Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. Today’s fast spectrum reactors using salt as heat transfer fluid remove almost every hazard associated with traditional pressurised water reactors. No pressure, no water = no possible steam explosion. No water so no steam bubbles = zero risk of local overheating within the core No water so steam can’t react with zirconium creating hydrogen and oxygen No water so neutrons cannot split water into hydrogen and oxygen No free hydrogen and oxygen within the core so reformers are not needed. No free hydrogen and oxygen to degrade the steel pressure vessel and cooling systems. Fuel rods are vented so no risk of gaseous fission products causing over-pressure in the fuel. The most biologically dangerous elements (caesium 131 and iodine 137) form caesium iodide within the fuel which is not a gas. Molten chloride salts with no oxygen present are less corrosive than very hot pressurised water. The nuclear reaction is self controlling. Too much temperature slows the fission rate too little speeds it up. Remove the cooling circuit and the react cannot overheat. The core has one moving part - a stirrer to ensure the salt is kept in circulation. Why are we not building these things as quickly as possible? Or at least a test plant. The resin work is done years ago. The delays are entirely regulatory.
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  2. It’s a perfect dilemma for Russia. They won’t know which way Ukraine will go. Hopefully they’ll send in the jets and have them hit by Stingers.
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  3. Russia certainly moved troops to Kherson but I’m wondering ifthey have always been thinner on the ground than we have been led to believe. Professional defenders should be really hard to dislodge. However, the Red Army (sorry) Russian Army is hardly a professional outfit.
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  4. You can add “who would save a lot of money by blowing it up?” GazProm was slow pedalling repairs but was under a contract with Germany that included very heavy costs if supplies were interrupted. Send bombs down the pipes and the problem is no longer expensive for GazProm.
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  5. Regardless of what happens with USA, UK is not going back to the EU. Huawei is a massive security hole. Who knows why Boris fumbled over that. The likes of TikTok should also be scrapped
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  6. Ukraine has lost lives in Bakhmut while Russians lost 10x as many lives. It’s brutal but those Russians are not available to resist the upcoming fight back by Ukraine. Taking the big picture those lives were a bargain in terms of winning the war.
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  7. The EU cannot continue without becoming a fully unified superstate. If that's what it's member states want, including EU army, EU central bank and EU tax collections then so be it. UK has no interest in such things so is far better to leave and the EU should be more than happy to let them leave. The problem is that EU cannot see that any change means things will not stay the same.
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  8. Russians in Kherson are trapped on west side of Dneiper. They can’t retreat and can’t be resupplied. All Ukraine has to do is keep them boxed in until starvation forces surrender.
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  9. Putin and his ilk regularly prove that international law is a fiction. Peace comes when you have the forces to ensure nobody invades your space. Peace treaties are useless unless backed by a strong military.
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  10. The current working population of Germany has failed to have any children. They effectively killed the country 30 years ago. So Germany is now looking around for workers. Given the chance, they’ll suck the rest of EU dry. They’ve already used the Euro currency to suck wealth out of the South. The next move will be to extract their useful workers.
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  11. Your guys complaining that nobody knows who was the first to single handed go around world is telling. Two options could never have had the technology. The other two - just take the shortest name.
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  12. EU is all about central control, yet sits also incredibly inflexible. They can’t cope with Poland and Hungary. Ukraine would seriously upset the system so they won’t be allowed in. A grouping of Baltics, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine makes far more sense.
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  13. If you think U.K. is hard work, I suggest you check how Spain does things like passports. Any government bureaucracy is liable to make screw ups like Windrush. If you want certainty, get your details in order in the ways the system wants it. If you have older relatives over here then check they have got it sorted. Don’t take their word for it.
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  14. Here we go again.
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  15. Russia demolishing the dam is the most likely outcome. They will blame Ukraine but nobody will believe them.
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  16. Ukraine is likely to attack in the South, resupplied by sea and further East (due North of Melitopol). But the main attack will come via the Dnipro Dam cutting off any Russians to the West.
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  17. KGB used German Greens to trash nuclear power as that made a bigger market for Russian gas and oil.
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  18. The gas situation is solved (sort of). But when the undersea cables get cut they’ll be wanting help from Elon Musk (Starlink). Oh no they’ve just upset him over stuff he’s not done at Twitter. Well done EU.
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  19. During WW2 after D-Day George Patton wanted to push forward and take territory as fast as possible. He said fewer lives would be lost. Eisenhower, Bradley and Montgomery ignored him. The result was more allied deaths and the Soviets taking far more of Germany than should have happened. Patton was correct. Stand around and your enemies will take control.
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  20. GazProm which is owned by the Russian state (which is controlled by Putin) blew up Nordstream so they did not have to pay damages to Germany under their contract obligations. Oops sorry. Act of God. What could we do. . The pipes were blown outwards, the stop valves (all four) failed to close and stayed open for weeks. How was USA or any outsider supposed to achieve all that?
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  21. Mark Miley fled from Afghanistan in a most unprofessional manner. His retreat had more in common with Russian methods than anything we should expect from USA.
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  22. Opinion polls in Russia are unreliable at best. Whatever they actually think, people avoid trouble by saying the government line.
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  23. 80 years ago Hitler abused the Russian peasants. They would have fought with him but instead stuck with the hated Stalin - the devil they knew. Putin is making the exact same mistake with his woeful treatment of ethic Russians in Ukraine.
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  24. Stalin blew up the original dam and caused untold problems (and deaths) to his own people and army. Putin follows every WW2 cock-up to the letter so a repeat performance was always likely.
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  25. Wagner used prisoners and artillery rounds like water. Prisoners are refusing to sign up for a nasty death and Russian arms industry can’t provide artillery shells at the ridiculous rate Wagner uses them. Result: Wagner is stuffed. Prigozhin either falls out of a window or gets Putin to force MoD to send more ammunition in his direction. Russia can’t make enough ammo so what’s going to happen?
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  26. Ukraine has the logistical and organisational skills. Russia does not.
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  27. USA has enough conventional firepower to destroy the Russian navy and its bases anywhere in the world. They can also sink or damage Russian nuclear submarines before they deploy weapons.
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  28. In 2002, the EU announced plans to absorb North Africa and the Middle East from Morocco right over to Kazakstan. Once that’s recognised the whole mess of Libya, Iraq and Iran all start to make sense.
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  29. We could have nuclear power which burns existing nuke waste at costs cheaper than gas fired plant. All we need is a safety regime focussed delivery instead of (alleged) safety being used to prevent delivery
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  30. So you crash a government which supports membership of a fairly benign trade bloc in order to become a vassal of the most brutal empire the world has ever known.
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  31. Turkey is currently keeping Bosphorus Straits closed thereby keeping the Russian Black Sea Fleet boxed up. Turkey effectively controls the Black Sea. Like it or not, this makes Turkey an important NATO asset.
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  32. Ukraine will plug the water supply to Crimea. Then move far enough eastwards for HIMARS to stall any transport links into Crimea. It will then be a repeat of Kherson though they’ll have to protect their northern flank.
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  33. There is no attempt to adjust for different data systems so it’s all virtue signalling. For example Spain changed how it recorded Covid deaths and its numbers plummeted. UK tends to record all deaths WITH Covid as being due to Covid. Consequently UK numbers are high.
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  34. What happens when Russia blows the dam? We can’t have it. You won’t get it either.
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  35.  @joshebarry  if Trump continues as POTUS, it's likely that UK and USA will get closer or at least do a sensible trade deal. If the Democrats take over, USA will pivot towards China and all bets are off for the USA as a genuinely separate country.
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  36.  @joshebarry  USA has a huge spread of affluence. Compare the Appalacian Mountains area to New York (City or State) or California. It's like comparing The long dead South Wales coal towns to London City. Not to mention the decaying cities exclusively run and run down by Democrat dominated state governments.
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