads are not heavily used in Europe at night, that is an inefficient use, causing congestion problems during the day for normal human travel.
It makes sense that heavy items travel by rail, goods travel by night, normal human transportation occurs during daylight hours when the average person is awake.
Honestly, automobiles by road should be disappearing in another 40 years, for better autonomous options where we can move through the air & not be so tied to roads. We need to look to the 2100’s and not the 1800’s for human travel options.
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@christopherwaggoner7125 - “we subsidize highways” - which are needed for military transport, so people are using military infrastructure.
“Train… running every couple mins or so” - people don’t need to travel in those quantities between cities in places like the US.
Once people are dropped off in a city, there needs to be transport to other places around the city. Where people live in the suburbs, there needs to be transport from homes to a HSR rail. People buy cars to get to the places the rail does not go, so that private infrastructure will not go away. I have to pay to park my car somewhere, to get the the local public transport. The time from 3x public transportation systems vs the time for the car, when I had the choice I chose to just use the car since it is faster & I can come/go when I want.
In the end, this infrastructure is all a black hole. Most neighboring cities are merely 2 hours by car, so why bother to use rail?
Rail is 1800’s technology. Maybe something like light trams & monorails, which are used at airports, where there is constant local transportation. The future will be air, where expensive land will not take up by transportation. The air is 21st century travel, since expensive rail & roads will not need to be maintained.
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@marcbuisson2463 - “absolutely not the case. Decent transit is not a money pit”
Watch the video. Money pit.
“It’s just the people that make the most money out of it…”
Then raise the prices on the tickets, to accommodate the cost, so it is not a money pit. Proper costing encourages innovation. Proper costing also controls pricing of the land surrounding the metro (people do the cost-benefit analysis.)
“In Paris…”
It is already built. I understand standardization benefits. Many short stops where the trains remain in the densely populated area seem to be used well there! Keeping those lines purposefully built, with connections from elsewhere via other technologies was smart.
There is a cost to ripping & replacing railroad ties, rails, wheels, trains, etc. Extremely expensive. A hidden cost that subsidies hide.
We are in the 2000’s. Lighter & less expensive technology that builds 3D (to consume space in the air) can accomplish a lot. Newer technology may be able to add higher degrees of privacy, as well (to discourage pick pockets.)
Maybe other competing older technology can achieve similar goals.
I am a fan of Gondolas, used in places where retrofitting trains is unfeasible. Add more & remove some as needed on always running lines. Low infrastructure & power requirements, cars provide privacy. Redundant cables for safety, like elevators.
Above ground tunnels joining buildings in urban areas with walkways & moving walkways are nice. Used those before. Ticket usage on static & moving walkways for above ground tunnel maintenance.
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Piracy off the cost of Somalia and other North African countries date back much farther than the early 1900’s.
The United States, upon winning their independence in the late 1700’s, disbanded their military, and disengaged from world wide conflict.
Until…
Pirates in North Africa decided to kidnap Americans and hold them for ransom… if the non-Muslim Americans would pay the Jizya, then they would receive “protection” from the Muslim pirates (it was forbidden for Muslim pirates to steal from fellow Muslims… some exceptions were made if the booty was big enough & the target was the wrong kind of Muslim), then Americans would be preserved for a year.
A standing Navy later & creation of The Marines resolved the issue after two successive wars.
Islamic Piracy dates back to sacking caravans in the early days of Mohammed coming to power, in the late 600’s. Somalia became known for piracy afterwards as Islam conquered West to the Maghreb, and started pushing South.
Countries like Libya even had their hand in tolerance of air piracy, during the late 1900’s
Modern Somalia is just another nation in a ~1400 year old history of piracy, on land, air, and sea.
So now, we know why the US has a huge standing Army & Navy & Air Force… it was due to piracy & tolerance of it by Muslim dominated nations of North Africa (because it was a good way to make money, since the days of Mohammed.)
Other examples of land piracy, by sacking the wrong “unbelieving” caravan… well, in Central Asia, a little guy named Genghis Khan… but that is another story.
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Your concerns are valid, but the blame on boomers is poorly reasoned.
Housing permits have been lower than illegal immigration across the southern border since this past election cycle. This has driven the cost of housing higher, for everyone.
The increase in humans from unmetered southern US border has depressed wages for Americans.
Oil pipelines & infrastructure have been blocked, forcing oil to be moved more by train & truck, raising the cost of transportation for goods, and ultimately creating supply line stresses, since the last election cycle.
People are increasingly turning to drugs, which inhibit natural drive & decrease productivity, which reflects in lower wages due to lower efficiency.
Covid lockdowns have resulted in many small businesses going broke, replaced by Chinese products shipped directly to our homes without a middleman, and those small business had formerly been drivers for [minority] employment & living wages.
Boomers leaving the market place, will not likely help 40-something year olds. People who understand how things work & are not strung out on drugs need to be running things as younger people need to learn how it all works so they can take over when the time is right… and we are the age the boomer are today.
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@fatemad4012 - “how can we sustain our modern civilization”
Synthetic fuels are the first step. Carbon capture, hydrogen generation from water, creation of hydrocarbons from there. This can satisfy some of the lightest carbon needs, but heavier carbon needs from asphalt roads to roofing shingles have no solutions.
There are some discussions around turning more food into plastics, the same way we turn food into fuel like ethanol, but these are probably not the best long term plan.
Honestly, we need CO2 capture & escrow. If there is a day when Earth based abiotic production of carbon based resources is exhausted, the only resources left will be what we collect & harvest from the biosphere. Recycling (what a concept.) The air will become the second greatest resource, escrowed CO2 being the greatest resource. If CO2 & exhaustion of carbon from the earth is REALLY an issue, we would be escrowing CO2 (not embedding it into concrete, which can not be easily recovered.)
There is really no end in sight, the earth is huge, but that does not mean we should not conserve what we are harvesting by recycling it, and there is huge pushback by environmentalists for the first step in recycling CO2, through escrow. Recycling needs to be done, to create the aggregate sources through CO2 escrow, which can be harvested on a massive scale for the next step: production of new goods like plastics, vinyl, clothing, carpets, synthetic rubber, 3D printing filament, etc.
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@schumanhuman - “population… not a major factor”
More people needing to live in a house than housing that exists most certainly creates a major factor in prices.
“why doesn’t supply rise to meet demand”
The governments must issue permits.
“US has plenty of land and lots of skyline to fill?”
The governments must issue permits.
“Land prices… monopoly price determines by taxes and bank credit”
As long as people are willing to buy the land at a higher price, the taxes go up since the value goes up.
There are land prices by Detroit are cheap, as miles upon miles of land area was abandoned, and that land is cheap… but there are no jobs. There are also no government services, because the land is cheap & taxes so low.
There must be job opportunities in an area, before people can settle there.
If there are no job opportunities, then there must be a degree of wealth independence, in order for it to be like an extended vacation/retirement.
“If migration is lowered”
Or if housing permits are increased, this would solve the problems
“developers always seek to maximize profits”
As do all families, in order to save for a rainy day.
“views on immigration”
It is simple:
1. Government permit more housing
2. Government limits immigration
Either way, the government has control, they have to do something about it.
“not the key to affordable housing”
Affordable housing is a longer term problem.
Right now, we are just talking about the general inflation in & out of the housing market, caused by some dumb, really dumb, politicians… who wanted to get rich at the expense of the poor & middle class.
This is not rocket science.
There are idiots who think they can increase population faster than what they are permit houses to be built.
Those same idiots think they can do it for 2 years.
Clearly they knew the consequences,
which is why wealthy investors, supporting the idiots politically, were snapping up land everywhere.
I have no sympathy for the Lords who want to own the land and make the serfs suffer with super high rent.
They cause the inflation in the US, now they need to suffer a little, like the rest of the poor & middle class
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@karlmiller5009 - yes, agreed.
The hydrocarbons will never go away, we will only be forced to recycle carbon, better.
Today, CO2 in the atmosphere is the greatest universal reservoir for carbon, to be used.
Every plant creates sugar from water & CO2, plants eat sugar, animals eat plants for sugar.
We synthetically produce hydrocarbons from atmospheric CO2, it is just a high cost. Once catalysts are commoditized, hydrocarbon drilling & mining will no longer be required, anyone can get it anywhere.
Migrating the economy now, from hydrocarbons, just delays the inevitable, of nearly freely available / decentralized energy carriers and decentralized manufacturing.
Printing fabrics & food are an amazing future.
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