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by _ph_ 5y ago
Container shipping is about to be reduced, Maersk just announced that they would only ship food to Russia going forward. Aviation in Russia might come mostly to a halt. About 500 airplanes are leased and have to be returned within a month t
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by _ph_ 5y ago
As a non-american, I can see how some actions of the left seem to be a bit over the top and as things escalated might really got a bit extreme too. But is a push against racism, for gender equality, LGBT rights really wrong? Do you notice,
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by _ph_ 5y ago
Well, yes, it is an invitation. But NATO didn't let the Ukraine join, that was blocked by at least Germany. And on during his visit in Moscow, Chanceller Scholz basically offered Putin that Ukraine joining into NATO could be very far i
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by _ph_ 5y ago
No, NATO didn't invite Ukraine to join. Ukraine wanted to join but NATO didn't reach unanimous decision to allow Ukraine to join. Back then Germany voted against Ukraine joining, out of consideration for Russias interests. Since t
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by _ph_ 5y ago
These are probably good recommendations, but to be honest, this is just data. Any Russian still reading here obviously has a working internet connection and has technical interests and skills. To all those Russians I can only say: please he
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by _ph_ 5y ago
Most sanctions are aimed mostly at the oligarchs, and that is good so. But things have reached a point (and may be the sanctions started way to late), at which the whole population needs to be notified of what is going on and it needs to be
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by _ph_ 5y ago
It is difficult for me to judge what exactly were wrong and why they thought it was a good idea to put that stuff there. But I do think they honestly thought it was a good idea and that scares me. That it is so easy to make severe mistakes
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by _ph_ 5y ago
This is a much harder problem than it might seem. You would need to find an underground storage site, where you can rule out any geological effects for a hundred millennia. In those time frames, even rigid rock moves quite a bit. There is n
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by _ph_ 5y ago
Right. And switching heating to heat pumps driven mostly by renewables will mean a large reduction in gas required in total.
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by _ph_ 5y ago
Wind generators still are getting more efficient - partly because they are still improving, especially in the generator part, but mostly because they are becoming larger and the wind gets stronger the higher you are above ground. And yes, w
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by _ph_ 5y ago
There are some factual errors in what you stated. She isn't becoming the Secretary of State, but a high ranking official in the state department. Her role is to be a special envoy to discuss climate related topics with foreign states.
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by _ph_ 5y ago
Please point me out to any operating breeding reactor and how much nuclear fuel it can process. The French shut down their breeding reactors long ago, the only existing ones I know of are Russian, right now they are an even worse reference.
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by _ph_ 5y ago
Right. If the previous government had not throttled down the built-up of renewable sources, we probably would be close to phasing out coal already. The technology is fundamentally there, we just need to build way more wind generators and se
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by _ph_ 5y ago
Yes, but in the winter wind is quite strong. There will be large storage needs, but mostly in the range of days. The electricity networks are connected all over Europe and production and consumption is already handled on an European level.
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by _ph_ 5y ago
There are quite a lot of valid concerns against nuclear power. As you wrote, the current generation was aging and would not have operated much longer anyway. There are valid concerns about nuclear waste (we just don't have a solution,
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by _ph_ 5y ago
Its 56 even. That is a huge fleet to replace. I am not in the details of their decisions, but I think one can simply conclude that if a nation, which is so all-in on nuclear like France, doesn't have a good answer yet, it seems to be
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by _ph_ 5y ago
Germany hasn't started shutting down nuclear power plants earlier this year. This was a process going on for some years already and was decided ultimately in 2011. Admittedly, currently the timing sucks, but that couldn't be predi
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by _ph_ 5y ago
That is basically the plan. Build up renewables, and as soon as there is enough capacity, produce "green" gas - either methane or hydrogen (personally I think methane wins, because it is easier to handle). Which also was the poin
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by _ph_ 5y ago
Which breeding reactors are available to burn the existing waste? France had some decades ago, but shut them down. Germany never finished its breeding reactor. As far as I know, only Russia has operating ones. Normally I might comment on ho
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by _ph_ 5y ago
In the last 3 weeks it was quite windy in Europe and German wind power production equaled or even surpassed French nuclear production. Of course, the wind and solar power capacity needs to be built up considerably, but the amounts produced
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by _ph_ 5y ago
France doesn't have any good answer on how to solve energy problems. Yes, they currently have a large amount of nuclear reactors - probably the most nuclear industry nation on the planet. However, most of them are aging and so far they
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by _ph_ 5y ago
Not sure I count as a fan of the FDP either, but they are very close to the industry. If they are pushing for renewables, that means a core influence group has committed to that and together with the greens, they can push for the necessary
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by _ph_ 5y ago
I would be curious how the meat and dairy production depends on gas and especially coal :p. But indeed, a lot of things have to be changed quickly to achieve the desired results, but recent events have given a lot of motivation to do so eve
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by _ph_ 5y ago
No, that is a myth which is repeated frequently. Germany is still a net exporter of electricity and all plans require to be at least neutral in production. Of course, Germany is part of the European electricity market. This means, in day t
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by _ph_ 5y ago
First of all, all of this was decisions by the previous government, which indeed did not do enough to sustain the switch to renewables. The new government would have changed this anyway, the energy scarcity gives this an additional push - n
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by _ph_ 5y ago
Half way across the continent? Lwiw is closer to Berlin than Paris. But its not about the distance but the impact on the energy supply as the trade with Russia is falling apart. Yet, I don't think there will be a major swing to nuclear
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by _ph_ 5y ago
There is no need for such a mechanism. But the quicker he leaves Ukraine and the less damage he causes, the more likely it is, that the West would relax the sanctions. (I could easily imagine opening up North Stream 2 quickly, if the money
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by _ph_ 5y ago
There is only one thing he needs to do to lift the sanctions, and that is independant from his conquests. That is: leave the Ukraine. Actually, it is the other way around. The less damage is done, the more likely is a quick lift of sanction
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by _ph_ 5y ago
Too bad it couldn't been moved before the war. From an aviation perspective a sad loss, but it pales compared to all the human tragedy happening right now. Most of all, saving and restoring Ukraine as a country should be the focus and
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by _ph_ 5y ago
How wouldn't it be balanced?

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