Richard Burden

US cit., member of the Schiller Institute , The LaRouche Organization , staff of EIR

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@Florencercii @janrosenow The heat pump transfers more heat than could be obtained by converting its electrical input to heat. That doesn't make it more economical than using heat from combustion, fission, etc. directly. Also, its efficiency falls in severe cold.

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@dorfman_p There is no climate crisis, only a damned stupid world war by the West against the BRICS, and the cost of nuclear is a political artifact.

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@tparsi Germany's support for Ukraine is equally worthy of condemnation, even if the Russians aren't suffering as horribly as the Palestinians. First of all, they're supporting the NATO-installed Nazi regime in Ukraine, not the legitimately elected government of Ukraine!

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@BladeoftheS China's total emissions aren't dropping, only per watt-hour. More importantly, China isn't bombing gas pipelines and civilian nuclear reactors or raiding oil and gas tankers. China is minding its own business. We need to make the West do the same!

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@MattLoszak Fission products need only 300 years of storage. It's the minor actinides, with their long decay chains and alpha decay mode that make a longer-term hazard. Long-lived fission products have beta decay mode, one or two decays to stability and low decay energy.

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@Tw_timerAlder That will reduce gas consumption, but not the capacity needed. Clouds, dust, etc. will come, and if the capacity isn't there--catastrophe! Batteries are storage, not generation, and month-long storage will always be insanely expensive.

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@bjoernstengel Industries that need cheap and reliable energy are moving out, or outsourcing their operations. Germany's Energiewende is surrender to foreign occupiers who want to use Germany for their purposes (war against the BRICS and for Israel!)

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@IndiCannArabica We use water to obtain energy by fracking, because that energy allows us to obtain far more water. The return on investment is much better with nuclear, but Germany banned that!

[CODEPINK @codepink]

BREAKING: The House just passed a resolution to end the war on Iran by a vote of 215-208.

Just 3 months into the war, this is the earliest that a chamber of Congress has ever voted to reject an active conflict in U.S. history.

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@EVCurveFuturist But there is no way to convert random motion, such as wind and waves, or radiation at mixed wavelengths, such as sunlight, into electricity with any more efficiency than heat from a nuclear or fossil fuel fire is converted to electricity--or directly into work.

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@stepsenmccool Because the cost is a political artifact!

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@franzalt It's tremendously effective. That's why Ukraine and Israel keep bombing it, to terrorize nuclear workers and the public!

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@stepsenmccool The energy transition in Germany is a success for the Nazis, who aim to re-militarize Germany and use it to fight for the U.S./UK empire. Only military contracts now provide income for Germany, because the budget for imperialist aggression is unlimited!

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@stepsenmccool Germany is perhaps the ugliest example on the planet of how insane the energy transition is. It has come at the expense of nearly all energy-dependent industry in Germany, in a country that used to be a world-leading manufacturer of high-tech civilian goods.

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@DirkLaurenz @grok If we use breeder reactors, just the U and other actinides we have in storage would supply all of our present total power consumption, including non-electricity, for several hundred years. That's because LWRs fission at best 1/200 of the uranium mined to make their fuel.

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@DirkLaurenz If we allow civilian nuclear power, including breeders, it will satisfy all our power needs at the lowest cost of any available tech. One gram of any actinide yields as much controllable heat as 1.6 tons of natural gas. But politics imposes crazy regulations & drone strikes!

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@EVCurveFuturist Energy that comes and goes on its own schedule is useless, as is water. Same goes for soil and air. Control, not quantity, is what matters!

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@zhao_dashuai Many large transformers around the world have fans. This is just a video showing a table top fan aimed at what looks like a large transformer which lacks fans.

[Richard Burden @burden_w]

@Karl_Lauterbach The only thing that makes nuclear power plants unattractive is hypocrisy and cowardice in the face of aggression on the part of a nuclear superpower that thinks it should be the only such--the same one that nuked Hiroshima!