On February 4, 2022, Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin unveiled a 5,000 word Joint Declaration on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development.
Man this is helpful, Matthew!!Thank you. Balancing this perspective against decades of programming has not been easy. For example when you say:
“The dramatic increase of a middle class, which totalled only 3% of the Chinese population in 2000 to become 54% today are just a few effects of this overall energy policy. One finds that each one of these factors has intentionally been reduced across the Trans Atlantic West over the course of the same period.”
I think “at what cost”.? I’ve been following Nate Hagens carbon pulse logic for a couple years now and it seems clear the days of hydrocarbon are numbered. I have not heard a pro nuclear argument yet that makes the case for full replacement of the hydrocarbon pulse in a way that does not poison the biology of the planet in a different way.
Also, the concept of increased biomass as measure of success does not properly weigh the incredible importance of increased biodiversity. The latter being essential for human thriving and survival, also. Monoculture = death.
Nate Hagens is correct, we will need to replace fossil fuels, not hydrocarbons. We can still make hydrocarbons quite easily from CO2, waste or biomass plus nuclear hydrogen. Best to make Methanol. The fuel of the future.
Nate needs to learn the basics of Nuclear power. There is enough uranium & thorium on the accessible Earth landmass to power our civilization for > 100Myrs. Fusion until the Sun consumes the Earth. That's why our Malthusian Overlords despise nuclear power. They love scarcity and energy starvation. They're Psychopath Parasites.
‘The unification of China’s space program, lunar development and Mars agenda that are integrated with Russia are not coincidentally tied to China’s commitment to tap into the moon’s abundant helium-3 resources which are nearly non-existent on earth due to our planet’s intense magnetic field.
Science journalist Jeremy Beck wrote of China’s space/fusion program in the following terms:
“Professor Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP), has said that the Moon is so rich in He-3, that this could ‘solve humanity’s energy demand for around 10,000 years at least.’
While talking about the Moon’s reserves of iron and other metals, Ziyuan particularly drew attention to He-3, which he called ‘an ideal fuel for nuclear fusion power, the next generation of nuclear power.’
He added, ‘It is estimated that reserves of helium-3 across Earth amount to just 15 tonnes, while 100 tonnes of helium-3 will be needed each year if nuclear fusion technology is applied to meet global energy demands. The Moon, on the other hand, has reserves estimated at between one and five million tonnes’.”
Just a little problem of getting it from the moon to the earth will make it way too expensive I'd imagine and I certainly wouldn't want to be one of the people living and working on the moon. Look at the price of natural gas or oil and it's located on our planet. You'd have to build an extraction plant on the moon and energize it with a non-existent power plant all would have to be built and maintained by workers which need housing, electric, heat and water and sewer then add to that the people that would actually do the extraction and the people that are needed to run the transports, etc. To transport the hellium, if that's even possible, I don't know it may require special designs like liquid natural gas, to prevent the cargo container from floating off into space like a tether from the moon to the earth. I'm not saying these things cannot be resolved but the expense of resolving them will be costly and what energy will be used to send the transport to the moon? Rockets using aluminum and an oxidizer which may need to be available at both ends of the trip so you get into how much of a payload can a transport carry until it cannot get off the ground. Rocket's are small for a reason.
Lot's of tritium in Nuclear reactor cooling water, Fukushima has lots. CANDUs produce Tritium in their heavy water. Tritium decays into He-3. You can also produce it by bombarding lithium with neutrons, Li-6 is converted into He-4 and tritium which then decays into He-3.
great summary that answers the question, partly. the next obvious question is - why did RU and Ch seemingly lead/go along with the divoc 91 deadly farce? Or did they?
“As demonstrated in Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans, one cannot create windmills or solar panels (which include vast mining requirements) utilizing wind or solar energy making them the very opposite of “renewable”.”
BRICS gangster slave statism, is the endgame of WEF-H$BC multifaceted warfare.
While H$BC's Soros faction may be ruled-off of CCP and Russia, both are gutting their own and staging cv19 iatrogenocide cull of Hong Kong human rights-capitalist activism.
H$BC/WEF-BRlCS certainly are conducting a cull of US earners under Kalergi attack, and will never promote a US-style middle class and republican government, that usurps their control of gangster state assets.
Thanks, Matt. Lots to digest, though admittedly a set of perspectives on China particular that is little known, especially in the West. BRICS is presented in more favourable light, especially on the "sustainable" front and the debates related to the so-called 'Green Revolution.' On whether we are able to see BRICS as radically different from and distinct than the WEF et al, and whether they have more potential for good rather than bad, I am sharing a short video featuring the views of Richard Werner who is an internationally renowned economist, professor and author with a track record for accurate economic analysis and an understanding of the relevant concepts and facts. (On the Kim Iversen Show). He focuses on CBDCs and their threat to future sovereignties of nations, and equally driven by both WEF and BRICS, which we need to keep our focus on.
Excellent article, I'm sure I will link it many times as a reference. What we are seeing shaping up is a battle between the Western Bankster Club-Of-Rome Malthusians and the Humanists, Eco-Modernists and Cornucopians that dominate many BRICs nations and the rising Populist-Nationalist movements in Western Nations.
The Malthusians have failed miserably. Every claim they have made has been demolished. And their predictions of massive poverty, starvation and industrial collapse due to overpopulation and resource shortages by the year 2000, we now can confirm was utter nonsense. You would think these morons would just give up, but no they are just doubling down, milking Climate Change as way to impose their Scarcity based techno-Feudal Totalitarian World Government.
Meanwhile what we are REALLY discovering is that what goes up exponentially (i.e. population) can also go down, also exponentially. And we are facing a destructive population collapse that is proving near impossible for countries to stop. Not driven by resource shortages, but by people not wanting to have many kids in a modern industrial society. Malthusians never predicted that. So all they got now is their "World is on Fire", "We have entered the era of Global Boiling" crackpot claims.
And yet they're dumping it into the Pacific Ocean. The reactor in New York was also leaking Tritium into the water supply for years. Indian Point maybe?
The amount is trivial in terms of health. Tritium is a weak beta emitter, there are strong beta & gamma emitters in seawater, in your own body, like K-40. Lot's of tritium falls into the oceans & lakes due to rain. Even the Fukushima tritium contaminated water you could drink your 2L/day of the stuff with zero health effects. It's that weak. Won't even penetrate skin or 1/4in of air, a meager 6 kev electron, that's a 1000X less than many other beta particles.
First China is on top of the consumer markets at the moment but that will wain just like it did in the US as the capitalists will cycle through even poorer areas of the globe to make their wares leaving China with upkeep costs that it won't be able to afford just like the US and Europe are experiencing. Now some of that is misappropriation of funds for global wars and if we had a society that understood that we have to enforce our Constitution and laws they'd be on the streets if in fact they like that life we once had but they seem determined to do little about restoring our way of living.
As a result of the capitalists one of two things will happen. We'll end up with a global starvation or slave wage that we all share around the world or they purposely destroy the labor in old markets so they can come back around again an have people willing to work for nothing just to get clean water and a couple hours of electric per day.
Second you just write-off any possibility of nuclear poisoning and yet on 9/12/2024 we were literally 72 minutes from death of the planet from NATO threatening stikes on Russia and Russia responding with nuclear weapons. Poor Biden was embarrrassed across the globe having to tell Starma that he wasn't allowed to strike into Russia. Should anyone in NATO or the European Union say fuck the US we're doing what we want Putin has already said he will target the west with nuclear weapons including the United States if necessary.
It takes nuclear power plants to generate the fuel for weapons. Less nuclear power plants eliminate the ability to make nuclear weapons. These are things that economoists account for as costs to society. The other issue with nuclear is the unexpected inability to be able to cool the reaction usually as a result of some event that Mother Nature has whipped up. Unless we can come up with a way to passively cool the reactors I'm not a fan regardless of what it can do for the world because it can also do the complete opposite for the world just because it exists.
Commercial nuclear power plants don't and can't produce weapons material. Any and all cases of making nuclear weapons were done by specialty reactors or enrichment. Nowadays it can also be done by particle accelerators, at ~3X the cost. Stifling commercial nuclear power is a way to increase the risk of nuclear war, due to energy wars, energy shortages.
The big issue now is not nuclear weapons but bioweapons. Which are being developed with reckless abandon. And nobody cares.
I was pretty sure that they took the waste material from the reaction and used that as a starting point.
Bioweapons are a serious threat and have been since before HIV I suspect. But Reagan was big on bioweapons and nothing better than a bioweapon that get's rid of undesirable society members. Ah, bioweapons, eugenics, CRISPR and hate. Can't ask for much better than that. Now we can deliver them with percision using drones. Yeah, such great accomplishments we make trying to destroy the earth before someone else.
"Reprocessing is a series of chemical operations that separates plutonium and uranium from other nuclear waste contained in the used (or “spent”) fuel from nuclear power reactors. The separated plutonium can be used to fuel reactors, but also to make nuclear weapons."
Some countries do reprocess their spent nuclear fuel but ZERO countries use the separated plutonium to make weapons. It is contaminated with Pu-240 which is a hot isotope and screws up nuclear weapons. And reactor grade plutonium has never been used for weapons contrary to the lies that the UCS = Union of Concerned Scammers.
What idiot would use extraordinarily difficult reactor grade plutonium when it is far, far easier to just produce pure weapons grade Pu-239 in specialty heavy water reactors. Which is what EVERY weapons nation does.
So my statement was 100% accurate. Reprocessing is a non-issue.
I just recall somewhere learning that what I posted was part of the process it may have gone back to elementary school which was after "duck and cover" but while the government still maintained nuclear fallout shelters. As for what's the currently accepted method not so much.
Interesting about H3 on the moon. I once heard a planetologist remark with regards to mining on the moon, “keep in mind, a pile of human excrement on the moon would be, by far, the most concentrated store of usable resources available.”
I don’t know what it would take to concentrate the H3 that is presumably widely distributed in lunar crust into a usable resource.
Helion energy (fusion) is making H3 from Tritium they produce from D-D fusion in their reactor. It seems more likely it will be cheaper to make H3 than to mine it. Vast amounts in the atmospheres of the gas giants. Some companies are focused on B-H fusion. Others on Lithium fusion. Lots of options.
In a natural gas sense? Turning poop into methane?
Where does the food come from to feed all the workers? Water? Bed clothes, silverware, Starbucks? Do they have biofarms and supermarkets? I mean let's destroy the galaxy like we're doing on earth. We've learned nothing.
You're talking about Matt? I got distracted at one point and maybe I didn't hear. I really only ever heard about H3 on Matt's videos.
When Elon Musk was talking out his ass about colonizing Mars I went off the deep end. They make these statements with so little thought behind them like all the things we need to support life on Mars are readily available except there are none of the things we actually need to get through a single day on Mars not to mention actually getting there. We hardly are ready for a multi-generational trip needing nurseries and diapers and diaper disposal and of course COVID vaccinations. What about pathogens that may be on Mars that we don't have any resistance to? What about waste collection? Water delivery? Electric generation? McDonald's started their $5 meals (a collection of bread, fries and soda what could be healthier) they could be handy of Mars. What if like Alien we find out that "things" are living on Mars and they don't want us there? It's not like we've surveyed every single inch of dirt or underground. It just makes me mad that people accept this dribble as some kind of escape if we do burn-up the earth because Elon Musk, a person that was born into wealth that is maintained by government subsidies, has a platform to speak. Why does wealth equal a platform? Only in the US do we listen to celebrities as if they have some insight as to how the world should run yet we don't listen to our neighbors who most likely do have some good ideas.
Not Matt. A planetologist I saw interviewed. Can’t remember his name but his example was poignant. People misunderstand how important concentration of resources is.
Classic example. The BTU is a mathematical tyrant bitch to greenies.
But returning to rationality, there are issues with colonizing Mars, mainly having to do with reproduction under 38% Earth gravity. That is an unknown at the moment. But other than that there should be no problem. There is likely life on Mars, bacteria that is, which is gigantic reason to at least put scientific research stations there, just as many countries have on Antarctica.
That's the starting point. There is literally zero chance the Mars organisms will be a risk to humans, since they have never evolved ways to defeat our immune systems, as trillions of bacteria & viruses on Earth have, including ancient types buried in our soil.
After that, the next priority is bioforming. Creating a Living Mars would be the greatest act of creativity in the entirety of human civilization. The biggest event in the history of Earth life since the Cambrian Explosion. Our failure to do our solemn duty to achieve that would be the biggest act of environmental destruction in the history of human civilization.
While doing that we can certainly colonize Mars. Should be no problem, apart from gravity issues which right now are indeterminate.
Well I won't fight you for a seat on that trip. Just because we can doesn't mean we should the whole problem with things like CRISPR, weapons of mass destruction, etc. There's nothing wrong with dreaming and maybe someday when we an stop threatening our neighbors a couple thousand miles away maybe it makes sense but for now...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SwQ9iavJeI
Instead of spending $trillions on endless wars destroying nations and the environment we could spend $billions on the extraordinary creativity of Space development. The reason the big plans for Mars missions were cancelled by Nixon is because they wanted all that money and more for their wars. Space exploration is the exact opposite of wars. The Malthusian psychopaths running things just love war, they hate space exploration.
Do the opposite of what they want. Explore, expand, create. Not fight each other, shrink and destroy.
We ain't destroying the Earth. That's nonsense. We humans are the only creatures Mother Nature ever produced that can cause a new Genesis, the creation of new ecosystems on other Worlds. Reproduction of this incredible unique gift of Earth biota. If we don't do it, Earth life will disappear, the expanding Sun will turn the Earth into the hellhole of the Solar System in ~300Myrs.
Every single time people have involved themselves in the food cycle it's been a complete disaster that's why we have to depend on pesticides and fertilizers. I could go on...
What complete disaster? What are you talking about? We are feeding 8B people now much better than we fed 1B a hundred years ago. Pesticides can be reduced and eventually eliminated, fertilizers are part of the natural cycle, nothing wrong with that, like everything it has to be done intelligently.
You sound like a Malthusian, Misanthrope. A failed philosophy. For Doomers. Why not exit the human race if you think it is so hopeless?
Yeah, we're feeding more because of natural gas which is used to make fertilizers. We're mono-cropping so insects are a problem. Again pesticides - from fossil fuels. We're also running out of potash (among many things) which is a main ingredient in fertilizers. But is the goal to feed American's more processed foods or feed the people of the earth? Because alchemy doesn't work we can't create the resources we're running out of like fish from the ocean so enjoy your bugs and no chocolate covering because we're running out of that too. The governments are devastating family farms so at some point there's going to be a meat shortage and you think prices are high now...wait.
Actually all that you discussed is not difficult to solve. And is being solved. Big problem is our corrupt, corporate controlled governments oppose any solutions. Those idiots still waste vast agricultural resources on MORONIC agrofuels, that consume MORE fossil fuels than they replace. Complete and total idiocy. >40% of the US corn crop. Why not just start with that? Easy-breezy. Oh, corrupt politicians want to continue the subsidy gravy train. Fix that.
Brilliant work, thank you for your hard work Matt. I've never seen anyone cover so many different topics at such depth as you.
This is good work. Really well researched and explained. Glad for Eurasia and Africa...not looking so good for the western nations.
Man this is helpful, Matthew!!Thank you. Balancing this perspective against decades of programming has not been easy. For example when you say:
“The dramatic increase of a middle class, which totalled only 3% of the Chinese population in 2000 to become 54% today are just a few effects of this overall energy policy. One finds that each one of these factors has intentionally been reduced across the Trans Atlantic West over the course of the same period.”
I think “at what cost”.? I’ve been following Nate Hagens carbon pulse logic for a couple years now and it seems clear the days of hydrocarbon are numbered. I have not heard a pro nuclear argument yet that makes the case for full replacement of the hydrocarbon pulse in a way that does not poison the biology of the planet in a different way.
Also, the concept of increased biomass as measure of success does not properly weigh the incredible importance of increased biodiversity. The latter being essential for human thriving and survival, also. Monoculture = death.
Curious to hear others thoughts.
Nate Hagens is correct, we will need to replace fossil fuels, not hydrocarbons. We can still make hydrocarbons quite easily from CO2, waste or biomass plus nuclear hydrogen. Best to make Methanol. The fuel of the future.
Nate needs to learn the basics of Nuclear power. There is enough uranium & thorium on the accessible Earth landmass to power our civilization for > 100Myrs. Fusion until the Sun consumes the Earth. That's why our Malthusian Overlords despise nuclear power. They love scarcity and energy starvation. They're Psychopath Parasites.
Truly epic Matt! Just one (of many) gems:
‘The unification of China’s space program, lunar development and Mars agenda that are integrated with Russia are not coincidentally tied to China’s commitment to tap into the moon’s abundant helium-3 resources which are nearly non-existent on earth due to our planet’s intense magnetic field.
Science journalist Jeremy Beck wrote of China’s space/fusion program in the following terms:
“Professor Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP), has said that the Moon is so rich in He-3, that this could ‘solve humanity’s energy demand for around 10,000 years at least.’
While talking about the Moon’s reserves of iron and other metals, Ziyuan particularly drew attention to He-3, which he called ‘an ideal fuel for nuclear fusion power, the next generation of nuclear power.’
He added, ‘It is estimated that reserves of helium-3 across Earth amount to just 15 tonnes, while 100 tonnes of helium-3 will be needed each year if nuclear fusion technology is applied to meet global energy demands. The Moon, on the other hand, has reserves estimated at between one and five million tonnes’.”
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Just a little problem of getting it from the moon to the earth will make it way too expensive I'd imagine and I certainly wouldn't want to be one of the people living and working on the moon. Look at the price of natural gas or oil and it's located on our planet. You'd have to build an extraction plant on the moon and energize it with a non-existent power plant all would have to be built and maintained by workers which need housing, electric, heat and water and sewer then add to that the people that would actually do the extraction and the people that are needed to run the transports, etc. To transport the hellium, if that's even possible, I don't know it may require special designs like liquid natural gas, to prevent the cargo container from floating off into space like a tether from the moon to the earth. I'm not saying these things cannot be resolved but the expense of resolving them will be costly and what energy will be used to send the transport to the moon? Rockets using aluminum and an oxidizer which may need to be available at both ends of the trip so you get into how much of a payload can a transport carry until it cannot get off the ground. Rocket's are small for a reason.
Lot's of tritium in Nuclear reactor cooling water, Fukushima has lots. CANDUs produce Tritium in their heavy water. Tritium decays into He-3. You can also produce it by bombarding lithium with neutrons, Li-6 is converted into He-4 and tritium which then decays into He-3.
He-3 can be made on Earth, Helion energy is already doing it.
Another great article.
great summary that answers the question, partly. the next obvious question is - why did RU and Ch seemingly lead/go along with the divoc 91 deadly farce? Or did they?
“As demonstrated in Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans, one cannot create windmills or solar panels (which include vast mining requirements) utilizing wind or solar energy making them the very opposite of “renewable”.”
I love this little math problem…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/01/27/bright-green-impossibilities/
BRICS gangster slave statism, is the endgame of WEF-H$BC multifaceted warfare.
While H$BC's Soros faction may be ruled-off of CCP and Russia, both are gutting their own and staging cv19 iatrogenocide cull of Hong Kong human rights-capitalist activism.
H$BC/WEF-BRlCS certainly are conducting a cull of US earners under Kalergi attack, and will never promote a US-style middle class and republican government, that usurps their control of gangster state assets.
Thanks, Matt. Lots to digest, though admittedly a set of perspectives on China particular that is little known, especially in the West. BRICS is presented in more favourable light, especially on the "sustainable" front and the debates related to the so-called 'Green Revolution.' On whether we are able to see BRICS as radically different from and distinct than the WEF et al, and whether they have more potential for good rather than bad, I am sharing a short video featuring the views of Richard Werner who is an internationally renowned economist, professor and author with a track record for accurate economic analysis and an understanding of the relevant concepts and facts. (On the Kim Iversen Show). He focuses on CBDCs and their threat to future sovereignties of nations, and equally driven by both WEF and BRICS, which we need to keep our focus on.
https://youtu.be/IgFfCJAp4vc (13.32)
Excellent article, I'm sure I will link it many times as a reference. What we are seeing shaping up is a battle between the Western Bankster Club-Of-Rome Malthusians and the Humanists, Eco-Modernists and Cornucopians that dominate many BRICs nations and the rising Populist-Nationalist movements in Western Nations.
The Malthusians have failed miserably. Every claim they have made has been demolished. And their predictions of massive poverty, starvation and industrial collapse due to overpopulation and resource shortages by the year 2000, we now can confirm was utter nonsense. You would think these morons would just give up, but no they are just doubling down, milking Climate Change as way to impose their Scarcity based techno-Feudal Totalitarian World Government.
Meanwhile what we are REALLY discovering is that what goes up exponentially (i.e. population) can also go down, also exponentially. And we are facing a destructive population collapse that is proving near impossible for countries to stop. Not driven by resource shortages, but by people not wanting to have many kids in a modern industrial society. Malthusians never predicted that. So all they got now is their "World is on Fire", "We have entered the era of Global Boiling" crackpot claims.
And yet they're dumping it into the Pacific Ocean. The reactor in New York was also leaking Tritium into the water supply for years. Indian Point maybe?
The amount is trivial in terms of health. Tritium is a weak beta emitter, there are strong beta & gamma emitters in seawater, in your own body, like K-40. Lot's of tritium falls into the oceans & lakes due to rain. Even the Fukushima tritium contaminated water you could drink your 2L/day of the stuff with zero health effects. It's that weak. Won't even penetrate skin or 1/4in of air, a meager 6 kev electron, that's a 1000X less than many other beta particles.
What I think you're missing are a few things.
First China is on top of the consumer markets at the moment but that will wain just like it did in the US as the capitalists will cycle through even poorer areas of the globe to make their wares leaving China with upkeep costs that it won't be able to afford just like the US and Europe are experiencing. Now some of that is misappropriation of funds for global wars and if we had a society that understood that we have to enforce our Constitution and laws they'd be on the streets if in fact they like that life we once had but they seem determined to do little about restoring our way of living.
As a result of the capitalists one of two things will happen. We'll end up with a global starvation or slave wage that we all share around the world or they purposely destroy the labor in old markets so they can come back around again an have people willing to work for nothing just to get clean water and a couple hours of electric per day.
Second you just write-off any possibility of nuclear poisoning and yet on 9/12/2024 we were literally 72 minutes from death of the planet from NATO threatening stikes on Russia and Russia responding with nuclear weapons. Poor Biden was embarrrassed across the globe having to tell Starma that he wasn't allowed to strike into Russia. Should anyone in NATO or the European Union say fuck the US we're doing what we want Putin has already said he will target the west with nuclear weapons including the United States if necessary.
It takes nuclear power plants to generate the fuel for weapons. Less nuclear power plants eliminate the ability to make nuclear weapons. These are things that economoists account for as costs to society. The other issue with nuclear is the unexpected inability to be able to cool the reaction usually as a result of some event that Mother Nature has whipped up. Unless we can come up with a way to passively cool the reactors I'm not a fan regardless of what it can do for the world because it can also do the complete opposite for the world just because it exists.
Commercial nuclear power plants don't and can't produce weapons material. Any and all cases of making nuclear weapons were done by specialty reactors or enrichment. Nowadays it can also be done by particle accelerators, at ~3X the cost. Stifling commercial nuclear power is a way to increase the risk of nuclear war, due to energy wars, energy shortages.
The big issue now is not nuclear weapons but bioweapons. Which are being developed with reckless abandon. And nobody cares.
I was pretty sure that they took the waste material from the reaction and used that as a starting point.
Bioweapons are a serious threat and have been since before HIV I suspect. But Reagan was big on bioweapons and nothing better than a bioweapon that get's rid of undesirable society members. Ah, bioweapons, eugenics, CRISPR and hate. Can't ask for much better than that. Now we can deliver them with percision using drones. Yeah, such great accomplishments we make trying to destroy the earth before someone else.
No they don't use nuclear waste to make weapons, it has nothing to do with weapons manufacture.
"Reprocessing is a series of chemical operations that separates plutonium and uranium from other nuclear waste contained in the used (or “spent”) fuel from nuclear power reactors. The separated plutonium can be used to fuel reactors, but also to make nuclear weapons."
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/nuclear-reprocessing-dangerous-dirty-and-expensive
Some countries do reprocess their spent nuclear fuel but ZERO countries use the separated plutonium to make weapons. It is contaminated with Pu-240 which is a hot isotope and screws up nuclear weapons. And reactor grade plutonium has never been used for weapons contrary to the lies that the UCS = Union of Concerned Scammers.
What idiot would use extraordinarily difficult reactor grade plutonium when it is far, far easier to just produce pure weapons grade Pu-239 in specialty heavy water reactors. Which is what EVERY weapons nation does.
So my statement was 100% accurate. Reprocessing is a non-issue.
I just recall somewhere learning that what I posted was part of the process it may have gone back to elementary school which was after "duck and cover" but while the government still maintained nuclear fallout shelters. As for what's the currently accepted method not so much.
Nice piece!
Interesting about H3 on the moon. I once heard a planetologist remark with regards to mining on the moon, “keep in mind, a pile of human excrement on the moon would be, by far, the most concentrated store of usable resources available.”
I don’t know what it would take to concentrate the H3 that is presumably widely distributed in lunar crust into a usable resource.
Helion energy (fusion) is making H3 from Tritium they produce from D-D fusion in their reactor. It seems more likely it will be cheaper to make H3 than to mine it. Vast amounts in the atmospheres of the gas giants. Some companies are focused on B-H fusion. Others on Lithium fusion. Lots of options.
The gas giants make a lot more sense at first glance.
In a natural gas sense? Turning poop into methane?
Where does the food come from to feed all the workers? Water? Bed clothes, silverware, Starbucks? Do they have biofarms and supermarkets? I mean let's destroy the galaxy like we're doing on earth. We've learned nothing.
His point was that resources are scarce on the moon and concentrating them into something useful may not be feasible.
You're talking about Matt? I got distracted at one point and maybe I didn't hear. I really only ever heard about H3 on Matt's videos.
When Elon Musk was talking out his ass about colonizing Mars I went off the deep end. They make these statements with so little thought behind them like all the things we need to support life on Mars are readily available except there are none of the things we actually need to get through a single day on Mars not to mention actually getting there. We hardly are ready for a multi-generational trip needing nurseries and diapers and diaper disposal and of course COVID vaccinations. What about pathogens that may be on Mars that we don't have any resistance to? What about waste collection? Water delivery? Electric generation? McDonald's started their $5 meals (a collection of bread, fries and soda what could be healthier) they could be handy of Mars. What if like Alien we find out that "things" are living on Mars and they don't want us there? It's not like we've surveyed every single inch of dirt or underground. It just makes me mad that people accept this dribble as some kind of escape if we do burn-up the earth because Elon Musk, a person that was born into wealth that is maintained by government subsidies, has a platform to speak. Why does wealth equal a platform? Only in the US do we listen to celebrities as if they have some insight as to how the world should run yet we don't listen to our neighbors who most likely do have some good ideas.
Not Matt. A planetologist I saw interviewed. Can’t remember his name but his example was poignant. People misunderstand how important concentration of resources is.
Classic example. The BTU is a mathematical tyrant bitch to greenies.
Energy density
Nice Word Salad.
But returning to rationality, there are issues with colonizing Mars, mainly having to do with reproduction under 38% Earth gravity. That is an unknown at the moment. But other than that there should be no problem. There is likely life on Mars, bacteria that is, which is gigantic reason to at least put scientific research stations there, just as many countries have on Antarctica.
That's the starting point. There is literally zero chance the Mars organisms will be a risk to humans, since they have never evolved ways to defeat our immune systems, as trillions of bacteria & viruses on Earth have, including ancient types buried in our soil.
After that, the next priority is bioforming. Creating a Living Mars would be the greatest act of creativity in the entirety of human civilization. The biggest event in the history of Earth life since the Cambrian Explosion. Our failure to do our solemn duty to achieve that would be the biggest act of environmental destruction in the history of human civilization.
While doing that we can certainly colonize Mars. Should be no problem, apart from gravity issues which right now are indeterminate.
Well I won't fight you for a seat on that trip. Just because we can doesn't mean we should the whole problem with things like CRISPR, weapons of mass destruction, etc. There's nothing wrong with dreaming and maybe someday when we an stop threatening our neighbors a couple thousand miles away maybe it makes sense but for now...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SwQ9iavJeI
Instead of spending $trillions on endless wars destroying nations and the environment we could spend $billions on the extraordinary creativity of Space development. The reason the big plans for Mars missions were cancelled by Nixon is because they wanted all that money and more for their wars. Space exploration is the exact opposite of wars. The Malthusian psychopaths running things just love war, they hate space exploration.
Do the opposite of what they want. Explore, expand, create. Not fight each other, shrink and destroy.
That's our choice moving forward.
We ain't destroying the Earth. That's nonsense. We humans are the only creatures Mother Nature ever produced that can cause a new Genesis, the creation of new ecosystems on other Worlds. Reproduction of this incredible unique gift of Earth biota. If we don't do it, Earth life will disappear, the expanding Sun will turn the Earth into the hellhole of the Solar System in ~300Myrs.
Every single time people have involved themselves in the food cycle it's been a complete disaster that's why we have to depend on pesticides and fertilizers. I could go on...
What complete disaster? What are you talking about? We are feeding 8B people now much better than we fed 1B a hundred years ago. Pesticides can be reduced and eventually eliminated, fertilizers are part of the natural cycle, nothing wrong with that, like everything it has to be done intelligently.
You sound like a Malthusian, Misanthrope. A failed philosophy. For Doomers. Why not exit the human race if you think it is so hopeless?
Yeah, we're feeding more because of natural gas which is used to make fertilizers. We're mono-cropping so insects are a problem. Again pesticides - from fossil fuels. We're also running out of potash (among many things) which is a main ingredient in fertilizers. But is the goal to feed American's more processed foods or feed the people of the earth? Because alchemy doesn't work we can't create the resources we're running out of like fish from the ocean so enjoy your bugs and no chocolate covering because we're running out of that too. The governments are devastating family farms so at some point there's going to be a meat shortage and you think prices are high now...wait.
Actually all that you discussed is not difficult to solve. And is being solved. Big problem is our corrupt, corporate controlled governments oppose any solutions. Those idiots still waste vast agricultural resources on MORONIC agrofuels, that consume MORE fossil fuels than they replace. Complete and total idiocy. >40% of the US corn crop. Why not just start with that? Easy-breezy. Oh, corrupt politicians want to continue the subsidy gravy train. Fix that.