Engineering site work begins immediately on Poland’s first three AP1000® nuclear reactors in a historic moment for the country’s clean energy future! We today signed the Engineering Services Contract with @PEJ_PL. We’re excited to get to work!

Yes, a US firm is building Poland’s first reactor. I think it’s Westinghouse.

I saw footage of Julia Bargearse on the news, delivering her Yes campaign speech in London. Could have been film of a bowling club AGM. Low energy.

She’d have been well advised to keep shtum.

The notion that one of Australia’s most unpopular contemporary prime ministers might have any sway over votes on this matter is risible.

Fission reactors will be temporary anyway. I think we’re 30 years away on the outside before we begin seeing commercial fusion reactors. That’s almost like free energy, apart from the cost of depreciation and eking out a narrow profit margin.

Fusion will never happen. The issues are many but one is scale: fusion works at massive scale like with the Sun. Any smaller and the issue becomes containment. It’s ironic: lithium batteries have an issue with scale the other way: they work when small but when they get big they become incinerators. Fossils and fission with centuries of fuel. The smart nations know this, the chunks being the main one. The West has cut its own throat.

She’d have been well advised to keep shtum.

The notion that one of Australia’s most unpopular contemporary prime ministers might have any sway over votes on this matter is risible.

If I was tasked by the No campaign to infiltrate the opposition and sabotage it by selecting the most odious “Faces of The Yes Campaign”, I doubt I could have done a better job.
Adam Goodes, The Altona Droner, Linda Burney, Marcia Plankton, Trilby Pearson and various Karen-Scolds at a local level.
Someone hasn’t thought this through.

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Cronkite

Fusion is beyond the theoretical and now at the engineering stage. If it’s not 30 years as I suggested, you don’t think fusion can be made to work in 50 to 100 years? Say 2100?

This is the 1943 film This is the Army

I started watching and couldn’t stop. It’s beyond belief that one man could produce so much melody. Irving Berlin was a genius if ever there was one.

MfM

I read a few years back that there was a multinational group based in Europe that was hoping for the first ignition attempt in 2025. I haven’t updated since then and don’t know anything else.

In any case, even if it does not occur, there is fission.

Nuclear power has been effectively crippled for the past 40 years. If it were left alone, the cost of producing energy compared to cheap coal would likely be lower now as plants have been scaled and modularized.

I recall her name, but there were an Australian bint – a medical doctor. based in the US who led the anti-nuke protests in the 70s and 80s. A total loon.

Trooble at Mill.

Daniel Andrews ‘exploded’ and delivered ‘expletive-laden rant’ in caucus, say Labor sources

7:38PM SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Daniel Andrews “exploded” in Wednesday’s caucus meeting to determine his successor, and delivered an expletive-laden “rant” that was “second to none”, ­according to multiple senior Victorian Labor sources.

Powerbrokers from the Left and the Right have spoken of the former premier’s role in attempting to engineer a transition to an all Socialist Left leadership team of Jacinta Allan and Tim Pallas as having been a “classic Daniel man­oeuvre” that backfired.

They also say the eventual compromise that delivered Ms Allan the premiership and Right-aligned Ben Carroll the role as her deputy was struck at Mr ­Andrews’s urging.

A day on from the messy factional fight that saw the man who is now Ms Allan’s deputy – Mr Carroll – challenge her for the premiership, powerbrokers from across the party were blaming Mr Andrews for the turn of events.

“The plan Daniel had hatched with Jacinta was to give the Right as little notice as possible and to give her critical support by installing Tim (Pallas) as her deputy,” said a senior Labor source. “It was a classic Daniel manoeuvre, complete with a classic botching of the detail around party rules.”

When Mr Carroll and fellow Right minister Anthony Carbines challenged for the leadership and deputy leadership on Wednesday, Mr Andrews and Ms Allan’s Socialist Left only belatedly ­realised Labor Party rules would require them to hold a ballot of members to determine the outcome, leaving Victoria without a premier for more than a month.

After receiving loud and lengthy applause when he entered the state partyroom for the last time as premier on Wednesday, Mr Andrews launched into a “tirade” against the Right, and particularly Mr Carroll and Mr Carbines, according to multiple senior Labor sources.

“Daniel exploded in caucus. His rant was second to none. It was f..king this, f..king that,” said one. “He basically said to them: ‘You all have the right to aspire to be promoted. You don’t have the right to bring divisions into this room.’ ”

Multiple sources also said it was Mr Andrews whose urging prompted the compromise that saw Ms Allan and Mr Carroll unanimously endorsed as leader and deputy.

“He told them: ‘You guys, sort this out. There’s a fricking deal to be made here. Do it now’,” a Labor powerbroker reported. “The last thing he did was what he should have done at the very beginning.”

Asked to respond to the claims regarding his behaviour in the caucus meeting, Mr Andrews said of Ms Allan: “The 49th Premier was elected unopposed by the caucus, and she has my full support.”

Sources from both Left and the Right of the party said members of the Left had displayed “appalling” behaviour in the meeting.

“They were being quite belligerent towards the Right, essentially saying ‘We’ve got the numbers, piss off’, said a senior Labor figure.

“Of course the Right’s going to turn around and behave like they did. When you basically provide people with nothing to aspire to or hope for, they have nothing to lose.

“It also demonstrated that the minute Daniel stood up and said, ‘I’m going’, his power evaporated.”

Another powerbroker said: “The Left’s behaviour was quite appalling. Their whole demeanour, arrogance, bullying caucus members, making threats. At one point every member of the Right caucus got threatened.

“I don’t know how much worse their behaviour could have been. It was aggressive. It was bullying – yelling at everyone, carrying on.

“What yesterday demonstrated is if you want to try a smash-and-grab approach, if you want to try to bully people, then naturally people will fight.”

On her first full day as Premier on Thursday, Ms Allan visited a level crossing removal in the outer southeastern Melbourne suburb of Pakenham, indicating she would make decisions at the weekend regarding roles in her first cabinet, which is likely to be sworn in on Monday ahead of parliament on Tuesday.

With the exception of Eltham MP Vicki Ward, who was on Wednesday endorsed by caucus to fill the vacancy left by Mr Andrews in cabinet, membership of the ministry will not change, but Ms Allan is expected to reshuffle positions, including reassigning her current role as Transport Infrastructure Minister.

Ahead of the cabinet reshuffle, factional allies and rivals of Ms Allan said there was a strong desire within the party for the positions to be determined in what one termed “more collaborative rather than punitive manner” than occurred under Mr Andrews.

“What needs to happen is that we go back to a pre-2018 model of leaders from both sides coming together and working out who gets what. More recently, it’s been Daniel alone with a whiteboard and names,” said one factional player.

Another said: “There’s a view now that the party’s going back to where it was under (Steve) Bracks in terms of being more collaborative, where yes there’s a leader and they have a say and they’re central to the parliamentary success of the party, but there’s an expectation that there’s a cabinet government and ministers are given a little bit more autonomy.”

Sources from within Ms Allan’s faction said Wednesday’s factional revolt, which at one point threatened her succession, was a direct message that caucus members would not allow her to behave like Mr Andrews.

“What we want is more democracy and more consultation and she can’t ride over party processes,” one Left factional figure said.

A separate Labor member of the Left warned the Premier against adopting Mr Andrews’ hard line in managing caucus. “We are not going to be bulldozed,” the source said.

Amid the ongoing factional volatility after Wednesday’s revolt, there is deepening uncertainty about the future of the Treasurer after his bid to become deputy leader failed.

While Ms Allan has publicly backed Mr Pallas to stay on and attempt to repair the budget, some figures close to the veteran expect him to retire from politics. “Pallas is intent on fixing up the state’s finances. He’s aware a lot more needs to be done and he’s committed to achieving that,” one source said.

Another said there was a view Mr Pallas would follow Mr Andrews out the door.

The “Master Politician” didn’t read his own party rulrs.

Could have been film of a bowling club AGM.

They be very feisty affairs. Personality clashes, delusions of grandeur. All good after a few cucumber sandwiches.

Fusion is beyond the theoretical and now at the engineering stage.

Lockheed Martin in their Skunkworks division seems the most likely.

Their key development appears to be in a magnetic containment field that grows stronger as plasmolysed hydrogen moves away from centre of the reactor containment chamber. Increased plasma pressure is related to increasing containment forces — negative feedback.

ITER Tokamak in the south of France and the traditional tokamak technology possess an alternate ‘opposite’ technology — as plasmolysed hydrogen expands, containment within the magnetic torus weakens, which results in increasing instability — positive feedback and eventual field containment failure.

Publicly stated advances at Skunkworks appear to be threefold:
1. High ß — plasma pressure/magnetic field pressure ratio. Skunkworks claim a ratio that approximates a value of 1.

2. There is little plasma leakage due to a reduction in leakage points in the improved containment field.

3. Containment vessel design curvature is optimised and is more efficient.

That was 10 years ago. Fusion is always a decade from fruition. It’s not the engineering; the basics are known; as I said scale is one issue; the other is EROEI: fusion is never positive.

Trans

What’s the word of the day?

Trannie

I don’t understand your point here. I was initially interested in EVs and then became less so, which means I changed my mind, and with a new car I recently bought, I stuck with a petrol engine. Where’s the hay you’re trying to make here, you god oracle? Stick to trying to sound intelligent but never succeeding.

are you retarded?

Sadly yes, so what’s the point you’re trying to convey.

Sanctions failed, JC. End of.

You believe their exports are being traded at the world’s spot prices? That’s not realistic. We’ve been through this before.

But you’re diverting the conversation. You posted the Russian economy is expected to grow by 1.5%. How much of that is military spending do you think?

MfM

You think this is bullshit then?

In August 2021, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion, using powerful lasers to produce 1.3 megajoules of energy – about three percent of the energy contained in one kilogram of crude oil.

On Aug. 8, 2021, an experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) National Ignition Facility (NIF) made a significant step toward ignition, achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ). This advancement puts researchers at the threshold of fusion ignition, an important goal of the NIF, and opens access to a new experimental regime.

Here’s the link.

https://www.llnl.gov/article/47896/national-ignition-facility-experiment-puts-researchers-threshold-fusion-ignition

Suggests your point ignition occurred in the 50s was a little ahead of it’s time.

Livermore isn’t a skanky operation.

More here:

https://www.ief.org/news/how-close-are-we-to-unlocking-the-limitless-energy-of-nuclear-fusion

Anyway, “Sliante” to you mob. This town finally has a doctor who understands that you might need tablets for pain relief, not to be retailed to the local junkies to fund your own habits!

LOL

Has anyone got the full God Oracle thing?
If so, could you post it please?
It’s tops.

They are probably trading between the 60$ and the spot price.

Okay, that’s likely, and where do you think import prices are trading? If access to western markets is restricted, what’s happened with imports as a result of gouging?

No, JC, you diverted the claim that sanctions had failed to how much of that growth is due to military spending.

I implied no such thing, but have it your way and let’s go with your assertion that I diverted the conversation. How much do you think that growth rate is in military spending? In fact, what percentage of total GDP is now military spending, do you think?

We’ve had reports of minimal to no shortages of consumer goods, prices have remained stable, production appears unconstrained, and as the report above indicates the economy is growing. Even if military spending has expanded, and it has considerably, this still indicates that sanctions failed to suffocate the Russian economy.

The first part is mere speculation from you, but the last part of this paragraph needs a little more explanation. How does the increase in military spending indicate a sanctions failure as I really don’t get it.

Russia is going to be fine, as will China.

What do you define as fine? After World War II, the US economy was also “fine”, but living standards were lower in 1945 than in 1939. It took until around 1950 to see it back and that’s with a broadly based market economy instead of a Kleptocracy and China’s fascist regime. Your priority doesn’t appear to ever suggest you’re interested in a growing and sustainable consumer economy.

The ‘China is over’ stuff is as silly as the ‘China century’ stuff was a decade ago.

You’re predicting stagnation, then? If so, how would this be good?

Oakshott wouldn’t be a happy man with some of your comments. 🙂

No where is looking peachy right about now.

India is. It’s bolting. The US is still okay. Sometime next year could be problematic and just in time to remind the voters. 🙂

Hegel was a flamer.
And knew s.f.a. about peaches.
In fact, was clueless about all stone fruit.

I think you are thinking of Hebel.
The inventor of the lightweight autoclaved building block.

A wonker obviously. A couple steps up from a wanker.

And yet the West looks like its poisoning that relationship too.

Tell me you don’t think they’re going into a deep alliance with China.

Pogria

Sep 29, 2023 2:37 AM

Michael Gambon has died. sob…

Roger Moore is pretty much the only one left from that era now.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Sep 28, 2023 8:36 PM

Ben Roberts-Smith and Zachary Rolfe ‘live it up in Bali’

By NICHOLAS FINCH
8:21PM September 28, 2023

Well done to both of them!

You support the killing of captured (unarmed and bound) suspects?
Be they innocent or otherwise.