This story verifies what I said about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. He is an antivax advocate because he makes a lot of money peddling false narratives to victims, especially to the minorities.
2021-12-19 Rolls Royce Small Modular Reactors
My comments to Dave Borlace’s JHAT
Plus a chart of levelized costs of energy for both conventional and renewable energy.
<< Thanks, Dave, for the informative video.
Nuclear reactors are safe *per TWh* while in operation. The real issues are at the beginning and the end.
The beginnings, as you stated, are the huge cost overruns and construction delays that have plagued the new NPPs. You said the SMRs would cost about $2 billion, but that’s for 450 MW, so for a 3 reactor NPP, equal to a 1400 MW full size NPP, it would cost about $6 billion. The costs of decommissioning NPPs is $2 billion or so. Then there are the costs of transmission lines at about $4 million per mile, so for 500 miles that’s another $2 billion (see reasons below). So we add that up and it comes to $10 billion. But because the NPP is required to have an exclusion zone around it, and it has to be far away from populated areas (which requires long transmission lines and cheap land) so the hundreds of millions for land must be included. (Cont’d below.) >>
<< Part 2 Cont’d
There is one huge issue regarding thermal power plants: they use a huge amount of water. I’ve read that about 40% of total water draw is used by thermal power plants. This obviously is not environmentally friendly. >>
<< Part 3
The video showed a bar chart showing how safe the nuclear power plants are *per TWh*. But that’s the way the shills for nuclear power industry keep people from knowing the big secret.
In The Myths of August by S. Udall, he tells us of the suffering and deaths that uranium miners went through, from lung cancer caused by radon. And this still doesn’t count the deaths that were caused by radiation in the processing plants. If all these were added up they would cause that 0.07% bar to be considerably bigger. >>
One issue that was not discussed is the sources and costs of nuclear fuel. This seems to be very secret information. The sources of nuclear fuel are controlled by the government. The costs are subsidized by the taxpayers.
In the following article, the author states that multiple layers of security costs over $50 million per reactor per year. Over the 50 year lifetime of a reactor, that is more than $2.5 billion.
A quote from this article…
<< The other major reason gets back to renewables as well. 15 years ago it was an arguable position to hold that renewables were too expensive, would cause grid reliability issues and that nuclear in large amounts was necessary. That’s been disproven by both 15 years of failures of nuclear deployments, but more importantly plummeting costs and proven grid reliability with renewable generation. Now almost every serious analyst agrees that renewables can economically deliver 80% of required grid energy, but there is still debate from credible analysts about the remaining 20%. >>
2021-12-18 20 Drawbacks of EVs – Some Are False!
There are several ‘drawbacks’ that are false or only partly true. I especially disagree with #16.
https://motor-junkie.com/20-drawback-of-electric-vehicles-drivers-commonly-overlook/31416/13/
2021-12-18 Gold Is The Barbaric Standard
Gold is the barbaric standard by which all other currencies are related.
<< Dima Bloom
You failed to understand. An ounce of gold is the standard by which all other currencies are related. That’s the reason you said, “if it takes 1700 to buy an ounce of gold, then that is what it is worth atm.”
That’s why it’s “worth at the moment.” As inflation eats away at the dollar, it could take 2000 dollars to buy an ounce of gold.
But you fail to get it through your thick skull: an ounce of gold will *always* be an ounce of gold, no matter where or when – it is always the barbaric standard. >>
You go to Europe and a European will tell you that it takes 1500 Euros to buy an ounce of gold. He doesn’t even care about dollars US. The Euro is related to gold, not to dollars! Gold is what they care about.
2021-12-17 Court Lets Dominion Go Forward With $1.7B Fox Defamation Lawsuit
Quote:
<< In a 52-page opinion, Davis said Fox News may have pushed election fraud claims against Dominion despite knowing those claims were false.
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In a statement, Fox News said it remains “committed to defending against this baseless lawsuit and its all-out assault on the First Amendment.” >>
Fox should know that the First Amendment clause about freedom of speech does not give anyone the right to make false claims about someone else. There are laws against slander and libel.
My hope is that the courts can inject a vaccine into our society that will stop the spread of this cancer known as false narrative. There has to be a way to rid this country of the fake news phenomenon. This lawsuit also includes lawyers such as Rudy Giuliani, and talk show hosts on Fox.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dominion-defamation-lawsuit-fox-news_n_61bcaf12e4b0bf37033aa61e
2021-12-17 Norway Grants $111M To Clean Hydrogen, Ammonia
The most sustainable energy country, Norway, Is granting $111 Million to clean hydrogen and ammonia projects.
2021-12-17 Debunking Solar Myths
These claims were put forth by
1.) Solar is unreliable and makes the power grid more susceptible to blackouts.
A- FALSE – Weather predictions make solar power predictable and storage makes solar or wind predictable and dispatchable. Rooftop solar plus battery storage and an islanding inverter gives a home protection against blackouts.
2.) Electricity costs are higher.
A- FALSE – The costs of solar panels has dropped so much that solar is lower cost than any other power generation except wind. Rooftop solar will lower one’s electric bill significantly.
3.) Inefficient land use and destroys wildlife, views and natural habitat.
A- False – Solar is being installed on rooftops; on farmland (agrivoltaics) with crops growing underneath; on canopies in parking lots where they shade cars; on bodies of water where the solar panels and water both benefit; and on land which is desert and unused. No wildlife, nor habitat are harmed. You can install solar roof tiles that does not “destroy view”.
4.) Shorter lifespan than other sources.
A- False – Solar panels are replaced after 25 years when their output drops to 80%. The panels are sold as used, guaranteed to put out 250 watts. These get used for decades more.
5.) Solar panels are not easily recyclable and are often dumped in poorer countries.
A- Solar panels are 95% recyclable – aluminum is valuable. Many countries have laws requiring the solar panels be recycled.
6.) Manufacturing requires lots of energy and creates high levels of CO2 emissions.
A- FALSE – Solar panels generate much greater energy that what is used to make them. Solar panels generate zero CO2 emissions, much, much less than fossil fueled plants.
7.) Promoting solar over fossil fuels keeps developing countries in energy poverty.
A- FALSE – Community Solar is much more affordable than centralized power plants that require transmission lines that can cost $4 million per mile. Rooftop solar eliminates burning kerosene which causes health problems. Millions of people die every year from diseases caused by fossil fuel burning.
8.) Inefficient transmission of energy due to remote installation (line losses).
A- FALSE – Community solar and rooftop solar have lower losses than central generation, and costs are much less because solar does not require transmission lines.
9.) Solar panels require 10 times the minerals to deliver the same quantity of energy as a natural gas plant.
A- Absurd! – Solar panels require *zero* fuel to keep them running! Natural gas plants require a huge amount of fossil fuel (natural gas) that is causing climate change and polluting the Earth.
10.) 80% of solar panels are made in China where weak environmental regulations prevail and production processes are fueled by coal.
A- Only partially true. The Chinese have most of the industries in the east where the electricity is supplied by hydroelectric, solar or wind. China has over 300 Gigawatts of wind alone, which is equivalent to 300 + full-sized thermal power plants. The Chinese have been suffering with environmental pollution and are dealing with it, especially the air pollution. They are the first to realize that solar and wind are eliminating the air polution.
11.) Diverts resources from more effective strategies for reducing climate risk.
A- Absurd. I’m assuming this liar is a shill for the big oil and nuclear power industries. The “more effective strategies” claim is most likely new nuclear power plants (NPPs). New NPPs have multi-billion dollar cost overruns and delays causing them to take a decade or more to bring online. The new NPPs cannot compete with lower cost gas turbine, solar and wind generation.
See this for more information.
2021-12-16 50k Were Spied Upon By Spy-for-hires on FB, IG
Facebook deleted the accounts of seven surveillance-for-hire surveillance organizations in several countries.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-facebook-instagram-journalists-activists-targeted/
2021-12-16 “People Are In Debt By Design.”
“People Are In Debt By Design.”
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<< U.S. household debt has topped $15 trillion as the majority of Americans face some sort of healthcare, student, housing or credit card debt. “Wages have stagnated, regulations on the financial sector have been rolled back,” says Astra Taylor, co-founder of the Debt Collective, who notes that rich people can avoid their debts through loopholes and accounting gimmicks unavailable to most average borrowers. “People are in debt by design.”
Watch the full interview with Astra Taylor: >>
It’s true. When I was a kid, our neighbor, Jeff Maxwell, had a workshop in his backyard. On the wall, he had a postcard with a cartoon of a man with short arms, and a really baggy pair of pants. At the bottom, it said
“What everyone needs are short arms and deep pockets.”
I didn’t know what it meant until later, it suddenly dawned on me and understood it. It meant that the world makes it very easy to spend money; it’s much easier to spend than it is to earn it. Thus if you make it harder to spend your money with short arms and deep pockets, you’ll be better off.
So when I got old enough to feel the burdens that two kids put on my parents, I avoided bugging them about money. I never asked my parents to drive their car. Later, I got drafted at 19 and spent 3 years in the Army and learned by the School of hard knocks about money.
2021-12-16 Biden’s Build Back Better Act Would Boost Solar Installs 31% Through 2026
Biden’s Build Back Better Act would boost solar installs 31% through 2026.
