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Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Cao Ni Ma posted:

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/biden-france-spat-over-sub-deal-gone-bad-isn-t-ncna1279846

Liberal media trying to make the case that actually it was France's fault of not meeting some arbitrary requirements set by the US to defend Australia's ability to trade against its largest trade partner.

I just like how it went from a 40 billion deal with Japan, to a 65 billion deal with France, to a 90 billion deal with USA now

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0XQ1FC

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A Jupiter
Apr 25, 2010

Agrajag posted:

have you actually even talked to a chinese person?? i can guarantee none of us refer to ourselves as descendants of dragons you loving idiot


don't speak for all of us please

this is my mom

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

Cao Ni Ma posted:

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/biden-france-spat-over-sub-deal-gone-bad-isn-t-ncna1279846

Liberal media trying to make the case that actually it was France's fault of not meeting some arbitrary requirements set by the US to defend Australia's ability to trade against its largest trade partner.

idk it doesn’t seem like spiraling costs and continual delays are all that arbitrary

Lostconfused posted:

I just like how it went from a 40 billion deal with Japan, to a 65 billion deal with France, to a 90 billion deal with USA now

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0XQ1FC

it was originally a 32 billi deal with France

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!
https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1440018193066590213

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019


gently caress Lithuania

https://twitter.com/Observers/status/1440745208895918080?s=20

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

this is also literally a plot between right wing xenophobes in Lithuania and the fash running Belarus to try to force a 'crisis', literally nobody can believe anything they're saying.

CaptainACAB
Sep 14, 2021

by Jeffrey of Langley
Is Lithuania the one with statues commemorating the SS or is that Latvia?

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

CaptainACAB posted:

Is Lithuania the one with statues commemorating the SS or is that Latvia?

also Canada has a memorial to the SS as well.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

CaptainACAB posted:

Is Lithuania the one with statues commemorating the SS or is that Latvia?

idk about Latvia but this does sound like classic Lithuania

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...war-crimes.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/how-chicago-teacher-sparked-memory-war-forcing-lithuania-confront-its-n1262889

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/opinion/jonas-noreika-lithuania-nazi-collaborator.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48186346

I look down on this pitiable nation.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/NATO/status/884769177906675712?s=19
https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1344275154256486400?s=19

platzapS
Aug 4, 2007

China prepares to test thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor

Nature posted:

The reactor is unusual in that it has molten salts circulating inside it instead of water. It has the potential to produce nuclear energy that is relatively safe and cheap, while also generating a much smaller amount of very long-lived radioactive waste than conventional reactors.

Construction of the experimental thorium reactor in Wuwei, on the outskirts of the Gobi Desert, was due to be completed by the end of August — with trial runs scheduled for this month, according to the government of Gansu province.

quote:

Operated by the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), the Wuwei reactor is designed to produce just 2 megawatts of thermal energy, which is only enough to power up to 1,000 homes. But if the experiments are a success, China hopes to build a 373-megawatt reactor by 2030, which could power hundreds of thousands of homes.

quote:

When China switches on its experimental reactor, it will be the first molten-salt reactor operating since 1969, when US researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee shut theirs down. And it will be the first molten-salt reactor to be fuelled by thorium. Researchers who have collaborated with SINAP say the Chinese design copies that of Oak Ridge, but improves on it by calling on decades of innovation in manufacturing, materials and instrumentation.

quote:

Yoshioka says many countries are working on molten-salt reactors — to generate cheaper electricity from uranium or to use waste plutonium from light-water reactors as fuel — but China alone is attempting to use thorium fuel.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008


Wait, why would Kaiserreich devs name their stuff after this?

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Lostconfused posted:

Wait, why would Kaiserreich devs name their stuff after this?

Because they're morons, OP.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!
https://twitter.com/roun_sa_ville/status/1441115436729319430

Kind of surprised we don't have a base in Lithuania.

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
✔️✔️✔️✔️
Well to be fair, those bases are more accurately described as dachas rather than facilities with actual military value.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Lostconfused posted:

Wait, why would Kaiserreich devs name their stuff after this?

Go ask their subreddit

Red and Black
Sep 5, 2011

https://twitter.com/business/status/1441332992975065093

OH gently caress OH poo poo!!!

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

whomp whomp

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


I PALM SLAM MY MARCH OF THE VOLUNTEERS POWER MIX CASSETTE. I DO THE "CHAIRMAN-STYLE" DANCE MOVES

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

what the hell china has thorium reactors now :psyduck:

chinese scientists are going to announce fusion power is 10 years away, then in ten years they will actually unveil the first power plant

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

sürgünden selamlar
yıkıcılar ulusuna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeKFrURQPhA

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


Rutibex posted:

what the hell china has thorium reactors now :psyduck:

chinese scientists are going to announce fusion power is 10 years away, then in ten years they will actually unveil the first power plant

wtf missed on this one too

if they pull it off holy poo poo holy gently caress

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010




Thank you Chairman Xi.

GoLambo
Apr 11, 2006

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Thank you Chairman Xi.

Also genuinely almost hopeful about that thorium reactor news.

Sedisp
Jun 20, 2012


Chairman Xi my planet of Earth yearns for less than 2c of warming.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
But if China bans crypto what are they gonna use all that energy on

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
thank you President Xi

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


gradenko_2000 posted:

But if China bans crypto what are they gonna use all that energy on

one word, gradenko.

socialism

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

dead gay comedy forums posted:

one word, gradenko.

socialism

now, I believe it

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!

indigi posted:

thank you President Xi

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

indigi posted:

thank you President Xi

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

indigi posted:

thank you President Xi

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Rutibex posted:

what the hell china has thorium reactors now :psyduck:

chinese scientists are going to announce fusion power is 10 years away, then in ten years they will actually unveil the first power plant

China has discovered the forgotten communist cheat code of 'actually giving funding and resources to scientific research'

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

dead gay comedy forums posted:

wtf missed on this one too

if they pull it off holy poo poo holy gently caress

Pretty sure thorium reactors were more or less figured out in the 80ies. Actually building them for electricity production is still impressive, but it's far off from fusion.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

indigi posted:

thank you President Xi

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


genericnick posted:

Pretty sure thorium reactors were more or less figured out in the 80ies. Actually building them for electricity production is still impressive, but it's far off from fusion.

nevertheless, anything that makes nuclear energy more viable/better is a spectacular win

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indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

genericnick posted:

Pretty sure thorium reactors were more or less figured out in the 80ies. Actually building them for electricity production is still impressive, but it's far off from fusion.

molten salt reactors were “figured out” in the 80s in the sense that a few tiny test ones were built and never iterated upon, I don’t think thorium had even been tried until this century

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