mirko22

Absolutely, but Balkan is a weird place, you have to remember that in Yugoslavia, whatever people might say about it, people still lived together for over 40 years even though they all wanted to kill each other afterwards. So miracles can happen on Balkan, but it doesn’t need to be the one you hope for.

In my opinion this is a great experiment. And if it acutely works, surrounding countries will not be happy as it will give their people a good role model so new Serbian government might have extra pressure from the outside that they might not have had in the past.

At least it will be interesting few years in Balkan in any case, at least for us here.

I feel most comments in this thread do not really understand what Vućiċ regime was.

Google Aleksandar Vućiċ Voja Nevolja meat grinder…

Vučiċ is successor of people that assassinated Zoran Ðinďić, a Serbian prime minister. Basically drugs and arms dealers from either mafia, secret service or special forces.

Even if this government ends up being corrupt the level of moral lows they would need to hit to reach previous regime is staggering.

So people justifiably think it can’t get worse… but that only the time will tell…

Can you elaborate why they would need more police to ban cash?

What makes you think that card comapnies/steam scandal wouldn’t happen with digital euro. EU could easily put some constraints on money usage and they wouldn’t need to justify it to anyone…

And the hostility probably come from experience with EU that makes decisions solely in interest of politicians and corporations instead of EU citizens in my opinion.

Proof of what?

How is this BS? Where is democracy in Von der Leyen making deal with USA for example, who voted for that?

Most of the representatives there are local tokens that are there to pull EU money in the pockets of their parties.

EU is artificial state made only out of interest of political elites.

As far as I know, in the 50ies the molten salt reactors where researched exactly with long range airplanes in mind.

My point is that for decades we didn’t invest enough into nuclear research in fear of nuclear weapons that all we are doing now is trying to put a band aid on the severed hand.

But maybe I just read too much Assimov…

We could have had nuclear airplanes and clean nuclear energy decades ago but here we are burning coal to power our EVs and acting like air traveling is something to be ashamed of…

Jokes aside, I don’t see how this should work, people with lowest income wont be able to travel yet everyone else will Pay the ticket and go on their marry way. People pay 20$ to select the seat, they will pay 20 more in some made up tax to get where they want to go…

Cos some people care about birds?

How does eating meat factor into this?

So are people, yet we are afraid of nuclear power…

In my opinion and experience, which might not mean much, people react well to addiction therapy while undergoing it. Usually cos they are engaged in non usual processes in their life.

As soon as they return they their usual life old habits kick in.

Only way to have similar lifestyle and drop addiction from it is to dig deep and understand why you have those habits to start with.

You have to replace the triggers for usual behaviour and this is extremely hard for learned behaviours.

To the extent that those who do it, let’s say by doing sport, actually become addicted to sport if they manage to change their original behaviour.

Sadly I think addiction is a psychological process induced by ones state of life.

Most addition therapies work well while a person is engaged in it but as soon as the person comes back to their old life style it comes back.

You need to change your life to change the habits otherwise is near impossible unless you have very strong willpower, which most people with addiction don’t.

So it cheaper and faster to build, however I still see no solution for base loads and land usage, which as far as i can tell nuclear is a minute fraction of land usage as opposed to solar and specially wind. Some estimates put this at 1/400 for nuclear vs solar and 1/2000.vs wind where nuclear produces constant power supply as opposed to “renewables”.

So there seems to be natural bounds as to how much these can grow and how much land surface they take and thus damage.

Plus, we haven’t put as nearly as much time last 30 years coming up with better nuclear devices as we did in renewables.

So even if you are right about the current prices I don’t see that as a nuclear problem but populist problem, since people are scared of nuclear waste but seem to be ok with destroying the marine and land habitats.

Hey, let’s wait for another decade and see where it takes us.

What do you mean by poor learning effects?

I was assuming that by history mean nuclear is not safe so I brought up coal.

From the sources I can find it shows nuclear being as expensive as offshore wind.

And I can’t find any sources on how expensive is to store energy produced by solar to provide base loads over night…