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