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Sure we are reusing some of it nowadays, but we still have tons globally that need to go somewhere

At this point in time, nuclear "recycling" is a grift. The French nuclear recycling industry in particular is basically just a France-Siberia import/export business.

That's not half as scary as the inside of a penguin beak.

Technically, tattos are basically drops of poison encapsulated within cells.

If you laser a tattoo to remove it, you're destroying the encapsulating cells, allowing the poison to roam freely in your body and then likely accumulating elsewhere rather than being discharged.

Fwiw, not to diminish this feat but rather as context: A significant part of the (calculated) wins in the early/mid 2010s came from moving from coal to fossil gas. Unfortunately, fossil gas tends to be much more polluting than (usually) assumed, because of flaring and pipeline losses. Thus some of earlier CO2e wins may be due to number fiddling rather than real reductions.

However, recent years do show massive wind power growth and that's fantastic.

Side note 2: The UK has a lot of work ahead on electrifying heating and installing heat pumps.

It's in the article:

The move comes amid growing protests in Italy’s prisons over the poor state of the facilities, which are run-down and overcrowded (61,840 inmates for 46,929 places). So far this year, 72 inmates have killed themselves.

I see. Your words seemed to imply that chemical castration makes violent urges worse. But instead it generally worsens people's health (which incidentally, the DW article mentioned as well).

How do you come to the conclusion that it's "making it worse"?

Chemical castration has been found to be effective in reducing sex drive and the seminal fluid in a male. But this does not prevent sexual violence or aggressive behavior.

Even reducing the testosterone level to zero does not eliminate chances of reoffending. "One doesn't need to have an erection to be able to molest a child or rape a person,"

-- DW

Fascinating mindset.

Our prisons are overflowing! Let's make sure more people end up there for light offenses! (paraphrased)

(Although maybe they plan to apply their new laws selectively. In fact, that's the only way this begins to make sense.)

Wind turbines shredding birds is almost the definition of concern-trolling whereas the issues with hydro impacting aquatic life are at a much larger scale.

Weird how fossil fuel companies also managed to instrumentalize solar PV too. Iirc, both Shell and BP created solar departments which they then allowed to generate a low single-digit percentage of revenue. Thus, a) generating positive media coverage and b) not endangering their fossil core business.

It's certainly not just a German failure, though. Stellantis (i.e. at the time, PSA and especially the Marchionne-led FCA) fucked up too, as did Renault-Nissan (despite their head start with Zoe/Leaf)

If you're generating electricity primarily from fossil fuels in the first place, their price will be linked (but higher) by design. If you're using a merit order system, then that's true even if just a fraction of your electricity comes from said fossil fuels. That of course ignores possibly different sets of taxes being applied to retail fuels vs. the fuels utilities are buying and taxes on electric power.