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Why provoke a nuclear war? The stakes are too high. We have no business putting US troops on Russia's border. Nor risking US troops on countries that were not part of the initial group of treaty nations.
According to one Aus news site Russia has cut electricity off to Finland because Finland is asking to join NATO but I have not seen this elsewhere. So - true or false?
I understand it all completely, I just believe that the situation of paying both combatants in a war is lunacy that is a direct result of Europe's misguided energy policy and the habit of appeasing Putin, which has become ingrained in government policy over the past 15 or so years.
Not to mention the virtue signalling from the EV owners, who look down on gasoline powered vehicles, while missing the fact that the Cobalt and Lithium needed for their vehicles mostly come from mines in Africa, where children and adults work in deplorable conditions in an environmentally ruinous setting for starvation wages.Part of that energy disaster comes from green politicians who demand that all non-polluting nuclear power plants are closed and replaced by green energy having high manufacturing pollution. They also forgot that means using Russian gas until the green generators can provide the 24/7 load, and any time that green energy cannot fill the load on its own. If my memory is correct Germany likes to pat itself on the back about how little coal and nuce power they produce but forget to say much (most?) of their power is imported from other countries.
The greens also totally ignore the massive noise pollution from wind power as well as the massive environmental damage the mines and manufacturing cause to make solar panels that need to last at least 11 years to pay back the environment for their manufacturing costs alone. I don't know how long a battery storage unit must last to be damage neutral but given the number in the news that have caught fire I suspect that is another environmental disaster.
Look also at the rush to get rid of CFCs and replace them with compounds that we now know are worse for the environment than CFCs were and the unleaded fuel that gives millions leukemia and other cancers and diseases.
Alternatives for coal and oil are there and will take over but gas is more difficult.
Not to mention the virtue signalling from the EV owners, who look down on gasoline powered vehicles, while missing the fact that the Cobalt and Lithium needed for their vehicles mostly come from mines in Africa, where children and adults work in deplorable conditions in an environmentally ruinous setting for starvation wages.
Add to that, no economical way to recycle those spent batteries, which end up in landfills at end-of-life (like wind generator blades).
One bright spark told me a while ago that instead of killing whales we should just tranquillise them and then use liposuction to makeI understand whale oil is renewable.
That's ZERO nuclear plants qualifying to continue operating. No such thing as a non-polluting nuke plant.Part of that energy disaster comes from green politicians who demand that all non-polluting nuclear power plants are closed and replaced by green energy having high manufacturing pollution.
There is little noise pollution from wind turbines. If your very close and they are going full tilt then yes there is some noise, but you have to be very close and they don't often go full tilt. The UK is littered with wind turbines and I go past some every day and the noise pollution is greatly, greatly exaggerated.The greens also totally ignore the massive noise pollution from wind power as well as the massive environmental damage the mines and manufacturing cause to make solar panels that need to last at least 11 years to pay back the environment for their manufacturing costs alone. I don't know how long a battery storage unit must last to be damage neutral but given the number in the news that have caught fire I suspect that is another environmental disaster.
Look also at the rush to get rid of CFCs and replace them with compounds that we now know are worse for the environment than CFCs were and the unleaded fuel that gives millions leukemia and other cancers and diseases.
Yes the Titanic was unsinkable and Fukushima was ... you get my drift. Whenever i am told something potentially is build beyond disaster i get worried. It is not a bread toaster. Mind you i am not against nuke plants just carefull.True as to the dirty bomb if attacked.
But the latest nuclear plant designs (some of which are online already in smaller scales) are basically earthquake and Tsunami proof in terms of melt-downs and containment failures.
And although the waste is a problem, it is containable.
By using the pronoun we I understand you are a US citizen. Here is a gentle reminder for my fellow Americans.Why provoke a nuclear war? The stakes are too high. We have no business putting US troops on Russia's border. Nor risking US troops on countries that were not part of the initial group of treaty nations.
So was Sonoma County.By using the pronoun we I understand you are a US citizen. Here is a gentle reminder for my fellow Americans.
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