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Car dealers are independent business people who have an authorized franchise with one or more car manufacturers. They do not work for the manufacturer; the manufacturer does not own the dealership.
Dealers buy cars from the manufacturer, usually with large "floor-plan" loans from a bank or finance company. The bank charges dealers interest on these loans. Dealers have to sell cars to pay off these loans with associated interest, as well as cover other expenses of running a business.
When a dealer sells or leases a car, he always receives cash, whether it's directly from the customer, or from a finance company or bank who has loaned a customer the money.
A common misconception is that dealers would rather get cash directly from a customer, bypassing the financing step. Some people mistakenly believe that dealers give cash customers a discount. This is not true. In fact, dealers typically get a commission or "finders fee" on car financing provided by banks or finance companies and therefore prefer that customers finance or lease...
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MIAMI -- Cookie Rojas, a five-time All-Star and a highly respected player in his era, is being recognized as a Hall of Famer.
Octavio Victor "Cookie" Rojas, 73, on Saturday will be inducted into the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame at Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic. A Spanish-language TV broadcaster for the Miami Marlins, Rojas will be the Hall of Fame's representative from Cuba.
As part of the ceremonies, the Marlins will be recognized as the "Team of the Americas."
Jeff Idelson, president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., will be attending the event.
The versatile Rojas broke in as a second baseman with the Reds in 1962, and his playing career ended in 1977. Primarily an infielder, Rojas played for the Royals, Phillies, Reds and Cardinals. During his career, he saw action at every position, even throwing a scoreless inning as a pitcher. He also was used as a designated hitter.
Rojas was an All-Star in 1965, '71, '72, '73 and '74. In 16 seasons, he batted .263 with 54 home runs and 593 RBIs.
Upon retiring as a player, Rojas coached and managed in the big leagues. He has been a Marlins Spanish-language TV analyst since 2003.
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Some would say it's not every day that a government gives a mobile phone service provider an ultimatum to either give in or give up, but recently, censorship and government snooping have become more common than in past decades.
Recently, the Indian government demanded that telecom providers allow government authorities to monitor traffic flowing through their networks for terrorist activities. According to a Business Standard post, the Indian government asked a number of telecommunications companies to open up their networks to monitor Blackberry-based traffic or face shutdown throughout the country within 15 days.
Indian government authorities proposed that each service provider work out the details with Blackberry licensor Research in Motion before this 15-day period.
DailyTech contacted RIM's media relations and received the following statement, "RIM operates in more than 130 countries around the world and respects the regulatory requirements of governments. RIM does not comment on confidential regulatory matters or speculation on such matters in any given country."
If RIM and service providers offering Blackberry services comply with the government's demands, it will mean roughly 400,000 Blackberry users will be left without service such as email and messaging. According to India's Minister of Communications and Information Technology, the security of the nation of India is their top priority even if it means that telecom companies will be shut down if they do not let government authorities in and monitor traffic freely.
India is not the first government to demand the ability to monitor telecom traffic. Recently, U.S. government agencies, such as the NSA, have been the center for discussion and legal battles regarding wiretapping. The U.S. Senate has also gone so far as to pass a bill that would give telecoms that cooperate with U.S. agencies in warrant-less wiretapping and other illegal monitoring activities immunity from lawsuits.
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In France, Greenpeace activists got past security and climbed reactor structures at the Tricastin nuclear power plant. They unfurled a banner which read: TRICASTIN ACCIDENT NUCLÉAIRE: PRÉSIDENT DE LA CATASTROPHE? (Tricastin Nuclear Accident: President of the Disaster?). Earlier this morning, other activists projected a crack onto the superstructure of the plant illustrating that French President, Hollande, needs to shut down 20 nuclear reactors in the country by 2020 in keeping with his promise to cut nuclear power from three-quarters to half by 2025.
The projection of the crack, by the way, is not foreshadowing an eminent condition. Cracks have been found in the reactor vessels of several plants in France, and throughout the world.
In South Korea our office there has been hard at work drawing attention to the dangers of nuclear energy. Last Wednesday saw several climbers suspended from the Gwangan Bridge in Busan showing Koreans that the Gori power plant poses a grave risk to the people living in its proximity. Today, the Rainbow Warrior could be seen from the same nuclear plant – the oldest facility in the country – with a very simple message printed on a banner stretched between her masts: CHERNOBYL, FUKUSHIMA, BUSAN?
The banner onboard the Rainbow Warrior is telling in its simplicity. It creates the spectre of Chernobyl and Fukushima, and by omission Three Mile Island, Windscale and the far too many other nuclear and radiation accidents across the world. It brings to mind images of people whose health has been affected by radiation, and vast swathes of fall-out wasteland which leaves burn scars for generations after the accident. Also telling, because the message itself is simple: Nuclear energy is neither secure, safe nor even practical.
A status report released Thursday by independent consultants makes no bones about – not only the health risks associated with nuclear energy, but the economic impracticality of this kind of energy production as a whole. You don't have to get very far into the report to find that facilities peaked in their output a decade ago, and have been in decline ever since. This is in the face of an ever-increasing global energy consumption. It begs the question, what's the point of nuclear energy if demands can be met in a sustainable way?
Although the movement against nuclear power plants in France and South Korea happen to be focused on specific locations, the call to stop generating nuclear energy needs to be heard by everyone. Tricastin is one plant which was breached by our activists this time, but it is representative of five [in French] others' which are decrepit, riddled with cracks, and are at high risk of serious accidents.
The Gori plant in Busan, another ticking time bomb, is indicative of a whole other set of problems besides the safety of the plants themselves. It is the lack of transparency by the Nuclear energy industry as it deftly clucks a narrative of efficiency and sustainability while stroking the backs of any policy-makers within reach. In the past few years the nuclear industry in South Korea has been riddled with corruption involving skirting regulation, faking certificates and forging warranties.
The collusion between state officials and nuclear energy mavens is seen as one of the causes of the Fukushima disaster. In places like Japan it has been repeatedly shown that, were it not for independent oversight, unsafe and outright broken reactors would be re-activated by people gazing at their wallets and not looking out for the health of the people they govern. Again, while focused on one geographic region the problem is endemic. As former US Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner, Peter Bradford, wrote, "For various reasons in many nations, the nuclear industry cannot tell the truth about its progress, its promise or its perils. Its backers in government and in academia do no better."
There is something else that draws people out of their homes and onto the streets to protest against nuclear power, as they did in Guandong province, China, last week. It is that, as long as nuclear fatly wedges itself into the turnstile though which energy expenditure passes, we won't be able to seriously talk about clean, safe and renewable power. The 37-billion Chinese yuan that would have gone to a uranium processing facility in the Longwan Industrial Park can be put towards a sustainable way to generate energy. A way that doesn't degenerate the planet or sicken and kill people.
"The gap between nuclear rhetoric and nuclear reality has been a fundamental impediment to wise energy policy decisions for half a century now," wrote Professor Bradford. Turning the last half-century around to wiser energy policy decisions shouldn't be left to policy-makers, industry leaders, or even the small group of French or South Koreans who shine a light on an increasingly redundant and dangerous industry. It is up to all of us to push nuclear energy off the table, for the health of ourselves and of our planet.
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As a mother of three children I'm concerned about their future, our earth's future, and my own struggles with what how to support a solution to our en...
As a mother of three children I'm concerned about their future, our earth's future, and my own struggles with what how to support a solution to our energy needs. Humanity has pegged its survival to energy production and consumption. We can no longer exist without energy production unless we decide globally to live in poverty. Any other argument is ridiculous to even consider. I don't know why I ever sided with greenpeace on this topic. Perhaps it was because a very good friend has been a greenpeace activist for 25yrs. Unfortunately, greenpeace's position on energy is one that would send our way of life into the dark ages, while most greenpeace executives work and live in comfortable surroundings paid for by supporters.
The path forward for me became clear while driving one of my daughters to her week-long camp (that her grandparents gave her as a 16th birthday present). I drove in 35C temperatures through mile after mile of idled windmills. At the peak of demand when air conditioners would be running at full speed, I witnessed hundreds (and I'm sure thousands across the country) of these "renewables" sitting there doing nothing. "what a waste of our taxpayer money" I thought to myself. How could our government be so stupid as to allow this to happen? The amount of idle time or reduced production time is very high for wind farms I found out - at a cost of $B.
When I drove up to the lake, I was to make a right turn North. The turn was at one of our nuclear generation facilities. In contrast, the nuclear plant was producing power quietly and without impact to environment. This plant has been running for decades without complaint or issue. The idled wind farms, though, require that two other gas plants start up to make up the power production shortfall for the lack of wind. The net contribution of renewables in this case is a negative number since we need to pump carbon into the atmosphere to support its existence. At least is was a quiet day that day for the people that live near wind farms!
What if we had put that money into newer nuclear plants that will (much more safely than the current technology) run for decades to come. Zero emmisions! Quiet surroundings free of rotating blades that kill birds! …and a future for my children!
17 July, 2013 at 16:54
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(Unregistered) GregB
Zero emissions -- sure, however just because it doesn't emit C02 doesn't make it worth having. A slurry of waste that we have to bury for 100,000 years? think about that number, it's 2013, and we need to tell future generations not to ever go near or explore our nuclear waste dumps... Even if we shorten that number by 90,000, or even 99,000... is it fair to future generations to create an uninhabitable area for 1,000 years? I'm saddened by the ignorance the general public has for nuclear... Our "leaders" have made it this way, nuclear is an incredible source of energy, so I understand why it is so tempting to use, but at what cost? Nuclear won't only kill birds, it will kill anything organic, and you won't know it's coming, you're likely already eating/drinking traces of it from weapons testing and accidents around the world. I don't want to live in poverty either, but aren't we suppose to leave this world for our children.... Wind turbines aren't the answer either, but their a step in the right direction... Inform yourself, there is much to learn.
18 July, 2013 at 7:54
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There is more naturally occurring radiation on earth than all the nuclear leakage combined. Waste can be treated to reduce its lifespan or reburned.
There is more naturally occurring radiation on earth than all the nuclear leakage combined. Waste can be treated to reduce its lifespan or reburned.
On the other hand the damage caused by carbon-polluting of our earth is much more grave and will exterminate most of earth's species. It's not treatable or stoppable. What a fooling choice to make between the treatment of nuclear waste or the extermination of our planet.
18 July, 2013 at 16:13
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Jan Haverkamp - Greenpeace
Dear HeatherB, I do not want to go deep into your assumption about Greenpeace executives lives, but I do have some doubts you'd want to change pos...
Dear HeatherB, I do not want to go deep into your assumption about Greenpeace executives lives, but I do have some doubts you'd want to change positions with me. The people I know working for Greenpeace (and that is many, though not all) are all highly dedicated and not at all NGO bureaucrats. For me, I think with every expense I make about where the money comes from: from our supporters. And I take care it is spent efficiently and effectively, because we owe that to our supporters and many are supporting us with money they also cannot easily spare.
Concerning your observations on wind energy, two forms of renewable energy are indeed weather dependent - they harvest the sun in a very direct way and their production is not easily stored: wind and solar PV. That does not mean they are inefficient or ineffective, however. Both earn back the total energy input into their production within a few years and then deliver complete net energy profit to you and your children - and fully clean. Also no-one is claiming we should replace dirty energy (fossil, nuclear) with only wind turbines. Other renewable resources and smart storage and use can balance the total picture. Have a close look to the Greenpeace / EREC energy [r]evolution scenarios (http://www.energyblueprint.info) how clean and renewable renewable energy sources can meet full energy demand of this planet already this century.
Not only is GregB right that nuclear power hands over a practically unsolvable radioactive waste problem to our children, grandchildren and following generations (and whoever denies that should take a close look at the difficulties facing the radioactive waste programmes in Finland, Sweden, France and Switzerland - the furthest developed ones so far), it not only supports the spread of nuclear weapon technology over the globe, it not only poses a rest-risk for more Chernobyl and Fukushima magnitude catastrophes, it also cannot help solving climate change!
The definitely not anti-nuclear Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD has made similar scenario studies as we did, but on the premise of a four-fold increase of nuclear capacity. Apart from the fact that development of over 30 new nuclear reactors per year for fourty years at a stretch does not look very realistic, even if we put that aside for the moment, nuclear will not reduce more than around 5% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2050 - when the world already needs to be 50% down in order to keep the chance on 2 degrees temperature increase under 50%. Whatever nuclear can deliver is too little, comes too late and is far too expensive.
A renewable and efficiency oriented energy policy, however, can see realistic growth of the needed sources, sees lower costs over the mid and long term than business as usual and most certainly than new nuclear, binds more people into the process with jobs they are educated for and ownership of their energy sources.
If you care for you children, like I do as well, you do not fall for easy arguments from the nuclear industry, but indeed look into the complexity of energy in our society. Then the directions are clear: we need to use energy more efficiently (that's number one) and what we generate we need to generate with sustainable renewable sources. And it can be done.
Whether or not the threats of radiation because of nuclear accidents is a problem or not cannot be derived from global figures, but you should look at the lives of people that have been confronted with such accidents - around Mayak, Chernobyl, Fukushima, maybe also the Marshall Islands, Mururoa, Hiroshima, Nagasaki...
As long as our nuclear engineers are capable of fully controlling the machines with highly concentrated radioisotopes, effects may seem small (though there are indications that there are some effects), the problem is when that control is lost - be it by human or technical fault, natural impacts, or terrorism, sabotage or war. And GregB is right - we do loose often the sight on the risks that nuclear waste, but also uranium mining, pose us to.
Nuclear is not part of the solution - it is inherently part of the problem you are describing...
19 July, 2013 at 13:11
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(Unregistered) Vladimir
France, Sweden, Switzerlad and Ontario shown possibility of electricity production almost without fossil sources and emissions based on combination of...
France, Sweden, Switzerlad and Ontario shown possibility of electricity production almost without fossil sources and emissions based on combination of nuclear and renewable sources. There are no example of country with such low emission electricity production based only on renewable sources. Germany and Denmark produce almost 60 % of electricity by means of fossil sources and more than 40 % of electricity is produced by coal power stations. Last Ontario coal power station will be closed in 2014, Germany build new and new big coal blocks. In 2030 Germany will produce much more fossil electricity than France, Sweden and Ontario today. More about Ontario Green revolution: http://ojs.ujf.cas.cz/~wagner/popclan/English/Nuclear_energy_2012_final_web.htm
19 July, 2013 at 18:40
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Dear Mr. Wagner - I am happy to see that you still follow our work.
What you don't tell is that the examples you use are depending fu...
Dear Mr. Wagner - I am happy to see that you still follow our work.
What you don't tell is that the examples you use are depending fully on an already written off nuclear park, which means they can run it quite cheaply - of course, until it once goes wrong, as Japan has now experienced.
What you also do not refer to is that the grid stability with high inflexible capacity from nuclear reactors in the examples you mention is maintained by 1. large hydro availability, 2. large reliance on (fossil generating) neighbouring markets. At the moment we move to inclusion of a larger amount of variable renewable sources in the mix, inflexible capacity becomes a hindrance to increasing clean energy.
The examples you mention are also facing the dilemma of nuclear plant life time extension (letting technically outdated designs run 40, 50 or even more years, though they were designed for 30 or 40 years), which from the point of view of nuclear risk reduction is not the best. Or these plants should be shut down / phased out. And then what? New nuclear? But that has priced itself out of the market. Or rather a clean and renewable future?
Especially Ontario is not a story of a green revolution. The extreme life-time extension of second generation, positive void-factor, high tritium emitting CANDU reactors, running on highly destructive uranium mining practices in Canada's first nations territories is far from green. And also Ontario already has proven that new nuclear is too expensive.
Concerning the German coal myths that also go around in the Czech Republic, I refer you to our nuclear reaction blog, where the issue is addressed several times: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/
But I am aware I cannot convince you, because you do belong to what in Japan is called "the nuclear village". And I dare to state that the Czech nuclear village is even more closed and dogmatic than the Japanese. For instance by actively excluding any clean, renewable and sustainable energy scenario from state energy strategy decision procedures in the Czech Republic... What are you scared of? Facts?
20 July, 2013 at 16:30
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Dear Mr. Haverkamp. What you mean Germany fossil myths? Is it not true that Germany fossil electricity production share was about 56 % last year and s...
Dear Mr. Haverkamp. What you mean Germany fossil myths? Is it not true that Germany fossil electricity production share was about 56 % last year and share of coal was about 45 %? Is it not true that from 2000 up to 2012 (time of Energiewende) fossil electricity production increased at Germany and decreased by 16 % at Czech Republic? Is it not true that fossil electricity production share was much lower than 10 % at France, Switzerland, Sweden and Ontario? Please, say me example of country with similar share of fossil electricity production with only renewable (not nuclear).
20 July, 2013 at 19:45
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Indeed, Mr. Wagner, electricity production in Germany went slightly up - Germany had a better economy than the Czech Republic. But in the mean time, i...
Indeed, Mr. Wagner, electricity production in Germany went slightly up - Germany had a better economy than the Czech Republic. But in the mean time, it reached record levels of renewable energy sources in its electricity mix and its total emissions of greenhouse gasses went down.
The coal myth I refer to is that Germany would see nuclear replaced with coal, which is not what is happening. The upcoming closure of a considerable amount of coal power stations in 2016 - rendering very low capital costs on the stations and lignite mines - combined with rock-bottom prices for carbon (among others because of the way the Czech Republic and Poland cheated the system), has been used by the large energy producers in Germany to squeeze the last bits out of their oldest coal and lignite plants while exporting the resulting electricity... to countries like France, Switzerland and the Netherlands, for instance. The increase in used coal is a result of market forces, not of the Energiewende or the nuclear phase out. As the Energiewende goes, developments are still on schedule and Germany is going to meet its 2020 targets - that is not my opinion, that is virtual consensus in business Germany.
As you may be aware of (but maybe that information has not reached Řež and Prague), nuclear power is already 60 years on the market - what we call a ripe industry. Renewables have only recently entered the market. To expect similar penetration amounts as nuclear after only 15 years after commercial introduction is maybe a bit overdone, don't you think so? Nevertheless, renewables currently produce more electricity in Germany than nuclear does, even globally they have outcompeted nuclear. Similar numbers as in Germany we see in China (where they only entered the market around 10 years ago)...
With the countries you put forward, I repeat, you present countries that face now the challenge of having to replace their nuclear park because its power stations are old. The question is than what is the wisest way to do that. Economically, environmentally and socially, that is an Energiewende as in Germany. What it will be politically is the decisive question. Will it be the short term interest of some fossil and nuclear barons, or will it be the long term interest of the voters?
20 July, 2013 at 21:21
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Mr. Haverkamp, you are mistaken. Electricity production increased slightly in Germany (by 7 %) but much more (by 20 %) in Czech Republic from 2000 up ...
Mr. Haverkamp, you are mistaken. Electricity production increased slightly in Germany (by 7 %) but much more (by 20 %) in Czech Republic from 2000 up to 2012. Nuclear was partly replaced by renewable but also by fossil in Germany.
You mixed electricity production and total CO2 production. This is clearly not correct.
Considerable part of Germany renewable electricity is produced by hydro power stations and very big production by hydro is in China (many big dams with very big ecology influence). Wind and photovoltaic produce still smaller amount than nuclear.
France, Sweden and also Ontario are preparing construction of new nuclear power stations which will replace present blocks. Electricity from new nuclear power stations is still much cheaper than electricity from photovoltaic and wind power stations in Czech geographical conditions. Stable grid is not possible to obtain with domination of fluctuating renewable.
You still did not show country with small fossil share without nuclear.
20 July, 2013 at 22:41
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(Unregistered) Zamm_
@JH: "High tritium emitting"… you decidedly can't quit scare-mongering. May I suggest you look for (freely available) facts before doing...
@JH: "High tritium emitting"… you decidedly can't quit scare-mongering. May I suggest you look for (freely available) facts before doing so next time?
"To conclude, public radiation doses resulting from the operation of the NPPs are 100 to 1,000 times lower than natural background radiation and there is no evidence of childhood leukemia clusters around the three Ontario NPPs. All cancers for all age groups are well within the natural variation of the disease in Ontario. Thus, radiation is not a plausible explanation for any excess cancers observed within 25 km of any Ontario NPP."
22 July, 2013 at 1:08
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@Zamm_ :-) You seem not to be able to stay away from down-playing problems with nuclear power stations...
CANDU reactors have a factor 20...
@Zamm_ :-) You seem not to be able to stay away from down-playing problems with nuclear power stations...
CANDU reactors have a factor 20 higher tritium emissions than other PWRs and more than a factor 100 higher than BWRs because of the use of heavy water for moderation.
The effects of tritium on health are a long time scientific debating issue, with a recent whitebook from French nuclear regulator ASN recommending to take a more serious look at the effects of tritium and increasing tritium weighing factor in dose calculations:
Tritium is a problem - especially when CANDUs are built on only a few kilometers from towns.
The question is not about leukaemia cluster studies, it is what advice one should give to parents of small children and pregnant women living directly next to CANDU reactors.
I do not find that an easy question.
26 July, 2013 at 18:12
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Dear Mr. Wagner,
I suppose you did not read carefully my remark about Germany's economic growth being stronger than the Czech, but no...
Dear Mr. Wagner,
I suppose you did not read carefully my remark about Germany's economic growth being stronger than the Czech, but not needing as much extra electricity for that... The Czech economy is not efficient in its use of electricity. Germany's electricity output growth in 2012 went more than completely into export. National demand was slightly less than in 2011.
In 2011, solar PV already had the same share in Germany as hydro (3% total mix) (see second pie-chart: http://www.fes-japan.org/?page_id=4273), in 2012, solar PV had a far higher share than hydro. Wind delivers in the mean time already more than triple the hydro delivery in Germany. In 2012, Germany produced more electricity with renewables (mainly solar PV and wind!) than nuclear and the same is true for China. Maybe your data are outdated?
I will be the last one to plead for large dams or support China's existing large dam projects. The Greenpeace / EREC energy [r]evolution scenario does not count with an extension of that.
Some people, institutes and companies still plan new nuclear power in France, Sweden and Ontario. Interesting enough, these do not include EdF, GdF-Suez or Vattenfall. You should not mix the wish of some of your friends with what is really happening in these countries.
Currently wind and solar PV are for political reasons still far too expensive in the Czech Republic - and the current uncertainty in renewable policies you helped develop are not really helping there. But more expensive than Temelin 3,4 with 5000 EUR/kWe or more? Come on, Mr. Wagner, let's stay realistic. See for instance the Temelinomics study of Candole:
I am pretty sure that Temelin 3,4 will not be built, because CEZ will not be able to find the money for it. Unless you return our beautiful country to the centralised planned energy engineers paradise we thought we had left.
A stable grid is possible with a large part variable renewables in it and the Greenpeace energy [r]evolution, as well as Price-Waterhouse-Coopers and McKinsey have several years ago already shown 100% renewable energy systems on European scale are not only possible - they are in the end cheaper and deliver more jobs.
I suppose you misunderstood my point on the history of nuclear and renewables. I tried to make clear that one cannot expect a similar degree of penetration of renewables after a market presence of 15 years compared with nuclear after 60 years - or, if you want in the 1980s, after 30 years. Renewable growing figures outshine the nuclear ones from the early years.
26 July, 2013 at 18:59
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Dear Mr. Haverkampf, the share of nuclear was 15.2 % at Germany during 2012. Share of wind was only 7.2 % (worst than in 2011) and share of photovolta...
Dear Mr. Haverkampf, the share of nuclear was 15.2 % at Germany during 2012. Share of wind was only 7.2 % (worst than in 2011) and share of photovoltaic was 4.6 %. Together wind and solar 11.8 % and still less than nuclear. You are right, that after including hydro and biomass you will have more than nuclear. But it was mainly done by closing of seven reactors. It is clear that after political closing and ban of some energy sources their production should be decreasing :-))
Year 2012 (weather) was excellent for Germany PV but this year is situation much worse. This is also reason why CO2 production by Germany electricity production increased by 12 % during first half of 2013. Germany green revolution and increased CO2 production is excellent example of Greenpeace proposed way :-)) And still 15 % of electricity is produced by nuclear in Germany. What will be after closing of these reactors? We will see.
You still did not show me example of country without nuclear and with small share of fossil. Greenpeace energy [r]evolution is not based on reality, it is only paper. But we will see. Germany will show who is right. I or you. We will see.
28 July, 2013 at 20:10
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Dear Mr. Wagner,
I wrote "mainly by wind and PV"... the other part is indeed biomass. The point is that even without the part hydro - ...
Dear Mr. Wagner,
I wrote "mainly by wind and PV"... the other part is indeed biomass. The point is that even without the part hydro - renewables, *new* renewables!, scored better in Germany in 2012 than nuclear. Also in China.
Your argumentation concerning Germany's CO2 emissions remains flawed, because it does not take into account the by me mentioned developments in the coal fired part of electricity production.
Because Germany's remaining nuclear reactors will be phased-out rather slowly, that will not be a problem at all, given the remaining potential of renewable sources. Different institutes, and Greenpeace, showed over the last years, that Germany could have enforced an even faster phase-out of its nuclear park without harming its emission targets.
The closure of German nuclear reactors was not a "political decision" - the decision by Merkel to give them a longer life-time in 2010 was a political one. The 2011 decision returned to the original phase-out plans, with indeed an earlier closure for eight reactors. These were, however, not closed for party political wrangling, but because of the widely supported conclusion in Germany that accidents cannot be excluded and Germany is no longer prepared to carry that risk. That is a line of thought that may be strange to the Czech debate, it is nevertheless genuine. I sometimes worry that only a large beyond design accident in Temelin or Dukovany can wake the Czech debate out of its provincialism. I sincerely hope that such an accident will never will happen... Also the Czech reality will have to follow the facts on the ground: Temelin 3,4 is too expensive to matter in the debate - what's your plan B?
Talking about the energy [r]evolution scenario and reality: the e[r] scenario has predicted global, European and German renewable developments more adequately over the last 7 years than the IEA World Energy Outlook or other scenarios, which were all a factor 3 to 10 underestimating renewable growth.
We see currently all over Europe a scary fight-back of large electricity: draconian law proposals in Spain to kill its once globally leading renewable industry, attempts to roll back the energy transition in Germany, and not in the last place draconian propaganda and laws in the Czech Republic to kill its renewable industry to enable more nuclear and prolonged coal use. Energy policy is not only about following and seeing what happens. Energy policy is about choosing to develop clean or dirty, sustainable or unsustainable pathways for the future. Why are you choosing and propagating in the Czech Republic the dirty (nuclear waste and coal emissions) and risky (nuclear accidents, proliferation) and more expensive (nuclear) pathway?
29 July, 2013 at 12:42
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Why are You choosing and propagating in reality the dirty (fossil) and more expansive pathway (see not only Germany and Denmark)? And more risky (see...
Why are You choosing and propagating in reality the dirty (fossil) and more expansive pathway (see not only Germany and Denmark)? And more risky (see real comparison of different energy sources).
You did not still show me example of country with small share of fossil electricity production and without nuclear.
Situation in Spain, Germany and also Czech is only reaction on reality that photovoltaic and wind sources are much expansive and problems with their fluctuations.
Germany nuclear phase out was political decision of Red-Green coalition.
30 July, 2013 at 21:03
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Dear Mr. Wagner, I continue to find it peculiar to hear from someone who is vice-president of a Czech government Commission formulating an energy poli...
Dear Mr. Wagner, I continue to find it peculiar to hear from someone who is vice-president of a Czech government Commission formulating an energy policy based on continued large scale use of coal and expanding nuclear capacity while at the same time killing off one of the success stories of renewable energy growth in Europe to accuse an organisation that came with well calculated energy [r]evolution scenarios (also for the Czech Republic) of choosing the dirty and more expensive pathway... But that is Czech reality, I am afraid. Why did you refuse a clean scenario in your deliberations?
Just for your information: the current nuclear phase-out in Germany is supported by a majority of the German citizens, and by all but one party in the Bundestag.
1 August, 2013 at 18:33
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Reality is completely different than your description. The fossil electricity production decreased significantly in the Czech republic during last ten...
Reality is completely different than your description. The fossil electricity production decreased significantly in the Czech republic during last ten years. The different situation is in the Germany. The fossil electricity increased in this country. The Czech proposed energy policy supposes further very significant decreasing of the fossil electricity production. Much bigger than it is assumed to be real in the Germany. France, Sweden show that the Czech way is right and realizable. You did not show me up to now example of realized non fossil electricity production based on Greenpeace Germany model. The Greenpeace scenarios are only unrealistic paper Fantasy (not even SF).
I know that nuclear phase-out in Germany is supported by a majority of the German citizens. I only said that this phase-out was political decision (not based on ecological and economical facts). Especially Germany knows that sometimes a majority of citizens supports completely bad and destructive solution.
2 August, 2013 at 19:41
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Dear Mr. Wagner,
I know you can have a long breath discussing.
Indeed, the demise of much of its heavy industry led to some lower energy i...
Dear Mr. Wagner,
I know you can have a long breath discussing.
Indeed, the demise of much of its heavy industry led to some lower energy intensity in the Czech Republic - but its CO2 emission reduction is heavily dampened by the hand-out of free emission credits to CEZ and other heavy polluters and the consequent ruin of the carbon market on EU level.
A claim that your proposed energy strategy would turn the Czech Republic on a decarbonisation track would not be a question of interpretation - it would be a complete lie, wouldn't it. Again: why did your Commission refuse a clean energy scenario? Why did you conclude it would be irrealistic before you did one single calculation? And what is your plan B if Temelin 3,4 (two planned nuclear reactors) will not be build because they will be too expensive? More fossil, I suppose? I forgot - there is no plan B...
If you would ever take the time to listen to arguments, you'd have known that the initial German nuclear phase-out decision as well as the current valid one are based on rigorous model calculations - I have given you the sources for that already years ago. Economic development, social developments and environment all play a role in those. Also ethical discussions about risk evaluation... discussions we *never* see in the public debate in the Czech Republic.
Let's see what the paper phantasies are in this world: on one side your proposals - the wish to construct Temelin 3,4 and on top of that another three or more nuclear power stations in the Czech Republic, your claim to decarbonise CZ while allowing new coal power stations and breaking the legal limits set to lignite mining in the Czech Republic, on the other side the growth of renewable energy sources in the energy [r]evolution scenario.
> You did not show me up to now example of realized non fossil
> electricity production based on Greenpeace Germany model.
I argued twice above that it is not reasonable to expect a middle large to larger economy already having clean energy penetration on the basis of an energy [r]evolution scenario approach comparable with French (or Czech) nuclear energy penetration, because the r[e] approach is less than 15 years old. But the introduction of renewables in Germany, Denmark, Portugal and others do show that it can be done. Your request to me ("show me an example...") is fundamentally flawed - your argumentation is manipulative.
And it is dead wrong as well: Sweden and France are looking at ways to reduce their dependency on nuclear power, while taking decarbonisation a lot more seriously than you and your Commission - discussions in those countries are about the speed, not the end-goal. I do not see that in the Czech Republic. You are either fooled by others, or you are fooling yourself.
Just to make you understand: the energy [r]evolution scenario is not a Greenpeace Germany model. It is a a scenario modeling exercise that is carried out by a modeling giant - the German Institute for Aeronautics and Space (DLR), and Ecofys for Greenpeace (not Greenpeace Germany, but Greenpeace - and that includes many countries as well as Greenpeace International) and EREC. If you'd have read it, you'd not make that mistake, I suppose...
5 August, 2013 at 15:16
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Mr. Haverkanpf, you are liar. You well know that decreasing of fossil electricity production in the Czech republic is not connected with heavy industr...
Mr. Haverkanpf, you are liar. You well know that decreasing of fossil electricity production in the Czech republic is not connected with heavy industry. The electricity production increased by 20 % during last 12 years in Czech republic (the increasing in Germany was only 7 %). The fossil
electricity production decreased by 16 % in Czech republic during last 12 years and the Germany fossil electricity production slightly increased (by 1 %) during last 12 years. It is completely nonsense to discuss with you. You do not discuss facts.
5 August, 2013 at 21:57
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Thank you, Mr. Wagner, for pointing out where the problems are. Debates with "liars" with funny difficult to spell names telling "nonse...
Thank you, Mr. Wagner, for pointing out where the problems are. Debates with "liars" with funny difficult to spell names telling "nonsense" must be very tedious. Why would one look further than what seemed to work in the last century? Just for clarity sake: we have both brought facts to the discussion, but we looked to them from different perspectives. You brought the fact that some countries with lowest CO2 emissions per MWh electricity production are ones with more than 50% nuclear in their mix. I brought the fact that we see clean alternatives growing, real time, on the ground and on an ever expanding scale, and we do not need dangerous nuclear which could only deliver marginal relief from greenhouse gas emissions anyway - and that against a far too high price. I also pointed out the fact that the currently discussed Czech energy strategy, which is proposed by the Commission you are vice-charing, is not driven by the need for decarbonisation and will not deliver on that.
The central question is where we need to go in the light of climate change, increasing poverty gaps, rampant loss of biodiversity and other challenges facing our planet. Do we continue with business as usual for the benefit of a few and a short time-horizon for consequences (as your Paces Commission is more or less proposing), or do we use our creativity to face those challenges for the benefit of all - creative but realistic and factual?
6 August, 2013 at 12:00
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I noticed my last response that included links to greenpeace exe's salaries was removed. It's funny that greenpeace is now sensoring challenge...
I noticed my last response that included links to greenpeace exe's salaries was removed. It's funny that greenpeace is now sensoring challenges to their purpose. Jan - you've completely lost credability now.
22 July, 2013 at 16:10
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22 July, 2013 at 16:30
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(Unregistered) Moosenl
Modern Liquid Fluoride Thorium reactors are our energy suppliers of the future.
Old skool nuclear reactors from the last century should be banne...
Modern Liquid Fluoride Thorium reactors are our energy suppliers of the future.
Old skool nuclear reactors from the last century should be banned, just as wind energy.
18 July, 2013 at 12:02
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@Moosenl - Why would one ban wind energy, when it already delivers clean and renewable energy now? Because of nuclear industry backed NIMBY campaigns ...
@Moosenl - Why would one ban wind energy, when it already delivers clean and renewable energy now? Because of nuclear industry backed NIMBY campaigns instead of solid scientific evidence?
What you call modern reactors have not come into commercial operation yet and are unlikely to do so before 2030, if ever. If we want to tackle climate change, we'd better concentrate on the technologies that have been proven but not developed their full potential and not run after myths of reactors that for the time being technically still need to be proven but already have been proven to be screamingly expensive.
By the way, are you in any way related to a commenter called prismsuk?
19 July, 2013 at 13:22
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(Unregistered) Genyu
I think NY times need to care more about the latest news from North Korea.
A Russian press, Interfax, alerted that Youngbyon Nuclear Comp...
I think NY times need to care more about the latest news from North Korea.
A Russian press, Interfax, alerted that Youngbyon Nuclear Complex can cause a real disaster several times more severe than Chernobyl things, the historical biggest nuclear disaster.
Even though the Russia's warning that built the Complex in the 60s' and the international concern about the facilities, North Korea is beginning to re-operate it recently.
The U.S., Russa, China & Japan should cooperate to stop North Korea's reckless behavior only to threat its neighboring countries. Time is running out.
The cub dictator, Kim Jong-un, is not prudent enough to consider the result of the nuclear mischief. Further more, a U.S official started to refer to the North Korea as one of the states with nuclear weapons.
All the circumstances are making the global citizens worry about the terror of the nuclear disaster from North Korea.
24 September, 2013 at 12:36
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(Unregistered) Kim Jong-un
Russia warns of 'catastrophe' if North Korea restarts reactor
AFP Sep 12, 2013, 05.41PM IST
Russia on Thursday warned of a ...
Russia warns of 'catastrophe' if North Korea restarts reactor
AFP Sep 12, 2013, 05.41PM IST
Russia on Thursday warned of a potential "man-made catastrophe" if North Korea restarts an ageing plutonium reactor to boost its stockpile of nuclear weapons, after US experts spotted steam rising from the Yongbyon facility.
The reactor, which was completed in 1986, is outdated and North Korea could suffer a major disaster if it is restarted, a Russian diplomatic source told the Interfax news agency.
24 September, 2013 at 13:10
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HTTrack is an easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the mirrored Web site in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. WebHTTrack is a Web-based GUI for HTTrack.
lftp is a sophisticated command line based file transfer program. Supported protocols include FTP, HTTP, SFTP, and FISH. It has a multithreaded design allowing you to issue and execute multiple commands simultaneously or in the background. It also features mirroring capabilities and will reconnect and continue transfers in the event of a disconnection. Also, if you quit the program while transfers are still in progress, it will switch to nohup mode and finish the transfers in the background. Additional protocols supported: FTP over HTTP proxy, HTTPS and FTP over SSL, BitTorrent protocol. IPv6 is fully supported. There are lots of tunable parameters, including rate limitation, number of connections limitation and more.
rsync is a replacement for rcp (and scp) that has many more features. It uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand.
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Originally Posted by Eagles987: Celtics -9 for 3 Units
Man you're getting taken!
what u got 4 ncaab
For those of you keeping score at home instead of just trying to sound witty saying the same joke a different way, he ended up over +5 units... but he opened up with a dumb claim, because, like someone said before me, if you don't see this coming, then its on your lack of intellegence when you take offense.
Now, as for your one night sample--- heres why you are REALLY FULL OF garbage- by stating $100 unit play at parlay, you made that your unit. so you have to stick by that unit in your Portland money line for 10 units, or $1000... on a ML bet on a team that was -7.5 (coverrs)...Meaning you would have to lay about$4500 to grab that unit at the end of the night to try and sweep up (before the Portland game, you were looking @ -5.6 units).
I'll take this Colombo garbage one step further- MY GUESS IS you are regurgitating purchased information from a place like Winning With Todays Action, or a capper that suggests large ML plays that take upwards of 40 to 50 units to bet.
You see, Eagle, most people see this... I just took the time to type it out. Sound like a hater? if so, ya need to fix your hearing... facts with a pretty educated guess my friend.
my bad, about $3700... point is, instead of opening with just, I AM 45-4, when you imply you want people to follow you, it'd be wise to notify them that you are willing to lay $5k money line bets to chase your losses... at the very least, thats what you ended up doing...
NOW- if you stated all that first, and kept this up for a few weeks, not suffering a heavy fav ML play along the way, it would probably stand 100 fold more legit that your opening claim....
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I'm probably going to have to respond to those reviews at a later time, but thanks to the awesomeness of both of you. :D
Also, Absol, I'm just going to say right here and now that I lol'd.
Aaaanyway, the Christmas special! Funny thing about that, actually. (Besides the fact that I'm not actually Christian and don't normally celebrate Christmas to begin with.) See, most of the volunteers failed to respond after volunteering, one of my voice actors couldn't finish her recordings, and my sound editor (and Bill's voice actor) is currently suffering from severely limited computer time. As a result, the only files I have are a handful of clips of the full play. I may post the play itself (as opposed to the audio file) if people request it, but if not, it may be salvaged for next year. Or whenever. Who knows?
In the meantime, I wrote and recorded a couple of other things for you instead. The first is the following skit, and the second is something that was requested forever and a day ago by a handful of people here.
Because the file size actually exceeds... every sane limitation this forum has to offer, I've not only put both recordings in a handy ZIP file but also plopped everything down on an external site.
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VALENTINEHi, folks! JX Valentine, your friendly neighborhood author here with a special holiday treat for you. And it's going to be really great! There's going to be singing and dancing, and Bill and Thom are going to get drunk at some point, and
LANETTEHold on. Hold on. Wait just a second.
VALENTINEUh, oh hey, Lanette! What's going on?
LANETTENone of this is in the script.
VALENTINE laughs nervously.
VALENTINEFunny you should mention that.
LANETTEYou didn't finish, did you?
VALENTINEOh, come now! It's really hard organizing an entire cast to do your dirty work, and God help you if you think I should do it by myself. Nobody should be subject to my fake English accent.
LANETTESo instead you half-ass it by doing just one skit with all of the characters you were going to voice yourself in the full play.
VALENTINEUh, yeah, pretty much.
LANETTEYou do realize, don't you, that this isn't going to work, right? We have the same voice, and Domino's is just ridiculous.
DOMINOHow is my voice ridiculous?
LANETTEObnoxious, then.
VALENTINEWell, we've got to do something for the Christmas special, shouldn't we? I mean, we said we were all going to, and the only clip we have of the other actors is the file where all the guys demonstrate holiday-themed pickup lines. (pause) Actually, maybe I should post that file.
LANETTEIf you post a file of Bill and me in a situation that can be remotely construed as romantic, I will castrate him.
VALENTINEIsn't that misaimed retribution? Anyway, okay, so we've got barely half a cast, no gags, no special effects, and most importantly, no time. What do we do now?
DOMINOAdmit that you're lazy and failed completely at as simple a task as organizing a group of people to complete a project on time?
VALENTINEUm, no, because that would be admitting that I'm not the textbook definition of perfection. I mean, come on! Next, you'll be suggesting that I should break the fourth -- wait a minute. (beat) Never mind. Point is, I feel really bad that we didn't make it in the end. The play was going to be great. There were musical numbers and sound gags and lots of romantic subtext
LANETTEAs I've said, I will castrate him.
VALENTINEHonestly, I would be entertained if you did. But seriously, I guess this time could be used to talk about all the things that we hope to do in the next year. New year's resolutions and all that jazz. After all, the holidays are a time of peace, love, and renewal, so actually, I have no idea what that has to do with anything, but anyway, Lanette, how about you? What do you hope to do next year?
LANETTEEradicate the ixodida threat and prevent their genocide against humankind.
(There's a significant pause here.)
VALENTINEWell, that's perky. So how about you, Domino?
DOMINOOh, you know, the usual. Exercise more, kick a few bad habits, capture more rare pokémon to advance Team Rocket's cause of taking over the world, and maybe learn how to play the guitar! How about you, Jax?
VALENTINEMe? Oh, I hope to finish up the first book of AEM, actually. And man, have I got plans for you. See, at the end, it turns out
LANETTEValentine, weren't you thinking about doing something else?
VALENTINEHuh? What do you mean?
LANETTEI found this old clip of you reading the prologue in another folder.
VALENTINEHey! That thing! I forgot all about that! Actually that's not a bad idea! I could clean that up and post it, and people will be none the wiser about the whole "failing at organizing a cast to do a holiday audio drama" thing! You're brilliant, Lanette! No wonder Bill's secretly obsessed with you!
LANETTEThat's it. He's getting castrated.
VALENTINEMan, that's a relief. And here I was all worked up because I thought people would find out about how we did this entire skit at the last minute and couldn't produce the real audio drama! Now we can throw this clip out, and nobody would actually have to find out about this!
DOMINO (suspiciously)Yeah nobody
VALENTINEAnyway, I've got a lot of work to do. This reading isn't bad, but it needs a lot of work before it can be posted. So anyway, happy holidays, and see you later, Domino!
DOMINOYup! See you later! (lowers her voice) Sucker.
VALENTINEHuh? Did you say something?
DOMINOUh, I said, "See you later, Santa!" 'Cause, it's, like, the end of Christmas. Get it?
VALENTINEUh yeah. Sure. (lowers her voice) Man, she's weird.


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Nationwide chief executive Graham Beale also called for the Bank of England to delay taking any action to cool the market for fear it could hit still-subdued price levels outside London.
Mr Beale made the remarks as the lender reported record underlying pre-tax annual profits which more than doubled to £924 million as gross mortgage lending rose 31% to £28.1 billion.
He said the record profits haul was not a one-off and the business was "firing on all cylinders".
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Mr Beale said there were no plans to follow rival lender Lloyds in introducing a loan-to-income cap on those looking to borrow more than £500,000.
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Policy makers have already withdrawn the Funding for Lending scheme - designed to boost flagging borrowing - from the housing market. Meanwhile, new mortgage rules introduced last month mean buyers are probed in more detail about affordability.
Mr Beale said: "I would allow the housing market to go through its cycle. We have had a lot of things going on and I think it's important to allow that to consolidate and then take decisions as necessary."
Nationwide's results for the year to April 4 show it helped 58,100 first-time buyers, a 37% increase, while more than 430,000 new current accounts were opened, a rise of 18% on last year. Deposit balances grew by £4.9 billion.
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