China’s utility only solar was 880gw in 2024. Double infographic.

Lance and a sword? Is lance for throwing or anti-cavalry or impaling the defenseless on horseback?

Internet teaching me Ireland not in UK… either that or all their pubs blew up.

I am pro Vagentinians

Can’t tell the colour of the Fuckin Islands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademik_Lomonosov 70mw for $700m including the boat, is still way cheaper than Vogtle, and western nuclear sub/ship power plants, Low enriched fuel. Heat use in Arctic adds value. China’s HTR-PM at $6/w is good for a prototype SMR. Even lower enriched fuel. Western corruption is incapable of reaching this value level. Hatred levels incapable of buying them. All western SMR designs use more expensive fuel that are sourced from traditional military purposed reactors as well.

The $6/w figure would be great for US, but in China it is over 12x more than solar. But it becomes reasonable tech to pursue. High tech that gets cheaper as it scales up. Unique SMR approach is that the nuclear heat is generated in “container sized units”, but traditional built turbine unit can be fed by multiple containers.

Thorium plans link are not inspiring because it fails to address why thorium failed historically.

But you can see how fast coal power plants are growing in China because coal power plants are easier than nuclear.

Thermal electricity generation in China rose 1.5% in 2024, while total electricity consumption grew 8.5%. They added more storage than coal plants. While there was hope that 2024 would see a decline in thermal, it will happen in 2025. Coal’s share of electricity dropped from 60% to 53%. China’s strategy for coal is resilience and national security. They build them for construction sector sponsorship, and the main 2 benefits, rather than their energy policy.

Look at how many nuclear power plants China have in plans or started building and how many of them rest of world combined have.

I’ve read reports that many nuclear plans are on hold/cancelled in China. Among the biggest difficulties for nuclear, is forecasting a demand increase 10 years from now, while not filling that demand gap earlier with much cheaper electricity sources. Nuclear needs the corruption of forcing scarcity until it is completed, so that it can sell all of its electricity. The capital costs of nuclear overwhelm all other costs, such that operating at 50% capacity doubles the breakeven/target ROI electricity price per kwh.

Solar is growing fast, and much faster in China than nuclear. Nuclear is down globally. Germany made right decision to focus on renewables with legacy coal as backup, simply due to astronomical costs of refurbishing/extending life of its ageing nuclear a few years. There is no economic benefit of new nuclear energy.

https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/Nuclear-power-remains-irrelevant-in-international-market-report#%3A~%3Atext=Global+wind+and+solar+facilities%2Covertaking+nuclear+power+by+40%25.

Rainy season in Northern Africa has a lot of land to form storms from sand as cloud seeds. Gulf and Carribean sea are almost always hot in summer. Relatively shallow. Northern South America also has rainy season and helps form storms that go north.

South America doesn’t get as much help from Africa storm formation, and south atlantic does not have a history of being very hot.

The form above 10^* lattitude. Their natural direction is to go straight towards their respective poles, but high pressure systems steer them with the trade winds. Extremely rare for a storm to even go slightly towards the equator

then make a coalition with the AfD (Nazis).

It only adds up to 48%. The other parties would band together to make 52%.

Any chance that NATO skepticism is a big issue in East Germany, and the actual appeal of AfD?

AfD (Conservatives Trump was looking for) doubled their vote, but won’t be part of government. Party with the most votes went from 23% to 28%.

St Lawrence is major. Hudson maybe not. Does get arbitrary.

they are also major ocean faring shipping lanes.

Can you do Canada? With Lake Winnipeg and Slave lakes big enough to count?

In 2020 election, GOP said Biden would do this because he’s a communist. But they only said this in Miami. Blue margin for Miami was successfully diminished by Cuban vote, and FL was no longer a swing state.

A more realistic map may be blue, and blue if right option/candidate, contiguous regions of US joining Canada, and the more common pre-election GOP threat of remaining US invading Mexico and then assimilated into red US.

Do any people have to move? Do the governors have to move prior to next election?

Does south Georgia have a gulf of America coastline?