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by fuoqi 6y ago
I really doubt the claim about 80% efficiency of converting iron oxide back to iron. Industrial processes widely used today are based on fossil fuel (natural gas or coal). There is some research on electrolysis, but this process is not an e
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An Evaluation of Global Climate Change Expenditure 2011–2018(mdpi.com)
1 points by fuoqi 6y ago|0 comments
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by fuoqi 6y ago
Because there is no perpetuum mobile. By issuing treasuries a government loans economic power from markets in addition to what it gets from taxes. In a limit everyone will work for a government, so the system effectively degenerates to a ce
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by fuoqi 6y ago
It means that all banks will be distressed, thus destabilizing the whole system. Regulatory change plays here a role of an artificial shock (since banks have to increase their reserves), which gets smoothed by the QE. I guess an alternative
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by fuoqi 6y ago
>You can just do what the government does with treasury bonds; issue new bonds to pay off your old bonds The problem is that there is a limit to how much treasuries you can sell to the market. For a long time US government was able to ex
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by fuoqi 6y ago
The idea is that rational infrastructure projects create additional economic growth in future (i.e. more stuff gets moved across the built bridge, more real value gets created), so the printed money are used to support this growth. So effec
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Banks, QE, and Money-Printing(lynalden.com)
212 points by fuoqi 6y ago|235 comments
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by fuoqi 6y ago
Molten salt reactors is a nightmare for material science. You effectively have half of Mendeleev's table on your hands and it's borderline impossible to design a material which will have enough corrosion resistance (reactors have
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by fuoqi 6y ago
Read about burner mode of breeder reactors, they allow to "burn" spent nuclear fuel and make the resulting waste much safer in the long-term, i.e. not only volume of waste will be 100 times smaller, but also the "burnt"
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by fuoqi 6y ago
Importance of mass-production can not be underestimated. ERP has only 2 working reactors and 3 in construction. Meanwhile Russia produces VVER reactors in an almost conveyor-like fashion (see list in [0]), iterating on design and streamlini
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by fuoqi 6y ago
All empires did it to varying extents and a lot of people got assimilated in the result. The outcome got cemented by creation of "nation states". Cherishing of cultural minorities is a relatively recent development.
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by fuoqi 6y ago
While I think it's a gross over-reaction from the Chinese government, I think I understand the fears which fuel such behavior. CPC has learned a lot from the fall of the Soviet Union and they will do anything in their power to prevent
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Silvio Gesell's Freigeld(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by fuoqi 6y ago|0 comments
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by fuoqi 6y ago
>give you an x amount of money and force you to spend it. This will erode all incentive to save. If forces consumption instead of preservation. Arguably money should not be used for savings in the first place. Some problems of the modern
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by fuoqi 6y ago
But you have right to protect your home by installing better locks, security systems, hell you can go as far as to transform your rooms into sound proof Faraday cages, which would make task of covert surveillance borderline impossible. Law
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by fuoqi 6y ago
According to Wikipedia [0] it's the US government who blocks offloading of the oil from this platform under the threat of sanctions, not the Venezuelan one. And the US sanctions is one of the factors which lead to this situation in the
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by fuoqi 6y ago
The Lack of Pirates Is Causing Global Warming?
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by fuoqi 6y ago
You haven't answered my two questions. They are simple yes and no questions. Yes, legitimacy comes from people, but any dictatorship or authoritarian government does require some amount of support from its people otherwise it will not
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by fuoqi 6y ago
And Osama bin Laden was a "freedom fighter" in the eyes of the West once. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/anti-soviet-warrior...
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by fuoqi 6y ago
Let's get it straight, in your opinion a simple unilateral designation of a foreign government as "oppressive" is enough to justify actions which will help to overthrow it (including black flag operations and general destabil
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by fuoqi 6y ago
There is a REALLY big difference between country-wide protests and a hot civil war. Without support from the Gulf state and the West, I think it's quite probable that this civil war wouldn't have started. >I don't buy into
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by fuoqi 6y ago
>Al Qaeda did 9/11, along with many other terror attacks against the US. This statement is funny because the US support of "moderates" has resulted in military support of the Al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda wing in Syria (they ha
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by fuoqi 6y ago
Yes, but let's not be naive. The forces which were opposing the Asad regime were actively supported by Gulf states with political backing from the US and Europe (and quite probably with some intelligence officers coordinating situation
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by fuoqi 6y ago
I would say that the recent interventions in Libya, Syria, Iraq have only destabilized the region, thus resulting in a huge loss of live and miserable living conditions for citizens of affected countries, which in turn supports and revitali
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by fuoqi 6y ago
The biggest reason why they do not control the territory is the US and Turkey military presence in the region (with some active interventions from time to time), effectively it's a military occupation, but with extra steps. After Trump
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by fuoqi 6y ago
It's interesting how public has forgotten that ISIS is no longer any different from your usual terrorist organization with cellular structure, which is actively eradicated by both Syrian government and Kurds. So what mandate US forces
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by fuoqi 6y ago
Those Turkish drones have been bought in 2019 and AFAIK barely seen deployment for the fear of losing them. While the cheap drones are widely used by the army at the very least for reconnaissance. It's very hard to distinguish the Ukra
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by fuoqi 6y ago
Because the first sentence in the comment contains an inconvenient truth which goes against the dominant propaganda narrative and which is really hard to refute, so the only tool left for "fighting" with this information is downvo
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by fuoqi 6y ago
You mean mostly Ukranian citizens against Ukrainian army which was unconstitutionally deployed against them? (note that I do not deny Russian involvement, but foreign involvement in civil wars is a really common matter) Ukrainian army uses
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by fuoqi 6y ago
These "soviet shitty designs" are also 50-60 years old. So they are as shitty as American PWR/BWR designs used in TMI and Fukushima. Positive void coefficient is certainly a design oversight (same as design errors in the earl

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