Comments by "Archangel17" (@MDP1702) on "DW News" channel.

  1. Do these new agencies research things? Le Pen's party lost 1,5% and a seat compared to 2014. How can they call that a victory? How does that change FN's position in europe for the better?
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  2. It is more of a question of price and competition. If Tesla can make the same amount of cars with less people and the cars eventually get cheaper because of that, how is VW going to be able to compete in the future?
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  3.  @shachart465  Pretty much everyone condemned Hamas, it is just that no one cares. To those not supporting Hamas it is normal to condemn it, Hamas and its supporters don't care about that. But if you condemn Israel, wow suddenly it is like you support Hamas or are anti-semitic. Obviously Hamas has commited terrible (war) crimes, doesn't take away that Israel is also guilty of war crimes and breaking international law.
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  4. I'd not say he hemorrhaged votes. Sure he lost aorund 2 million votes or 10% of his previous amount, but for a French incumbent, that isn't that bad. And it is a better result than most polls expected. And he got actually more votes in the first round than the previous time.
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  5. Because Hamas is a terrorist organisation, Israel isn't (I hope). You can't demand these 2 group to act the same way. If Hamas was as 'lawfull/honorable' as Israel, it wouldn't be classified as a terrorist organisation to begin with. Moreover Israel is by far the stronger of the 2 ans has caused much more civilian deaths than Hamas so far. Most civilians would have no clue of such information, and even if they do, many might be afraid of future retribution. Besides, Israel is likely still seen by most as the enemy, whether they like Hamas or not, so they are unlikely to help IDF soldiers out.
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  6. There is just waaaay fewer planes than cars, but when an accident does happen it is on much larger scale Yes, EV fires are more difficult to control, but that overall doesn't matter as much if it isn't happening in a building. Also overall EV's tend to not enflame/blow up directly after an accident, giving occupants time to safely exit. Then it depends on design how easy and cheap it is to replace More and more it looks like batteries (>70% of capacity left) will outlast the cars lifetime, thus no real need for easy access to replace it. in normal car you can recharge or change battery at home without any special skills and you can refill the tank anytime instantly. I don't really see why this follows changing an EV battery. The comparison is replacing the engine, not the small onboard battery (which EV's also generally still have). With more EVs the demand for elecricity logically increases and it will get covered by easy to build and maintain powerplants that can work 24/7 - coal or phosil fuels power plants EV's should add around 10-15% to the current electricity demand. It won't come from coal or fossil fuel plants, mostly from renewables, which could have a good synergy with EV's if done right. but the volume released into the atmosphere will be the same. That is already incorrect seeing my other answer, but also cars are generally less efficient than powerplants, so you'd still see a reduction in air pollution. Not to mention most countries in europe dont have the energy grid capacity to cover this inceasing demand yet They do, or at least they should unless they are completely ignoring grid maintenance. The extra demand isn't that big as I said and it grows overtime, it isn't like you just flip a switch. People also could use renewable from home (solar panels) or work/local (solar panels and wind turbines), decreasing the pressure on the grid if v2g/h is also used. Lastly we used to be able to change batteries in our phones, then this choice was taken away from us, not thanks to EU it may be coming back, but this western trend of not fixing broken stuff or being able to get only certain parts, just having to buy a brand new product is what is what makes EVs not ecologic choice This argument can just as well be used for regular combustion engine cars. There are people who have the same working and safe car for 40 years in the eastern europe Could be, but likely with a lot of maintenance costs along the way. That or something is really different from eastern Europe and the rest of the world in terms of cars. more people than I thought are getting new car every 2 years, thats so much material mined and emissions created just by the production I doubt there are many people that do this. And these cars don't just immediately get scrapped they are sold 2nd, which then in the end will push the oldest cars out of circulation down the line. Also EV batteries can and will be recycled, it is too lucrative to not do that. So the effort/energy used during mining isn't just going to waste. We need to change people's and companies' behaviour first before EVs can be considered a "green" choice. This doesn't have something to do with EV's specifically, rather cars as a whole. they need to stop thinking only of Fukushima and Cherbobyl and consider the hundreds of perfectly safe plants, so that it is affordable and reasonable for people to get EVs and get their full use out of them Even if the German government drops it anti-nuclear stance from ideology, they still wouldn't adopt it for a certain reason: new nuclear powerplants are extremely expensive (per unit energy produced), more so than solar, wind turbines and coal and around the same as gas powerplants. Maybe this changes eventually, but the current financial situation isn't beneficial for new nuclear powerplants.
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  7. Why would BEV's be stalled on the highways?
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  8.  @eggcluck  except there are no problems as serious as in the UK. The problems in the USA, France and Germany are chronic ones that can rather easily be kept in check, in the UK this chronic problem exists too for years, however it has been worsened by brexit and turned into an acute problem.
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  9. Here in Belgium unvaccinated people are 3-10 times (depending on age group) more likely to end up in the ICU according to ICU numbers. So clearly vaccins are working, they just aren't completely foolproof, especially not for older people or for with extra medical conditions.
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  10.  @erfolgreich  You can only be a mediator if you're mostly neutral to both sides, otherwise one of the sides won't trust you. Also in his position neutrality is a good thing.
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  11. Theoretically yes, but that likely isn't that practical except for certain situations. That is about the driving part. Wireless charging while stationary is definitely possible.
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  12.  @kuiperbond8460  That isn't really correct, depending on how you do it, you can combine solar and farming, this is called agrovoltaics. It overall increases the general output of the field, and only slightly diminishes the seperate parts output. Like 80% of the normal crops compared to just crops and 80% of PV vs just PV: 160% field output, or thus a 60% increase. Obviously I don't know if they did that in this case, but it can be done and one of the test projects that proved this was in Germany.
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  13.  @rajeshrai42  Technically since Israel still occupies the west bank, the war was never over, rather Hamas is just reigniting it. Ofcourse with unacceptable means, then again I wouldn't call the Israeli government (and its settlers) much better.
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  14. Russia sitting back 🤣, they have been more on the offensive than Ukraine and generally more high casualty offensives. There is no claim of 315k dead, there is an estimates of 315k casualties, which also includes wounded, missing and deserters/captured. The estimated Russian dead toll is around 100k.
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  15. My question is, did Macron say they are going to increase the share of nuclear are did he just say that France will build more nuclear reactors. Because while both sound the same, there is a huge difference. If France wants to keep some part of the electricity nuclear, it will always need to build more new reactors to eventually replace the old ones. So more new nuclear reactors could mean that nuclear still will go down from 70% to like 50-60% with the rest renewables and that the new reactors are only meant to replace older reactors.
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  16.  Bainsworth  There is more than enough lithium to replace current vehicles, the main question is whether they can ramp up the mining of lithium enough. Untill recently lithium mines actually had to slow down their production to avoid having an oversupply and thus a drop in price, now it will be the opposite Recycling is already possible as several new companies have shown, however these will only be able to ramp up recycling rate once enough EV batteries need to be taken out of circulation, or in other words, they will always lag behind the produced BEV cars by around 2-3 decades, untill you get a stable reuse market where most of the new battery materials come from recycling.
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  17. Batteries end of life is no problem, recycling is already seen by car manufacturers as a future cost savings measure seeing how material rich those batteries are vs mined stuff, not to mention it shortens supply lines. And the recycling is constantly improved, at this moment there are already companies that can reach a 95% recycling rate.
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  18. ​ @amartin3628  The liquid waste is in fact being recycled in these process. The 5% remaining is not harmfull to the environment, at least not more than other waste.
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  19. You can't just use an LPG station for hydrogen. Hydrogen needs their own dedicated stations and these are extremely costly (around 2-3 million per station)
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  20. but after some time that battery life shorterns The rate of depreciation is low for new BEV batteries, expected to be still around 80-85% for most cars after 10+ years. In early BEV's this was way worse due to bad battery management (like bad temperature control).
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  21. There is enough material to build the necessary amount of batteries overtime. EV batteries get recycled, it is just way to interesting from an economical perspective not to.
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  22. Could be, comparing cars of a same age might be better. But overall gasoline cars are inherently much more likely to catch fire than EV's.
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  23. Nuclear powerplants don't really help with the renewables intermittency, since they best run constantly/as much as possible. Now, you could say nuclear needs to be the baseload and renewables everything above, but if you have more renewables than necessary, the lower generation costs could outperfom the nuclear base load at certain moments, causing them to either produce at a loss or lower output, which isn't really great for nuclear. So the government will always have to guarantee that nuclear reactors get a certain minimum price and production rate, essentially subsidizing nuclear in the long term even when renewables don't need subsidies anymore and are cheaper. The main danger I see is now going full into nuclear only to find out that by the time most of these plants become operational, storage is so much more viable that it starts to compete with these plants, meaning you might be stuck with more expensive plants for 60 years even when you have better alternatives. And now you can say that storage isn't going to become viable that soon, but remember that solar panels were 10 times more expensives around 10-15 years ago and that the price mostly went down due to economies of scale. Storage wasn't really needed that urgently in the past, so it only is coming up now, it is very possible that they'll make a similar growth rate in the next 10-15 years in cost as solar panels had.
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  24.  @gilian2587  Battery storage using standard lithium ion batteries is quite expensive at the moment; That is indeed true, however even without improvements in battery tech it is expected that Li-ion batteries will become cost effective around 2030-35 just due to scaling. However I don't think Li-ion is going to be used for the grid past quick reactionary means to stabilise the grid, I'd expect other battery chemistries to full fill that role in the future ('rust' batteries, iron batteries, flow batteries, ...) as well as completely different storage solutions (CAES, LAES, heat energy storage, ...). The market for large scale grid storage is rather new, so the companies and technologies catering to it are too, they now need some time to prove their products viability and to scale up. By 2030 the gridstorage situation can look completely differently. And even if we decide to build new nuclear powerplants now, they likely wouldn't start operating for another 10-15 years, so a similar timeline to what storage might need. These current energy shortages in Europe speak to that. Yes and no. Yes, renewables have underperformed this year (mostly wind, solar was overall still pretty stable, though not favorable), however the greatest problem is the gas supply which has been seriously hampered causing the vast increase in prices. And even nuclear wasn't a guarantee for the UK, where there was an unforseen shutdown for some reactors. Essentially this is a perfect bad situation. Grid storage would have definitely helped though.
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  25. Antoine Deltour was eventually determined free of all charges by a Luxembourgian appeal court due to being protected as a whistleblower. Edouard also was acquitted. For Raphael the reduced sentence stands, since his appeal was dismissed (don't know why his failed and Deltours didn't). Also remember, this was a company going after its former employees, not a state going after journalists, so I don't so the relevance to the original topic.
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  26.  @davidjay4373  well, a majority of Israeli people don't won't it, neither does the government considering they support and expand the illegal settlements on the west bank, which under a two state solution would have to be abandoned/evacuated. They are even now upping their removal of Palestine settlements on the west bank and the Israeli settlers with the support of the military are increasingly attacking Palestinian people that lived there for generations. The thing is, Hamas would lose much of their support with a 2 state solution, but so would the Israeli government (likely to the point it can't even sanction/enforce any agreement on it).
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  27. in the very same way the rocket that malfunctioned and fell over a hospital was confirmed. Except independent organisations have already determined that missile came from Israel based on sound and impact crater analysis. Moreover it has been found that a phonecall the Israeli's released as "evidence" was from 2 different conversations spliced together.
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  28. You essentially are advocating for state controlled media, since independent media exactly are private organisations, I do think a limit to donations can be established, though this is rather impossible with anonymous donations, so all donations should be made public and an independent government organisation should distribute government funding for media.
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  29. Except that the German government was on the same side of the EU going against that ruling. Also while this Polish ruling essentially attacks the core foundation of the union, the German ruling was only about a minor thing the German government did together with the EU (if I am correct). And Germany got slapped with sanctions too I might add.
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  30.  @canemcave  Sanctions were announced, however the German government quickly took the necessary actions to remedy the situation (though it was more of a temporary stopgap, essentially justifying to the German court that the German/EU decision was in line with German law). The Polish government on the other hand is using it to fuel an anti-EU stance. That is the difference. Moreover if this Polish court decision is followed, the only way forward is for a complete renegotiating of the EU treaties or Poland leaving the EU. A complete renegotiating isn't possible, not in the least because one of the things the court attacked are fundamental EU values. Thus the Polish government has essentially 2 possibilities to move forward: change Polish law to be in line with the treaty or leave. Currently it is doing neither. Why? Because neither is a good option for them. If they change Polish law it will be looked at as them backing down. If they start the process to leave, they'll quickly be chased out of office by the 80%+ of poles that want to remain in the EU. By essentially remaining in limbo for now the Polish government hopes that the EU will eventually back down first. The EU can't back down, there is no way, it would be the end of the EU. Thus Polish government chooses limbo, giving the EU no other choice but to slap with (budgetary) sanctions, since it neither can push Poland out, nor do any more decisive sanctions with Hungary blocking every effort.
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  31. Really? She seems to have confused killed and casualty here. Casualty figures also includes wounded and captured or missing troops. No way was US estimates for casualties (what the 315k is here) only 50k a few months ago.
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  32. Often this is due to BEV's having a bigger informatics package due to the idea that electric vehicles need to be more modern/new/... And it is this that often gets reliability down a bit. Also it shouldn't really be weird that reliability it a bit lower currently. BEV's are still relatively new and so are their production lines, thus some issues might still need to be ironed out vs the established ICE lines. There might also be the case that people are more critical for BEV's currently precisely because they are different/new.
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  33. My town is way bigger than this one and could produce enough electricity with +-10 turbines. It is exactly because they export most of this power to othr reasons they have installed so many wind turbines.
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  34. Barrels run down and need to be replaced/redone. So the question is also how many of these soviets gun are still fit and for how long. Considering Ukraine has been producing soviet caliber shells themselves and apparently have starting transforming slowly to NATO standard shell production, I'd say the soviet era guns have started losing their importance vs NATO artillery systems. Overall Ukraine has received something like 700 (known) artillery systems using western nato ammunition.
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  35. To remain even a little economical +-800-1000 people per flight will be needed for starship. And even if it can work for commercial earth to earth, it won't be any time soon.
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  36.  @Lee-jc1ob  Solar panels is toxic for recycling too. Only few specialised solar panels contain toxic materials (like the very thin/flexible ones). Most used PV panels are just fine. Another difficulty is the large solar panel power plant needs enormous water to cool the turbine You do realise a PV panel doesn't need a turbine, let alone water to cool it. Now if you talk about CSP plants, yes and no. They don't need water to cool the turbines, they need water to run the turbines, though that can be a mostly closed cycle. You know what does require a lot of water for cooling: nuclear powerplants. because solar energy is difficult to store, has to be transformed immediately, the turbine is exhausted, so the fresh water just go to cool it. This literally makes no sense, the only solar power that uses a turbine is CSP plants and they do have the capability to store solar energy for quite some hours (+-10 hours, possibly more depending on design).
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  37. Rightfully so if German laws are so non neutral due to feelings of historic guilt.
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  38. It usually is shown compared to km/miles driven or amount of cars of the road. Obviously absolute numbers are a no go for something like this. And it makes sense that EV's catch less fire from an engineering/logical perspective.
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  39. Will an EV last 26 years or 50 years there are many ICE vehicles that are perfectly fine driving around perfectly fine intact Most cars have an average lifetime of around 14 years. Cars that go on longer than 20 years are overall pretty rare and generally tend to be more expensive maintenance wise. It depends on manufacturer, but there are already BEV's where the battery apparently could last between 500k and 1m km's, but cars rarely ever get to that number, so only few cases exist (especially considering how new BEV's still are). In same cases it is expected that the car will fail structurally before the battery. and of course there are many ICE vehicles still running after 60 70 or 80 years Most of these are oldtimers and not really that actively used + often completely restored, litte used or having had a lot of maintenance. There ofcourse are exceptions, but those are rare. a petrol or diesel vehicle fire its no big deal but an EV vehicle fire is a really really big deal and they use a lot of water to put them out and were does the water go with all its nasty chemicals in it into the storm drains so the EV is causing water pollution It does use a lot of water, but most firestations also don't have the right tools are knowledge to fight them other than pouring large amounts of water on it, better ways of fighting these fires do exist. I don't know the specifics about the chemicals toxity to the water, so I am not going to talk about that.
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  40. Russia has gone through quite some different phases since the 1500's, so that is a pretty ignorant statement. For most of time since the 1500's it wasn't worse or better than its neighbours.
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  41. Replacing the battery after 8 years costs you as much as brand new car off the lot. No company is going to allow a battery having to be replaced after 8 years. The warranty on the batteries goes untill that time (or +-150 000km). They also need to keep a good margin to make sure as few batteries as possible fall under this warranty, thus the minimum battery life is at least 10-12years. And real life examples already showed it is generally longer than this, potentially even longer than the actual life of the car itself. although nobody says anything about EV's being 3x the weight of the closest comparable gas powered car. No idea where you get this from. On average a BEV is around 20-50% heavier than a comparable ice car, definitely not 300%. i can only imagine what dangers a tesla will bring after 5 to 8 years of road salt. Road salt isn't any problem.
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  42. Lets be honest, if Russia were to invade the baltics and/or Poland, all NATO forces would be given permission to cross whatever members borders/move columns through them within minutes/an hour at most, likely even supported by local enforcement agencies in terms of clearing the roads to move quickly. When war comes bureaucracy will quickly dissapear untill a stable situation is achieved, that is just the logical reaction. Obviously when talking about exercises, it is much easier/logical that bureaucracy still remains in place and makes things more difficult. It is the state and strength of the quick response forces that will be most important, as well as the actual infrastructure.
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  43. Doesn't make sense at all. Wagner could easily have made it look like a decision of themselves without staging a coup and then backing down.
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  44. I am pretty certain the lower cost was vs old prices. From what I gathered from this clip, the main reason so many of the citizens got on board in the past, exactly was the lower cost and profit. Generally speaking the pure power production only makes up around a third of the energy cost, the other parts are distribution costs and taxes (in Germany taxes even make up around 50% last few years). So if this village can skip the taxes and distribution costs (partially), they are indeed paying a lot less. Wind power these days cost about 40-50$/MWh and large scale solar around 30-50$/MWh, while the average bill in Germany was around 300-320$/MWh. Do the math yourself.
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  45. Infection cases don't really matter at this point, hospitalisation numbers do. And among those latter the difference between unvaccinated and vaccinated people is stark (3-10 times depending on age group).
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  46.  @Scapestoat  Nah, hydrogen for regular passenger cars is a no go. Its range it currently limited by the amount of space for the gas, not really a problem for trucks, but it is for cars. And currently hydrogen car range isn't even better compared to long range BEV's. Moreover Hydrogen production and use for cars will always require more energy than BEV cars. Yes, you can theoretically create hydrogen at home, the problem is that this hydrogen is useless for driving, unless you have a very expensive compressor that can compress it to very high pressure. you'd pay way more for that compression installation than a new BEV+solar panels (which you'd also need for your electrolysis). Hydrogen doesn't have a future for cars, trucks is a whole other thing. Though then the question is how well this will take off without sharing the fuel infrastructure (and thus costs) with regular cars.
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  47.  @TheRealRoadhog  Toyota's hydrogen car is nothing special, moreover it doesn't fix the inherent problems with large scale hydrogen car adoption. Toyota already had a hydrogen car out for almost as long as BEV's, yet they sold a fraction of those compared to the sales of BEV's. Or you could use that electricity produced by nuclear powerplants to directly power BEV's instead of wasting more than half the energy for hydrogen cars? Hydrogen will still be an important fuel though, just not for cars. The regional public bus service where I live bought bought 5 hydrogen busses a few years ago, they pretty quickly phased out citing too high costs and unnecessary extra logistical stuff. There currently are more electric busses than hydrogen busses worldwide. Though busses would have less problems with hydrogen than regular cars, considering they just like trucks have a lot more space to play with, thus more range.
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  48.  @gilian2587  No, we are not 70 years away. Firstly there are several storage solutions coming up, ranging from different kinds of battery technologies to storage using temperature differentials and highly isolated storage tanks. Even if we ignore this, research already estimated that lithium batteries would drop in price enough by 2030-35 to be a competitive gridstorage option, purely due to the scalegrowth of Li-ion batteries, ignoring possible technological improvements in the chemistry. Also you'll only have an overabundance of energy with nuclear if you build and overabundance. With the same kind of thinking we also could get an overabundance with renewables, considering solar could power the world by covering only a relatively small part of the sahara with solar panels. With 2019 production of solar panels (not the electricity generation the actual production of new panels) and placing them in the sahara, we could produce enough to power the whole world within 15 years from now (though I think this is only for current electricity use, possibly not added needed production for things like EV's, heating, ...).
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  49.  @gilian2587  The maintenance cost from the sand blowing about everywhere would get to be pretty nasty. This was just a symbolic comparison. It is possible, but not likely going to be used and is at this moment definitely impractical (at this moment). It is just to say that we can get 100%+ renewables pretty quickly purely based on the total generation, ignoring storage or distance (We can easily also place these panels in Europe, US, ... However you'd just need to take more care for existing infrastructure, buildings, environment, .... And how do you propose to transport that energy to Germany? You have roughly 3350 km between the Sahara and Germany. Again it was just metaphorical. But if you want a real answer, HVDC has a loss of around 3% per 1000km, so you'd lose around 10-11% with it. It was just to put it into perspective to make you understand that we could also rather easily (relatively speaking) get an overabundance of energy with renewables.
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  50.  @gilian2587  Just like there is a cost for nuclear. Look you said we'd get an abundance of energy using nuclear, without pointing out that this too will have huge cost and other problems. So I just pointed out that renewables also can get us an abundance of energy. Essentially you are now saying about it, the same thing I can say about your nuclear overabundance statement. Obviously there will be a cost, obviously it isn't just saying it and it will be so.
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