Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "VisualEconomik EN"
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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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