CARNEY STRIKES BACK: Canada Joins China's economic cooperation, just like Japan!

Well the headline sounds a bit over the top, but there is a clear sign that Canada is also turning away from the US stranglehold and in exchange for dropping the Chinese tariff on canola, Canada will drop their tariff on chinese EV's. Especially makes sense after Trump is threatening to pull all American car plants to close their doors in Canada.

Japan has a new prime minister, she may be a populist, but not a patsy for the US and is not playing ball with Trump!

America is facing the sudden change in its relations with Japan as the new leadership there plans to integrate its economy with other Asian nations, in setting up a new exchange currency outside of the US dollar.

small nuclear reactors will not help us solve anything, they are expensive, and too late

Members of the public, therefore, should be aware of the risks they are being asked to take on by funding the “advanced” technology of SMRs which remains largely untested. And they should know that to achieve an economy of scale would require the production of thousands of SMRs, which is not happening anywhere any time soon. According to JP Morgan’s annual energy 2025 report, there are only three operating SMRs in the world: two in Russia and one in China and another under construction in Argentina. None came in on budget. “The cost overruns on the China SMR was 300 per cent, on Russian SMRs 400 per cent and on the Argentina SMR (so far) 700 per cent.” All promised to be up and running in three to four years and all took 12 years or more to complete. Argentina’s SMR project began in 2014 and it’s still not finished. That may happen in 2027. Given these construction time frames, SMR certainly won’t put a dent in climate change in the near future or even decades from now. Certainly not in Russia, which uses its SMRs to mine arctic resources and produce more oil. And then there is the inconvenient issue of nuclear waste. You’d think something called a small reactor would pump out small volumes of waste. That’s not what researchers discovered in 2022. They concluded, “SMRs will produce more voluminous and chemically/physically reactive waste than Light Water Reactors.” Managing and disposing this waste will be problematic. In fact, they calculated, “water-, molten salt–, and sodium-cooled SMR designs will increase the volume of nuclear waste in need of management and disposal by factors of two to 30.” read the whole story here: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/09/22/New-Nuclear-Fever-Debunked/

Nickel catalyst turns single-use plastics into oils at low heat, no sorting needed

Typically, PVC contamination poisons catalysts and derails recycling batches. But in this case, PVC actually improved performance. “Adding PVC to a recycling mixture has always been forbidden,” Kratish said. “But apparently, it makes our process even better. That is crazy. It’s definitely not something anybody expected.” Even when PVC made up a quarter of the waste mix, the catalyst kept working with better results. This unexpected resilience could allow recyclers to tackle previously “unrecyclable” plastic streams. Senior author Tobin Marks believes the breakthrough could transform recycling economics: “Our new catalyst could bypass this costly and labor-intensive step for common polyolefin plastics, making recycling more efficient, practical and economically viable than current strategies.” If scaled, the nickel catalyst process might finally offer a path toward curbing the mountain of single-use plastic waste, turning a global environmental headache into a valuable resource stream. https://phys.org/news/2025-09-catalyst-plastic-recycling-reality.html

Moment of contact, the Varghina, Brazil ET capture documentary by James Fox

James Fox has just released his doc that is full of first hand statements from people who saw a strange red eyed being with 3 toe feet and the subsequent witness intimidation by men in black and ditto from the military of their personel involved in the capture. Powerful stuff, well done cinematography with excellent soundtrack, a high quality documentary! https://youtu.be/yxuV9RN9DEk

'I was intimidated, I had surveillance, I had threats': U.S. Marine who .stumbled upon a octagonal black flying saucer, guarded by american special forces soldiers...

Michael Herrera stumbled upon a curious scene in the jungle of Sumatra right after the terrible earthquake and tidal wave, where amarican speaking, well trained tough guys in black gear disarmed his detail and and sent them away but not until Michael had seen an astonishing glimpse of a rectangular flying saucer, all black, making a humming sound, before it took off and disappeared in an instant, soundlessly and no exhaust trail either. He testified several times to a house committee but never heard anything more but he was intimidated, had his camera and phone memory deleted, told to never mention the event, and lost his job in the military. Hear his full account in an interview with Ross Coulthard!

Shocking Report From China Confirms Worst Fears About BYD electric vehicles

BYD {build your dream} the world's biggest manufacturer whose volume has grown some 1000percenr, is in big trouble. Their phenomenal expansion of production has been at the expense of supplyers apparently, they have not been paid for a long time and there is now concern about the true state of affairs.. This explains why Berkshire Hathaway has been selling off their big holdings in BYD shares!

LNG is not the panacea that some people wish, especially in Alberta.

LNG is not climate friendly, and the market is not going to grow while producers kep bringing more supply online. V Canada may well be left with stranded infrastructure. https://www.theenergymix.com/banking-on-lng-exports-is-a-high-risk-gamble-for-canadas-future-growth/

How does production of wind turbine components compare with burning fossil fuels?

What the science says... The average lifecycle emissions of coal is 77 times greater than wind energy. https://skepticalscience.com/comparison-of-wind-turbine-production-with-fossil-fuel-burning.htm Climate Myth... Producing and transporting wind turbine components releases more carbon dioxide than burning fossil fuels "[W]indmills are perhaps the worst boondoggle . . . because they require much more high quality energy to manufacture, install, maintain, and back up than [they] will ever produce." (Interstate Informed Citizens Coalition, Inc) On a lifecycle basis, wind power emits far less carbon dioxide than fossil fuels per kilowatt-hour of energy generated (Dolan & Heath 2012, Wang et al. 2019). According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the average lifecycle emissions of offshore and onshore wind turbines is 13 g CO2-eq/KWh.1 Lifecycle emissions for fossil fuels are much higher, with natural gas and coal releasing 486 g CO2-eq/KWh and 1001 g CO2-eq/KWh emissions, respectively.1 In other words, the average lifecycle emissions of wind energy is roughly 1/77th that of coal.1 Manufacturing accounts for only a small percentage (2.41%) of the lifecycle emissions for wind power turbines (Wang et al. 2019). Most turbine emissions come from transportation, which accounts for over 90% of emissions for both offshore and onshore operations. Once operational, wind turbines create clean, emissions-free energy that offsets the carbon dioxide emissions associated with production and transportation.2 Footnotes: [1] Nat’l Renewable Energy Laboratory, Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Electricity Generation: Update (Sept. 2021) (Table 1). NREL calculates emissions intensity using grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt-hour. [2] Sara Peach, What's the Carbon Footprint of a Wind Turbine?, Yale Climate Connections (June 30, 2021). This rebuttal is based on the report "Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles" written by Matthew Eisenson, Jacob Elkin, Andy Fitch, Matthew Ard, Kaya Sittinger & Samuel Lavine and published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in 2024. Skeptical Science sincerely appreciates Sabin Center's generosity in collaborating with us to make this information available as widely as possible. Last updated on 26 October 2024 by Sabin Center Team.

Fukushima Daiichi: How is the decommissioning process going to work?

Fukushima Daiichi: How is the decommissioning process going to work? : The decommissioning process for the Fukushima Daiichi site and surroundings is scheduled to be completed by 2051. It will require many innovations, and careful planning. Here are some of the details outlined at an event at the International Atomic Energy Agency's General Conference in Vienna. ;

MSR reactors are popping up in many places now!

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chinas-thorium-molten-salt-reactor exerpt: The attraction of thorium is that it can help achieve energy self-sufficiency by reducing dependence on uranium, particularly for countries such as India with enormous thorium reserves. But China may source it in a different way: The element is a waste product of China’s huge rare earth mining industry. Harnessing it would provide a practically inexhaustible supply of fuel. Already, China’s Gansu province has maritime and aerospace applications in mind for this future energy supply, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. Scant technical details of China’s reactor exist, and SINAP didn’t respond to IEEE Spectrum’s requests for information. The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ environmental-impact report states that the molten-salt reactor core will be 3 meters in height and 2.8 meters in diameter. It will operate at 700 °C and have a thermal output of 60 MW, along with 10 MW of electricity. Molten-salt breeder reactors are the most viable designs for thorium fuel, says Charles Forsberg, a nuclear scientist at MIT. In this kind of reactor, thorium fluoride dissolves in molten salt in the reactor’s core. To turn thorium-232 into fuel, it is irradiated to thorium-233, which decays into an intermediate, protactinium-233, and then into uranium-233, which is fissile. During this fuel-breeding process, protactinium is removed from the reactor core while it decays, and then it is returned to the core as uranium-233. Fission occurs, generating heat and then steam, which drives a turbine to generate electricity. But many challenges come along with thorium use. A big one is dealing with the risk of proliferation. When thorium is transformed into uranium-233, it becomes directly usable in nuclear weapons. “It’s of a quality comparable to separated plutonium and is thus very dangerous,” says Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C. If the fuel is circulating in and out of the reactor core during operation, this movement introduces routes for the theft of uranium-233, he says.

moltex energy is building an MSR to reduce the spent fuel rods in Eastern Canada

press release dated march 3 2025 Moltex has successfully validated WATTS on spent nuclear fuel bundles, therough state of the art hot cell experiments, at the Point Lepreau nuclear plant in New Brunswick. Advanced reactor company Moltex Energy Canada said it has successfully validated its waste to stable salt (WATSS) process on used nuclear fuel bundles from an unnamed Canadian commercial reactor through hot cell experiments conducted by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. According to the company, WATSS is set to transform nuclear waste management by recycling nuclear waste to produce new fuel, providing a robust, commercially viable alternative to conventional direct disposal methods. Moltex intends to couple WATSS with the company’s stable salt reactor–wasteburner (SSR-W), transforming nuclear waste into clean energy while permanently eliminating long-lived transuranic elements like plutonium. WATSS can produce fuel for other reactor types as well, the company said. The process: Moltex said it has demonstrated that, using a chemical process, it can extract 90 percent of transuranic material in 24 hours, with greater efficiency over longer periods of time. According to the company, the advancement not only reduces nuclear waste volumes but also unlocks fresh economic opportunities for waste owners and utilities—options previously deemed unfeasible because of financial constraints and the availability of waste management capabilities. Under a 2020 collaboration agreement, CNL is supporting aspects of Moltex’s nuclear fuel development program for its SSR-W. Along with Moltex and the University of New Brunswick, CNL was tasked with designing, building, and optimizing a fuel testing apparatus at the university’s Centre for Nuclear Energy Research, with parallel complementary activities at the University of Manchester in England. In October 2024, Moltex announced that research has demonstrated that the SSR-W, a 300-MW small modular reactor design developed by teams in New Brunswick and Ontario in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, can consume as fuel the majority of transuranic elements present in used fuel bundles from Canada’s CANDU reactors. Developments: In 2021, the Canadian government awarded C$50.5 million (about $40.2 million) to Moltex to support SMR research and technology development in New Brunswick. In addition to the SSR-W and WATSS, the company is developing GridReserve, thermal energy storage tanks that will enable the SSR-W to act as a peaking plant. Moltex has the goal of deploying first-of-a-kind SSR-W, WATSS, and GridReserve units at the NB Power’s Point Lepreau site. In addition, Moltex’s U.K.-based sister company, MoltexFLEX, has advanced the FLEX reactor—a modular molten salt reactor designed for low-cost, flexible operation across electricity generation, hydrogen production, and industrial heat. https://www.moltexenergy.com/qa-how-does-moltex-recycle-nuclear-waste/

Gary Nolan interview with ross Coultard, Gary has had experiences since age 6!

And he reveals a lot more knowledge about recent events where ever more whistleblowers from inside the dark programs have comes forward, a situation he that he describes as the turning point to a new era much like like what Thomas Kuhn described in his famous book about the structure of scientific revolution, when a new paradigm takes hold and everything changes in how science operates. https://youtu.be/XR0JtbuLhPo?si=r9oa4nBCZr_bxUs6