Italy's horse of a different color

  DISTANT GLOW AND SMOKE M y take on “Why #European countries are going for Coal over #Nuclear? “ DISCLAIMER: I am not an engineer, nuclear or otherwise, I shun titles of any sort if I possibly can, but my job in finance involves analysing and assessing the economic prospect of.. things. I have been doing that for a living for over 30 years and I am still here. Countries and areas of the world at the tip of the spear of the “Green” movement, Germany being the most shining example, have been frantically turning to COAL instead of Nuclear in their plan for their future electricity provision. My lack of surprise at that has been duly noted, coupled with some of my most outrageous interjections. But first, my usual “materials and methods” preamble: I do not claim to be right. I simply look at alternative explanations of the reality I live in, provided that nothing material disproves them, and order them in order of descending likelihood according to my taste, until and u...

  Turin, June14th 2021 LEARNING TO LOVE THE BOMB why the West energy policy is a FOREIGN POLICY failure... and Putin is laughing. As much as possible the original source material is included or linked in the article, and this doesn't represent in any shape or form “investment advice” under current EU and/or Italian regulations. Today CNN reported that an EPR III nuclear reactor in China has some problems , of a nature that pushed its original designer and operator, French Framatome , To signal to US authorities its intention to ask for assistance under existing treaties by invoking an “ "imminent radiological threat" , one of the admissible reasons. China has been building up domestic electricity generation in various ways, Coal , Hydro , and Nuclear as well , understandably for an economy at a development stage where Energy intensity of GDP is  still high relative to more mature economies . Of course, a problem in a Nuclear plant design on which France has sta...