BULLETIN: Russian airbase in Hmeimin Syria attacked by both aircraft and naval vessels. Source is The Government Rag in a bulletin dated today 10-3-24. No secondary sourcing yet on sites I regularly access.
If the aircraft and naval assaults were strictly IZZraeli; there will be hell to pay in the near future. If the U.$. Navy was involved , then we are looking at a massive provocation by the puppet regime in the Di$trict of Corruption.

Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 3 2024 15:08 utc | 4

10 year Treasury now at 3,82%
That’s a tell my friends

Posted by: Exile | Oct 3 2024 15:41 utc | 6

Zelensky to help with hurricane relief?
https://babylonbee.com/news/north-carolina-asks-zelensky-for-100-billion-in-us-funding

Posted by: Paranaense | Oct 3 2024 15:56 utc | 8

John Helmer has an update not the Skripal case in the UK. Incredibly, an Inquiry is moving forward in which neither of the two principals will appear in person, vis remote, or even via written statement. Any input from the two most direct witnesses to whatever may have occurred will consist of redacted information allegedly cobbled together from interviews back in 2018. The case is becoming the gold standard in farcical cover-ups, and yet it was central to the present Russophobic hysteria in Britain.

Posted by: jayc | Oct 3 2024 17:10 utc | 10

People want to continue to talk about who controls what over and over on the threads, so. This is the basics, base of the control structure. While it relates to everything going on, it is not specifically related to Palestine or Ukraine so off topic is really the place for it. It appears people do not even know the basics of the control structure.
Rome, control still exerted now rebranded the autonomous Vatican City, controls the world religions. Rome founded Londinium, now the autonomous City of London, controls finance. Colonies of London created the autonomous city, the District of Columbia, which controls the military aspects. While of course there are a multitude of other control points, these 3 main ones basically control it all.

Posted by: Rhymerez | Oct 3 2024 17:30 utc | 12

Danish paper Politiken had last week a paywalled article on Nordstream, mainly reporting from Christiansø, the small island north of Bornholm, wherefrom allegedly the famous „Andromeda“ sailed. Amongst tons of the usual speculations and gobbledygook there was a real diamond of information, one should think. Translated quote:

In the first days, the harbor master, according to his own statement, “wasn´t allowed to say a word”. But today, John Anker Nielsen can well reveal that four or five days before the Nord Stream explosions, he was out with the rescue service on Christiansø because there were some ships with their radios switched off. They turned out to be American naval vessels, and as the rescue service approached, they were told by the Naval Command to turn back.

Need one know more?

Posted by: Udkanten | Oct 3 2024 17:49 utc | 14

If I recall correctly the Dutch – invaded England in 1688, maybe BoJo sought revenge, mind you the Dutch are in it up to their necks, with the BS, Flight MH17 report – not to mention Geert Wilders, and his protege Mark Rutte – Nato’s new mouthpiece.
“Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed a planned “raid” on a NATO ally to steal COVID-19 vaccines amid a UK-EU dispute in 2021.
Johnson’s memoirs published by the Daily Mail on Saturday cited an extract in which the ex-UK PM claimed British military officials had put forth a secret plan to steal COVID-19 vaccines from a factory in the Netherlands.
According to the memoirs, the factory was holding approximately 5 million Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine doses manufactured by subcontractors at the Dutch Halix plant.
Johnson claims in his memoirs that British military officials told him the plan to steal the vaccines was “feasible.”
However, they also warned Johnson that pulling off the operation undetected would be nearly impossible and Downing Street should be prepared for potential diplomatic fallout with both the EU and NATO if the raid was carried out as relations with Brussels were already sour over Brexit.
“If we are detected, we will have to explain why we are effectively invading a long-standing NATO ally,” Johnson in his memoirs quoted one top UK military official as saying.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 3 2024 17:55 utc | 16

10 year Treasury now at 3,82%
That’s a tell my friends
Posted by: Exile | Oct 3 2024 15:41 utc | 6
Spreading joy throughout the world has a price. The bill is in the mail.

Posted by: kupkee | Oct 3 2024 18:16 utc | 18

@ 14 udkanten
thanks for that..an investigation would be closely examining this, but we know the west is so busy living in ‘cover up’ reality, no investigation into this will see the light of day.. and to think denmark said no to nazism back in the day.. they are saying yes to it now!

Posted by: james | Oct 3 2024 18:33 utc | 20

Re: new car demand
A) Calculate these variables and then tell me how quickly new car demand will fade.
1) cars last longer
2) people driven less (VMT declining)
3) auto maker to preserve their margins eliminated cheap entry level cars.
4) Car free are increasing (from a tiny base)
B) Auto manufacturing is a cutthroat incredibly efficient business:
1) global production overcapacity is estimated to be 5-10% versus demand
2) rule of thumb 1 shift operation is breakeven, 2 shift operation equals profit.

Posted by: Exile | Oct 3 2024 18:45 utc | 22

83 comments on Israel, 9 comments on Ukraine. Does that mean hasbara outnumbers NAFO 10 to 1, or is it the same people who have been given other talking points?
Posted by: Passerby | Oct 3 2024 16:04 utc | 9
Perhaps it is the ongoing slaughter and targeting of unarmed civiliians, mostly women and children.
The imagery depicted in tens of dozens of videos of dead limbless and starved children has had more of an impact on the soul of humanity.
Ukraine is armed
Russia kills soldiers
Palestine is not…
JUSA kills children
all attention now turns to the ME

Posted by: ld | Oct 3 2024 19:06 utc | 24

Speaking of these new cars. I watched a video where they where showing 500 page reports from data brokers being sold to insurance companies of all their cars movements. One guy’s new car caught on fire inside the warranty. They denied the claim because he went over 85 MPH. One guy took his car out on a racetrack and ran it through its paces. His insurance was cancelled. They hard a hard time extracting the information from the insurance company but in good corporate fashion you can buy the report. Anyone can.
Once you get cancelled that information sprawls though all the companies. No one will insure you. One guy says he found a company at 4 times this the cost.
Everthing goes into those reports, speed, braking, locations, cell phone use. They key on speed and excessive braking. It flags you as a bad driver. Now feed that into their AI system.
Its a fine corporate model. What do I have to hide? Everything. Now they put sim cards in the cars. No one can be without their phones. Thats the other side of the model. Phone crackheads

Posted by: circumspect | Oct 3 2024 19:17 utc | 26

(includes the invasion of and strikes on Lebanon)

or should I write the attempted invasion?

Posted by: Jo-Oh | Oct 3 2024 19:22 utc | 28

Speaking of these new cars
one might hope that data brokers/insurance companies’ interactions or the supposed lack thereof with the Chinese mobile industry is more favorable for the car owners…

Posted by: Jo-Oh | Oct 3 2024 19:31 utc | 30

Posted by: Jo-Oh | Oct 3 2024 19:43 utc | 31
Also: stating publicly that policy is to phase out fossil fuels, to get rid of gasoline and diesel cars by 2030.
The moment that policy is stated, no company is going to invest in oil refineries. No student is going to begin combustion engine studies.
When a few years later it turns out that the policy was not realistic, you have a problem.
Similar statements can be made about coal power plants.

Posted by: Passerby | Oct 3 2024 19:59 utc | 32

“Would you lend to someone who spends 30-35% of their income on interest ?”
Posted by: Exile | Oct 3 2024 17:56 utc | 17
The American dollar is not just the mirror image of US fiscal policy and it, admittedly, bleak balance sheet.
So much debt is in US dollars, commodities are in US dollars its a signal of the reserve currency/over time not really of the US government balance sheet..
In the Middle Ages 800 years after the demise the West Roman Empire died , they stilled used the denarius’ as a unit of measure but not in actual gold from for accounting.
There is so much US paper bonds /debt out there they will still be used decades from now-at a discounted
De-dollarization will take 30-40 years.

Posted by: canuck | Oct 3 2024 20:26 utc | 34

@passerby
what do you mean not realistic policy regarding coal power plants?
Already in the first half of this year we had over 60% of electricity from renewable energy sources here in Germany.
We could power two e-cars from our roof-photovoltaic system at home – and the roof still had space for more solar cells.
There are already a lot of roofs with these here. Solar cells have never been so cheap!
There are also new promising technologies on the test run.
Which could be taken to the next level.
Enter energy storage solutions as basic public infrastructure…
well of course energy, water and transport infrastructure is to be in public hands 🙂
Of course students can still learn about outdated dirty technologies, but they should learn about the new well working ones, which at least don’t pollute the air.
Regarding relatively new fossils fueled cars, it would be a pity and a waste not to convert them into e-mobiles.
Again its politics that stand in the way of positive shaping.

Posted by: Jo-Oh | Oct 3 2024 20:56 utc | 36

Netanhahu has killed as many Lebanese citizens as Israeli ones and the Gaza ones on top too.

Posted by: a dance | Oct 3 2024 21:58 utc | 38

Israel has started its second genocide in Lebannon. Busy bees they are.

Posted by: a dance | Oct 3 2024 22:16 utc | 40

“What’s to be done? None of us likes turbines, or hydro, and obviously not nuclear either. So how do we get out of this mess?”
“I don’t know — how do we?”
“Whatever the answer is, it absolutely must involve stopping thinking about science as though it were a religion. Once upon a time, the Church would solve the big problems of the day with rogations and novenas and so on. People now trust science in the exact same way. And that’s because we aren’t prepared to give anything up. We need to stop flying, stop consuming such ridiculous quantities of energy. But no, no, people say, anything but that. The solution has to be magical, somehow, and it’s science that’s got to give it to us. There’s no way for us just to face the problems in a realistic way.”
From “Death as told by a sapiens to a neanderthal”, Juan José Millás and Juan Luis Arsuaga

Posted by: Passerby | Oct 3 2024 22:40 utc | 42

a dance@40…..that’s what restraint and appeasement gets. The Axis, between them, have 100k plus of missiles and rockets, then like Yemen, they got one off, then got the shit bombed out of them by the Apartheid State. Then Iran fired a paltry 200, I can just imagine what the child murdering scum bags have in store for Iran. They are bombing, at will, South Lebanon, North Lebanon, along the border, South Syria north Syria a few places out towards Iraq. So huge stores of rockets…..don’t achieve much. And what blows my mind RAF bombers molest Yemen, also at will, and that air base in Cyprus hasn’t been touched yet. Fucking shit show.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Oct 4 2024 1:10 utc | 44

Posted by: Passerby | Oct 3 2024 22:07 utc | 39
You are incorrect on solar modules. Currently 90-95% of the materials are recoverable, and that will improve further with time.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Oct 4 2024 1:22 utc | 46

Re: de-dollarization
True; It might take 30-40 years for full de-dollarization to take place. However, the impact of de-dollarization on the Federal Gov‘t will happen much sooner.
I estimate that in 2027, there will be brutal budget cuts because interest rates on federal debt will be so high so as to bust the budget. Even a relatively modest 5% 10-year would stop the war party.
De-dollarizazoon brings peace

Posted by: Exile | Oct 4 2024 1:27 utc | 48

At the very outbreak of this latest round of Middle Eastern conflict, I’ve posted something similar to the content below. I hate repeating myself, but I hate seeing the same tired points being continuously re-litigated even more. This doesn’t quite fit the Palestine thread since the topic is global in scope.
The summary is this: Israel is being compared to Nazi Germany not just because of the surface level similarity – its genocidal policies – but also because Israel serves the same purpose as Nazi Germany did, a disposable tool for the West to further its (the capitalists’) interests with plausible deniability. From this perspective, a lot of the so-called “cowardice” in the resistance, like Iran’s restrained retaliation, is much more understandable when you consider historical analogues like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
Hitler was inspired by America. Manifest Destiny, i.e., the European colonists’ intentional depopulation of the American continent of its native inhabitants, is the model Hitler attempted to replicate. In fact, Hitler thought America was too cruel and sought to be more humane in his quest for exterminating communists, socialists, Slavs, Jews, etc. Hitler’s mistake was designating the European heartland as terra “nullius” for colonization and targeting European Jews who could easily pass as White for extermination, despite his efforts to caricature their physical characteristics. For a very brief moment, a few Europeans with a shred of humanity left in their hearts realized that the horrors of colonialism can be brought home.
European capitalists wanted Hitler and the Soviets to eliminate each other. Without a strong communist nation in the East, quelling the local Western European communists would be easy for the capitalists, as the Western Europeans had already exhibited low revolutionary potential. The capitalists would also have one less fellow competitor (Germany, unlike the other European countries, was late in the landgrab game and had comparatively few overseas colonies). What the capitalists didn’t count on was Hitler being ambitious enough to turn against Western Europe instead of directing his campaigns solely against the East. So, Hitler, like a disobedient dog, had to be put down.
In the Middle East, the localized incarnation of Manifest Destiny is named Zionism. The collective West desperately hopes that every major power in the Global South will battle Israel to the bitter end, while all the West had to do was supply the arms and munitions to Israel. The resulting devastation would mean that the Global South will be depleted of its strength. The collective West will remain untouched. Once the dust has settled, the West can swoop in, grab all the spoils of war, and install puppet regimes.
Israel is the chosen enforcer of Manifest Destiny, with the misfortune of being born too late, after the West has had to put on a very public facade of opposing genocide post-Nazi Germany. Israel’s existence is a contradiction of conducting a genocidal campaign while claiming to be defending itself from genocide. This contradiction didn’t concern the Europeans. Not only did the Europeans succeed in their quest of ridding Europe of Jews (just like kicking Gazans out of Gaza), they also gained an obedient attack dog in a strategic location.
Whether Israel survives or not is immaterial to the West. Getting Israel and the major powers of the Global South to eliminate each other will be ideal. The West can then wash their hands of Israel, claim that they have always condemned Israel, blame the Zionist lobby mind control for making them supply weapons to Israel, and cry crocodile tears over the depopulated Global South (including the Middle East).
You in the West shouldn’t feel too safe just because Israel is geographically distant from America and Europe.
Israel doesn’t have to militarily attack America and Europe. The genocidal policies of Israel – the capitalists will bring them back home to you via an anointed leader, like Hitler. When you loudly proclaim major Global South powers’ restraint as cowardice and say that “they will hang together”, do you think you aren’t among those who will be sacrificed at the altar of capitalism? Maybe it’s because you’re childless and you think that delaying capitalism’s inevitable crisis means that the crisis will only occur after you’re long dead, so it’s no longer your problem.
P/S: For those with reading comprehension problems, this post is not a defense of Hitler’s heinous actions.

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Oct 4 2024 1:31 utc | 50

@Jon_in_AU
You mentioned that 90-95% of solar module materials are recoverable, but I believe this claim may not be entirely supported by current scientific and engineering data. As the saying goes, “Show me the evidence!”
Also, it would be helpful to clarify if we are talking about materials that are “economically recoverable,” as that makes a significant difference in the practicality of recycling solar modules.
That something is ‘theoretically possible’ does not automatically make it feasible, viable nor practical in the near future.

Posted by: Darma | Oct 4 2024 2:00 utc | 52

Darma@51…..care to weigh in on the Companies, all LLC, that are being contracted by governments worldwide to modify weather patterns in the atmosphere and what, if any, effect that might have on the Man Made Climate change issue?
And before you toss me a tin foil hat, the LLC, is the key.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Oct 4 2024 2:06 utc | 54

@Passerby | Oct 3 2024 22:40 utc | 42
You make an important point. Myths and misconceptions are certainly widespread today. Among them, I find that the unwavering belief in achieving Net Zero by 2050, combined with Zero Emissions Commitments (ZEC), can sometimes be overly optimistic—especially when it comes to feasibility. Similarly, the notion of a 100% wind, water, and solar (WWS) energy system replacing all fossil fuels, as suggested by Mark Z. Jacobson, might overlook some practical challenges.
For reference: 100% clean and renewable wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) all-sector energy roadmaps for the 50 United States
https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/USStatesWWS.pdf
I think it’s important to discuss both the potential and the limits of these ambitious ideas with an open but critical mind. Which is exactly what is most missing today. Narrow minded beliefs and unfounded opinion rule instead.

Posted by: Darma | Oct 4 2024 2:17 utc | 56

And before you toss me a tin foil hat, the LLC, is the key.
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Oct 4 2024 2:06 utc | 54
I believe the onus is first upon you to be very specific and provide references to your claim(s). I have no opinion about a ‘nothing’ assertion. Perhaps you are already wearing that tin foil hat. Check the mirror? 🙂

Posted by: Darma | Oct 4 2024 2:22 utc | 58

Isn’t buying it capitalism?
Posted by: Lysias | Oct 4 2024 2:21 utc | 57
No, it’s called shopping. Sometimes commerce or trading. The prevailing Political Economy in my view is irrelevant.

Posted by: Darma | Oct 4 2024 2:26 utc | 60

Mass Motoring = 40% of CO2 emissions
Roughly 30% from tailpipe and 10% from manufacturing of the vehicles
(BEVs do not solve this because of massive increase in manufacturing emissions from BEV production)
Stop driving and you essentially 1/2 CO2 emissions

Posted by: Exile | Oct 4 2024 2:48 utc | 62

Mass Motoring = 40% of CO2 emissions
Stop driving and you essentially 1/2 CO2 emissions
@Exile | Oct 4 2024 2:48 utc | 62
I believe both of those claims are inaccurate. Could you please share the sources of data you’re using to support them? It would help clarify whether these figures are correct or if there might be some misunderstanding.

Posted by: Darma | Oct 4 2024 3:09 utc | 64

Random
The Modern Day Lobotomy
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/the-modern-day-lobotomy

Posted by: Dogon Priest | Oct 4 2024 3:19 utc | 66

I am pretty certain the poor bastards getting bombed back into the stone age by the genocidal Israeli cunts are not in the least bit worried about CO2 emissions or the crap being dribbled by the idiots here about them.

Posted by: eagle eye | Oct 4 2024 4:10 utc | 68

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 3 2024 17:55 utc | 16
Bunter Johnson, Captain Snort and Pippin Fort strike again. The Dutch should install Iranian sailors and Libyan farmers to guard against a British special forces incursion. Shower of fuckin’ wankers.

Posted by: horseguards | Oct 4 2024 4:27 utc | 70

Currently 90-95% of the materials are recoverable, and that will improve further with time.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Oct 4 2024 1:22 utc | 46
A riddle. You go into a clothes shop, and see two shirts. One shirt says “90% recycled”, the other says “90% recyclable”. Which of the two shirts is made with 100% new material?

Posted by: Passerby | Oct 4 2024 5:00 utc | 72

@55
Idem.

Posted by: Soviético | Oct 4 2024 6:24 utc | 74

A story in the mail about the true damage of Iran’s revenge attack on US Al Asad Airbase in Iraq (2020) is on the DAily Mail site from yesterday.

Eleven warheads, each weighing about 1,600 lbs, struck the air base. Alan Johnson, a retired flight surgeon, who was stationed at Al Asad at the time of the strike, told me, ‘None of us really should have survived and we weren’t expected to survive.’
…
The January 15 date confirms that the soil sample was taken by US Army investigators seven days after Iran’s attack. The chart shows 19 materials, including radioactive elements and heavy metals, were detected in the sample.
…
Olli Heinonen, who served for 27 years at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the mix of toxic agents is potentially concerning and the presence of radioactive elements stood out to him. However, he warned that he cannot yet conclusively say if radioactive elements were introduced by the Iranian strike or were present at the Al Asad base before the attack. ‘Uranium, which in nature contains Bismuth-214 [a radioactive isotype], was used in the Middle East during the Gulf War in warheads,’ Heinonen explained.

Link
Seems like the US were keeping dirty bombs or materials for such on their bases – for distribution to who knows which proxies.

Posted by: UK Defektor | Oct 4 2024 7:12 utc | 76

Houthis hit another British registered oil tanker in the Red Sea. Sea drone.
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1841931954846924875

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 4 2024 9:08 utc | 78

Posted by: Minaa | Oct 4 2024 7:56 utc | 77
———–
Well ain’t that a no shit headline. Don’t they have proof-readers?
People hunt when they’re hungry, who’ve think it…

Posted by: Urban Fox | Oct 4 2024 10:09 utc | 80

At the end of the week in review open thread, I posted about an X post by Mike Mihajlovic, which discusses that bomb that may have landed on something in Vovochansk, Kharkiv region. Based on matching photos in two media outlets where I look for leaks from MI6 (or somewhere in the UK), I believe something terrorist in Kosovo actually got exploded.
Canada’s satirical news site, The Beaverton: International Court of Justice rules that Israel must bomb civilians more humanely (it’s a repost)
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/01/international-court-of-justice-rules-that-israel-must-bomb-civilians-more-humanely/
From the Daily Mail: Terrifying video shows huge mushroom cloud explosion in Ukraine (terrorist trainees and mushrooms, right? “I like the way you kiss me…” see video)
Original post by Mihajlovic: https://x.com/MihajlovicMike/status/1841242464213987614

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Oct 4 2024 10:26 utc | 82

A riddle. You go into a clothes shop, and see two shirts. One shirt says “90% recycled”, the other says “90% recyclable”. Which of the two shirts is made with 100% new material?
Posted by: Passerby | Oct 4 2024 5:00 utc | 72
_____
Quite possibly both of them. Manufacturers frequently make fraudulent claims about their products.

Posted by: malenkov | Oct 4 2024 11:26 utc | 84

“Stop driving and you essentially 1/2 CO2 emissions”
Posted by: Exile | Oct 4 2024 2:48 utc | 62
You are way off base.
CO2 is good for humans, plants and animals. When co2 is low humans, plants, animals starve:
“Green plants grow faster with more CO2 . Many also become more drought resistant because higher CO2
levels allow plants to use water more efficiently. More abundant vegetation from increased CO2
is already apparent. Satellite images reveal significant greening of the planet in recent decades,
especially at desert margins, where drought resistance is critical. This remarkable planetary greening
is the result of a mere 30% increase of CO2 from its preindustrial levels. Still higher CO2
levels will bring still more benefits to agriculture. Plants use energy from sunlight to fuse a
molecule of CO2 to a molecule of water,H2O, to form carbohydrates. One molecule of oxygen O2
is released to the air for each CO2 molecule removed.
Biological machinery of plants reworks the carbohydrate polymers into proteins, oils and other
molecules of life. Every living creature, from the blooming rose, to the newborn baby, is made of carbon
from former atmospheric CO2 molecules. Long-dead plants used CO2 from ancient atmospheres to produce
most of the fossil fuels, coal, oil, and natural gas that have transformed the life of most humans –
moving from drudgery and near starvation before the industrial revolution to the rising potential for abundance today.
The fraction of the beneficial molecule CO2 in the current atmosphere is tiny, about 0.04% by volume.
This level is about 30% larger than pre-industrial levels in 1800. But today’s levels are still much smaller than
the levels, 0.20% or more, that prevailed over much of geological history. CO2 levels during the past tens of millions
of years have been much closer to starvation levels, 0.015%, when many plants die, than to the much higher levels
that most plants prefer.
Basic physics implies that more atmospheric CO2 will increase greenhouse
warming. However, atmospheric processes are so complicated that the amount of
warming cannot be reliably predicted from first principles. Recent observations of
the atmosphere and oceans, together with geological history, point to very modest
warming, about 1 C (1.8 F) if atmospheric CO2 levels are doubled.
Observations also show no significant change in extreme weather, tornadoes,
hurricanes, floods, or droughts. Sea levels are rising at about the same rate as in
centuries past. A few degrees of warming will have many benefits, longer growing
seasons and less winter heating expenses. And this will be in addition to major
benefits to agriculture.
More CO2 in the atmosphere is not an unprecedented experiment with an
unpredictable outcome. The Earth has done the experiment many times in the
geological past. Life flourished abundantly on land and in the oceans at much larger
CO2 levels than those today. Responsible use of fossil fuels, with cost-effective
control of genuine pollutants like fly ash or oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, will be a
major benefit for the world.” (1)
1.https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/FC7C4946-11A3-4967-BF28-8D0386608D3E

Posted by: canuck | Oct 4 2024 11:35 utc | 86

Posted by: canuck | Oct 4 2024 11:28 utc | 85
Kindly stop trying to correct people about that. It’s infantile and tiresome.
You have no standing to do that, especially so given your own vulgarity.
And further, who are you to decide that the vulgar term is ever proper?

Posted by: waynorinorway | Oct 4 2024 11:41 utc | 88

“I read Microsoft has contracted a US nuclear power plant to provide electricity for its datacenters. To me, this is wasteful. This is creating radioactive waste in return for clicks. The waste lasts hundreds of thousands of years, the clicks are forgotten in an instant.”
Posted by: Passerby | Oct 3 2024 22:07 utc | 39
Nuclear energy is the fuel of the future but not through uranium; it is thorium.(1)(2)
Thorium is preferred because it is 300% more available than uranium in the earth; it has a 30% greater yield (power generated)and it cannot be made into nuclear weapons.
Scientists knew this in the 40’s but they wanted bombs.
1. “What can thorium offer? Thorium boasts several advantages over the conventional nuclear fuel, uranium-235. Thorium can generate more fissile material (uranium-233) than it consumes while fueling a water cooled or molten salt reactor, and it generates fewer long-lived minor actinides than plutonium fuels.”
2. Benefits
Abundance. Thorium is three times as abundant as uranium and nearly as abundant as lead and gallium in the Earth’s crust.[22] The Thorium Energy Alliance estimates “there is enough thorium in the United States alone to power the country at its current energy level for over 1,000 years.”[23][22] “America has buried tons as a by-product of rare earth metals mining”, notes Evans-Pritchard.[24] Almost all thorium is fertile Th-232, compared to uranium that is composed of 99.3% fertile U-238 and 0.7% more valuable fissile U-235.
Less suitable for bombs. It is difficult to make a practical nuclear bomb from a thorium reactor’s by-products, allowing governments to potentially pursue further nuclear power without worsening nuclear arms proliferation. Thorium is not fissile like uranium, so packed thorium nuclei will not begin to split apart and explode. However the uranium-233 used in the cycle is fissile and hence can be used to create a nuclear weapon- though plutonium production is reduced. According to Alvin Radkowsky, designer of the world’s first full-scale atomic electric power plant, “a thorium reactor’s plutonium production rate would be less than 2 percent of that of a standard reactor, and the plutonium’s isotopic content would make it unsuitable for a nuclear detonation.”[19]: 11 [25] Several uranium-233 bombs have been tested, but the presence of uranium-232 tended to “poison” the uranium-233 in two ways: intense radiation from the uranium-232 made the material difficult to handle, and the uranium-232 led to possible pre-detonation. Separating the uranium-232 from the uranium-233 proved very difficult, although newer laser isotope separation techniques could facilitate that process.[26][27]
Less nuclear waste. There is much less nuclear waste when thorium is used as a fuel in a liquid fluoride thorium reactor—up to two orders of magnitude less, state Moir and Teller,[1] eliminating the need for large-scale or long-term storage;[19]: 13  “Chinese scientists claim that hazardous waste will be a thousand times less than with uranium.”[28] The radioactivity of the resulting waste also drops down to safe levels after just one or a few hundred years, compared to tens of thousands of years needed for current nuclear waste to cool off.[29] However, the production of activation products and fission products is broadly similar between thorium and uranium based fuel cycles.
Fewer reaction startup ingredients. According to Moir and Teller, “once started up [, a breeding reactor] needs no other fuel except thorium because [a breeding reactor] makes most or all of its own fuel.”[1] Breeding reactors produce at least as much fissile material as they consume. Non-breeding reactors, on the other hand, require additional fissile material, such as uranium-235 or plutonium to sustain the reaction.
Harvesting weapons-grade plutonium. The thorium fuel cycle is a potential way to produce long term nuclear energy with low radio-toxicity waste. In addition, the transition to thorium could be done through the incineration of weapons grade plutonium (WPu) or civilian plutonium.[30]
No enrichment necessary. Since all natural thorium can be used as fuel, no expensive fuel enrichment is needed.[29] However the same is true for U-238, as fertile fuel in the uranium-plutonium cycle.
Efficiency. Comparing the amount of thorium needed with coal, Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), estimates that one ton of thorium can produce as much energy as 200 tons of uranium, or 3,500,000 tons of coal.[24]
Failsafe measures. Liquid fluoride thorium reactors are designed to be meltdown proof. A fusible plug at the bottom of the reactor melts in the event of a power failure or if temperatures exceed a set limit, draining the fuel into an underground tank for safe storage.[31]
Mining. Mining thorium is safer and more efficient than mining uranium. Thorium’s ore, monazite, generally contains higher concentrations of thorium than the percentage of uranium found in its respective ore. This makes thorium a more cost efficient and less environmentally damaging fuel source. Thorium mining is also easier and less dangerous than uranium mining, as the mine is an open pit—which requires no ventilation, unlike underground uranium mines, where radon levels can be potentially harmful.[32]

Posted by: canuck | Oct 4 2024 11:56 utc | 90

Time will eventually make all these things clearer for us all.
Posted by: Darma | Oct 4 2024 7:10 utc | 75
I wished to contrast nature’s recycling of smoke (CO2) with human recycling of solar panels.
Unless solar cells contain precious metals, the company that made them will not be interested in recycling.
But after a few hundred of millions of years, I am fairly confident nature is able to handle the odd surge in smoke and ash. Where I live there used to be glaciers during the ice age, and large animals during hotter periods. This means nature does not guarantee stable temperature or survival of species. It is better to behave responsibly. To me this means adapting to climate change, and moderate energy use.
Now, our government routinely invades and tries to overthrow governments of countries that export oil and natural gas. Allow me disbelief when the same government says fossil fuels are on the way out.
In general, when a real disaster occurs, government tries to avoid a panic. An authoritative figure will say calming words: everything is under control, government has every angle covered, and we should continue business as usual. That is the textbook response when things are getting out of hand.
When government actively says disaster is near unless you do as they say, it is more a sign of wishing to mold the public for their own aims.

Posted by: Passerby | Oct 4 2024 12:14 utc | 92

@sean the leprechaun | Fri, 04 Oct 2024 01:10:00 GMT | 44

that’s what restraint and appeasement gets. The Axis, between them, have 100k plus of missiles and rockets […] Fucking shit show.

These arsenals is what makes Israel go mad enough to try and enter Lebanon, going up against Hezbullah on their own front lawn, knowing full well how this worked out last time around.
The situation against Iran is alike. As was pointed out here recently, the enrichment program makes no real sense other than gaining nuclear capability. The delivery vehicles are there already, now tried and tested. Before long the zionists will be sacked strategically, and they know it. They are being deprived of workable solutions regarding their military posture. Hence the desperation to try and get away with the remaining bad options. It’s only proactive if you’ve figured in the arsenals already.

Posted by: persiflo | Oct 4 2024 12:24 utc | 94

„If you believe….“
Key phrase in my argument 🤣

Posted by: Exile | Oct 4 2024 13:28 utc | 96

“Posted by: canuck | Oct 4 2024 11:56 utc | 90
I knew some nuclear scientists in the 60s who said the only reason we didn’t have thorium reactors was that they didn’t produce weapons-grade material for hydrogen bombs as a by-product. In all other ways thorium was superior. Basically, electricity was a by-product of uranium reactors, not the primary product.”
Posted by: Honzo | Oct 4 2024 13:31 utc | 97
Yes, I talked to nuclear scientists as well on the topic and got the same response.

Posted by: canuck | Oct 4 2024 13:38 utc | 98

10 year treasury at 3,94% ??????
Barflies any insights pluz

Posted by: Exile | Oct 4 2024 13:58 utc | 100