Fareed Zakaria of CNN posed all the right questions to German Chancellor Schulz and got all the right sounding answers. But to me watching the video, the interview sounded pretty menacingly portentous for the future of the world in decades to come. On a quiet Sunday morning yesterday , I couldn’t thus help falling intoContinue reading “My Sunday morning crystal-ball gazing into global geopolitics”
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Nuclear Fusion Energy breakthrough achieved by scientists! Historic or ominous?
http://dhunt.in/GTNEm?ss=wsp&s=i&uu=0x9fb9a411b34163bd Source: “India TV” via Dailyhunt I’m not a scientist and I know nothing about nuclear fusion technology. But as I read this article below I can say I’m happy for the scientific community when they celebrate their moment of achievement. They say an important milestone has been reached in fusion technology research … it’sContinue reading “Nuclear Fusion Energy breakthrough achieved by scientists! Historic or ominous?”
Household common-sense and global nuclear-energy economics
Today there are about 440 nuclear power reactors operating in 32 countries, (including Taiwan, which BTW according to China is not a country..) with a combined capacity of about 390 GWe. In 2020 these provided 2553 TWh, about 10% of the world’s electricity. According to recent techno-financial studies by expert groups in the world, theContinue reading “Household common-sense and global nuclear-energy economics”