Dear Elecrtric Oligarchy , especially in Slovenia! HI Fuhrer! As hastily proclaiming the referendum on Nuke Power some weeks ago from the long lasting communist and now progressive neoliberal same memories of how THE RADIOACTIVE ATOM is the mans best friend and heats the women while cooking, So the Electric Oligarchy now in charge hastily removed the referendum from the reasons of maybe loosing it, maybe because the tapes – The “Watergate tapes” proving scams behind the scene of ALL POLITICAL PARTIES, OPPOSITION AND GOVT MAJORITY HAND IN HAND,, maybe because the hundreds, yes, hundreds of millions in extra cakes and bribery for the participants in this mega galactic 3 times the Slovenian budget spending in the country with no sovereign currency, maybe because the involved could not define the stakes in euros and because the 25 years when the Nuke will be finished the cards of bribes will change dramatically, people involved will lose power, die or be meanwhile defenestrated and maybe nobody can count who will be the winner of the race of winning on this Nuclear Lottery treasure in fees of all kinds to be sent to foreign havens in the year 2040 or later?.
As you have read here years ago on this subject, Witchdoctor was and is against this risk taking and is all for the principle of horizontal democratic power sharing being a proponent of dispersed energy sources and not a centrailized dangerous meddling into nuclear power fallout fascist hierarchical warmongering agenda and society.
But almost EVERYBODY IN Slovenia declared themselves to be in favor of the Nuclear Power, only the time and the cost some did not like. Butalci.
The Title of this text is something that in 20 years time, if in the meantime the Electric Nuclear Western Oligarchy will not put a stop on scientific discovery and on spreading of alternative ways to make energy, will happen not in the years to come, but in the next year.
Apart from the debt financing of such a magnitude with unknown variable in 25 years , this simple formula ;
1600MW x 14 hours (10 hours minus for the night time as the day is currently 24 hours) x 160 Eur (* low estimated cost of a megawatt) x 150 days = 537 600 000 millions of Euros of income loss of a Nuclear Plant in a year ! 10 billion minimum in 20 years. Do not forget to add on this another 30 billion of overall cost and financing ofthis fantastic idea, not all inclusive with the never ending rolling of the cumulating debt.
This is a conservative estimate, a very conservative estimate with the lowest costs of the current income loss of a nukeplant which will make FROM MAY TO END OCTOBER EACH YEAR TO COME!
As we all very well do not know the Nuke Plant can not stop just like switching it off as any appliance does. So, from May to end October the sun in EUROPE is always shining somewhere. Even in Slovenia. In this months the cost of electicity is GOING ZERO! There is too much of it.
Witchdoctor own solar plant statistic is proving it.
It is not only going to zero, it is worse. Many of this days the NUCELAR PLANT wiil HAVE TO PAY somebody to take his electicity! Thats additional cost. For the simple reason: A NUKE PLANT CAN NOT STOP MAKING ELECTRICITY! The stopping is technically dangerous and even more costly.
TO avoid this scenario in the facts, the Nuke Plant will have to sell in other months the elctricity for a staggering price which will tank to the sheer bottom the economy, better than the European Austerity is already doing. OK, thats fine for Witchdoctor as this is the most drasticall degrowth plan one can plan! It is back to the caves with the help of the NUCLEAR POWER! Witchdoctor has already filled his cave with some good bottles of red wine for years to come.
Now for the Witchdoctor cherished Western brain dead audience, lets make a projection of this cost and WD will base it on the one and only INDEX the West can be proud of, since it says all of what this western civilization is: the BIG MAC INDEX- THE COST OF THE HAMBURGER. As you never know, the big mac index is the highlight of the US empire , “economist rug ” invention as the only real achievement of the west.
The cost of the big macs , so they say, is the best parameter to see the overal well being of a fat, obese western citizen and his well being health and no pension.… keep munching it!
So how is the price of a hamburger going in the last 20 years? Haha, this is really fun! The cargo cult west economy at its best!
Witchdoctor figured roughly that in 20 years the big mac index went up inflation wise from 43% to even 243% in Venezuela.
Now in which part of the index will be Slovenia? Let put it around 70%.
So the cost of the Nuke plant will be definitely 70% higher when finished. topping around 45 billion, and the loss of income from may to october will be 70 % higher.This is an optimistic projection! Only the loss of income by selling eletricity will be a billion euros a year for the next 40 years with the inflation and without counting the increase on operating costs.
https://inflationchart.com/bigmac-in-bigmac
Ok, Witchdoctor will rather use the rule of 72. With 36 years – 2 in 72 goes 36 times. The inflation around 2% which is optimistic if you do your own shopping in the stores, the cost doubles in 36 years. 3% makes it double in 24 years which is more accurate. So it will be 60 billion of cost and over 1,5 ca billion loss each year if Slovenia starts to make the Nuke Pplant tomorrow!
Yes, the West was made such as it is by energy. Not only any energy but by ENERGY DENSITY.
Slovenia and othe alpine regions know that they forgot to remember how the stuff went; The demographics slowly rose in last centuries and the woods were almost chopped all for the first energy density product- the CHARCOAL made from woods for homes, steam engines and mostly iron or any metal melting. The once wooden regions became slowly desert.
Butalci forgot what was the melting of metal for real – Oglarstvo na Slovenskem.
Fotunately the Coal energy density came in rescue of the chopoped alpine forests which left only bushes and erosion behind. Forests with the coal based economy grew back, and even more with the oil energy density. So, the energy density was on one hand saving the environment which was by energy density threatened by growing population and new land for crops, industry, roads and urbanization,which goes hand in hand with the contradiction of the debt driven economy growth.. But the debt driven profit seeking economy could not stop…. And the fumes and pollution and CO2 grew, too.
UNFORTUNATELY as the story goes with the new energy density the demographics, industry and the WHOLE DEBT DRIVEN ECONOMY GREW, AND GREW AND GREW. The OIL Came and THE HUMAN MONKEY GREW AND GREW AND GREW. The Nuclear came and the debt driven economy grew more. The fusion came , maybe, and the Planet was a cemented platform with some green houses for veggies .The story could not be stopped to the bitter end of humans exterminating all human and not human..
But the Global Warming came in between. The Planet started cooking , creaking, the deserts growing, the waters flooding or the drughts kicking, tornadoes churning, the population migrating…… and the Messiah was on every corner shouting bollocks and shooting around on anyone moving, in all languages, especially the biblical ones..
The consciousness of the sheep- an interesting site on energy and whatsmore…https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/
reccomended by Witchdoctor, as Wd always gives credit due , for good insights, but this here is a local tale, is it not?