No, dumbass. You picked a small part of the country, namely the capital: Bangkok.
And probably you never looked on a map either. I live what is the equivalent of the "mid west" in America. Bangkok is the equivalent of Mami.
No idea why you are so stupid to answer more and more stupid answers to this thread. I'm here since 130 days consecutive since mid October... since then we had about 3 days with rain. One day where it rained very long, perhaps even 6h. And two... hm, was it three days? , where it rained less than an hour... ten minutes after I stepped outside it was all dry again.
But who am I... living here... looking out of the window... seeing what is going on... versus an internet troll who is to stupid to use the internet.
Steel is *made* in two ways: 1) raw ore + coal makes steel, yeah, you need coal... actually a refined version of coal. However there are modern chemical processes that could replace coal 2) you recycle old steel into new steel
Most steel in Germany is produced via 2) For steel plants and any other industrial user power prices are around 5cent... so get a damn clue. Also: the time when a steel plant is activated can be adjusted to cheap solar power times. And that is what steel plants do since 50 years: adjusting the time when to produce steel to wind and weather and availability of cheap energy.
Yeah, I know... little boys don't know that... because they live in a similar phantasy world they accuse the greens and renewable friends to live in.
The actually existing reserve capacity in Germany is FAR OVER 100% of what er produce. And if you did not get it so far, we export 50% of all power we produce.
How dumb are you after getting corrected 100 times during the last 5 years about your misconceptions?
expansion of its subsidized reserve capacity Why the fuck would reserve power be subsidized by anyone/anything? The cost of every fucking kW/h people are buying already includes the cost for reserve power.
You have no fucking clue how the power business works and tell bullshit here... WTF... you annoy me.
Pumped hydro does not produce power. It costs power...
It is only used for load balancing... and could be used as large scale storage.
And no: the easy to dam regions are not all in use. There are thousands left. But as you see above: pumped storage traditionally only is used for load balancing... and you do not need much of that.
The balancing plants we already have... Changing relatively quick load adjusting coal plants to gas plants makes no sense. Building a new gas plant takes 10 years. An existing coal plant can not be converted easily (easy as in quick and cheap).
As coal is only about 30% - 40% of Germany's energy production, changing that to gas, or even combined cycle gas has only a minimal effect.
Over the next couple of decades Germany's coal-fired power plants will be mostly replaced by similar CCGT plants which will continue to dump CO2 into the atmosphere. No it wont. Wind and Solar is cheaper...
Of course it also burns a lot of gas for domestic and industrial heating too since electricity is too expensive to use for home heating in Germany at nearly 30 Eu cents/kWh. Idiots idiots idiots everywhere... why would anyone rebuild his house and remove the perfect working gas heating with electric heating in a country where you only need heating 1 or 2 months? Electric heating, especially if electricity comes from CO2 producing power plants, make sense sense at all. Call me again about ti when we are full CO2 in producing electricity... then it makes sense.
Actually one of the "storage ideas" is to store heat in hot water... so everyone gets a 2000l water tank...
$90B in taxpayer subsidized energy buys a lot of nuclear plants which they also shut down. No it does not, it does not even buy 10.... moron.
Energy in Germany (with all the subsidies) now costs over 30c/kWh while my small town supplier No it does not, moron.
On the other hand, all this investment in renewables hasn't made nearly any dent in greenhouse gas emissions within Germany over the last 3 decades. It has, we reduced it by > 30%... moron.
As an American living in Germany, I never understood that decision either. It was definitely not based on sense at all Probably you do not live in Germany long enough?
The population fought against nuclear power against the "establishment" since the mid 1960s. FINALLY 1998 the government was Greens and SPD and promptly they FINALLY abandoned nuclear power. Unfortunately their reign only lasted close to 10 years and Merkel prolonged the run time of nuclear plants. Until Fukushima, when she reverted their position.
To say it like an amercian: fuck the planet. Germany comes first. And the problem here is: nearly 100 year old nuclear reactors, built on fault lines, in earth quake ares in a country where a single plant would kill millions if it goes boom.
We did never produce much nuclear power anyway, at its peak it was 22%... now it is 10%.
Now we produce over 40% power by renewables... only dropped nuclear by ~10% and dropped coal by 30%
If we go back to nukes, we will have a civil war. And no: that is not an exaggeration or a joke.
Most German coal is lignite, which is filthy low-grade crap that generates even more CO2 per KwHr than bituminous coal. Wrong.
Nether is lignite 50% of our coal based power production, or "most" as you claim, nor does it produce more CO2.
CO2 is produced from burning carbon, the fucking power plant can not suddenly produce more CO2 just because the carbon comes from a different source. I really wonder how stupid people are getting in our times.
At a guess: wind and solar being more diffuse energy sources end up being more labor intensive to set-up and manage. At a guess: all the coal plants are built 30 or 50 or 80 years ago and don't need any "set up"...
The original plan was 2030... but it was never put into "law"... and for some reason we slowed down, well did not expand as fast as "assumed/planned" in renewables last decade.
And this "new 2038 thing" is not a law either... it is just a result of many talks, so I doubt there ever will be an "anti coal law".
Now we have an agreed plan, between "the state" the "federal states" and "the industry" and hopefully the society. Unfortunately for people living from mining it is still hard to sell...
Problem is: they are stupid idiots. Even if they get unemployed they get more or less the same money as before from unemployment insurance and social aid...
In January '84 the only GUIs actually on the market were Lisa, MacOS That is not correct... Apple IIs also had the option for graphical OSes and there was a hobbyist UCSD Pascal based GUI OS for Apples, too. (I used all of them, so I know:D )
I unfortunately needed to use it a few weeks, as I bought a new computer for my GF. But luckily I could downgrade it. For some reason Windows 98 did not install on it, so I needed to exchange the hard drive for one that had Win98 already on it. I don't remember what was "wrong" or "odd"... I tend to forget my computer nightmares, luckily... I had so many already.
Oh, I did not know there are Mac users that stupid that they throw away a three year old Mac. I hope I can apply somewhere so they better hand them over to me?
But what has a double blind study where one part gets a highly effective psychologically drug and the other part gets nothing to do with science?
We are not talking here about a medical that is supposed to have an healing effect so strong that it is better than the actually used best one. Or a medical over a placebo.
What do you tell the people in your double blind study before you give them LSD or fake LSD? "Watch out for time lapses"?
Or do you like in a court? You ask them after you collected people: "hey guys, we make a study, just take this pill please and tell us tomorrow about the effect"?
In a stupid study like that, most of the effect comes from the talk about it, not from the drugs or placebos. Especially when it is time perception.
It is completely pointless.
Ever been on vacation? I mean... americans have no vacation, so the question is rhetorically, so supposed you were on vacation, how does it come a day stretches so long, but the three or six weeks are over so fast?
Which part of:: there is no issue with eating, but there is an issue with growing/planting most of GMO food, don't you get?
1% is not ok, it is the law... that is all. Because factories that e.g. treat soy beans can not be expected to clean perfectly after they used a bunch of GMO soys and switch for a different customer later to non GMO soys. Obviously the second batch can contain traces of the first.
Sorry, but do you really have mental problems? If so I will try to be more polite and explain things more carefully in shorter sentences to you...
and what about the other slashdotter in this thread who explicitly states otherwise - that they have a big issue eating it? That is their problem, not mine. I simply don't eat GMOed food, I would not buy it if I saw it in a grocery. If you mean the health problems regarding wheat from the US versus wheat from/in France: that is most certainly a treatment issue of the food/wheat (bread!) and not caused by the fact that the US version is a GMO one... but: the devil is a squirrel. I don't know for what purpose the wheat in the US is genetically modified or what proteins or other things are inside "ordinary wheat" does not have. And I don't really care as long as it is forbidden to sell it anywhere on the planet where I use to live, which is EU and the Tiger nations. The main reason I never was in the US is the gun problem and the food problem.
I'm anti GMO e.g. because the US always put pressure unto the EU to allow to sell their junk here. Same bullshit they tried 20 - 30 years ago to get all Japanese rice farmers out of business by trying to force Japan to change import laws for rice, tariffs etc. Americans are often so dumb it is unbelievable. Unfortunately US retaliated and destroyed the Japanese economy for it... but well, Japanese and the rest of the Asians has a long long memory. Ah, for some strange reason you call the orientals and not asians... I keep forgetting that:D
That are experimental "one time" reactors. To refuel them you have to empty them and put new fuel inside.
They do nothing of the things the MSR enthusiasts try to sell us. They are not even close to "proof of concept", as in "waste burning" and other myths.
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No, dumbass. You picked a small part of the country, namely the capital: Bangkok.
And probably you never looked on a map either. I live what is the equivalent of the "mid west" in America. Bangkok is the equivalent of Mami.
No idea why you are so stupid to answer more and more stupid answers to this thread. I'm here since 130 days consecutive since mid October ... since then we had about 3 days with rain. One day where it rained very long, perhaps even 6h. And two ... hm, was it three days? , where it rained less than an hour ... ten minutes after I stepped outside it was all dry again.
But who am I ... living here ... looking out of the window ... seeing what is going on ... versus an internet troll who is to stupid to use the internet.
You are mixing up street lights with people.
I'm often coming home late. Around 20:00 most people in my town are in bed ...
No idea about what you want to argue.
Well, littly boy, I explain it to you:
Steel is *made* in two ways: ... actually a refined version of coal. However there are modern chemical processes that could replace coal
1) raw ore + coal makes steel, yeah, you need coal
2) you recycle old steel into new steel
Most steel in Germany is produced via 2) ... so get a damn clue. Also: the time when a steel plant is activated can be adjusted to cheap solar power times. And that is what steel plants do since 50 years: adjusting the time when to produce steel to wind and weather and availability of cheap energy.
For steel plants and any other industrial user power prices are around 5cent
Yeah, I know ... little boys don't know that ... because they live in a similar phantasy world they accuse the greens and renewable friends to live in.
You are an idiot.
The actually existing reserve capacity in Germany is FAR OVER 100% of what er produce. And if you did not get it so far, we export 50% of all power we produce.
How dumb are you after getting corrected 100 times during the last 5 years about your misconceptions?
expansion of its subsidized reserve capacity
Why the fuck would reserve power be subsidized by anyone/anything? The cost of every fucking kW/h people are buying already includes the cost for reserve power.
You have no fucking clue how the power business works and tell bullshit here ... WTF ... you annoy me.
Pumped hydro does not produce power. ...
It costs power
It is only used for load balancing ... and could be used as large scale storage.
And no: the easy to dam regions are not all in use. There are thousands left. But as you see above: pumped storage traditionally only is used for load balancing ... and you do not need much of that.
Solar also works poorly in snowy, rainy, and cold Germany.
I took the liberty to highlight, aka mark, two of your mistakes.
Ever heard about global warming?
Germany is not snowy since minimum 30 years, and not cold either ... idiot.
Yeah, yawn ... and what is your message?
The balancing plants we already have ...
Changing relatively quick load adjusting coal plants to gas plants makes no sense. Building a new gas plant takes 10 years. An existing coal plant can not be converted easily (easy as in quick and cheap).
As coal is only about 30% - 40% of Germany's energy production, changing that to gas, or even combined cycle gas has only a minimal effect.
Over the next couple of decades Germany's coal-fired power plants will be mostly replaced by similar CCGT plants which will continue to dump CO2 into the atmosphere. ...
No it wont. Wind and Solar is cheaper
Of course it also burns a lot of gas for domestic and industrial heating too since electricity is too expensive to use for home heating in Germany at nearly 30 Eu cents/kWh. ... why would anyone rebuild his house and remove the perfect working gas heating with electric heating in a country where you only need heating 1 or 2 months? ... then it makes sense.
Idiots idiots idiots everywhere
Electric heating, especially if electricity comes from CO2 producing power plants, make sense sense at all. Call me again about ti when we are full CO2 in producing electricity
Actually one of the "storage ideas" is to store heat in hot water ... so everyone gets a 2000l water tank ...
Energy prices in producing anything in Germany are completely irrelevant.
Call me when they have tripled or increased ten fold, then my bread from my bakery will cost 10cent more, that is really a concern for me ....
Worse would be beer ... I really dread the moment the beer in the pub costs 10 cent or 50 cents more ... oh the horrors!!!
$90B in taxpayer subsidized energy buys a lot of nuclear plants which they also shut down. .... moron.
No it does not, it does not even buy 10
Energy in Germany (with all the subsidies) now costs over 30c/kWh while my small town supplier
No it does not, moron.
On the other hand, all this investment in renewables hasn't made nearly any dent in greenhouse gas emissions within Germany over the last 3 decades. ... moron.
It has, we reduced it by > 30%
Nukes are very expensive to build, but dirt cheap to operate.
In a third world country.
Not in Germany, France or Japan ... idiot.
As an American living in Germany, I never understood that decision either. It was definitely not based on sense at all
Probably you do not live in Germany long enough?
The population fought against nuclear power against the "establishment" since the mid 1960s. FINALLY 1998 the government was Greens and SPD and promptly they FINALLY abandoned nuclear power. Unfortunately their reign only lasted close to 10 years and Merkel prolonged the run time of nuclear plants. Until Fukushima, when she reverted their position.
To say it like an amercian: fuck the planet. Germany comes first. And the problem here is: nearly 100 year old nuclear reactors, built on fault lines, in earth quake ares in a country where a single plant would kill millions if it goes boom.
We did never produce much nuclear power anyway, at its peak it was 22% ... now it is 10%.
Now we produce over 40% power by renewables ... only dropped nuclear by ~10% and dropped coal by 30%
If we go back to nukes, we will have a civil war. And no: that is not an exaggeration or a joke.
Most German coal is lignite, which is filthy low-grade crap that generates even more CO2 per KwHr than bituminous coal.
Wrong.
Nether is lignite 50% of our coal based power production, or "most" as you claim, nor does it produce more CO2.
CO2 is produced from burning carbon, the fucking power plant can not suddenly produce more CO2 just because the carbon comes from a different source. I really wonder how stupid people are getting in our times.
You are just obscuring that true cost.
And what is your point?
My power comes out of the plug in the corner of my room ... the price I pay for it matters. Well, not for me, but for some people.
At a guess: wind and solar being more diffuse energy sources end up being more labor intensive to set-up and manage. ...
At a guess: all the coal plants are built 30 or 50 or 80 years ago and don't need any "set up"
The original plan was 2030 ... but it was never put into "law" ... and for some reason we slowed down, well did not expand as fast as "assumed/planned" in renewables last decade.
And this "new 2038 thing" is not a law either ... it is just a result of many talks, so I doubt there ever will be an
"anti coal law".
Now we have an agreed plan, between "the state" the "federal states" and "the industry" and hopefully the society. Unfortunately for people living from mining it is still hard to sell ...
Problem is: they are stupid idiots. Even if they get unemployed they get more or less the same money as before from unemployment insurance and social aid ...
In January '84 the only GUIs actually on the market were Lisa, MacOS ... Apple IIs also had the option for graphical OSes and there was a hobbyist UCSD Pascal based GUI OS for Apples, too. (I used all of them, so I know :D )
That is not correct
Windows ME was utter shit.
I unfortunately needed to use it a few weeks, as I bought a new computer for my GF. But luckily I could downgrade it. For some reason Windows 98 did not install on it, so I needed to exchange the hard drive for one that had Win98 already on it. I don't remember what was "wrong" or "odd" ... I tend to forget my computer nightmares, luckily ... I had so many already.
Oh, I did not know there are Mac users that stupid that they throw away a three year old Mac.
I hope I can apply somewhere so they better hand them over to me?
It greatly increases the ability to drive on the "wrong side" ... and drive slalom through the traffic ...
You should try it!
Yes, science is supposed to work.
But what has a double blind study where one part gets a highly effective psychologically drug and the other part gets nothing to do with science?
We are not talking here about a medical that is supposed to have an healing effect so strong that it is better than the actually used best one. Or a medical over a placebo.
What do you tell the people in your double blind study before you give them LSD or fake LSD? "Watch out for time lapses"?
Or do you like in a court? You ask them after you collected people: "hey guys, we make a study, just take this pill please and tell us tomorrow about the effect"?
In a stupid study like that, most of the effect comes from the talk about it, not from the drugs or placebos. Especially when it is time perception.
It is completely pointless.
Ever been on vacation? I mean ... americans have no vacation, so the question is rhetorically, so supposed you were on vacation, how does it come a day stretches so long, but the three or six weeks are over so fast?
More interesting is the "microdoses" part. ... ever.
LSD has effects in so low doses it is close to homeopathic doses. And we know that since
Which part of:: there is no issue with eating, but there is an issue with growing/planting most of GMO food, don't you get?
1% is not ok, it is the law ... that is all. Because factories that e.g. treat soy beans can not be expected to clean perfectly after they used a bunch of GMO soys and switch for a different customer later to non GMO soys. Obviously the second batch can contain traces of the first.
Sorry, but do you really have mental problems? If so I will try to be more polite and explain things more carefully in shorter sentences to you ...
and what about the other slashdotter in this thread who explicitly states otherwise - that they have a big issue eating it? That is their problem, not mine. I simply don't eat GMOed food, I would not buy it if I saw it in a grocery. If you mean the health problems regarding wheat from the US versus wheat from/in France: that is most certainly a treatment issue of the food/wheat (bread!) and not caused by the fact that the US version is a GMO one ... but: the devil is a squirrel. I don't know for what purpose the wheat in the US is genetically modified or what proteins or other things are inside "ordinary wheat" does not have. And I don't really care as long as it is forbidden to sell it anywhere on the planet where I use to live, which is EU and the Tiger nations. The main reason I never was in the US is the gun problem and the food problem.
I'm anti GMO e.g. because the US always put pressure unto the EU to allow to sell their junk here. Same bullshit they tried 20 - 30 years ago to get all Japanese rice farmers out of business by trying to force Japan to change import laws for rice, tariffs etc. Americans are often so dumb it is unbelievable. Unfortunately US retaliated and destroyed the Japanese economy for it ... but well, Japanese and the rest of the Asians has a long long memory. Ah, for some strange reason you call the orientals and not asians ... I keep forgetting that :D
That are experimental "one time" reactors.
To refuel them you have to empty them and put new fuel inside.
They do nothing of the things the MSR enthusiasts try to sell us. They are not even close to "proof of concept", as in "waste burning" and other myths.
I never said nobody is using power.
I said in Germany night load, aka base load is around 40%.
And in Thailand it is lower.
So shove your satellite images where no one sees them, as you are obviously to dumb to draw conclusions from them :P