Comments on: Open thread 7/8/24

By: Philip Sells

Philip Sells — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 01:14:35 +0000

Xylourgos, hello once more! That’s good about the trains. Do you think, if it’s a question of concentrated pessimism about the DB, that it could be certain lines or regions that make a worse impression than the rest? Maybe the complaints aren’t evenly distributed in that sense.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:40:30 +0000

Look Ma, no trains!
“Soccer Star Toni Kroos: Germany’s No Longer The Country It Was 10 Years Ago Thanks To Mass Migration”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/soccer-star-toni-kroos-germanys-no-longer-country-it-was-10-years-ago-thanks-mass

By: Xylourgos

Xylourgos — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 07:35:28 +0000

Physics guy, Sabine is skeptical about all the buzz put into hydrogen as the future savior for our energy needs. Can you comment on the process summarized below? What are the chances of this process being developed on a commercial scale. As an investor would you make a stake in this company?

https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/innovation/the-cheapest-and-safest-way-to-transport-hydrogen-silicon-based-liquid-carrier-requires-zero-energy-to-release-stored-h2/2-1-1396369

By: Xylourgos

Xylourgos — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 07:28:25 +0000

Philip, as a visitor to Germany several times per year, travelling exclusively by rail, I can report that the German rail system is not anywhere near as bad as Sabine reports. It is another case of the perfect being the enemy of the good. Deutsche Bahn operates more than 40,000 train runs daily on its more than 33,300 kilometer-long, modern rail network. For the most part they are reliable, safe and comfortable. Repairs resulting in track closure usually take place on weekends and off peak hours in order to minimize disruption. Overall, I rate DB very high.

By: R2L

R2L — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:24:49 +0000

Barry Meislin on July 8, 2024 at 2:34 pm said:
Theoretical speculation on both dark matter and Kamala Harris juxtaposed in the same post.
I didn’t know that was permitted….

Doesn’t combining vacuum and vacuousness count?

By: Niketas Choniates

Niketas Choniates — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 02:16:42 +0000

@Rufus:they must be astounded that… we still get less than 10% of our electricity from nuclear power.

Only if they don’t know what coal is, and then they’ll be astounded by coal.

In the OECD nations nuclear power has replaced oil generation but is not competitive with coal or hydro. The only one that went nuclear in a big way is France, which has little coal or hydro.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 02:02:14 +0000

Phillip Sells,

Regarding German slowness, I think what Sabine means is, “the perfect is the enemy of the good.”

If Snow on Pine’s aliens are observing us humans they must be astounded that 70 years after connecting a nuclear reactor to a commercial power grid we still get less than 10% of our electricity from nuclear power.

By: Philip Sells

Philip Sells — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 01:37:11 +0000

Rufus, thanks for providing that. I see now that it wasn’t just about the trains.

As for Germans being too slow, in the aggregate… hmm, I don’t know. Maybe. But I wonder if anyone at all is really fast enough these days to keep up.

By: huxley

huxley — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 01:25:32 +0000

Rufus T. Firefly:

Thanks for formatting Sabine’s “rant” into text. I get so impatient with videos.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:28:02 +0000

this interesting offering shows some of the subjects we’ve discussed, the rise of nazi germany, the philosophy of jihad, in practice, among others, the essentials of nuclear weapons design

,https://www.amazon.com/My-Enemys-Enemy-Robert-Buettner/dp/1982124814

this was written in 2019, but the way the Asp infiltrates into the country, is very similar to how a terror cell would do it,

the aircraft in question, is much like the flying wing in the first avenger film