BTW, Central and Eastern European countries are percentage wise more nuclear based than Western Europe or France.

I live in Central Europe. Yes, there is a grid, but the transmission lines are limited. Supply and demand still needs to be balanced on a regional basis.

At this time, I happen to live in a country where 80% of the electricity is nuclear and 20% hydro. Wind and solar additions are actually causing problems and a 2 Gigawatt dummy load was recently added to burn off excess power around noon.

You need psychiatric help.

Some countries have giant dummy loads to burn off excess solar power during the day. I know of two in Czech and Slovakia and there will likely be more. Building a storage system will be better, but cost much more.

Nobody's ceding the "global energy future" to China. China is already the global leader in production of state-subsidized solar panels and polycrystalline silicon. If you buy their panels, you're further cementing their position of dominance (and guaranteeing that you will need to go back to them 15-25 years later whenever you need replacement panels).

I can see various ways in which this can be done and I am pretty sure SpaceX will be able to pull it off, since in this case, the sensors are the easy part and they already have the difficult rocket and communications parts done.

Solar panels require an accompanying energy storage system, hydro or gas turbines. Therefore looking at the cost of the solar installation only, is misleading. Looking at the complete system cost, solar and wind gennies will always be more expensive than a primary generation system. That is exactly what O'l Donny and the DOE also said. Lib-Dems however, have selective hearing.

Meanwhile YouTube is offering buyouts to their entire staff. Haven't seen it reported here, but:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/2...

(maybe I just missed an earlier post about it, regardless the phenomena are likely related and a sign of what's to come for YouTube)

Have they done any long-term testing yet? How long does this paint last, is it cost-effective?

More details omitted by The Guradian -
The company created to commercialize the technology
Press Release from the University of Sydney

You have it backwards. The lesson to China is: DO steal European companies (and their secrets). DO make the EU more dependent on Chinese industry.

No, that's what you have when you let critical infrastructure be sold to an extremely hostile foreign power.

Rare earth mining is messy business. There are plenty of sources of rare earths outside of China, but nobody really wants to go through the process of digging up and refining all those minerals.

Most automotive modules aren't using cutting-edge nodes anyway. There are still plenty of chips being made on 40-90nm processes.

Does anyone think that a legal system that can be perverted to charge Roger Stone with lying under oath about something that did not happen (a Dem fabricated event that he disagreed with), jailing him and muzzling him and his family so that they could not talk about it, until Donny eventually pardoned him, will be stopped by a warrant canary? Grow up people, grow up.