kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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The photo is almost all waste from all nuclear power plants in Switzerland for the last 40 years. The whole UK produced ~2100 m3 of such waste in 60 years, which is how much a coal plant produces *in one day!*
But it's not all: radioactive decay results in fast decreasing of radioactivity of the waste. In just 10 years it goes down to 30%, in 100 years to 3% etc.
This is why nobody bothered with building underground storage yet - there's too little waste.
@Mr_Teatime @drq @gretathunberg
> nuclear waste disposal
When you learn the actual facts (which I did last year) it seems like the problem has been long solved, it's just Greenpeace wants us to believe it's not.
Look, an average nuclear plant produces ~27 tons of waste per year.
Then 96% of that is recycled back into nuclear fuel (MOX).
Then only the remaining 4% (1 ton) is actual "waste". It's vitrified (turned into glass), packed into containers and stored safely.
> i'm not saying any of these questions I asked
Oh, no - I actually respect your position very much and the fact that you are actually checking the sources and responding to them in informed manner. We are actually discussing, not having two monologues!
You can't imagine how rare this is these days!
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As part of an investigation into opposition to 5G mobile phone networks in the English town of Glastonbury the BBC reporter [Rory Cellan-Jones] shared details of a so-called 5G protection device that was a… https://hackaday.com/2020/05/21/dont-worry-this-box-will-protect-you-from-5g/
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> can you send me a list of some varieties
No, I cannot. I find it quite arrogant of people to ask "can you show me" in a debate if they can easily check for themselves and my experience indicates this is a simple blame-shifting technique to justify their own beliefs and bias. And when presented with data they just ignore it or dismiss further escalating demands.
> a startup brings competition to the Monsanto
This is actually incorrect. There's a thriving independent community of independent biotechnology researchers - individuals, small companies etc, all around the world. You can find tons of them on https://indiebio.co/
> American corporate-dominated economy centric view
It indeed is. You probably haven't heard about University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad or Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore have you? Neither did I until I read Brand's book.
But it was them who created the Bt brinjal and released it to India and Bangladesh, leading to a 39% reduction in the use of pesticides and 43% increase in yield. Which, by the way, translates to equivalent decrease in land use.
A case study - I can guarantee, that if we in Eastern Europe did not already transform farming during communism (mostly in 60's after fall of Lysenkoism), we would with no hesitation clone, steal and do everything else necessary to obtain the seeds as farmers in India and Bangladesh are doing now. And then prevent Greenpeace activists from destroying it with any means necessary.
Sorry, I was born in 80's Eastern Europe and I can tell you one thing: nobody there wanted to live like our grandparents, who worked 16h per day to feed themselves in old-style farming and died at age of 50.
Everybody wants to live like Vandana Shiva, who lives in Delhi, charges $40k per speech at events where she flies in business class to teach how the poor people should be living in the jungle farming polycultures...
Yes, that's a well known tune in some environmental circles: move THEM back to jungle where they can live at pre-industrial mortality levels as WE live in developed countries and send our precious WHITE kids to schools.
Kill two birds with one stone: prevent progress, and at the same time stop overpopulation by letting them die in the bushes where WE don't see them.
Organic-certified farming lost me when I read in their certification requirements that you cannot use most synthetic pesticides because they are "unnatural", but you can use CuSO4 (!) which is "natural".
I'm all for Fair Trade on the other hand, which covers part of what you mentioned without this pseudo-scientific bias.
I voted video but now, having originally studied chemical engineering, I'm split between video and PDF :)
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Be aware of the apps your kids use & how their data is being handled.
“For years, TikTok ignored the children’s privacy law, thereby ensnaring perhaps millions of underage children in its marketing apparatus, & putting them at risk of sexual predation.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/tiktok-kids-privacy.html
> you've demonstrated the presence of protestors
Development, sales and even research of genetically engineered organisms in many countries, especially EU, is very restricted, and this is specifically as result of Greenpeace lobbying.
How can you make any progress if you can't even legally do research? That's probably the largest absurdity of the "precautionary principle" that they embedded in the EU legal framework to fight GMO.
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A single Banqiao dam disaster in China killed 230'000 people. Hundreds of people die each year in work-related accidents at wind turbines and installing solar panels.
No technology is 100% safe and each of them can be mismanaged. The question is which one is more difficult to mismanage. As it comes to nuclear, all gen 3 reactors in use today will shut down with no human intervention and with no external electricity supply.
@loonycyborg @gretathunberg @Mr_Teatime @drq
In Poland, there were some attempts at geothermal and there's a lot of uncertainties - drilling is *very* expensive, you need two shafts (in/out) and then you don't know for sure what you'll get. If it's 100°C it's a win, but then you may get 50°C and high mineralisation which quite useless. The best they got in Poland was 80°C and they're heating a whole district with it. There were many failed too.
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Wow this furnace is a beast!!! :)
So the argument about "GMO market not being successful" is a bit like Greenpeace blocking nuclear plant building and operation by *any* means and then saying "look, it's expensive and delayed" 😂
Having said that, many GMO plants like Golden Rice and Bt brinjal *are* available without patents and were developed by public research institutions or NGOs. We just need more public research into this... but public universities are harassed even more!
> potential competitors: syngenta, dupont, dow
The only reason why GMO market has centralised in recent years was nothing else than continuous attacks from anti-GMO groups. You can't run a small competitive research company if your crops are continuously destroyed and your scientists attacked physically. Anti-GMO became a well-organised business too thanks to US tort law companies.
https://european-seed.com/2019/04/american-tort-lawyers-and-iarc-a-toxic-mutual-interest/
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
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