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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XECq9uFsy6o Sabine has quite a sense of humour, excellent common sense, and in my view is right on most topics. Also on the current reality of modular reactors. But not on nuclear power generally or on renewables -- she after all trained as a particle physicist rather than a nuclear physicist, and does not really understand the practical effects of the complexity of radioactive decay products.

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2024-11-01-neil-overy-weaponising-science-in-sas-nuclear-discourse/ Dr NEIL OVERY: Weaponising science in SA’s nuclear discourse The denigration of other disciplines or voices is dangerous as nuclear power poses so many questions that science cannot answer BL Premium 01 November 2024 - 05:00 by Neil Overy During her welcoming speech at last month’s Nuclear Energy Summit hosted by the department of electricity & energy in Tshwane, Princy Mthombeni, one of SA’s most vocal nuclear boosters, referenced author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s observation that it is dangerous to reduce anything to a single story, reminding those present of “the importance of embracing diverse perspectives”. Speaking at the summit, both electricity & energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa and his deputy, Samantha Graham-Marê, continued on this theme by emphasising that the government was intent on engaging properly with all stakeholders when it comes to nuclear power. For example, Graham-Marê stated that “our ministry is not going to compromise on public participation ... openness and transparency ... we need to work together”. ADVERTISING Unfortunately, and clearly quite intentionally, rather than embracing “diverse perspectives” and “public participation”, the summit did the exact opposite. Not only were representatives of civil society entirely excluded from the summit, but both Graham-Marê and Ramokgopa made it clear that they had little interest in opinions about nuclear power that were contrary to theirs or the government’s. Graham-Marê came straight to the point in her address by stating that opponents of nuclear power in SA are simply “ignorant”. Ramokgopa drank even deeper from the well of ad hominin attacks, noting that opponents of nuclear power “live in the mud” because they “soil” nuclear technology. These mud dwellers are, he observed, merely “commentators” who do not provide evidence against nuclear power, but rather use myths to “deceive” South Africans. During her welcoming speech at last month’s Nuclear Energy Summit hosted by the department of electricity & energy in Tshwane, Princy Mthombeni, one of SA’s most vocal nuclear boosters, referenced author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s observation that it is dangerous to reduce anything to a single story, reminding those present of “the importance of embracing diverse perspectives”. Speaking at the summit, both electricity & energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa and his deputy, Samantha Graham-Marê, continued on this theme by emphasising that the government was intent on engaging properly with all stakeholders when it comes to nuclear power. For example, Graham-Marê stated that “our ministry is not going to compromise on public participation ... openness and transparency ... we need to work together”. Unfortunately, and clearly quite intentionally, rather than embracing “diverse perspectives” and “public participation”, the summit did the exact opposite. Not only were representatives of civil society entirely excluded from the summit, but both Graham-Marê and Ramokgopa made it clear that they had little interest in opinions about nuclear power that were contrary to theirs or the government’s. Graham-Marê came straight to the point in her address by stating that opponents of nuclear power in SA are simply “ignorant”. Ramokgopa drank even deeper from the well of ad hominin attacks, noting that opponents of nuclear power “live in the mud” because they “soil” nuclear technology. These mud dwellers are, he observed, merely “commentators” who do not provide evidence against nuclear power, but rather use myths to “deceive” South Africans. He contrasted those who live in the mud with a “fraternity of scientists”, experts who provide “objective” and “unemotional” evidence that is not sullied by politics. It is these scientists and experts, the minister declared, who will guide the government’s decision on nuclear power, not the commentators who have “not been in a science lecture hall”. The problems with Ramokgopa’s characterisation of the nuclear debate and

https://www.energize.co.za/article/sa-must-move-forward-nuclear-avoid-dispatchable-power-crisis-sanedi "Titus Mathe said . . . “Other possible options are limited. Battery storage is extremely expensive and the country currently cannot afford to implement this technology at a large scale. Hydropower can take around 15 years to develop . . . " Of course, nuclear can also be very expensive (especially to the taxpayer) and typically takes even longer. "The trading environment favours products from low-carbon economies and Europe is imposing charges based on carbon content,” said Eskom Group Executive for Distribution Monde Bala." Indeed! Most important! "Nuclear energy provides a solution that can be retrofitted into existing power plants using modular reactors. “South Africa has been a leading country in modular reactor technology, which is a precursor to small modular reactors that countries such as China are using,” said Vikesh Rajpaul, Eskom GM. “This is far safer than water-cooled reactor technology and does not require access to water, which makes it a key tech option for repurposing coal-fired power stations. It can use existing infrastructure, including transmission infrastructure." According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor , "There are more than 80 modular reactor designs under development in 19 countries" (none at present in SA). And the only countries that have commercially operated modular reactors are Russia (a single floating plant with two tiny reactors) and China (pebble bed reactors). And both of these have had abysmal availability factors. Concerning the Chinese HTR-PM, the authoritative 2023 WNISR says, “Between January and December 2022, the reactors operated for only 27 hours out of a possible maximum of 8,760 hours. A mere 0.03% availability factor for the year 2022. In the subsequent three months, they seem to have operated at a load factor of around 10 percent.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/business/energy-environment/arkansas-lithium-ev-batteries.html Arkansas May Have Vast Lithium Reserves, Researchers Say Federal and state researchers said there might be five million to 19 million tons of lithium, more than enough to meet the world’s demand for the battery ingredient. Listen to this article · 4:04 min Learn more Share full article Much of the world’s lithium comes from a handful of countries, including Chile where brine containing the metal is placed in huge ponds to dry.Credit...John Moore/Getty Images By Ivan Penn and Rebecca F. Elliott Oct. 21, 2024 Researchers at the United States Geological Survey and the Arkansas government announced on Monday that they had found a trove of lithium, a critical raw material for electric vehicle batteries, in an underground brine reservoir in Arkansas. With the help of water testing and machine learning, the researchers determined that there might be five million to 19 million tons of lithium — more than enough to meet all of the world’s demand for the metal — in a geological area known as the Smackover Formation. Several companies, including Exxon Mobil, are developing projects in Arkansas to produce lithium, which is dissolved in underground brine. Whether lithium harvesting takes hold in the region will depend on the ability of those companies to scale up new methods of extracting the valuable battery ingredient from salty water. The processing technique that Exxon and others are pursuing in Arkansas, known as direct lithium extraction, generally costs more than more conventional methods do, according to the consulting firm Wood Mackenzie. Energy and mining companies have long produced oil, gas and other natural resources in the Smackover, which extends from Texas to Florida. And the federal and state researchers said lithium could be extracted from the waste stream of the brines from which companies extracted other forms of energy and elements. Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT The energy industry, with the Biden administration’s encouragement, has been increasingly working to produce the raw materials needed for the lithium-ion batteries in the United States. A few projects have started recently, and many more are in various stages of study and development across the country. Follow The New York Times Find us on Instagram for the best of our visual journalism and beyond. Join our WhatsApp Channel for breaking news, games, recipes and more. Connect with us on Facebook to get the best of The Times, right in your feed. Most of the world’s lithium is produced in Australia and South America. A large majority of it is then processed in China, which also dominates the manufacturing of electric vehicle batteries. “The potential for increased U.S. production to replace imports has implications for employment, manufacturing and supply chain resilience,” David Applegate, the director of the United States Geological Survey, said in a statement announcing the study. “This study illustrates the value of science in addressing economically important issues.” Federal researchers also have identified other potential resources that could produce large quantities of lithium, including the Salton Sea in Southern California, where Berkshire Hathaway Energy and other companies are working to extract lithium from hot liquid pumped up from an aquifer more than 4,000 feet below the ground by geothermal power plants. Exxon Mobil recently drilled exploratory wells in Arkansas and was evaluating whether it could extract lithium in a cost-competitive way, Dan Ammann, the president of the company’s Low Carbon Solutions business, said in an interview last month. Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT “We know we have an attractive resource. We’re working on understanding that cost equation, understanding the supply-and-demand picture,” Mr. Ammann said at the time. Exxon said last year that it aimed to enter production in 2027 and to be churning out enough lithium by 2030 to supply more than a million electric vehicles per year. Lithium is already extracted from brin

Goeiem?re Elektr Voertuie en KI laat kragverbruik styg. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/climate/global-demand-electricity-rising.html AI slurps huge amounts of power. Increasing use of air conditioning and other heat pumps too. And in China, EVs. "By the end of this year, half of all new cars sold in China are projected to be electric, and roughly 60 percent of plug-in vehicles sold there are now cheaper than their gasoline-powered counterparts." "Global carbon-dioxide emissions are expected to fall just 3 percent by 2030 under policies that nations are currently pursuing, the agency said. Emissions need to fall 33 percent this decade to meet the ambitious climate goals that governments have agreed to at United Nations climate talks." Vriendelike groete Dieter Holm dieterholm@... Tel 012 371 3389 Sel 083 287 3220 Posbus 58 Hartbeespoort 0216 Suid-Afrika

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/climate/global-demand-electricity-rising.html AI slurps huge amounts of power. Increasing use of air conditioning and other heat pumps too. And in China, EVs. "By the end of this year, half of all new cars sold in China are projected to be electric, and roughly 60 percent of plug-in vehicles sold there are now cheaper than their gasoline-powered counterparts." "Global carbon-dioxide emissions are expected to fall just 3 percent by 2030 under policies that nations are currently pursuing, the agency said. Emissions need to fall 33 percent this decade to meet the ambitious climate goals that governments have agreed to at United Nations climate talks."

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2024-09-10-news-from-the-future-beam-me-down-some-sunshine Beam me down some sunshine Elon Musk’s Starpower turns on the Light at Night BL Premium 10 September 2024 by FUTUREWORLD Picture: FUTUREWORLD Dateline: September 1 2031 SpaceX has done it again. Not content with building the world’s greatest space-based internet service, Starlink, and also making the world’s only superheavy lift rocket, Starship, they are now offering solar energy from space — Starpower. ADVERTISEMENT Calling on All Stars! Order Now Unbox finger lickin’ goodness with KFC All Stars – get it via KFC Delivery+ and Uber Eats Inspired by Using Starship’s cavernous cargo bay and robotic space assembly, SpaceX has placed dozens of gigantic mirrors in medium Earth orbit. Rather than trying to harvest solar power in space with panels, and then transmit the power electromagnetically to the ground, Starpower simply focuses the intense sunlight available in space, and reflects it to earthly solar plants – at night! The idea is as genius as it is audacious. But quite compelling. The best solar locations in the world have fewer than 10 cloudy days in a year, but they never generate power at night. Starpower turns an asset that’s idle 65% of the time into a top performer. The return on investment is incredible, despite the hefty fees Starpower charges to “timeshare” the Sun. In fact, demand is so great, from California to Namibia to Mongolia, that you have to bid for the most popular hours to have your solar farm irradiated at night. Starpower’s online auction site makes it easy to keep track of your bids and successful trades, just like a stock market app. “It’s the only fair way to sell the sun,” says Elon Musk, “and the rates fluctuate according to the weather, season and your specific location. If you’re the only one with clear skies on your longitude, you get a bargain!” At this stage it’s only feasible for utility-scale solar installations to benefit from Starpower, as the minimum beam is 4km across, and there’s no compensation for “spillage” onto your neighbour’s property, so remote locations are best. And of course there are critics. Environmentalists say “it messes with nature,” while astronomers lament more clutter in the night sky. But no-one’s complaining about having clean solar power – even at night. First published on Mindbullets, September 5 2024

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-disasters-like-hurricanes-milton-and-helene-unleash-so-much/ Meteorologists and FEMA employees have even received death threats. Why Disasters Like Hurricanes Milton and Helene Unleash So Much Misinformation Falsehoods spread when uncertainties—and emotions—are high after hurricanes By Ben Guarino Members of the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force search a damaged area in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene along the Swannanoa River on October 4, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina. FEMA has been the subject of a barrage of misinformation in the storm's wake. Mario Tama/Getty Images Psychology While Florida recovers from Hurricane Milton, the second dangerous storm to hit the U.S. Southeast in just a couple of weeks, a flood of misinformation threatens to compound the disasters. A major target of false claims is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the government body coordinating recovery efforts from Hurricanes Milton and Helene—the latter of which has killed at least 230 people since the storm made landfall in late September. FEMA has set up a debunking page because it faces so many harmful and inaccurate rumors. And in a telling example of how far things have gone, Representative Chuck Edwards of North Carolina, a Republican, had to dispel lies in a letter to his constituents this week: “Hurricane Helene was NOT geoengineered by the government to seize and access lithium deposits in Chimney Rock,” he wrote. FEMA is not seizing anyone’s property. The agency did not prevent evacuations. Its grant programs generally don’t require repayment. FEMA’s disaster relief funds were not diverted to assist migrants at U.S. borders. Chimney Rock doesn’t have any lithium mines. Uncle Sam can’t control storms. But conspiracy theories making such claims have spread swiftly—and with startling prominence. “What we’re seeing now is pretty unprecedented,” says Lisa Kaplan, chief executive of Alethea, a cybersecurity company that tracks the spread of false narratives online. Former president Donald Trump, tech tycoon Elon Musk and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia all have promoted lies or false theories about the hurricanes or disaster responses. “You always see misinformation after disasters,” says Lisa Fazio, an associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University. “You don’t always see national political figures being the ones spreading that misinformation.” Trump has repeated a torrent of baseless stories at rallies and on his social media platform, Truth Social. He has claimed, for instance, that the federal government has gone out of its way “to not help people in Republican areas” and that FEMA had no responders in North Carolina. FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell told CNN on Tuesday that Trump’s “accusations are just completely false,” pointing out there are some 3,400 workers from multiple federal agencies assisting with the state’s disaster response. “We have just got to stop this rhetoric,” Criswell said. She said she worried that people wouldn’t register with FEMA to get the help—including money—that is readily available to them. Misinformation that foments distrust can endanger responders, too, or at least make their job more difficult as they seek to keep people safe in the aftermath of deadly storms. Why target FEMA? Conspiracy theories about FEMA are about as old as the agency itself, which was founded in 1979. One early piece of misinformation from the 1980s claimed that FEMA would round up American patriots and place them in “detention camps” run by the agency. (The 1998 X-Files movie lampooned these fears, with Martin Landau’s character warning that FEMA had covered up an alien virus and was about to establish a totalitarian government.) Craig Fugate, the agency’s administrator from 2009 to 2017, says that false rumors about FEMA are “not readily new” but “social media spreads them faster.” During his tenure, FEMA had to debunk rumors about 2012’s Superstorm Sandy—including fake reports that the agency was hiring people to clean up debris i

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Subject: BBC Witness History onderhoud Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 21:04:08 +0200 From: Andre Buys <ajbuys@...> To: Andre Buys <ajbuys@...> Liewe familie en vriende, Ek het onlangs 'n onderhoud gehad met die joernalis Gill Kearsley wat vir 'n BBC-radioprogram genaamd Witness History op die BBC se World Service werk. Soos die naam aandui, is Witness History 'n eerstepersoonsverslag uit 'n oomblik in die geskiedenis. Sy het 'n onderhoud met my gevoer oor my betrokkenheid by Suid-Afrika se kernwapenprogram. Die program wat sy opgeneem het, is beskikbaar by https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5yq4. Groete en beste wense André Buys Virus-free.www.avg.com

Die atoomwetenskaplikes se webwerf is 'n interessante en insiggewende kuierplek met baie inligting. PW ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists <newsletter@...> Date: Thu, 26 Sept 2024, 15:31 Subject: Editorial highlights: AI hype, pandemic history, and more To: <pwvanderwalt@...> Nuclear questions for US presidential candidates | More Read a shareable version of this newsletter in your browser. Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to stay current. September 26, 2024 Illustration by Erik English under license from vectoratu / Denis Voronin Bulletin editorial highlights This week, the Bulletin is holding strategic planning meetings. While we reflect on the past and look forward to the future, we wanted to share some of our favorite articles. Stay tuned for more highlights in Monday's newsletter. JOHN MECKLIN An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer For the Bulletin's July 2023 Magazine, editor-in-chief John Mecklin went to Hollywood and interviewed Christopher Nolan about his then-upcoming film, Oppenheimer. Read more. ERIK ENGLISH An illustrated history of the world’s deadliest epidemics, from ancient Rome to Covid-19 Human history is riddled with grizzly stories of epidemics. Bulletin associate multimedia editor Erik English took a visual approach to the history of human epidemics in this illustrated timeline. Read more. FRAN?OIS DIAZ-MAURIN Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you — and almost everyone else. The Bulletin's nuclear affairs editor, Fran?ois Diaz-Maurin, wrote a guide on what to expect during, and after, a nuclear war. The results aren't pretty. Read more. SARA GOUDARZI Popping the AI hype balloon Bulletin disruptive technologies editor Sara Goudarzi wrote an article differentiating chatbots from AI as a whole, showing that a better understanding of how they work (and the human labor and data involved) can better help evaluate concerns about them. Read more. Join us for Conversations Before Midnight with Featured Speaker David Ignatius On November 12th, the Bulletin’s annual gathering will be held in Chicago. Occurring one week after the US election, our keynote conversation will feature David Ignatius, award-winning Washington Post columnist whose new book Phantom Orbit focuses on growing conflicts in space. ??? Get your ticket FRAN?OIS DIAZ-MAURIN, JOHN MECKLIN The experts comment: Key nuclear questions that the US presidential candidates should answer The Bulletin asked nuclear policy experts to suggest questions that journalists and citizens should ask the 2024 presidential candidates. Read more of the submissions below, and stay tuned for further entries. TOM Z. COLLINA How many nuclear warheads does the United States need? Tom Z. Collina, a national security expert and former director of policy at the Ploughshares Fund, proposes a single, central question about nuclear weapons that journalists and citizens should ask the 2024 presidential candidates. Read more. ELIANA JOHNS How will you deter North Korea’s aggression without deteriorating the situation on the Korean Peninsula? Eliana Johns, senior research associate at the Federation of American Scientists and co-author of the Bulletin’s Nuclear Notebook, proposes four nuclear questions about the US arsenal, nuclear testing, use of nuclear weapons, and North Korea that journalists and citizens should ask the 2024 presidential candidates. Read more. QUOTE OF THE DAY ???? "The US showed at Vogtle that we’re not very good at building [nuclear] plants...” — Todd Allen, chair of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences at University of Michigan, "The AI Boom Is Raising Hopes of a Nuclear Comeback," Wired Your gift fuels our mission to educate and empower. Together we will work to ensure science serves humanity. Give today Copyright ? 2024 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists All Rights Reserved | Email: newsletter@... Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1307 E. 60th St. Chicago, IL 60637 Don't miss an email! Please add newsletter@... to your address book. Manage your ema

?nteressant. Dis ook interessant dat "Countries including Germany, Sweden, and New Zealand are ending EV subsidies". Dit terwyl in SA elektriese voertuie meer invoerbelasting betaal as petrol of diesel modelle. M a w ge-anti-subsidieer word! On 2024/09/26 09:05, Pieter Van der Walt wrote:

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: The Spark from MIT Technology Review <newsletters@...> Date: Wed, 25 Sept 2024, 18:04 Subject: ?? Three Mile Island and AI To: <pwvanderwalt@...> Why Microsoft is looking for nuclear power Subscribe & Save 25% The Spark By Casey Crownhart ? 9.25.24 Hello hello, welcome back to The Spark! Nuclear power is coming back to Three Mile Island. That nuclear power plant is typically associated with a very specific event. One of its reactors, Unit 2, suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 in what remains the most significant nuclear accident in US history. It has been shuttered ever since. But the site, in Pennsylvania, is also home to another reactor—Unit 1, which consistently and safely generated electricity for decades until it was shut down in 2019. The site’s owner announced last week that it has plans to reopen the plant and signed a deal with Microsoft. The company will purchase the plant’s entire electric generating capacity over the next 20 years. This news is fascinating for so many reasons. Obviously this site holds a certain significance in the history of nuclear power in the US. There’s a possibility this would be one of the first reactors in the country to reopen after shutting down. And Microsoft will be buying all the electricity from the reactor. Let’s dig into what this says about the future of the nuclear industry and Big Tech’s power demand. Unit 2 at Three Mile Island operated for just a few months before the accident, in March 1979. At the time, Unit 1 was down for refueling. That reactor started back up, to some controversy, in the mid-1980s and produced enough electricity for hundreds of thousands of homes in the area for more than 30 years. Eventually, though, the plant faced economic struggles. Even though it was operating at relatively high efficiency and with low costs, it was driven out of business by record low prices for natural gas and the introduction of relatively cheap, subsidized renewable energy to the grid, says Patrick White, research director of the Nuclear Innovation Alliance, a nonprofit think tank. That situation has shifted in just the past few years, White says. There’s more money available now for nuclear, including new technology-agnostic tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act. And there’s also rising concern about the increased energy demand on the power grid, in part from tech giants looking to power data centers like those needed to run AI. In announcing its deal with Microsoft, Constellation Energy, the owner of Three Mile Island Unit 1, also shared that the plant is getting a rebrand—the site will be renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center. (Not sure if that one’s going to stick.) The confluence of the particular location of this reactor and the fact that the electricity will go to power data centers (and other infrastructure) makes this whole announcement instantly attention-grabbing. As one headline put it, “Microsoft AI Needs So Much Power It's Tapping Site of US Nuclear Meltdown.” For some people in climate circles, this deal makes a lot of sense. Nuclear power remains one of the most expensive forms of electricity today. But experts say it could play a crucial role on the grid, since the plants typically put out a consistent amount of electricity—it’s often referred to as “firm power,” in contrast with renewables like wind and solar that are intermittently available. Without guaranteed money there’s a chance this reactor would simply have been decommissioned as planned. Reopening plants that shuttered recently could provide an opportunity to get the benefits of nuclear power without having to build an entirely new project. In March, the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan got a loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office to the tune of over $1.5 billion to help restart. Palisades shut down in 2022, and the site’s owner says it hopes to get it back online by late 2025. It will be the first shuttered reactor in the US to come back online, if everything goes as planned. (For more details, check out my story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig2ghowz3xY Hierdie totaal naiewe kerel noem (1:30) Fusie "the Holy Grail of Energy Generation", met stellings soos:-- 1 "the fuel can come from the ocean". Deuterium wel, maar nie tritium nie. Noudat Candu uitgefaseer is/word, is daar is nie genoeg tritium om selfs een groot fusie reaktor vir 'n jaar mee te bedryf nie. 2. "the only byproduct is helium -- there's no radioactive waste". Snel-neutrone dra 80% van die energie, en word nie in die plasma vasgevang deur die ultrasterk magneetvelde nie. Die diagram by 2:30 van fusie is totaal foutief: die energie daaruit is kineties, en selfs 'n matrikulant kan maklik bewys dat die heliumkern (alfa-partikel) met massa 4 a m e slegs 20% van die energie dra, en die neutron (1 a m e) 80% oftewel 14.3MeV. Soos die destydse K, verernkor Hoof van Stralingskade so eksplisiet uitgewys het, veroorsaak daardie snelneutrone massale defekte, asook kerntransmutasies in die wande van die vakuumkamer, en beskadig die ultraduur supergeleidende elektromagnete. Daardie koue supergeleiers moet direk naasaan 'n plasmatemperatuur van 150 miljoen K (tienkeer die "core"van die son se temp) gehandhaaf word in 'n kompakte toestel???????????????? 'n Toestel wat jare lank bedryf moet word om die miljarde of triljoene kapitaalkoste te kan afbetaal????????? Wat van die Stefan-Boltzmannn stralingswet wat se^ straling is eweredig aan T^4????????? Die kerel beweer ook dat General Electric gelykstroom krag ontwikkel het (Edison het). General Electricwerk met wisselstroom sover ek weet.

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112023/inside-clean-energy-battery-prices-are-falling/ Currently at $139/kWh in USA. But there are many complications In China???? The compact 5-door BYD Seagull EV already sells from $11 500 in the USA, yet has advanced features. Can trade union-ridden Detroit ever compete with EVs?