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China has large coal reserves, enough for many decades. "China, the world’s largest coal consumer, has domestic reserves of coal to last the next 50 years, according to annual reserves data from the Ministry of Natural Resources cited
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Switzerland has 4 of the 15 biggest gold refineries in the world in 2026 https://vinodvsharma.com/top-15-biggest-gold-refineries-in-t...
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"$20 Billion Oil Deals Paid in Chinese Yuan, US Dollar Left Out" https://watcher.guru/news/20-billion-oil-deals-paid-in-chine... "China and Saudi Arabia Settle First Oil Trade Using Digital Yuan" h
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Democratic Party primaries "Many of the most damaging emails suggest the committee was actively trying to undermine Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign. Basically all of these examples came late in the primary -- after Hillary
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"Reliability: Five-nines availability (99.999%, under 6 minutes downtime annually), typically achieved by combining high grid reliability with backup generation." https://speed2power.epri.com/demand-characteristics
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> This article is about Pennsylvania You are right, PJM grid is coal, nuclear and gas dominated. https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/US-MIDA-PJM/live/fi...
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They still have 10 already build but not running reactors, bringing those online is the less costly way to increase nuclear power production. https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...
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> When everyone's asleep? Serious doubt, please show your sources. Lot of industry, especialy heavy industry, chemical plants are running 24/7. For expensive night prices see electricity prices in Europe, expensive natural gas,
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Japan learned from Fukishima nuclear accident, and many outside Japan forget that earthquake and tsunami had bigger impact in terms of material damage and cost of life then the nuclear accident. Currently, economy of Japan (world biggest LN
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In many places the contraty is true, peak electricity prices are after sunset, during night.
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> How long does a solar farm take? 24–48 months, but for a data center that has to run 24/7 you need to also build a gas power plant. https://www.pvfarm.io/blog/utility-scale-solar-project-devel... https:&#x2F
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Median build time for 1 GW nuclear power plant in Japan was 1721 days (4.7 years), first concrete to grid connection. https://x.com/GrantChalmers/status/1422472474487263233
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For wind turbine project from design and planning to operational use-takes approximately 4-7 years. An offshore wind turbine project requires about 7-10 years. https://jmhpower.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-wind-t...
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Some older nuclear power plants are been commissioned back into production: Three Mile Island "2027 – Nuclear Regulatory Commission to decide whether to issue operating license to Constellation Energy, with the decision expected in May
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What would you need to replace a 1 GW nuclear power plant with 98% capacity factor? Probably 1 GW solar power plant, together with 1 GW onshore wind and 1 GW of gas power plant. Then you have to also pay the natural gas to compensate for ti
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Yes, single wind turbine is negligible, what counts is the wind and PV output over extremely large areas because weather fronts are correlated over hundreds of km. Of course night/day cycle is correlated over whole Europe with few hour
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No amount of solar panels will generate electricity without sun light. Also the amount sun light can shrink quite a lot in winter months at high latitudes and under cloud cover. No amount of wind turbines will generate electricity without w
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> when the wind doesn't blow During day hours and with clear weather it's solar. Currently at night in Germany it's: imports from other countries + coal power plants + gas power plants + little bit of hydro/biomass. T
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Germany is currently operating the world biggest permanent storage for dangerous waste UTD Herfa-Neurode. Contains at least 690,000 tons of waste containing dioxins and furans, 220,000 tons of waste containing mercury, 127,000 tons of waste
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French nuclear supply chain atrophied quite lot in the last 30 years. Don't forget that even in France, president Hollande promised in 2014 to the voters to slash nuclear's contribution of power generation by 2025. https:/&#
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In case of Andrew Carnegie, it was probably desire at end of his life to been rembered as not only a ruthless businessmen and monopolist. "Carnegie spent his last years as a philanthropist. From 1901 forward, public attention was turn
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Bosch shuns battery cell production in blow to Europe (2018)(reuters.com)
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The future of affordable EVs: Breakthroughs in battery pack costs(mckinsey.com)
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Current operating reactors don't have the design, constructions and operational flaws of Chernobyl. Current reactors don't have large positive void coefficient, instabilities at low power levels, manual controlling, slow control r
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SMR - rated electrical power of less than 300 megawatts (MWe), says nothing about physical dimensions of the plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor There were even discussion about modifications of
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Until the risk of large financial penalties or long jail times is high enough, the CEOs of there companies operate using the "It's Better to Ask for Forgiveness Than Permission" model.
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Swedish elections could trim nuclear ambitions as left-wing challengers lead(spglobal.com)
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The Commission will not agree to let Sweden use the bottleneck fees to fund nuclear power production. Or to be more precise, German and Danish high electricity prices financing the expansion of Swedish nuclear sector. "Sweden’s center-
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It's argument for the safety of nuclear power, because 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami (Earthquake was the most powerful ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful recorded in the world since modern seismography began in 1
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The public is listening to the anti-nuclear experts, like M. V. Ramana. But one has to understand that for M. V. Ramana, no nuclear power plant is safe enough. For him only a world without nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons is safe en

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