Jim Cowan Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 Pretty impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984Echoes Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 We are not in Checkmate yet... But China IS trying to put us in Check: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-expanding-energy-footprint-middle-230000847.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 (edited) 11 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said: We are not in Checkmate yet... But China IS trying to put us in Check: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-expanding-energy-footprint-middle-230000847.html Screw a Sheik, buy an EV. bottom line though, since China does not produce oil, they have even less interest in higher prices than the US, and with oil, in the end the only important thing geopolitically is the price. Edited October 7, 2022 by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984Echoes Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 (edited) 14 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: Screw a Sheik, buy an EV. But the EU and all other democratic nations need to move very, very fast on that. Heck, in the EU, do electric mass-transit as an even faster changeover than just EV cars. I'm also open to the newer, smaller nuclear power plants filling in some energy gaps. Don't the French reactors minimize or eliminate nuclear waste? Do it. All over the place. North America, EU, Japan is starting up theirs again... etc. All of this stuff in total will not hurt China at all... but the Middle East and all other oil & gas driven economies will suffer... No tears. At all. Edited October 7, 2022 by 1984Echoes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Cowan Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 I won't live to see it but I get a feeling of comfort that some day most of those places will not have anything to sell except sand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, 1984Echoes said: French reactors minimize or eliminate nuclear waste? The French 'reprocess' fuel, which recovers most of the mass back into new fuel and reduces the volume of high level waste. (The reactor only 'burns' a fraction of the U235 present in the original fuel before the fuel is effectively 'spent', but if you re-enrich the U235 i.e. remove more of the U238, you're back in business) The US won't go for reprocessing because of the increase in proliferation risk - don't quote me because it's been years since I learned any NukeChem, but IIRC reprocessing concentrates the plutonium which is generated in the reaction cycle. So reprocessing fuel becomes a target for diversion to weapons manufacture. At one time the working theory was that you could then burn up the plutonium in 'breader' type reactors, but breeders turned out to be a bit too hairy (and costly) to operate safely (a la DTE's Fermi I). Bottom line is that Uraniam is not expensive enough for secondary fuel cycles to be needed, and the problem with high level waste disposal is not the total volume, it's just agreeing on a place to do it. But absolutely human kind is being stupid about the use of nuclear power. The risk of nuclear technology is idiots like Putin that already have enough bombs to make a mess of things. Nuclear generation for 24 hr constant baseload with solar/wind to take the larger daytime peak demands is a natural engineering fit. Edited October 7, 2022 by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984Echoes Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 Point!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gehringer_2 Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 (edited) 16 minutes ago, romad1 said: thread I take this as sort of a good news/bad news outcome. It's mostly bad news for the Chinese people for sure, it's bad news in that we are going to have another unstable and possible aggressive international actor a la Putin, but it's good news in terms of international economics competition because what Xi is doing in China is going to destroy economic growth and vitality there as fast or faster than it has died under Putin in Russia. Xi thinks he's built a model that incorporates state control with economic growth, but he's delusional. What's left of Chinese economic vitality is purely momentum from what Deng put into motion decades ago, and that Xi's reconstitution of the state run economy and repression of personal freedom is going to inevitably strangle. Edited October 22, 2022 by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted October 22, 2022 Author Share Posted October 22, 2022 3 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: I take this as sort of a good news/bad news outcome. It's mostly bad news for the Chinese people for sure, it's bad news in that we are going to have another unstable and possible aggressive international actor a la Putin, but it's good news in terms of international economics competition because what Xi is doing in China is going to destroy economic growth and vitality there as fast or faster than it has died under Putin in Russia. Xi thinks he's built a model that incorporates state control with economic growth, but he's delusional. What's left of Chinese economic vitality is purely momentum from what Deng put into motion decades ago, and that Xi's reconstitution of the state run economy and repression of personal freedom is going to inevitably strangle. He's definitely bending the arc of history to create a closed economy and closed society. The power of accumulated wealth to create influence is a thing though. They gave out a lot of Sinovac and their debt traps are laid all over the place. I was amused when they tried to lay a debt trap on the former Afghan government. It was one risible outcome of the disaster. You can try to bind the elected government of Afghanistan but what do you do when they get on a plane with suitcases of cash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted October 22, 2022 Author Share Posted October 22, 2022 Hu Jintao: The mysterious exit of China's former leader from party congress https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-63358627 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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romad1 Posted October 22, 2022 Author Share Posted October 22, 2022 7 minutes ago, romad1 said: Xi's face there is very Godfather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984Echoes Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 2 hours ago, romad1 said: He's definitely bending the arc of history to create a closed economy and closed society. The power of accumulated wealth to create influence is a thing though. They gave out a lot of Sinovac and their debt traps are laid all over the place. I was amused when they tried to lay a debt trap on the former Afghan government. It was one risible outcome of the disaster. You can try to bind the elected government of Afghanistan but what do you do when they get on a plane with suitcases of cash. Not even counting the debt trap that China has unwittingly put on itself... it'll be interesting to see how that plays out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted October 22, 2022 Author Share Posted October 22, 2022 this is weird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted November 1, 2022 Author Share Posted November 1, 2022 interesting thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gehringer_2 Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Well, Zero Covid is over in China. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/world/asia/china-zero-covid-xi-jinping.html One can hope that Xi, having actually backed off one irrational course, may be rethinking other approaches he has recently been wed to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 7 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: Well, Zero Covid is over in China. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/world/asia/china-zero-covid-xi-jinping.html One can hope that Xi, having actually backed off one irrational course, may be rethinking other approaches he has recently been wed to. Been hearing from colleagues who follow China's society closely that it was pushing the regime close to the breaking point. Yeah, would hope that Xi has rethought all manner of things. if Zero Covid has slowed their plan to launch an invasion of Taiwan and a general war with the democracies, so much the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted January 11, 2023 Author Share Posted January 11, 2023 i think we may want to give some of these things to Taiwan as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted January 16, 2023 Author Share Posted January 16, 2023 In case anyone wonders whatabout China's financial influence on the Trumpies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted January 28, 2023 Author Share Posted January 28, 2023 This has kicked off a mini-firestorm I'm actually ok with the guy saying all this. "empty a clip" is basic dumbness about how firearms work and will result in howls of derision from the RW gun culture. Don't give Fox News a talking point. Do give China something to worry about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 And low flying helicopters near Camp Peary...Can't they give us coordinates so we can go out and moon them 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 19 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said: And low flying helicopters near Camp Peary...Can't they give us coordinates so we can go out and moon them Two words: Microwave cannon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted February 4, 2023 Author Share Posted February 4, 2023 Was comparing the balloon mania to some things. I sent to one of my colleagues 'The Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Balloons!' to which he responded the 'William Hung of Balloons' Worth a comp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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