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Prices and inflation Thread poster: Peter Motte
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Jan Truper 
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Jan Truper wrote:
If I was a maniac with mid-sized weaponry, I could make parts of Europe inhabitable for eons.
I would really hate to be right on this.
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LIZ LI
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| Universal application | Mar 8, 2022 |
Jan Truper wrote:
2 quotes from the Wikipedia article I linked:
"The French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has concluded that technical innovation cannot eliminate the risk of human errors in nuclear plant operation."
The risk of human errors? Isn't it universally applicable to every aspect of our life?
"An interdisciplinary team from MIT has estimated that given the expected growth of nuclear power from 2005 to 2055, at least four serious nuclear accidents would be expected in that period."
Time for a countdown? ...20- been gone, and 30+ to go.
Since when are we no longer skeptical about everything?
Taking no position in the approach of German energy, but would love to know your opinions on the upcoming(?) inflation from every angle.
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Jan Truper
Germany
Local time: 06:36
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LIZ LI wrote:
Jan Truper wrote:
"The French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has concluded that technical innovation cannot eliminate the risk of human errors in nuclear plant operation."
The risk of human errors? Isn't it universally applicable to every aspect of our life?
Exactly -- which is why a technology with such absolute destructive properties has no place in human hands (neither for energy generation, nor for military applications).
LIZ LI wrote:
Taking no position in the approach of German energy, but would love to know your opinions on the upcoming(?) inflation from every angle.
Sorry, my knowledge of the inner mechanics of freewheeling capitalism is not sufficient to add anything relevant to that aspect of the discussion.
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LIZ LI
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Jan Truper wrote:
LIZ LI wrote:
Jan Truper wrote:
"The French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has concluded that technical innovation cannot eliminate the risk of human errors in nuclear plant operation."
The risk of human errors? Isn't it universally applicable to every aspect of our life?
Exactly -- which is why a technology with such absolute destructive properties has no place in human hands (neither for energy generation, nor for military applications).
In my dictionary, human beings are THE destructive species amongst all.
So, our very own destructive nature it is.
Life itself is a risky adventure, but it doesn't mean that we have to stop evolving (or not).
Personally, I think Germany could have been THE good hands to handle nuclear...
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Peter Motte
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Jan Truper wrote:
Peter Motte wrote
Germany shut down its nuclear reactors after the Fukushima incident, because the greens said that something like that can happen in Europe too (which is a lie),
It was a lie, because we can't have tsunami in Europe, and certainly not of the size of the Fukushima disaster.
Morever, there was a safety system at Fukushima which had to be checked every ten years, and it was 11 years ago it was checked.
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Peter Motte
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LIZ LI wrote:
In my dictionary, human beings are THE destructive species amongst all.
So, our very own destructive nature it is.
Life itself is a risky adventure, but it doesn't mean that we have to stop evolving (or not).
Personally, I think Germany could have been THE good hands to handle nuclear...
Since the 1990's, when we learned there was a CO2-problem, opposition to nuclear energy should have been stopped.
However, most nuclear reactors were shut down or phased out AFTER we knew that.
Which just shows how slow politics works.
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Peter Motte
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It's amazing how a discussion on translation prices turned into a discussion on energy politics.
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LIZ LI
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Peter Motte wrote:
It's amazing how a discussion on translation prices turned into a discussion on energy politics.
Getting back to the topic from where I stand,
Covid probably the biggest factor of a much higher production cost: less productive work forces due to on-going restrictions ever since the outbreak, though limited & slow-paced recovery.
According to some local news, we signed a 30-year contract with Russia for gas supply back in 2018 at somewhere around 350USD...
Looks promising for reselling!
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Peter Motte
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| Sad, Isn't It? | Mar 12, 2022 |
Michael Newton wrote:
In Boston, $5 for a single tomato and nearly $5 for a loaf of bread. Biden's America. No longer energy independent.
Not only for citizens of the US, but for the entire world. If Biden would only open the Keystone Pipeline back up, gasoline/petrol would be a whole hell of a lot cheaper, not only for Americans, but for countries that might decide to buy it from us. The United States has more oil under its ground than any other country in the world, even more than Saudi Arabia. Poor people over here who have to have a car will suffer the most: they can't afford what I call the "Joe Biden/Elon Musk special": an electric vehicle, which currently costs a a "cool" 50 grand in the US. And they will not be able to afford $6.00 a gallon gas, which is already what it costs in some parts of California, either
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Claudio Porcellana (X)
Italy
Local time: 06:36
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| Prices and inflation? | Apr 8, 2022 |
I read that we are risking rather stagflation now, due to the geo-military-political situation that we all know
Now add that nobody knows when it will possibly end
I was always an optimist, so far...
YUK
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Claudio Porcellana (X)
Italy
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| Prices and inflation | Apr 8, 2022 |
Samuel Murray wrote:
We managed to cut our heating bill in half by switching from gas to electricity and by switching from T shirts and shorts to jerseys and trousers. [Edited at 2022-02-15 11:27 GMT]
unfortunately, many countries produce electricity with gas...
and I use jerseys and trousers already
I can certainly start dressing like a Inuit and move into an igloo, but it's not ideal because I have 20 °C now in my garden
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Peter Motte
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TOPIC STARTER | No stagflation | Apr 8, 2022 |
There won't be any stagflation.
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Peter Motte wrote:
There won't be any stagflation.
Because?
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TonyTK
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Peter Motte wrote:
Germany shut down its nuclear reactors after the Fukushima incident, because the greens said that something like that can happen in Europe too (which is a lie),
... that's not the case. The Greens weren't in power at the time; it was the centre-right government (CDU-FDP) under Angela Merkel that pushed for nuclear exit after Fukushima.
No offence, but there are multiple inaccuracies in just the one sentence.
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