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Both of the sites you linked to talk about the payback period for solar panels installed on your roof. Residential solar is inevitably more expensive than a utility scale solar farm, just as a car that I assembled myself (or hired a mechanic to do it) would be far more costly than a mass-produced car of similar quality. A large solar farm does mass-production of energy, so we can expect enormous economies of scale, and therefore a much shorter payback time.
Where do you get the 3-month payback time for nuclear? (I'm ignoring hydro for now.) If we assume a 1 GWe nuclear plant, and the electricity it generates earns $.10 per kwh, then in 3 months the plant will earn (1 GW) * (0.10 $/kwh) * (3 months) = $219 million. That's a far cry from the $billions cost of a nuclear power plant in the US. So where do you get the 3-month payback time?
As for hydro, we are running out of suitable sites. Hydro won't be anywhere near enough for the world's energy needs.
Nuclear may be enough. But the world will have to build roughly 13,000 one-gigawatt plants -- and hope that no Homer Simpsons are in any of them. Gulp.
Solar will be more than enough, even for the energy needs of the far future. As I calculated previously, with a slight correction, the sun pours down thousands of times more power than the world is currently using -- and the sun will last for billions of years. I invite you to check my calculation.
Centuries of naval tradition that China can't possibly match.
It wasn't really a direct order per se. Or else they would not have needed five hours of shouting and threatening It's more like bullying or intimidating UK into submission
Germany says it will expand military presence in Indo-Pacific
Germany will expand its military presence in the Indo-Pacific by sending more warships and joining drills with allies as it keeps an eye on the "enormous" build-up of China's armed forces, the German defence chief told Reuters.
Germany is joining other Western nations in showing more muscle in the region amid growing alarm over Beijing's territorial ambitions.
Last year, Berlin sent its first warship in almost 20 years to the disputed waters of the South China Sea - at the risk of irking its top trade partner - and this month it sent 13 military aircraft to joint exercises in Australia.
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I read they hit a sandbar or some sort of obstruction backing out.
China mocked Germany’s plans to expand its military presence in the Indo-Pacific after Berlin’s defence chief said his country would step up engagement in the region.
“This will probably lead to some bad memories and associations in many countries in the world,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Thursday.
Wang was responding to comments by General Eberhard Zorn, head of Germany’s armed forces, who said on Wednesday that Berlin would send more warships to the region and with allies as it keeps an eye on the “enormous” build-up of China’s armed forces.
China’s security policy is defensive and the country is developing its military capability to safeguard its legitimate security interests, which is “completely justified and reasonable”, Wang said.
A total of 13 German military aircraft are currently taking part in . It is the European country’s largest peacetime deployment and the first time it has taken part in Exercise Pitch Black, which features armed forces from 17 countries.
Zorn said also planned to send troops to participate in training exercises in Australia next year, while the German navy would send a fleet of several more ships to the region in 2024 to “consolidate our presence in the region”.
“We do not want to provoke anyone with our presence but rather send a strong sign of solidarity with our allies,” he said.
“We stand for the freedom of navigation and the safeguarding of international norms.”
Wang said China always respects the freedom of navigation and overflight under international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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“This will probably lead to some bad memories and associations in many countries in the world,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Thursday.
Wang was responding to comments by General Eberhard Zorn, head of Germany’s armed forces, who said on Wednesday that Berlin would send more warships to the region and with allies as it keeps an eye on the “enormous” build-up of China’s armed forces.
China’s security policy is defensive and the country is developing its military capability to safeguard its legitimate security interests, which is “completely justified and reasonable”, Wang said.
A total of 13 German military aircraft are currently taking part in . It is the European country’s largest peacetime deployment and the first time it has taken part in Exercise Pitch Black, which features armed forces from 17 countries.
Zorn said also planned to send troops to participate in training exercises in Australia next year, while the German navy would send a fleet of several more ships to the region in 2024 to “consolidate our presence in the region”.
“We do not want to provoke anyone with our presence but rather send a strong sign of solidarity with our allies,” he said.
“We stand for the freedom of navigation and the safeguarding of international norms.”
Wang said China always respects the freedom of navigation and overflight under international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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What Germany is good for nowadays except being a perfect American lackey? They are utterly incompetent.
I know that your emphasize is about "China reselling gas to Europe", but that article and its source from Nikkei is actually trying to say something entirely different which is "China's economy is slowing down reflected on the LNG sell".
The Chinese economy is slowing in 2022, but the article is pretty rubbish as using LNG import as indicator.
The article says
More than 4 million tonnes of Chinese LNG has probably been resold — or roughly 7% of Europe's imports in the first half of the year — according to Nikkei.
But here is the catch
The Power of Siberia (POS) exported 8.5 Bcm to China in 2021, up from 4.1 Bcm in 2020, according to Gazprom data. Gazprom expects to increase exports via POS to 14 Bcm this year, and to reach 38 Bcm by 2025.
Piped natural gas import from Russia through POS is to increase by 5.5 BCM (14-8.5) by 2022. We are more than half year now, we can assume the increase is already 4 BCM by now. 4 million tonnes of LNG is only equal to 0.01 BCM piped gas.
This projection of increase is done in beginning of 2022. Did that increase happen? It did, at least according to Russian supplier in June 2022 and broadly quoted by Chinese media.
So even if the 5.5 BCM increase is not achieved due to the slow down, any increase is magnitudes higher than the mere 0.01 BCM decrease by Nikkei.
So I say it again, Nikkei just like many other western MSM is full of bullshit, another attempt of "China is collapsing" story.
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