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**Stoker boy** · 10-18-2022, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by CUDA

https://www.rt.com/business/562430-g...nge-recession/

No man is a Island

Germany’s GDP forecast to plunge

Europe’s largest economy is expected to shrink next year

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Victory column, one of Berlin's premiere landmarks, on the first day a new law banning the illumination of landmarks to save energy has gone into effect nationwide, Berlin, Germany, September 1, 2022. © Getty Images / Carsten Koall

The German economy is headed for a sharp decline next year, researchers from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy warned on Thursday.
“The German economy is in a downward spiral. The recent price jumps for electricity and gas will reduce the purchasing power of private households and lead to a decline in private consumer spending. In addition, the slowing world economy will dampen not only exports but also investment activity. As a result, the German economy will slide into recession once again, at a time when it was just recovering from the pandemic-related crisis,” a press release stated.
Analysts explained that while in their summer forecast they assumed that “recovery would prevail despite the burdens” and predicted a strong rise in GDP, lingering concerns regarding the energy sphere forced them to lower their expectations significantly.
“Now we expect GDP to increase by only 1.4% in the current year. In 2023, it is expected to decline by 0.7%,” they wrote, while previously the institute predicted a 3.3% growth for the country’s economy next year.
Researchers also expect inflation to rise to 8% this year and 8.7% in 2023.
READ MORE: German gas giant pleads for state funding amid energy crisis
Germany’s spending on energy imports is expected to rise by €123 billion this year and another €136 billion next year. As a result, the country’s industrial output is likely to drop. Private households' purchasing power is also forecast to fall by 4.1%, the steepest drop recorded since Germany’s reunification in 1990.
For more stories on economy & finance visit RT's business section

What a fantastic copy paste Mr. CUDA you are truly a scholar.
I hope you’re having a wonderful week.

**powerabout** · 10-19-2022, 10:54 PM

if only Germany listened to Trump

**David - WI** · 10-19-2022, 11:01 PM

Bidenomics is bankrupting our allies and enriching our enemies.

**Shaun K** · 10-19-2022, 11:41 PM

Originally Posted by powerabout

if only Germany listened to Trump

It should be obvious that Germanys leaders and our current leaders want to decimate their own populations. It's not like they made a mistake. You have to burn it all down before you can build back better

**PanRonnie** · 10-19-2022, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by powerabout

if only Germany listened to Trump

At the moment there is a traffic jam of LNG ships for europe ! Go mr putin but it also important being less dependant of people turning the tap on and off in the arab gulf. I see more and more news items about retrofitting industry engines with hydrogen injection systems from ships to mining equipmant so this decade might be a bit harsh but we are getting there

**powerabout** · 10-20-2022, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by PanRonnie

At the moment there is a traffic jam of LNG ships for europe ! Go mr putin but it also important being less dependant of people turning the tap on and off in the arab gulf. I see more and more news items about retrofitting industry engines with hydrogen injection systems from ships to mining equipmant so this decade might be a bit harsh but we are getting there

What energy source did you make the hydrogen with?

**PanRonnie** · 10-20-2022, 10:53 AM

That is probably going to be nuclear supplemented by wind
Instead of big nuclear plants more Small Modular Reactors spread out over the energy grid prefferebly next to existenting powerplants so the grid infra structuur is already there
And lets hope they crack nuclear fusion this decade

**noli** · 10-20-2022, 12:11 PM

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**CUDA** · 10-20-2022, 12:28 PM

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/n...-instabilities

NUCLEAR FUSION REACTORS could eventually harness the power of the sun to generate massive amounts of clean energy. But for now, they’re prone to instabilities that can wreak havoc on the futuristic machines.[/COLOR]
Now, in a new study published in the journal Physical Review Letters, scientists have found a possible way to avoid these destructive instabilities — purposefully cooking up a bunch of smaller ones.

HERE’S THE BACKGROUND — Nuclear fusion, the same reaction that occurs in the heart of stars, combines atomic nuclei to form heavier nuclei. Any mass that doesn’t make it into new atoms is converted to energy, releasing an extraordinary amount of light and heat.[/COLOR]
Scientists have long sought to produce nuclear fusion in reactors on Earth because it generates far more energy than burning fossil fuels does. For example, a pineapple-size amount of hydrogen atoms offers as much energy as 10,000 tons of coal.
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Most experimental fusion reactors employ a donut-shaped Russian design called a tokamak. These designs use powerful magnetic fields to confine a cloud of plasma, or ionized gas, at extremely high temperatures — high enough for atoms to merge together.
But all magnetically confined plasmas naturally develop instabilities, or areas where small disturbances in the plasmas quickly grow.

Instabilities that originate at the edge of the ring of plasma in a tokamak called "edge-localized modes" (ELMs) are somewhat like solar flares on the surface of the sun. Each can expel up to 20 percent of the energy stored in the reactor, potentially inflicting catastrophic damage to a tokamak's walls.
Previous research suggested a potential fix: slightly contorting the plasma ring with magnets so that it forms a shape that looks a bit like a rounded triangle.
This step can expand the donut’s more stable interior and render the overall plasma more stable, says Georg Harrer, a lead study author and plasma physicist at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria.
Past studies have also found that fueling the ring with gas offers a density and pressure boost at the very edge of the plasma. This triggers many tiny ELMS instead of major, damaging ones.
But scientists thought such a scenario was only possible in relatively small tokamaks, and not in the large ones currently under development to research fusion power.
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WHAT’S NEW — This new work upends that theory. Through a series of experiments and simulations, the researchers suggest that creating small instabilities may prevent bigger ones in fusion reactors.<iframe frameborder="0" src="https://d6199bd0fdbca166f7a4cdcae4edfae9.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html" id="google_ads_iframe_/49944529/inverse/posts_2" title="3rd party ad content" name="" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" width="300" height="250" data-is-safeframe="true" sandbox="allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" role="region" aria-label="Advertisement" tabindex="0" data-google-container-id="4" data-load-complete="true" style="font-family: Favorit; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-align: center; box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; vertical-align: bottom;"></iframe>

While researchers have previously manipulated small instabilities in the lab, they weren’t previously considered a tool for fusion reactors, says Saskia Mordijck, a plasma physicist at the College of William & Mary who wasn’t involved in the new research.
But the recent study does consider that possibility.
You can compare a tokamak to a pot with boiling water and a tight lid on top, Harrer says. Just as a pot’s lid rattles with building pressure, large ELMs bang on the tokamak as pressure grows.
But scientists can offer a pressure release, just as you can tilt a pot’s lid to let out steam: If the tokamak is subjected to many small bursts of pressure, it could experience less damage.
This strategy generates several thousand small instabilities per second. It’s still unclear whether these small bursts help protect the tokamak, but "we have good reason to think that they are way less harmful," Harrer says.
Such outbursts disseminate heat over a much larger area and over a longer period of time, which hopefully spares the tokamak interior from significant melting. What’s more, this approach shouldn’t significantly alter a fusion reactor’s efficiency, he adds.
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[COLOR=var(--slot3)]WHY IT MATTERS — This technique could be applied in reactors like the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, which aims to create the world's first nuclear fusion plant.[/COLOR]
ITER is currently under construction in southern France. When it’s up and running, it could produce 10 times the energy that scientists put into it.
[COLOR=var(--slot3)]WHAT’S NEXT — Future research will test this strategy on the world’s largest operating tokamak, the Joint European Torus (JET) in England, according to Harrer. JET is currently running experiments that could help pave the way for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.[/COLOR]
"It is a challenge to predict how a fusion reactor will behave at this point," Mordijck says. "The region the authors are studying is notoriously a challenge for multiple reasons, and this is the region that will be the most altered in a fusion reactor."
All in all, this new work "is but a small puzzle piece in a very complex problem," Harrer cautions. "As of now, people should not expect to get their electricity from a fusion reactor before the 2050s."

**PanRonnie** · 10-20-2022, 12:54 PM

You bet on red! I on black

**CUDA** · 10-20-2022, 01:18 PM

The other article said 20 or more years, so small reactors is now...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/15/bill...0-million.html

<header class="ArticleHeader-articleHeader" id="main-article-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px;">CLIMATEBill Gates’ company TerraPower raises $750 million for nuclear energy and medicine innovation

TerraPower, the nuclear innovation company founded by Bill Gates, announced a $750 million funding raise co-led by Gates and SK, a large South Korean conglomerate that is one of South Korea’s largest energy providers.</header>

The money will go toward the development of nuclear energy innovations and nuclear medicine.

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and Chair of the Gates Foundation, walks to a morning session during the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 08, 2022 in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images

Bill Gates’ nuclear innovation company, TerraPower, announced Monday it has secured at least $750 million in new funding.
The funding was co-led by Gates and SK. Gates is the founder and chairman of TerraPower. SK, one of South Korea’s largest energy providers, invested $250 million.

The money will be used to develop nuclear energy technology and innovations in nuclear medicine, according to a statement from TerraPower.
“Whether it’s addressing climate change with carbon-free advanced nuclear energy, or fighting cancer with nuclear isotopes, our team is deploying technology solutions and investors across the world are taking note,” Chris Levesque, the CEO of TerraPower, said in a statement.
Nuclear energy has been undergoing a renaissance because the energy created by nuclear reactors doesn’t release the greenhouse gasses that cause climate change. There is, however, long-lasting nuclear waste that has to be stored carefully.

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An artist rendition of the Natrium nuclear power plant.
Photo courtesy TerraPower

What TerraPower’s working on

TerraPower is working with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a division of General Electric, to commercialize the Natrium system. It includes a smaller reactor than the conventional ones used in the United States and a molten salt energy storage system that allows the microreactor to boost its energy output for short periods of time as needed.
TerraPower is currently working to demonstrate its Natrium reactor technology at a soon-to-be-retired coal plant in Wyoming. The project is a collaboration with the federal government as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP).

TerraPower also wants to commercialize a kind of molten salt reactor technology that could be used to provide carbon-free energy to heavy industrial operations, like water treatment plants, chemical processors and heavy industrial users. And the company is building the Traveling Wave Reactor, which it says will use mined uranium 30 times more efficiently and greatly reduces nuclear waste.
The firm also hopes to help treat cancer with its TerraPower Isotopes program.
Small amounts of slightly radioactive material can be used to help treat certain cancers. One such radioactive material, Actinium-225, can be used to help treat prostate cancer, lymphoma, melanoma and other cancers. TerraPower is working to innovate in the process to extract Thorium-229, which is needed to create Actinium-225, from sources of Uranium-233 that are being managed by the Department of Energy.
There is not enough Actinium-225 right now to meet demand, so TerraPower says it will use its “unique access” to Actinium-225 to bring the isotope to the pharmaceutical community.

**John S** · 10-21-2022, 11:20 AM

This kind of stuff is so interesting to me. Would love to be involved in the R&D phases of this. Hopefully by the time I'm ready to do a conversion project, this will be in the market.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Solid-....663233.0.html

**PanRonnie** · 10-21-2022, 01:48 PM

Green hydrogen refueling stations in operation, blue in development

**Chaz** · 10-22-2022, 07:57 PM

They was some fellers a while back that needed some gas for they aero-planes. They put that hydrogen stuff ta good use. Yup, they was able ta turn black rocks into gasoline.
I rekkon they didn't think they needed to do that no more since they could buy cheap gas an vodka from a neighbor to the east, so they sold they'ere tools to some other fellers to the far east. Them other fellers from the far east, use them black rocks to make gas and electric-isity.
Them same fellers make big propellors for out in the fields, sun boards and poison batterys .. no-no-no, they don't use them things, they ain't stupid, nope they sell that junk to other less intelligent folks that aint smart enough ta use the oil right under they'ere own feet ..

https://www.neuman-esser.de/en/compr...ation-of-coal/

**XstreamVking** · 10-23-2022, 04:58 AM

Hydrogen is the real green alternative. It’s only the most abundant material on earth....And no pollution at all compared to batteries. And most importantly we don’t need China to produce it.