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Comment by Willem Post on November 14, 2024 at 1:06pm

Two of the most RINO senators, who can be counted on to obstruct, as much as possible, the Trump team agenda to MAGA.

Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 14, 2024 at 11:39am

RINO Senators Murkowski and Collins Say They Will Not Vote for Matt Gaetz After Supporting Devil-in-a-Suit Merrick Garland in 2021
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/here-we-go-rino-senators-m...

Comment by Willem Post on November 14, 2024 at 9:07am

A Program for a Greater America with a Much Smaller Federal Government

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/a-program-for-a-greate...

by Willem Post

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After winning in 2016, Trump was a political neophyte stepping into the lion’s den of the Obama-leaning federal bureaucracy 

Some of his “best” advisors/aides turned out to be not his soul mates, and/or were two-faced, some were Deep State creatures.

When his high-level advisors, with their own agendas, could not control him, as they do Biden/Harris, they undermined him. Pompeo and Haley come to mind

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/neo-cons-not-welcome-trump-publ....

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Trump is a creative developer/builder, a mover and shaker, as was his father, as are his sons, as are Musk, RFK, jr., Ramaswamy, etc.

The US and World needs such people near the top. 

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The Extent of the 2020 Election Fraud, by the Numbers

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The table shows ballots counted in recent Presidential Elections.

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In 2016, Democrats were caught flatfooted, because they thought a politically naive Trump was a joke, who would easily be defeated by well-known, Party-stalwart Hillary, so no additional precautions/cheating was thought necessary.

Much to Democrat surprise and dismay, Trump greatly outperformed, and, incredibly, Hillary lost. She still is not "over it"

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In 2020, the Democrat Party had taken “never-again” precautions.

Five swing states illegally stopped ballot-counting at about 10 PM on Election night, to take stock.

Trump had massive leads in these states at 10 PM on Election night

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After ballot-counting supervisors were sent home at 10 PM, more than 15 million filled-in ballots magically appeared from all over the place, for several days, to pad Biden’s numbers. The aim was to get Biden-in-the basement over the hump.

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In Georgia, ballot-counting supervisors were sent home at 10 PM. They had been told the counting was stopped, to give people some rest, to be resumed the next day. 

When people had left the counting space, new ballot-counting people appeared.

Suitcases with filled-in ballots had been hidden under tables shrouded with black cloths.

They were rolled to counting stations, where each ballot was run multiple times through tabulators.

Initially, all was denied

However, someone had forgotten to turn off the CCTV system, which recorded all actions from multiple angles.

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The Media were in full collusion/justification mode to portray Biden-in-the-basement as a vote-getting miracle, and Trump as a heinous villain.

Terms like Hitler/Nazi/KKK sympathizer, Deluded, Dishonest, Xenophobic, Narcissistic. etc., were bandied about.

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In 2024, even after intensive DOJ lawfare, Trump did even better than in 2020

Joyful Harris, with a lot of help/hype from the Media and Celebrities, did better than Hillary in 2016.

However, she was still a far cry from the puffed-up numbers of Biden in 2020.

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Why did about 15 million 2020-Biden voters decide not vote for Harris in 2024?

These voters were enthusiastic about Biden in 2020, but did not bother to vote for Harris in 2024?

The more likely explanation is, 10 million Biden ballots were manufactured and injected into the counting process by the Democrat ballot-counting machine.

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Despite massive mudslinging by domestic and foreign Media, and US DOJ lawfare, Trump won by a landslide in 2024.

The American people finally took revenge for the insults of the past 4 years

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https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/a-program-for-a-greate...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election

https://x.com/NEWSMAX/status/1854563321447354404

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Year	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020	2024
Dem	59,028,444	69,498,516	65,915,795	65,853,514	81,283,501	72,461,643
Rep	62,040,610	59,948,323	60,933,504	62,984,828	74,223,975	75,603,104
Total	121,069,054	129,446,839	126,849,299	128,838,342	155,507,476	148,064,747

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Earlier ballot totals were:

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	Harris	Trump	Total	Harris	Trump	Trump margin
5-Nov	68,092,002	72,747,033	140,839,035	Added/d	Added/d	4,655,031
6-Nov	69,076,028	73,407,934	142,483,962	984,026	660,901	4,331,906
7-Nov	69,787,851	74,263,826	144,051,677	711,823	855,892	4,475,975
8-Nov	70,422,511	74,347,879	144,770,390	634,660	84,053	3,925,368
9-Nov	70,916,946	74,650,754	145,567,700	494,435	302,875	3,733,808
10-Nov	70,979,779	74,708,357	145,688,136	62,833	57,603	3,728,578
11-Nov	71,260,726	74,848,942	146,109,668	280,947	140,585	3,588,216
12-Nov	71,923,471	75,169,068	147,092,539	662,745	320,126	3,245,597
13-Nov	72,461,643	75,603,104	148,064,747	538,172	434,036	3,141,461
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Each day, Harris is credited with more additional ballots than Trump

The longer counting goes on, the smaller the Trump margin; erasing Trump margin after polls closed!!

How can Harris, the loser, get more ballets added each day after the polls closed?

Those winning ballots likely are inserted by hook and crock, while no one is looking!

Harris did not benefit from the Democrat cheat machine in 2024, because:

 

• No pandemic lockdown
• Thousands of Republican lawyers, etc., watching for ballot fraud
• The race was not even close, thus large-scale cheating would have been too obvious
• World salad, joyful Harris for President…REALLY?

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Trump Winning in 2024; Democrats in a Frenzied Meltdown

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US and EU Corporate media lied about US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, which is why many Democrats now find his victory so shocking

For anyone, whether in America or other countries, who finds Trump’s victory shocking, they should re-consider where they get their information. Was it from biased sources?

Almost all US and EU media pushed a completely false reality.

They used their Media resources to deceive Democrats, which will backfire in the end.

No bad deed goes unpunished, nor should it!

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Democrat Patronage Machine: Climate legislation, climate policy are words bandied about by Democrats, but, in reality, this is money-grabbing legislation to feed the Democrat patronage machine.

It is in vogue to hang the climate label on those laws to deceive the people, because that wasteful spending added to the bloated federal deficit has not one iota of effect on the climate, and Democrats and RINOs know it.

 

Musk will try to cut a lot of spending out of the federal budget

Democrats are more afraid of Musk than of Trump, because the 50 years of patronage BS, that has enriched the grifting/grafting Biden, Inc. types, will be grossly curtailed.

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Kamala Harris a Flawed Campaigner Far Worse than Hillary Clinton

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A prosecutor is either out to get people to build her/his portfolio of cases for career purposes, or to make deals with lawyers to get people not or lightly convicted, for political purposes. 

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Harris, 30, inexperienced, controllable, hitched her body to a 60-y-old, married, Willie Brown, negro LA mayor, to use his political machine to rise in politics in dysfunctional California, which Vermont, etc., are using as a role model.

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Harris (dysfunctional “border czar”)/Walz (tampons in boys’ bathrooms; stolen valor) are puppets, as are Biden/Harris (open-borders, huge deficit-spending, inflation), wars.

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Biden, campaigned from his basement in 2020, a 45-y fixture in DC, was finally removed as a broken puppet in 2024, because he could not manage a teleprompter, or a press conference, or a debate, or a set of stairs, or a bicycle, already for several years.

The Democrat party elite summarily replaced him with Harris, who had received no primary votes.

However, after a joyful beginning, and celebrities chiming in, she has proven herself even less capable than Biden.

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The Trump/Vance team is the Much Better Choice for America

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Someone recently asked me why I like Trump.

My answer was, I do not like a lot of things about Trump and Harris, but the Trump/Vance team is the much better choice for America.

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However, this election is not about choosing the most likable, or joyful, or celebrity-loved person.

This election is about voting between two vastly different ideologies.

This election is about voting for the country we want to leave our children and grandchildren.

The Trump/Vance team represents that future and has proven that they can deliver.

Some are former Democrats, who became Republicans. All are patriots to the core.

Trump, a former New York Democrat, served his country for 4 years without pay.

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When someone says: “I cannot believe you are voting for Trump”. I simply reply, “I am voting for the Trump/Vance team.”

I am voting for the First Amendment and Freedom of Speech.

I am voting for the right to speak my opinion and not be censored.

I am voting for secure borders and LEGAL immigration.

I am voting for election integrity to include mandatory, unforgeable, voter ID, everyone voting on Election Day (make it a National Holiday with Pay), no machines, only hand counting, as is done in almost all European countries, where final results are known within days.

I am voting for the Second Amendment and my right to defend my life and my family.

I am voting for the police to be respected and funded once again.

I am voting for law & order and an end to allowing protesters to trespass and burn our cities, destroying innocent small businesses. (Tim Walz)

I am voting for personal responsibility and the end of the revolving door where criminals are being put back on the streets (Kamala Harris)

I am voting for the next Supreme Court Justice(s) to protect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I am voting for a return of our troops from foreign countries and the end of America’s involvement in foreign conflicts.

I am voting for the Electoral College and for the Republic in which we live.

I am voting for the continued appointment of Federal Judges who respect/uphold the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I am voting for keeping our jobs to remain in America and not be outsourced all over the world – to China, Mexico, Canada, Europe, Asia, and other foreign countries.

I am voting for doing away with all of the freebies given to the illegals and not providing for the needs of the American citizens and homeless veterans beset by natural disasters (FEMA has no money, because FEMA spent it to fly and coddle illegals from all over to the US).

I am voting for the military & the veterans who fought for this country

I am voting to keep men out of women’s sports and tampons out of boy’s bathrooms (stolen-valor Walz).

I am voting for peace in the Middle East.

I am voting to fight against human/child trafficking.

I am voting for Freedom of Religion.

I am voting for increased STEM teaching (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), instead of pseudo-scientific indoctrination of our children.

I am voting for the future of my Country.

I am voting for my children and my grandchildren to ensure their freedoms

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America is the greatest country in the world.

The reason so many want to immigrate here

Why would a cabal of extremist Democrats want to change it, if not for their increased federal command/control over you.

I am voting for the Trump/Vance team.

I am voting for America.

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The Deep State, a Cabal of Inter-related Elite Families and Friends

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It is truly amazing how a small, extremist, socialist/communist, Democrat-party cabal, in cahoots with a weaponized federal government, Corporate Media, and Academia, etc., were able to subvert/brainwash the US people this much, for decades, in the land with the First Amendment. Whistleblowers Assange, Snowdon, etc., surely suffered because of it. 

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Biased Corporate Media has been providing political cover for outrageous federal spending and open border policies.

Americans, be they white, negro, Hispanic, Muslim, Jewish, etc., are finally awakening from their Corporate-Media, entertainment-induced coma, to take revenge in the voting booth.

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What is Needed for the US

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We need the Trump/Vance team to be elected by a huge landslide, too big to rig, to MAGA the US,

To end the highly subsidized wind, solar, battery, heat pump, EV follies, etc.

We need Vance to take over after Trump for 8 years to further MAGA the US

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The federal government must not be allowed to engage in any activities not specified in the U.S. Constitution. 

That means no NPR, no US Dept of Education, no US Endowment for the Arts, no US Radio Free Europe (all are mostly staffed by Democrats), and many other similar activities.

 

The US Dept of Education, budget $240 BILLION in 2024, was started in 1980, with the US ranking 4^th in education. After 44 years, the US ranks 24^th. Clearly, that experiment has failed bigtime.

It needs to be ended, with all education activities conducted by the Sovereign States, as reiterated in the US Constitution and associated documents.

 

The federal government would be much smaller, and much more efficient, and spend much less money, with help of RFK, jr., Elon Musk, Ramaswamy, etc.

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Example of High-Level Judicial Overreach

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Trump appointed 3 conservative judges to the US Supreme Court

These judges are highly qualified scholars of the history of the US Constitution; one of them teaches it in a Law School.

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A prior Supreme Court had made an error by ruling, a woman has a legal right to an abortion (Roe vs. Wade).

Based on that ruling more than 30 years ago, various federal laws and rules and regulations were enacted and promulgated.

A national infrastructure of federally-$supported entities, involved with abortion, and other reproductive issues, mostly staffed by Democrats, came into being.

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The current Supreme Court determined, nowhere in the US Constitution, and associated documents, etc., is mentioned: 1) abortion and 2) a woman has a legal right to an abortion.

The federal government only has the legal rights ceded to it by the sovereign States, as reiterated in the US Constitution.

Any legal rights not ceded to the federal government, stay with the States

That means, the people in each State determine the laws, rules and regulations regarding abortion.

The federal government would be involved only if a State violates a civil right, such as discrimination based on race, creed, color, etc., as reiterated in the US Constitution.

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Vote For Trump Because Your Life Depends on It

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Vote Trump in by a RED landslide for 4 years, and

Vote Vance in by a RED landslide for 8 more years, and
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Eliminate all subsidies of any kind to all industries, and
Stop subsidies for all so-called CO2 reduction schemes, and
Drill, baby drill, and

Build, on a fast track, at least 100 standardized nuclear plants, each with 2 or more 1,000 MW units

Conserve, not export, our precious fossil fuels to produce the tens of thousands of products than cannot be produced by hydro, nuclear, wind and solar.

The export of US fossil fuels is advocated by the Deep State to increase their geo-political dominance to enable the US military/industrial/intelligence complex to rule the world.
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Bring 50,000 soldiers from Europe to the US to help build the north and south wall, and

Station them on the narrow strip of US land OUTSIDE of the completed walls, with tear gas, tasers, etc., so no one, without proper documents, can cross our borders.

That will free up the US border guard, etc., to collect millions of recent arrivals, and

Deport millions of recent arrivals, including misfit/criminals, each year for the next 4 years, to completely offset the Biden/Harris scheme to import illegals into swing states to permanently rig elections. 
Many heretofore great American communities have suffered from the great influxes of misfit illegals, imposed upon them by the Biden/Harris cabal.

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All that will immediately reduce the budget deficit, and

Lower US energy prices by 50%, and

Reduce all other prices, and 

Reduce loan interest costs, and

Reduce inflation rates

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Impose an up to 100% tariff on all imports from anywhere, and
Build industrial plants owned by locals and industrial plants owned by friendly foreigners, and

Provide tens of millions of steady, high-tech, community-building, US jobs with good pay and benefits

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Trump Was Right About the Deep State!

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Remember when he said Drain-the-Swamp. It's a deep swamp!!!

This is why the Deep State manipulated you to hate him. He is a threat, not to Democracy, but to them!!
You must know some details to be informed:

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THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN USED TO WORK FOR GEORGE SOROS.
CALIF GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM IS NANCY PELOSI'S NEPHEW
ADAM SHIFF'S SISTER IS MARRIED TO ONE OF GEORGE SOROS’ SONS.
JOHN KERRY'S DAUGHTER IS MARRIED TO A MULLAH'S SON IN IRAN.
 HILLARY'S DAUGHTER CHELSEA IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS' NEPHEW.
ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IAN CAMERON IS MARRIED TO SUSAN RICE, OBAMA'S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.
CBS PRESIDENT DAVID RHODES IS THE BROTHER OF BEN RHODES, OBAMA'S DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.
ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT CLAIRE SHIPMAN IS MARRIED TO JAY CARNEY, FORMER OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY.
ABC NEWS AND UNIVISION REPORTER MATTHEW JAFFE IS MARRIED TO KATIE HOGAN, OBAMA'S FORMER DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY
ABC PRESIDENT BEN SHERWOOD IS THE BROTHER OF ELIZABETH SHERWOOD, OBAMA'S FORMER SPECIAL ADVISER.
CNN VP VIRGINIA MOSELEY IS MARRIED TO TOM NIDES, FORMER HILLARY CLINTON'S DEPUTY SECRETARY.
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THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A "STACKED DECK". IF YOU HAD A HUNCH THE CORPORATE NEWS MENU WAS SOMEWHAT RIGGED AND YOU COULDN'T PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT HELP YOU SOLVE THE PUZZLE. 

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Now you know why no one is investigated. They all have their hands in the cookie jar!
You might remember James Comey who investigated the Clinton email scandal and the Clinton Foundation, and made the final decision to not recommend prosecution by the DOJ. 

It turns out that the Clinton Foundation was audited by the law firm DLA Piper, a powerhouse in DC 

One of the executives there was in charge of the Clinton Foundation audit. 

Who was it?  Peter Comey, James Comey’s brother. 

Peter Comey held an executive position with the Washington law firm that did the audit of the Clinton foundation in 2015.  

Peter Comey was officially DLA Piper “Senior Director of Real Estate for The Americas in 2015 when the Clinton Foundation scandals first broke, and Hillary was preparing her Presidential campaign. 

Not only was DLA Piper, the firm where Comey’s brother worked, involved in the audit of the Clinton Foundation, but according to the foundation’s donor records, DLA Piper has given between $50 - 100k to the Foundation.
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It gets even cozier. 

DLA Piper executive Douglas Emhoff, who impregnated the nanny, during a prior marriage, is taking an extended leave of absence from the firm to campaign for Harris. 

Who is Douglas Emhoff? He is the husband of Kamala Harris. Just a coincidence?  
You can't make this stuff up!  
And it only gets worse.  This infamous "Family Tree" will make your head spin... THE SWAMP IS DEEP!!

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Dominion (Voting Machine Supplier) serves 40% of the US market. It is embedded in 30 states

The state of Texas rejected the machines.   

Admiral Peter Neffenger is on Biden's transition team.

Neffenger was the President of the board of Smartmatic (another Voting Machine Supplier), which entered into an agreement with Dominion in 2009  

Smartmatic counted votes in Venezuela  

Smartmatic is connected to the Philippine Voter Fraud

Smartmatic is run by Lord Mark Malloch Brown, who works for George Soros (he and Brown are life-long friends) 

Brown chairs the Boards of a number of non-profits, including the Open Society Foundation and the Centre for Global Development.   

Open Society Foundation is owned by George Soros 

Smartmatic partnered with DLA Piper Global.
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Guess who owns Dominion? Blum Capital Partners LP

Guess who is on the board for the company?  Richard Blum who is Dianne Feinstein’s husband. 
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Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, is a major investor. It is rumored the two are worth $250 million
An aide to Nancy Pelosi, Nadeam Elshami, was hired by Dominion Voting Systems.

Dominion Voting Systems is listed as a $25,000 -$50,000 donor to the Clinton Foundation in 2014, by The Washington Post

 

Georgia Governor Kemp used Dominion Voting Systems after Texas and Florida rejected them  

Dominion has a lobbyist named Jared Thomas 

Jared Thomas was Governor Brian Kemp’s Chief of Staff/Press Secretary from 2012 to 2015.

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You must remember the Feinstein, Kavanaugh, Soros connections to understand this next information  

Debra Katz (Christine Ford's lawyer, who accused Kavanaugh of rape) worked for George-Soros at the Open Society Foundation.  

Debra Katz also worked at Project on Government Oversight (POGO).  

POGO is funded by Soros’s Open Society Foundation.  

POGO is the co-signer of the letter Diane Feinstein presented against Kavanaugh's nomination.  

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Kamala Harris did not prosecute One West Bank for their fraud, when she had the authority, after all, Soros Owned One West Bank 
Now you know why controllable/puppet Harris became controllable/puppet Biden’s running mate in 2020

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The execrable Anne Applebaum, New York Times Journalist, married to Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s hawkish foreign minister and major globalist neocon. The pair see Russia as the Evil Empire, to be divided into 7 manageable pieces.

Madeline Albright, may have said, “Siberia holds too many resources for just one country”.

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Victoria Nuland, former Assistant Secretary of State, spent $5 billion from 1991 to 2014, to prepare the Kiev coup d’etat in 2014, married to Robert Kagan, editor-at-large Washington Post, which did not endorse Harris, resulting in Kagan resigning from WaPo. The LA Times also did not endorse Harris

Many leaders of labor unions, whose members are overwhelmingly for Trump, did not endorse Harris

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Oh, what a tangled web of lies they wove 

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Here are Trump’s ten moves to bury the Deep State.

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1) Firing any and all obstructionist bureaucrats

2) Completely overhauling the corrupt security and intelligence agencies

3) Reforming the FISA courts to stop the abuses against Americans

4) Form a truth and reconciliation commission to address the many crimes and wrongdoings of the government

5) Weed out the spreaders of disinformation from government positions

6) Make Inspectors General fully independent from the agencies they are supposed to monitor

7) Start a Congressional Committee to oversee what the intelligence agencies are actually up to so that any and all illegal spying on Americans can finally be terminated.

8) Move many government agencies out of DC and into places where they can actually serve the public

9) Eliminate the revolving door between government positions and the corporate entities they previously regulated or oversaw

10) Pass a Constitutional amendment to impose term limits on Congressional and Senate seats.

Comment by Willem Post on November 14, 2024 at 9:04am

Some Technical Subjects

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From:
DEEP OCEAN SEISMIC EVENTS ADD ENERGY TO PERIODIC EL NINOs
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-p...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hunga-tonga-volcanic-e...
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Regarding atmospheric CO2, human plus natural, it is near the lowest level in 600 million years.

Highly subsidized CO2 sequestering schemes and Net Zero schemes are super-expensive, ineffective suicide programs.
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Plants require at least 1000 to 1200 ppm of CO2, as proven in greenhouses
Many plants have become extinct, along with the fauna they supported, due to a lack of CO2. As a result, many areas of the world became arid and deserts. Current CO2 needs to at least double or triple. Earth temperature increased about 1.2 C since 1900, due to many causes, such as long-term cycles, fossil CO2, and permafrost methane which converts to CO2.
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CO2 ppm increased from 1979 to 2023 was 421 – 336 = 85, greening increase about 15%, per NASA.
CO2 ppm increased from 1900 to 2023 was 421 – 296 = 125, greening increase about 22%
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Increased greening: 1) Produces oxygen by photosynthesis; 2) Increases world flora and fauna; 3) Increases crop yields per acre; 4) Reduces world desert areas
The ozone layer absorbs 200 to 315 nm UV wavelengths, which would genetically damage exposed lifeforms.
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Energy-related CO2 was 37.55 Gt, or 4.8 ppm in 2023, about 75% of total human CO2. 
One CO2 ppm in atmosphere = 7.821 Gt. Total human CO2 was 4.8/0.75 = 6.4 ppm in 2023. See URLs
CO2, human plus natural, to atmosphere was 421.08 ppm, end 2023 – 418.53, end 2022 = 2.55 ppm; to oceans 2.50 ppm (assumed); to flora and other sinks 1.35 ppm; natural CO2 increase is assumed at zero.
Mauna Loa curve shows a variation of about 9 ppm during a year, due to seasons
Inside buildings, CO2 is about 1000 ppm, greenhouses about 1200 ppm, submarines up to 5000 ppm
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Respiration: glucose + O2 → CO2 + H20 (+ energy)
Photosynthesis: 6 CO2 + 12 H2O (+ sunlight+ chlorophyll) → 1 glucose + 6 O2 + 6 H20
Plants respire 24/7. Plants photosynthesize with brighter light
In low light, respiration and photosynthesis are in balance
In bright light, photosynthesis is much greater than respiration
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https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2/co2_annmean_mlo.txt
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/new-study-2001-2020-gl...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/summary-of-world-co2eq...
https://issuu.com/johna.shanahan/docs/co2_pitch_4-3-24_baeuerle_eng...
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Oceans Absorb CO2
Sea water has 3.5% salt, NaCl, by weight.
CO2 molecules continuously move from the air into sea water, per Henry’s Law
CO2 and NaCl form many compounds that contain C, O, H, Cl, Ca
They sustain flora (plankton, kelp, coral) and fauna in the oceans.
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At the surface, seawater pH 8.1, and CO2 421 ppm, the % presence of [CO2], [HCO3−], and [CO3 2−] ions is 0.5, 89, and 10.5; “Free” CO2 is only 0.5%; CO2 out-migration is minimal, given the conditions.
The oceans are a major sink of CO2 (human + natural)
https://tos.org/oceanography/assets/docs/14-4_feely.pdf

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From:

BATTERY SYSTEM CAPITAL COSTS, OPERATING COSTS, ENERGY LOSSES, AND AGING
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/battery-system-capital...

 

Utility-scale, battery system pricing usually is not made public, but for this system it was.

Neoen, in western Australia, has just turned on its 219 MW/ 877 MWh Tesla Megapack battery, the largest in western Australia.

Ultimately, it will be a 560 MW/2,240 MWh battery system, $1,100,000,000/2,240,000 kWh = $491/kWh, delivered as AC, late 2024 pricing. Smaller capacity systems will cost much more than $500/kWh

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Annual Cost of Megapack Battery Systems; 2023 pricing
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Assume a system rated 45.3 MW/181.9 MWh, and an all-in turnkey cost of $104.5 million, per Example 2
Amortize bank loan for 50% of $104.5 million at 6.5%/y for 15 years, $5.484 million/y
Pay Owner return of 50% of $104.5 million at 10%/y for 15 years, $6.765 million/y (10% due to high inflation)
Lifetime (Bank + Owner) payments 15 x (5.484 + 6.765) = $183.7 million
Assume battery daily usage for 15 years at 10%, and loss factor = 1/(0.9 *0.9)
Battery lifetime output = 15 y x 365 d/y x 181.9 MWh x 0.1, usage x 1000 kWh/MWh = 99,590,250 kWh to HV grid; 122,950,926 kWh from HV grid; 233,606,676 kWh loss
(Bank + Owner) payments, $183.7 million / 99,590,250 kWh = 184.5 c/kWh
Less 50% subsidies (ITC, depreciation in 5 years, deduction of interest on borrowed funds) is 92.3c/kWh
At 10% throughput, (Bank + Owner) cost, 92.3 c/kWh
At 40% throughput, (Bank + Owner) cost, 23.1 c/kWh
 
Excluded costs/kWh: 1) O&M; 2) system aging, 1.5%/y, 3) 20% HV grid-to-HV grid loss, 4) grid extension/reinforcement to connect battery systems, 5) downtime of parts of the system, 6) decommissioning in year 15, i.e., disassembly, reprocessing and storing at hazardous waste sites. Excluded costs would add at least 15 c/kWh
 

COMMENTS ON CALCULATION

Almost all existing battery systems operate at less than 10%, per EIA annual reports i.e., new systems would operate at about 92.4 + 15 = 107.4 c/kWh. They are used to stabilize the grid, i.e., frequency control and counteracting up/down W/S outputs. If 40% throughput, 23.1 + 15 = 38.1 c/kWh. 

A 4-h battery system costs 38.1 c/kWh of throughput, if operated at a duty factor of 40%.

That is on top of the cost/kWh of the electricity taken from the HV grid to feed the batteries

Up to 40% could occur by absorbing midday solar peaks and discharging during late-afternoon/early-evening, which occur every day in California and other sunny states. The more solar systems, the greater the peaks.

See URL for Megapacks required for a one-day wind lull in New England

40% throughput is close to Tesla’s recommendation of 60% maximum throughput, i.e., not charging above 80% full and not discharging below 20% full, to achieve a 15-y life, with normal aging.

Tesla’s recommendation was not heeded by the Owners of the Hornsdale Power Reserve in Australia. They excessively charged/discharged the system. After a few years, they added Megapacks to offset rapid aging of the original system, and added more Megapacks to increase the rating of the expanded system.

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-hornsdale-power-res...

Regarding any project, the bank and Owner have to be paid, no matter what. I amortized the bank loan and Owner’s investment

Divide total payments over 15 years by the throughput during 15 years, you get c/kWh, as shown.

There is about a 20% round-trip loss, from HV grid to 1) step-down transformer, 2) front-end power electronics, 3) into battery, 4) out of battery, 5) back-end power electronics, 6) step-up transformer, to HV grid, i.e., you draw about 50 units from the HV grid to deliver about 40 units to the HV grid, because of A-to-Z system losses. That gets worse with aging.

A lot of people do not like these c/kWh numbers, because they have been repeatedly told by self-serving folks, battery Nirvana is just around the corner.

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NOTE: Aerial photos of large-scale battery systems with many Megapacks, show many items of equipment, other than the Tesla supply, such as step-down/step-up transformers, switchgear, connections to the grid, land, access roads, fencing, security, site lighting, i.e., the cost of the Tesla supply is only one part of the battery system cost at a site.

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NOTE: Battery system turnkey capital costs and electricity storage costs likely will be much higher in 2023 and future years, than in 2021 and earlier years, due to: 1) increased inflation rates, 2) increased interest rates, 3) supply chain disruptions, which delay projects and increase costs, 4) increased energy prices, such as of oil, gas, coal, electricity, etc., 5) increased materials prices, such as of tungsten, cobalt, lithium, copper, manganese, etc., 6) increased labor rates.

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FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND SYSTEMS IN THE IMPOVERISHED STATE OF MAINE

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/floating-offshore-wind...

 

World Offshore Wind Capacity Placed on Operation in 2021

During 2021, worldwide offshore wind capacity placed in operation was 17,398 MW, of which China 13,790 MW, and the rest of the world 3,608 MW, of which UK 1,855 MW; Vietnam 643 MW; Denmark 604 MW; Netherlands 402 MW; Taiwan 109 MW

Of the 17,398 MW, just 57.1 MW was floating, about 1/3%

At end of 2021, 50,623 MW was in operation, of which just 123.4 MW was floating, about 1/4%

https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/articles/offshore-wind-market-repo...

 

Despite the meager floating offshore MW in the world, pro-wind politicians, bureaucrats, etc., aided and abetted by the lapdog Main Media and "academia/think tanks", in the impoverished State of Maine, continue to fantasize about building 3,000 MW of 850-ft-tall floating offshore wind turbines by 2040!!

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Maine government bureaucrats, etc., in a world of their own climate-fighting fantasies, want to have about 3,000 MW of floating wind turbines by 2040; a most expensive, totally unrealistic goal, that would further impoverish the already-poor State of Maine for many decades.

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Those bureaucrats, etc., would help fatten the lucrative, 20-y, tax-shelters of mostly out-of-state, multi-millionaire, wind-subsidy chasers, who likely have minimal regard for:

 

1) Impacts on the environment and the fishing and tourist industries of Maine, and

2) Already-overstressed, over-taxed, over-regulated Maine ratepayers and taxpayers, who are trying to make ends meet in a near-zero, real-growth economy.

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Those fishery-destroying, 850-ft-tall floaters, with 24/7/365 strobe lights, visible 30 miles from any shore, would cost at least $7,500/ installed kW, or at least $22.5 billion, if built in 2023 (more after 2023)

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NOTE: Norwegian floating offshore cost of $8,523/installed kW in Appendix 1

If Norwegian floating units were used in Maine, the production costs likely would be even higher, because:

 

Almost the entire supply of the Maine projects would be designed and made in Europe, then transported across the Atlantic Ocean, in European specialized ships, then unloaded at a new, $500-million Maine storage/pre-assembly/staging/barge-loading area, then barged to European specialized erection ships for erection of the floating turbines. The financing will be mostly by European pension funds paying pensions to retirees.

 

About 300 Maine people would have jobs during the erection phase

The other erection jobs would be by specialized European people, mostly on cranes and ships

About 200 Maine people would have long-term O&M jobs, using European spare parts, during the 20-y electricity production phase.

https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/governor-mills-signs-bill...

 

The Maine woke bureaucrats are falling over each other to prove their “greenness”, offering $millions of this and that for free, but all their primping and preening efforts has resulted in no floating offshore bids from European companies

 

The Maine people have much greater burdens to look forward to for the next 20 years, courtesy of the Governor Mills incompetent, woke bureaucracy that has infested the state government 

The Maine people need to finally wake up, and put an end to the climate scare-mongering, which aims to subjugate and further impoverish them, by voting the entire Democrat woke cabal out and replace it with rational Republicans in 2024

The present course leads to financial disaster for the impoverished State of Maine and its people.

The purposely-kept-ignorant Maine people do not deserve such maltreatment

 

Electricity Cost 

Assume a $750 million, 100 MW project consists of foundations, wind turbines, cabling to shore, and installation at $7,500/kW.

Production 100 MW x 8766 h/y x 0.40, CF = 350,640,000 kWh/y

Amortize bank loan for $525 million, 70% of project, at 6.5%/y for 20 years, 13.396 c/kWh.

Owner return on $225 million, 30% of project, at 10%/y for 20 years, 7.431 c/kWh

Offshore O&M, about 30 miles out to sea, 8 c/kWh.

Supply chain, special ships, and ocean transport, 3 c/kWh

All other items, 4 c/kWh 

Total cost 13.396 + 7.431 + 8 + 3 + 4 = 35.827 c/kWh

Less 50% subsidies (ITC, 5-y depreciation, interest deduction on borrowed funds) 17.913 c/kWh

Owner sells to utility at 17.913 c/kWh

 

NOTE: The above prices compare with the average New England wholesale price of about 5 c/kWh, during the 2009 - 2022 period, 13 years, courtesy of:

 

Gas-fueled CCGT plants, with low-cost, low-CO2, very-low particulate/kWh

Nuclear plants, with low-cost, near-zero CO2, zero particulate/kWh

Hydro plants, with low-cost, near-zero-CO2, zero particulate/kWh

 

Cabling to Shore Plus $Billions for Grid Expansion on Shore 

A high voltage cable would be hanging from each unit, until it reaches bottom, say about 200 to 500 feet. 
The cables would need some type of flexible support system

 

There would be about 5 cables, each connected to sixty, 10 MW wind turbines, making landfall on the Maine shore, for connection to 5 substations (each having a 600 MW capacity, requiring several acres of equipment), then to connect to the New England HV grid, which will need $billions for expansion/reinforcement to transmit electricity to load centers, mostly in southern New England.

 

Floating Offshore a Major Financial Burden on Maine People

Rich Norwegian people can afford to dabble in such expensive demonstration follies (See Appendix 2), but the over-taxed, over-regulated, impoverished Maine people would buckle under such a heavy burden, while trying to make ends meet in the near-zero, real-growth Maine economy. Maine folks need lower energy bills, not higher energy bills.

 

APPENDIX 1

Floating Offshore Wind in Norway

Equinor, a Norwegian company, put in operation, 11 Hywind, floating offshore wind turbines, each 8 MW, for a total of 88 MW, in the North Sea. The wind turbines are supplied by Siemens, a German company

Production will be about 88 x 8766 x 0.5, claimed lifetime capacity factor = 385,704 MWh/y, which is about 35% of the electricity used by 2 nearby Norwegian oil rigs, which cost at least $1.0 billion each.

On an annual basis, the existing diesel and gas-turbine generators on the rigs, designed to provide 100% of the rigs electricity requirements, 24/7/365, will provide only 65%, i.e., the wind turbines have 100% back up.

The generators will counteract the up/down output of the wind turbines, on a less-than-minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365

The generators will provide almost all the electricity during low-wind periods, and 100% during high-wind periods, when rotors are feathered and locked.

The capital cost of the entire project was about 8 billion Norwegian Kroner, or about $730 million, as of August 2023, when all 11 units were placed in operation, or $730 million/88 MW = $8,300/kW. See URL

That cost was much higher than the estimated 5 billion NOK in 2019, i.e., 60% higher

The project is located about 70 miles from Norway, which means minimal transport costs of the entire supply to the erection sites

The project produces electricity at about 42 c/kWh, no subsidies, at about 21 c/kWh, with 50% subsidies 

In Norway, all work associated with oil rigs is very expensive.

Three shifts of workers are on the rigs for 6 weeks, work 60 h/week, and get 6 weeks off with pay, and are paid well over $150,000/y, plus benefits.

If Norwegian units were used in Maine, the production costs would be even higher in Maine, because of the additional cost of transport of almost the entire supply, including specialized ships and cranes, across the Atlantic Ocean, plus

A high voltage cable would be hanging from each unit, until it reaches bottom, say about 200 to 500 feet. 

The cables would need some type of flexible support system
The cables would be combined into several cables to run horizontally to shore, for at least 25 to 30 miles, to several onshore substations, to the New England high voltage grid.

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https://www.offshore-mag.com/regional-reports/north-sea-europe/arti...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_wind_turbine

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APPENDIX 3

Offshore Wind in US and UK

Most folks, seeing only part of the picture, write about wind energy issues that only partially cover the offshore wind situation, which caused major declines of the stock prices of Siemens, Oersted, etc., starting at the end of 2020; the smart money got out
All this well before the Ukraine events, which started in February 2022. See costs/kWh in below article

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US/UK Governments Offshore Wind Goals

1) 30,000 MW of offshore by 2030, by the cabal of climate extremists in the US government 
2) 36,000 MW of offshore by 2030, and 40,000 MW by 2040, by the dysfunctional UK government

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Those US/UK goals are physically unachievable, even with abundant, low-cost financing, and low inflation, and low-cost energy, materials, labor, and a robust, smooth-running supply chain, to place in service about 9500 MW of offshore during each of the next 7 years, from start 2024 to end 2030, which has never been done before in such a short time. See URL
 
US/UK 66,000 MW OF OFFSHORE WIND BY 2030; AN EXPENSIVE FANTASY  
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/biden-30-000-mw-of-off...

US Offshore Wind Electricity Production and Cost

Electricity production about 30,000 MW x 8766 h/y x 0.40, lifetime capacity factor = 105,192,000 MWh, or 105.2 TWh. The production would be about 100 x 105.2/4000 = 2.63% of the annual electricity loaded onto US grids.

Electricity Cost, c/kWh: Assume a $550 million, 100 MW project consists of foundations, wind turbines, cabling to shore, and installation, at $5,500/kW.

Production 100 MW x 8766 h/y x 0.40, CF = 350,640,000 kWh/y

Amortize bank loan for $385 million, 70% of project, at 6.5%/y for 20 y, 9.824 c/kWh.

Owner return on $165 million, 30% of project, at 10%/y for 20 y, 5.449 c/kWh

Offshore O&M, about 30 miles out to sea, 8 c/kWh.

Supply chain, special ships, ocean transport, 3 c/kWh

All other items, 4 c/kWh 

Total cost 9.824 + 5.449 + 8 + 3 + 4 = 30.273 c/kWh

Less 50% subsidies (ITC, 5-y depreciation, interest deduction on borrowed funds) 15.137 c/kWh

Owner sells to utility at 15.137 c/kWh; developers in NY state, etc., want much more. See Above.

 

Not included: At a future 30% wind/solar penetration on the grid:   

Cost of onshore grid expansion/reinforcement, about 2.0 c/kWh

Cost of a fleet of plants for counteracting/balancing, 24/7/365, about 2.0 c/kWh

In the UK, in 2020, it was 1.9 c/kWh at 28% wind/solar loaded onto the grid

Cost of curtailments, about 2.0 c/kWh

Cost of decommissioning, i.e., disassembly at sea, reprocessing and storing at hazardous waste sites

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APPENDIX 4

Levelized Cost of Energy Deceptions, by US-EIA, et al.

Most people have no idea wind and solar systems need grid expansion/reinforcement and expensive support systems to even exist on the grid.

With increased annual W/S electricity percent on the grid, increased grid investments are needed, plus greater counteracting plant capacity, MW, especially when it is windy and sunny around noon-time.

Increased counteracting of the variable W/S output, places an increased burden on the grid’s other generators, causing them to operate in an inefficient manner (more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh), which adds more cost/kWh to the offshore wind electricity cost of about 16 c/kWh, after 50% subsidies

The various cost/kWh adders start with annual W/S electricity at about 8% on the grid.

The adders become exponentially greater, with increased annual W/S electricity percent on the grid

 

The US-EIA, Lazard, Bloomberg, etc., and their phony LCOE "analyses", are deliberately understating the cost of wind, solar and battery systems

Their LCOE “analyses” of W/S/B systems purposely exclude major LCOE items.

Their deceptions reinforced the popular delusion, W/S are competitive with fossil fuels, which is far from reality.

The excluded LCOE items are shifted to taxpayers, ratepayers, and added to government debts.

W/S would not exist without at least 50% subsidies

W/S output could not be physically fed into the grid, without items 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. See list.

 

1) Subsidies equivalent to about 50% of project lifetime owning and operations cost,

2) Grid extension/reinforcement to connect remote W/S systems to load centers

3) A fleet of quick-reacting power plants to counteract the variable W/S output, on a less-than-minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365 

4) A fleet of power plants to provide electricity during low-W/S periods, and 100% during high-W/S periods, when rotors are feathered and locked,

5) Output curtailments to prevent overloading the grid, i.e., paying owners for not producing what they could have produced

6) Hazardous waste disposal of wind turbines, solar panels and batteries. See image.

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APPENDIX 8

Nuclear Plants by Russia

According to the IAEA, during the first half of 2023, a total of 407 nuclear reactors are in operation at power plants across the world, with a total capacity at about 370,000 MW

Nuclear was 2546 TWh, or 9.2%, of world electricity production in 2022

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/batteries-in-new-england

Rosatom, a Russian Company, is building more nuclear reactors than any other country in the world, according to data from the Power Reactor Information System of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA.

The data show, a total of 58 large-scale nuclear power reactors are currently under construction worldwide, of which 23 are being built by Russia.

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In Egypt, 4 reactors, each 1,200 MW = 4,800 MW for $30 billion, or about $6,250/kW, 

The cost of the nuclear power plant is $28.75 billion.

As per a bilateral agreement, signed in 2015, approximately 85% of it is financed by Russia, and to be paid for by Egypt under a 22-year loan with an interest rate of 3%.
That cost is at least 40% less than US/UK/EU

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In Turkey, 4 reactors, each 1,200 MW = 4,800 MW for $20 billion, or about $4,200/kW, entirely financed by Russia. The plant will be owned and operated by Rosatom

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In India, 6 VVER-1000 reactors, each 1,000 MW = 6,000 MW at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.

Capital cost about $15 billion. Units 1, 2, 3 and 4 are in operation, units 5 and 6 are being constructed

In Bangladesh: 2 VVER-1200 reactors = 2400 MW at the Rooppur Power Station

Capital cost $12.65 billion is 90% funded by a loan from the Russian government. The two units generating 2400 MW are planned to be operational in 2024 and 2025. Rosatom will operate the units for the first year before handing over to Bangladeshi operators. Russia will supply the nuclear fuel and take back and reprocess spent nuclear fuel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooppur_Nuclear_Power_Plant

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Rosatom, created in 2007 by combining several Russian companies, usually provides full service during the entire project life, such as training, new fuel bundles, refueling, waste processing and waste storage in Russia, etc., because the various countries likely do not have the required systems and infrastructures

 

Remember, these nuclear plants reliably produce steady electricity, at reasonable cost/kWh, and have near-zero CO2 emissions

They have about 0.90 capacity factors, and last 60 to 80 years

Nuclear does not need counteracting plants. They can be designed as load-following, as some are in France

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Wind: Offshore wind systems produce variable, unreliable power, at very high cost/kWh, and are far from CO2-free, on a mine-to-hazardous landfill basis.
They have lifetime capacity factors, on average, of about 0.40; about 0.45 in very windy places

They last about 20 to 25 years in a salt water environment 
They require: 1) a fleet of quick-reacting power plants to counteract the up/down wind outputs, on a less-than-minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365, 2) major expansion/reinforcement of electric grids to connect the wind systems to load centers, 3) a lot of land and sea area, 4) curtailment payments, i.e., pay owners for what they could have produced

 

Major Competitors: Rosatom’s direct competitors, according to PRIS data, are three Chinese companies: CNNC, CSPI and CGN.
They are building 22 reactors, but it should be noted, they are being built primarily inside China, and the Chinese partners are building five of them together with Rosatom.

American and European companies are lagging behind Rosatom, by a wide margin,” Alexander Uvarov, a director at the Atom-info Center and editor-in-chief at the atominfo.ru website, told TASS.

 

Tripling Nuclear a Total Fantasy: During COP28, Kerry called for the world to triple nuclear, from 370,200 MW to 1,110,600 MW, by 2050.

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-triple-nuclear-power-cop28.html

 

Based on past experience in the US and EU, it takes at least 10 years to commission nuclear plants

Plants with about 39 reactors must be started each year, for 16 years (2024 to 2040), to fill the pipeline, to commission the final ones by 2050, in addition to those already in the pipeline.

 

New nuclear: Kerry’s nuclear tripling by 2050, would add 11% of world electricity generation in 2050. See table

Nuclear was 9.2% of 2022 generation. That would become about 5% of 2050 generation, if some older plants are shut down, and plants already in the pipeline are placed in operation, 

Total nuclear would be 11+ 5 = 16%; minimal impact on CO2 emissions and ppm in 2050. 

Infrastructures and Manpower: The building of the new nuclear plants would require a major increase in infrastructures and educating and training of personnel, in addition to the cost of the power plants.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/electricity-sources-by-fuel-in-202....

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Existing Nuclear, MW, 2022	370200
Proposed tripling	3
Tripled Nuclear, MW, 2050	1110600
New Nuclear, MW	740400
MW/reactor	1200
Reactors	617
New Reactors, rounded	620
Reactors/site	2
Sites	310
New nuclear production, MWh, 2050	5841311760
Conversion factor	1000000	%
New nuclear production, TWh, 2050	5841	11
World total production, TWh, 2050	53000

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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 14, 2024 at 8:27am

Ideas For An Incoming Trump Administration: Climate And Energy Edition
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/14/ideas-for-an-incoming-trump-...

Comment by Willem Post on November 14, 2024 at 8:02am

The Maine political clique of elites is using climate change and global warming as the labels to get federal money

However, the 2024 deficit was almost  $2 TRILLON, PLUS WE PAID $1 TRILLION IN INTEREST ON THE EXISTING NATIONAL DEBT.

WE ARE BORROWING OURSELVES INTO OBLIVION!!

There is no way this idiocy can be continued, without major reductions in federal spending.

The people at the Press Herald are smart enough to understand that.

Therefore, they should stop shilling for expensive, environmentally damaging, offshore and onshore wind, and solar, and heat pumps, and electric vehicles, and battery systems, because all of these will not reduce global warming by even 0.000001 C.

We need more CO2 to promote flora and fauna growth, increase crop yields per acre, reduce desert areas

CO2 is near its lowest level in 600 million years

Net Zero is a criminal suicide pact, and is bankrupting Europe.

Comment by Dan McKay on November 14, 2024 at 7:08am

Trump will remove federal subsidies, part of domestic fair trade deal that stops the favoritism of weak wind and solar. If Governor Mills tries to shift even a penny of the costs to Maine ratepayers or taxpayers, she will be in very hot water. The watchdogs are on alert.