Climate Change Update........

[wtburnette]

Good for them. It was a bit ridiculous that they went as all-in on nuclear as they did and were backing out due to the climate change scam. Nuclear is the greenest energy available, duh!

 

[jamil]

Good for them. It was a bit ridiculous that they went as all-in on nuclear as they did and were backing out due to the climate change scam. Nuclear is the greenest energy available, duh!

It’s not part of the green industrial complex though.

 

[wtburnette]

It’s not part of the green industrial complex though.

Tough tiddy

 

[actaeon277]

It’s not part of the green industrial complex though.

Well duh

 

[BugI02]

France went BIG on nuke, decades ago.

They reprocess their fuel, also

 

[DadSmith]

France went BIG on nuke, decades ago.

They shut them down like Germany did I thought.

 

[Tombs]

It’s not part of the green industrial complex though.

Only because it works.

Hard to scam people with a product that does what it promises.

 

[wtburnette]

They shut them down like Germany did I thought.

They shut some of them down, if I remember correctly, but are starting to spin those back up and build new ones.

 

[actaeon277]

They shut them down like Germany did I thought.

They may have started, but no way they had enough time to shut them all down.

 

[DadSmith]

They shut some of them down, if I remember correctly, but are starting to spin those back up and build new ones.

Why doesn't Germany allow their nuclear, and coal power plants to come back online? It makes no sense unless you want it deprive the lower, and middle class citizens of power.

 

[jwamplerusa]

Why doesn't Germany allow their nuclear, and coal power plants to come back online? It makes no sense unless you want it deprive the lower, and middle class citizens of power.

Now you are starting to get it...

 

[ghuns]

...It makes no sense unless you want it deprive the lower, and middle class citizens of power.

Dragging the developing world kicking and screaming into the 21st century was proving too hard.

Much easier to lower the standard of living in the developed world. Ya know, cause equity.

 

[wtburnette]

Why doesn't Germany allow their nuclear, and coal power plants to come back online? It makes no sense unless you want it deprive the lower, and middle class citizens of power.

Now you are starting to get it...

Answered. For a bit more, Germany is still all in over this climate change garbage. I think the German people are starting to wake up and realize what the end goal of the elites truly is. After burning wood to keep warm over the winter and the farmers having to fight the government so that the country doesn't starve, people are actually starting to fight back. I think we'll eventually see the power plants being activated as well. They're already spinning up dirty coal plants, in the place of cleaner natural gas plants that they can't get fuel for. Who knows about nuclear, but I'm thinking they're absolute fools if they don't start spinning them up as well.

 

[actaeon277]

Also, you don't just push a button to start a power plant that's been mothballed.

And parts can be difficult to find.
And expensive

 

[Mikey1911]

France went BIG on nuke, decades ago.

I think that Framatome licensed PWR technology from Westinghouse back in the 1960s. They’ve been working to improve it ever since.

That would seem to make the French reactors descendants of the Shippingport reactor, which itself was the descendant of HGR's S1W and S2W reactors.

Smart guys, that Rickover and his original team.

 

[04FXSTS]

Also, you don't just push a button to start a power plant that's been mothballed.

And parts can be difficult to find.
And expensive

I remember 30 years ago I worked in a shop where we repaired/fabricated parts for what was at the time Public Service Indiana generating stations. A lot of parts were made specifically for power houses and some of them were years old and no such thing as a blueprint. You would get an old worn out part and instructed to repair or make new to fit where it came from.
One of the guys, John, was a real craftsman, his work was always perfect, he was slow but that is what it takes sometimes. He got a steam shut-off valve that was all worn out. I remember it was a quick shutoff with the screw was a triple lead either Acme or Buttress thread. He was on that for days but when done it worked perfectly.
A few months during his yearly evaluation the boss mentioned how many hours he had it this valve. John told him he should have just went to Menards and picked one up. Jim.

 

[d.kaufman]

Chicago Mayor Johnson targets end to natural gas in new homes, buildings

Mayor Brandon Johnson is pushing a plan that would end natural gas hookups in new buildings and homes as the city aims to phase out fossil fuels that intensify the climate crisis, but the idea is already drawing resistance from some unions.

abc7chicago.com

 

[ghuns]

...He got a steam shut-off valve that was all worn out. I remember it was a quick shutoff with the screw was a triple lead either Acme or Buttress thread. He was on that for days but when done it worked perfectly...

As someone who has cut such threads on a lathe, days is a reasonable timeline.

It would take me weeks just to remember how to do it.

 

[Ingomike]

Taxpayers may get stuck with cost of removing an offshore wind farm after Biden admin waives fees

Due to the Biden administration's decision to waive financial assurance fees, should Vineyard Wind fail and not fully fund their decommissioning account in a timely manner, the public will likely have to pick up the tab.

justthenews.com

 

[actaeon277]

Chicago Mayor Johnson targets end to natural gas in new homes, buildings

Mayor Brandon Johnson is pushing a plan that would end natural gas hookups in new buildings and homes as the city aims to phase out fossil fuels that intensify the climate crisis, but the idea is already drawing resistance from some unions.

abc7chicago.com

Well, electric heat is usually more expensive than gas.
So, the Dems once again will help the poor, by further bankrupting them.

Though I guess the poor wouldn't be buying 'new' houses.