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Kristoffer Laurson
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Kristoffer Laurson
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Building offgrid Energy as a Service with renewables
Paris, France Katılım Ağustos 2009
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Finland signed a DCA with the US and joined NATO for US protection against Russia. We cannot afford to be neutral anymore. Our western future is tethered to the tides and currents of US politics. We must endorse and support what the US decides, because we now depend on these agreements. Only thing surprising is how quickly this became apparent. These agreements were a radical departures of post WW neutral defence and political posture of Finland. Like most medicine it came with side effects. We have to now get to learn to live with these side effects.
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Finland’s president just said out loud what Europe is whispering.
Alexander Stubb, one of NATO’s most pro-American voices, told The Sunday Telegraph the US is no longer a “benevolent hegemon.” His evidence: The Iran strikes. No consultation. No UN. No allies. Just Washington and Tel Aviv.
“I won’t use any particular adjective,” he said. “But it is a different type of hegemony.” That sentence is doing a lot of work. When the most Atlanticist leader in Europe can’t find a word for what America has become, Europe has its answer.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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@carlbildt NATO must have a forced exclusion and exit clause, otherwise it’s meaningless. It also cannot be a consensus decision. Hungary and Slovakia are compromised.
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It is said that NATO was saved at The Hague summit last summer. I guess NATO will have to be saved again at the Ankara summit this summer.
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@jurgen_nauditt If US and Europe don’t have a free trade agreement and are not willing to pay a premium and don’t want a mutual military alliance, then why would Europe have priority access to LNG from US?
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And here comes Trump's next attempt to blackmail Europe:
The US is warning the EU of the need to reach a trade agreement, otherwise they could lose "cheap" access to liquefied natural gas (LNG), - FT.
The Trump administration is suggesting that European companies could lose priority access to supplies or face higher tariffs if they don't sign the agreement. This comes amid an escalating conflict in the Middle East, which has blocked shipments from Qatar through the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump is Europe's enemy.
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@RnaudBertrand Europe replaced some of the cheap Russian gas with expensive Russian LNG
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So Europe got rid of cheap Russian gas because they feared they could be blackmailed by Putin in favor of expensive American gas and being actually blackmailed by Trump.
(this is also incidentally why it's so stupid for Europe to cheerlead the US and Israel in the war on Iran)
Financial Times@FT
US warns EU to pass trade deal or risk losing ‘favourable’ access to LNG ft.trib.al/CgyPj4q
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milei putting up some extraordinary numbers: argentina's inflation went from nearly 300% to below 40%. gdp up 4.4%.
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Paris, Barcelona and Brussels are the most dangerous cities in Europe.
On the other hand, Prague, Warsaw and Budapest are really safe, even for women at night.
How did this happen?
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Trump has done more for climate change in three weeks than 30 years of COP 😂
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Nukes work well with large scale batteries. When PV (the cheapest energy) are not generating, nukes can charge them up offpeak. Bess + PV + nukes are the coming decades, prior to fusion and space PV taking over. The most insane has been closing working nukes to now be dependent on Russian LNG imports. Only a fool or someone working for Putin would do this to Germany and Europe.
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For anyone who still hasn't grasped why nuclear power plants are the stupidest idea imaginable:
New nuclear power plants cost up to 49 cents per kilowatt-hour in Europe. Solar power costs between 3 and 6 cents.
Thats 16 times more expensive electricity
For those now dreaming of small power plants (SMR):
SMRs produce five to 30 times more nuclear waste than large reactors, and nuclear waste is a massive cost driver.
Professor Dr. Lesch calls the idea of using old nuclear waste as fuel "a wonderful fairy tale that has yet to come true anywhere in the world."
For all now claiming storage is no cost driver take a look what Germany had to pay and all other countries with nuclear energy generation must pay for decommissioning and storing nuclear facilities and waste in the future:
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@TweetsOfSumit @eurofounder @TrumpWarRoom It’s postponed to after lunch, so everyone has time to get back to work without rush from the weekend.
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@eurofounder @TrumpWarRoom Get ready for an important EU meeting Monday 10am
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The most bitter paradox of our time:
Tehran is currently experiencing military strikes, yet the air is the cleanest it has been in YEARS. We actually have rainbows, snow, and blue skies!
Why? Because the Islamic Republic's massive, grid-draining crypto farms are offline, meaning their power plants aren't burning toxic Mazut (heavy fuel oil) over our heads anymore. The daily traffic of their corrupt, substandard economy has halted.
The Islamic Republic itself was a weapon of mass destruction. Their “peace” was suffocating us. The end of this regime is literally letting Iran breathe again!
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@FinnishGear So Iran fire drones and missiles against dozens of neighbours. Turns out they have developed a long range weapon that could reach Finland. Are you think Israel is and has a problem?
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@MichaelAArouet It’s not euro, it’s the growth of the public sector. The datapoint is Finland vs the other Nordics. The stagnation of the economy, caused by the growing public sector and increasing taxation, causes companies to contract and not able to improve wages.
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That's eye-opening, change in real wages from 1994 to 2024 (%).
Just look at Italy and Spain, three lost decades. What were politicians thinking when they introduced the euro there? Why can’t they admit it was a mistake?
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@anders_aslund Fixed internet (mostly) still works. This is about mobile internet. The threat of drones is real, however the solution is absurd.
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This looks really serious.
Russia has closed down the internet even in Moscow.
GPS does not work, not even for taxidrivers.
Modern Russians live of and with the internet.
This Stalinist nonsense suggests that the authorities sense they are losing political control.
WarTranslated@wartranslated
Russia's main TV channel is airing songs about how great life is without the internet. Getting even closer to North Korea.
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There is nothing wrong with adding renewables capacity, which Europe should have done faster. The failed part is shutting down existing capacity before the new is built. This is ideology at work and not economic or business. It’s simple madness and we have and will continue paying a high price.
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🚨 Why the EU's energy policy is mad 🚨
Despite expanding capacity, the EU is now generating 3.3% less electricity than it did in 2004.
Compare that to the US (+11%) and China (+358%).
The energy transition is a failure, and makes a competitive European AI sector impossible.
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I want every single person in Finland 🇫🇮 to see this video!
THANK YOU for the 12 ambulances!
Real allies, saving lives, every day 💪
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Say what you want about the guy but he obviously ran an extraordinary campaign
Current Report@Currentreport1
BREAKING: Kim Jong-un has won North Korea's parliamentary elections with 99.93% of the vote.
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@disclosetv Is it taxed like Delaware? What about employment and equity taxation?
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NEW - Europe launches "EU Inc., the 28th regime," a "fully digital" framework that enables entrepreneurs to create and register a business anywhere in the EU, with their data then shared with "relevant administrations," and supported via the new "EU business wallet."
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