Charles R. Smith🔹
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Charles R. Smith🔹
@softwarnet
QUAD A-10 staff, former journalist, author, expert encryption security programmer, developed Quantum based encryption using light.
Richmond, VA Katılım Kasım 2015
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There are 135 public documented nuclear-threat related statements by top Russian officials (including Putin, Medvedev, Lavrov, and others) from February 24, 2022, to December 17, 2024.
Sorta makes you wonder why Ukraine gave up their nukes to begin with.
Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦@Oct7NeverForget
Moscow is beginning to threaten the use of nuclear weapons if Ukraine uses ballistic missiles against Russia. For some reason, the Kremlin has decided that Ukraine can be shelled with ballistic weapons every day, but striking back at Russia is somehow off-limits, almost sacred. Yet the fundamental principle of reciprocity has not been abolished anywhere in the world—it applies in politics, business, and diplomacy.
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@softwarnet @theobjectivist Please tell me, where does China get coal to burn?
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No one should be surprised but what he left out is that this turbine costs an estimated $50-80 million to build and install. It only produces power 35-45% of the time because wind is intermittent. Its output degrades 12-16% over its 20-25 year lifespan. It requires hundreds of tons of steel, concrete, fiberglass, and rare earth minerals mined largely in China (his favorite country). The other 55-65% of the time you need backup power, which comes from natural gas. And it exists only because of massive government subsidies.
A natural gas plant of the same 26MW capacity costs $26-39 million, produces more than double the effective output, runs on demand 24 hours a day regardless of weather, and lasts 30-40 years. Half the price. Double the output. No weather dependency. No subsidies required.
But this was never about the environment. If it were, you would care that rare earth mining for wind turbines devastates landscapes across China and Africa, that thousands of birds and bats are killed annually by turbine blades, that the blades themselves are non-recyclable fiberglass rotting in landfills, and that natural gas produces half the emissions of coal with none of these problems. You ignore all of this because environmentalism was never your goal. It is your vehicle. The destination is what it has always been: government control of energy production, which means government control of the economy, which is socialism. Rand identified this decades ago. The green movement is not a scientific movement. It is a political one, and its target is not pollution. It is capitalism.
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS
The World's largest Wind Turbine 26MW. In its lifetime it will produce the same energy as burning 750,000 tons of coal. That's 44,118 truck loads. And that's just 1 Wind Turbine.
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@Oct7NeverForget There are 135 public documented nuclear-threat related statements by top Russian officials (including Putin, Medvedev, Lavrov, and others) from February 24, 2022, to December 17, 2024.
Sorta makes you wonder why Ukraine gave up their nukes to begin with.
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Moscow is beginning to threaten the use of nuclear weapons if Ukraine uses ballistic missiles against Russia. For some reason, the Kremlin has decided that Ukraine can be shelled with ballistic weapons every day, but striking back at Russia is somehow off-limits, almost sacred. Yet the fundamental principle of reciprocity has not been abolished anywhere in the world—it applies in politics, business, and diplomacy.
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Update: antisemite Aakash Patel is no longer with Thyssenkrupp, a global giant in the steel industry.
StopAntisemitism@StopAntisemites
Wisconsin based antisemite Aakash Patel oversees QA in industrial engineering & steel production. In his spare time, he: - blames Jews for the 2024 German Christmas attack - calls India a “Zionist puppet” & claims Jews are destroying it - says Trump & America are “slaves to the Zionists”
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Teachers across Wisconsin are getting their jollies protesting for socialism today. Have at it. But the people they are supposed to be working for and who are paying their salaries are fully aware of the following. You're testing their patience and it's starting to wear out.
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The left has been saying repeatedly that the tariffs will lead to additional costs being passed down to us the consumers.
My question is why don’t they ever apply that same logic when they are screaming about raising corporate taxes on businesses?
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@dzvoz58421711 @softwarnet Never trust a commie. And, more importantly, never trust a commie PhD.
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Former Rep. David Rivera convicted in $50 million Venezuelan lobbying scheme justthenews.com/node/179738?ut…
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Venezuela has signed oil and gas deals with U.S. companies.
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Here is Graham Platner's former campaign manager (who refused to sign a $15,000 NDA)
She posted this after her resignation.
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Huntington Palisades HOA provides nothing, obviously, since the Palisades is burned to the ground. They insist I pay HOA fees or they’ll FORECLOSE ON MY HOUSE. I pushed back; they said “we have the right”. We’ll see.
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Iranian reports: An explosion in Zanjan, Iran has reportedly killed 14 IRGC members.
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Not a single person crying about how the Supreme Court has made it impossible for black people to get elected supported Winsom Sears over the affluent white lady.
Not one.
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Fun fact of the day!
Illegal aliens contribute about $31 billion in tax revenue per year, according to a report by FAIR.
But they cost Americans an estimated $182 billion per year.
Never let a Democrat claim illegals aren't a drain on the economy.
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Israel’s laser defense system was installed in the UAE 🇦🇪 according to a report in the @FinancialTimes. It shoots down drones and missiles at $3 a shot and never runs out of ammunition.
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Turbines for nuclear are easier to buy than turbines for gas plants. We bought our first one a few months ago, and it's arriving later this year.
Nuclear plants use *steam* turbines, which operate at lower temperatures than combusting gas. Turbine blades are nowhere near as big a bottleneck for nuclear & steam.
A modern gas turbine inlet runs at 1,500 C.
Light water reactor steam turbine inlets run at 285 C.
Aalo's steam turbines will run closer to 400 C.
At 285 - 400 C, you can use more common metal alloys and manufacturing techniques. No single crystals, no vacuum furnaces, no 90-week grow times.
3 companies on Earth can cast a hot-section gas blade, while over 10 companies can forge a steam turbine rotor, for the smaller turbines used by smaller nuclear reactors like Aalo-1.
Steam turbines (esp <= 50 MWe) are a more mature commodity.
There's more to this story though, and a fascinating history... going to post a follow up soon.
Gaurab Chakrabarti@Gaurab
You cannot buy a new gas turbine until 2030. Order books at GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi stretch to 2029. Turbine prices have nearly tripled since 2019. Every AI data center needs power and every gas plant needs a turbine. And every turbine has one part that bottlenecks the entire industry: The blade. It has to survive in gas 500°C above the melting point of the metal it's made from and spin at up to 20,000 RPM under 10,000 g of centrifugal force. Each blade is grown as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, pulled through a vacuum furnace at 3 mm per minute. A set of blades costs $600,000 and takes 90 weeks to grow. The same metallurgy powers modern jet engines. Only 3 companies on Earth can build one. China spent $42 billion trying to catch up. They bought a Russian fighter engine, took it apart, and copied every part. Their copy ran 30 hours between overhauls versus 400 for the original. Modern Western engines run 4,000. You can reverse engineer the shape of a turbine blade. You cannot reverse engineer 60 years of metallurgy.
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