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To: TobagoJack who wrote (183384)	2/1/2022 4:22:45 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By fred woodall Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218109

I've been around a long time now. Way back in the 1950s my parents took us to Onehunga Carnegie Library where I liked to get books on science, technology, volcanoes, planets and the like. One explained how nuclear reactors, then under development, would make electricity nearly free. It was exciting to think of the world burgeoning with science, engineering and modernity. But only a decade or so later and I was scoffing at the absurd idea that nuclear reactors were so safe that there was a 1 in 10,000 year chance of disaster. I had already learned to my horror that wars were not only still popular, but they seemed likely to remain so and become nuclear powered too. Nuclear reactors would of course be a good target so 1 in 50 years seemed a more reasonable probability of a broken reactor. In 1975 in the Ottawa area I helped Noranda Metal Industries with construction of a nickel-zirconium tube manufacturing plant by supplying the necessary lubricants [from Texaco Canada Ltd]. Jay Pineau was the engineer in charge as my customer. Strange to think that it would have been shut down long ago as nuclear reactors went out of fashion after not long. <MQ should be happy that there shall be plenty of CO2 to go around> It won't be long before CO2 starts running down again. People are selfish. The fortuitous CO2 output was not from the generosity of SUV operators and frequent flyers. They reluctantly had to buy fuel. But swarms of engineers have worked for decades to reduce the amount of fuel required. My 1953 Hillman did about 20 miles per gallon with a following wind = 8 km per litre. My great big luxury Camry does about 16 km per litre at 80 km per hour which was my Hillman's top speed near enough. Hybrid cars with regenerative braking and maybe even regenerative shock absorbers could do better still around town. Now Made in China nuclear reactors look set for another effort without the old problems. Meanwhile, photovoltaics are also competitive in many applications. With battery swaps in cars [7SSS service = 7 second swap stop] the photovoltaics would have somewhere to instantly dump gigawatts without overloading batteries. Agriculturalists had better enjoy the free CO2 while it's available. I used to sell fuel oil to glass house operators for heat and CO2. At 420 parts per million in air they don't need to buy so much. But 1000 ppm is better so I guess they are still burning to keep production up. After 37 years, CO2 still doesn't seem to me to be a problem. The claimed Global Warming hasn't happened = no mid troposphere hot spot, children still know what snow is, even in Syria. Southern USA, and Ottawa got big snow recently. There's a LOT of the stuff around. Oil per GDP continues to fall fast. CO2 per GDP is falling faster. I guess Peak CO2 output will be 2037, along with Peak People [by coincidence]. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (183384)	2/4/2022 8:16:42 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 218109

One thought about inefficient on electricity / economic growth US is remarkably inefficient at converting economic growth into common prosperity .. in fact it fuels their wealth gap ever more each year... (Canada less so BUT also... difference is hair splitting) I commented previously on the crackdown in China on Big Tech... .. So China reigning it in .. while US makes token efforts as big tech relentlessly heads towards being the de facto US government... so in many ways easy to see why populist politicians are popular in US.. so many feel disenfranchised... while China continues relentlessly on a chicken in every pot policy